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KICK, a new ETF issuer with no verifiable track record, has filed with regulators for AI and space-themed exchange-traded funds, entering a crowded market where at least nine space ETFs have been launched or filed in rec…
The Arena Group, the digital publisher behind TheStreet, Parade, and Men's Journal, is rebranding as Paradium.AI and shifting to an artificial intelligence focus, CEO Paul Edmondson told staff in a memo obtained by Busin…
Venture capitalists at Menlo Ventures, Forerunner, A16z, Verdict Capital, and Premise are betting on five consumer startup categories, including vibe coding social platforms, AI dating apps, and gaming tools, as AI enabl…
Noosphere Labs, a physical AI startup led by former Meta AI research director Kevin Carlberg, has raised approximately $10.25 million, according to an SEC filing submitted Sunday. The Form D, filed August 10th, shows the…
HeyyyyAI, an AI character app startup founded by A Thinking Ape co-founders Wilkins Chung and Kenshi Arasaki, has raised $10.5 million from a single investor. The funding provides the founders, who previously sold their …
Theo Jaffee, a 21-year-old University of Florida dropout, co-founded Monitoring The Situation (MTS), an Andreessen Horowitz-backed media company that streams interviews with AI and tech figures on X, after becoming convi…
Stoa Markets has launched a structured marketplace for new and used AI servers, standardizing the Request for Quote process to bring transparency to GPU hardware pricing, and has already seen over $300 million in RFQs in…
TetraGen Robotics, a Winnipeg-based autonomous welding robotics company, has raised $1.8 million CAD in an oversubscribed seed round led by Calgary's StepChange Capital, with participation from Vancouver's Emend Vision F…
Skild AI, a Pittsburgh-based robotics startup founded in 2023 by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, has raised over $2.2 billion in total funding, with a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank and joined by NVIDIA's NVentur…
Stoa Markets, founded by Berat Celik, Eren Berke Saglam, and Kaan Yigit, launched on July 31 a request-for-quotation marketplace for institutions to buy and sell GPUs and AI servers through vetted counterparties, reporti…
Lumilens exited stealth with over $700 million in Series C funding, valuing the company at $5.51 billion, and announced it is shipping its first scale-out optical interconnect product to a hyperscale customer under a mul…
Stoa Markets (YC S26), founded by Eren, Berat, and Kaan, launched a marketplace for new and used GPUs and AI servers, aiming to standardize hardware trading and provide resale evidence for lenders. The platform received …
Lambda, the AI cloud infrastructure company, closed a $1 billion syndicated senior secured credit facility led by J.P. Morgan, nearly quadrupling its previous $275 million facility from August 2025, to finance next-gener…
Point2 Technology, an AI data center interconnect specialist, raised $136 million in Series B funding led by LB Investment, with participation from Arm and existing investors Nvidia, Molex, and Bosch Ventures. The compan…
AI companies are relying on investor funding to cover the gap between high infrastructure costs and low subscription revenue, according to an analysis of the industry's financial sustainability. The piece warns that with…
Discovered Materials raised $9 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners and angel investors including Paul Graham, to use AI agents to find thermall…
Corma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup founded in 2025, emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to build AI models for …
Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that discover semiconductor materials in months instead of decades. Co-founded by materials scien…
UBS analysis shows OpenAI and Anthropic could account for more than 48% of Google Cloud's revenue by 2027, up from a projected 27% in 2026, raising concerns about Alphabet's infrastructure bet. Google Cloud's Q4 2025 rev…
Echovane Inc., an AI-native market research automation startup, has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Titan Capital and Neon Fund. The company, founded by Smriti Gupta, Vipul Nair, and Himadri Roy, …