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Shein eyes Hong Kong market debut on August 28, source says
Fast‑fashion retailer Shein plans to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on August 28, after earlier attempts to go public in New York and London.
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OpenAI‑backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2 B to Bring AI to the Enterprise
Thrive Holdings, a private‑equity‑style AI firm backed by OpenAI, secured $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation to expand its AI‑powered services for businesses.
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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, founded by xAI co‑founder Igor Babuschkin, secured $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round to build a new AI stack focused on personal, trainable agents.
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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
The AI‑focused hedge fund has poured $400 million into Source Foundry, a Stanford‑originated chip startup, bringing its total investment to $500 million amid a broader push to accelerate semiconductor manufacturing.
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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce
Three former Spotify engineers launch Malachyte, a startup that applies Spotify’s Vector AI to personalize online shopping in real time.
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Reimagine Robotics launches AI robots that learn on the job
Former DeepMind engineers unveil Reimagine Robotics, a company building robots that can be trained by workers on the fly, reducing the need for specialist programmers.
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems raised $37 million in a Series B round to use AI‑driven weather balloons for more accurate, cost‑effective forecasts.
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Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups
Robinhood will launch a publicly traded fund that allows retail investors to back Y Combinator startups, expanding access to venture capital.
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HappyRobot lands $150M Series C to scale agentic AI for enterprise operations
European AI startup HappyRobot raises $150 million to expand its agentic AI platform beyond logistics into insurance, energy, telecoms and more.
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A Marc Benioff‑backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
The new company June raises $20 million to help enterprises deploy AI by automating complex workflows and reducing reliance on forward‑deployed engineers.
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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
Italian mobile app maker Bending Spoons announced a $1.28 billion cash acquisition of spreadsheet and database startup Airtable, marking its first deal since going public.
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Polar Raises $5.7M After a Customer Fired Clay
The AI‑powered browser‑assistant startup Polar secured a $5.7 million seed round after its product saved a client 25+ hours per person per week, prompting the client to cancel its Clay subscription.
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Hint, a new AI startup co‑founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
Martha Stewart joined Hint’s founding team to launch an AI app that manages home maintenance, energy, and documents through a conversational assistant.
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Bot‑detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Cybersecurity startup Spur raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners to enhance its bot‑detection platform for enterprises.
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Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
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.
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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms secures $1.7bn to scale physical AI businesses
The former Uber founder’s industrial AI venture raises a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to automate mining, food production, construction and transport.
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Paper raised $34M on the exact thesis that wiped out half of Figma's market cap
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.
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Prentis, new AI lab co‑founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The AI research lab Prentis, founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is seeking a $100 million round to accelerate its AI development and commercialization efforts.
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SkyPilot, from Databricks’ cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute
SkyPilot announced a $20 million Series A round to expand its AI compute platform, positioning itself as a neutral, high‑performance cloud for AI workloads.
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Meshy raises nearly $400 million to build AI‑generated interactive worlds
Meshy secured a Series B round to push its 3D generation platform beyond static assets into real‑time, AI‑driven game worlds and mechanics.