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Startup funding news: seed to late-stage rounds, valuations, acquisitions and the investors behind them.
Latest Funding stories
Anthropic could spend $750bn on compute, The Wall Street Journal reports
Revenue rose to $16.3bn in six months, but the S-1 draft also shows an $80.7bn loss, most of it an accounting charge. Bloomberg says Anthropic could start trading before Thanksgiving.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Swedish legal AI firm Legora raises $550M led by Atreides at $8.8B valuation
Atreides Management led the Series E, which will fund expansion in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Heat pump tech is 170 years old. Pascal thinks it’s time for an update.
Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software
The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Pigment raises $250M at $2.3B valuation in round led by EQT fund
The Paris-based planning software company says it passed $100M in annual recurring revenue this year, with Nvidia set to invest.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Kodama raises $7M to bring autonomy to forestry machinery
U.S. robotics startup Kodama secures $7 million to expand autonomous and remote-operated forestry machinery, addressing labor shortages in the industry.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 21, 2026
Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut
The Elice IPO raised $151m at the top of its range, with retail demand 400 times the shares on offer. It is the latest AI infrastructure listing to stumble.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories
Anduril already uses the start-up’s software to plan its production lines. The goal is factories that rebuild themselves for each new design, so fast-changing gadgets can be made in the US.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
ASI hits a $3bn valuation as its AI moves from air traffic to the grid
The Boston start-up beat Palantir and Thales to an $875 million air traffic contract in June. Now it wants to take its forecasting software into energy, logistics and the military.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Reliable Robotics tops a $1bn valuation with $115M for self-flying planes
The new money lands while Reliable still waits on the FAA. Its first system keeps a pilot in the cockpit, and its CEO puts pilot-free flights at least three years away.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do
Its free Beacon tool logs activity from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more than 20 other agent tools.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language
Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
SpaceX alum’s aviation startup, Reliable Robotics, lands $115M, topping $1B valuation
Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Inspired Capital closes $450M fourth fund as New York pushes back on Silicon Valley’s gravitational pull
The raise comes as venture dollars pile up on the West Coast.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Vectorial raises $3M to simulate human behavior for consumer research
Vectorial AI Inc. raises $3 million in seed funding to expand its AI platform, SAPIENS, which simulates human behavior for consumer research with 30% greater…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Blackwall Raises $100M at $2.2B Valuation to Secure Web Traffic for Hosting Providers
Estonia-based Blackwall secures $100 million in Series C funding at a $2.2 billion valuation.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Exclusive: Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to cut the heat inside quantum computers
Aalto spinout Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M and tells in an exclusive interview how it plans to cut the heat and wiring choking quantum computers.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 20, 2026
Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 19, 2026
AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch
AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 19, 2026
Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team
Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the Series B. Each worker gets an AI assistant called a Townie, and the assistants can now ask each other questions and hand off work.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 19, 2026
Lab-grown diamond startup So/Facet raises Rs 10 crore led by Sauce
The round also saw participation from Mokobara cofounders Sangeet Agrawal and Navin Parwal, Chona Family Office (that’s behind Hocco Ice Creams), Haleon South Asia president Kedar Lele, and Moonshot co-founder Devaiah…
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 19, 2026
Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers
Jim Keller’s AI chip company held takeover talks with Intel and Qualcomm this year. He told Bloomberg that Tenstorrent chose to raise money instead of selling.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 19, 2026
Latin America’s startup funding jumps 26% in Q3 2026 as Mexico outpaces Brazil
Latin American startups raised $1.3B in Q3 2026, a 26% YoY increase. Mexico surpassed Brazil, while AI and fintech led investments.
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 19, 2026
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most storied firms
Tarun Mottlia
Oct 18, 2026