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AI chip startup Etched is reportedly receiving investment offers valuing the company at $40 billion or more, just months after its last $700 million round at a $21 billion valuation.
Menlo Ventures has made a significant investment in AI coding startup Factory, publicly endorsing the company after its CEO, Matan Grinberg, was embroiled in a public dispute with investor Vinod Khosla.
Enveda, a biotech startup using AI to discover drugs from nature, raised $311M Series E at a $2B valuation. The funding, led by Catalio Capital Management, aims to advance AI-discovered candidates into clinical trials.
Global startups are experiencing a surge in jumbo Series A funding rounds, with 114 deals of $100 million or more recorded so far this year, largely driven by AI-focused companies.
Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi has proposed winding down the Zcash developer fund after its scheduled expiration in 2028, citing its substantial value and potential for politicization.
India's semiconductor sector has attracted $1.4 billion in equity funding across 281 companies, with nearly half raised since 2025, as the country aims to become a global chip hub by 2035.
Eagle Cloud has secured nearly RMB 100 million (approximately $14 million) in a Series B+ funding round, co-led by MTR Lab and Northern Light Venture Capital. The capital will be used to enhance its AI agent security governance infrastructure and accelerate international …
Furo's founders moved back to Germany from Silicon Valley and have secured $4M in funding. They're now working with enterprise clients like Deutsche Bahn.
Embodied AI startup PHYMI, founded by former DeepRoute.ai executive Liu Nianqiu, has secured nearly US$100 million in seed funding led by IDG Capital. The capital will be used for core technology research, data infrastructure, product engineering, and team expansion.
Paris-based generative AI startup Mistral AI has nearly doubled its valuation to over $24 billion with a $3.5 billion Series D funding round led by Samsung Electronics. This brings its total funding to $7.5 billion since its 2023 inception, solidifying its position as Eur…
Texas Governor Abbott freezes state spending on Flock cameras amid privacy concerns and multiple incidents of misuse.
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
Legal tech startups have pulled in over $2.2 billion in funding this year, down from the all-time high of $4.6 billion last year.
Shipyard, the maintainer of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), will wind down its operations on September 30 after Protocol Labs declined to renew its funding. This leaves IPFS without dedicated maintainers and puts the future of key public services in Protocol Labs' hands.
Flipkart is set to debut its food delivery service later this month, backed by millions of users, lower platform fees, and logistics support from Minutes and Ekart. The ecommerce giant is gearing up to challenge Zomato and Swiggy. With a large base to cross-sell food orde…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected his ex-defence chief's calls for a wartime election, calling the prospect a 'huge risk' amid the more than four-year war with Russia.
Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation in 48 hours. The company has 600 customers, mostly looking to ditch legacy accounting systems. Rillet's AI agents can work alongside humans on corporate bookkeeping, and the company ha…
Starcloud, a startup developing satellites for AI inference in orbit, has secured an additional $250 million funding, bringing its valuation to $2.3 billion. This capital will support manufacturing expansion and efforts to secure crucial launch capacity for its ambitious …
Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. A founder who has raised over $1 billion shares what he's learned about fundraising and financial metrics.
Coinbase's Base is launching a new startup accelerator program focused on AI agents, trading, payments, and financing products. The program will select 10 startups for an eight-week virtual program and provide each selected team with a $100,000 investment.
A Saudi company has received $533 million in funding to continue the expansion of its project, which is expected to attract 50 million visitors annually and contribute to the country's non-oil GDP.
AI dictation startup Wispr secured $280 million in Series B funding, reaching a $2 billion valuation, as it expands beyond dictation into meeting note-taking and new human-computer interfaces.
Crypto startups raised $11.2 billion in the first half of 2026, with all funding going to regulated businesses.
Nvidia has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion, down from the $250 billion previously discussed, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar wit…
Sarah Buchner, a former carpenter, founded Trunk Tools, an AI startup for the construction industry. She grew up in a low-income household in Austria and worked in construction for over a decade before building a health and safety app and pursuing a Ph.D. in data science.
Centricity has secured ₹280 Cr (approximately $29 Mn) in a funding round led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund, aiming to enhance its wealthtech platform and expand its B2B2C distribution, private wealth, and NRI client businesses.
Lovable raised $400M in a Series C at a $13.3B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund.
Investors are focused on AI IPOs, but the real story begins after the IPO, when limited partners receive distributions and decide where to deploy that capital next. This can reshape venture fundraising and concentrate capital among the industry's largest firms.
This week, several startups raised significant funding rounds, including Hadrian, Base Power, and Valar Atomics, which secured financings of $1 billion or more. Other companies in sectors such as AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech, and mining also announced sizable ne…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is a conference for founders, investors, and tech leaders. The event will take place at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15, 2026. The conference will feature a packed lineup of speakers, over 200 expert sessions, and numerous networking…