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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Venture Funding Shifts Toward Physical AI and Infrastructure with $1B Disclosed Across Top August 24 Rounds
Venture capital activity on August 24, 2026, showed significant concentration in physical AI and hardware infrastructure, led by a $900 million round for XPeng's humanoid robotics subsidiary.
AI Chip Startup Fractile in Talks to Raise $600M at $6.5B Valuation, Inks $250M Anthropic Deal
Semiconductor startup Fractile is holding talks to secure approximately $600 million in new funding at a $6.5 billion valuation, while landing a $250 million contract with Anthropic.
Silicon Data Raises $30M Series A to Build GPU Rental Benchmark and CME Futures Index
Silicon Data has secured $30 million in Series A funding to establish a reference price index for GPU rentals, paving the way for Wall Street compute futures contracts on the CME.
EliseAI in Talks to Secure $300 Million at $3.7 Billion Valuation
Operational AI platform EliseAI is in discussions to raise $300 million in new funding at a $3.7 billion valuation, expanding on its automated management tools for real estate and healthcare sectors.
AI Hardware Maker Etched Secures $700M at $21B Valuation Led by Jane Street
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Etched has raised $700 million in a new funding round led by quantitative trading firm Jane Street, boosting the company's valuation to $21 billion.
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.
Private Capital Floods Fusion Sector as Top Startups Exceed $100 Million Funding Milestones
Commercial fusion energy startups are attracting record capital, with elite ventures building out multi-billion-dollar balance sheets behind tokamak, stellarator, and laser-based reactor designs.
Databricks Reaches $190 Billion Valuation in New $5 Billion Funding Round
Databricks has raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, bolstering its balance sheet to expand enterprise artificial intelligence products as revenue growth exceeds 80%.
Naïve Secures $28.5M to Streamline Business Operations through AI Automation
Naïve has successfully closed a Series A funding round, raising $28.5 million to advance its platform for automating business setup and management via AI agents.
Inevitable AI Group Secures $6M to Cultivate AI-Native Software Startups
A new venture studio, Inevitable AI Group, has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop and launch numerous AI-native software companies.
ProfitCart to launch its first single-product e-commerce investment model app.
Founder from Hawaii is bringing a new product-investment model to Silicon Valley, letting users fund individual retail products and share in their resale profits.
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.
Antora Energy Raises $550 Million to Expand Thermal Battery Production
The industrial energy company plans to manufacture more systems that store renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and dispatchable power.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion for Demonstration and Commercial Reactors
The financing brings total capital to $4 billion as the company works toward scientific breakeven in 2027.
Dili Raises $21.7 Million for AI Compliance in Infrastructure Projects
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
Inforcer Raises $50 Million to Bring Enterprise Security to Smaller Businesses
The company is building managed tools for service providers that protect customers facing more sophisticated AI-enabled threats.
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.
Eliyan Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $145 Million Series C
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
Freehand Raises $75 Million for AI Agents Managing Supply Chain Spend
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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Centralize Raises $15 Million to Map Relationships in Enterprise Sales
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Glow Emerges From Stealth With $180 Million for Endpoint Security
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
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.
Aina Raises $5.5 Million for AI-Native Interface Hardware
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
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.
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.
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million for AI-Designed Medicines
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
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.
Super.com Raises $65 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
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.
Omen AI Raises $31 Million to Monitor Coolant Inside AI Data Centers
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
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.
Proception Raises $11 Million for Dexterous Robot Hands
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Aseon Labs Raises $10 Million for Automated Robotaxi Service Stops
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
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.
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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Caplight Raises $16 Million for Private-Market Data and Trading Tools
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
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.
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.
Osanni Bio Raises $190 Million for a Multi-Program Therapeutics Platform
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
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.
Coval Raises $28 Million to Stress-Test Voice and Chat Agents
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
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.
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.
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.
Convey Raises $38 Million to Give Enterprises AI Teammates
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
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.
Ent Emerges With $100 Million to Prevent Risky Actions Before They Happen
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
Probably Raises $9 Million to Make AI Outputs More Verifiable
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
Magnitude Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
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.
Pi Raises $25 Million for Agentic Product Security
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
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.
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.
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.
NewLimit Raises $435 Million to Advance Cellular Reprogramming Medicines
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
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.
Anthropic Raises $65 Billion at a $965 Billion Valuation
The Claude developer secured one of the largest private financings ever as demand for enterprise AI and computing capacity continues to climb.
Cognition Raises More Than $1 Billion at a $26 Billion Valuation
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Hark Raises More Than $700 Million for Personalized AI Models and Hardware
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
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.
Mercury Raises $200 Million at a $5.2 Billion Valuation
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
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.
Commure Raises $70 Million at a $7 Billion Valuation
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
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.
Outmarket AI Raises $17 Million to Automate Insurance Brokerage Work
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
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.
Corgi Raises $160 Million at a $1.3 Billion Valuation for Business Insurance
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
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.
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Back Agentic Customer Service
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million for Computer-Use Models
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
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.
Parallel Raises $100 Million to Build Web Infrastructure for AI Agents
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
Scout AI Raises $100 Million to Develop Autonomous Systems for Defense
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
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.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
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.
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.
Loop Raises $95 Million to Expand Predictive AI Across Supply Chains
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
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.
Expo Raises $45 Million and Launches an Agent for Production Mobile Apps
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
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.
Gitar Emerges From Stealth With $9 Million to Check AI-Generated Code
The startup is using AI agents for reviews, security checks and continuous-integration failures as software teams struggle with a growing volume of generated code.
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.
HYFIX Raises $15 Million for a U.S.-Made Control Chip for Autonomous Machines
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
Parasail Raises $32 Million to Build a Flexible AI Compute Supercloud
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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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.
Spiral Therapeutics Raises $27 Million and Adds an Inner Ear Partnership
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
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.
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.
Noon Launches With $44 Million to Close the Gap Between Design and Code
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
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.
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.
Doss Raises $55 Million to Build an AI-Native Operations Cloud
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
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.
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.
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.
AgentMail Raises $6 Million to Give AI Agents Their Own Inboxes
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
AmberSemi Raises $30 Million for More Efficient AI Power Delivery
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
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.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
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.
Ayar Labs Raises $500 Million to Scale Optical Links for AI Chips
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
S2.dev Raises $3.85 Million for Serverless Streaming Data Infrastructure
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
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.
Render Adds $100 Million for a Cloud Platform Built Around AI Applications
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
Braintrust Raises $80 Million to Measure AI Systems in Production
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
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.
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.
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.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
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.