Startup capital hits $42B for August as mega-rounds persist
Global startup funding climbs 122% year over year to $42B in August.
Console sells to Palo Alto Networks in a $500M agent bet
Palo Alto Networks pays $500M for Console, whose AI agents automate IT…
Lyte closes $165M Series C for sensor-first robotics
Ex-Apple engineers' robotics perception startup Lyte banks $165M at a $1.6B valuation.
HiddenLayer lands $100M to police agent runtime defenses
HiddenLayer raises $100M to protect AI models and agents from adversarial attacks…
Wonderful banks $550M to build an OS for enterprise agents
Wonderful banks $550M at a $5B valuation to turn enterprise agents into…
David Protein parent Medici Brands raises $250M from Greenoaks and Valor
Medici Brands, owner of David Protein and candy line HallPass, raises $250M…
Conveo banks $50M from DST and Balderton for consumer insights AI
Consumer research startup Conveo raises a $50M Series A backed by DST…
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Pistachio folds Hugin.io into its human-risk security stack
Oslo startup Pistachio buys cyber-risk platform Hugin.io to add compliance management for small and mid-sized businesses.
Embedded electricity startup Light banks $46M from Matrix
Ex-Plaid product chief Baker Shogry's startup Light raises $46M led by Matrix to embed electricity plans into other products.
CreatorFi raises $45M to fund media empires built by creators
CreatorFi lands $45M in equity and debt to lend against creator revenue from Roblox, Spotify, TikTok and YouTube.
World Labs opens Atlas, a world model built for robot training
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, which turns single images into explorable 3D scenes for robotics training.
Agent firewall startup AIR Security exits stealth with $50M
AIR Security raises $50M across two rounds from Sequoia and Greenoaks to screen the tools and instructions AI agents pull…
Lasso banks $30M to police AI prompts without GPUs
AI security startup Lasso raises $30M led by ClearSky for LEAP, a guardrail that screens prompts on ordinary server CPUs.
