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Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances (siliconangle.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (www.nytimes.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions (arstechnica.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round (www.cnbc.com)
14 days ago China IPO Startup AI

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Alibaba Startup Singapore

Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Startup Robot

Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Germany Startup Munich

Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce (spyglass.org)
16 days ago Startup Apple

Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in March, and says its agents ran outreach for the round (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Startup AI

PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (siliconangle.com)
18 days ago Startup AI

European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (news.crunchbase.com)
18 days ago Germany France Europe Startup

Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in a Series A in 2026, and says agents wrote investment memos (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago Startup AI

Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (www.tectonicdefense.com)
19 days ago Startup

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (www.calcalistech.com)
19 days ago Israel Startup AI

Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Israel Startup AI

Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Startup AI JPMorgan

Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (www.theinformation.com)
20 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Startup Ukraine

UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a $900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific (www.wsj.com)
20 days ago Europe Asia Startup AI

Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google (www.bloomberg.com)
20 days ago Google Startup Munich

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI companies are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago Startup AI

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Startup Robot

Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Startup Tencent Shenzhen

Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt (www.ft.com)
23 days ago Italy IPO Startup

Startup Targets Datacenters With 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module (hardware.slashdot.org)
23 days ago Startup

Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Startup

Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February (www.bloomberg.com)
25 days ago Startup

Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K+ startups (news.crunchbase.com)
25 days ago Startup

B2B sales workspace startup Aligned raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $73.8M, and says it has 1,000+ customers (www.axios.com)
26 days ago Startup

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