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Bankr is a platform where AI agents can launch, raise capital, earn usage fees, and have their inference costs subsidized, positioning itself as an alternative to VC funding for agent-native projects.
Naïve raises $28.5M in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to expand its infrastructure that lets AI agents automate business setup and operations, including incorporation, payments, and cloud resources.
China's humanoid robot leader Unitree is raising $904M in a mainland IPO at a $9B valuation, having shipped over 5,500 humanoids in 2025 and partnering with DeepSeek on model development.
AI lab Mirendil has signed a $100M+ multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to secure compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, tapping TPUs and Nvidia GPUs to scale recursive self-improvement efforts.
Athens-based Omilia raises a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth Capital to scale its AI-powered customer support platform, which combines generative AI with more traditional automation. The company reports $60M ARR and counts clients like Capital One and Taco Bell.
Sapiom raises $35M Series A to reduce agent infrastructure costs, launching three products: a cost-aware model router, Agent Studio for building agents, and a runtime with typed step graphs and full traces.
Jeff Dean and several other top Google AI researchers are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit startup aimed at using AI to automate and massively scale scientific experimentation, with backing from Alphabet and major VC firms.
Sapiom raises $35M Series A to build infrastructure for AI agents, focusing on cost management and launching three new products. The tweet highlights capabilities like multi-vendor API key management, per-agent cost tracking, and observability.
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI research company aiming to automate the research cycle. The startup has seed funding from Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner.
WindBorne Systems, which uses AI-powered weather forecasting with long-flying balloons, raised a $37M Series B round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize to expand commercial applications and grow its customer base beyond government agencies.
Since 2024, financing in the cybersecurity primary market has nearly dried up. The bursting of the high-valuation bubble and tightened IPOs led to VC exits, with M&A valuations only 1-2x PS, causing early-stage valuations to collapse.
The maintainer of libexpat, a widely used XML parser, announces that the City of Munich is funding his work on the library for up to six months, focusing on fixing vulnerabilities and adding XML 1.0r5 support.
Oxide Computer Co has raised $445M according to an SEC Form D filing, a significant funding round for the cloud-computing hardware company.
HappyRobot, a platform deploying AI agents for enterprise operations, raised $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, with participation from Y Combinator and others. The company has grown 5x since Series B and works with 150+ enterprises including DHL, Uber, and Repsol.
EON, a stealth startup founded in May, raised $10.75M to build a satellite network using laser communications to carry data between data centers at up to 2.4 Tbps, aiming to complement or replace undersea fiber cables on high-demand routes.
Mistral is gaining strategic advantage as a European open-source AI lab amid US export restrictions and safety incidents involving American proprietary models, positioning itself as a sovereign alternative. The company is reportedly raising funds at a $23 billion valuation with surging revenue.
Valar Atomics announced a $1B Series B led by Sequoia, plus a $200M credit facility, for advancing small modular nuclear reactor technology. The tweet speculates on the future impact of such reactors on global energy capacity.
Intelligence, the company behind AI evaluation tool DesignArena, raised $7.9M in seed funding led by Index Ventures. The platform uses human preference rankings to improve AI-generated media and currently has 5.3M users and $60M ARR.
Smallest.ai raises $13M in Series A funding to develop small, specialized voice models enabling real-time, human-like conversation for AI agents, aiming to make voice interactions indistinguishable from human speech.
Dili AI announces a $15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator to apply AI to compliance and project delivery for capital projects, with 500% growth in six months.