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FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (www.businessinsider.com)
15 days ago Startup

Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Startup Indonesia

Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (news.crunchbase.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago Microsoft Startup

Product management startup Linear topped $100M in annual recurring revenue and held a $99M employee tender offer at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2025 (www.businessinsider.com)
17 days ago Startup

Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025 (www.axios.com)
17 days ago Startup

Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Startup

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Startup Drone

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (siliconangle.com)
18 days ago Startup

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Startup Robot

South Korean startup platform breach exposes key management failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 days ago Korea Startup

A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (www.wsj.com)
19 days ago Startup Robot

Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023 (www.calcalistech.com)
19 days ago Startup

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (www.wsj.com)
21 days ago Startup AI

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago IPO Startup AI London

Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Startup Nvidia

Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Startup AI

PitchBook: California-based startups have raised ~$366B in 2026 so far across 4,000+ companies, more than triple the total of all other 49 states combined (www.wsj.com)
23 days ago Startup California

Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Startup AI

Stripe agrees to acquire New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (www.nytimes.com)
24 days ago Startup New York

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Startup AI SpaceX

Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Startup AI

Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter (www.theinformation.com)
24 days ago Startup Nvidia

Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to investors (www.nytimes.com)
24 days ago Startup New York

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Fintech Startup

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (siliconangle.com)
24 days ago Startup AI

SMR startup Oklo is currently building its reactor in Idaho, a step towards supplying Meta with power; there are an estimated 22 active US reactor projects (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Startup

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (www.wsj.com)
25 days ago Startup AI

Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (news.crunchbase.com)
26 days ago Startup Nvidia

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