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NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product (nypost.com)
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Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B (www.crn.com)
4 hours ago Startup

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (www.bloomberg.com)
5 hours ago Startup AI Equity

Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4; the Chinese startup trained K3 on Nvidia chips including Blackwell (www.theinformation.com)
6 hours ago China Startup Nvidia

Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Startup Nvidia

How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups (www.ft.com)
1 day ago Startup AI Education

Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Startup AI Robot

Startup Founders Urge Trump Not to Shut Off Chinese Open Weight AI (slashdot.org)
4 days ago Trump China Startup AI

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (www.politico.com)
5 days ago Trump China Startup AI Ban Y Combinator

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Uber Startup Robot

Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that offers a banking and payments app, raised a $40M Series A, including $20M in debt, and a $60M Series B (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Fintech Startup Venezuela

Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Samsung Startup AI

London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (www.forbes.com)
6 days ago Startup Robot London

Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (www.theinformation.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (fortune.com)
6 days ago Startup

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (www.theinformation.com)
7 days ago China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (www.calcalistech.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (www.geekwire.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software startup at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Startup

AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago Startup Robot

Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (news.crunchbase.com)
12 days ago Fintech Startup

Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago India Startup AI

Neo Security, a cybersecurity startup founded by ex-SentinelOne execs and currently in stealth, raised $50M+, after a $25M seed in 2025 led by a16z and Merlin (www.calcalistech.com)
12 days ago Startup

Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and is built on a 14nm process, but says it can rival 4nm chips (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago China Startup AI

AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Startup AI Nvidia SpaceX

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