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Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27 Startup

Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26 Startup

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Drone

Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-25 Startup

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (www.axios.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Robot

South Korean startup platform breach exposes key management failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-25 Korea Startup

A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Robot

Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-8-25 Startup

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-23 Startup AI

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-22 IPO Startup AI London

Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-22 Startup Nvidia

Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-21 Startup AI

PitchBook: California-based startups have raised ~$366B in 2026 so far across 4,000+ companies, more than triple the total of all other 49 states combined (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-20 Startup California

Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Startup AI

Stripe agrees to acquire New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Startup New York

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Startup AI SpaceX

Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Startup AI

Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-20 Startup Nvidia

Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Startup New York

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-20 Fintech Startup

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-19 Startup AI

SMR startup Oklo is currently building its reactor in Idaho, a step towards supplying Meta with power; there are an estimated 22 active US reactor projects (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-19 Startup

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-18 Startup AI

Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-8-17 Startup Nvidia

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (fortune.com)
2026-8-17 Startup AI

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-17 China Startup AI

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Intel Startup AI Goldman

Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-16 Startup AI

SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-15 Startup SpaceX

A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-14 Startup

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