70 verified stories covering Funding, product updates and industry developments.
PixVerse extends Series C funding while pushing AI video toward interactive games. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
LimX Dynamics raises nearly $200 million and brings six-month funding close to $400 million. The piece reviews the verified facts and why the signal matters beyond one announcement.
ZeroErr raises hundreds of millions to scale robot joints. A concise localization of the verified facts and the industry signal behind the story.
DeepCtrls raises hundreds of millions for energy AI is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
SambaNova raises $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation is reframed for global technology readers, with the key numbers, product claims and open questions kept intact.
Kling raises nearly $2.8B at an $18B valuation is reframed for global technology readers, preserving the key numbers, claims and open questions.
Software factories, enterprise agents and investor-operators.
Autonomous drones, Ukraine battlefield feedback and European rearmament.
Privacy wrappers around AI models, crypto roots and revenue discipline.
Neocloud capacity, power access and hyperscale AI contracts.
Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A for inline sensors that track coolant contamination and wear as AI data centers move deeper into liquid cooling.
Oxmiq Labs wants to license OxCore, a GPU-style IP block that combines GPU, CPU and tensor engine pieces for custom AI silicon.
Aramco Ventures led the Series C, valuing the Nvidia-backed open-model infrastructure provider at $8.3 billion.
The video-understanding startup will expand research in San Francisco and Seoul, open offices in New York and London, and train on AWS Trainium.
Higharc raised a $95 million Series C to scale its AI platform for builders and building-material suppliers.
LeapXpert raised $180 million to capture, archive and analyze business conversations that happen across WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal and similar channels.
Stathera raised $55 million to replace quartz timing components with smaller silicon oscillators aimed at AI data centers.
X Square Robot reaches a $2.8B valuation with China’s internet giants onboard
Chamath returns as CEO after 8090 Labs raises $135M
Nearfield raises $380M for AI-chip metrology
Upscale AI raised $190 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Nvidia joining the round, as its SkyHammer switch chips pitch open Ethernet standards for large AI clusters.
Baseten’s new Series F values the inference infrastructure company at up to $13 billion, reflecting investor demand for cheaper, faster and more reliable model serving.
RiskIQ veterans emerged from stealth with Ent, a security startup that wants endpoint tools to judge intent before damage is done.
Bland says its voice agents handled 175 million calls last year and now processes 3.5 million calls a week.
Limitless Labs raised $20 million to build a CAM agent that captures machinist expertise and turns CAD files into safer tool paths.
DeepSeek closed its first outside round at a valuation above $50 billion, but commercial backers get no voting power.
The Evo team is building general biological intelligence that reads DNA, RNA and proteins together, while keeping future models closed.
The Tel Aviv startup wants to give enterprise agents identities, permissions and split-key credentials before old IAM systems buckle.
Hydra Host has raised a $100 million Series A, backed by Nvidia, to expand a marketplace that links idle data-center GPUs with AI workloads.
Sarvam has raised $234 million toward a $300 million Series B, giving India a sovereign AI champion valued at $1.5 billion.
Arcade's Series A backs an action layer that gives enterprise AI agents user-scoped permissions, reliable MCP tools and auditable execution.
Nesto is putting fresh capital into mortgage automation, showing how fintech lenders are using AI to compress paperwork and underwriting.
Poetic is selling deterministic AI automation for underwriting, compliance and fraud work, arguing that regulated companies need repeatable outcomes over flashy agents.
The Barcelona startup raised 73 million euros to deploy factory robots that learn on the job, with Samsung and LVMH among the strategic backers.
Banks remain cautious after SoftBank cut a planned OpenAI margin loan from $10 billion to $6 billion, exposing the liquidity gap behind private AI valuations.
YC-backed Stepful is using AI to shorten healthcare training programs as US hospitals struggle with a long-running staffing shortage.
The Israeli startup says AI Efficiency OS and TokenShift can expose waste in GPU, cloud and coding-agent usage as FinOps teams rush to control AI spending.
Kimi’s maker is reportedly raising $2 billion after ARR doubled from March to April and its K2 line moved from chat toward agents.
Ramp raised $750 million as investors bet that AI agents will become a new class of corporate spenders needing cards, controls and token-cost visibility.
The Sam Altman-backed fusion company says its Orion plant could serve Microsoft as early as 2028, far ahead of most commercial fusion timelines.
The data-center operator has moved from an $11 billion take-private deal to a potential $50 billion-plus valuation as AI demand turns power and land into scarce assets.
Waypoint Bio is using spatial biology and AI to validate in vivo CAR-T candidates for solid tumors before costly clinical trials.
Lassie automates dental insurance claims and reconciliation for small practices, turning an unglamorous workflow into a vertical agent business.
Terra AI models underground geology to improve drill targeting for copper, gold and rare earth exploration, with BHP Ventures joining the round.
The AI music startup doubled its valuation in roughly six months while still fighting major copyright suits from Universal and Sony.
The observability company reached a $1.6 billion valuation as investors bet that autonomous agents will need a new monitoring layer.
The UK startup is building "liquid intelligence" models from vibration data, targeting drugs, food proteins and materials R&D.
French startup Quobly is backing silicon qubits made on 300 mm FD-SOI wafers, with STMicroelectronics among the lead investors.
DriveNets raised a $410 million Series D at an $8.5 billion valuation, with AMD joining a bet on Ethernet fabrics for large AI deployments.
DriveNets is valued at $8.5 billion as AMD backs its Ethernet fabric bet against Nvidia-style closed AI clusters.
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, positioning itself to go public ahead of rival OpenAI.
Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion through stock sales to fund AI infrastructure, with Berkshire Hathaway contributing $10 billion.
Nvidia pays $20 billion for Groq's LPU chip technology and hires its CEO and core engineering team, while the remaining company pivots to an AI inference cloud startup called Groq2.
On May 28, while Anthropic's $65B round dominated headlines, a series of smaller funding rounds for vertical AI agents signaled a shift toward practical, auditable automation.
Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852 billion valuation from two months ago.
Reactor, a stealth startup founded by ex-Apple engineers, has raised $59 million in Series A funding to build a real-time world model platform that generates interactive video with near-zero latency.
OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, has raised $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, valuing the company at $1.3 billion.
AI insurance startup Corgi raised $106 million at a $2.6 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in just three weeks.
AI coding startup Cognition raises over $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, claiming 90% of its internal code is now generated by its own AI agent Devin.
London-based cybersecurity startup RevEng.AI has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by the NATO Innovation Fund, with participation from In-Q-Tel, Sands Capital, IQ Capital, and Episode One.
Mercury completed a $200 million funding round at a $5.2 billion valuation, up 49% in 14 months, after receiving preliminary approval for a national bank charter from the OCC.
SendCutSend, a metal fabrication startup, raised $110 million led by Paradigm and Sequoia, hitting a $1 billion valuation as AI data center demand drives orders.
Viktor, an AI agent that lives inside Slack and Teams, has raised $75 million from Accel after reaching $15 million in annual recurring revenue within three months of launch.
Exa Labs closes a $250 million Series C led by a16z, tripling its valuation to $2.2 billion in six months.
Nourish is pitching dietitian-led, AI-assisted care as the missing layer around GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and metabolic health.
Armada is selling deployable AI infrastructure for ships, energy sites and remote industrial operations.
Index Ventures led the Series C less than a year after Moment’s prior round, as assets on the platform grew from $300B to more than $10T.
Dust, an enterprise AI startup, has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia and Abstract, with participation from Snowflake Ventures and Datadog, bringing total funding to over $60 million.
Wispr Flow raises new funding for voice AI. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs pushes spatial intelligence. The story explains the announcement, the strategic context and the practical risks for the people or companies affected.