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Startup funding news: seed to late-stage rounds, valuations, acquisitions and the investors behind them.
Latest Funding stories
Eka Robotics raises $150M to teach robots to grip by feel
Eka Robotics trains its robots to grip in a physics simulator, not from human demonstrations. It says they pick 1,500 objects an hour, against about 600 for a person.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 23, 2026
Formic raises $50M to bring general-purpose robots to US factories
Formic says its robots run in more than 100 US facilities with 99.6% uptime. A humanoid packing boxes in its launch video shows what it wants to do next.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 23, 2026
Slingshot Insurance raises $27M to automate small embedded insurance policies
Slingshot Insurance secures $27 million in seed funding to develop AI-native software for embedded insurance sold at checkout, targeting vertical SaaS…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 23, 2026
Maxinsights raises $30M seed to turn everyday chores into robot training data
Maxinsights, a Santa Clara-based startup, raises $30M in seed funding to convert footage of daily tasks into AI training data for robots.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 23, 2026
Nvidia has put $170bn on the line for neoclouds, The Information reports
The total includes up to $164.5bn in guarantees for data centres. Nvidia is also in talks to back Firmus, among the neoclouds struggling to raise money as investors pull back.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 23, 2026
SEGNOS raises pre-Series A for nanotech blood testing platform Therma-Max
SEGNOS, a Japanese biotech startup, raises pre-Series A from BP Capital to advance Therma-Max, a nanotechnology for high-sensitivity blood testing and in vitro…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 23, 2026
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Xona raises $250 million at $2.45 billion valuation for satellite navigation network
Xona, a California-based startup building a low Earth orbit satellite navigation network, has raised $250 million in a Series D round led by Future Ventures.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
QuantrolOx raises €12 million Series A to automate quantum computer tuning
QuantrolOx, an Anglo-Finnish quantum startup, secures €12 million in Series A funding led by IW Capital to commercialize AI-driven quantum tuning software.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Ex-OpenAI science head Kevin Weil launches Warp Sciences with $215M
The startup wants to bring drug chemistry work back from China using robots and AI.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Investors break down how founders can raise a Series A today
Raising a Series A these days isn't so simple — top investors break down what founders need to know now.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Fusion startup Helion is developing new semiconductors that could double output of its power plants
Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology over national security concerns.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
TravClan raises $5M from Flipkart, August One and Trifecta Capital
Delhi-based B2B travel tech startup TravClan secures $5 million in equity and debt funding led by Flipkart and August One.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Otter.ai raises $320M to scale enterprise AI meeting tools
Otter.ai secures $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to accelerate growth, international expansion, and product innovation.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Beyond Vision raises over €28M to scale AI-powered drones for defense and infrastructure
Portuguese drone manufacturer Beyond Vision secures over €28M to scale production, R&D, and international expansion for its AI-powered drone platform.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
Pennant raises $5M for AI-powered proxy voting platform
Pennant secures $5 million in seed funding to build an AI platform for corporate governance and proxy voting, led by Urban Innovation Fund.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 22, 2026
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation
Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation
Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
AI lab Flapping Airplanes is now worth $6B, four times its January value
The research startup, backed by Nvidia and Sequoia, wants to train AI with far less data and computing power.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Photon Bridge raises €10M to mass-produce lasers for AI data centres
The Dutch startup, formerly Photon IP, combines weaker lasers to make the light sources easier to build at scale.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026