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Startups, stories 211 to 240

211Mistral Buys Pimento, but Won't Confirm the PriceOne report puts the ad-tech acquisition at 12.7 million euros, another at 3.8 million, and Mistral told AFP only that it paid "several million euros" for its third deal since February.Sep 28
212Micro1 Reportedly Raises $100 Million at $4 Billion ValuationForbes cited two people familiar with the round; Micro1, which does not comment on unannounced deals, would not confirm the number itself.Sep 28
213Island Raises $400 Million at $6.4 Billion ValuationEvolution Equity Partners led the round four days after leading a separate $400 million check for rival security vendor Cyera, and Island still won't say what its revenue is.Sep 28
214Snorkel AI Raises $350M, Valuation Climbs to $3.5 BillionThe AI data-labeling company says revenue grew eighteenfold in a year, which is the number doing the real work behind the headline valuation.Sep 27
215Profound Doubles to $1.8B Valuation Seven Months After Its Last RoundThe startup that helps brands show up in ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews says revenue tripled in six months, the number its new investors are pricing against.Sep 27
216Hubble Network Raises $200M, Opens Satellite Bluetooth to EveryoneThe Seattle startup's Series C values it at $1.6 billion, seven satellites into a constellation it says will reach sixty by 2030.Sep 27
217Precision Neuroscience Raises $250M, Tops $1 Billion ValuationThe Series D prices the brain-computer interface company at about four times the new money raised, but Bill Ackman's firms supplied just $42.5 million of the $250 million themselves.Sep 27
218Firecrawl Raises $75 Million, Launches Alexandria Data PlatformSmash Capital led the Series B, and Firecrawl says its own test of 845 tasks found the new index lifted AI agent answer accuracy 21 percent over built-in web tools.Sep 27
219Databricks Acquires Row Zero to Add Spreadsheets to GenieTerms were not disclosed, but Row Zero sold the same year Databricks closed a $5 billion raise and started buying a startup roughly every two months.Sep 27
220Priority Technology CEO Leads $1.6 Billion Take-Private DealThe all-cash offer pays $8.05 a share, a 38% premium to Priority's last close before the bid went public, financed entirely by Searchlight Capital.Sep 26
221Nubank Explores Buying Monzo for Up to £10 BillionMonzo's board is weighing the sale against a fresh funding round instead, as its earlier hopes for a London listing fade.Sep 26
222Ema Raises $77 Million as AI Agents Replace SaaS ToolsThe round values Ema at more than four times its last price, a multiple the company will not attach to an actual number.Sep 26
223Nscale Raises $3.36 Billion in Convertible Notes Before IPOThird Point led the round, but Nvidia's $1 billion share of it is a commitment due to arrive in mid-November, after Nscale's initial closing.Sep 26
224Enveda Doubles Valuation to $2 Billion in Series E RoundCatalio Capital led the $311 million financing, and Enveda has now raised more than $845 million since 2019 without an FDA-approved drug to show for it.Sep 26
225Tekever Raises $580M Series D at $6.4B ValuationUC Investments and Baillie Gifford led the first close, a week after the UK selected Tekever's AR5 system to replace the Army's Watchkeeper drones in a deal worth up to £400 million.Sep 25
226Rightway Raises $155M Series E, Mayo Clinic Signs OnFrancisco Partners led the pharmacy-benefits round, which brings Rightway's disclosed funding to $281 million as the company says it is weighing an IPO within four years.Sep 25
227HIFI Raises $37M Series A for Stablecoin SettlementLeft Lane Capital led the round, HIFI's first priced funding, as the New York startup reports $7 billion in annualized volume moving across 87 countries.Sep 25
228Ema Raises $77M Series B as Valuation QuadruplesCreaegis led the round, which brings Ema's total funding to $140 million while Wipro runs the startup's AI Employees across 240,000 workers in 65 countries.Sep 25
229Series A Rounds Over $100M Hit a Record 114 in 2026Crunchbase counted $33 billion spread across those rounds in 2026, and more than seven in 10 of them went to AI-focused startups barely a year old.Sep 25
230OpenEvidence Raises $250M at $15B, Turns to Cancer DrugsThe round surfaced almost quietly, in a paragraph of a Forbes story about a Memorial Sloan Kettering data deal, as the medical-search company starts its own oncology drug program.Sep 25
231Databricks Buys Row Zero, Its Fifth Deal Since MarchTerms were not disclosed, but the target's own funding history shows how cheaply Databricks can now buy its way into a feature.Sep 25
232Akamai Gives Anthropic a Warrant to Win an $11.6B DealThe seven-year cloud contract came with equity attached: Anthropic can end up owning close to 5% of Akamai, vesting a slice at a time as it spends more.Sep 25
233Teal Health Raises $22 Million Ahead of a 2027 Coverage MandateThe Series A is small next to the market a January 2027 federal rule could open, and Teal Health's own numbers show why investors are betting on it anyway.Sep 24
234Open Cosmos Raises €300 Million, Skips the Unicorn NumberThe British satellite builder's own announcement never states a valuation, even as trade press credits the round with pushing it past $1 billion.Sep 24
235Jack & Jill Raises $40 Million to Skip the Job ApplicationThe London startup's own numbers and an independent count of its users disagree by 30,000 people, and neither round has come with a disclosed valuation.Sep 24
236Enveda Raises $311 Million Series E, No Valuation GivenThe round is Enveda's third venture raise in two years and pushes its total funding past $845 million, without saying what the AI drug discovery startup is now worth.Sep 24
237Snorkel AI's $3.5 Billion Valuation Outruns Its Own Revenue MathThe Series E prices Snorkel at roughly nine times the $375 million run rate its chief executive gave TechCrunch, a figure that never appears in the company's own funding release.Sep 24
238Numeral Raises $100 Million Ahead of California's Software TaxThe Series C, led again by Insight Partners, arrives as California prepares to tax prewritten software starting in 2027, the exact liability Numeral's platform calculates.Sep 24
239Ema's $77 Million Series B Skips the Valuation It QuadrupledCreaegis led the round on a company that says revenue grew 50-fold in two years and bookings passed $150 million, without stating what either number implies for the price.Sep 24
240Bird's $450 Million Loan Pays Shareholders, Not GrowthThe debt, led by J.P. Morgan, funds a dividend recapitalization for existing shareholders and employees, announced the same day Bird unveiled a product aimed at AI agents rather than the business the loan actually pays out to.Sep 24