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An ex-Apple car engineer's startup, Maven Robotics, exits stealth with a $100M Series A to build wheeled warehouse robots that stack boxes — no legs required.
Tencent-backed Enflame raised $911 million, then opened 188% higher on its Shanghai debut — closing near $25.5 billion despite holding just 1.7% of China's AI chip market.
Elon Musk's tunnel startup just raised $3 billion at a $23 billion valuation, led by the UAE, which is also its biggest customer. Here's why concrete is suddenly worth more than most chatbots.
Reno chip startup Positron just raised $875 million at a $5 billion valuation on a bet against high-bandwidth memory the priciest, scarcest part of an AI chip.
Harvey raised $550M at roughly a $15.5B valuation, double its March price, on $400M in revenue. Inside the 39x-multiple bet that AI eats the billable hour.
Cognition just raised $2B at a $48B valuation, doubling its price in four months as Devin's run-rate revenue nears $900M.
BrainChild Bio raised $116M to run the pivotal trial for BCB-276, a CAR-T that pushed DIPG survival from ~11 to 19.8 months in a cancer that has beaten every drug for 50 years.
Stoke Space raised a $1 billion Series E, pushing its total to $2.3 billion, for a fully reusable Nova rocket that hasn't flown yet — first launch is targeted for early 2027.
Samsung led a EUR3 billion Series D into Mistral AI, nearly doubling the French lab's valuation to about $24 billion in a year - with ASML and Nvidia along for the ride.
Pixxel just raised a $100M Series C — India's largest space-tech round ever — to scale six hyperspectral satellites reading the planet's chemistry from orbit.
Qualcomm Ventures led a $70M round in smart-ring maker Ultrahuman at a ~$365M valuation, a year after a US import ban nearly wiped it out.
An AI benchmark leapt from 2.5% to 16% of real freelance jobs in eight months. In Nairobi, that abstract number already erased 40,000 essay-writing livelihoods.
Eli Lilly is paying up to $2.88 billion for Merida Biosciences, a 16-month-old startup whose lead autoimmune drug is still in Phase 1.
Crusoe raised ~$3B at a $30B valuation, roughly tripling in 11 months, then signed a $13B AI cloud deal with trading firm Jane Street.
Revolution Medicines' RASONQUE is the first broad RAS-targeted pill for metastatic pancreatic cancer, nearly doubling median survival to 13.2 months. The catch: $39,800 a month.
Broadcom sold $16.7B of custom AI chips in one quarter, up 221%, with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI on the roster. So why did the stock fall?
The former Apple and PrimeSense engineers behind Face ID and the Kinect raised a $165M Series C at a $1.6B valuation to fix robots' biggest blind spot: perception.
Nvidia is paying $12.93 billion for Hugging Face, the home of open-source AI and 18 million developers. It's the chipmaker's largest acquisition ever, and it just bought the town square where every AI builder meets.
VAST, the company behind text-to-3D platform Tripo, raised ~$446M across Series B and B+ — pushing AI 3D generation into foundation-model territory.
Spanish startup iPronics raised a $125M Series B, with Nvidia participating, to swap copper for light and rewire AI data centers in sub-milliseconds.
Miami's Felix closed a $200M Series C led by a16z and General Catalyst at a ~$1.4B valuation, moving $8B in remittances for 6M+ users through a WhatsApp chat.
The Pentagon opened GenAI.mil to 3 million personnel with ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government at IL5 clearance. Anthropic's Claude is the one vendor left out.
Starcloud closed a $250M Series A extension at a $2.3B valuation to run Nvidia GPUs in orbit. One H100 is already up there; the FCC filing asks for 88,000 satellites.
Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and bought agentic-AI startup Fravity to fight machine-speed fraud with AI agents of its own.
