AI BriefFunding & deals
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Funding & deals · Wall Street JournalOpenAI's challenges narrow its IPO windowFunding & deals · TechCrunchHinge founder raises $18 million for AI dating startup OvertoneFunding & deals · Wall Street JournalData-center owners race to sell stakes into the AI boomFunding & deals · AxiosAir-defense AI startup Singularity raises $80 millionFunding & deals · TechCrunchPixVerse raises $439 million for video-generation AIFunding & deals · CNBCLimX Dynamics raises $200 million for humanoid roboticsFunding & deals · Axios ProEmerald AI is in talks for funding at a $1 billion valuationFunding & deals · Axios Pro RataChai Discovery raises $400 million for AI drug discoveryFunding & deals · Times of IndiaNous Research seeks new funding at a $1.5 billion valuationFunding & deals · TechCrunchSK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in US debut as AI memory demand surgesFunding & deals · TechCrunchLyzr lets its own AI agent help run a $100 million fundraiseFunding & deals · TechCrunchVoice AI startup Gradium reaches $100 million seed round with Nvidia backingFunding & deals · TechCrunchOllama raises $65 million as local open-model tooling scalesFunding & deals · The RegisterTemasek plans to raise AI exposure to 15 percent of its portfolioFunding & deals · TechCrunchPrime Intellect raises $130 million for enterprise AI-agent infrastructureFunding & deals · The Economic TimesEnlife raises Rs 6 crore for AI blood test for Alzheimer'sFunding & deals · The Economic TimesSambaNova raises $1 billion for AI inference infrastructureFunding & deals · TechCrunchAI law startup Norm raises $120 million at a unicorn valuationFunding & deals · The Economic TimesAmazon aims to raise $25 billion for AI infrastructure spendingFunding & deals · The Economic TimesMowito raises $3 million to teach factory robots by demonstrationFunding & deals · TechCrunchSavi Security raises $7 million for an app to fight AI scamsFunding & deals · TechCrunchSK Hynix plans US ADR offering as AI memory demand surgesFunding & deals · The TimesUK startups reportedly raised $17B in first-half funding on AI boomFunding & deals · The Economic TimesBiren Tech seeks up to $838M in Hong Kong placementFunding & deals · AI NewsTakeda signs $600M AI drug-discovery deal with InsilicoFunding & deals · Wall Street JournalKuaishou's Kling raises $2.8B ahead of planned spinoffFunding & deals · Tom's HardwareReport says OpenAI floated a 5% US government stakeFunding & deals · Wall Street JournalTakeda signs AI drug-discovery deal with Insilico worth up to $600MFunding & deals · The Economic TimesSoftBank reopens talks for $10B loan backed by its OpenAI stakeFunding & deals · Unite.AIAligned raises $60M to expand its AI deal workspace for enterprise salesFunding & deals · The Economic TimesOXMIQ raises $35M to license AI chip designs for sovereign AIFunding & deals · Unite.AIDawnguard raises $3.3M for cybersecurity that shifts left into designFunding & deals · Economic TimesRaja Koduri's OXMIQ raises $35M for licensable AI chip architectureFunding & deals · TechCrunchVenice AI reaches unicorn status with $65M Series AFunding & deals · Economic TimesCigna commits $100M to AI-powered specialty pharmacy programFunding & deals · Economic TimesSoftBank completes second $10B tranche of its $30B OpenAI commitmentFunding & deals · TechCrunchWayve launches $85M employee tender at $8.5B valuationFunding & deals · TechCrunchDeepMind alumni apply poker AI techniques to quant tradingFunding & deals · TechCrunchEtched says its AI chip systems have booked $1B in ordersFunding & deals · Economic TimesGurugram AI startup Brekfuz raises $525K for a workplace knowledge layerFunding & deals · Economic TimesKapture CX raises $10M to expand AI customer-service toolsFunding & deals · TechCrunch + Economic TimesChamath Palihapitiya's 8090 Labs raises $135M for AI codingFunding & deals · TechCrunchProception settles Tesla suit and raises $11M for robotic handsFunding & deals · TechCrunchPocket raises $11M for AI note-taking devicesFunding & deals · Economic TimesSouth Korea lines up Samsung and SK Hynix for a $576B AI-chip driveFunding & deals · Economic TimesBaidu AI-chip unit Kunlunxin targets $50B Hong Kong IPOFunding & deals · Economic TimesAI startup Rocket is in talks to raise $40M-$50MFunding & deals · Associated PressAP says Samsung and SK Hynix plan a $518B chip hub for AI demandFunding & deals · Unite.AITrueFoundry buys Seldon to combine MLOps and agentic AI infrastructureFunding & deals · Economic TimesChinese AI and chip firms drive an onshore IPO reboundFunding & deals · TechCrunchPatronus raises $50M to stress-test AI agentsFunding & deals · TechCrunchGeneral Intuition bets $2.3B that games can train real-world agentsFunding & deals · TechCrunchNetris raises $15M to speed up AI neocloud launchesFunding & deals · The RegisterAmazon commits another $13B to India AI and cloud infrastructureFunding & deals · TechCrunchAdobe buys Topaz Labs to fold AI enhancement into creative toolsFunding & deals · Wired + WSJ + Barron'sQualcomm confirms a nearly $4B deal for AI software firm ModularFunding & deals · Unite.AIEXL agrees to buy iMerit for up to $310MFunding & deals · Business InsiderAgility Robotics plans a $2.5B SPAC listing for humanoid warehouse robotsFunding & deals · Wall Street JournalAnthropic veterans raise $200M for Mirendil, an AI-for-science startupFunding & deals · Economic TimesVishal Sikka launches Hang Ten Systems with $32M seed roundFunding & deals · Economic TimesOrnn raises $33M for an AI compute marketplaceFunding & deals · Unite.AISeltz raises $12.5M for search infrastructure built for AI agentsFunding & deals · SiliconANGLECoval raises $28M as enterprises push voice agents into productionFunding & deals · Economic TimesJustAI raises $17M for AI-driven marketing toolsFunding & deals · TechCrunchMoEngage acquires Aampe to push one-AI-agent-per-customer marketingFunding & deals · TechCrunchFika Jobs raises $4M for AI-agent candidate interviewsFunding & deals · Economic TimesBaseten reaches $13B valuation as Blackbird makes record AI betFunding & deals · TechCrunchGroq confirms $650M raise after Nvidia's $20B staff dealFunding & deals · Unite.AIProsper AI raises $30M for AI across the patient journeyFunding & deals · TechCrunchAllbirds becomes Smartbird and pitches sovereign AI infrastructureFunding & deals · The Economic TimesMeta signs new Crusoe compute deals for AI buildoutFunding & deals · TechCrunchElastic agrees to buy DeductiveAI for up to $85 millionFunding & deals · TechCrunchBaseten reportedly nears $1.5 billion round at $13 billion valuationFunding & deals · Unite.AIBoolSi raises $6M to turn software into custom silicon with AIFunding & deals · TechCrunchGeneral Intuition seeks $300 million for world-model workFunding & deals · Economic TimesIFC commits $371M to Sify data centers in IndiaFunding & deals · AxiosGradial raises $65M for agentic marketing automationFunding & deals · TechCrunchOdyssey raises $310M for physical-world AI modelsFunding & deals · Unite.AIOdyssey raises $310M for AI world modelsFunding & deals · TechCrunchPramaana Labs raises $27M for formal verification in AIFunding & deals · Business InsiderConvey raises $38M for AI workplace teammatesFunding & deals · TechCrunchCPP Investments backs India's AI data center buildoutFunding & deals · TechCrunchSpaceX valuation jumps on AI business promisesFunding & deals · TechCrunchProbably raises $9M to make AI answers more reliableFunding & deals · TechCrunchSpaceX agrees to acquire Cursor in $60B stock dealFunding & deals · TechCrunchRespond.io raises $62.5M for AI-agent messagingFunding & deals · Financial TimesOpenAI spending reportedly hit $34B ahead of planned IPOFunding & deals · Unite.AILimitless Labs raises $20M for physical AI in manufacturingFunding & deals · TechCrunchSalesforce buys Fin for $3.6B to bolster AgentforceFunding & deals · TechCrunchSarvam reaches unicorn status with $234M roundFunding & deals · TechCrunchNewCore raises $66M to govern AI-agent identitiesFunding & deals · Business InsiderRobotics and physical AI funding surge as investors chase real-world automationFunding & deals · TechCrunchOrbio raises $21M to automate frontline hiring and onboardingFunding & deals · Financial TimesAI is reshaping how investors allocate riskFunding & deals · TechCrunch + BloombergMistral reportedly seeks EUR3B at a EUR20B valuationFunding & deals · The GuardianSpaceX officially prices the largest IPO in historyFunding & deals · Relativity / PR NewswireRelativity acquires Gavel to bring legal AI into Microsoft WordFunding & deals · Morningstar / PR NewswireChatSeeAI raises $6.5M to tackle AI-agent failuresFunding & deals · TechCrunch + Equal AIEqual AI raises $30M after its call-screening agent reaches 1M usersFunding & deals · TechCrunch + ThekerTheker raises $85M for reconfigurable generalist factory robotsFunding & deals · TechCrunch + PrometheusBezos-backed Prometheus raises $12B for an 'artificial general engineer'Funding & deals · OpenAI + Economic TimesOpenAI moves to acquire Ona for longer-running Codex cloud workFunding & deals · The RegisterOracle's $70B AI data-center plan alarms investorsFunding & deals · Business Insider + Coram AICoram raises $35M to turn security cameras into AI investigatorsFunding & deals · Wall Street Journal + Neura RoboticsNeura Robotics secures up to $1.4B to manufacture millions of robotsFunding & deals · MarketWatchAmazon lines up a $17.5B loan facility as AI spending growsFunding & deals · TechCrunchDatadog veterans raise $7M for model-independent coding agentsFunding & deals · Warner Music Group / PR NewswireWarner Music acquires Sureel to track unauthorized AI trainingFunding & deals · Wall Street JournalBeacon raises $225M to turn small software firms into an AI portfolioFunding & deals · Supermicro / Business WireSupermicro seeks $7B after claiming $39B in new AI server ordersFunding & deals · Minerva / Business WireMinerva launches with $20M and measurable agentic-marketing claimsFunding & deals · Unite.AIStandard Bots raises $200M to scale AI-powered robotic laborFunding & deals · TechCrunchSandstone raises $30M for AI built around in-house legal workFunding & deals · TechCrunchA $5M seed round puts AI data centers into the space raceFunding & deals · Associated PressOpenAI takes its first formal step toward an IPOFunding & deals · PhysicsXPhysicsX raises $300M to push AI deeper into industrial engineeringFunding & deals · CTechPointFive raises $60M as AI compute waste becomes its own software marketFunding & deals · TechCrunchSupabase raises $500M as AI coding drives database growthFunding & deals · AlleyWatchFlourish raises $500M for neuroscience-inspired efficient AIFunding & deals · PPTI NewsApoha raises $36M for AI-designed proteins and materialsFunding & deals · TechCrunchHelion raises $465M as AI power demand keeps pulling capital into energyFunding & deals · TechCrunch / PR NewswireRamp raises $750M as finance software sells an AI operating-system storyFunding & deals · MoneycontrolIndia's TrueFan AI raises $10M to scale enterprise video generationFunding & deals · The InformationNvidia buys predictive-model startup Kumo AI for at least $400MFunding & deals · PR Newswire / Terra AITerra AI raises $20M for mineral and reservoir explorationFunding & deals · TechCrunchCoralogix raises $200M for the AI-agent observability layerFunding & deals · GlobeNewswire / AlphaSenseAlphaSense raises $350M and launches an always-on analyst agentFunding & deals · GlobeNewswire / TownTown raises $55M for a work assistant that learns user habitsFunding & deals · Reuters / StreetInsiderSuno raises more than $400M at a $5.4B valuationFunding & deals · Alphabet + Axios + TechCrunchAlphabet's $80B AI buildout raise swells toward $85BFunding & deals · PR Newswire / American Diabetes AssociationAmerican Diabetes Association backs UpDoc's agentic chronic-care AIFunding & deals · PR Newswire / NovelliaNovellia raises $18M for patient-powered real-world data in pharma researchFunding & deals · TechCrunch + GlobeNewswireZeroDrift raises $10M to sit between enterprise AI models and risky outputsFunding & deals · PR Newswire / Subtle MedicalSubtle Medical raises $33M to scale AI imaging across MRI, PET, and CTFunding & deals · AxiosAnthropic's IPO timing exposes AI's enterprise cost backlashFunding & deals · TechCrunchMach Industries hits $1.8B valuation as autonomous defense funding keeps acceleratingFunding & deals · TechCrunchSpaceX warns investors that AI data centers make water access an IPO riskFunding & deals · GlobeNewswire / StreetInsiderTripo AI raises nearly $200M for 3D foundation and world modelsFunding & deals · Anthropic + AP + AxiosAnthropic files confidentially for an IPO after its $965B valuationFunding & deals · PYMNTSSaris raises $28.8M to bring agentic workflows into bank operationsFunding & deals · AxiosSekai raises $20M for text-prompted mini-app creationFunding & deals · PR NewswireDriveNets raises $410M for multi-vendor AI networkingFunding & deals · FinovateGradient Labs doubles Series A to $26M for fintech customer-operation agentsFunding & deals · FortuneMecka AI raises $60M to train robots on human motion dataFunding & deals · Fortune Term SheetFonoa raises $110M as AI tax automation joins the funding waveFunding & deals · VentureBeatClaude Mythos raises the bar for enterprise patching speedFunding & deals · TechCrunch + SoftBankSoftBank plans up to EUR75B for French AI data centersFunding & deals · TechCrunch / The InformationMeta is reportedly testing an AI pendant and work-focused wearablesFunding & deals · TechCrunch + AxiosGroq reportedly seeks $650M after Nvidia chip-asset dealFunding & deals · Reactor / AIwireReactor raises $59M for real-time AI world infrastructureFunding & deals · TechCrunchXCENA raises $135M to attack AI inference from the memory sideFunding & deals · TechCrunchGlean crosses $300M top line as context graphs become AI cost infrastructureFunding & deals · TechCrunchAsana buys StackAI to make workflow agents native to work managementFunding & deals · Anthropic + AxiosAnthropic raises $65B and resets the private AI valuation ceilingFunding & deals · Geordie AI + Unite.AIGeordie AI raises $30M as agent security becomes its own categoryFunding & deals · Unite.AICanals raises $35M to automate wholesale distribution workflowsFunding & deals · TechCrunchCognition raises $1B as Devin reaches a reported $492M revenue run-rateFunding & deals · EvertiqIndia's Anscer Robotics raises $4.7M for AI-native factory robotsFunding & deals · PandailyZhongke Diwuji raises Series A for few-shot embodied AI modelsFunding & deals · ZscalerZscaler turns agent access maps into an AI-security acquisition thesisFunding & deals · Business Wire + TechCrunchOpenRouter raises $113M as model routing becomes core AI infrastructureFunding & deals · TechCrunchHuman Archive uses India's gig economy to collect robot-training dataFunding & deals · TELUS DigitalTELUS tests 34 AI models against 620,000 adversarial attacksFunding & deals · QuanscientQuanscient raises EUR10M for AI-native hardware simulationFunding & deals · Crunchbase NewsThe IPO market is reopening, but smaller tech exits are still squeezedFunding & deals · Crunchbase NewsSeed rounds keep getting larger while Series A remains harderFunding & deals · The Verge via Modelwire + Business Insider JapanUber questions whether rising AI token spend is paying offFunding & deals · Ministry of SportSportAI acquires Padelytics for racket-sports analyticsFunding & deals · TechCrunchClickUp cuts 22% of staff while pushing 3,000 internal AI agentsFunding & deals · CTechAmdocs buys Israeli AI startup YessFunding & deals · Hugging Face Papers / arXivClaw-Anything benchmarks always-on personal AI agentsFunding & deals · Axios Pro RataModal raises $355M as AI infrastructure startups keep scalingFunding & deals · TechCrunchHark raises $700M Series A for a secretive universal AI interfaceFunding & deals · General Atlantic + Axios Pro RataFarther raises $150M Series D for AI-native wealth managementFunding & deals · SecurityWeekOcean raises $28M for agentic email securityFunding & deals · TechCrunchSpaceX's IPO filing turns xAI into a major investor concernFunding & deals · Crunchbase News + 1Mercury raises $200M at a $5.2B valuationFunding & deals · TechCrunchOpenAI offers $2M in tokens to every current YC startupFunding & deals · AxiosAnthropic's SpaceX compute bill reaches $1.25B per monthFunding & deals · PR NewswireProcurement Sciences acquires HigherGovFunding & deals · European startup coverageMistral AI acquires Emmi AIFunding & deals · TechCrunchNanoClaw turns a secure agent harness into a funded startupFunding & deals · StartupHub.ai + funding trackersExa Labs raises $250M for AI searchFunding & deals · CTechTorq acquires Jit for an estimated $70MFunding & deals · PR Newswire / HellbenderHellbender launches edge AI cameras for physical-world deploymentFunding & deals · CTechUnframe raises $50M Series B after topping $100M in contractsFunding & deals · The Business JournalsMartha Stewart helps raise $10M for AI startup HintFunding & deals · AnthropicAnthropic buys Stainless to deepen agent connectivityFunding & deals · iGrow NewsJABAS.AI tackles GPS-free navigation for agricultural robot fleetsFunding & deals · IKS HealthIKS Health acquires ARAI SolutionsFunding & deals · TechCrunchMeta buys Assured Robot Intelligence for humanoid AI workFunding & deals · Xoople + TechCrunchXoople raises $130M to build an Earth system of record for AI agentsFunding & deals · TechCrunch + Crunchbase dataAI megadeals pushed Q1 startup funding to a record