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Only 4% of the startups in YC's 2026 spring batch had a native mobile app as their main product, down from 15% in 2013, as startups focus on AI and agents (www.bloomberg.com)
30 days ago Mobile Startup AI

Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-10 Alibaba Startup AI

Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg, ex-OpenAI Sora head Bill Peebles, and ex-Dropbox CFO Sujay Jaswa plan to launch a startup to train AI video models for filmmakers (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-10 Startup AI Dropbox

AI CRM software startup Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z; formerly Tome, it had raised $80M across earlier Series A and B rounds (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-9-10 Startup AI CRM

Enterprise AI security startup Cymphony emerges from stealth with $30M, including a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC, at a $100M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-10 Startup AI

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)
2026-9-9 Startup AI

Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550M co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion at a $15.6B valuation, up from an $11B valuation when it raised $200M in March (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 Startup AI

Sources: China Securities Regulatory Commission is informally tightening IPO approvals for humanoid startups after a volatile debut by industry leader Unitree (www.theinformation.com)
2026-9-9 China IPO Startup

AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 Startup AI

Runway co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis says the startup's annual recurring revenue hit $200M in September; source: it expects ARR to cross $350M by the end of 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-9 Startup

Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-8 Startup

A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-9-7 Startup

LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M (www.reuters.com)
2026-9-7 Startup

Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-5 Google Startup AI

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-5 IPO Startup AI Nvidia London

AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (fortune.com)
2026-9-4 Google Startup AI

Israeli startup Guardio, which offers a subscription consumer security service to protect digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-3 Israel Startup

Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-3 Startup

Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-9-2 Startup AI Robot Face ID

Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2 India Startup

AI startup Mirage streamed a 24-hour “live” AI news show on X on August 11, which cost ~$50K in tokens, featuring realistic avatars that struggled to converse (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-9-1 Startup AI

Sources: AI sales and marketing startup Clay is raising a round led by Wellington at a $7B pre-money valuation, up from $5B via an employee tender in January (www.axios.com)
2026-9-1 Startup AI

The UK unveils a £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme for domestic AI startups focused on public services, amid growing opposition to Palantir contracts (www.ft.com)
2026-9-1 Startup AI

Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (www.axios.com)
2026-8-31 Startup

FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-29 Startup

Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29 Startup Indonesia

Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Startup AI

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-8-27 Startup AI

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft Startup

Product management startup Linear topped $100M in annual recurring revenue and held a $99M employee tender offer at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2025 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-27 Startup

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