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1. FINANCEFuriosaAI raises $620 million to take on Nvidia with chips that sip powerFuriosaAI announced a $620 million Series D on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, at a $2.9 billion post-money valuation, to scale production of its RNGD inference accelerator and build its next-generation chip.
2. FINANCEUpwind closes a $400 million Series C at a $3.8 billion valuation to secure the cloud for the AI eraUpwind said Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, that it raised a $400 million Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners, less than nine months after its $250 million Series B, with reports putting its valuation at $3.8 billion.
3. FINANCEInfisical raises $40 million at a $600 million valuation to lock down secrets for AI agentsInfisical said Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, it raised a $40 million Series B at a $600 million valuation, led by Elad Gil, to expand its security platform as AI agents gain access to production systems.
4. FINANCEGuidewire buys AI underwriting startup hyperexponential for $1.7 billionGuidewire said Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, it agreed to acquire London-based hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash, funded with a new $1 billion bank term loan and cash on hand.
5. FINANCEWall Street banks and Blackstone put up $63 billion so Anthropic can lease Broadcom AI racksBank of America, Blackstone, Citi and Morgan Stanley announced a $63 billion financing structure on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, to fund Broadcom AI compute capacity leased to Anthropic, with deliveries expected to start in calendar 2027.
6. FINANCEBedrock Robotics raises $600 million at a $4.1 billion valuation for excavators with nobody in the cabBedrock Robotics said on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, that it raised a $600 million Series C at a $4.1 billion post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to nearly $1 billion.
7. FINANCEAnthropic files publicly to go public as "ANT," and the S-1 shows $16.3 billion in revenue in six monthsAnthropic, PBC filed its registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, to list Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "ANT," with the share count and price range still left blank.
8. FINANCEMeta launches a $35 billion stock sale to pay for AI, the first step in a $95 billion equity plan, and Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom want inMeta Platforms said on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, that it had launched about $35 billion of underwritten stock offerings and plans an approximately $60 billion at-the-market program later, as it funds $135 billion to $145 billion of capital spending this year.
9. FINANCEMusk says SpaceX closed $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, and warns the money is drying up for everyone elseElon Musk said on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026 that SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing for graphics processing units, crediting the company's investment-grade status and its Starlink and launch revenue, and predicted consolidation and failures among the "neocloud" AI computing providers.
10. FINANCEMalaysia's prime minister says Masayoshi Son is putting US$50 billion into AI there. SoftBank hasn't said so yetMalaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, that SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son told him in a video call on Tuesday that he had chosen Sarawak's capital Kuching and Peninsular Malaysia for about US$50 billion in technology investments, covering artificial intelligence, new technology and data centers.
11. FINANCESK hynix shelves the U.S. IPO of its Solidigm memory unit as AI chip stocks wobbleSK hynix said in a regulatory filing on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 (Korea time), that it has suspended its review of both a pre-IPO funding round and a U.S. initial public offering for Solidigm, its NAND flash and SSD subsidiary, citing recent capital market conditions and share price trends.
12. FINANCEAndy Jassy says AWS is sold out for 2026, largely sold out for 2027, and "a good chunk" of 2028 is goneAmazon CEO Andy Jassy said in an a16z podcast interview released Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that Amazon Web Services' computing capacity is sold out for 2026 and largely booked through 2027, with significant commitments already reaching into 2028, days before Amazon reports third-quarter results on Oct. 29.
13. FINANCENVIDIA and TCV bought into Higgsfield, the AI video app that says it hit $1 billion in annualized revenueHiggsfield said on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that TCV and NVIDIA invested in an extension of its Series B, announced as NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his first visit to Kazakhstan, where Higgsfield has deep roots.
14. FINANCEFormic raised $50 million to rent robots to factories that can't afford to buy themFormic said on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, that it raised $50 million in growth capital, including a Series B led by Mercato Partners and debt financing from S2G Investments, to expand its physical AI platform.
15. FINANCETractian, the startup that listens to factory machines so they don't break, is now a $1.4 billion companyTractian said on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, that it has raised a $130 million Series D led by Sapphire Ventures and co-led by M&G's Catalyst, valuing the company at $1.4 billion.
16. FINANCENirva raises $25 million for a $249 AI pendant that only listens to the person wearing itNirva, a 2025 startup making an always-on AI pendant, said on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026, that it has raised a $25 million pre-Series A round, bringing its total funding to $33 million, ahead of opening orders for its $249 device in November.
17. FINANCEMeta is creating a new class of stock with no votes to help pay for its AI spending, and tying Zuckerberg's share sales to staying putMeta said on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, that its board approved a new publicly listed Class C stock with no voting rights, to be handed to every shareholder in January and used to raise money for AI, as third-quarter revenue rose 26% to $64.6 billion and free cash flow turned negative.
18. FINANCEFlapping Airplanes, a year-old AI lab with no product, raises $1 billion at a $6 billion valuationFlapping Airplanes, a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late 2025, has raised a $1 billion Series A at a $6 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, Index and Bloomberg said on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026.
19. FINANCELegal AI startup Legora raises $550 million at an $8.8 billion valuation, up from $5.6 billion seven months agoLegora, the Stockholm- and New York-based maker of AI software for lawyers, said on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, that it raised a $550 million Series E led by Atreides Management at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation.
20. FINANCESuper Micro says AI server demand pushed its quarter to as much as $19.5 billion, about $4 billion above its own forecastSuper Micro Computer said on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, that it expects revenue of $18.5 billion to $19.5 billion for its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30, well above its own guidance of $14.5 billion to $15.5 billion, which it attributed mainly to increased demand for AI platforms.
21. FINANCEOtter.ai gets $320 million from General Catalyst, and it's a loan-style deal it has to pay back, not a stakeOtter.ai, the AI meeting-notes company, said on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, that it closed $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to expand its enterprise business, sales and marketing, international reach and product work.
22. FINANCESalesforce is buying Braze for $5.66 billion to put AI behind every marketing text, email and push alertSalesforce said on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, that it agreed to acquire Braze, the customer-engagement platform behind app messages and marketing for brands like Canva, Instacart and Venmo, for about $5.66 billion in enterprise value, all cash.
23. FINANCEAmazon will help pay for a 12-reactor nuclear plant on an old Indiana coal site, and it wants to buy the power firstAmazon, X-energy and American Electric Power said on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, that they will study building 12 of X-energy's Xe-100 small modular reactors at the former Breed coal plant site in Sullivan County, Indiana — 960 megawatts for the regional grid and Amazon's data centers, with Amazon funding development and lined up as the first buyer of the power.
24. FINANCETown raises $108 million at a $1 billion valuation to give every employee an AI assistant that talks to everyone else'sTown, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI assistant called a Townie, said on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, that it raised a $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
25. FINANCEJim Keller's Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion, and its valuation more than doubles to $6.2 billionTenstorrent, the AI chip company run by veteran chip architect Jim Keller, said on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, that it closed a $1.5 billion Series E at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, led by Trace Capital and Innovation X.
26. FINANCEAnthropic is putting 5% of itself into a public benefit fund, and the slice grows as the company doesAnthropic said on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026, that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a wholly owned company that could make large donations to nonprofits or pay money directly to specific groups of people, with AI's hit to workers as the first example.
27. FINANCEMicrosoft walks away from Nscale's flagship UK AI data center, weeks before Nscale's IPOMicrosoft has pulled out of its deal to be the anchor tenant at Nscale's planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex, the Telegraph reported on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026, a setback for the British neocloud as it prepares to go public.
28. FINANCERapidCanvas raises $29 million to sell custom enterprise AI like a subscriptionAustin-based RapidCanvas on Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, said it raised $29 million in Series B funding to scale its Hybrid Approach of pairing an AI platform with field AI engineers that deliver custom enterprise applications at SaaS-like pricing.
29. FINANCETSMC posts a sixth straight record quarter as AI chip demand stays ahead of supplyTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, reported consolidated third-quarter revenue of NT$1,494.24 billion ($46.72 billion) and net income of NT$763.06 billion, a sixth straight record profit quarter, and said leading-edge AI demand continues to support the business into Q4.
30. FINANCEModal raises $750 million at a $15.75 billion valuation after passing $1 billion in run rateModal, the serverless AI infrastructure company, said on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, that it raised a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, led by Accel with Kleiner Perkins joining. CEO Erik Bernhardsson said Modal recently crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate, with usage tripling since its Series C five months ago.
31. FINANCEASML says AI chip demand already outruns its 2027 and 2028 tool supplyASML Holding NV on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, reported record third-quarter sales of €11.7 billion and said planned tool supply for 2027 and 2028 will not fully meet customer demand driven by AI-related investments. CEO Christophe Fouquet said some customers are already expressing interest in orders for 2029 and even 2030.
32. FINANCEKorea's stock market drops 5.5% as a Chinese memory breakthrough and Broadcom's 'casino' warning hit AI chip stocksSouth Korea's Kospi closed down 5.46% on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, its steepest drop since Aug. 19, as investors dumped the world's two biggest memory chip makers. The selloff followed Chinese memory maker CXMT's claim of progress on a denser DRAM design and remarks by Broadcom CEO Hock Tan at a Singapore conference on Monday comparing many AI investors to casino gamblers. Japan's Nikkei and Taiwan's market also fell, and memory maker Micron slid in early U.S. trading.
33. FINANCENvidia-backed Firmus pulls its $5 billion IPO after investors balk at the priceFirmus, the Australian AI data-center operator backed by Nvidia, Blackstone, Coatue and Jane Street, withdrew its planned US$5 billion initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026 (Sydney time). The company said market volatility meant the terms would not reflect the strength of its business, and that it will raise money privately instead.
34. FINANCEUltra raises $50 million to rent out warehouse robots by the month, with Physical Intelligence supplying the brainsUltra, a Brooklyn robotics startup that leases packing robots to warehouses under a monthly "robots as a service" model, said on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, that it has raised a $50 million Series A led by Framework Ventures, with Y Combinator participating. Combined with an earlier $12 million seed, Ultra has now raised $62 million. The company is also deepening its partnership with Physical Intelligence, whose AI models run its robots.
35. FINANCEWeeks after a $40 million seed, Jev maker TypeSafe AI raises about $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuationTypeSafe AI, the San Francisco startup behind the Jev model, has raised about $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg reported on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. Sequoia Capital and angel investors also took part. The company only came out of stealth on Sept. 15 with a $40 million seed round led by DCVC.
36. FINANCEFICO, the credit-score company, is cutting about 15% of its jobs and says AI is part of the planFair Isaac Corp., the company behind the FICO credit score, told the SEC on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, that it will eliminate about 15% of positions across the company. The plan, approved by management on Oct. 1, is meant to cut layers of management, simplify how the company is run and fold in "AI-driven product development." Affected employees started hearing the week of Oct. 5.
37. FINANCEGoogle signs for 3.6 gigawatts of Constellation power, including 890 MW of new nuclearOn Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, Google and Constellation Energy announced a 20-year deal for 890 megawatts of new nuclear capacity on PJM, the biggest U.S. power grid, plus a separate 15-year agreement for another 2,700 megawatts. Constellation also picked Google Cloud and Gemini Enterprise to help run its nuclear plants.
38. FINANCEFormer Groq stockholders sue its old board, saying Nvidia's $20 billion deal skipped a required voteTwo former Groq engineers who still held stock, Benjamin Serebrin and Joshua Rubin, are suing Groq's former board and CEO in Delaware's Court of Chancery over Nvidia's roughly $20 billion deal for the chip startup's technology and staff. The proposed class action, unsealed Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, says the board sold the company to Nvidia without the stockholder vote Delaware law requires and at a "lowball" price. Groq says the suit is meritless. Nvidia is not a defendant.
39. FINANCENebius acquires Inferize to cut idle-GPU cold starts in Token FactoryNebius said it acquired Inferize so Token Factory can spin up and scale large-model inference with less idle GPU time when models load, demand spikes, or weights update mid-run.
40. FINANCEa16z leads Conway Research's first round for Underdog, an on-device AI that stays on your phoneAndreessen Horowitz on Friday said it is leading Conway Research's first funding round for Underdog, a personal AI product built to run on users' own devices; the firm did not disclose the round's size.
41. FINANCENscale names Meta veteran Justin Osofsky as COONscale, the vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, said Friday it appointed Justin Osofsky — most recently Meta's chief partnerships officer and previously Instagram COO — as chief operating officer, reporting to founder and CEO Josh Payne.
42. FINANCECHAI offers engineers 50% more total pay — in cashCHAI, the CoreWeave- and AMD Ventures-backed social AI company, said Friday its typical engineering offers are worth 1.5 times a candidate's current total compensation and are paid in cash as salary and bonuses, with an option to swap some salary for stock.
43. FINANCEAnthropic puts $100M into Claude Frontier Academy to train 10,000 engineersAnthropic said Friday it is launching Claude Frontier Academy with a $100 million commitment to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027, starting with cohorts nominated by Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and others.
44. FINANCEAnthropic warns government attitudes may hurt commercial customer tiesAnthropic warned in its IPO prospectus that government attitudes toward the company and its technology could affect relationships with commercial customers and partners, Reuters reported Friday after reviewing the filing.
45. FINANCEOracle to absorb ~$300M in Point Beach nuclear fuel costs for Wisconsin ratepayersOracle said Friday it will subscribe to a portion of Point Beach Nuclear Plant power in a deal expected to save Wisconsin utility customers about $300 million in fuel costs, subject to Public Service Commission of Wisconsin approval, as it builds Project Lighthouse in Port Washington.
46. FINANCEAmazon pledges $1B+ for AI data center communities with Built TogetherAmazon said Friday it will add more than $1 billion over five years through Built Together for education, job training, energy and water projects in U.S. data center communities, and published a Data Center Commitment that drops NDAs with government agencies.
47. FINANCESupabase raises $150M more and buys Turso for agent databasesSupabase said Friday it raised $150 million in new funding led by GIC and is acquiring Turso, whose architecture spins up cheap per-agent databases as AI coding tools flood its Postgres platform.
48. FINANCEApplied Digital brings another 75 MW of AI capacity online in North DakotaApplied Digital said Friday it brought an additional 75 megawatts of critical IT load online at Polaris Forge 1 in Ellendale, North Dakota, completing Building 2 at 150 MW and lifting the leased AI Factory campus to 250 MW operational toward a 400 MW buildout.
49. FINANCELambda closes $1B investment-grade GPU debt at 6.78% fixedLambda said it closed a $1.008 billion delayed-draw senior secured fixed-rate term loan marketed to insurance companies and fixed-income investors to fund GPU infrastructure for three committed customer deployments with two investment-grade offtakers across multiple data centers.
50. FINANCEPaleBlueDot AI raises $200M Series C at $3.2B for Super Intelligence computePaleBlueDot AI said it completed a $200 million Series C led by ComputeCore at a $3.2 billion valuation, with proceeds earmarked for more Super Intelligence compute capacity across its owned GPU clusters, marketplace, and serverless inference stack.
51. FINANCEdoxx.net raises $38M Series A led by a16z for private networks for people and AI agentsAndreessen Horowitz said Thursday it is leading a Series A in doxxnet (doxx.net), the Miami company building private networking for people and AI agents; reporting pegs the round at $38 million with Animo Ventures and Focal.vc participating as the platform moves into open beta.
52. FINANCEBarclays scales Claude across the bank, aiming Claude Code at half its developersAnthropic said Thursday that Barclays is expanding its strategic collaboration to roll Claude across global operations, including a plan for Claude Code to reach 50% of Barclays developers by the end of 2026 and a majority of software engineers in 2027.
53. FINANCESoftBank closes final $10B OpenAI tranche, bringing its stake to about 13%SoftBank Group said Thursday it executed the third and final $10 billion tranche of its previously announced follow-on investment in OpenAI, completing a $30 billion commitment and lifting SoftBank’s cumulative OpenAI investment to $64.6 billion with roughly 13% ownership.
54. FINANCEHalluminate raises $30M Series A to train AI on real financial deal workFortune reported Thursday that San Francisco startup Halluminate raised a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing total funding to $38.5 million, as it builds simulated financial workflows that show where frontier agents break on multi-day deal work.
55. FINANCEAppZen ships ZenLM Plus finance-specialized LLMs that beat frontier models on expense auditAppZen said Thursday it introduced ZenLM Plus, a family of finance-specialized large language models for Travel & Expense audit that led five of six control comparisons against seven frontier models and will be generally available in December 2026 after select-customer access now.
56. FINANCESharon AI locks $356M GPU-backed debt at 9.95% to fund AI Factory buildoutSharonAI Holdings said Thursday it entered a US$356 million committed senior secured, GPU-backed SPV debt facility priced at a fixed 9.95% (excluding fees), with proceeds earmarked for compute deployments tied to customer contracts.
57. FINANCEBroadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42B to finance its chip leases, filing showsReuters reported Thursday that Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows Broadcom has agreed to lend the AI lab up to $42 billion to finance infrastructure spending tied to a massive TPU compute lease, with debt that could convert into Anthropic equity.
58. FINANCEAirship AI wins $29M in firm-fixed-price DHS awards for edge and on-prem AI surveillanceAirship AI Holdings said Thursday it was awarded $29.0 million in firm-fixed-price, brand-name-only contracts from an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, covering Acropolis software work plus Outpost AI edge and Fortress AI on-premises platforms over a six-month period of performance.
59. FINANCEVolantis raises $88M Series A for photonic AI inference that breaks the memory wallVolantis said Thursday it raised an $88 million Series A co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures to build A-1, a photonic AI inference system designed to raise memory capacity and bandwidth together so giant models can run faster at lower cost per token.
60. FINANCEArmadin raises $255.5M Series B at over $2.5B for agentic cyber offenseArmadin said Thursday it raised $255.5 million in Series B funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, valuing the AI cybersecurity company at more than $2.5 billion seven months after launch.
61. FINANCEDan Ives’ IVAI prices a $200M IPO for a closed-end fund aimed at private AIIves Ultra AI Opportunities Inc. said Wednesday it priced an initial public offering of 20 million shares at $10 each — a $200 million raise for what it calls the first publicly listed closed-end fund dedicated to giving public-market investors access to private AI companies.
62. FINANCEBeltic exits stealth with $8.8M to verify AI agents that spend moneyBeltic said Wednesday it emerged from stealth with $7.3 million in seed funding led by Norwest — $8.8 million total with an earlier pre-seed — to verify AI agents’ identity, authority, and transactional legitimacy so companies can safely accept agent-driven payments.
63. FINANCEMastercard adds AI-agent risk score to Agent PayMastercard said Wednesday it is expanding Agent Pay with trust and intelligence services — including a U.S. test of a probability score that estimates whether a transaction was started by an AI agent — so issuers and merchants can approve legitimate agent-led buys with less friction.
64. FINANCESchwab launches Charley, a generative AI assistant for retail clientsCharles Schwab said Wednesday it is rolling out Charley, a generative AI assistant grounded in Schwab data and safeguards, so eligible U.S. retail clients can ask questions, complete select account actions, and reach a representative when they need a person.
65. FINANCENeutrinos launches Kamios, governed agentic AI for insurance and banksNeutrinos said Wednesday it launched Kamios, a governed agentic AI orchestration platform that lets insurers, banks, and financial services firms run AI agents on real cases with every action declared, evidenced, and metered.
66. FINANCEAppZen launches Autonomous Cards, AI agents for enterprise card programsAppZen said Wednesday it launched Autonomous Cards, an agent-first automation, compliance, and spend-intelligence layer that brings AI agents to the corporate card programs enterprises already use, with general availability beginning October 26.
67. FINANCEThought Machine and AWS launch Vault Forge to pull banks off mainframe coresThought Machine said Tuesday it partnered with AWS to launch an AI-powered migration path that uses AWS Transform and Vault Forge on Amazon Bedrock to extract legacy mainframe logic and synthesize simulation-tested Python financial products for banks.
68. FINANCEMilliman releases Compliance Intelligence, AI that scores insurance filings before they shipActuarial firm Milliman said Tuesday it released Milliman Compliance Intelligence, an AI-native platform that helps insurance product and compliance teams review contracts against evolving state rules and gauge approval odds before filing.
69. FINANCEApplied launches Epic Conductor, native AI that runs agency workflows inside EpicApplied Systems said Tuesday at Applied Net 2026 that it launched Epic Conductor, an AI platform built natively into Applied Epic so agencies can automate policy operations, financial workflows, and commercial submissions end to end instead of task by task.
70. FINANCENasdaq puts agentic AI inside Calypso for the trade lifecycleNasdaq said Tuesday it launched an agentic AI operating environment inside Nasdaq Calypso so banks and other institutions can run and connect AI agents across capital market and treasury workflows under sandboxing and oversight, starting with a natural-language assistant.
71. FINANCETiny Health raises $33M Series B and launches TinyAI on 200,000 microbiome profilesTiny Health, the Austin microbiome intelligence company, said Tuesday it closed an oversubscribed $33 million Series B led by B Capital, bringing total funding to $46 million, and introduced TinyAI trained on its proprietary dataset of nearly 200,000 microbiome profiles.
72. FINANCEKahua takes Bain Capital growth investment at a valuation above $1BKahua, an AI enterprise construction platform for complex capital programs, said Tuesday it secured a minority growth investment from Bain Capital’s Tech Opportunities fund at a valuation above $1 billion.
73. FINANCEEx-Tesla planners’ Atomic raises $12.5M Series A for AI supply-chain controlAtomic, the AI-native supply chain planning platform founded by former Tesla planning leaders, said Tuesday it raised a $12.5 million Series A led by Klass Capital and Madrona to build a control system that connects business objectives to daily purchasing and operating decisions.
74. FINANCEEfficient Computer raises $97M Series B to scale Electron E1 from physical AI to the datacenterEfficient Computer said Tuesday it entered agreements for more than $97 million in Series B financing at a $650 million valuation, bringing total funding to $173 million, to ship its Electron E1 processor in volume and scale the Fabric architecture toward datacenter-class performance.
75. FINANCEReco raises $55M as AI agent security vendors pile inReco, the AI agent and SaaS security startup, said Tuesday it raised $55 million in a Series B extension as enterprises scramble to find and govern agents they did not know they had, TechCrunch reported from an exclusive interview with CEO Ofer Klein.
76. FINANCEBloomberg launches Enterprise MCP so AI agents can use licensed market dataBloomberg said Tuesday it launched Bloomberg Enterprise Model Context Protocol, an AI access layer for Data License Plus that lets clients' AI agents discover, understand, and retrieve licensed Bloomberg data through a standardized MCP interface.
77. FINANCEEliseAI raises $350M at $4B valuation for housing and healthcare AIEliseAI, the New York company that automates housing and healthcare operations with AI, said Tuesday it raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners.
78. FINANCEMegaport lands ~A$979M in AI infrastructure contracts and lifts FY27 guidanceAustralian network-and-compute company Megaport said Tuesday it secured three new AI infrastructure contracts through Latitude.sh totaling about A$978.6 million in contract value, with roughly A$322.6 million in customer prepayments, and raised its FY27 revenue guidance.
79. FINANCEFirmus and Meta sign strategic AI infrastructure agreements across Asia-PacificAustralian AI infrastructure company Firmus signed strategic agreements with Meta for GPU compute capacity at Firmus AI factories in Southeast Asia, built on NVIDIA’s full-stack DSX platform, including contracted capacity and expansion options.
80. FINANCEVolato’s Alignment Engine signs $1.17B take-or-pay AMD GPU orders with large AI customerVolato Group said Monday its Alignment Engine subsidiary entered two four-year take-or-pay orders totaling $1.17 billion with a large AI customer for dedicated next-generation AMD GPU infrastructure at its Ohio campus, including about $133 million in contractual prepayments.
81. FINANCEAnthropic IPO prospectus shows $42B 2025 loss and $518B infra plansReuters reported Monday that Anthropic’s IPO prospectus, reviewed by the news agency, shows a nearly $42 billion net loss for 2025, plans to spend $518 billion on cloud and computing obligations, and revenue that grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6 billion — with a public listing that could value the company above $2 trillion likely pushed until after the November midterms.
82. FINANCESamsung commits $1B to KKR’s Helix AI infrastructure companyHelix Digital Infrastructure and KKR said Monday that Samsung committed $1 billion to Helix, the AI infrastructure company formed to build data centers, power, and connectivity for hyperscalers — adding to more than $10 billion already committed by founding investors including KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, NVIDIA, and Vistra.
83. FINANCEAMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for about $8.2 billionAMD said Monday it will acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI lab founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, with Li joining as executive vice president and chief scientist reporting to CEO Lisa Su. The companies expect the deal to close by the end of 2026 if regulators approve.
84. FINANCEModulate raises $25M to scale audio-native AI modelsBoston voice-intelligence company Modulate said Monday it raised $25 million led by Future Ventures, with Hyperplane and Lakestar participating, bringing total funding to $60 million as it expands audio models used for deepfake detection, voice-agent supervision, and conversation understanding.
85. FINANCEInstinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuationInstinct, the San Francisco company building a personal AI agent for everyday tasks, said Monday it raised an additional $1 billion from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue, bringing its valuation to $10 billion while the product remains in early access.
86. FINANCESiMa.ai raises $150M Series C at a $1.45B valuationSiMa.ai, the Physical AI chip and software company, said Monday it raised $150 million in oversubscribed Series C financing co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, valuing the company at $1.45 billion and bringing total capital raised to $500 million.
87. FINANCENetApp moves to buy PEAK:AIO to scale AI storage metadata25 Sep 2026 (ET): NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced its intent to acquire Manchester UK-based PEAK:AIO, a software-defined AI storage firm focused on next-generation metadata architecture and high-performance parallel file systems, to accelerate NetApp’s AI infrastructure roadmap.
88. FINANCEFed's Schmid asks if AI build-out is too big to fail25 Sep 2026 (ET): Reuters reported Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid said the Fed needs to understand whether the network of firms and contracts in the AI and data-center boom is becoming a too-big-to-fail ecosystem — the kind that once forced public bailouts.
89. FINANCEEpiq buys Canopy’s AI breach-response platform25 Sep 2026 (ET): Epiq said it acquired Canopy, a data-breach response technology company. Canopy’s Auto Review uses agentic AI to automate first-level review so teams can jump from culling to quality control; the platform will fold into Epiq AI and Epiq Service Cloud. Price not disclosed.
90. FINANCECognition says Devin hit $1B annualized revenue run rate25 Sep 2026 (ET): Cognition said it crossed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate. The company credits Devin working beside engineering teams at named customers including GE Aerospace, Rivian, Rohlik, and Exa.
91. FINANCEOverlord Labs closes $10M seed for GENESIS edge-AI battery chip25 Sep 2026 (ET): Overlord Labs said it closed an oversubscribed Seed round bringing total funding to $10 million — $7.25 million in Seed financing plus non-dilutive strategic development funding — as its GENESIS™ Battery Intelligence IC moves from tape-out into customer sampling for edge AI devices.
92. FINANCENscale raises $3.36B in pre-IPO convertible financing25 Sep 2026 (ET): Nscale Limited, the full-stack AI cloud platform, announced a $3.36 billion raise via convertible loan notes led by Third Point — with NVIDIA, Apollo, Citadel, Hudson Bay, ADIC, and 8090 Industries among backers — to accelerate data-center and GPU-cluster buildouts against more than $103 billion in total contracted value.
93. FINANCELoanPro packs DirectPay, card disbursement, and AI Account Briefing into one lending stackLoanPro announced DirectPay payment processing, a virtual Mastercard that can send loan funds to a phone wallet, and an AI account briefing that stays inside the same access rules as a human agent.
94. FINANCECorpay expands AI agent team inside Corpay Complete for spend control24 Sep 2026 (ET): Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) said it is expanding its team of purpose-built AI agents inside Corpay Complete. New agents analyze spend and flag anomalies, create expenses by voice, and auto-code transactions to GL accounts, tax codes, and cost centers — rolling out to eligible customers this month.
95. FINANCEStrada launches browser automation for insurance AI agents on carrier portals24 Sep 2026 (ET): Strada announced browser automation, a capability that lets its AI agents navigate and complete work in web-based carrier portals and legacy systems that do not offer an API.
96. FINANCEElysian launches Ely Audit and Ely Adjust for insurer claims quality24 Sep 2026 (ET): Elysian announced Ely Audit and Ely Adjust, AI tools that review an insurer’s full claims book and continuously monitor open claims with forward-looking recommendations while a human remains in control.
97. FINANCENarmi launches AI Marketplace for community banks and credit unions24 Sep 2026 (ET): Narmi announced the Narmi AI Marketplace, bundling bank-grade AI features — including agentic AI DecisionAssist for account-opening reviews — into the workflows community financial institutions already use.
98. FINANCESymphonyAI pushes Symphony Risk Intelligence for Always-on ComplianceSymphonyAI issued a Business Wire announcing Symphony Risk Intelligence (SRI), an agent-native platform built for Always-on Compliance — continuously reassessing risk and adapting controls as regulations, threats, and business activity change.
99. FINANCEFinancial Cents ships AI File Renaming, Validator, and Routing agents for accounting firmsFinancial Cents announced AI File Renaming, AI File Validator, and AI File Routing — agents that rename, check, and route client documents inside the firm's existing Financial Cents workspace, available free on every plan.
100. FINANCEOrder.co launches Purchasing Copilot AI agents inside Workday ProcurementOrder.co announced Purchasing Copilot, a Workday Marketplace app co-developed with Kainos that runs three AI agents — shipment tracking, supplier savings, and exception alerts — for Workday Procurement customers without leaving Workday.
101. FINANCEFeedzai ships Farol agent inside RiskOps Studio to cut fraud investigation timeFeedzai launched Farol, an AI agent embedded in RiskOps Studio that helps fraud teams analyze rule performance, summarize investigations, answer product questions, and draft Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) — inside each institution's own environment with audit trails.
102. FINANCEDun & Bradstreet ships D&B.AI credit agents — in-app and via MCPDun & Bradstreet announced new D&B.AI capabilities for credit analysis inside D&B Finance Analytics and through a Model Context Protocol server tied to Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT and Codex, Microsoft Copilot, and Databricks. The company says organizations using the tools accelerated credit analysis and research by up to 30-40%.
103. FINANCEPublic launches AI agents for prediction markets with KalshiPublic, calling itself the world's first agentic brokerage, announced AI Agents for Prediction Markets. Members can trade event contracts directly or have Public AI agents use prediction-market data as a signal for stock, bond, or options trades. Public partnered with Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction-market exchange, to offer the markets and execute trades.
104. FINANCEPLACE buys Maxwell, the AI mortgage stack behind nearly 1 in 10 U.S. loansPLACE, a real estate and financial services technology company, said it closed the acquisition of Maxwell, an AI-powered mortgage technology and services provider that serves more than 400 financial institutions and facilitates more than $130 billion in annual transactions. Maxwell touched nearly 10% of mortgage origination transactions in 2025, per the release.
105. FINANCEGlia launches banking AI CRM and branch intelligenceGlia announced Glia Relationship Management (GRM), a built-in AI CRM that unifies voice, digital, and core banking data, plus Glia Branch, which captures in-person branch audio and desktop activity and feeds those interactions back into GRM for agentic banking personalization and growth.
106. FINANCEFXT launches multi-agent AI trading co-pilot inside its platformFXT (FXTRADING.com) announced FXT AI, a multi-agent trading co-pilot built into the FXT platform — Market Reader, Trade Mentor, and Risk Monitor — that explains markets, reviews a trader’s history, and monitors open-position risk while leaving every trade decision to the human.
107. FINANCEExperian becomes first personal finance app inside Google GeminiExperian and Google said Experian is the first personal finance app in Gemini’s Connected Apps ecosystem, so U.S. consumers who authorize the link can ask Gemini about their FICO credit rating and the factors behind it — and new users can join Experian at no cost through that flow.
108. FINANCEForm3 launches AI agentic payments infrastructure with read-only MCP accessForm3 launched AI agent-ready payments infrastructure so banks and fintechs can let authorized AI agents retrieve and interpret payment data via a Model Context Protocol adaptor — with agents kept read-only and outside the payment flow.
109. FINANCERealset AI and Flatkey raise $10M Series A for real-world AI training dataRealset AI and Flatkey announced a $10 million Series A to expand capture of expert human demonstrations in real workplaces, build reinforcement-learning environments from real workflows, and publish open benchmarks for embodied agents, with a household manipulation bench due in the fourth quarter of 2026.
110. FINANCEBessemer closes $5.75B to back AI founders from seed through growthBessemer Venture Partners announced $5.75 billion in new capital raised in a single close — $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage investing and $4 billion for growth — aimed at founders across the AI stack as companies stay private longer.
111. FINANCETEKEVER raises $580M Series D at $6.4B valuation for AI-powered autonomous systemsTEKEVER announced the first close of a $580 million Series D valuing the AI-powered autonomous systems company at $6.4 billion, led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford, shortly after the UK Army selected its AR5 system for the CORVUS surveillance programme.
112. FINANCEBird.com secures $450M financing and launches Agentic Harness for AI agentsBird.com closed a $450 million debt financing led by J.P. Morgan and unveiled a revamped Agentic Harness so AI agents can send messages, place calls, manage email, and obtain an eSIM on Bird's network without custom integration.
113. FINANCEPaywhere launches AI banking channel so banks can serve customers inside ChatGPT, Claude, and CopilotPaywhere announced commercial availability of its programmable banking platform, an AI Banking Storefront that lets banks and credit unions serve customers through the AI assistants and agents those customers already use, while keeping the institution's brand, accounts, entitlements, and controls intact.
114. FINANCECloudZero launches AI Signals to put finance leaders back in control of AI spendCloudZero launched AI Signals, a cost-and-usage product that categorizes enterprise AI spend in real time by person, team, and work done across models and providers, with Monitors that alert when consumption breaks pattern.
115. FINANCEAvalara unveils Aviator agent hub for tax and compliance at CRUSHAvalara unveiled Avalara Aviator at its CRUSH customer and partner conference — an agent hub that orchestrates specialized AI agents across tax and compliance workflows while keeping humans in control of decisions that matter.
116. FINANCENumeral raises $100M Series C for AI-powered sales tax complianceNumeral announced a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator and Uncork participating, bringing total funding to $157 million for its AI-powered sales tax and global VAT/GST compliance platform.
117. FINANCEBrahma AI raises $150M led by Multiples for enterprise AV OSBrahma AI said it raised $150 million through preferred shares, including a $100 million investment from Multiples Alternate Asset Management, to accelerate R&D and a Silicon Valley push for its AI-native enterprise audiovisual OS.
118. FINANCEEma raises $77M Series B to scale enterprise AI EmployeesEma said it raised a $77 million Series B led by Creaegis, with Accel, S32, and Prosus increasing stakes — total funding $140M and a more-than-quadrupled valuation — to expand AI Employees across enterprise HR, IT, and finance.
119. FINANCECLARA puts an AI workforce on every casualty and workers’ comp claimCLARA Analytics launched Agentic Intelligence, an end-to-end AI workforce built into its CLARAty.ai platform for complex casualty and workers’ compensation claims, moving from insight dashboards to agents that recommend and help carry out next steps while adjusters stay in control.
120. FINANCEConfido raises $55M Series B for AI CPG back officeConfido announced a $55 million Series B led by Insight Partners to expand AI-powered automation across finance, accounting, sales, trade spend, forecasting, and operations for consumer packaged goods brands.
121. FINANCEAnde raises $52M for AI-native corporate entertainment OSAnde emerged from stealth with more than $52 million in seed and Series A funding to run corporate entertainment booking, approvals, contracts, and expense reconciliation through agentic workflows, software that carries a request through those steps.
122. FINANCEGo.AI raises $85M Series A for on-prem AI in regulated industriesGo.AI, which sells on-premises AI hardware and software for banks and other regulated industries, raised $85 million in Series A funding led by Updata Partners, bringing total funding to $90 million.
123. FINANCECyera takes $400M Goldman Sachs extension for agentic AI securityCyera announced a $400 million Series G extension from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, led by Evolution Equity, to expand its platform that governs what AI agents can see and do across enterprise data and identity.
124. FINANCECreatio commits $300M to Bank.AI platformCreatio announced a $300 million investment from 2026 through 2028 in Creatio Bank.AI, its AI CRM and banking-agents platform for financial institutions, citing 48% year-over-year growth in its financial-services vertical.
125. FINANCESela raises $21M for mortgage voice AI agentsSela, a voice AI system for mortgage sales, announced $21 million in total Seed and Series A funding led by Costanoa with Emergence Capital, saying its agents help loan officers originate more than $1 billion in new mortgages per month and that the company crossed $10 million in annualized revenue in 18 months.
126. FINANCEChamelio raises $26M Series A for AI in-house legal agentsChamelio, an AI-native platform for in-house legal teams, announced a $26 million Series A led by Entrée Capital to build agents that execute routine legal workflows rather than only storing contracts.
127. FINANCESpott raises $21M Series A for AI recruiting OSSpott, an AI-native operating system for recruitment agencies, raised $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital with Base10 Partners, Y Combinator, and Fortino participating.
128. FINANCESnorkel AI raises $350M Series E at $3.5B valuationSnorkel AI published that it raised $350 million in Series E financing at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Insight Partners and S32, as demand from frontier labs for complex training data and reinforcement-learning environments accelerates.
129. FINANCEMorphotonics closes €40M+ Series B for AI-glasses manufacturingThe European Investment Bank said it signed a €20 million convertible loan with Netherlands deep-tech firm Morphotonics as part of a Series B of over €40 million aimed at scaling large-area nanoimprint lithography for AI glasses, AR waveguides, and photonic components.
130. FINANCEVerda raises $189M Series B, becomes Europe AI-cloud unicornHelsinki AI cloud company Verda announced $189 million (€163 million) in new funding, including an oversubscribed Series B led by Emergence Capital, and said the round makes it Europe’s latest unicorn.
131. FINANCEIambic files S-1 to take AI drug platform public on NasdaqIambic Therapeutics, Inc. filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed Nasdaq listing of its AI drug-discovery business, a same-day finance event alongside its Enchant v3 launch and an AbbVie collaboration.
132. FINANCEHuawei launches Fintelligent AI for agentic bankingAt HUAWEI CONNECT 2026 in Shanghai, Huawei Digital Finance BU CEO Jason Cao launched the Fintelligent AI Solution worldwide for financial institutions, built around Agent Factory, Token Factory, and Data-Knowledge Factory on the open-source openJiuwen agent platform.
133. FINANCEHg deepens Anthropic tie for Claude agents across PE portfolioLondon-based software investor Hg, a private-equity firm, announced a deeper strategic venture with Anthropic so Hg Catalyst and Hg’s in-house AI team can deploy Claude’s agentic capabilities across Hg’s portfolio, building on a relationship dating to early 2024.
134. FINANCENeosapience Typecast AI voice stock triples on KOSDAQ debutNeosapience, the South Korean generative-AI company behind the Typecast voice/content platform, surged more than 160% above its ₩10,000 IPO offer price on its first KOSDAQ trading day, after pricing below the indicated range.
135. FINANCEChina slows humanoid robot IPO rush after Unitree debut whiplashChinese regulators are putting brakes on a rush of humanoid-robot listings, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, after Unitree Robotics soared then slumped from its Shanghai debut and officials grew wary of valuations tied to government-backed projects.
136. FINANCEAMD hits $1 trillion market cap on AI chip rallyAdvanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) soared past a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time on Monday as shares hit a record intraday high near $614, with investors piling back into AI semiconductors after a recent cool-down while AMD remains far behind Nvidia’s roughly $5 trillion valuation.
137. FINANCESoftBank launches $10B plus €1B notes for OpenAI third-tranche paymentA Reuters-seen term sheet shows SoftBank Group launched $10 billion of dollar notes and €1 billion of euro senior unsecured notes to fund its $10 billion third-tranche OpenAI payment, expected to close October 1, and to cancel a $10 billion bridge facility.
138. FINANCEBig Tech uses guarantees to keep ~$300bn of AI exposure off the booksA Financial Times investigation finds Meta, Nvidia, Broadcom, Alphabet and peers have piled roughly $300 billion of AI infrastructure exposure into structures where special-purpose vehicles hold the debt while tech companies backstop residual value — so most of it never shows as ordinary balance-sheet debt.
139. FINANCEDraftKings used AI to target the gamblers likeliest to loseA New York Times investigation says DraftKings built a machine-learning “elasticity” score to predict which customers would lose more after promotional bonuses — then steered incentives toward high scorers — while efforts to use similar tech to spot problem gambling were stalled.
140. FINANCEAngle Health raises $600M at a $2.7B valuation for AI-native health benefitsAngle Health, which calls itself the first AI-native healthcare benefits platform for small businesses, announced $600 million in equity financing at a $2.7 billion valuation — a $200 million Series C plus a $400 million tender offer — led by Vitruvian Partners with Town Hall Ventures and existing backers. The company says it serves more than 5,000 employers across 47 states and has posted four straight quarters of profitability.
141. FINANCECrusoe raises $3.9B Series F at $30.9B valuationCrusoe said it completed the initial closing of a $3.9 billion Series F at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation — co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, with NVIDIA, Founders Fund, GIC, Qatar Investment Authority, Radical Ventures, TPG and a long roster of others — to scale vertically-integrated AI infrastructure from power to cloud.
142. FINANCEMIND raises $72M Series B for AI-native DLPMIND, an AI-native data loss prevention platform, said it raised $72 million Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners with YL Ventures and Paladin Capital Group, bringing total funding to $112 million about a year after a $30 million Series A — capital to scale “Stress Free DLP” as enterprises put GenAI and agents on corporate data.
143. FINANCEGaia Dynamics raises $7M seed for AI trade compliance and tariff toolsGaia Dynamics, a Palo Alto AI trade-compliance platform backed by Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, announced an oversubscribed $7 million seed round led by Corazon Capital, with Lobby Capital and continued backing from AI Fund and Zenda Capital. The company says it will expand into strategic trade intelligence, compliance planning, and tariff optimization, and that its platform already covers product classification, tariff calculation, audits, and regulatory intelligence across 48 countries.
144. FINANCEHang Ten Systems raises another $53M seed as total funding hits $85MHang Ten Systems, the enterprise AI services company founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, announced an additional $53 million in seed funding led by Xora, a Temasek-backed fund, bringing total funding to $85 million. Mayfield, which led the first seed, and Aramco Ventures also participated. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang joined the board. The company says the two seed rounds closed five weeks apart and that it has signed several multi-million-dollar enterprise contracts in that window.
145. FINANCELoora raises $22M Series B to scale its AI English tutorLoora, the AI English tutor, announced a $22 million Series B led by Union Tech Ventures, with vgames plus existing investors Emerge, Hearst Ventures, and QP Ventures. The company says the raise brings total funding to $43.25 million and will fund AI research and engineering, go-to-market across the US, Europe, Asia, and South America, and learning-data infrastructure, with headcount expected to double from 30 to 60 within six months.
146. FINANCEZeplyn lets wealth firms build their own AI agents and use them anywhereZeplyn announced Agent Studio and a Zeplyn MCP Server so wealth-management firms can build governed custom AI agents in plain language and then use those same agents inside Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Slack, and their own apps (company).
147. FINANCEProphix ships an Autonomous Planning Agent for finance teamsProphix announced its Fall 2026 Prophix One release, including an Autonomous Planning Agent that automates recurring FP&A work with human-in-the-loop oversight, plus a Prophix One MCP Server that connects live governed finance data to enterprise AI tools (company).
148. FINANCEG5 Labs raises $14M seed for ontology-as-source-code AI developmentG5 Labs, a spinout from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), said it raised $14 million in seed funding co-led by Pillar VC and Battery Ventures. The company is building a platform where natural-language intent — stored as a structured ontology graph — becomes compilable, mergeable, and governable “source code” for humans and AI coding agents.
149. FINANCETypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M seed and System One model JevTypeSafe AI said it raised about $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC and opened early access to Jev, its first “System One” model built for fast, structured, type-safe decisions that software can call directly — with calibrated confidence scores — instead of open-ended chat text. Co-founders include Diogo Almeida (former OpenAI researcher, RLHF/ChatGPT co-inventor), Erik Gafni, and Sasha Sheng.
150. FINANCEScaffold raises $15M seed for AI that coordinates homebuilding tradesScaffold, an Austin software company using AI to coordinate trade contractors in U.S. residential construction, announced a $15 million seed round led by Navitas Capital. Investors include D.R. Horton, Pulte Homes, Builders FirstSource, Windsor America, Grid Capital, Home Technology Ventures, Stage2 Capital, and housing analyst Ivy Zelman. The company says the platform is already deployed on more than 200,000 homes across 30 states.
151. FINANCEICE joins Isometric Series A as round hits $50M for AI certificationIsometric said Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), operator of the New York Stock Exchange, joined its Series A. With ICE and other new investors the round now stands at $50 million, bringing total funding across seed and Series A to $75 million.
152. FINANCEZero raises $10.3M seed to build an AI successor to CRMZero said it raised a $10.3 million seed led by Primary Venture Partners and opened its AI customer-relationship product to the public after a private beta. Agents handle prospecting, record-keeping, and follow-ups while humans stay in control of customer outreach.
153. FINANCEFactory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for enterprise coding agentsFactory said it raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation to scale self-improving software development for enterprises. The round brings total funding to over $400 million.
154. FINANCELiquid Compute exits stealth with $15M to build a regulated AI compute exchangeLiquid Compute said it emerged from stealth with $15 million in seed funding to build regulated venues for trading AI infrastructure — a physical compute marketplace plus pending CFTC applications for cash-settled markets tied to those prices. FirstMark and Chemistry co-led the round.
155. FINANCEProfound raises $180M Series D at $1.8B to build an AI marketing platformProfound said it raised $180 million in Series D funding at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures, Evantic, and South Park Commons. The New York AI marketing company is rolling out Aim (AI Marketer) so teams work from shared brand context instead of one-off chat prompts.
156. FINANCEDefiance lists AT, a U.S. ETF aimed at robotics actuatorsDefiance ETFs launched the Defiance Robotics Actuators ETF (Cboe: AT), which it calls the first U.S.-listed ETF dedicated to robotics actuators. The fund seeks to track the MarketVector Humanoid Actuator Index — companies that make actuator systems and precision motion components such as servo motors, harmonic drives, ball screws, and encoders — and carries a 0.69% gross expense ratio.
157. FINANCEAIUC raises $40M Series A to underwrite AI agents and frontier modelsArtificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) said it raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic. Combined with a prior $15 million seed from NFDG, the San Francisco company says total funding is now $55 million to expand audits, standards, and insurance from AI agents toward frontier models.
158. FINANCEKeewano raises $12M seed and launches KeewanoDB for AI agent reasoningTel Aviv startup Keewano announced general availability of KeewanoDB, which it calls the first database built for machine reasoning at scale, and revealed $12 million in total seed funding led by Hetz Ventures with participation from a16z speedrun, Remagine Ventures, DIG Ventures, and angels. The company says the product keeps each entity’s full event sequence together and in order so AI agents can query behavior paths without rebuilding context from flat tables.
159. FINANCEJack & Jill raises $40M Series A for AI agents on both sides of hiringJack & Jill, a London-based startup building AI agents for job seekers and employers, said it raised a US$40 million Series A led by Air Street Capital, with participation from Creandum and Madrona. The product pairs Jack — an AI career agent for candidates — with Jill — an AI hiring agent for companies; when both sides agree there is a match, the agents introduce them directly instead of routing through a classic job application.
160. FINANCESynapse Analytics raises $13M Series A for AI credit-risk decisioningSynapse Analytics, an AI company building agentic decisioning infrastructure for regulated financial institutions, said it raised US$13 million in Series A funding led by Partech, with Algebra Ventures and Silicon Badia participating — bringing total capital raised to about US$17 million. The platform is pitched so credit and risk teams can build, simulate, version, and deploy policies while models run inside the institution’s own perimeter (on-prem, private/public/sovereign cloud, or air-gapped).
161. FINANCEAlphaPai raises $50M Series B for AI investment research toolsAlphaPai, an AI investment-research assistant built by Rabyte Technology (讯兔科技) for professional investors, said it closed a US$50 million Series B — its third financing round in the past year. Strategic backers named in the company release include China Insurance Investment and GF Xinde Investment Management, with Qiming Venture Partners, Ambrum Capital, Next Capital, Trustar Capital, and Eastern Bell Capital also participating; China Renaissance was exclusive financial advisor.
162. FINANCEHanwha lists PLUS Korea HBM and AI semiconductor materials ETFsHanwha Asset Management listed PLUS Korea HBM Semiconductor and PLUS AI Semiconductor Materials·Parts·Equipment Active on the Korean market. Issuer PLUS ETF listing-day reports (dated 9 Sep, titled for the 15 Sep listing) describe a passive HBM-focused basket and an actively managed Korean semiconductor materials/parts/equipment sleeve. Same-day Korean business press citing the firm says the HBM fund targets about 50% in Samsung Electronics and SK hynix with the rest in domestic suppliers, with cited annual fees of 0.45% (HBM) and 0.63% (active).
163. FINANCEGlobal X launches MLCC ETF for AI-server capacitor makersGlobal X Management Company launched the Global X MLCC & Electronic Components ETF (ticker MLCC), an actively managed fund aimed at makers of multi-layer ceramic capacitors and related passive parts used in AI servers, EVs, phones, and other electronics. Issuer materials and a same-day Business Wire release say the fund concentrates on a supply chain where a handful of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan manufacturers dominate global MLCC output.
164. FINANCESamsung Asset Management lists KODEX US AI Memory TOP2 Plus ETFSamsung Asset Management listed the KODEX US AI Memory TOP2 Plus ETF (ticker 0238F0) on the Korean market, tracking the Akros U.S. AI Memory TOP2 Plus Index. Issuer materials say the fund concentrates on U.S. AI memory and storage companies — naming Micron and SanDisk on the SSD/memory side and Seagate and Western Digital on the HDD side — with a stated annual total fee of 0.55%.
165. FINANCENH-Amundi lists HANARO US Agentic AI TOP2+ ETF with ~50% in Microsoft and AlphabetNH-Amundi Asset Management listed the HANARO US Agentic AI TOP2+ ETF (ticker 0227L0) on the Korean market, a concentrated basket of about 10 U.S.-listed companies tied to agentic AI models and the infrastructure that runs them. As of late August, Microsoft and Alphabet were the top two holdings at about 25% each; the portfolio also includes names such as Meta, Amazon.com, CrowdStrike, Datadog, and Dell Technologies, per NH-Amundi / HANARO materials and same-day Korean business reporting.
166. FINANCENetwealth buys AI advice-automation startup Paradino for A$20M upfrontNetwealth Group Limited (ASX: NWL) said it agreed to acquire 100% of Paradino, an Australian AI-enabled adviser workflow and advice automation company. Upfront consideration is A$20 million — A$15 million cash plus A$5 million in Netwealth shares — with up to a further A$9 million in earn-out and retention payments over four years. Netwealth will also invest another A$10 million in Paradino over two years.
167. FINANCEIntrepid closes $525M inaugural fund for AI growth companiesIntrepid Growth Partners, a Toronto–London specialist that backs AI growth companies, said it formally launched and closed its first fund at $525 million, with more than 80 limited partners including Temasek, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, and the British Business Bank. The firm says it has already invested in nine companies, including London-based PhysicsX and Toronto-based StackAdapt.
168. FINANCEFlam raises $40M Series B to scale AI interactive contentSan Francisco AI interactive-content company Flam said it raised $40 million in Series B funding led by QED Investors, with Claypond Capital, Martin Chavez, Olivier Pomel, Venky Harinarayan, Shah Rukh Khan, and existing investors RTP Global and Dovetail participating. Flam builds interactive video, 3D camera-stream experiences, and visual agents — and says it has signed more than 100 enterprise customers in six quarters. The capital goes to AI-model R&D, product expansion, and global enterprise sales.
169. FINANCENuance Labs raises $50M Series A to build real-time face-to-face AISeattle AI research lab Nuance Labs said it raised $50 million in Series A funding led by returning investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, South Park Commons, and new investors NVIDIA and Define Ventures. The company is building a single full-duplex audiovisual model meant to perceive words, tone, gaze, gesture, and timing — and respond with face and voice in real time — instead of stitching together separate speech-to-text, language-model, and avatar pipelines. A public research preview is planned later this year.
170. FINANCEOpenAI buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300M, WSJ reportsThe Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, a Los Altos company that uses neural networks to improve smartphone camera image quality at capture time, in a deal valued at more than $300 million. OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
171. FINANCEAnthropic launches Claude for Financial Advisors, wiring Claude into wealth-tech stacksAnthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors, a plugin that connects its Claude chatbot to the account-holding firms, portfolio software, and client-record systems advisors already use, plus ready-made skills for meeting prep, portfolio review, and follow-up paperwork.
172. FINANCEBIS says AI-led market momentum is showing signs of vulnerabilityThe Bank for International Settlements — the club for the world’s central banks — published its September 2026 Quarterly Review saying AI-driven equity momentum “wobbled amid growing signs of vulnerability” in the tech sector. Investors worry about whether big AI bets will stay profitable and about rising leverage at major U.S. tech firms, the report says, even as overall risk appetite proved resilient and credit markets stayed relatively calm.
173. FINANCETemporal raises $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuationTemporal said it raised $550 million in Series E funding — a late private fundraising round — at a $12.55 billion valuation, led by Lightspeed, to grow the open-source platform companies use to keep long-running software jobs, including AI agents, alive when something fails.
174. FINANCEBuildots raises $130M as AI data-center construction boom pushes it toward a $1B valuationIsraeli construction-intelligence company Buildots said it raised $130 million in a primary equity round led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Lightspeed, Intel Capital, and others joining — same-day business press reports the round lifts total capital raised to $297 million and puts the company near a $1 billion valuation — and Buildots uses site cameras plus AI software to track construction progress, saying data-center and chip-plant work is a major growth driver.
175. FINANCEIPO for humanoid robot maker Boston Dynamics unlikely in 2027, executive saysBoston Dynamics, Hyundai Motor Group’s humanoid robot unit, is unlikely to pursue an IPO next year, a senior parent-company executive with direct knowledge told Reuters — citing that flagship Atlas robots are not yet deployed at scale and the unit remains unprofitable.
176. FINANCEFirmus seeks up to about $5B Australian IPO for AI factories, Bloomberg reportsReuters reported Bloomberg’s tip that Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies is seeking to raise up to about $5 billion in an Australian IPO expected at the end of October.
177. FINANCESoftBank shares plunge about 13–14% in Tokyo after AI safety scare, Bloomberg reportsSoftBank Group shares plunged about 13–14% in Tokyo Monday — among the stock’s steepest one-day drops since midsummer — after Anthropic and OpenAI leaders urged a slower frontier-AI pace and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said a 2026 IPO would be ill-advised. SoftBank is one of OpenAI’s biggest backers, with total exposure expected to approach about $65 billion by October.
178. FINANCEChina’s Ligent seeks about $723M Hong Kong IPO for AI data-center opticsLigent Technologies, a Hisense-controlled maker of fibre-optic gear for data centers and cloud networks, filed a Hong Kong prospectus Monday seeking about HK$5.67 billion (~$723 million) at HK$32.96 a share, with a planned Sep 22 listing — and said AI and cloud demand lifted its data-center transceiver sales.
179. FINANCESamsung and SK hynix reject KEPCO plan to prepay about $18B in power bills, Yonhap reportsSouth Korea’s two big memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, told state utility KEPCO they will not prepay about five years of electricity bills — roughly 20 trillion won (~$14.8B) from Samsung and 5 trillion won (~$3.7B) from SK hynix — industry sources told Yonhap and Seoul Economic Daily. The money was meant to help fund transmission for semiconductor clusters and AI data centers; the firms cited uncertainty over how long the AI chip boom lasts.
180. FINANCESoftBank secures about $11.9B loan to fund OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reportsBloomberg reported SoftBank Group locked in an about $11.87 billion two-year loan to fund its OpenAI stake — above a prior about $10 billion target — with about 20 banks committing.
181. FINANCEAsia chip stocks drop as AI slowdown talk hits Monday openAsian memory and chip-linked shares fell hard as Monday cash markets opened in Seoul and Tokyo, after weekend calls by Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI leaders to slow frontier AI development.
182. FINANCEAnthropic tells investors it expects a second straight profitable quarter, FT reportsThe Financial Times reported that Anthropic told investors a cleaned-up profit number, called adjusted operating income, will be in the black for a second straight quarter — and Reuters repeated the same unnamed-source tip the same day.
183. FINANCEBloomberg: AI slowdown calls may weigh on chip stocks, longer trade seen intactBloomberg reported that weekend calls by AI bosses to slow development will likely pressure chip stocks soon, while the longer bet on computing infrastructure is still seen as intact.
184. FINANCEAnthropic selects Nasdaq for potential IPO, Business Insider reportsBusiness Insider reported that Anthropic has selected Nasdaq for a potential IPO and has been targeting an October listing, citing a person familiar with the company’s plans — a tip Anthropic has not publicly stated.
185. FINANCEZ.AI files ~$5B Hong Kong share placement and convertible bondsBeijing-based Z.AI, formerly Zhipu AI, published a Hong Kong exchange announcement for a new H-share placing and concurrent zero-coupon convertible bonds whose own figures add up to about a $5 billion package, with completion still conditional.
186. FINANCEMistral raises €3B Series D at a €21B-plus valuationMistral published that it raised €3 billion in a Series D at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, framed as the largest equity round ever by a European technology company.
187. FINANCENVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9BNVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, with an SEC 8-K breaking that into about $11.9 billion to stockholders plus up to about $1.0 billion in employee retention, and close targeted for the first half of 2027 pending regulators.
188. FINANCENscale appoints former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its boardNscale, a London AI-infrastructure company, appointed Fidji Simo — formerly OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment — as an independent director, effective immediately.
189. FINANCEAltman: OpenAI will not go public in 2026In a Fortune exclusive, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said listing the company now would be an “ill-advised moment” given safety work, and when pressed he said “not 2026.”
190. FINANCETencent-backed Enflame nearly triples on its Shanghai debutShanghai Enflame Technology closed up 179% on its STAR Market debut after raising 6.12 billion yuan, while remaining unprofitable.
191. FINANCEPentagon in talks to lend Fluidstack $5 billion, WSJ tells ReutersReuters relayed Wall Street Journal reporting that the Pentagon is in talks to lend Fluidstack roughly $5 billion, and Reuters said it could not independently verify the talks.
192. FINANCETSMC’s August revenue jumps 53% to a recordTSMC posted record August consolidated revenue of NT$514.8 billion, up 53.3% from a year earlier.
193. FINANCEPositron raises $875 million to tape out inference siliconPositron AI said it raised $875 million in Series C financing at a $5 billion post-money valuation to tape out its Asimov inference chip late in 2026.
194. FINANCEOpenAI announced $1B Daybreak for Frontline DefendersOpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a $1 billion commitment of subsidized Daybreak access, training, support, and partnerships for groups that protect essential services.