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Emerald AI raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A on August 25, valuing the company at approximately $1.05 billion, with participation from JERA Ventures, NVIDIA, and Siemens. The startup's software enables AI…
Celera Semiconductor closed a $30 million Series B on August 25, fully funded by Maverick Silicon, to accelerate its AI-assisted analog-chip design platform and customer projects. The company, led by founder Calum MacRae…
WRTN Technologies, a Korean artificial intelligence service provider, raised approximately 100 billion won ($72.23 million) in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at over 1 trillion won and making it the first …
Korean startup Onerve, backed by the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, has automated the manufacturing of Korean herbal medicine with its HAP system, cutting prep time from 300 minutes to 5. The system standardizes h…
Wrtn Technologies, a South Korean AI startup, raised approximately 100 billion won ($72 million) in a Series C round, valuing the company at 1.2 trillion won ($870 million). The round included new investors Coreline Vent…
Robotics startup Generalist is now valued at $3 billion after raising nearly $200 million in an extension of its Series B round, led by 8VC, according to two people with knowledge of the funding. The new capital brings t…
Stability AI Ltd. has raised $76 million in funding from a consortium that includes Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and AMD Ventures, among others. The London-based AI developer, known for it…
Penguin Solutions, a smaller player in the memory market, has seen its shares rise 159% year-to-date and 212% since its late March low, driven by its unique CXL-based memory solutions for AI inference. However, the compa…
TIME and Statista's 2026 list of Australia's Best Employers, based on 200,000 employee evaluations, ranks U.S.-based Apple first, followed by New Zealand-founded fintech Xero (no. 2), homegrown software giant Atlassian (…
Adrian Rosebrock, founder of PyImageSearch, launched WheelMetrics, a $45-a-month stock-screening and education service for retail options traders, on August 25th. The service uses a 'quantamental' approach to prioritize …
Emerald AI Inc., a data center power startup, raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A round at a $1.05 billion valuation, co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC, with participation from Nvidia, Samsung Ventures, S…
Gajesh, an 18-year-old engineer at Eigen Labs, launched Darkbloom, a peer-to-peer GPU inference network that lets Mac users run open-weight models and earn $120-200 per month, reaching #1 on Hacker News within 48 hours a…
Keenable.ai Inc., an artificial intelligence startup, launched with $26 million in seed funding from Accel, Brightwing Capital, Conviction Partners, scOp Venture Capital, and unnamed Google LLC and Amazon.com Inc. execut…
Short-selling volumes for Zhipu AI (Z.AI Co.) and MiniMax Group Inc. hit all-time highs in June 2026, with Zhipu recording 178,900 shares shorted (HK$430 million) and MiniMax 239,700 shares (HK$141 million), as investors…
Autonomous trucking company Gatik AI Inc. announced a $200 million Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies to expand its driverless fleet past 100 trucks by the end of this year.…
AI security company Alice raised $140 million in a funding round led by Apax Digital Funds, as its AI business grew more than 500% over two years and annual recurring revenue nears $100 million. The company, formerly Act…
Azonic, an Auckland-based startup founded by Caden Flynn Scott and Thomas Holdom, announced an undisclosed pre-seed round on August 25, with backing from Blackbird, Antler, and three other founders, to develop an AI-powe…
Gradient Health, a Durham, North Carolina-based medical data provider founded by Joshua Miller and Ouwen Huang, raised $3 million from a single investor, according to an SEC Form D filed August 25, 2026. The fully sold e…
Digs, a Vancouver, Washington software maker founded by Ryan Fink, raised $25.3 million in a Series A round led by Builders FirstSource, which also signed a five-year commercial agreement to integrate Digs' AI-powered ho…
Don Yansen '63 founded Kiwi Health in October 2024 after participating in an MIT AgeLab study, developing a voice-controlled wristband to help older adults use technology more easily. The device, which uses AI to interpr…