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Startup funding news: seed to late-stage rounds, valuations, acquisitions and the investors behind them.
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Nik Storonsky says VCs can be ‘dangerous’, so Revolut’s board has none
Revolut’s Nik Storonsky tells founders to give investors no votes and no board seats. A fight with one investor led him to start QuantumLight, a fund run by machine learning.
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Oct 30, 2026
Sector Snapshot: Travel Tech Funding Heads Toward Multiyear Low Despite AI Push
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI hasn’t managed to reverse the funding…
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Oct 30, 2026
Mintive raises $11M for agent identity management, led by Cowboy Ventures
Mintive raises $11M in total funding, including a $7M seed round led by Cowboy Ventures, to build agent identity and management tools for enterprises.
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Oct 30, 2026
Serval raises $150m Series C at $3B valuation led by Sequoia
Serval secures $150 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia, to accelerate AI-driven enterprise automation and global expansion.
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Oct 30, 2026
Solink raises over $100M for AI-driven security camera intelligence
Solink secures over $100M in funding led by Vertu Capital and Goldman Sachs to expand its AI platform for business insights from security cameras.
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Oct 30, 2026
Autofixer raises €3 million venture debt for European expansion
Polish automotive e-commerce startup Autofixer raises €3 million in venture debt to expand across Europe, develop AI tools, and launch in Czechia within…
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Oct 30, 2026
General Compute raises $100M Series A at $800M valuation to scale AI inference chips
General Compute, a neocloud startup specializing in AI inference chips, has raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract…
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Oct 30, 2026
Canada joins Nvidia in backing Cohere’s record C$7bn Series E
Canada will invest up to $1.14bn in the Cohere Series E, Bloomberg reports, and Cohere plans to keep its headquarters at home. Bloomberg puts its valuation at $20.5bn before the new money.
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Oct 29, 2026
FuriosaAI raises $620m at a $2.9bn valuation for its Nvidia rival chips
The FuriosaAI Series D quadruples the Seoul chipmaker’s valuation from last year. It plans to make more than 40,000 of its RNGD inference chips in 2027, double this year.
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Oct 29, 2026
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Collective raises $100M to run the finances of one-person businesses
The San Francisco startup uses AI to handle accounting, payroll and taxes for solo business owners.
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Northstar Security AI launches with $7 million seed funding to contextualize AI-driven security
Northstar Security AI Inc. launches with $7 million in seed funding led by Wing Venture Capital to provide AI agents with real-time security context…
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Oct 29, 2026
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QwikBuild raises $2.3M, forms joint venture to expand into Japan's enterprise AI market
Bengaluru-based QwikBuild secures $2.3 million in pre-seed funding and announces a joint venture with Globalway Inc.
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Oct 29, 2026
Anthropic may offer up to 20% of its IPO to retail, Bloomberg says
Senator Elizabeth Warren has given Anthropic until 3 November to answer questions on AI risk. Its S-1 also lists $120.5bn of SpaceX compute and a gross margin of about 85%.
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Oct 28, 2026
AMD to invest $1bn in Meta as its Helios racks start running there
AMD’s first Helios rack systems are installed and being tested at Meta, the chipmaker said. With Nvidia’s $3bn, the two chipmakers are putting $4bn into Meta’s AI fundraising.
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Oct 28, 2026
Plato raises $16M to build fake offices where AI agents learn real jobs
The San Francisco startup, backed by Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, recreates real jobs so AI agents can practise safely.
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Oct 28, 2026
Physical Intelligence in talks at a $20bn valuation, Bloomberg reports
Physical Intelligence wants at least $1bn, with existing backers Avenir and Lux Capital in talks to lead. Bloomberg’s sources say it has no revenue yet.
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Oct 28, 2026
Machenta raises $40M to teach robots a task from a single demonstration
The Imperial spinout trains its model only on simulated data, not footage of people at work. With 11 staff, Machenta is taking on robotics rivals valued at more than $10B.
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Oct 28, 2026
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Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI
Circuit Mind’s total funding now reaches $33.4m. The London startup also launched AVE, a tool that uses AI agents to check circuit designs against component datasheets.
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Oct 28, 2026
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
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Oct 28, 2026
Madica secures $6 million to invest in 25-30 African startups
Madica receives $6 million from Flourish Ventures to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage African startups, aiming to bridge funding gaps outside dominant markets.
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Oct 28, 2026