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Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~$736M at a ~$2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~$2.9B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago China Alibaba Startup AI Robot

Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Japan IPO Startup AI

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Startup Insurance

Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model (www.ft.com)
14 days ago Startup AI London

Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a $60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to $85M (www.axios.com)
14 days ago Startup AI Battery

The US awards $250M in CHIPS funds to a startup co-founded by billionaire mining magnate Robert Friedland to develop silicon-carbide chips and pulsed-power tech (www.bloomberg.com)
15 days ago Startup

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs is hiring three founders and other team members behind AI security startup Virtue AI; two founders report to Nat Friedman (www.axios.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

Meta's $900 million investment in an Indian startup: Why some are raising red flags (www.rt.com)
15 days ago India Startup

Australian payments startup Airwallex raised $320M led by Lee Fixel's Addition at an $11B valuation, and is incubating blockchain payments startup Metal (www.forbes.com)
15 days ago Blockchain Australia Startup

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Startup Insurance Paris

SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise $800M to $1B, sources say at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2B in February (www.theinformation.com)
15 days ago Startup AI

AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license (venturebeat.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+ (www.businessinsider.com)
16 days ago Startup AI

xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital (www.theinformation.com)
16 days ago Startup

Menlo raised $3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest haul to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly $14B (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Startup AI

New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others (fortune.com)
17 days ago Startup New York

Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its “Xoogler” alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Google Startup AI

Sources: Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire Modular in a transaction valuing the AI chip startup at ~$4B, up from a $1.6B valuation in September 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Startup AI

Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes (www.axios.com)
18 days ago Google Startup

Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech startup Cred, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago India Fintech Startup WhatsApp

As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago China Europe Startup AI

SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years (www.bloomberg.com)
19 days ago U.S. Startup Latin America

Tech Pundit Cringely Co-Founds Startup '2Brains Inc' to Solve LLM Hallucinations (slashdot.org)
20 days ago Startup

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Startup AI

Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (www.theinformation.com)
22 days ago China Startup AI Tencent

Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Startup AI Switzerland

Accenture says it will buy a majority stake in Dragos and fully acquire runZero and NetRise in a combined deal for the cybersecurity startups valued at $4.18B (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago Startup

AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (www.wsj.com)
22 days ago Startup AI

A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying the startup (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago Trump Startup

Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago Uber Startup Autonomous Car

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