Funding

Latest: Kevin Mandia's Armadin Raises $255.5M Series B at $2.5B for Agentic Offensive-Security Platform · securityweek.com, Oct 1, 2026

Topic Tracked keywords: funding, valuation, acquisition, series

49 AI Weekly issues and 78 live stories from the last 30 days mention Funding.

122 total mentions 17/20 recent issues -60% vs. baseline peak 6/issue tracked since 2026-03-19

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Live Stories (78)

Kevin Mandia's Armadin Raises $255.5M Series B at $2.5B for Agentic Offensive-Security Platform

securityweek.com · 2026-10-01 · Score: 27

UK Startup Zenithon Raises $10M to Train World Models for Fusion Reactors, Rockets and Semiconductor Fabs

tech.eu · 2026-09-30 · Score: 19

Factory Fires Advisor Chris Degnan Alleging Cognition Leaks, Two Hours Later He's Named Cognition's CRO

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-30 · Score: 24

Restate Raises $20M Series A Led by Singular to Sell Durable Execution Runtime for AI Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-30 · Score: 17

ElevenLabs Closes $300M Tender at $22B, Wellington and T. Rowe Price Lead, Doubling February Mark

elevenlabs.io · 2026-09-30 · Score: 24

NYT: AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Had No Risk Team; SEC Now Subpoenaing Its Wall Street Lenders

nytimes.com · 2026-09-30 · Score: 22

GMI Cloud Closes $668M Equity-and-Debt Package With Nvidia and Taiwan's CTBC to Expand Nvidia-Only GPU Buildout

theinformation.com · 2026-09-30 · Score: 26

Reco Raises $55M Series C With AT&T Strategic to Extend Agentic AI Security to Rogue Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 25

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

OpenAI Targets $30B Bridge Round at $1.4T, Pushes IPO to 2027

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

EliseAI Raises $350M at $4B Valuation, Nearly Doubling Its 13-Month-Old $2.2B Mark

fortune.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 22

India Readies $25B Deep-Tech Fund to Catch Up With US, China on AI and Chips

cnbc.com · 2026-09-29 · Score: 26

SoftBank Lands $11B Junk-Bond Deal at Record Yields to Fund $65B OpenAI Bet

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 17

ALERT AMD Agrees to Buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B, Names Her EVP and Chief Scientist

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 35

Defense-AI Firm RedLattice Agrees to $1.25B SPAC Merger With Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 20

Maritime AI Startup Quartermaster Raises $140M Series B for SmartMast Ship Sensor

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 17

Voice-AI Startup Modulate Raises $25M Series C Led by Future Ventures for Enterprise Voice Intelligence

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 16

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

WSJ Profiles OpenAI-Backed Red Queen Bio, an AI Biosecurity Startup With $36M Raised for Antibody Countermeasures

wsj.com · 2026-09-28 · Score: 20

WSJ Profiles Jaan Tallinn, Anthropic's $124M Series A Lead Who Donated ~$170M to AI Safety

wsj.com · 2026-09-27 · Score: 21

Bloomberg: China's Consumer Stocks Face a 'Lost Decade' as AI Monopolizes Capital and Policy Focus

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-27 · Score: 17

Warp Raises $85M, Launches Warp Agent Pitching 'AI Head of HR' for Payroll, Compliance and Onboarding

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-25 · Score: 21

Cognition Says Devin Coding Agent Hit $1B Annualized Revenue Run Rate, Doubling From $492M in May

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-25 · Score: 23

Crusoe Kills $1.25B Boom Supersonic Turbine Deal Weeks After Closing $3.9B Series F

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-25 · Score: 23

Anthropic Asks Shareholders to Grant Its Seven Founders 50.1% Voting Control Ahead of IPO

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-25 · Score: 27

Bloomberg: DeepMind Alumni Line Up VC Cash for Diffusion and Reasoning Startups Beyond LLMs

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-25 · Score: 23

OpenEvidence Raises $250M at $15B, 25% Above January's $12B Mark and Weighing Sale

businessinsider.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 23

The Information: TypeSafe in Talks to Raise $1B+ at $10B+ Valuation Days After $40M Seed

theinformation.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 23

AlphaGo Co-Creator Thore Graepel Raises Tens of Millions for AI Reasoning Startup Metis Reasoning

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 22

Trump-Allied White House Memo Names Amodei as Face of AI 'Doomerism' Ahead of Anthropic IPO

axios.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 23

Multiples Leads $150M Round in Brahma AI at $2B Valuation, DNEG Founder Malhotra Joins Cap Table

cnbc.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 22

ALERT DeepSeek Annualized Revenue Hits $1B, Aims to Close $7.5B Shanghai Fundraise by End of October

theinformation.com · 2026-09-24 · Score: 32

Modal in Talks at ~$15B, Baseten at ~$26B as AI Inference Startups Race to Multiply Valuations

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

Flock Safety Weighs Sale, Approaches Advisers as ALPR Backlash and DeFlock Vandalism Mount

semafor.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 22

Enveda Closes $311M Series E at $2B Valuation to Push AI-Discovered Natural Medicines Into Late-Stage Trials

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 25

Anthropic Leaders Back Pilgrim's $25M Seed at $150M for Genomic Biothreat Sensor

wsj.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 22

Ema Raises $77M Series B Led by Creaegis, Quadruples Valuation as Total Funding Hits $140M

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

Basecamp Research Raises $140M Series C at $800M Led by S32, Anthropic and Nvidia Join

tech.eu · 2026-09-23 · Score: 26

ALERT Tekever Raises $580M at $6.4B Valuation, Led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford

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

Business Insider Profiles Noah Shinn as Instinct AI Talks $10B Valuation, Invite-Only Launch

businessinsider.com · 2026-09-23 · Score: 20

Web-Scraping Firm Firecrawl Raises $75M Series B Led by Smash Ventures for AI-Agent Data

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 25

Micro1 Raises $100M+ at $4B Valuation, 8x Jump From $500M Mark in September 2025

forbes.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 23

Cyera Raises $400M From Goldman Sachs in Series G Extension, Total Funding Now $1.94B

wsj.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 21

NYC Startup Ande Emerges From Stealth With $52M for AI Corporate-Entertainment Agents

prnewswire.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 18

Ex-Anthropic Duo's Self-Improving AI Startup Mirendil in Talks for $1B Round at $5B Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 23

Baselayer Raises $35M Series A Led by M13, Launches Know Your Agent Identity Suite

news.crunchbase.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 26

Heidi Raises $340M Including $100M Series C Led by Blackbird at $900M Valuation

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-22 · Score: 25

Helsinki's Verda Raises $189M Series B Led by Emergence at $1B+ Valuation for AI Cloud

tech.eu · 2026-09-22 · Score: 20

Belgian AI-Recruitment Startup Spott Raises $21M Series A Led by Balderton

tech.eu · 2026-09-22 · Score: 19

Dutch Nanoimprint Lithography Startup Morphotonics Raises €40M Extension From 3M Ventures and EIC Fund

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 16

Harvey, Abridge, Ramp Ditch Frontier-Lab APIs for Open-Weight Models After Margins Collapsed to -50%

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 23

SoftBank Delays SB Energy IPO as Investors Balk at $50B Valuation Tied to OpenAI

nytimes.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 22

AI Health Benefits Brokerage Corridor Raises $25M Seed Led by Bain Capital Ventures

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 16

SoftBank Seeks Over $11B in Junk Bonds to Fund $10B Third Tranche of OpenAI Investment

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-21 · Score: 23

UK Startup Unit1 Raises ~£15M From Balderton to Stage Concerts With Hyperrealistic AI Avatars

theguardian.com · 2026-09-20 · Score: 18

Brookfield's Bruce Flatt Tells Investor Day AI Race Is Slowing Because Builders Can't Keep Up

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-18 · Score: 20

Nvidia-Backed AI Cloud Nscale Files US IPO Targeting $30B Valuation on 1,252% Revenue Surge

siliconangle.com · 2026-09-18 · Score: 26

Anthropic Weighs New Model Release Before IPO to Counter OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Momentum

reuters.com · 2026-09-18 · Score: 22

Leaked FT Deck: OpenAI Projects $278B Negative FCF Through 2030 on Path to $350B Revenue

ft.com · 2026-09-18 · Score: 23

Vantora, Formerly UP.Labs, Raises $100M From Silversmith to Build Physical AI Startups for Fortune 100

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-18 · Score: 22

Crusoe Locks In $3.9B at $30.9B Post-Money as It Doubles Down on Factory-Built Data Centers

wsj.com · 2026-09-17 · Score: 22

Emulate, One-Month-Old UK AI Startup From Ex-DeepMind Researchers, in Talks for $700M at $3.7B

ft.com · 2026-09-17 · Score: 23

NYT: Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence Lead New Class of Startups Chasing Self-Improving AI

nytimes.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 20

Manus Targets $4B Valuation in $500M Round, First Financing Since Beijing-Ordered Meta Split

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-17 · Score: 23

Zipline in Talks to Raise ~$1B at ~$20B Valuation, Nearly Tripling Its January Mark

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 21

10-Bank Syndicate Lines Up $22B Loan for Blackstone-Alphabet Cloud Venture Crux AI to Buy Google TPUs

bloomberg.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 23

Vishal Sikka's Hang Ten Systems Adds $53M Second Seed Five Weeks After $32M First Round

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 22

May Mobility to Go Public via $1.4B ACP SPAC, Raising Up to $337M for Autonomous Ride-Hail

techcrunch.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 21

Ex-Intel Team's Delos Data Raises $100M for AI Data-Center Networking Chips

reuters.com · 2026-09-15 · Score: 22

Cohere and Aleph Alpha Sign Definitive Merger Agreement, Schwarz Group Commits $600M to Series E

reuters.com · 2026-09-16 · Score: 23

Arcee AI Raises $150M+ Series B at $1B Pre-Money, Says It Trained Four Open-Weight Models for $20M

fortune.com · 2026-09-16 · 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

Newsletter Issues (49)

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