Startup capital hits $42B for August as mega-rounds persist
Global startup funding climbs 122% year over year to $42B in August.
Talent AI startup Empion sells to Spanish HR firm Factorial
Factorial folds Berlin's Empion into its HR platform to own the AI…
Moonshot AI starts Hong Kong listing bid with $50B tag
Moonshot AI confidentially files for a Hong Kong listing as it eyes…
Munich’s Zeit AI banks €4.3M for autonomous data work
YC-backed Zeit AI banks €4.3M to give Europe's mid-market an autonomous data…
Atira banks $17.5M to automate industrial sales bids
Accel leads Atira's $17.5M seed to automate industrial sales engineering with multi-agent…
iPronics banks $125M with Nvidia for optical circuit switches
Nvidia joins a $125M round backing iPronics' programmable optical switches for AI…
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…
