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11 articles covering "startup-funding"
The AI startup founded by Figure AI's CEO closed an oversubscribed round led by Parkway Venture Capital, with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm among the backers.
Defense tech startup Anduril closed a $5B Series H led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, doubling its valuation to $61B as its Ohio weapons factory readies for output.
Subquadratic launched SubQ on May 5, 2026 with a 12 million token context window and benchmarks it claims undercut Claude Opus by orders of magnitude. AI researchers are split between fascination and accusations of vaporware.
Devin's maker is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at $25 billion just seven months after a $10.2 billion round, putting fresh pressure on a sector already reshaped by the SpaceX-Cursor option and Anthropic-OpenAI competition.
Fusion startup Inertia Enterprises signed three agreements with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on April 14, gaining rights to ~200 patents to build a commercial laser fusion power plant.
Cognichip's $60M round brings total funding to $93M as its AI platform works with 30+ semiconductor firms to cut design costs by up to 75 percent.
Slate Auto closes a $650 million Series C led by TWG Global, bringing total funding to roughly $1.4 billion as the startup prepares to manufacture affordable electric trucks at a converted Indiana factory.
South Korean fabless chip designer Rebellions has closed a $400 million pre-IPO round led by Mirae Asset and the Korea National Growth Fund, bringing total funding to $850 million as the company launches rack-scale inference platforms and prepares for a public listing.
Defense AI startup Shield AI closes a $1.5 billion Series G and $500 million in preferred equity, more than doubling its valuation to $12.7 billion while acquiring simulation firm Aechelon Technology.
February 2026 shattered all venture capital records with $189 billion deployed globally, but 83 percent of that capital flowed to just three AI companies, deepening a K-shaped market where mega-rounds surge while seed funding contracts.
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup raises the largest seed round in European history to develop world models, an alternative AI architecture that learns from physical reality rather than text prediction.