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Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion in Funding Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz, With Uber Investing
Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture, closed a $1.7 billion round led by a16z, with Uber and Bain Capital among the backers.
Natural Raises $30 Million Series A to Build Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents, Setting Up a Challenge to Stripe
Natural closed a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner to build payment rails built for autonomous AI agents rather than human checkout, positioning itself against Stripe.
Scribe Therapeutics Files for Nasdaq IPO, Testing Investor Appetite for Early-Stage CRISPR Gene-Editing Biotechs
The Jennifer Doudna-founded CRISPR biotech filed to go public under ticker SCTX as its lead cholesterol therapy remains early in human testing.
PixVerse Closes $439 Million Series C Extension as Valuation Tops $2 Billion With Alibaba Joining
AI video startup PixVerse's Series C extension brings the round to $439 million and pushes its valuation above $2 billion, as it pivots from video clips toward real-time interactive worlds.
Lyzr Lets Its Own AI Agent Run a $100 Million Series B Fundraise as Valuation Nears $500 Million
Lyzr's AI agent SivaClaw fielded questions from 130-plus investors and drafted memos for the enterprise AI startup's in-progress $100 million Series B, which would value the three-year-old company near $500 million.
Runpod Raises $100 Million Series A Led by Summit Partners at a $1 Billion Valuation as AI Compute Demand Surges
The GPU cloud platform Runpod raised $100 million in a Summit Partners-led Series A that values it at $1 billion, saying it now serves more than one million AI developers.
SK Hynix Sets a $29 Billion Nasdaq Listing, Poised to Be the Largest ADR Offering Ever, With All Proceeds Funding New Chip Fabs and EUV Tools
SK Hynix will list ADRs on the Nasdaq on July 10 to raise up to $29 billion, potentially the largest ADR offering on record, with all proceeds funding new chip fabs, advanced packaging, and EUV scanners.
Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion Series D at an $8 Billion Valuation, More Than Doubling the German Drone Maker's Worth Since November
Munich autonomous drone maker Quantum Systems raised a $1.2 billion Series D at about an $8 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth since November as defense-tech funding surges.
Upscale AI Raises $190 Million at a $2 Billion Valuation With Nvidia Joining, Betting Its Open UALink Switch Can Break NVLink's Grip
Nvidia joined a $190M round backing a startup building an open scale-up switch to rival its own NVLink fabric.
Peregrine Raises $250 Million at $6.8 Billion Valuation as Its Government-Data Search Platform Reaches 400 Agencies
Peregrine's Series D nearly triples its valuation in 15 months as it scales real-time government-data search to more than 400 agencies.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation as Investors Pile Into the AI Inference Layer
AI inference platform Baseten closed a $1.5 billion Series F at a $13 billion valuation, lifting total funding past $2 billion and underscoring how aggressively venture capital is chasing the infrastructure that serves AI models.
Supabase Raises $500M Series F at $10.5 Billion Valuation as AI Agents Drive a Database Explosion
The open-source Postgres platform raised $500M led by GIC just seven months after its Series E, citing 600% database growth driven by AI coding agents.