Funding

Latest: London-Based AI Due-Diligence Startup Xapien Raises $56M Series B Led by Spectrum Equity · axios.com, Sep 10, 2026

Topic Tracked keywords: funding, valuation, acquisition, series

49 AI Weekly issues and 76 live stories from the last 30 days mention Funding.

121 total mentions 16/20 recent issues +90% vs. baseline peak 5/issue tracked since 2026-03-19

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Live Stories (76)

London-Based AI Due-Diligence Startup Xapien Raises $56M Series B Led by Spectrum Equity

axios.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 16

AI Assistant Startup Instinct in Talks to Raise $1B After Recent $250M Round on Compute Crunch

theinformation.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 22

Bending Spoons Agrees to Buy Whiteboarding Platform Miro for $1.36B in All-Cash Deal

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 19

Off-Grid AI Power Startup TAR Raises $120M Series A at ~$1B, Anthropic Backer Spark Capital Leads

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 22

Ex-Apple Special-Projects Team's Maven Robotics Exits Stealth With $100M Series A for Palletizing Bots

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 25

ALERT Nvidia Rival Positron Closes $875M Series C at $5B to Ship Memory-First Asimov Inference Chip

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 32

Mach Industries Doubles Valuation to $3.7B With $600M Series C Extension After June's $300M Raise

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 23

Paris-Based Arlequin AI Raises €28M Series A for Topological Neural Networks

tech.eu · 2026-09-10 · Score: 19

Moonshot AI Explores Dual Hong Kong and Shanghai IPOs at ~$50B, Files Confidentially for Q1 2027 HK Debut

scmp.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 20

FT: AI Boom Fuels VC Comeback in 'Moonshot' Deeptech, Non-AI Deeptech Funding Tops $150B Since 2024

ft.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 17

Alibaba to Lead $300M Round in AI Model-Testing Startup UniPat at $2.5B Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-10 · Score: 19

Ferroelectric-Memory Startup Kepler Computing Exits Stealth With $468M to Sidestep EUV Bottleneck

wired.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 23

Katzenberg and Ex-Sora Head Bill Peebles Launch AI Video Startup for Filmmakers

theinformation.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 20

Salesforce in Talks to Buy AI Customer-Research Startup Listen Labs for ~$2B, 4x Its January Valuation

businessinsider.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 23

Enterprise AI-Agent Security Startup Cymphony Exits Stealth With $30M, Sequoia and SMBC Lead $25M Series A

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 22

Harvey Closes $550M Round at $15.6B Valuation, Co-Led by Lightspeed and New Firm Diffusion

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 22

China's CSRC Informally Curbs Humanoid IPO Approvals After Unitree's Volatile Trading Debut

theinformation.com · 2026-09-09 · Score: 22

The Information: Gimlet Labs Told Investors OpenAI Could Spend $100M+ Yearly on Its Multi-Silicon Cloud

theinformation.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 20

Antioch Closes $32M Series A Led by Greylock for High-Fidelity Physical-AI Simulation

forbes.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 19

Ramp in Early Talks to Raise ~$1B at $60B Valuation, Up From $44B in June

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 19

Cognition Closes $2B Series E at $48B Valuation as ARR Jumps From $492M to ~$900M in Four Months

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 23

Poseidon Aerospace Lands $60M Series A for Uncrewed Cargo Aircraft, First Test Flight by Year-End

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 18

Forus Raises $150M Series C at $3B to Speed AI-Guided Prescription Fulfillment

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-08 · Score: 20

ALERT Mistral Raises €3B at €21B Valuation in Europe's Largest Ever Equity Round, Samsung Leads

mistral.ai · 2026-09-08 · Score: 35

Anthropic Walks Away From ~$6B Decart Acquisition After Due Diligence

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-07 · Score: 23

Ukrainian Drone Maker UForce in Talks to Raise ~$500M at $5B, Led by Valor Equity

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-07 · Score: 21

WSJ: Betaworks' 5.5% Hugging Face Stake Worth ~$650M in Nvidia Buyout, A.Capital Could Bag $1.5B

wsj.com · 2026-09-05 · Score: 16

Reuters: Anthropic IPO Launch Slips to Mid-October, Days Before US Midterm Elections

reuters.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 20

AI Training Startup Micro1 Files Late $12.5M Bid for Spirit Airlines Data, Aiming to Unseat Google

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 23

ALERT Nscale Seeks $3.5B Pre-IPO Financing With $2B From Nvidia, Third Point Leads $1.5B Convertibles

thenextweb.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 28

PUBG Maker Krafton Pledges Another $250M for India Over 3-4 Years, Pushing Beyond Gaming Into AI, Robotics

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 17

Nvidia's Equity Investments Surge 10x Year-Over-Year to $99B, With Nearly $50B Flowing to AI Labs

cnbc.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 20

Gimlet Labs Raises $300M at $3B Led by Andreessen Horowitz, With Arm and Microsoft's M12 Joining

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-04 · Score: 23

Washougal Startup Resect AI Exits Stealth With $25M to Intercept LLM Hallucinations Mid-Generation

geekwire.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 20

Crusoe Closes ~$3B Neocloud Round at ~$30B Valuation, Atreides and Valor Lead

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 22

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab in Talks to Raise $1B+ at $40B Pre-Money, Below Prior $50B Target

theinformation.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 26

Munich Bid-Automation Startup Atira Raises $17.5M Led by Accel to Auto-Generate Industrial Sales Proposals

fortune.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 17

Fluidstack Closes $1.5B at $18B, Doubling July Valuation as Jane Street Leads

forbes.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 23

Guardio Raises $40M at $1.1B, Hits $150M ARR and One Million Paying Consumers

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-03 · Score: 20

Moonshot AI Files Confidentially for Hong Kong IPO at Reported $50B Pre-Money Valuation

theinformation.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

Lasso Security Raises $30M, Ships LEAP CPU-Only Guardrail With Sub-5ms Verdicts

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 22

Conveo Raises $50M Series A Led by DST Global for AI-Run Customer Interviews in 15 Languages

axios.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 21

Huskeys Raises $27M Series A From Blackstone at $100M+ to Block Agentic AI Attack Traffic

wsj.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 18

Cancer-Care Navigator Thyme Care Raises $125M Series E at $2B+ Valuation

cnbc.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 19

ALERT HiddenLayer Closes $100M Series B Led by Delta-v Capital as AI-Security ARR Grows 10x

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 29

Aitan Emerges From Stealth With $41M From Deep33 and Dell for Robotic Weapon Systems

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 16

Wonderful Closes $550M Series C at $5B, Nearly Tripling March Valuation as Salesforce Joins

wsj.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 19

Ex-Apple Face ID Team's Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B to Build a 'Visual Brain' for Robots

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

SciFin Launches With $44M Seed From Altimeter and Madrona to Close Revenue-Team 'Context Gap'

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 24

Cognition Nears $1B Round at $47B Valuation, Nearly Doubling May's $26B Mark

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-02 · Score: 23

AfterQuery Becomes YC's Fastest Unicorn at $3.2B for Expert-Sourced AI Training Data

forbes.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 23

Aslan Emerges With $20.8M for AI Agents That Pose as Undercover Analysts in Criminal Forums

axios.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 22

Sequoia-Incubated Empirik Emerges With $21M Seed to Predict Infra Outages Before They Happen

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 26

AIR Emerges From Stealth With $50M From Sequoia and Greenoaks to Build a Firewall for AI Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-01 · Score: 27

Clipto Raises $15M at $250M Valuation for AI Search Across Local Video, Audio and Docs

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 19

AI Sales Startup Clay in Talks for Wellington-Led Round at $7B Pre-Money, Up From $5B in January

axios.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 19

Reframe Systems Raises $40M Series A Extension to Scale Robotic Home-Building Microfactories

theinformation.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 20

UK Unveils £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme, First Four Contests Cover NHS, Compute, Defence and Agent Security

gov.uk · 2026-08-31 · Score: 27

ALERT Andreessen Horowitz Fifth Growth Fund Closes at $8.5B, Targeting Enterprise AI, Robotics and AI Compute Stack

a16z.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 28

OpenAI Received $5.5B in SB Energy Warrants Ahead of SoftBank-Backed Data-Center Firm's US IPO Filing

wsj.com · 2026-08-31 · Score: 23

Andreessen Horowitz Closes $1.1B 'Machine Age' Fund for AI Chips, Data Centers and Robots

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-28 · Score: 26

Homebuilding AI Startup Digs Raises $25.3M Series A Led by Builders FirstSource

geekwire.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 16

Accenture to Acquire Dutch SAP Partner McCoy for Mid-Market AI Push, Adds 380+ Professionals

newsroom.accenture.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 16

Accel-Led Keenable Exits Stealth With $26M Seed for 100B-Doc Web Search Index Built for AI Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 24

Stability AI Raises $76M Series B From EA, Sony Music, UMG, WMG, AMD Ventures at Undisclosed Valuation

variety.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 23

Autonomous Trucking Startup Gatik Raises $200M Led by QIA and Koch, Two Months After PepsiCo Deal

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 25

Anthropic to Tell IPO Investors Its AI Revenue Opportunity Tops $30 Trillion, Beating SpaceX's $28.5T Claim

wsj.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 23

Emerald AI Closes $150M at $1.05B Valuation as Data-Center Grid Software Hits Unicorn Status

nytimes.com · 2026-08-25 · Score: 23

Nvidia-Backed Lambda in Talks for $3B Pre-IPO Round at $12B+ Valuation as 2026 Revenue Nears $1.5B

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 22

Quintessent Closes $40M Series A Led by Cycle Capital for Quantum-Dot Comb Lasers That Cut AI Interconnect Power 40%

siliconangle.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 21

Generalist AI Adds $200M 8VC-Led Round Just Two Months After $400M June Raise at $2B

axios.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 21

ALERT General Intuition Nearing $6B Pre-Money Round, Nearly Tripling Its $2.3B June Valuation

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 28

UK Digital Infrastructure Investment Tops £11B in 2025, Hits Dot-Com Boom Levels Amid AI Data-Center Surge

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-24 · Score: 17

Go Inc. Eyes Robotaxis and Acquisitions After Japan's Biggest IPO of 2026

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-19 · Score: 18

Apoha Raises $36 Million Series A to Commercialize 'Liquid Intelligence' for Materials Discovery

Fortune · 2026-06-03 · Score: 16

Ray Dalio Warns AI Bubble Is Bursting as Wealth Converts to Money — Likens Current Boom to Dot-Com Era

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-03 · Score: 20

Newsletter Issues (49)

Anthropic researcher quits. The AI control problem is still unsolved.

2026-09-09 · 4 mentions

AI can find the holes. Who will close them?

2026-09-07 · 2 mentions

#527 Schools are choosing opposite futures for AI

2026-08-30 · 5 mentions

#520 What a week: AI became everybody's decision

2026-08-09 · 2 mentions

AI for Good: fairness is now a number you can audit

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

AI in Healthcare: Vermont just made the therapy bot a crime

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

World Models: $610M Bets the World Is Not a Token

2026-06-21 · 9 mentions

Robotics: Mobileye decides to compete with its own customers

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

AI Geopolitics: Washington's AI kill switch broke the alliance

2026-06-21 · 4 mentions

AI Safety, Security & Ethics: train one trait, get alignment free

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI in Business: the agents you sell now run up your own bill

2026-06-21 · 4 mentions

AI Applications: HSBC will only ship AI that returns $100M

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI Regulation: export-control law just became an AI kill switch

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

#504 America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.

2026-06-17 · 4 mentions

#503 Washington just repriced frontier AI

2026-06-15 · 2 mentions

#500 $1.3 trillion vanished Friday. Bubble, or just profit-taking?

2026-06-07 · 1 mentions

#499 Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

2026-06-04 · 1 mentions

AI Geopolitics: the autonomous-weapons budget outran the rulebook

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI in Business: Anthropic at $900B as Meta funds AI by firing 8,000

2026-05-26 · 4 mentions

AI Applications: the in-house team gets its own AI stack

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI for Good: $200M bet on whether AI reaches 4.6 billion people

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

AI in Healthcare: sepsis gets its first AI guardian

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI in Education: federal cash flows in as parents push back hard

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

Frontier Research: LLMs reach Nature as the field bets against them

2026-05-26 · 3 mentions

World Models: Google Ships Omni, and the LLM Monopoly Cracks

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI in Education: the Class of 2026 is booing the keynote

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI Regulation: the White House reverses course on AI safety

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

Machine Learning: nobody trained bigger, everyone shrank the cache

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI Careers: 11,000 jobs cut in a day, one role is booming

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

World Models: Google's Genie now simulates real streets, not just dreams

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI Safety: Washington floats an FDA for AI models

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI in Business: $2.59T will be spent, 80% can't prove it works

2026-05-21 · 4 mentions

#494 SpaceX wants $80 billion. OpenAI wants a trillion.

2026-05-21 · 5 mentions

#493 Meta hired $145B in capex and fired 8,000 people

2026-05-19 · 1 mentions

AI business: capex now writes the org chart

2026-04-25 · 3 mentions

#485 When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret

2026-04-19 · 1 mentions

AI Business: Anthropic said no to $800B

2026-04-18 · 6 mentions

#478 The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else

2026-04-03 · 1 mentions

#477 Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.

2026-03-31 · 2 mentions

#476 Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy

2026-03-27 · 2 mentions

#403 Issue #403: AI Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies

2024-09-12 · 3 mentions

#430 Issue #430 : Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’

2025-03-20 · 2 mentions

#438 Issue #438: OpenAI’s new for-profit plan leaves many unanswered questions

2025-05-08 · 1 mentions

#446 Issue #446: Meta sacrifices a heap of money at the altar of AI

2025-06-20 · 2 mentions

#458 Issue #458: From

2025-12-16 · 11 mentions

#460 Agentic AI takes over as Gartner sees $2.5T spending

2026-01-20 · 3 mentions

#462 Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI?

2026-01-29 · 1 mentions

#468 Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time

2026-03-03 · 2 mentions

#474 $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad

2026-03-19 · 2 mentions