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Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer
Upwind, a San Francisco-based cloud infrastructure security startup, raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $3.8 billion valuation led by Bessem…
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI has lowered its funding target to $20 billion from a previously reported $30 billion, according to The Financial Times. The company was earlier…
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Amazon stands to capture far more value from Anthropic's impending IPO than any venture capital firm, despite VCs backing the AI company in its early …
Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive, a Dallas-based investment firm, announced a $10 billion fund to back at least 10 late-stage companies with checks up to $1 billion each. T…
Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Investors are growing anxious about AI infrastructure spending even as Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft commit over $740 billion to capital expen…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI And Predictions Lead The Lineup
Re:Build led this week's funding rounds, closing on $2.1 billion for its manufacturing platform that partners with industrial companies from product d…
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
Nvidia is negotiating a residual value guarantee to backstop billions in debt financing for Nscale's planned AI data center in West Virginia, accordin…
Sector Snapshot: Travel Tech Funding Heads Toward Multiyear Low Despite AI Push
Travel tech startups have raised $2.2 billion across 302 funding rounds in the first three quarters of 2026, down sharply from $3.7 billion in 2025. T…
Exclusive: Numeracle Raises $28M To Keep Legitimate Business Calls From Spam Label
Numeracle raised $28 million from Edison Partners, bringing its total funding to $34.8 million since 2018. The McLean, Virginia-based company verifies…
Jumbo Series A Rounds Hiding The Real Squeeze On Seed Startups
Global startups closed at least 114 Series A rounds of $100 million or more so far this year, with more than 70% going to AI companies, according to C…
Series B Funding Is Up, But Fewer Deals Are Getting Done
Series B funding in the U.S. reached $48 billion so far in 2026, the highest in years, yet deal counts fell below year-ago levels and track toward a m…
Crunchbase Data Shows Q3 Robotics Startup Funding Jumps 185% As US And China Lead Physical AI Push
Robotics startups attracted nearly $10 billion in venture funding during Q3 2026, a 185% jump from the same period last year. The surge reflects an in…
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic is building an Amazon-like moat around its enterprise business, according to disclosures in its initial public offering filing. More than ha…
SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
SpaceX secured $40 billion in committed financing for artificial intelligence chips and data center infrastructure, marking what the company describes…
California Startups Have Raised More So Far In 2026 Than The Entire US Ever Has In A Single Year
California startups have captured an unprecedented share of U.S. venture capital in 2026, pulling in more than 75 percent of all domestic startup fund…
Exclusive: Slingshot Raises $27M In Seed Funding To Build An Insurer For Those Small Policies Sold At Checkout
Slingshot Insurance is launching from stealth with $27 million in seed funding, positioned to capture a fragmented but growing market for embedded ins…
The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.
Anthropic's decision to shelve its IPO plans signals a reckoning in AI startup valuations that mirrors the dot-com crash, according to Airrived co-fou…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives A Varied Lineup Of Large Financings
Tenstorrent and Flapping Airplanes dominated this week's funding leaderboard, capturing the lion's share of capital in a diverse round of AI-focused i…
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Robot Training, Space Lasers And Greener Cement
# Five Startup Deals Reshape Robotics, Space Tech, And Sustainable Materials This month's funding announcements reveal an expanding frontier across t…
Asia’s Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
Investors deployed $38.5 billion into seed-through growth-stage financings for Asian startups during the third quarter, according to Crunchbase data. …
Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup Marklo
Jessica Herrin, founder of Stella & Dot, launched Marklo, an AI marketing startup, with $5 million in seed funding led by Forerunner Ventures. Herrin …
Exclusive: Gudea Lands $7M To Predict Which Online Narratives Will Go Viral
Gudea raised $7 million in seed funding to develop technology that predicts which online narratives will become viral and identifies the people drivin…
WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
WindBorne, a Silicon Valley startup, secured a U.S. Air Force contract valued at nearly $50 million. The company uses weather balloons combined with a…
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
Mecka AI raised $60 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, according to TechCrunch. The startup collects and analyzes human motion data to train hum…
From Ballet To Breach Prevention: How A Magician’s Son Raised $4.2M In Seed Funding For His Cybersecurity Startup
A former magician's assistant and ballet dancer has raised $4.2 million in seed funding for a cybersecurity startup, according to Crunchbase News. Th…
Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users
Nous Research has confirmed a $1.5 billion valuation following a $90 million Series B funding round. The AI research company develops Hermes Agent, a …
Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product
Former Ramp engineers have raised $20 million for their startup Melius, according to TechCrunch. The team pivoted away from their initial product conc…
Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
# Q3 2026 Venture Funding Hits $159 Billion as Billion-Dollar Rounds Surge Global venture funding reached $159 billion in Q3 2026, with approximately…
Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Etched, an artificial intelligence chip startup, is receiving investment offers at a valuation exceeding $40 billion, according to sources speaking wi…
Your Investors Can Make Or Break Your Startup. Here’s Who Founders Actually Need On Their Cap Table
Founders building their cap tables should prioritize investor selection based on value contribution rather than simply accepting capital from availabl…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Almost All About AI
Artificial intelligence dominated U.S. startup funding this week, with nine of the ten largest rounds going to AI-focused companies, according to Crun…
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering has secured backing from three heavyweight venture firms, with Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, and Sequoia Capital all pa…
Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America
Daniel Ek's Neko Health just raised $700 million to expand its preventative body-scanning business into America, signaling serious investor conviction…
A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body
Spotify founder Daniel Ek's preventative health startup Neko Health closed a $700 million funding round, betting that full-body scanning technology wi…
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesis company founded by Piotr Babiński and Ava Hahn, has doubled its valuation to $22 billion through a secondary tender…
Charter Space raises $5M to bring insurance to the stars
Charter Space, an insurance platform built specifically for the space industry, closed a $5 million funding round to expand operations across one of t…
FedEx orders 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger in $300M deal
FedEx has committed to purchasing 2,000 electric trucks from Harbinger Motors, marking the largest order in the startup's history and a $300 million v…
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Restate, a startup building durable execution infrastructure for AI agents, raised $20 million in funding as demand accelerates for backend systems th…
a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B
Andreessen Horowitz-backed EliseAI has raised $350 million in fresh funding, doubling its valuation to $4 billion in just one year. The Series C round…
Tiny Health Raises $33M To Explore What Gut Data Can Reveal About Future Health
Tiny Health, an Austin-based microbiome testing startup, closed a $33 million Series B round led by B Capital. The funding addresses surging demand fo…
Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot
Atomic, a supply chain automation startup founded by former Tesla engineers, has closed a $12.5 million Series A funding round to expand its agentic s…
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Peak XV Partners, the Southeast Asia and India-focused venture firm formerly known as Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia and India, has raised its Surge s…
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
Modal Labs has raised a Series C round that values the AI infrastructure startup at $15.75 billion, according to TechCrunch. The funding round approac…
Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
Quartermaster, a maritime intelligence startup, closed a $140 million funding round, cementing its position as the leading provider of real-time vesse…
Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta launched an enterprise-focused AI platform and appointed Dev Ittycheria, the longtime CEO of MongoDB, to lead the new business unit. The move sig…
Physical AI chip developer SiMa.ai hits $1.45B valuation
SiMa.ai, a developer of specialized chips designed for physical artificial intelligence workloads at the edge, raised $150 million in Series C funding…
MAVI bets on the AI boom creating demand for a new kind of accountant
MAVI, an accounting staffing platform, has emerged from stealth mode with $4 million in seed funding. The company bets that artificial intelligence wi…
Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
Outmarket, an insurtech startup that automates administrative work for insurance agencies and brokers using AI, raised $34.5 million in a Series B fun…
TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement
TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million to settle allegations that the short-form video platform deceived users about safety practices …
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic is betting heavily on Akamai's infrastructure with an $11.6 billion, seven-year commitment that underscores a critical shift in how AI compa…
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, has raised $3.36 billion in convertible debt financing to accelerate its aggressive data center expans…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Cybersecurity, AI And Health Take The Lead
# Cybersecurity and AI Dominate This Week's Mega-Round Sprint Startups across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and healthcare pulled in massiv…
Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
Lightspeed Venture Partners is raising $250 million for a dedicated India fund focused on early-stage artificial intelligence companies, marking a str…
Exclusive: From Booking Calls To Late Check-Ins, Dextr AI Raises $6.7M For Hotel AI Agents
Dextr AI has raised $6.7 million in seed funding to launch AI agents purpose-built for hotel operations. The startup exits stealth with technology des…
Gaming Startup Funding Levels Up A Bit In 2026
Gaming startups have raised $2 billion in seed through growth-stage funding so far in 2026, already surpassing the entire 2025 full-year total. The su…
Ando wants to take on Slack with a team messaging app that lets humans and agents work together
Ando, a nascent team messaging startup, closed a $20 million pre-seed and seed round led by Accel and Index Ventures, with participation from Emergenc…
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
Enveda Therapeutics, an AI-driven biotech company mining nature for drug compounds, raised $311 million in Series C funding at a $2 billion valuation.…
Jumbo-Sized Series A Rounds Are On The Rise
The startup funding landscape is shifting toward mega-rounds at the earliest institutional stages. Through 2024, global startups have already closed a…
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
Snorkel AI has tripled its valuation to $3.5 billion in a Series E funding round that brought in $350 million, cementing the startup's position as a l…
Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide
Baselayer, a startup building trust infrastructure for the financial services industry, closed a $35 million Series A led by M13 to expand its identit…
Kairos Power gets up to $100M from Samsung group to build nuclear reactor for Google
Kairos Power locked down a transformational deal with Samsung C&T, the engineering and construction arm of Samsung Group, to develop its first 50-mega…