Discovery Loop Eyes $50B Valuation Weeks After Launch
Discovery Loop is targeting a roughly $50 billion valuation in its latest funding round, a fivefold jump from the approximately $10 billion valuation the company...
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Funding Rounds: The Boring Co., Cognition and Motive Lead a Massive Week
It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding rounds: four companies each raised $1 billion or more, led by Elon Musk’s tunnel-drilling company The...
EscapeSquid Pursues $2.5M Seed to Scale Virtual-to-Destination Fitness Platform
NEWARK, Del., Sept. 11, 2026 — Xanh Entertainment Inc., developer of EscapeSquid, said it is pursuing a $2.5 million seed funding round to support the...
Compute-for-equity: How AI Startups Trade GPU Credits for Funding
Cloud providers are quietly becoming investors in AI startups by swapping GPU or compute credits for equity, a practice that lets startups access tens of...
Fusionality raises $3.7M to build reusable fusion control systems
Fusionality has raised $3.7 million to develop reusable control systems for fusion machines, positioning itself as a provider of an adaptable operations layer for magnetic-confinement...
Wyre AI Raises $5M Seed to Scale Preconstruction Platform
Wyre AI, a Washington, DC–based construction technology startup, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Ironspring Ventures to scale its AI-powered document...
Aqua Raises $18.8M to Launch Turnkey Alternatives Platform
Aqua, a New York–based alternatives infrastructure company, announced on Sept. 9 that it has secured $18.8 million in total funding and launched what it describes...
Token launches outpace Series A as crypto startups graduate
An analysis of 3,757 early-stage crypto projects shows token launches were nearly twice as common as disclosed Series A rounds. CryptoRank’s dataset contains 5,990 funding-round...
Incredible Health Reverses Hiring: Employers Apply to Nurses
Iman Abuzeid, a doctor-turned-founder, created Incredible Health to tackle the U.S. healthcare staffing crunch by reversing the hiring process so employers apply to nurses and...
Seed activation: Gravity Gardens raises €2.6M to scale dry, chemical-free process
Gravity Gardens, a Nijmegen-based AgTech startup, has secured a €2.6 million Seed round to bring a dry, chemical-free seed activation process to market — a...
Charikaty raises pre-seed round at €3M valuation
Casablanca-based legaltech startup Charikaty has closed a pre-seed funding round at a €3 million valuation to scale its compliance and accounting software across the MENA...
Huscarl raises $5.6M to build AI actuary for corporate captives
Huscarl has raised $5.6 million in a seed round led by FRST, with participation from Y Combinator and Silicon Valley investors. The startup said it...
Marmalade raises Rs 6 crore seed round for Brightside whiskey
Marmalade has raised Rs 6 crore in a seed funding round from a group of investors that includes Ashok Chokalingam, Robert Sellares, Ishank Gupta and...
The Boring Company Raises $3 Billion in UAE-Led Round
Elon Musk’s tunneling startup The Boring Company announced on Wednesday that it raised $3 billion in a new financing round led by the United Arab...
AI deals triple corporate-backed startup funding in August
Large AI deals and other major sector transactions helped push the dollar value of corporate-backed startup funding disclosed in August to $21bn, more than triple...
Metacognition raises $10M pre-seed to build AI operating system
Metacognition has raised $10 million from Main Sequence in a pre-seed round to develop an AI “operating system” layer intended to make AI use safer...
Herdr Raises $6M Seed to Advance AI Agent Terminal Platform
Herdr raised $6 million in a seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners on September 9, 2026, to enhance its AI agent terminal platform and...
NYC Startup Funding: Largest Tech Rounds in August 2026
The largest New York City startup funding rounds in August 2026, based on proprietary funding data, span healthcare, artificial intelligence, robotics, finance and consumer food...
Wyre AI Raises $5M Seed to Automate Preconstruction Risk
WASHINGTON, DC — Wyre AI announced $5 million in pre-seed and seed funding on September 10, 2026, in a round led by Ironspring Ventures with...
ZhiChao AI Pet Butler Launches Smart Litter Box, Opens Seed Round
ZhiChao AI Technology has opened a seed financing round as it positions a new AI-powered “pet butler” smart litter box that the company says can...
PHYMI secures near-$100M seed round led by IDG Capital
PHYMI, a nascent embodied artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model startup, has raised almost $100 million in a seed financing led by IDG Capital, the company...
Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed for floating nuclear power
Bluecore Energy, the clean energy startup founded by Ghanaian-American entrepreneur Kofi Asante, has raised an oversubscribed $50 million seed round to accelerate its floating nuclear...
Pixeom Raises Seed Round to Advance AI Drug-Discovery Platform
Pixeom, an Oita City–based software company, has raised a seed round led by Lifetime Ventures to accelerate the development of its AI-powered molecular structure analysis...
HydroSight raises $5M seed to scale seabed-mapping AI
Haifa-based HydroSight has emerged from stealth and raised $5 million in a seed round led by StageOne Ventures, with participation from Vertex Ventures and HiCenter...
Onix Raises $5M Pre-Seed to Expand Trusted AI Platform
Onix announced $5 million USD (approximately $7 million CAD) in a U.S.-led pre-seed round on Sept. 9, 2026, marking the company’s first institutional capital. The...