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The latest Startup Funding news and analysis from Tech Arcade.
FieldAI signed a term sheet for $700M at a $10 billion valuation, up 5x from $2 billion in just over a year. The twist: it builds software for robots it doesn't make.
Instinct, a 23-year-old founder's invite-only AI assistant, raised $1B at a $10B valuation — 4x its price from a month earlier, with no app and no public user numbers.
Portugal's Tekever just raised $580 million at a $6.4 billion valuation, co-led by the University of California's endowment, on the strength of 50,000 flight hours over Ukraine.
EliseAI's software already runs one in six U.S. apartments. Its new $350M round at a $4B valuation, led by a16z and Bessemer, is a bet that the biggest AI money hides in the admin work of housing and healthcare.
Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange raised $155M, pushing total funding to $430M, after pulling its first listings off Nasdaq and giving the NYSE-Nasdaq duopoly a credible third rival.
SiMa.ai raised $150M at a $1.45B valuation to run AI on-board robots, drones, and cars — betting the next chip war happens outside the data center.
Hubble Network raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation to connect standard, sub-50-cent Bluetooth chips directly to satellites — no SIM, no tower, no new radio.
OpenEvidence raised $250M at a $15B valuation for an AI clinical-search tool that's free to the ~40% of U.S. doctors who use it — with pharma ads footing the bill.
Basecamp Research raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with Anthropic and Nvidia backing an AI trained on DNA from over a million barely-studied species to design medicine from scratch.
Portuguese-British drone maker Tekever raised $580M at a $6.4B valuation — roughly 5x its price from 16 months ago, on 50,000+ flight hours over Ukraine.
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.
VAST, the company behind text-to-3D platform Tripo, raised ~$446M across Series B and B+ — pushing AI 3D generation into foundation-model territory.
