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Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Startup AI Manufacturing

Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue (www.theinformation.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

AMD Buys AI Chip Startup Taalas That Hardwires AI Models Into Its Silicon (hardware.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Startup AI AMD

Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M (www.dealstreetasia.com)
1 day ago Startup AI Singapore

Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago Startup

PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Google Startup AI

Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Jack Ma Startup AI Insurance

Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (www.businessinsider.com)
3 days ago Google Startup AI

Dubai-based vehicle fleet management startup Moove raised $250M led by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala at a $2.1B valuation to build autonomous vehicle “nests” for docking (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Startup Autonomous Car Dubai

Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Startup AI Nvidia Norway

AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Startup AI London

Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (asia.nikkei.com)
6 days ago China Japan Startup Drone Tokyo

A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $59M (siliconangle.com)
9 days ago Startup

Source and docs: Intel has given access to its Atom processor tech to Rosaic, a new startup led by Amarjit Gill; Lip-Bu Tan and Gill are longtime co-investors (www.reuters.com)
10 days ago Intel Startup

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago Startup AI New York

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (news.crunchbase.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product (nypost.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B (www.crn.com)
12 days ago Startup

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Startup AI Equity

Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4; the Chinese startup trained K3 on Nvidia chips including Blackwell (www.theinformation.com)
12 days ago China Startup Nvidia

Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Startup Nvidia

How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Startup AI Education

Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Startup AI Robot

Startup Founders Urge Trump Not to Shut Off Chinese Open Weight AI (slashdot.org)
16 days ago Trump China Startup AI

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (www.politico.com)
17 days ago Trump China Startup AI Ban Y Combinator

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