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Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
Nvidia Reportedly Invests $5 Billion in Safe Superintelligence
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
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Founders Are Hiring Fewer Managers, and It Is Showing
Flat teams scaled well to fifty people. Past two hundred, the cracks are structural.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.505 Billion at a $17.5 Billion Valuation
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The linguistics-led startup is training speech systems to handle specialized vocabulary, varied accents and real-time customer conversations.
Spectro Cloud Raises More Than $100 Million for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
Ollama Raises $65 Million to Expand Its Open-Model Developer Platform
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
The startup is adding automation to a data layer that connects the accounting, project and payment systems used by contractors.
Together AI Raises $800 Million at an $8.3 Billion Valuation
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
Queue Raises $12.6 Million to Expand Autonomous Pharmacy Kiosks
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Quantifind Raises $200 Million for AI-Powered Risk Intelligence
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Seltz Raises $12.5 Million to Rebuild Web Search for AI Agents
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
xCures Raises $46 Million to Turn Medical Records Into Decision-Ready Data
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
Groq Raises $650 Million to Expand Its AI Inference Cloud
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Atom Computing Raises $100 Million to Advance Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
Databricks LTAP Combines Transactions and Analytics on One Data Layer
The new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Campground Raises More Than $2.2 Million for Social Impact Operations
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
Waymo Buys Apple's Former Vehicle Test Site for $220 Million
The 5,500-acre Arizona proving ground gives Waymo a closed course for expanding robotaxi development.
Supabase Raises $500 Million at a $10.5 Billion Valuation
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Human Archive Raises $8.2 Million to Collect Training Data for Physical AI
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Socket Raises $60 Million to Secure Open-Source Software in the AI Era
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
Judgment Labs Raises $32 Million to Improve AI Agents With Production Data
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
Astranis Adds $300 Million in Equity and New Credit to Scale High-Orbit Spacecraft
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
Sierra Raises $950 Million as Enterprise AI Competition Intensifies
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
OpenAI Adds Advanced Account Security for High-Risk Users
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
Hightouch Raises $150 Million for an Agentic Marketing Platform
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
Skydio Raises $110 Million to Expand U.S. Drone Manufacturing
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
Adobe CX Enterprise Brings Agentic AI to Customer Operations
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
Ulysses Raises $38 Million to Scale Autonomous Ocean Fleets
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
Caterpillar Acquires Monarch Tractor's Remaining Assets
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
Osteoboost Health Raises $8 Million to Expand Its Bone Health Wearable
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
daydream Raises $15 Million for an AI-Native SEO Agency
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round at an $852 Billion Valuation
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
ALSO Raises $200 Million and Adds DoorDash as an Autonomous Vehicle Partner
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers Run AI-Generated Code Without Containers
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Multiply Raises $9.5 Million for Self-Learning B2B Advertising
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
Replit Raises $400 Million as Valuation Triples to $9 Billion
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
Kai Emerges With $125 Million for Security Across IT and Industrial Systems
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Science Corporation Raises $230 Million to Advance Neural Devices
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
SambaNova Raises $350 Million and Signs Multi-Year Intel Partnership
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Newo Raises $25 Million to Put AI Receptionists Into Small Businesses
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
Lunar Energy Adds $232 Million to Scale Home Batteries and Virtual Power Plants
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
Waymo Raises $16 Billion at a $126 Billion Valuation
Alphabet's robotaxi company is financing a major expansion as autonomous ride-hailing moves from limited deployments toward a broader transportation network.
