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Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits (techcrunch.com)
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OpenFX, an FX market-making and remittance startup launched by a FalconX co-founder, raised $94M led by Accel and others, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (www.reuters.com)
3 hours ago Startup

Micromobility delivery startup Also, a Rivian spinoff, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $1B valuation and enters a multiyear partnership with DoorDash (www.bloomberg.com)
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Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 (www.ft.com)
12 hours ago Startup London

Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021 (www.geekwire.com)
17 hours ago Startup

Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% (www.wsj.com)
20 hours ago Startup

Fabless AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago IPO Startup AI

Finnish startup IQM Quantum Computers raised €50M from BlackRock to accelerate its global growth, ahead of a planned dual US and Helsinki IPO later in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago IPO Startup Finland Quantum

Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Startup

Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (www.ft.com)
1 day ago Europe Startup AI Nvidia Paris

Some defense tech startups are considering relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some execs say the UK sector is at a “standstill” (www.ft.com)
1 day ago Startup

UK Startup Ignites Plasma Inside Nuclear Fusion Rocket (science.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Startup

Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (news.crunchbase.com)
3 days ago Startup

Sources: Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the AI startup (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Google Startup AI Texas

Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

How Theia, a satellite imaging startup that raised $250M+ by 2020, collapsed after the founder and four other execs were indicted on federal fraud charges (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup

Isara, which aims to build software that can coordinate the work of thousands of AI agents, raised $94M and says OpenAI backed the startup at a $650M valuation (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Startup AI

Sources: AI science startup Periodic Labs, founded by ex-OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and DeepMind's Ekin Cubuk, aims to raise hundreds of millions at a ~$7B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Amity, a Thailand-based startup that provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D as it plans for a 2027 IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago IPO Retail Thailand Startup AI

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (www.cnbc.com)
6 days ago Startup

Internal memo: Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its AI For Work initiative, previously led by Guy Rosen, seeking to compete with AI native startups (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find “misfit” founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Europe Startup AI Asset

How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup Drone

Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups (fortune.com)
7 days ago Startup

Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Startup Norway

Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair (www.axios.com)
8 days ago Startup

Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K of AMD's MI355 chips, in a bid to “diversify to other chips” as “we have a lot of Nvidia chips” (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Korea Startup AI Nvidia AMD

Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats (colossus.com)
10 days ago Startup

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