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Lightspeed Is Putting Its Entire New India Fund Into AI
The Silicon Valley venture firm has locked in commitments for 80% of its new $250 million India fund, which is built entirely around artificial intelligence for the first time in its history in the region.
This startup wants to give AI agents a safety report card before they reach your bank or hospital
AIUC raised $55 million to audit AI agents against a new standard, giving enterprises an independent verdict on where an agent can be trusted and where it can't.
Profound Raises $180 Million So Your Brand Shows Up When Someone Asks an AI
The two-year-old startup hit a $1.8 billion valuation after tripling revenue in six months. Its pitch: if shoppers are asking AI instead of Google, you need to be in the answer.
Listen Labs walked away from a $1.5 billion funding round because Salesforce may want to buy it
The three-year-old startup that uses AI to run customer interviews ditched a signed deal with investors, a rare move, while acquisition talks with Salesforce are under way.
Cognition raises $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation as investor appetite for AI coding tools keeps climbing
The startup behind the Devin coding assistant nearly doubled its valuation in four months. Andreessen Horowitz led this round after already profiting from Cursor's sale to SpaceX.
Travis Kalanick's Startup Atoms Is Moving Into the Robotaxi Business
The Uber co-founder's secretive new company raised $1.7 billion this summer. Now we know more about where that money is headed: self-driving taxis, big hires, and at least one controversial acquisition.
AfterQuery hits a $3.2 billion valuation in five months, breaking Y Combinator's speed record
The AI training-data startup went from a $300 million Series A to unicorn status faster than any company in Y Combinator's history. Its founders are 22 and 23 years old.
A $10 Million Bet on AI That Streams Worlds Forever, Not Just Clips
Visko's Orbis model generates live, interactive 4K video indefinitely, and its Stanford-trained founder says it could supply the training footage that robots headed to your home will need.
A 23-year-old's AI assistant startup just hit a $2.5 billion valuation after raising $250 million
Instinct, the life-organising AI app from Spear Street Technology, closed a $250 million Series B round this week. The app is still invite-only, and privacy worries are already swirling.
Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at
Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.
This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software
Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it's solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.
These AI-powered glasses want to replace your hearing aid
Legato has raised $12 million to build hearing-assistance technology into ordinary-looking eyeglass frames, targeting the 40 million Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss who never seek treatment.
Indian startup Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses find customers, not just build websites
The Bengaluru-based startup wants its AI agent to run ads, manage social media and grow a business from scratch, but it is still burning through cash to get there.
General Intuition Nears $6 Billion Valuation as Investors Bet on AI That Understands Physical Space
The startup is training AI agents to move through the real world, not just answer questions. A fresh funding round could value it at $6 billion before a single dollar of outside money lands.
Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space
The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.