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WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works (www.billboard.com)
2026-6-11 Startup AI

Cyera, an Israeli startup focused on protecting companies' data from AI-based threats, raised $600M at a $12B valuation, bringing its total funding to $2.3B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-6-10 Israel Startup AI

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto files for an India IPO, planning to raise ~$836M by selling new shares; Zepto was valued at $7B in its last round (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-9 India IPO Startup

Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital, at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 raise (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-8 Energy Startup

Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-6 Japan Startup Tokyo

Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-6 Uber Startup

Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-6 Startup AI Drone

Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a $12B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025 (www.forbes.com)
2026-6-6 Startup AI

Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-5 Startup AI Canada

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 Startup Robot

Bengaluru-based grocery delivery startup FirstClub raised a $55M Series B co-led by Peak XV and Sofina at a $255M valuation, up from $120M in September 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-4 Startup

Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4 Startup

Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-3 Startup

How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-6-3 Startup AI

Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-3 Israel Startup Mitsubishi

How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China (www.corememory.com)
2026-6-3 China Startup

AI music startup Suno raised $400M led by Bond at a $5.4B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 Startup AI

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 Germany Startup AI

French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (tech.eu)
2026-6-3 France Startup Quantum

Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (sifted.eu)
2026-6-3 Startup Quantum

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $300M at a $12B valuation, after raising $400M at a $9B valuation in January (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-3 Israel Startup

Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-2 Startup

Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-2 Startup

Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-2 Startup AI Climate

African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric bikes, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-1 Startup Africa

Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end (www.cnbc.com)
2026-6-1 Europe Startup AI London

US Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Startups For Nuclear Fuel (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-30 Startup

AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-29 Startup AI Robot

EY-Parthenon: VC funding for Singapore startups fell 34% YoY to $4.6B in 2025, with AI startups accounting for 42.8% of the 472 deals, raising $1.4B, up 28% YoY (www.dealstreetasia.com)
2026-5-29 Startup AI Singapore

Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-29 Startup AI Insurance

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