Startup capital hits $42B for August as mega-rounds persist
Global startup funding climbs 122% year over year to $42B in August.
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…
Fiat Ventures rebrands as FGV Capital with $35M second fund
The fintech investor merges its advisory arm with a new oversubscribed fund…
Lunar alumni bank €8.2M to rebuild audit for the AI era
Denmark's largest pre-seed backs an AI-native audit firm taking aim at the…
OpenAI hands employees $7B in share buyback at $852B mark
OpenAI has bought back $7 billion of staff shares at an $852…
Kyoto Fusioneering begins Unity-3 build to test fusion fuel blankets
Kyoto Fusioneering has started building Unity-3, a test device that will validate…
Unicorn minting rebounds as 195 startups hit $1B in six months
Some 195 startups reached unicorn status in the first half of 2026,…
Volta exits stealth with $2.4B valuation and Anthropic deal
London AI cloud startup Volta emerges with a $2.4 billion valuation and…
