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01Momentic's Mo Finds 19.3 Percent of Labelled Bugs in Its Own BenchmarkThe Y Combinator company's Launch HN post ranks its QA agent above Codex, Claude Code and Devin on a test it wrote and ran itself.StartupsNov 2
02Kalshi's $40 Billion Is 10 Times Run-Rate Revenue; Bedrock's Has No Revenue FigureThe week's two biggest named rounds after Re:Build show a company priced on revenue and one priced on about 10 weeks of paid excavator work.StartupsNov 2
03Thrive Holdings Will Pay $10 a Share for ADT, a 45.6% Premium, With Apollo as Sole Financing SourceThe $15.3 billion headline includes debt; equity is $7.6 billion, and a 30-day go-shop runs to November 28.StartupsNov 1
04Yulu Lost Rs 97 Crore in FY26. Its CEO Says It Was EBITDA-Positive. Both Can Be True Only on One DefinitionEntrackr's read of the consolidated accounts shows a negative 5.89% EBITDA margin, while Yulu told TechCrunch in August that it reached positive EBITDA last fiscal year.StartupsNov 1
05Agility Robotics' SPAC Will Raise About $465 Million, Down From $620 Million, Days Before the November 5 ListingChurchill Capital Corp XI's trust account is contributing about $164 million where the June announcement said $420 million. A $100 million equity cheque received since then closes part of the gap.StartupsNov 1
06Atomic Reached a $12.5 Million Series A in 17 Months, While Only 16% of the 2024 Seed Class Has Moved Past SeedCrunchbase News data show US Series A rounds down 28% in the third quarter, and the winners of that squeeze look like Atomic: AI, revenue growing fivefold and a repeat lead.StartupsOct 31
07Indian Startups Raised $115 Million or $130.2 Million in the Last Week of October, Depending on Whose Tracker You ReadInc42 counts 32 deals and Entrackr 28; both show a week below the eight-week average, and neither shows a single round above $15 million.StartupsOct 31
08Salesforce Agrees to Buy Rune Technologies for a Reported $375 MillionThe price is three times the valuation Rune carried at its 2025 Series A, and Salesforce itself has not confirmed it.StartupsOct 31
09Ollie Shuts Down Nine Weeks After Its $7.5 Million Khosla SeedThe family AI assistant closes on Nov. 6, and its chief executive named three rivals as the reason standing out and raising money got harder.StartupsOct 31
10Runware Targets 30 Megawatts of Pods a Day by 2028, With $1 Billion in Interest and 20 Megawatts ClaimedThe start-up has raised more than $60 million, has not yet raised its Series B, and prices its factory-built data centers on its own cost claims.StartupsOct 30
11Intel Buys Classiq for a Reported $2.3 Billion, About Three Times Its 2025 Valuation, With No Price From IntelBloomberg and SiliconANGLE disagree by $100 million on the figure, and Intel's chief executive was an investor in two of Classiq's rounds.StartupsOct 30
12Crosby, an AI Law Firm With $85 Million Raised, Bids for Weil Gotshal's Name as the 1,200-Lawyer Firm Winds DownTerms of the bid are undisclosed, and Crosby's own funding is about 4 percent of the revenue Weil booked in its last full year.StartupsOct 30
13Mintive Raises a $7 Million Seed Led by Cowboy Ventures to Gate What Company AI Agents Can TouchThe renamed MintMCP says it has over 50 enterprise customers, but TechCrunch and the company's own blog name different ones, and no valuation is given.StartupsOct 30
14Upwind Announces $400 Million Series C, $100 Million Above September ReportsIsraeli-founded cloud security company Upwind put the round at $400 million on Oct. 28, while Globes and CTech reported about $300 million on Sept. 2, and the valuation appears only in press coverage.StartupsOct 29
15Thrive Holdings Buys ADT for $15.3 Billion, With Apollo PayingADT's own release says the all-cash deal is financed solely by Apollo funds, a detail the OpenAI-backed framing of the buyer leaves out.StartupsOct 29
16Simantic, a YC F26 Startup, Swaps Renode for Its Own Rust Firmware SimulatorThe founders' Launch HN post lists ESP32-S3 and STM32H7 support, but a commenter reading the live cloud API saw neither, and the company's site names one chip.StartupsOct 29
17Dream Raises $17 Million Seed From a16z to Design Buildings With AIThe Palantir veterans' startup says its model learned from more than 100 million square feet of permitted buildings, and has 10 active projects in Texas and California.StartupsOct 29
18Eka Robotics Raises $150 Million at $1.45 Billion on Company-Supplied Pick Rates and No Named Customersa16z and F-Prime led the Series A for a vision-force-action robot model that claims 1,500 picks an hour against a human 600.A.I.Oct 29
19Numeracle Raises $28 Million From Edison Alone, 80% of All Capital It Has Taken Since 2018, With No Valuation GivenThe spam-label verification company, profitable in 2026 per Crunchbase News, gives a 70% recurring-revenue growth rate but no base, so the round cannot be priced.StartupsOct 28
20Crunchbase's 185% Robotics Funding Jump Is Nine Months, Not the Quarter, Which Rose About 130% to $9.9 BillionCrunchbase News and The Robot Report count robotics money differently, and one month of the second equals 49% of the first's quarter.StartupsOct 28
21Cognizant Is Reported in Talks for a Sarvam Stake at $3.5 Billion to $4 Billion, Up From $1.5 Billion in JuneThe figure comes from an ET report relayed by Inc42, neither company has commented, and the $300 million target equals the size Sarvam's Series B was meant to reach in June.StartupsOct 28
22Hex Raises $100 Million at $1.2 Billion, Led by Peak XV and 137 VenturesThe analytics company's own post gives 2,500 customers and a best-ever quarter, but no revenue, no series name and no word on pre- or post-money.StartupsOct 28
23Re:Build Announces $2.1 Billion Led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase, With No Valuation GivenThe Slate Auto parent's new pool is 17.5 times General Catalyst's $120 million first check in 2024, and larger than the $1.4 billion its truck spinout has raised.StartupsOct 27
24Live2.ai's ₹130 Crore Round Includes a Secondary of Undisclosed Size, and Two Outlets Name Different CustomersIvyCap led the pre-Series B for the Bengaluru social-listening company; no valuation was given and revenue growth of fourfold has no base.StartupsOct 27
25Disruptive Announces a $10 Billion Fund, Its First Blind Pool, 5.3 Times the Capital It Has Put Into Startups So FarAlex Davis's Dallas firm says it will make at least 10 bets of up to $1 billion each; no limited partner, fee or close date has been published.StartupsOct 27
26Simplismart Raises $14 Million at About $100 Million Post-Money, With Nvidia, Its Own Competitor, on the Cap TableThe Bengaluru inference startup says run-rate revenue grew 14-fold in six months, but gives no base, and the figure is usage-based rather than contracted.StartupsOct 27
27Mochatrade Raises $5.5 Million Seed Led by CoinFund to Sell US-Stock Perpetuals to Indian Traders Who Fund in RupeesInc42 and a third-party profile disagree on whether the product has launched, and neither names a regulator's approval for it.StartupsOct 27
28Bedrock Robotics Raises $600 Million at $4.1 Billion, Without an Excavator CountThe autonomous-excavator company named seven new customers and two hires but gave no figure for machines working or hours logged.HardwareOct 27
29Series C+ Tender Offers Hit 44 in a Half-Year, 3.1x the 2023 Count, in a Study by a Firm That Sells ThemNewView Capital's Carta-based data shows who gets to sell: employees in 91% of deals, founders and executives capped at a median 10%, and one in four priced 10% or more below the last round.StartupsOct 26
30Eka Robotics Raises $150 Million at $1.45 Billion on a 1,500-Picks-an-Hour Claim and No Named Customera16z and F-Prime led the Series A for a vision-force-action robot model; every performance figure in the announcement is Eka's own.StartupsOct 26
31Daytona Raises $60 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation and Reports 25x Revenue Growth From an Undisclosed BaseThe agent-sandbox company's Series B was led by FirstMark Growth; its announcement names 14 customers but no revenue figure and no customer count.StartupsOct 26
32Matiks Raises $10 Million Pre-Series A From General Catalyst on 300,000 Daily PlayersThe Indian mental-maths game app grew daily users from 22,000 to over 300,000 in 2026. The round is labelled pre-Series A, and no valuation or revenue has been disclosed.StartupsOct 26
33BioStack Raises $9.5 Million Seed to Sell Hospital Records as Medical-AI Training DataThe Y Combinator Spring 2026 company claims 100 million de-identified patient records across four countries. Neither funding report says how patients consented.StartupsOct 26
34Uber Paid Up for ezCater While Bending Spoons Paid a TenthezCater sold for 53 percent above its 2021 valuation, while Miro and Airtable went for about a tenth of theirs, and none of the three had raised equity in four years.StartupsOct 25
35Warp Sciences Raises $215 Million, Led by Lightspeed, for a Robot-Assisted Chemistry LabKevin Weil's company has named no customer, and the $865 million valuation TechCrunch reported does not appear in its own release.StartupsOct 25
36Warhound Raises $200 Million at a Reported $1.2 Billion to Clone Gene-Edited Military Dogs It Has Not Yet BredThe Colossal and Anduril-linked startup has an In-Q-Tel cheque and no litter, no price list and no named lead investor.StartupsOct 24
37Entrackr and Inc42 Put One Indian Startup Funding Week About $50 Million Apart, and One Page Omits Different's $48 Million SeedThe week of Oct. 19 fell 56 percent on one tracker and 22 percent on the other, because the two disagree on what the previous week held as well.StartupsOct 24
38Carta and NewView Team Up on Tender Offers: 70-Plus in H1 2026, but Only 44 at Series C and LaterThe $3 billion first half is a record, and the biggest tender cited, Wayve's, is 1 percent of its own valuation.StartupsOct 24
39GM's Lithium-Free Bet Is a Grid Battery: Peak Energy Raises $108 Million for a 4 GWh Sodium-Ion PlantThe sodium-ion cells GM is developing with Peak Energy are for stationary storage, not cars, and Peak's plant makes 4 GWh a year against 6 GWh of commitments.HardwareOct 23
40Firstwork, a Y Combinator Company, Raises $15 Million Series A From Earlybird and Deel VenturesTwo outlets disagree on where the company is based and what the founder did before, and Deel is at once its investor, customer and the founders' former employer.StartupsOct 23
41Daytona Raises $60 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation to Sell Computers to AI AgentsThe sandbox company says revenue grew about 25 times since January, but it has not published a revenue figure, and it closed its source code in June.StartupsOct 23
42Legora Raises $550 Million at $8.8 Billion, Priced Below Harvey on Revenue MultipleThe Stockholm legal-AI company doubled ARR to over $200 million in six months, and its round priced it at about 44 times that figure.StartupsOct 23
43Kevin Weil’s Warp Sciences Raises $215 Million at $865 Million, Above August TalksLightspeed led a round that came in 43 percent larger than the $150 million Business Insider reported in August, for robots that make and test drug candidates.StartupsOct 22
44Uber Pays 153 Percent of ezCater’s 2021 Mark While Miro and Airtable Sell for a TenthFive 2021-vintage startups have sold in 2026 at prices from 8 percent to 153 percent of their last valuation, and the Foursquare sale shows what the low end means for shareholders.StartupsOct 22
45Zetwerk's IPO Paid Kae 38.3x and Peak XV 23.9x. One Peak XV Fund Got 3.3xThe ₹5,012 crore offering priced at ₹151, and the seller list shows which cheques did the work: early money made 38 times, later growth money made three.StartupsOct 22
46Blacksmith Raises $66 Million at $1 Billion, Up From $550 Million Two Months AgoSequoia led the Series C for the CI-runner company, whose weekly jobs went from 5 million in January to more than 90 million. It has not disclosed revenue.StartupsOct 22
47Flapping Airplanes Raises $1 Billion at a Reported $6 Billion Valuation Nine Months After Its SeedThe lab's pitch is models that need far less training data. Its only technical detail so far is a GPU megakernel meant to keep chips busy.A.I.Oct 22
48Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at $6.2 Billion, 24 Percent Above Reported Takeover InterestNeither TechCrunch nor BetaKit reports a Galaxy server spec, price, customer or revenue figure for the chip maker's Series E.HardwareOct 21
49Eka Robotics Raises $150 Million at $1.45 Billion for a Force-Sensing Robot Model With Unnamed CustomersThe vision-force-action model claims 1,500 picks an hour against a 600 human baseline, with every figure supplied by the company.A.I.Oct 21
50YC Alum Mach9 Raises $34 Million After Dropping Survey Hardware for AI CAD SoftwareFirst Round and Bessemer co-led the Series A. The company has nearly 100 private-beta customers and discloses neither revenue nor valuation.StartupsOct 21
51Legora Raises $550 Million at $8.8 Billion, 44 Times the ARR It Has DisclosedAtreides Management led the Series E seven months after the $5.55 billion Series D. The company says ARR is above $200 million; the valuation lands below the $8.5 billion pre-money Bloomberg reported in September.StartupsOct 21
52AuxoAI Raises $20.7 Million Series A From NTTVC to Hire More Forward Deployed EngineersThe Indian-founded enterprise AI firm will spend on engineers placed inside customers. Entrackr and Inc42 disagree on founders' names and an investor, and neither reports revenue.StartupsOct 21
53Crunchbase Has Q3 Fintech Funding Down 21%, FinTech Global Up 35%Both trackers record fewer deals, and the gap between $10.6 billion and $27.5 billion comes down to what each counts.StartupsOct 20
54Eric Schmidt's Anthropic Stake Is Estimated at 1%, Worth About $20 Billion at $2 TrillionBloomberg's estimate is half of the 2 percent Reuters reports for chief executive Dario Amodei, and the Series A valuation behind it varies by $162 million depending on the source.StartupsOct 20
55Inspired Capital Closes $450 Million Fourth Fund, 36% Above Its ThirdThe New York firm says 12 of its early investments are unicorns, but it declined to share returns and its announcement names no limited partners.StartupsOct 20
56Even Healthcare Says $50 Million; Its August Filing Shows ₹208 CroreKhosla Ventures led the Bengaluru hospital operator's Series B at a $300 million valuation, but the two public accounts of the round do not agree on its size.StartupsOct 20
57Mind Robotics Hires Doug Field After $1.015 Billion in Three Rounds and No Public RobotRivian's factory-robot spinoff has named the former Ford EV chief as president while disclosing no unit count, headcount, valuation or hardware design.HardwareOct 19
58Town Raises $108 Million at $1 Billion Four Months After Public LaunchForerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the Series B, and the only revenue disclosure is a seven-figure ARR with no baseline for the growth claims.StartupsOct 19
59Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at $6.2 Billion, Months After Takeover TalksTrace Capital and Innovation X led a Series E that values the chip company at 2.4 times the $2.6 billion Bloomberg reported for its December 2024 round, and revenue stays undisclosed.StartupsOct 19
60Even Healthcare's $300 Million Valuation Is 105 Times Filed Revenue, and Two Outlets Disagree on the RevenueKhosla Ventures led a $50 million Series B into the Bengaluru hospital operator, which cut about 350 jobs in August and reported a FY2025 loss of ₹83 to ₹90 crore depending on the source.StartupsOct 19
61Leverage Edu's EBITDA Is ₹2 Crore in Filings, ₹9.5 Crore From SourcesTwo reports on the study-abroad startup's FY26 results differ by ₹7.5 crore on EBITDA, the same gap as between its total income and operating revenue, while a ₹500 crore pre-IPO round is under discussion.StartupsOct 18
62Disney's Estimated Character.AI Payroll Is Three Times Its $20 Million BidA bankruptcy filing reported by Bloomberg puts Disney's offers to at least 60 Character.AI employees at about $60 million a year, while the company's stalking horse bid for its assets is $20 million.StartupsOct 18
63Sebi Clears Cult.fit IPO, Where Sellers Could Take 76% of ₹4,000 CroreThe regulator's Oct. 12 observations let Cult.fit list, but only ₹950 crore of the issue is new money for the company and the full size rests on an unfiled figure.StartupsOct 18
64Benchmark Partners Expect Rival Conflicts as Factory and Cognition FeudThree Benchmark partners told TechCrunch Disrupt that backing competitors is becoming unavoidable, 15 days after Factory accused a board adviser of passing information to Cognition, both of which Khosla Ventures funds.StartupsOct 18
65Urban Company's InstaHelp Lost ₹279 on Each Order While Customers Paid About ₹114 for ItInstaHelp booked ₹20.5 crore of revenue and an adjusted EBITDA loss of ₹174 crore in the September quarter, and the board has approved raising ₹2,500 crore.StartupsOct 18
66Ramp's $60 Billion Valuation Is Pre-Money in Bloomberg's Account and Unqualified in Ramp's OwnThe $1.85 billion round values the corporate-card company at about 30 times the $2 billion in annualized revenue it says it has passed, four months after a $44 billion round.StartupsOct 18
67Ekart Cut Its FY26 Loss by ₹1,482 Crore, but the Flipkart Group Cut Its by Only ₹178 CroreThe first consolidated accounts of Flipkart Internet show a ₹8,468 crore loss, a Cleartrip that spent ₹5.27 for every rupee of revenue, and a logistics growth figure that does not match its own table.StartupsOct 18
68Snabbit Spent ₹16 for Every ₹1 of FY26 Revenue and Earned More on Deposits Than on JobsThe home-services startup lost ₹167.8 crore on ₹12.2 crore of operating revenue, and its ₹14.1 crore of bank interest was larger than the revenue line.StartupsOct 17
69Cybersecurity Startups Raised $6.8 Billion in Q3 2026 on Fewer Deals, With Three Rounds Taking $1.8 BillionCrunchbase counts a 50% jump from the prior quarter and falling round counts at every stage; Visa paid 1.8 times Permira's entry valuation for BioCatch.StartupsOct 17
70Battery Smart Adds ₹98 Crore to Its Series C at a ₹4,170 Crore Valuation, 11.6 Times FY26 RevenueThe headline says $10 million and the filing says 18,000 shares at ₹54,407 each; the round is still open and two outlets disagree on total funding.StartupsOct 17
71Modal Raises $750 Million at 15.75 Times Its $1 Billion Run RateAccel led a Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, 3.4 times the May round, while sandboxes for AI agents now carry $300 million of the run rate.StartupsOct 17
72A Week of Indian Startup Funding Totals $236 Million or $303 MillionInc42 and Entrackr both covered Oct. 12 to 16, and the $67 million gap between them is larger than any single deal on Inc42's list, Boldfit's $41.8 million included.StartupsOct 17
73Burma Burma's Parent Files IPO Papers With a ₹15.4 Crore LossHunger Pangs wants ₹150 crore of fresh capital to open 27 more restaurants, after a year in which revenue rose 46.6 percent and the net result went from a ₹50.5 lakh loss to ₹15.4 crore.StartupsOct 17
74Agent37 Prices Agent Sandboxes 35 Times Below Modal's Rate CardThe Y Combinator F26 company is bootstrapped, runs on Hetzner and OVH, and is betting that a sleeping sandbox costs almost nothing to keep.StartupsOct 17
75India Q3 Startup Funding Is $2.2 Billion or $2.9 Billion, Depending on the TrackerInc42 and Crunchbase disagree by $700 million on the same quarter, and Inc42's detail shows four rounds of $100 million or more making up a fifth of its total.StartupsOct 16
76Urban Company Seeks ₹2,500 Crore as InstaHelp Loses ₹174 Crore a QuarterSnabbit logged ₹72 crore of net transaction value to InstaHelp's ₹71 crore in Q2 FY27, and the loss per order is the number to watch.StartupsOct 16
77RapidCanvas Raises $29 Million Series B Led by Vertex, Claims 8x ARR in Six QuartersThe round takes total funding to $52.5 million; the company gave no revenue figure and no valuation.StartupsOct 16
78CedarDB Opens Its Cloud With 14 Employees and a €5.3 Million SeedTechCrunch calls the launch limited availability; the company's own site says generally available.StartupsOct 16
79Stryker Invests About $400 Million in CMR Surgical and Takes an Option on the RestThe deal is preferred equity plus an acquisition option, and neither company has disclosed a stake, a valuation or the option's price.StartupsOct 15
80Ramp Raises $1.85 Billion at $60 Billion, Up $16 Billion in Four MonthsTechCrunch does not say whether the valuation is pre- or post-money; The Paypers, citing Bloomberg, says pre-money, and the difference moves the multiple.StartupsOct 15
81Origin Raises $20 Million From Accel and Zacua for Drywall-Finishing RobotsThe San Francisco startup says its OG-1 robot is working at New York sites and targets 150 deployed by the end of 2027; revenue and valuation were not disclosed.StartupsOct 15
82Udaan's Auditors Flag Going-Concern Doubt as FY26 Loss Narrows to ₹851.5 CroreRevenue grew 12.6 percent to ₹5,134 crore, but the group has a $170 million note in default and creditors in the Singapore High Court.StartupsOct 15
83Tonbo Imaging's ₹852 Crore IPO Is All Offer for Sale, at 79 Times EarningsThe defence-technology company gets none of the proceeds, and its FY26 revenue fell 22.7 percent before the issue opened on Oct. 15.StartupsOct 15
84Cybersecurity Startups Raise $6.8 Billion in Q3 as Round Counts Fall at Every StageKeyfactor, Island and Cyera took $1.8 billion between them, and Visa's $2.4 billion BioCatch purchase is agreed but not closed.StartupsOct 15
85Zetwerk Anchors Take ₹2,251 Crore While Founders and VCs Sell ₹2,182 CroreThe ₹5,012 crore IPO opens Oct. 15 at ₹143 to ₹151 a share, after a loss that widened to ₹1,606.2 crore in FY26.StartupsOct 14
86Infotech Buys Zluri, the Bengaluru Startup That Raised $32 Million, at an Undisclosed PriceZluri's Oct. 14 announcement confirms the deal but gives no terms, so the return on its $20 million Series B cannot be computed.StartupsOct 14
87Scimplify Takes $25 Million From Hitachi Ventures and Two CustomersThe Bengaluru chemicals maker did not state a valuation, and TechCrunch's reported $250 million works out to 1.25 times a run rate the company set itself.StartupsOct 14
88Parallel Loop Raises $6.6 Million Seed Four Months After Founding3one4 Capital led the round for an enterprise AI services firm whose two outlets cannot agree whether it has 10 clients or 12.StartupsOct 14
89Seven of Crunchbase's 38 September Unicorns Are Valued at About $1 BillionAnother four are listed only as over $1 billion, and the list's own figures for NIO Power and The Exploration Company do not close.StartupsOct 14
90Vesta Raises $30 Million Series B From Three Lenders That Already Use Its Mortgage SoftwareThe company reports 12 times revenue growth and 40 percent of tasks handled by agents, and discloses neither a valuation nor a revenue base.StartupsOct 13
91Character.AI Files Chapter 11 With a $20 Million Disney Bid as the Opening OfferThe chatbot company says it will wind the platform down if the court-supervised sale produces no buyer willing to keep it running.StartupsOct 13
92Apple's Huxe Deal Sat in an EU Filing for 122 Days, With No Price and a Non-Exclusive LicenseThe startup shut its audio app on May 28, and the only public terms are a right to hire certain employees and a license to its intellectual property.StartupsOct 13
93Supabase Raises $150 Million and Buys Turso Four Months After a $10 Billion RoundGIC led both rounds, the new one carries employee liquidity, and neither the valuation nor the Turso price was disclosed.StartupsOct 12
94Instinct Hits a $10 Billion Valuation 33 Days After Its $2.5 Billion RoundThe invite-only personal-agent startup has 14 employees, more than 100,000 users, a free product and no disclosed revenue.StartupsOct 12
95General Intuition Raises $220 Million at $6.2 Billion on Game Clips and One DemoThe Medal spinout's only public model, MIRA, generates footage for a single game, and its data claims all come from the company.StartupsOct 12
96FieldAI Has a Term Sheet at $10 Billion, Not a Closed RoundBusiness Insider's report of a $700 million raise for the robot-software company counts $135 million in revenue and contracts without saying how much is revenue.StartupsOct 12
97MMI Raises $125 Million for Its Symani Microsurgery Robot, With About 50 Systems InstalledThe Series D works out to $2.5 million of new capital per installed system, and the company has not disclosed a valuation.StartupsOct 12
98Hone Raises $60 Million at $285 Million Five Months In, and One of Two Named Customers Is Its Own Investor's CompanyBenchmark and Index led the seed round for the agent startup, whose early customers are Cognition and Modal and whose only quoted result is its own test.StartupsOct 12
99TypeSafe Raises $870 Million at $7.5 Billion 24 Days After Jev's Launch, and Its Fortune 500 Figure Has Two VersionsTypeSafe says a third of the Fortune 500 use its non-text model; its lead investor a16z says 25%. Neither names a customer.StartupsOct 11
100SafeWorld Raises $12.2 Million to Crash-Test Robots Before They Work Near PeopleThe seed round, co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, backs a Carnegie Mellon spinout with about six customers and one named buyer.StartupsOct 11
101Mecka AI Closes a $60 Million Series B and Leaves the $500 Million Valuation UnconfirmedThe robot-training-data startup claims a $100 million run-rate, but coverage of the announcement confirms no valuation, names no customer and says nothing on contributor pay.StartupsOct 11
102Firmus Shelves Its ASX Float Three Days After Launch, at a Price Nearly Triple Its August RoundThe Nvidia-backed data-centre builder wanted $30.6 billion for equity against $10.5 billion in August, with 46 MW running and 865 MW planned.StartupsOct 11
103Parallel Systems Raises $100 Million Series C for Driverless Freight RailThe round is 2.6 times the $38 million Series B, yet the company has named no shipper, no commercial start date and no valuation for its battery-powered Panther.StartupsOct 11
104Apple Signs Huxe Hiring and Licence Deal, Surfaced 122 Days LaterA June 9 filing to the European Commission shows Apple can hire certain employees and take a non-exclusive licence, with no price and no list of who was offered a job.StartupsOct 11
105Varda Raises $251 Million Series D After Flying Six Capsules in Three YearsThe round brings the space-pharmaceutical company to about $598 million raised, and the sources disagree on whether a valuation was disclosed.StartupsOct 10
106Oratomic Raises $475 Million Three Months After Its $300 Million Series AThe Wall Street Journal put the new valuation at $5.4 billion, a figure the coverage of the company's announcement does not contain.StartupsOct 10
107SafeWorld Raises $12.2 Million Seed to Crash-Test Robots in Simulation, but Its Customer Count Depends on Who You ReadThe Carnegie Mellon spinout told The Robot Report it has about half a dozen customers, while TechCrunch's account names one partner and no paying clients.StartupsOct 10
108Mecka AI Raises $60 Million From Sequoia, and Its $300 Million Revenue Target Is Its OwnThe robot-training-data startup says it passed a $100 million run-rate in June, but it names no customer and has not confirmed the $500 million valuation TechCrunch reported.StartupsOct 10
109Manus Raises Over $500 Million Five Months After Beijing Ordered Meta OutParent company Butterfly Effect announced the round on WeChat without a valuation, leaving a reported $4 billion target against a $100 million revenue figure that is now 10 months old.StartupsOct 10
110Arena Raises $200 Million at $3.1 Billion, and Its Announcement Never Says How It Earns RevenueThe AI model leaderboard grew from a $1.7 billion valuation in January to $3.1 billion, and launched an alignment ranking the same day as it took the money.StartupsOct 10
111TypeSafe AI Announces $870 Million at $7.5 Billion, Below the $10 Billion Reported in TalksThe October 9 post names Andreessen Horowitz as lead and puts the amount in a footnote, but never says whether the valuation is pre-money or post-money.StartupsOct 9
112Supabase Raises $150 Million and Buys Turso, With No Valuation, No Price and an Employee Share Left UnquantifiedGIC led the October 2 round, four months after a $500 million Series F, and part of it pays employees rather than the company.StartupsOct 9
113Schneider Pays 21 Times PTC's Estimated 2027 EBITA, and 13 Times Only If Every Savings Target Is MetThe $22.6 billion cash deal is Schneider's largest, funded mostly with debt, and Schneider's own shares fell about 9 percent on the day it was announced.StartupsOct 9
114Nous Research Raises $90 Million, and Its $1.5 Billion Valuation Is TechCrunch's Number, Not Its OwnThe Hermes Agent developer's post discloses no valuation and lists different investors from TechCrunch's account; the reported price is about 42 times run-rate revenue.StartupsOct 8
115Manus Parent Announces $500 Million-Plus Round, With No Valuation and a $4 Billion Report UnconfirmedButterfly Effect's first raise since China unwound Meta's $2 billion purchase leaves the price blank; the reported $4 billion implies about 40 times the revenue at the Meta deal.StartupsOct 8
116Lambda Seeks $4 Billion at $14.5 Billion Pre-Money, and Anthropic Is 70% of Its $50 Billion BacklogThe Nvidia-backed GPU cloud's reported pre-IPO round rests on one customer's $35 billion contract, while its buildout leans on $1 billion of new secured debt.StartupsOct 8
117Arena Raises $200 Million at $3.1 Billion and Sells Evaluations to the Labs It RanksThe AI leaderboard's valuation is up 82 percent from January, and its new Alignment Index and TechCrunch disagree on where Claude Opus 5.5 lands.StartupsOct 8
118Waymo Closes Its First Debt Deal, $5 Billion at 5.25 Points Over BenchmarkThe loan is a third the size of the $16 billion equity round Waymo raised in February, and its maturity and benchmark rate have not been published.StartupsOct 8
119Vesta Raises $30 Million Series B With Three Customers Among Its InvestorsThe mortgage-software startup says revenue grew 12 times in a year, but has published no revenue figure and no valuation.StartupsOct 8
120Mecka AI's $60 Million Series B From Sequoia Matches the Figure It Announced in JuneThe robot-training data startup has not disclosed a valuation, customers or revenue, and its only public revenue number is a projection.StartupsOct 8
121Ghost Raises $11 Million From a16z to Sell a $3,499 Box for Running AI AgentsThe 19-year-old founder's Core computer carries a 24GB Nvidia card, and the company has not disclosed a valuation or a ship date on its own page.StartupsOct 8
122Valon's $2.3 Billion Valuation Is About 11 Times Contracted ARR, and Its Biggest Customer Is Also an InvestorThe mortgage-servicing software company raised $150 million on October 5, but its $200 million figure counts contracts, not live revenue.StartupsOct 7
123Armadin Raises $255.5 Million Seven Months After Stealth, and Its Biggest Customer Claim Is UnverifiedKevin Mandia's AI attack startup is valued above $2.5 billion, but neither report says whether that figure is pre- or post-money.StartupsOct 7
124Q3 Venture Funding Fell 25% to $159 Billion, but 27 Companies Raised $1 BillionCrunchbase's count of billion-dollar rounds set a record while total dollars dropped from a quarter that held Anthropic's $65 billion.StartupsOct 7
125Nscale's $3.36 Billion Pre-IPO Notes Are Priced Off a $30 Billion CapOnly $2.36 billion has closed; Nvidia's $1 billion arrives in mid-November, and the discount that sets the pre-IPO holders' price is unpublished.StartupsOct 7
126Instinct Raises $1 Billion at $10 Billion, 5 Weeks After a $2.5 Billion MarkA free consumer agent with 14 employees and no announced business model has been priced four times higher in about a month.StartupsOct 7
127Ghost Raises $11 Million for a $3,499 Screenless AI ComputerThe 19-year-old founder's seed buys roughly 3,100 units at retail, and preorder dates differ between the two outlets that reported them.StartupsOct 6
128EliseAI Raises $350 Million at $4 Billion, Doubling Its 2025 PriceThe leasing and patient-intake automation company is priced at about 20 times the annual recurring revenue it reported in June, and two outlets disagree on the valuation it is doubling.StartupsOct 6
129Type One Energy Raises $200 Million Series B for Tennessee Fusion PlantThe company says the money covers about half of what its first 400-megawatt plant needs, while a trade outlet cites an industry average cost that makes it closer to 7 percent.StartupsOct 6
130Menlo Backs Factory at $5 Billion After Khosla Calls It Second TierKhosla Ventures co-led Factory's $200 million round on Sept. 15 and then attacked the company in public, while also owning a stake in its competitor Cognition.StartupsOct 6
131XDOF Is Pricing a Series B at $1.2 Billion on Revenue Near $50 Million, and Its Series A Is Reported at Two SizesThe robot-training-data startup is in talks, not closed, with 8VC leading; TechCrunch gives its June Series A as $70 million and Dealroom as $45.3 million.StartupsOct 5
132AMD's $8.2 Billion World Labs Deal Is Paid in a Floating Number of Shares, About 12.9 Million at Friday's PriceThe 8-K fixes the dollar value and leaves the share count to a ten-day average, while the startup AMD is buying was valued near $5 billion eight months ago, per Bloomberg.StartupsOct 5
133Quartermaster's $140 Million Is $100 Million of Series B Equity and a $40 Million Stifel LoanThe maritime-sensor startup has raised $183 million in four months of disclosed financings, gives its hardware away free, and has not said what any of it is worth.StartupsOct 5
134PaleBlueDot AI Cites $5 Billion in Signed Contracts to Support a $3.2 Billion Valuation, and Its Series B Is Reported Two WaysThe GPU-cloud startup's $200 million Series C is led by ComputeCore. Contract value is not revenue, and the earlier round is $150 million in one report and $97.1 million in another.StartupsOct 5
135Instinct Raised $1 Billion at a $10 Billion Valuation, Four Times Its Last Mark From a Month EarlierThe invite-only agent has no disclosed revenue and no pricing, and the two outlets that reported its August round disagree on how big it was.StartupsOct 5
136EliseAI's $4 Billion Valuation Is 20 Times Its $200 Million in Recurring RevenueAndreessen Horowitz and Bessemer led a $350 million round for the leasing and patient-intake automation company, which now says it powers one in six U.S. apartments.StartupsOct 5
137Varda Raises $250 Million at $1.6 Billion on Government Payload DemandThe orbital-manufacturing startup's round tables add up to $579 million against a reported $598 million, and its next two flights carry military payloads rather than drugs.StartupsOct 4
138Supabase Takes $150 Million From GIC and Buys Turso, With No Valuation GivenThe Postgres platform's round arrives four months after a $500 million Series F, and the first use of proceeds listed is employee liquidity.StartupsOct 3
139Mistral's Pimento Deal Is Priced at €3.8 Million or €12.7 Million, Depending on Who You ReadThe French lab's third acquisition of 2026 came 15 days after its €3 billion Series D, and the two reported prices differ by a factor of 3.3.StartupsOct 3
140FieldAI Signs Term Sheet for $700 Million at $10 Billion, 74 Times Its Reported ContractsThe robot-software startup was valued at $2 billion a little over a year ago; the number it is being measured against is contracts, not revenue.StartupsOct 3
141ElevenLabs Hits $22 Billion on a $300 Million Tender, Which Puts No New Cash in the CompanyThe valuation doubled from February's $11 billion, but the transaction is a secondary sale by staff and early holders, priced at 1.4% of the company.StartupsSep 30
142Efficient Computer Raises $97 Million at $650 Million, but Its Data-Center Efficiency Claim Is UntestedThe Pittsburgh chip start-up says its Electron E1 is in volume production; the 10-times energy target for data centers has no independent benchmark yet.StartupsSep 30
143AMD Pays $8.2 Billion for World Labs, 64% Above Its February Post-Money ValuationThe price is 1.64 times what investors paid seven months ago, and the deal has not closed, needs regulators, and comes with no disclosed revenue.StartupsSep 30
144General Intuition Raises $220 Million at 2.7 Times June's ValuationThe world-model startup trains on clips from sister company Medal, has shown one research model that plays one game, and has not disclosed revenue.StartupsSep 30
145EliseAI Raises $350 Million at 20 Times Revenue Run RateThe $4 billion post-money valuation is set against $200 million in annual recurring revenue measured in June, and two outlets disagree on what the last round was priced at.StartupsSep 30
146Cognition's $48 Billion Round Keeps May's 53 Times Revenue MultipleValuation rose 85 percent in three months while run-rate revenue rose 83 percent, so investors paid the same price per dollar of revenue as in May.StartupsSep 30
147Bessemer Closes $5.75 Billion, 70% of It for Growth-Stage AI RoundsThe two funds are 25 percent larger than the firm's 2022 raise and equal about 1.9 times the $3 billion it has put into AI companies since then.StartupsSep 29
148Nscale 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.StartupsSep 26
149Enveda 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.StartupsSep 26
150Tekever 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.StartupsSep 25
151Rightway 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.StartupsSep 25
152HIFI 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.StartupsSep 25
153Ema 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.StartupsSep 25
154Series 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.StartupsSep 25
155OpenEvidence 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.StartupsSep 25
156Databricks 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.StartupsSep 25
157Akamai 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.StartupsSep 25
158Teal 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.StartupsSep 24
159Open 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.StartupsSep 24
160Jack & 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.StartupsSep 24
161Enveda 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.StartupsSep 24
162Snorkel 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.StartupsSep 24
163Numeral 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.StartupsSep 24
164Ema'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.StartupsSep 24
165Bird'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.StartupsSep 24
166Impulse Space Lands $28M Space Force Deal After $308M RaiseThe contract to fly a tracking payload built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory is Tom Mueller's company's third Space Force award since July, six days after it closed a $308 million funding extension.StartupsSep 23
167Arcee AI Raises Over $150 Million at a $1 Billion ValuationVista Equity Partners led the round for the open-weight model maker, though Fortune's account of whether the $1 billion figure is pre- or post-money differs from the company's own statement.StartupsSep 23
168Snorkel AI Triples Its Valuation to $3.5 BillionThe Series E values Snorkel at roughly nine times the $375 million annualized revenue run rate it disclosed alongside the round.StartupsSep 23
169Factory's $5 Billion Valuation Has No Revenue Number Behind ItCognition's and Temporal's new valuations this month came with a specific revenue figure attached, and Factory's $200 million round did not.StartupsSep 23
170Cyera Raises $400 Million at the Same Valuation It Had in JuneThe Series G extension adds capital from Goldman Sachs Alternatives without moving the $12 billion figure Cyera has held since its last round.StartupsSep 23
171Chamelio Raises $26 Million to Replace In-House Legal SoftwareThe Series A follows a $10 million seed round eight months earlier, and the company says revenue has grown fourfold since then without giving a dollar figure.StartupsSep 23
172TypeSafe Raises $40 Million for Jev, a Model That Won't TalkDCVC led the seed round at a Forbes-reported $200 million valuation TypeSafe has not confirmed, while an outside reviewer says nobody has reproduced its 445-times cost claim.StartupsSep 22
173S&P Global Doubles Kaiko's Series B to $110 MillionThe extension folds in Coinbase Ventures, Nasdaq Ventures and Royal Bank of Canada on top of Kaiko's 2022 backers, but neither side disclosed what the crypto-data firm is now worth.StartupsSep 22
174Impulse Space's $308 Million Extension Comes With Two ValuationsThe round brings Impulse Space's Series D to $808 million, but Payload Space and a Reuters wire disagree on whether the new post-money figure is $5.4 billion or $5.6 billion.StartupsSep 22
175Verda Raises $189M Series B, Crosses $1 Billion ValuationThe Helsinki AI cloud company, renamed from DataCrunch last November, says it is cash-flow positive and is now taking pricing aim at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.StartupsSep 22
176Oura's IPO Sends $6.2 Million to the Company, Not $2.2 BillionOf the 50 million shares in Oura's Nasdaq offering, 36.5 million belong to existing shareholders, and the filing shows almost all of the company's own share of the proceeds is earmarked for a tax bill, not growth.StartupsSep 22
177Morphotonics Raises Over €40M, a Quarter of It as DebtThe Dutch waveguide maker's Series B includes a €20 million convertible loan from the European Investment Bank, a structure that leaves the company owing money if its equity investors don't convert first.StartupsSep 22
178Crusoe's $3.9B Round Is an Initial Close, Not a Final OneThe AI data center builder's own announcement says the Series F, which triples its valuation from October, has only had its first tranche close, and its investor list now includes Fidelity and Robinhood's venture fund.StartupsSep 22
179Swish Raises $24 Million to Extend Its India Food-Delivery RoundBertelsmann India Investments led the round less than six months after Swish's $38 million Series B, and Inc42 put the startup's total funding at $78 million.StartupsSep 21
180Quantum Motion Extends Its $160 Million Series C, AgainThe Sept. 3 close added imec.ventures, Sony Innovation Fund and three other investors to a round DCVC and Kembara led in May, without naming how much fresh capital came in.StartupsSep 21
181QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Crore With India's Quantum Mission as Co-LeadThe Series A1 round, announced Sept. 9, ties the Bengaluru startup to a government fund that requires it to match a ₹150 crore research contract with its own capital.StartupsSep 21
182XDOF Nears $1.2 Billion, More Than Double Mecka AI's $500 MillionBoth robot-data startups are back at the table within three months of their last checks, at valuations that imply very different bets on how fast their revenue is really growing.StartupsSep 21
183Profound Hits Unicorn Status With $180M Series D at $1.8BThe startup that tracks how brands show up in AI search answers tripled its revenue in six months and raised again less than seven months after its last round.StartupsSep 21
184Factory Triples to $5 Billion, Five Months After Its Last RoundThe AI coding-agent startup raised $200 million from a syndicate that includes Blackstone and Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff as an angel, its third large check in under a year.StartupsSep 21
185MIND Raises $72M Series B, Sources Peg It at $300MCrosspoint Capital led the round for the two-year-old data-loss-prevention startup, whose own announcement carries no valuation at all.StartupsSep 20
186Gimlet Labs Raises $300M Series B at $3B ValuationAndreessen Horowitz led the round for a chip-agnostic inference cloud that says it has landed billions in contracted revenue since March, without saying how many.StartupsSep 20
187Félix Raises $200M, Won't Confirm Unicorn StatusThe WhatsApp remittance startup split its Series C between $87 million of equity and $113 million of debt, and let the word 'unicorn' do work its own numbers do not.StartupsSep 20
188Unitree's IPO Pop Puts It Above Figure AI's $39BChina's robot makers pulled in $2.44 billion of August's $4.87 billion global robotics-funding total, and a one-day stock surge did more for Unitree's valuation than any 2026 funding round.StartupsSep 20
189Raindrop Raises Series A to Catch AI Agents FailingThe round, led by CRV, brings Raindrop's total funding to $50 million as the company opens early access to a tool that tests agent changes against real production traffic before they ship.StartupsSep 20
190Maven Robotics Raises $100M Series A for Warehouse RobotsThe two-year-old startup has deployed eight robots at one customer and is pricing its round against a market-size estimate rather than disclosed revenue.StartupsSep 20
191XDOF and Mecka Chase the Same Robot-Data PrizeWithin a week of each other, the two startups that pay people to generate training data for robots landed in valuation talks of $1.2 billion and $500 million.StartupsSep 19
192Temporal Raises $550M Series E at $12.55B ValuationThe company that keeps AI agents from failing mid-task more than doubled its valuation in seven months, with OpenAI's own infrastructure lead citing its software as a requirement.StartupsSep 19
193EigenQ Raises $45M Ahead of Its Nasdaq SPAC MergerThe quantum-security startup gets half the convertible notes now and the rest only if its merger with Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. closes on schedule.StartupsSep 19
194Ridgeline Raises $250M at $1.425B, Led by Its Own FounderThe invitation-only round is led by Dave Duffield, who has now put more than $400 million of his own money into the investment-management platform he co-founded in 2017.StartupsSep 19
195Profound Raises $180M at $1.8B, Up From $1B in FebruaryThe AI-marketing startup's own blog post claims 2,500 brand customers, more than double the 1,000-plus figure it gave the press the same week.StartupsSep 19
196Impulse Space Extends Series D to $808M at $5.4B ValuationThe extension lands three months after Impulse's initial $500 million tranche closed, and it comes with the company's first chief financial officer.StartupsSep 19
197Cornelis Networks Raises $205M, Skips a Valuation NumberThe Intel spinoff's round, led by IAG Capital Partners, arrived alongside a Qualcomm collaboration and a $55 billion market claim, but no price tag on the company itself.StartupsSep 19
198Watney Raises $80M to Put Robots on Meta's Cabling WorkThe Series A values a company whose own reliability claim, four nines, is unverified outside its customer contracts, and whose most public reference deployment still runs under human supervision.StartupsSep 18
199China Took Half of August's $4.9 Billion in Robotics FundingTwo Chinese deals, Unitree's IPO and XPeng Robotics' Series A, accounted for more disclosed capital than the rest of the month's 162 transactions combined.StartupsSep 18
200Crusoe Raises $3.9B, Triples Valuation to $30.9BCrusoe's post-money valuation has nearly tripled since its $1.38 billion Series E last October, even as the company calls this week's close only the first of the round.StartupsSep 18
201Adaptive Raises $30M to Expand Agentic Construction AccountingThe Series B lifts Adaptive's total funding to $57 million, three times the $19 million Series A it raised fourteen months earlier from many of the same investors.StartupsSep 18
202Mecka AI in Talks for $500M Valuation, Just 3 Months After $60M RoundSequoia is leading talks for the robot-training-data startup, whose own numbers so far come from an undisclosed round size and an unnamed customer list.StartupsSep 17
203Maven Robotics Raises $100M, Bets Against LegsThe industrial-robotics startup's Series A funds 250 more wheeled, dual-armed machines and a direct jab at Agility's bipedal Digit.StartupsSep 17
204HiddenLayer Raises $100M as AI Security Spending Hits $2.83BThe Austin startup's Series B, three years after a $50 million Series A, lands as Gartner tracks an 83% jump in 2026 enterprise AI-security budgets.StartupsSep 17
205Rune Raises $40M to Put GPUs Inside Solar FarmsThe Series A, led by Spark Capital, funds RELIC, a modular compute system Rune says installs in about an hour and draws power years before a data center could get a grid connection.StartupsSep 17
206Pulley Shuts Down After 7 Years, Hands Users to CartaPulley will cease operations Dec. 8, 2026, migrating its customers to the rival it never displaced, a company whose own valuation has fallen from $8.5 billion to as little as $2 billion.StartupsSep 17
207D-Robotics Raises $400M, Skips Naming Its Biggest BackerHong Kong stock filings identify Meituan as the round's "leading global internet company" investor, a backer D-Robotics' own announcement declines to name.StartupsSep 17
208Noetive Raises $41 Million Seed With Meta's Bosworth as BackerEclipse led the round for Amir Frenkel's industrial-AI startup, which did not disclose a valuation unlike rival Arrakis's $140 million mark in July.StartupsSep 16
209Matter Venture Partners Closes $450 Million Fund IIThe hardtech fund is 50% larger than Matter's 2023 debut and adds ASML and TSMC as named strategic limited partners.StartupsSep 16
210Evvy Raises $40 Million Series B to Chase Fertility DataCatalio Capital led the round as CEO Priyanka Jain said women's health still struggles to attract growth investors who understand the category.StartupsSep 16
211CADDi's Valuation More Than Doubles to $1.2 BillionThe manufacturing-data startup raised $114 million from Toyota's and Salesforce's venture arms without disclosing the revenue that would show whether the price is justified.StartupsSep 16
212ByteDance Spins Off Drug Unit, Keeps 56% After $290 Million RaiseAnew Labs, Shanghai-based, was valued at $1.5 billion in its first outside round, a figure Reuters attributed to sources that ByteDance has not confirmed on the record.StartupsSep 16
213XDOF In Talks for Series B at $1.2 Billion ValuationThe round, led by 8VC, would give the robot-data startup its first public valuation, at about 4% of what Meta's investment implied Scale AI is worth.StartupsSep 15
214Highstock Raises $30 Million to Buy Brands' Unsold InventoryThe Series A, led by a16z with Greylock also participating, follows a 2025 seed round and comes with a board seat but no disclosed valuation.StartupsSep 15
215Bending Spoons Buys Miro for $1.355 Billion, Below Its 2022 PeakThe deal values Miro's equity at about a tenth of the $17.5 billion it commanded in its 2022 Series C, the same month Bending Spoons closed a similarly discounted purchase of Airtable.StartupsSep 15
216Temporal's Valuation Jumps to $12.55 Billion in Seven MonthsThe workflow-orchestration company's new $550 million round prices it 2.5 times higher than its February round, on the strength of OpenAI and Snap usage growth it disclosed for the first time.StartupsSep 15
217Euclyd Raises Over €200 Million, Doubling Its Own TargetThe two-year-old Dutch chip startup did not disclose a valuation, but it did add ex-ASML chief executive Peter Wennink as chairman of its board.StartupsSep 15
218Tandem Health's $100M Round Bets Europe Wants One AI Clinic PlatformThe Series B makes Tandem the best-capitalized clinical-AI company headquartered in Europe, but its consolidation bet runs through a U.K. partner, Accurx, that could just as easily turn into a competitor.StartupsSep 14
219HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B, Still Won't Disclose a ValuationThe AI-security startup says annual recurring revenue grew more than tenfold in a year, a figure that, like the round's price, appears nowhere in its own announcement.StartupsSep 14
220Gimlet Labs' Valuation Jumps 7.5X to $3 Billion in Five MonthsAndreessen Horowitz led the $300 million round, but the announcement names neither the 'top three' customers behind Gimlet Labs' claimed revenue nor a date for the computing capacity it says it is building.StartupsSep 14
221Fortaegis Raises $50M for Chips That Generate Their Own Encryption KeysThe Dutch startup's oversubscribed Series A includes checks from Tokyo Electron's venture arm and a Quantinuum founder, but the speed and security claims behind its chip design rest mostly on tests it ran itself.StartupsSep 14
222Pixxel Raises $100 Million in India's Largest Spacetech RoundTemasek and Seraphim co-led the Series C, and Seraphim disclosed its own $25 million slice while the rest of the round's split stayed private.StartupsSep 14
223Mistral Raises €3 Billion, Its Valuation Nearly Doubling in a YearSamsung led the round that values the French lab at more than €21 billion, a figure Mensch has not yet matched with a confirmed revenue number.StartupsSep 14
224The Exploration Company Raises $450 Million, No Valuation AttachedEurope's answer to SpaceX's Dragon capsule closed its largest round yet without saying what it's worth, aiming to dock with the space station by November 2028.StartupsSep 14
225VC Firms Are Buying Sports Teams in Two Different WaysThrive Capital built a separate permanent-capital vehicle to hold the Lakers, but Collaborative Fund is buying into D.C. United straight out of the same fund it uses to write seed checks.StartupsSep 13
226Bluecore Energy Raises $50M for Reactors on BargesThe eight-week-old seed round came without a disclosed valuation, and the company only began talking to nuclear and Coast Guard regulators last month.StartupsSep 13
227a16z Grows Its Fifth Fund to $8.5 Billion in a WeekThe close lands three days after a separate $1.1 billion fund for AI hardware, pushing the firm's one-week total past the $6.75 billion it raised for the same growth fund back in January.StartupsSep 13
228Palo Alto's CEO Had a Stake in the Startup It Just BoughtConsole sold for a reported $500 million, about 3.2 times its last valuation, and Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora was an angel investor in the company before his own deal team signed the check.StartupsSep 13
229Lyte Hits $1.6 Billion Value Eight Months After StealthThe robot-perception startup's Series C values it at nearly six times the $272 million it has raised since 2021, in the same week a rival sought a $1.2 billion valuation without closing one.StartupsSep 13
230UAE Leads Boring Company's $3 Billion Round at $23 BillionThe Series D values Elon Musk's tunneling company four times its 2022 price, three months after a Nashville subcontractor walked off the job over unpaid bills and unsafe conditions.StartupsSep 13
231Nvidia's SEC Filing Doesn't Name Its $70 Billion in BetsNvidia disclosed $47.9 billion in non-marketable equity stakes without naming a single company; a Bank of America analyst says $45 billion of a related $70 billion figure went to OpenAI, Anthropic and Safe Superintelligence alone.HardwareSep 12
232Stoke Space Hits a $10 Billion Value Before Its First LaunchThe Series E closed before Nova has flown once, and the company still has not disclosed a launch price, a revenue projection or a signed customer manifest.StartupsSep 12
233Motive Pulls Its IPO Filing to Take $1.3 Billion InsteadThe fleet management company's S-1 sat unpriced for nine months while secondary shares traded below its 2022 valuation, and General Catalyst's money looks like the reason it never has to find out at what price the market would have taken it.StartupsSep 12
234Forus Triples Its Valuation to $3 Billion in Four MonthsThe AI prescription-routing startup's zip code coverage grew 5 points between rounds while its valuation tripled, a gap Bain Capital Ventures is betting closes later.StartupsSep 12
235Castelion's $1 Billion Round Is Really $800 Million in EquityThe Series C values the hypersonic missile maker at $13 billion, and a quarter of the headline number is an undrawn credit line, not paid-in capital.StartupsSep 12
236Light Raises $46 Million to Sell Other Brands' ElectricityThe Houston startup's Series A values it as infrastructure rather than a retail power company, betting hyperscale data centers will want the same white-label plans as homeowners.StartupsSep 12
237Gimlet Labs Raises $300 Million, Its Second Act After PixieZain Asgar's multi-silicon inference startup hit a $3 billion valuation five months after disclosing an $80 million Series A, without ever stating that round's own price.StartupsSep 12
238Cognition Raises $2 Billion as Its Revenue Multiple Holds SteadyThe Devin maker raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation on Sept. 8, but the multiple investors are paying for each dollar of revenue barely moved from May.StartupsSep 12
239Wonderful Raises $550 Million, More Than Doubling Its Valuation to $5 BillionSalesforce joined the enterprise AI startup's Series C as a first-time investor, six months after the company was last priced at $2 billion.StartupsSep 11
240Lyte Raises $165 Million, Pushing Its Valuation to $1.6 BillionThe robot-sensing startup, founded by three former Apple Face ID engineers, priced its Series C eight months after leaving stealth.StartupsSep 11
241Harvey Raises $550 Million at a $15.5 Billion ValuationThe legal AI startup's third price mark in under a year arrives without a revenue figure to check it against.StartupsSep 11
242Fab2 Raises $500 Million Series A at a $3.7 Billion ValuationJim Keller and Sam Zeloof's chip-factory startup priced 37 times above its 2023 seed round, even as building permits show a smaller Austin footprint than the company has described.StartupsSep 11

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