Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
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So far this year, a record $20.3 billion in global seed- through growth-stage funding has gone to companies in space- and satellite-related sectors...
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Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it...
In the fourth of a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding, we talk to Craft CEO Ilya Levtov, a Julliard-trained cellist...
In the past two years, venture investors have poured more than $7 billion into legal and legal tech startups, most with an AI focus. Funding to the...
The traditional VC model funds a risky search for product-market fit, argues guest author Richard de Silva of Lateral Investment Management, while...
The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies...
This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or...
Our third in a series of articles about non-tech founders getting venture funding features Tabs founder Ali Hussain, who started the AI fintech after...
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So far this year, 250 companies have joined the unicorn ranks through Aug. 15, up from 2025's 193 companies. Leading sectors included robotics, AI...
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In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up...
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