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Ripple acquires a stake in Flutterwave as part of the African payments startup's Series E, which values the company at $3.2B (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Startup Africa

Atom Computing, one of the nine quantum computing startups backed by the US, raised a $100M Series C led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300M (www.axios.com)
23 days ago Startup Quantum

Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Startup AI JPMorgan Cisco

Indian AI startup Sarvam raised $234M in the first close of a $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, with HCLTech acquiring a 10.5% stake for ~$150M in cash (www.reuters.com)
23 days ago India Startup AI

After years of false dawns, Big Tech, startups, and governments are betting on commercially useful quantum computers by 2030, as skeptics worry about hype (giftarticle.ft.com)
26 days ago Startup Quantum

Jeff Bezos' AI Startup Aims To Build an 'Artificial General Engineer' (slashdot.org)
26 days ago Startup AI Jeff Bezos

Sources: three ex-DOGE staffers are raising $130M from a16z, Sequoia, and others for a startup that aims to use AI to secure government systems (www.vanityfair.com)
26 days ago Startup AI

Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Startup AI

Sources: French startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise ~€3B at a ~€20B valuation; it was last valued at €11.7B during a funding round in September 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago France Startup AI

Nesto, a Montreal-based mortgage and finance tech startup, raised a CA$302M Series E at a CA$1.47B valuation to expedite deployment of its lending platform (betakit.com)
27 days ago mortgage Startup

Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI startups have announced major London expansions over the past year, as the city emerges as a key AI talent hub outside the US (www.cnbc.com)
27 days ago Startup AI London

Agentic workplace startup Genspark raised a $100M Series B extension at a $2.6B post-money valuation, up 63% in just three months; it has raised $645M+ to date (www.axios.com)
27 days ago Startup

WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works (www.billboard.com)
28 days ago Startup AI

Cyera, an Israeli startup focused on protecting companies' data from AI-based threats, raised $600M at a $12B valuation, bringing its total funding to $2.3B (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Israel Startup AI

Indian quick grocery delivery startup Zepto files for an India IPO, planning to raise ~$836M by selling new shares; Zepto was valued at $7B in its last round (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago India IPO Startup

Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital, at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 raise (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-8 Energy Startup

Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-6 Japan Startup Tokyo

Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-6 Uber Startup

Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-6 Startup AI Drone

Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a $12B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025 (www.forbes.com)
2026-6-6 Startup AI

Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups (www.reuters.com)
2026-6-5 Startup AI Canada

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-4 Startup Robot

Bengaluru-based grocery delivery startup FirstClub raised a $55M Series B co-led by Peak XV and Sofina at a $255M valuation, up from $120M in September 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-4 Startup

Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-4 Startup

Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-3 Startup

How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-6-3 Startup AI

Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-6-3 Israel Startup Mitsubishi

How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China (www.corememory.com)
2026-6-3 China Startup

AI music startup Suno raised $400M led by Bond at a $5.4B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-3 Startup AI

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-3 Germany Startup AI

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