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River AI closed a $1.1 billion round, led by General Catalyst and AMP, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD, positioning itself as a major player in open‑weight model customization.
AI code‑testing startup Blacksmith has raised a new $45 million round, valuing the company at $550 million after a rapid rise in demand for AI‑driven testing tools.
Norwegian AI startup Visoid raised $2.5 million in a seed round to enhance its AI‑powered platform that turns architectural 3D models into high‑quality visualisations.
Hadrian secured a fresh $1.37 billion round, valuing the defense‑automation firm at nearly $8 billion, while expanding its automated manufacturing capabilities.
River AI, a new startup spun out of xAI, secured $1.1 billion in a Series A to offer an open‑weight AI platform that lets enterprises train, own and run custom models.
The conversational‑AI company closed a $67 million Series B led by Expedition Growth Capital to expand its self‑learning platform for enterprise contact centres.
Cyprus‑based Omilia, a voice‑first agentic AI platform, secured $67 million to expand its enterprise customer‑experience solutions.
Robinhood will launch a publicly traded fund that allows retail investors to back Y Combinator startups, expanding access to venture capital.
Simile, a synthetic‑user AI platform, closes a $200 million Series B round, reaching a $2 billion valuation and positioning itself in the fast‑growing AI research tools market.
The new company June raises $20 million to help enterprises deploy AI by automating complex workflows and reducing reliance on forward‑deployed engineers.
Valar Atomics closed a $1 billion equity round led by Sequoia, aiming to mass‑produce small modular nuclear reactors for the AI industry.
Former food‑delivery leaders create Profound, an AI‑powered professional representation platform, and secure seed funding to expand its matchmaking engine.
The voice‑AI startup is betting that smaller, specialized models can deliver real‑time conversational AI indistinguishable from a human speaker.
Cybersecurity startup Spur raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners to enhance its bot‑detection platform for enterprises.
Tesla finalized a roughly $2 billion AI hardware acquisition, details remain undisclosed in its Q2 2026 filing.
Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Enigma, a research lab set to emerge from stealth, wants to study how humans engage with robots to create intuitive interfaces.
The fintech startup Natural secured $30 million to build a machine‑to‑machine payment infrastructure, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Stripe.
San Francisco startup Paper closed a $34 million Series A on July 23, 2026, building a design platform that renders every element in real HTML and CSS, positioning it as a direct competitor to Figma.
AI inference hardware startup Etched secured a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and others.
Berlin‑based startup telli secured a €13.1 million seed round to power AI‑driven customer‑facing operations across voice, chat and SMS channels.