Browsing Tag
top funding rounds
393 posts
AI agent Instinct seeks $1B at $10B valuation in talks with Sequoia, Benchmark
Instinct’s valuation has jumped fourfold in three weeks, and if the numbers being discussed now hold up, the…
September 18, 2026
EU’s €5B Scaleup Europe Fund in talks to back ElevenLabs’ $500M raise
ElevenLabs closed a $500 million round in February at an $11 billion valuation. Seven months later, it’s reportedly…
September 18, 2026
Bain Capital Ventures lands $1.6B to back AI infrastructure, agents and physical AI
Bain Capital Ventures has $1.6 billion to spend on start-ups betting that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is…
September 17, 2026
Zipline’s valuation could nearly triple to $20B in fresh $1B funding talks
Zipline is negotiating a new funding round of roughly $1 billion at a valuation of about $20 billion,…
September 17, 2026
OpenAI eyes $1.2T valuation in fresh funding talks ahead of potential 2027 IPO
OpenAI has held early discussions with investors about a new funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker…
September 16, 2026
Factory jumps to $5B in 5 months with $200M for its AI ‘Droids’
Matan Grinberg was a physics PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley when a cold email to…
September 16, 2026
Unicorn alert: Thatch raises $108M from General Catalyst and Index Ventures at $1B valuation
12 days before Thatch closed this round, the federal government renamed the regulation its whole business runs on.…
September 16, 2026
Profound hits $1.8B valuation with $180M raise led by Sequoia Capital to help brands rank in AI search
Buyers don’t type search queries much anymore. They ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity what to buy, and increasingly,…
September 16, 2026
Samsung backs Euclyd’s €200M+ round to challenge Nvidia in AI chips
Bernardo Kastrup drew up Euclyd’s first designs in his attic, working at night after his day job at…
September 15, 2026