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June 07AI Startup Megarounds Spill Into Databases and Market Intel — June 07, 2026
Supabase and AlphaSense set the pace with $500 million and $350 million rounds, while Pace, Lassie and Opal show venture money crowding into AI agents for insurance, small-business admin and identity governance.
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Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months | TechCrunch — TechCrunch
Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months | TechCrunch
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# Supabase doubles valuation to $10B in 8 months
9:32 AM PDT · June 5, 2026
Supabase, the open source database of choice for the vibe-coding world, has raised a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced Friday. That’s about $10.5 billion after the investment.
The newly…
AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue — AlphaSense
# AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue
Published: 2026-06-07T07:12:36+00:00
Source: alpha-sense.com (alpha-sense.com)
Language: en
## Story
New funding round led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, D. E. Shaw Ventures, and Pinegrove Opportunity Partners, alongside existing investors CapitalG, Goldman…
Insurtech Pace raises $46 mn Series B for AI insurance operations — BeInsure
Insurtech Pace raises $46 mn Series B for AI insurance operations
# Insurtech Pace raises $46 mn Series B for AI insurance operations
Jun 05, 2026
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Pace, an AI operations partner for insurers, has raised $46 mn in Series B funding to expand its agentic workforce across insurance operations. Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital…
Lassie Raises $35 Million Series A To Build Autonomous AI Systems For Small Businesses — Pulse2
Lassie Raises $35 Million Series A To Build Autonomous AI Systems For Small Businesses
# Lassie Raises $35 Million Series A To Build Autonomous AI Systems For Small Businesses
By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 1:39 PM
Lassie, a company developing autonomous AI systems designed to handle administrative work for small businesses, announced it has raised $35 million in Series A financing, bringing…
Opal Security Raises $23 Million for AI-Native Identity Governance - SecurityWeek — SecurityWeek
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Identity governance startup Opal Security has announced raising $23 million in a new funding round that brings the total investment in the company to $59 million.
The fresh round of funding was led by Greylock and Battery…
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June 06AI Megarounds Hit Spend Software, Databases and Defense — June 06, 2026
Ramp, Supabase and Allen Control Systems raised $1.45 billion combined, showing venture money still crowding into AI infrastructure, enterprise automation and defense robotics while European AI seed funds also scale up.
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Ramp raises $750 million, plans AI spending software | American Banker — American Banker
Ramp raises $750 million, plans AI spending software | American Banker
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# Ramp raises $750 million, plans AI spending software
Published June 05, 2026, 5:10 p.m. EDT
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Ramp co-founders (from left) Karim Atiyeh, Eric Glyman and Gene Lee.
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- Key insight: Ramp raised $750 million in a Series F funding round to…
Supabase Raises $500M Series F at $10.5B Valuation as AI Coding Reshapes the Backend Stack – Unite.AI — Unite.AI
Supabase Raises $500M Series F at $10.5B Valuation as AI Coding Reshapes the Backend Stack – Unite.AI
Supabase has raised a$500 million Series F round at a $10.5 billion post-money valuation, marking one of the clearest signs yet that the AI coding boom is changing not just how software is written, but what infrastructure developers choose to build on.
The round was led by GIC, with…
Allen Control Systems Raises $200 Million Series B at $2.2 Billion Post-Money Valuation to Scale Manufacturing and Accelerate Deployment of Bullfrog | Morningstar — Morningstar
Allen Control Systems Raises $200 Million Series B at $2.2 Billion Post-Money Valuation to Scale Manufacturing and Accelerate Deployment of Bullfrog | Morningstar
Allen Control Systems Raises $200 Million Series B at $2.2 Billion Post-Money Valuation to Scale Manufacturing and Accelerate Deployment of Bullfrog
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Insurtech Pace raises $46 mn Series B for AI insurance operations — Beinsure
Insurtech Pace raises $46 mn Series B for AI insurance operations
# Insurtech Pace raises $46 mn Series B for AI insurance operations
Jun 05, 2026
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Pace, an AI operations partner for insurers, has raised $46 mn in Series B funding to expand its agentic workforce across insurance operations. Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital…
Merantix Capital Closes €103M Fund for European AI | Fund Momentum — Fund Momentum
Merantix Capital Closes €103M Fund for European AI | Fund Momentum
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Merantix Capital, the investing arm of Berlin's Merantix AI group, has closed a €103 million fund to back early-stage, AI-native teams across Europe. It is the firm's largest vehicle to date — roughly three times the size of its first fund, a venture-studio-only vehicle publicly reported at €30-35 million — and it is…
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June 05Supabase, Ramp and Helion Fuel a Mega-Round Week — June 05, 2026
Supabase raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation as Ramp hit $44 billion and Helion drew $465 million, showing late-stage capital crowding into AI infrastructure, fintech automation, and power-hungry fusion bets.
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Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation — CNBC
Database startup Supabase raises $500 million $10.5 billion valuation
Key Points
- Database startup Supabase announced a $500 million funding round that values the company at $10.5 billion, including the fresh capital.
- Supabase provides back-end technology for vibe coders.
- “I built some tooling around it, and I put it out into the world,” said co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone, referring…
Ramp raises $750M Series F at $44 billion valuation — The Next Web
Ramp raises $750M Series F at $44 billion valuation
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Ramp raised $750 million in a Series F led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers’ at a $44 billion valuation. The spend management platform is expanding into AI token cost management and accounting, with revenue past $1 billion and 170% TPV growth.
Two years ago, Ramp was a $7.65 billion corporate card company. On…
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft | TechCrunch — TechCrunch
# Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft | TechCrunch
Author: Tim De Chant
Published: 2026-06-04T18:54:08+00:00
Source: TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Language: en
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Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft | TechCrunch
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Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital haul | TechCrunch — TechCrunch
Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital haul | TechCrunch
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# Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital haul
8:52 PM PDT · June 3, 2026
Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC firm known for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one of its signature traditions: keeping its funds…
Ona Therapeutics Raises $86.6 Million Series B to Advance First-in-Class ADCs into Clinical Development | Markets Insider — Markets Insider
Ona Therapeutics Raises $86.6 Million Series B to Advance First-in-Class ADCs into Clinical Development | Markets Insider
# Ona Therapeutics Raises $86.6 Million Series B to Advance First-in-Class ADCs into Clinical Development
Jun. 4, 2026, 03:00 AM
- Oversubscribed Series B financing co-led by new investors Columbus Venture Partners and Mérieux Equity Partners, with participation from…
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June 04DeepSeek’s $7B Round Leads a Big Day for AI Capital — June 04, 2026
DeepSeek is lining up its first outside funding at a potential $59 billion valuation, while Benchmark breaks tradition with a growth fund and AlphaSense raises $350 million as AI keeps reshaping venture deal sizes.
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DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn — The Next Web
DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn
DeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in its first external funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would value it at between…
Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise | TechCrunch — TechCrunch
Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise | TechCrunch
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# Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise
8:52 PM PDT · June 3, 2026
Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC firm known for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one of its signature traditions: keeping its…
AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue | Markets Insider — Markets Insider
AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue | Markets Insider
# AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation, and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue
Jun. 3, 2026, 08:00 AM
NEW YORK, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, today announced the close of…
Town Raises $55M Series A From a16z and Forerunner to Build the AI Assistant That Learns How You Work | Markets Insider — Markets Insider
Town Raises $55M Series A From a16z and Forerunner to Build the AI Assistant That Learns How You Work | Markets Insider
# Town Raises $55M Series A From a16z and Forerunner to Build the AI Assistant That Learns How You Work
Jun. 3, 2026, 09:45 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Town, the personalized AI assistant that learns how people work across the tools they already use,…
Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry — The Next Web
Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry
A cement kiln is one of the least forgiving machines in industry. It runs at fourteen hundred degrees, it cannot easily be stopped, and the software deciding its fuel mix and oxygen levels is often older than the engineers tending it. Gigaton wants to throw that software out and let an AI run the kiln instead. On 3 June,…
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June 03Mega-Rounds Hit Space, Defense, Longevity and Fusion — June 03, 2026
Impulse Space raised $500 million as venture capital kept pouring into capital-intensive frontiers, with Mach Industries, NewLimit, Focused Energy and Twinco also announcing large rounds across defense, biotech, fusion and trade finance.
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Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D to Build In-Space Mobility Infrastructure for the Space Economy — Impulse Space
Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D to Build In-Space Mobility Infrastructure for the Space Economy
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# Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D to Build In-Space Mobility Infrastructure for the Space Economy
After proving its spacecraft in orbit, Impulse is rapidly expanding its team and production to build the in-space mobility…
Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year | TechCrunch — TechCrunch
Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year | TechCrunch
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# Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year
2:40 PM PDT · June 1, 2026
Mach Industries, the three-year-old defense tech startup run by 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, has raised a $300 million Series C at a…
NewLimit raises $435M led by Founders Fund to bring longevity medicines to human trials — NewLimit Blog
NewLimit raises $435M led by Founders Fund to bring longevity medicines to human trials
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Focused Energy raises $240M to commercialise NIF laser fusion tech — The Next Web
Focused Energy raises $240M to commercialise NIF laser fusion tech
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Germany-based Focused Energy raised an oversubscribed $240M Series A led by utility RWE to commercialise laser-powered inertial confinement fusion based on the NIF’s historic net energy gain experiment. The company plans a demonstration reactor at a decommissioned German fission plant.
Focused Energy, a Germany-based…
Twinco Secures €165M to Scale Trade Finance Model - Ventureburn — Ventureburn
Twinco Secures €165M to Scale Trade Finance Model - Ventureburn
# Twinco Secures €165M to Scale Trade Finance Model
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Twinco Capital raised €165M through equity and securitisation funding.
The deal includes a €15M Series B and €150M Santander-led facility.
The company has financed over $1B in transactions with zero losses reported.
Twinco Capital has successfully closed a…
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June 02DeepSeek’s $10B Bid Leads Another AI Funding Surge — June 02, 2026
DeepSeek is in talks to raise $10 billion at a $45 billion valuation, while Cognition, DriveNets, Inherent and Gigascale show venture money still clustering around AI infrastructure, agents, science and power-hungry physical systems.
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AI Startup Update: DeepSeek Targets $45B Valuation in Record $10B Chinese AI Fundraise — Cyber News Centre
AI Startup Update: DeepSeek Targets $45B Valuation in Record $10B Chinese AI Fundraise
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## AI Startup Update: DeepSeek Targets $45B Valuation in Record…
Cognition AI Raises $1 Billion as Devin Starts Writing Most of Its Own Code - Memeburn — Memeburn
Cognition AI Raises $1 Billion as Devin Starts Writing Most of Its Own Code - Memeburn
# Cognition AI Raises $1 Billion as Devin Starts Writing Most of Its Own Code
Cognition AI just raised $1 billion after explosive growth from its autonomous coding agent Devin. The startup says Devin now writes 89% of Cognition’s own code, fueling debate about whether AI is starting to replace software…
DriveNets Secures $410M Series D to Meet Surging Demand for Ethernet Fabric in Large-Scale AI Deployments — PR Newswire
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RA'ANANA, Israel, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- DriveNets, a leader in large-scale…
Backing Founders Rebuilding the Physical Economy - Gigascale Capital — Gigascale Capital
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Today, we’re announcing Gigascale Capital Fund I, a $250 million fund to back founders rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact. We believe climate progress will come from better-performing systems: technologies that are cheaper to deploy,…
Inherent Raises $50M to Build AI-Native Science Platform - Ventureburn — Ventureburn
Inherent Raises $50M to Build AI-Native Science Platform - Ventureburn
# Inherent Raises $50M to Build AI-Native Science Platform
Key Takeaways
Inherent raised $50 million in a seed funding round.
The startup was founded by former DeepMind, Microsoft, and White House professionals.
Inherent is building Faraday, an AI platform for “AI-native science”.
Inherent has raised a $50 million seed…
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June 01AI Megarounds Stretch From Code Agents to Memory Chips — June 01, 2026
Cognition AI’s $1 billion Series D at a $26 billion valuation anchors a funding slate where AI agents, memory chips, scientific discovery and defense integration all drew serious capital, while byFounders added a €130 million-plus early-stage fund for Nordic and Baltic startups.
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XCENA Raises $135M Betting Memory Is AI's Real Bottleneck | Awesome Agents — Awesome Agents
XCENA Raises $135M Betting Memory Is AI's Real Bottleneck | Awesome Agents
Every AI infrastructure conversation in 2026 eventually circles back to GPUs - whether NVIDIA can make enough of them, who gets allocation, and how long training runs take. XCENA thinks that framing misses the actual choke point.
The South Korean startup closed a $135 million Series B at a $570 million valuation on May…
Exclusive: Picogrid Raises $45M Series A — Tectonic Defense
# Exclusive: Picogrid Raises $45M Series A
Author: Barratt Dewey
Published: 2026-05-29T12:59:08+00:00
Source: tectonicdefense.com (tectonicdefense.com)
Language: en
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Exclusive: Picogrid Raises $45M Series A
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Picogrid is proving that teamwork really does make the dream work.
This morning, the El Segundo-based hardware and software integration startup announced in an…
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking — The Next Web
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
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London AI lab Inherent raised $50M from Index Ventures and Radical Ventures to build self-improving AI for scientific discovery. Ex-UK AI tsar Matt Clifford advises.
London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed…
Cognition AI Raises $1B at $26B Valuation in 2026 — The AI World
Cognition AI Raises $1B at $26B Valuation in 2026
Cognition AI Raises $1B at $26B Valuation in 2026
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Sara Rywe’s byFounders Launches €130M+ Fund III to Back Europe’s Next Global Success Stories — FemWealth
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May 29Megaround Tape Shows VC Still Clustering Around AI — May 29, 2026
Modal’s $355 million Series C tops a funding tape packed with AI and infrastructure bets, including Mercury, Exa, OpenRouter, Socket and Catena Labs, as venture capital keeps concentrating around platforms and late-stage winners.
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Venture Capital in 2026: AI, Liquidity & Startup Funding Explained — Nothing Ventured
# Venture Capital in 2026: AI, Liquidity & Startup Funding Explained
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Series B Funding: A Complete Guide for Startups - Carta — Carta
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May 28Cognition’s $1B Round Keeps AI at the Center of VC — May 28, 2026
Cognition raised more than $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, with Lux, General Catalyst and 8VC co-leading as VC dollars crowd into AI. Airbnb-backed WeRoad, RevEng.AI, Robbin and Nandan Nilekani’s new F2A fund show adjacent bets in travel, security, fintech and India deeptech.
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AI coding startup Cognition secures $1Bn in funding at $26Bn valuation - The Tech Portal — The Tech Portal
# AI coding startup Cognition secures $1Bn in funding at $26Bn valuation - The Tech Portal
Author: Ashutosh Singh
Published: 2026-05-27T17:10:54+00:00
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AI coding startup Cognition secures $1Bn in funding at $26Bn valuation - The Tech Portal
# AI coding startup Cognition secures $1Bn in funding at $26Bn valuation
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Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M to take its group travel platform to the US | TechCrunch — TechCrunch
Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M to take its group travel platform to the US | TechCrunch
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RevEng.AI raises $15M to reverse-engineer software binaries and hunt down malicious threats - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE
RevEng.AI raises $15M to reverse-engineer software binaries and hunt down malicious threats - SiliconANGLE
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British software supply chain security startup RevEng.AI today said has raised $15 million in early-stage funding after developing…
Robbin raises USD 8 mln in seed round for supply chain finance | The Paypers — The Paypers
Robbin raises USD 8 mln in seed round for supply chain finance | The Paypers
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Brazil-based fintech Robbin has secured USD 8 million in seed funding and structured a USD 100 million credit fund to expand supply chain finance.
The seed round was co-led by Canary, Atlântico, and Caravela, with…
Nandan Nilekani Launches ₹3,000 Crore Fund for AI and DeepTech Investments, ETEnterpriseai — ETEnterpriseAI
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# Nandan Nilekani's Fundamentum launches tech investment platform with ₹3,000 crore corpus
Nandan Nilekani's VC firm Fundamentum Partnership has launched F2A (Fundamentum Frontier Advisors), a dedicated frontier-tech investment platform with an initial corpus of ₹3,000 crore.
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May 27AI Routing, Healthcare Agents and EV Trucks Pull Big VC Checks — May 27, 2026
OpenRouter raised $113 million as Commure, Zeron, Ocean and NanoCo also pulled fresh capital, showing VC appetite still clustering around AI infrastructure, healthcare automation, autonomous logistics and security tools that promise direct enterprise utility.
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OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing - SiliconANGLE — SiliconANGLE
OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing - SiliconANGLE
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Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it has raised $113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth…
Commure Secures $70M at $7B Valuation to Deploy AI Agents Across Healthcare Administration — AI Insider
Commure Secures $70M at $7B Valuation to Deploy AI Agents Across Healthcare Administration
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# Commure Secures $70M at $7B Valuation to Deploy AI Agents Across Healthcare Administration
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- May 26, 2026
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Commure, an AI platform targeting healthcare’s $1 trillion annual administrative burden, has raised $70 million at a $7 billion…
Chinese EV truck startup Zeron raises $200 million in B2 round to fuel autonomous truck push - CnEVPost — CnEVPost
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# Chinese EV truck startup Zeron raises $200 million in B2 round to fuel autonomous truck push
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Ocean Closes $28M to Fight AI-Powered Phishing With Agentic Email Security — AI Insider
Ocean Closes $28M to Fight AI-Powered Phishing With Agentic Email Security
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# Ocean Closes $28M to Fight AI-Powered Phishing With Agentic Email Security
- James Dargan
- May 26, 2026
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Ocean, an agentic email security startup founded by former Israeli defence cybersecurity expert Shay Shwartz, has emerged from stealth with $28 million in…
NanoCo Raises $12M Seed for Sandboxed AI Agent Platform After Viral Open Source Launch — AI Insider
NanoCo Raises $12M Seed for Sandboxed AI Agent Platform After Viral Open Source Launch
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# NanoCo Raises $12M Seed for Sandboxed AI Agent Platform After Viral Open Source Launch
- James Dargan
- May 26, 2026
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NanoCo, the company behind security-focused AI agent platform NanoClaw, has closed an oversubscribed $12 million seed round led by Valley…
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