Startup Fundraising

Moonshot AI is chasing up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation, while Bezos-backed Flourish lands a $500 million Series A; the AI capital race is stretching from Chinese foundation models to brain-inspired systems and data-center cooling. In this episode: Top stories: 1. China’s Moonshot AI seeks US$30 bil value in new funding talks — Bloomberg — The Edge Malaysia https://theedgemalaysia.com/n...

Supabase and AlphaSense set the pace with $500 million and $350 million rounds, while Pace, Lassie and Opal show venture money crowding into AI agents for insurance, small-business admin and identity governance. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months | TechCrunch — TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/supabase-doubles-valuation-to-10b-in-8-months/ 2...

Ramp, Supabase and Allen Control Systems raised $1.45 billion combined, showing venture money still crowding into AI infrastructure, enterprise automation and defense robotics while European AI seed funds also scale up. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Ramp raises $750 million, plans AI spending software | American Banker — American Banker https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ramp-raises-750-millio...

Supabase raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation as Ramp hit $44 billion and Helion drew $465 million, showing late-stage capital crowding into AI infrastructure, fintech automation, and power-hungry fusion bets. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation — CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/database-startup-supabase-raises-500...

DeepSeek is lining up its first outside funding at a potential $59 billion valuation, while Benchmark breaks tradition with a growth fund and AlphaSense raises $350 million as AI keeps reshaping venture deal sizes. In this episode: Top stories: 1. DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-7-billion-maiden-fundraising...

Impulse Space raised $500 million as venture capital kept pouring into capital-intensive frontiers, with Mach Industries, NewLimit, Focused Energy and Twinco also announcing large rounds across defense, biotech, fusion and trade finance. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D to Build In-Space Mobility Infrastructure for the Space Economy — Impulse Space https://www.i...

DeepSeek is in talks to raise $10 billion at a $45 billion valuation, while Cognition, DriveNets, Inherent and Gigascale show venture money still clustering around AI infrastructure, agents, science and power-hungry physical systems. In this episode: Top stories: 1. AI Startup Update: DeepSeek Targets $45B Valuation in Record $10B Chinese AI Fundraise — Cyber News Centre https://www.cybernewscentr...

Cognition AI’s $1 billion Series D at a $26 billion valuation anchors a funding slate where AI agents, memory chips, scientific discovery and defense integration all drew serious capital, while byFounders added a €130 million-plus early-stage fund for Nordic and Baltic startups. In this episode: Top stories: 1. XCENA Raises $135M Betting Memory Is AI's Real Bottleneck | Awesome Agents — Awesome Ag...

Modal’s $355 million Series C tops a funding tape packed with AI and infrastructure bets, including Mercury, Exa, OpenRouter, Socket and Catena Labs, as venture capital keeps concentrating around platforms and late-stage winners. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Best Startups with Recent Funding in 2026 — Startups Gallery https://startups.gallery/news 2. Venture Capital in 2026: AI, Liquidity & St...

Cognition raised more than $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, with Lux, General Catalyst and 8VC co-leading as VC dollars crowd into AI. Airbnb-backed WeRoad, RevEng. AI, Robbin and Nandan Nilekani’s new F2A fund show adjacent bets in travel, security, fintech and India deeptech. In this episode: Top stories: 1. AI coding startup Cognition secures $1Bn in funding at $26Bn valuation - The Tech...

OpenRouter raised $113 million as Commure, Zeron, Ocean and NanoCo also pulled fresh capital, showing VC appetite still clustering around AI infrastructure, healthcare automation, autonomous logistics and security tools that promise direct enterprise utility. In this episode: Top stories: 1. OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE htt...

Primer raised $100 million for AI-enabled payments, while Socket, Dust, Tribal and Arito AI added fresh capital across code security and enterprise agents. VC appetite remains concentrated around AI infrastructure that can plug directly into business workflows. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Primer Raises $100M Series C to Bring AI to Every Payment and Accelerate US Expansion — The AI Insider ht...

Anthropic is nearing a funding round above $30 billion, while DeepSeek courts its first outside capital and Recursive emerges from stealth. The week’s startup funding pulse is still dominated by AI scale, with fintech infrastructure and China-focused funds adding market color. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Anthropic nears US$30 billion funding round to top OpenAI as most valuable AI startup - N...

Hark raised over $700 million at a $6 billion valuation to build personalized AI models, software, and hardware, while fresh rounds for Socket, Variational, Pivot, and NanoCo show capital still chasing AI infrastructure and security. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Hark Raises $700M Series A at a $6B Valuation | Morningstar — Morningstar https://www.morningstar.com/news/business-wire/202605211716...

Exa Labs raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation, while Amca, Primer, Socket, and Catena Labs added fresh growth capital across AI search, defense manufacturing, payments infrastructure, software security, and agentic finance. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Exa Labs raises $250M at $2.2B valuation for its AI search tools - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/20/e...

Armada, Radar, and Unframe led a fresh wave of late-seed-to-Series B funding, with $230 million for modular AI infrastructure, a $170 million retail-tech unicorn round, and enterprise AI demand translating into big contract-value claims. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Armada Raises $230M To Scale Modular AI Infrastructure — Ventureburn https://ventureburn.com/armada-raises-230m-modular-ai-infras...

Capital is still piling into AI-heavy startups, led by Decart’s $300 million world-model round, while fresh checks for enterprise agents, defence drones, patient notetaking, and a $400 million fintech fund show investors staying aggressive. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips — The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/decar...

AI workflow startups are still commanding serious checks, from enterprise agents to voice dictation, while investors also put fresh growth capital behind fintech infrastructure and energy-transition companies in emerging markets. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Multiplayer AI startup Dust raises $40M to help enterprises move beyond isolated AI assistants — SiliconANGLE https://siliconangle.com/20...

AI infrastructure keeps pulling capital across the stack: robotics mega-rounds, self-improving AI labs, power-grid startups, licensed data suppliers, and fresh India-focused venture funds are all competing to define where the next bottleneck — and return profile — sits. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Mind Robotics Raises $400M To Scale Industrial AI Robotics — Ventureburn https://ventureburn.com...

AI capital keeps arriving in huge blocks, with multibillion-dollar drug discovery, self-improving AI, industrial robotics, inference hardware, and security rounds showing investors still underwriting the full stack of the next automation wave. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Isomorphic Labs secures $2.1 Billion funding to scale its AI drug design engine - BioSpace — BioSpace https://www.biospace....

AI remains the fundraising gravity well, with Isomorphic Labs’ $2.1 billion Series B setting the tone and smaller but serious rounds flowing into security operations, voice agents, agent evaluation, and finance automation. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Isomorphic Labs secures $2.1 Billion funding to scale its AI drug design engine — PR Newswire https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/isomorphi...

Capital is piling into AI infrastructure and applied automation, from DeepSeek’s state-backed megaraise talks to orbital data centers, humanoid robots, human-risk security and healthcare ops. The bar is high, but investors are still writing big checks where AI meets real bottlenecks. In this episode: Top stories: 1. DeepSeek Seeks Record $7.3 Billion AI Funding Round - Dataconomy — Dataconomy http...

Enterprise AI funding is clustering around gritty workflow replacement, from ERP modernization and autonomous coding to receivables and construction procurement. Investors are still paying up where startups can claim real enterprise integration, not just model-layer novelty. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Tessera Labs Secures $60M in Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Transform ERP Modernizat...

Seed investors are still backing AI that rewires enterprise operations, not just chat interfaces. Alongside fresh rounds for Pit and CodeWords, Khwarizmi’s new GCC fund shows early-stage capital formation remains active outside Silicon Valley. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Pit Launches With $16M to Rebuild Enterprise Operations With AI - Efficiently Connected — Efficiently Connected https://www...

AI funding keeps pushing into the operational guts of companies: insurance underwriting, ERP transformations, embedded app agents and software security. The rounds are still sizable, but the real signal is investors backing AI that rewires regulated, legacy and developer workflows. In this episode: Top stories: 1. Corgi raises $160M at $1.3B valuation to expand AI-native insurance platform - Silic...