A 38% jump in valuation over six months is the kind of figure that tells you where investor appetite has gone. Airwallex, the global payments company, has raised $320m in a Series H round that values it at $11bn, up from $8bn in December 2025. The raise is being directed squarely at the part of […]
Sail Research has raised $80m to make AI agents cheaper to run. The startup, founded by ex-Apple and ex-NVIDIA engineers, says it can serve the tokens agents burn through at up to 10 times lower cost. AI agents are hungry. Leave one running for hours and it can chew through billions of tokens on a […]
Coval has raised $28m to test AI voice agents before they reach real callers. Its founder built the same kind of safety checks for Waymo’s self-driving cars, and thinks voice needs them just as badly. An AI voice agent can sound flawless in a demo and fall apart on a real call. It trips over […]
Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will not give a wrong answer, a bold claim in a field built on probability. Scaled Cognition, a Mountain View AI lab, has raised $100m in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. […]
Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the global payments platform, has raised $320m in a Series H round. The deal values the company at $11bn, up from $8bn in December […]
The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, converts the footage into live data, and says it has lifted output at Bosch and ABB plants. Now it wants the US. Berlin startup that films what happens on a factory floor and turns it into live production data has raised €16.3M in Series A funding. Almetra, […]
Tombot, a Los Angeles-area company that makes a robotic dog for people who cannot keep a real one, has closed a $7m Series A3 financing round to move its flagship product from development into manufacturing. The company said on June 24 that the round drew investment from Caduceus Capital Partners, Wavemaker 360, the Lutheran Foundation […]
Runpod has raised $100M and reached a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in under two years. The cloud startup rents out AI computing power, and it says it turned down buyout offers worth more than $500M. The great AI compute crunch is minting a new kind of winner. Runpod, a five-year-old startup that rents computing […]
Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon’s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barely changed in decades. A surgeon stitches the two frayed ends together under a […]
Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments again, to 50,000 this year. The bank says the machines are moving from stage demos to real factories, shops and restaurants. China’s robots are leaving the showroom and reaching the shop floor. Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments for […]
