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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)
16 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)
17 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)
18 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)
18 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)
18 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)
18 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)
19 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)
19 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)
19 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)
19 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)
19 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)
19 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)
20 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)
20 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 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)
21 days ago IPO Startup AI London

NYC-based AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Startup AI

LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize (www.businessinsider.com)
29 days ago Google LinkedIn Startup AI

Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
29 days ago Startup AI

Sources: the Pentagon is in talks to lend ~$5B to neocloud startup Fluidstack, which is being advised on its loan application by Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank (www.wsj.com)
30 days ago Startup Pentagon

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (www.politico.com)
30 days ago Trump Startup AI Ban

Source: former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time advisor to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
30 days ago Startup AI

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