Robotics Startup Generalist Lands ~$200M Round Led by 8VC Following Recent $400M Raise
Robotics startup Generalist has reportedly raised approximately $200 million in a funding round led by 8VC, building on a $400 million raise completed in June.
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University of Essex Spin-Out Versatile RobotX Raises €1.17M to Commercialize Agricultural Robots
Versatile RobotX, a UK agtech spin-out developing autonomous harvesting systems, has secured over €1.17 million in funding from the British Design Fund, Innovate UK, and Defra.
Ellis AI Raises $10 Million to Modernize Private Credit Operations
Cadre co-founder Ryan Williams is building agents that connect documents, spreadsheets and accounting systems without replacing human judgment.
ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Pangram Raises $9 Million and Launches New AI Text and Image Detectors
The startup says Pangram 4 can identify mixed human-AI writing while its first image model enters research preview.
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.
Etched Raises $300 Million at a $10.3 Billion Valuation
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The M13-led Series A backs a speech company betting that how a machine sounds decides whether a caller stays on the line.
Flex Raises $70 Million to Expand AI-Native Financial Services
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
Accel led the Series A for a company automating the pay applications, lien waivers and job-cost work that still runs on paper and email.
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.
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.
Assort Health Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
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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.
Mirendil Raises $200 Million to Build Self-Improving AI for Scientists
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
JustAI Raises $17 Million for Enterprise Marketing Agents
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
AppsFlyer Secures More Than $1 Billion From Digital Advertising Partners
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
Upscale AI Adds $190 Million to Its Open Networking Push
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
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.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
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.
SonoThera Raises $125 Million for Ultrasound-Delivered Genetic Medicines
The biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
Generalist AI Raises $400 Million for Robot Foundation Models
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
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.
Exa Raises $250 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
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.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Recursive Superintelligence Emerges With $650 Million
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
Mind Robotics Adds $400 Million to Scale AI-Powered Factory Robots
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
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.
Monaco Raises $50 Million for an AI-Native Sales Platform
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
Roadrunner Raises $27 Million to Rebuild Quote-to-Cash Software
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
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.
Omni Raises $120 Million as AI Reshapes Business Analytics
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
NeoCognition Launches With $40 Million for Agents That Learn on the Job
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
TextQL Raises $17 Million as Blackstone Backs Enterprise Data Agents
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
Glydways Raises $170 Million for Dedicated-Lane Transit Pods
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Modern Relay Raises $3 Million for a Shared Context Layer for AI Agents
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
Aria Networks Launches With $125 Million for AI-Native Networking
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
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.
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.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
EPIC Microsystems Raises $21 Million to Tackle AI Data Center Power Loss
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Nexthop AI Raises $500 Million for Data Center Networking
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
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.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build Spatial Intelligence Models
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
Temporal Raises $300 Million to Make AI Agents More Reliable
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
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.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million for Autonomous Construction
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
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.
