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Funding & DealsGallatin AI Raises $50 Million to Expand Military Supply Forecasting Software
The El Segundo startup, whose Navigator platform is used by the Army and Air Force, will spend the Series A on more AI features and engineers.
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Funding & DealsModel Leaderboard Arena Raises $200 Million as Valuation Nearly Doubles to $3.1 Billion
Lightspeed and Khosla led the Series B after the Berkeley-born ranking site lifted its revenue run rate to $100 million from $30 million in January.
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Quantum ComputingOratomic Raises $475 Million at $5.5 Billion Valuation for Neutral-Atom Quantum Machines
The year-old startup more than tripled its valuation in three months, while U.K. trapped-ion maker Universal Quantum closed a Series A of more than $100 million.
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Funding & DealsManus Raises More Than $500 Million From Chinese Backers After Beijing Blocked Meta Sale
Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the AI agent startup's first round since regulators unwound its $2 billion deal with Meta, with Tencent also investing.
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Funding & DealsNous Research Raises $90 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation to Sell Hermes to Companies
The open-source AI lab says its Hermes Agent drives about 2.5% of global token use and expects annualized revenue to pass $100 million by year-end.
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Funding & DealsParallel Systems Lands $100 Million to Put Driverless Electric Rail Cars on Short Hauls
The startup founded by former SpaceX avionics engineers wants railroads to win back freight trips under 500 miles that now go by truck.
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Funding & DealsVinci4D Raises $250 Million to Speed Chip Heat Simulation With Physics AI
The Palo Alto startup's Series B values it at $1.5 billion and brings in AMD Ventures as it targets semiconductor thermal analysis before vehicles and aircraft.
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Funding & DealsUber Agrees to Pay $2.3 Billion in Cash for Corporate Catering Marketplace ezCater
The deal pushes Uber Eats from single meals into office group orders, a market ezCater built over 19 years and more than $2.5 billion in annual bookings.
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Funding & DealsHadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand AI Agents That Test Which Exposures Are Exploitable
The Dutch offensive security startup, now at $65 million in total funding, plans to grow in the U.S. and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Funding & DealsSignSplit Debuts With $400 Million to Pay People for Consented AI Training Data
Backed by a consortium of 11 blockchain-focused fintech firms, the startup wants contributors to sign their data and earn each time AI developers use it.
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Funding & DealsEtched Weighs Offers Valuing AI Chip Startup at Up to $50 Billion
The inference chipmaker raised at $21 billion only weeks ago; unsolicited bids now value it at roughly double that or more, TechCrunch reports.
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Robotics & AutonomyRobCo Doubles Valuation Past $1 Billion as Employees Sell Shares to Sequoia and Lightspeed
Most of the $40 million round went to buying stock from current and former staff, and the German robot maker's CEO has moved to San Francisco to push U.S. growth.
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Funding & DealsMenlo Ventures Backs Factory Days After Khosla Called It a Second-Tier Rival
The firm that made an early bet on Anthropic joined the AI coding startup's $5 billion round, a public show of support after last week's fight over a board adviser.
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Funding & DealsDoxx.net Raises $38 Million Led by a16z to Limit Where AI Agents Can Connect
Barrett Lyon's Miami startup runs its own DNS root, certificate authority and 196 private top-level domains to keep agents away from malicious sites.
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Funding & DealsFieldAI Signs Term Sheet for $700 Million Round at $10 Billion Valuation, Report Says
The robot-autonomy software developer would be worth five times its August 2025 valuation, and its revenue and contracts have reached $135 million.
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Funding & DealsSupabase Raises $150 Million and Agrees to Buy Turso as AI Agents Multiply Databases
The Postgres company is betting that coding agents will need vast numbers of small, instantly created databases, and it is adding a SQLite-based engine to supply them.
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Funding & DealsKevin Mandia's Armadin Raises $255.5 Million to Scale AI Agent Swarm Attack Testing
Seven months after its public launch, the Mandiant founder's startup is valued above $2.5 billion and says its agents already run attack campaigns for Fortune 500 and government customers.
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AI BusinessFactory CEO Says Ex-Adviser Leaked to Cognition as Khosla and Rabois Split in Public
Chris Degnan, Snowflake’s longtime revenue chief, denies sharing secrets and says he resigned before joining the rival AI coding startup as its CRO.
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Funding & DealsElevenLabs Lets Staff Sell $300 Million in Shares at a $22 Billion Valuation
The AI voice company's second employee tender doubles its February price and comes with new usage figures, but still no revenue total.
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Funding & DealsGeneral Intuition Raises $220 Million at $6.2 Billion to Train World Models on Game Footage
The Medal spinout's valuation has nearly tripled since June, though its MIRA model is still a research demo limited to a single game.
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Funding & DealsEliseAI Doubles Valuation to $4 Billion With $350 Million Round Led by a16z and Bessemer
The property and healthcare automation company says it passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue and plans a second engineering hub in San Francisco.
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Funding & DealsReco Lands $55 Million Series C to Track Hidden AI Agents Inside Companies
AT&T Ventures led the round, which more than doubled the New York startup's valuation in seven months as agent-security vendors multiply.
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Funding & DealsRig Security Raises $12 Million Seed to Separate AI Agent Actions From Human Users
The Tel Aviv startup, led by a former Wiz engineer, uses an endpoint sensor to tell when an AI agent rather than an employee is acting under a login.