Funding

Latest: Mach9 Lands $34M Series A From First Round and Bessemer After Pivoting From Robotics to AI CAD · techcrunch.com, Oct 21, 2026

Topic Tracked keywords: funding, valuation, acquisition, series

50 AI Weekly issues and 83 live stories from the last 30 days mention Funding.

123 total mentions 14/20 recent issues -100% vs. baseline peak 6/issue tracked since 2026-03-19

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Live Stories (83)

Mach9 Lands $34M Series A From First Round and Bessemer After Pivoting From Robotics to AI CAD

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 19

ALERT Flapping Airplanes Lands $1B at $6B From Index and Lux, Four Times Its January Seed Valuation

thenextweb.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 28

Coherence Neuro Raises $45M Seed From OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund for Glioblastoma Brain Implant

wired.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 22

Blacksmith Hits $1B With $66M Series C Led by Sequoia as AI-Written Code Flood Tests Its CI Platform

fortune.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 24

Nscale CEO Memo Claims $100B+ in Contracted Revenue, Still Targets Year-End IPO at $30B-$35B

ft.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 22

GDS-Backed DayOne Weighs US IPO Delay or Smaller $2.5–3B Listing After Original $5B Target

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-21 · Score: 19

Reliable Robotics Lands $115M Series D Extension at $1B+ Valuation to Push Autonomous Flight Toward FAA Certification

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 22

Pigment Raises $250M at $2.3B With Nvidia and Scaleup Europe to Challenge Microsoft Office

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 22

Anthropic S-1 Shows $16.3B H1 Revenue, 25% From Two Customers, and $80.7B Non-Cash Loss Ahead of November IPO

wsj.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 23

Firefly Emerges From Stealth With $20M Series A to Turn Cameras and Radios Into AI First Responders

siliconangle.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 19

Air Space Intelligence Raises $325M at $3B With $875M FAA Deal and $99M Army Contract Behind It

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 21

Daytona Raises $60M Series B at $1B for AI-Agent CPU Cloud, 25x Revenue Jump Since January

fortune.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 24

ALERT Eka Robotics Raises $150M Series A at $1.45B for Vision-Force-Action Robot Model Led by a16z and F-Prime

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 29

Bob McGrew's AI Manufacturing Startup Arda Raises $230M at $1.5B Led by Altimeter, Accel and Khosla

cnbc.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 23

Blackwall Raises $100M Series C Led by AVP at $2.2B Valuation to Fight AI-Agent Bot Traffic

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 22

Otter.ai Raises $320M in Non-Dilutive Capital From General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, Hits $100M ARR

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 23

Eric Schmidt's ~1% Anthropic Stake From Series A Set to Deliver One of IPO's Largest Windfalls

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 21

Korea's Elice Plunges 32% in Kosdaq Debut Despite 400x Retail Oversubscription on $151M Offering

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-20 · Score: 22

OpenAI Races to Lock $30B Round at $1.4T+ Valuation Before Anthropic's Mid-November IPO

reuters.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 23

Town Hits $1B Valuation on $108M Series B Four Months After Launching Enterprise AI 'Townies'

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 26

Elon Musk Pledges One SpaceX Share to Every US Child in 2027, A ~$10.5B Response to Anthropic Benefit Fund

cnbc.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 19

Tel Aviv's doubleAI Debuts GPU-Kernel Optimizer, Raises $220M and Acquires 1,000 Nvidia B300s

wsj.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 23

ALERT Tenstorrent Raises $1.5B Series E at $6.2B Valuation, Pulling in Fidelity, ARK, Morgan Stanley

siliconangle.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 31

Anthropic Buys Opaque Systems' Confidential Computing Tech, Hires CEO Fulkerson and CTO Poddar

securityweek.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 25

Ex-Huawei Researcher's Dexterous-Manipulation Startup Gewu Tongzhi Closes ~RMB 100M Angel Round Months After Founding

technode.com · 2026-10-19 · Score: 19

Benchmark Partners Say They'll Hold the 2-3 Deals a Year Rhythm Despite Record $2B Across Two Funds

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-18 · Score: 16

ALERT Anthropic Commits 5% of Equity to New Public Benefit Fund, Grows 2% per 50% Valuation Jump

anthropic.com · 2026-10-18 · Score: 29

Court Filing: Disney to Spend $180M Over Three Years Hiring 60+ Character.AI Staff Plus $30M Retention Pool

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-17 · Score: 22

FT: Anthropic Offers Blackstone 10%+ Yield on $9B Tranche of $60B Broadcom-Arranged TPU Debt

ft.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 23

Bloomberg: Indian Family-Office AI Checks Jump ~50% to $760M in 2026 as Six Startups Pass $1B

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 17

FT: KBRA Rated Anthropic BB+ in June, Top Junk Grade, Ahead of $35B Apollo-Led Chip Financing

ft.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 20

Bloomberg: SoftBank Weighs $18B Equity Buy of Allied Universal to Deploy AI Robots Across US Security Beats

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-16 · Score: 23

RapidCanvas Raises ~$29M Series B Led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures for Agent-Built Enterprise AI

axios.com · 2026-10-15 · Score: 18

Bloomberg: Nscale's $35B IPO Plans Slip as Norway Flagship Runs Six Months Late and Owes Microsoft and ByteDance

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-15 · Score: 23

Siemens Takes Exclusive Data-Center Rights to Skeleton Technologies, Lifts Supercapacitor Maker Past $1B

datacenterdynamics.com · 2026-10-15 · Score: 20

Hitachi Ventures Leads $25M in Scimplify at $250M Valuation to Fight China's Grip on Critical Materials With AI Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 18

Reuters: Anthropic IPO Investors Push Valuation Down to $1.5T From $2T Over Q3 Growth Slowdown

reuters.com · 2026-10-15 · Score: 23

ALERT Cohere Signs LOI to Buy AISLE, the AI Vuln Scanner That Found 18 of 24 cURL Flaws

aisle.com · 2026-10-15 · Score: 30

The Information: Anthropic Tells IPO Investors Distillation Accounts for Just 5–7% of Revenue

theinformation.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 23

FT: Anthropic Q3 Revenue Jumps 45% to $16.8B, Hits Adjusted Profitability Ahead of IPO

ft.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 23

Zenzap Raises $44M Led by Bessemer and Lightspeed to Pit AI Workplace Messenger Against WhatsApp

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 16

Anduril Opens $1.3B Employee Tender Offer at $94.80 a Share, Values Defense AI Firm at $90B

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 20

Berkshire Hathaway Buys Another $330M of Bending Spoons, Lifting Stake to 4%

cnbc.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 20

Salience Labs Raises $125M Series B for All-Optical Circuit Switching in AI Data Centers

siliconangle.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 22

Gartner Warns $3.5T of AI Infrastructure Spending Faces Impairment by 2030

gartner.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 25

Modal Closes $750M Series D Led by Accel at $15.75B Valuation, Crosses $1B ARR

axios.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 23

Harmonic Security Raises $50M Series B Led by Crosspoint to Govern Enterprise AI Tool Use

siliconangle.com · 2026-10-14 · Score: 24

Bedrock Robotics Said to Be Raising $600M Series C at $3.5B Pre-Money for Autonomous Construction Vehicles Chasing Data-Center Backlog

axios.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 23

Causa Prima Raises $20M Seed Led by Base10 for Agent-to-Agent B2B Payment Negotiation

fortune.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 17

Albert Invent Raises $55M Series B Led by TCV on Chemistry-Native AI Trained on 15M Molecules

forbes.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 20

Tencent Closes $5.7B Dollar and Dim-Sum Bond Sale for AI Capex, Draws $23B in Orders

reuters.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 22

OpenAI in Early Talks to Acquire Open-Source Security Firm Trail of Bits to Scale Patch the Planet

theinformation.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 23

AI Customer-Service Startup Decagon Hires Bank, Holds Early Buyout Talks With ServiceNow at $4.5B Valuation

businessinsider.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 20

Applied Intuition Fields Offers at $30B Valuation, Doubling Its June $15B as AV Software Pushes Into Defense

theinformation.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 22

Pluto Security Exits Stealth With $42M to Monitor Enterprise AI Agents and Vibe-Coded Apps, Hits $2M+ ARR

techcrunch.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 25

Chinese Home Robot Startup Ola Dimensions Closes Hundreds of Millions RMB Angel-Plus Round, Fourth Raise in Six Months

technode.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 15

Rishi Sunak Tells Bloomberg Forum Tech Firms Will Out-Issue US Government on Long-Term Debt by 2027

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-13 · Score: 19

Shanghai AI-Infra Firm Infinigence Closes RMB 2.3B ($344M) Series C With Tencent, Baidu and Lenovo

technode.com · 2026-10-12 · Score: 21

Suki Raises $90M Series E Led by Healthier Capital at 450-Customer Scale, Projects $60-80M in 2026 Revenue

inc.com · 2026-10-12 · Score: 21

Dongshan Precision Starts $3B Hong Kong Listing Roadshow, Edge-AI PCB Supplier Holds 27% Global Share

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-12 · Score: 17

SWI Group Raises €800M at €6.1B to Convert Ex-FTX Genesis Digital Bitcoin Miner Into 1.3GW AI Capacity

coindesk.com · 2026-10-12 · Score: 22

FT: Ex-DeepMind's David Silver Pitches RL 'Super Learner' Path at Ineffable After $1.1B Seed

ft.com · 2026-10-12 · Score: 23

Bain's Bridge Data Centres Seeks to Double AI Loan to $6.6B, Among Asia's Largest Data Center Deals

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-12 · Score: 19

PillPack Founders' General Medicine Raises $120M Series B Led by a16z With Eli Lilly and Mercy Health

fiercehealthcare.com · 2026-10-11 · Score: 18

Beijing's LivSyn Robotics Closes 100M-Yuan Series A for RUDA Platform Linking Robots to AI Models

technode.com · 2026-10-10 · Score: 17

PitchBook: Robotics and Physical AI Startups Have Pulled In ~$48B YTD as Firms Film Humans at Work

ft.com · 2026-10-11 · Score: 21

Anthropic Pauses Free Claude Startups Perks 48 Hours After Launch as Applications Surge 21x

forbes.com · 2026-10-10 · Score: 21

Information Profiles Zach Frankel, Secretive Solo Investor Behind First Checks Into Ramp, Cognition, Applied Compute

theinformation.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 18

Nvidia in Early Talks to Acquire Reflection AI or Deepen Stake, Acqui-Hire Floated to Dodge Antitrust

ft.com · 2026-10-10 · Score: 23

PitchBook Logs 42 Decacorns in 2026 So Far, Beating 2021 Record as AI Startups Race Past $10B

axios.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 18

Six-Month-Old Chip Startup Nuvacore Raises at $2.5B as Ex-Apple Chief Williams Pushes Data-Center CPU

reuters.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 22

Ramp Raises $1.85B Led by Dragoneer and Thrive at $60B Pre-Money, Up From $44B in June

bloomberg.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 21

Oxide Computer Raises $445M Series D Led by Eclipse at $6B as Enterprises Flee Hyperscalers

axios.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 23

Vinod Khosla Backs Sabi's $50M Seed for Baseball Cap That Converts Neural Signals to AI Prompts

forbes.com · 2026-10-09 · Score: 20

EliseAI raises $350M at $4B valuation, led by a16z and Bessemer, for housing and healthcare AI

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 22

OpenAI in talks to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation as it defers IPO to 2027

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 26

ALERT Anthropic IPO prospectus targets $2T valuation, commits to $518B in decade-long compute spend

fortune.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 29

Efficient Computer raises $97M Series B at $650M valuation for dataflow AI chips

reuters.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 21

AI Personal-Agent Startup Instinct Raises $1B Series C at $10B From Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue

reuters.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 22

Physical-AI Chip Startup SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C at $1.45B Valuation, Co-Led by Fidelity and Amplify

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 23

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

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Altman sold a $500B AI race. Now he wants the brakes.

2026-10-02 · 1 mentions

Why AI’s leaders are asking to slow down

2026-09-14 · 1 mentions

#530 Applied AI This Week

2026-09-12 · 2 mentions

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

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