Cognition, the maker of the Devin coding agent, is in talks to raise at a $40 billion valuation just 90 days after a $26 billion round — as its annual revenue run rate nears $1 billion.
Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation for Sohu, a chip that runs transformers and nothing else — a pure bet that the architecture is done changing.
Enigma exited stealth with a $71 million seed - one of robotics' largest first checks - on a contrarian bet: the bottleneck isn't smarter robots, it's making them usable.
Spur Intelligence bootstrapped for nine years mapping the internet's shadow traffic. Now Insight Partners has handed the roughly 40-person bot-detection shop $200 million — as bots quietly overtake humans online.
Travis Kalanick's new company Atoms just raised $1.7 billion in an a16z-led round for industrial AI — and Uber, the company that fired him in 2017, is one of the backers.
Munich's Helsing just raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation — Europe's biggest defense-tech round ever, chaired by Spotify's Daniel Ek.
London's Humanoid raised a $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation to become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robot unicorn — two years old, and not a single robot shipped.
