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Toronto-based self-driving truck startup Waabi raised a $750M Series C led by Khosla and G2 and partners with Uber, which can invest $250M based on performance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28 Uber Startup Toronto

Israeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-28 Israel Startup

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-27 China Startup

StepFun, a Chinese AI startup that develops LLMs and has partnered with automaker Geely and smartphone brands like Oppo and Honor, raised a ~$717M Series B+ (www.dealstreetasia.com)
2026-1-27 China Startup AI OPPO

London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-1-26 Startup AI London

Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-26 Startup SpaceX

Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-1-23 Startup

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a “fairy tale,” and China's open-source tech is “probably stressing” US CEOs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 China Startup AI

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-23 Startup Robot Intelligence Paris

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Google Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-22 Israel Startup Manufacturing

South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-22 Korea Startup AI

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Startup Equity

Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-22 Startup Ethereum Decentralize

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Intel Startup AI

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Ukraine

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (en.globes.co.il)
2026-1-21 Israel Startup

Chinese AI startup Zhipu says it is limiting GLM Coding Plan access after strong demand, taking only 20% of its current daily new subscriptions from January 23 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China Startup AI

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Drone

Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its valuation; Nvidia invested $150M (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-21 Startup AI Nvidia

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $355M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Startup AI

Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-20 Startup

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 France Startup

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
2026-1-20 Startup Robot

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-1-16 Fintech Startup

Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Startup

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Startup AI

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-15 Startup

Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Startup Belgium

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-14 Startup AI

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