AI category
Startups News
AI startup news — funding rounds, launches, and emerging companies.
- Startups
- 40 recent stories
- The AI Wrap
Latest Startups stories
- Valar Atomics Raises $1 Billion to Power the AI Era
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
Valar Atomics, the company building America's first gigasites, secured $1 billion in its Series B funding round led by Sequoia.
- Horizon3 Raises $250 Million Series E at Over $2 Billion Valuation to Expand Autonomous AI Penetration Testing
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
Horizon3 has raised $250 million in Series E funding at a valuation exceeding $2 billion, giving the cybersecurity company substantial new capital to expand its autonomous
- Zenity Raises $125 Million as Enterprises Confront the Security Risks of Autonomous AI Agents
Unite.AI · 2026-08-03
Zenity has raised $125 million in Series C funding as businesses move artificial intelligence agents from controlled experiments into systems capable of accessing data
- A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
TechCrunch · 2026-08-03
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
- AI Chip Designer DeepX’s Value Surges to $2.2 Billion in Funding
Bloomberg · 2026-08-03
South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has secured fresh funding at roughly four times its previous valuation
- A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop
The Decoder · 2026-08-02
Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline.
- Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
Ars Technica · 2026-07-31
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.
- Moonshot's Kimi Built With Nvidia Compute
Bloomberg · 2026-07-31
Chinese AI startup Moonshot's Kimi models are powered in part by around 20,000 Nvidia Hopper chips supplied through a computing agreement with Alibaba, according to sources.
- EU pools up to €30 billion for AI gigafactories while US tech giants casually spend 20 times more
The Decoder · 2026-07-31
The European Commission wants to build up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe, backed by around 30 billion euros in public and private funding. For context, the major U.S.
- Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
TechCrunch · 2026-07-31
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
- Murata Warns AI Spending Will Level Off After Raising Outlook
Bloomberg · 2026-07-31
Murata Manufacturing Co. warned that the global technology buildout will eventually lose steam even as the maker of high-end AI components raised its profit outlook.
- DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia
Bloomberg · 2026-07-30
China’s DeepSeek is planning a massive artificial-intelligence data center in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter
- Bloom Security Emerges from Stealth with $20M to Secure the AI-Native Endpoint
Unite.AI · 2026-07-30
Bloom Security has emerged from stealth with $20 million in seed funding to address a growing blind spot in enterprise cybersecurity: the expanding collection of AI agents
- Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
The Verge · 2026-07-30
Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com
- Simile Raises More Than $200 Million at a $2 Billion Valuation to Scale Human Behavior Simulations
Unite.AI · 2026-07-30
Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop
- Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
TechCrunch · 2026-07-30
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
- Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
TechCrunch · 2026-07-30
British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.
- Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
TechCrunch · 2026-07-30
The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
- EU Pledges €10 Billion in Public Funding for New AI Data Centers
Bloomberg · 2026-07-30
The European Union invited companies to apply to build as many as seven artificial intelligence data centers in Europe backed by public funds
- Nscale to Buy AI Software Startup Anyscale for $1.65 Billion
Bloomberg · 2026-07-30
Cloud provider Nscale agreed to acquire software startup Anyscale to help customers use AI computing power more efficiently.
- SoFi Doubles Down on AI Despite Market Pullback
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
SoFi posted record quarterly revenue and raised its full-year sales outlook. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto discusses why the company is keeping its earnings guidance unchanged
- Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents
- ChipAgents Expands Series A to $134 Million as AI Agents Move Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
ChipAgents has secured an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, expanding its Series A round to $134 million as semiconductor companies explore how autonomous AI agents
- groundcover Raises $100 Million Series C to Scale AI-Era Observability Platform
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
Cloud observability company groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it looks to expand a platform designed to help engineering teams and AI agents understand
- Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
- ThreatLocker Raises $190M to Extend Zero Trust to AI Agents
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies
- As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
TechCrunch · 2026-07-29
Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4
- Moonshot AI Blows Past Its Funding Target Ahead of a Hong Kong IPO
Unite.AI · 2026-07-29
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion financing round that values the Beijing lab at $35 billion, well above the $1 billion to $2 billion it originally set out to raise
- Moonshot AI Surpasses Funding Goal to Hit $35 Billion Value
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing
- Advantest Lifts Outlook After AI Chip Tester Demand Soars
Bloomberg · 2026-07-29
Advantest Corp. raised its outlook above estimates, pointing to robust demand for testers needed to manufacture increasingly complex chips for AI data centers.
- Apple becomes second $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks
The Guardian AI · 2026-07-28
Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off Apple has become only the second company to pass the
- Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
TechCrunch · 2026-07-28
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models
- SpaceX Rebounds After Briefly Plunging 20% Below IPO Price
Bloomberg · 2026-07-28
SpaceX shares bounced back after temporarily erasing one-fifth of their value from the record setting debut of Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company
- Moonshot Seeks More Nvidia Chips for Next AI Model, Report Says
Bloomberg · 2026-07-28
Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking access to more of Nvidia Corp.’s advanced Blackwell chips to train the next version of its model, Kimi K4, The Information reported
- What Is Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Model and Why Is It Making Waves?
Bloomberg · 2026-07-27
Chinese startup Moonshot AI’s new artificial-intelligence model has drawn global attention since its release for its powerful capabilities.
- Nvidia to Invest $5 Billion in Ilya Sutskever’s AI Research Lab
Bloomberg · 2026-07-27
Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., according to people familiar with the matter
- Multiverse Raising Funds at $1.7 Billion Value to Cut AI Costs
Bloomberg · 2026-07-27
Multiverse Computing SL is raising $570 million in a funding round that is set to boost its valuation to $1.7 billion
- China Chipmaker CXMT Jumps 535% in Debut After Blockbuster IPO
Bloomberg · 2026-07-26
CXMT Corp. surged as much as 535% in its Shanghai trading debut on Monday, propelling the memory chipmaker to become China’s largest onshore-listed company as investors piled into
- DeepSeek Said to Tell Backers of Funding Pause After Viral Posts
Bloomberg · 2026-07-25
DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it’s suspending the deal for now, people familiar with the matter said
- SpaceX Starship Deploys Starlink Craft During Post-IPO Test
Bloomberg · 2026-07-24
SpaceX’s Starship deployed upgraded Starlink satellites and returned to Earth largely unscathed, advancing Elon Musk’s IPO-fueled plans to scale his dominant rocket business into