Patronus AI Raises $50M to Stress-Test AI Agents
Patronus AI, founded by former Meta researchers, has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Greenfield Partners to expand its AI agent testing platform. ...
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Seltz Raises $12.5M for AI Agent Search Infrastructure
Agentic search startup Seltz Inc. has secured $12.5 million in seed funding, led by Speedinvest and B Capital, to build search infrastructure optimized for AI a...
Gaming Data Powers $2.3B AI Robotics Startup
General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, betting that video game footage can train AI agents for real-world robotics. The startup, bac...
Fika Jobs Raises $4M for AI Video Hiring Platform
Stockholm startup Fika Jobs has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to build a video-first hiring platform that uses AI agents to interview candidates. Job se...
Lama AI Raises $10M for Automated Bank Lending
Lama AI has closed a $10 million Series A round led by EJF Ventures, bringing total funding to over $20 million after tripling revenue in the past year. New inv...
Groq Raises $650M to Expand AI Cloud Platform
Inference chip startup Groq has secured $650 million in funding led by growth firm Disruptive and hedge fund Infinitum. The raise comes seven months after a $20...
Groq Raises $650M After Nvidia's Talent Raid
AI chipmaker Groq has confirmed a $650 million funding round led by Disruptive and Infinitum, roughly six months after Nvidia licensed its LPU chip technology a...
Dutch Chip Inspection Firm Raises $380M, Hits Unicorn Status
Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam-based semiconductor metrology company, has raised $380 million in a Series D round led by Fidelity Management & Research Comp...
Upscale AI Raises $190M, Valued at $2B
Data center networking startup Upscale AI has raised $190 million as an extension to its $200 million Series A round, reaching a $2 billion valuation. The raise...
Architect Labs Raises $24M to AI-Automate Chip Design
Architect Labs launched today with $24 million in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures, with backing from Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inv...
Prem Raises $100M as AI Export Bans Surge
Swiss AI startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, with the round expected to close in Q3. The compan...
NEA's Tiffany Luck on AI's ROI Reckoning
NEA partner Tiffany Luck joins TechCrunch's Equity podcast to discuss the shift from tokenmaxxing hype to hard ROI questions, as companies like Uber burn throug...
Amazon leads $310mn bet on physics AI
Amazon has joined Nvidia and AMD's investment arms in a $310 million funding round for Odyssey ML, an AI start-up focused on simulating the physical world. The...
Pramaana Labs Raises $27M for Verifiable AI
Pramaana Labs has raised $27 million in seed funding to build a formal verification layer for AI in high-stakes industries including tax, medical diagnosis, cyb...
DeepSeek Raises $7.4B, Now Worth $50B+
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has reportedly raised over $7.4 billion in new funding, valuing the company at more than $50 billion and making it China's most valuable...
Military AI Startup Twenty Hits Billion-Dollar Valuation
Twenty Inc., a cyber warfare software startup serving the U.S. military and intelligence community, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Accel, va...
Malaysia's Respond.io Raises $62.5M, Eyes Nasdaq
Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io has raised a $62.5 million Series B led by Camber Partners, valuing the customer conversation management platform at a significant...
Arcade Raises $60M for AI Agent Authorization
Arcade AI Inc. has secured $60 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley and Wipro. The round follows a $12 millio...
Anthropic Secures 12 Data Centers, $40B Google Backing
Anthropic has signed over 12 letters of intent for US data center leases, securing more than 1 gigawatt of computing power. The expansion signals a major infras...
Hydra Host Raises $100M for GPU Marketplace
Boulder, Colorado-based Hydra Host has secured $100 million in a Series A round led by Kindred Ventures, with participation from Nvidia, Ark Invest, Founders Fu...