Business & Enterprise·2 min readDeepSeek reportedly raises $15bn from Tencent and CATL ahead of IPOTThe Next Web2d ago
Business & Enterprise·2 min readDeepSeek reportedly nears $12bn funding round backed by Tencent and CATLTThe Next Web19d ago
Robotics·3 min readRobotics startup FieldAI is set to raise $700 million at a $10 billion valuationBTCovered by 2 sources23d ago
Business & EnterpriseMistral AI Exceeds $24 Billion Valuation After Samsung-Led Investment RoundUTT+2Covered by 5 sourcesSep 8
Business & Enterprise·4 min readLegora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raiseTThe Next WebAug 13
Business & EnterprisePie raises $19.5M to keep small businesses visible in AI searchTThe Next WebJul 1
Business & EnterpriseBuild raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centresTThe Next WebJul 1
RoboticsRobot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raiseTTCovered by 2 sourcesJun 29
Business & EnterpriseDeepSeek’s $7.4bn raise is one symptom of China’s AI cash surgeTThe Next WebJun 29
AgentsPatronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agentsTTCovered by 2 sourcesJun 25
AgentsGeneral Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real worldTTechCrunchJun 25
Business & EnterpriseTensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildoutTThe Next WebJun 25
RoboticsHaloBraid raises $7M to build the first robotic braiding assistant for hair salonsTThe Next WebJun 23
Business & EnterpriseFika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidatesTTechCrunchJun 23
Business & EnterpriseAI infrastructure startup Baseten raises $1.5bn at up to $13bn valuation as Blackbird makes its biggest-ever betTThe Next WebJun 23
Chips & ComputeAI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire dealTTCovered by 2 sourcesJun 22
Business & EnterpriseOpenAI’s suspiciously clean balance sheet is about to get a hard lookTThe Next WebJun 22
Industry & ManufacturingLondon’s Isometric lands $40M to certify the industrial economy with AITThe Next WebJun 22
Machine LearningThe bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AITThe Next WebJun 19
Business & EnterpriseThe Big Four bill by the hour. Andera just raised $37M to let AI do the audit.TThe Next WebJun 19
Business & EnterpriseHe spent 15 months hunting for compliance software that didn’t exist. So he built Flagright, which just raised $12.5M.TThe Next WebJun 19
AgentsRejected by 180 investors, Bland just raised $50M to prove voice AI is the futureTThe Next WebJun 19
AgentsGeneral Intuition is raising $300 million to train AI agents on the video game data OpenAI tried to buyTThe Next WebJun 18
Chips & ComputeArchitect Labs raises $24M to let any company design its own AI chipTThe Next WebJun 18
Business & EnterpriseGeneral Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuationTTechCrunchJun 18
Business & Enterprise85% of NATO’s defence-tech funding goes to the US. AVP and Earlybird raised €500M to change that.TThe Next WebJun 18
Business & EnterpriseBaseten is raising $1.5bn at up to $13bn, betting AI’s profits lie in cheap inferenceTThe Next WebJun 18
Business & EnterpriseSwiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting itTThe Next WebJun 18
HealthcareA 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11.6M to build a wearable hormone monitor that doesn’t need bloodTThe Next WebJun 17
Business & EnterpriseWorld model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big namesTTechCrunchJun 17
AgentsArcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to doTThe Next WebJun 17
Business & EnterpriseOdyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMDTThe Next WebJun 17
CybersecurityThe team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happenTThe Next WebJun 16
Business & EnterpriseExclusive: Optiak raises €4m to build an orchestration layer for enterprise AITThe Next WebJun 16
Business & EnterpriseMalaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitionsTTechCrunchJun 16
AgentsAs AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identitiesTTCovered by 2 sourcesJun 15
DevEqual AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a weekTThe Next WebJun 12
Industry & ManufacturingJeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical worldTTCovered by 2 sourcesJun 11
CybersecurityCoram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigatorsTThe Next WebJun 11
Business & EnterpriseIrish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the USTThe Next WebJun 11
Business & EnterpriseUpriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the dataTThe Next WebJun 11
AgentsJedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their businessTTechCrunchJun 10
Business & EnterprisePoetic emerges from stealth with $50M from OpenAI to automate insurance underwriting and complianceTThe Next WebJun 10