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Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware (siliconangle.com)
15 hours ago Startup AI Nvidia

AI agent startup Instinct raised a $1B Series C from Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue at a $10B valuation and details recent products, such as a concierge service (www.reuters.com)
16 hours ago Startup AI

A look at OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio, an AI biosecurity startup with $36M raised to design antibody drugs against pathogens, including AI-enabled bioweapons (www.wsj.com)
23 hours ago Startup AI

A look at the wave of Google DeepMind researchers who have exited recently to launch their own AI startups focused on alternatives to LLMs (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Google Startup AI

Sources: AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago Startup AI Tesla

Databricks acquires spreadsheet startup Row Zero to expand the capabilities of its AI coworker Genie; Row Zero raised a $10M seed led by IA Ventures last year (www.axios.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Jev developer TypeSafe is in talks to raise $1B+ at a $10B+ valuation; last week the startup announced a $40M seed, PitchBook says at a $200M valuation (www.theinformation.com)
4 days ago Startup

Dallas-based enterprise browser security startup Island raised $400M led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $6.4B valuation and plans to grow its staff to 1,500 (www.cnbc.com)
4 days ago Startup Browser Equity

Seattle-based satellite startup Hubble, which is working to enable global Bluetooth connectivity, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation, for $300M in total funding (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup Seattle

London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to $225M (tech.eu)
5 days ago Startup AI London

Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised $100M+ at a $4B valuation, up from $500M in September 2025 (www.forbes.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Startup Goldman

Australian healthcare AI startup Heidi raised $340M, including a $100M Series C led by Blackbird at a $900M valuation, taking its total funding to $430M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Australia Startup AI

US startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, set to host 70K+ Nvidia chips by 2027; sources: Trump pledged Nvidia export approvals to Armenia (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Trump Startup Nvidia

Finnish neocloud startup Verda raised $189M led by Emergence at a $1B+ valuation and aims to raise up to $1.5B in equity and debt in 2026 and up to $10B in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Startup Equity Finland

French pharma SaaS startup Biolevate raised a €30M Series A co-led by RAISE France and Orange Ventures, taking its total funding to €36M (www.axios.com)
6 days ago France SaaS Startup

Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup Netherlands

Some startups, like Harvey, Abridge, Ramp, and Rogo, are embracing open-weight models or training their own models to reduce expensive reliance on frontier labs (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Startup

Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts (www.theinformation.com)
7 days ago China Startup Drone

Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago China Startup AI Job Market

New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI New York

Modular data center startup Rune raised a $40M Series A led by Spark Capital to deploy off-grid compute capacity at solar farm and other renewable energy sites (www.fastcompany.com)
8 days ago Energy Startup Solar Renewable

Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$20B valuation, up from $7.6B in January, and Paradigm is in talks to lead the round (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup Drone

How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Emulate, a month-old world models UK startup founded by ex-Google DeepMind employees, is in talks to raise up to $700M at a $3.7B post-money valuation (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Google Startup

PitchBook: brain-computer interface startups have raised $1B+ in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined; Neuralink is the best-funded (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Startup

Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Startup AI SpaceX

Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI startup set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into disease treatment (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

Mistral and other European AI startups accuse US rivals of using safety concerns to entrench their dominance, rejecting Anthropic's calls to pace the frontier (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Europe Startup AI

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M (www.cnbc.com)
8 days ago IPO Startup AI London

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