venture capital
Startups
Horizon3.ai’s $250M Round: Betting Big on AI-vs-AI Cybersecurity
Horizon3.ai raised $250M at a $2B+ valuation to fight AI-driven attackers with autonomous security testing. Here's what tripled its value in 15 months.
Startups
Firmus Grid’s $2B Round: Why Blackstone Bet Big on AI Factories
Firmus Grid raised $2B from Blackstone, NVIDIA and Coatue at a $10.5B valuation to build AI factories across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Startups
Cognition’s $40B Talks: Why Investors Are Chasing an AI Coding Agent
AI coding startup Cognition is in talks to raise at a $40B valuation, up from $26B three months ago. Its revenue nearly doubled — here's what's driving it.
Startups
Software Eats Services: The AI-Native Unicorns Rewriting Law and Consulting
⚡ Key Takeaways AI-native services startups Norm ($1.2B valuation) and Emergent ($1.5B valuation) both hit unicorn status in July 2026,...
Startups
Proxima Fusion Raises €411M: Europe’s Largest-Ever Fusion Bet Draws Google and RWE
Proxima Fusion raised €411M at a €2.4B valuation — Europe's largest fusion round. Here's what Google and RWE's bet signals for deep-tech investors.
Startups
CuspAI’s $450M Bet: AI Materials Discovery Hits a $2.6B Valuation
CuspAI raised $450M at a $2.6B valuation and launched a 45-member AI Materials Foundry with Nvidia and Samsung. Here's what founders should learn.
AI & Automation
Databricks at $188B: Inside the Five-Month Valuation Jump Reshaping the AI Data Layer
⚡ Key Takeaways Databricks signed a term sheet on July 16, 2026 for a strategic funding round valuing the company...
Startups
Europe’s Venture Rebound: Inside Its Strongest Funding Quarter in Four Years
European startups raised $24B in Q2 2026, up two-thirds YoY, UK topping $10B. What the AI-fueled rebound means for founders and investors.
Startups
General Intuition’s $320M Bet: Video Games as the Training Ground for AI Agents
⚡ Key Takeaways General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI ‘action models’ on billions...
Startups
Baseten’s $1.5B Series F: Inside AI Inference’s Infrastructure Gold Rush
⚡ Key Takeaways Baseten raised $1.5 billion in a Series F round at a valuation of up to $13 billion,...
Startups
AI Seed Funding Bifurcation: 42% Valuation Premium, But Unit Economics Are the New Gate
⚡ Key Takeaways AI startups absorbed $242 billion — 80% of all global VC in Q1 2026 — yet seed...
