Anthropic (AI Infrastructure & Foundational Models): $13B

Sierra (Enterprise AI Solutions): $350M

Baseten, Enveda, & You.com (Various): $150M each

AI Infrastructure & Foundational Models: $13.26B

Enterprise AI Solutions: $578.5M

Healthcare & Life Sciences AI: $265.3M

Anthropic announced it has closed a $13 billion funding round at a $183 billion post-money valuation, roughly tripling its valuation from March. The round was led by Iconiq, Fidelity, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Altimeter, General Catalyst, and Coatue. The funding will be used to deepen safety research and support international expansion as its run-rate revenue surpasses $5 billion. CNBC

Exa, a search engine built for AI applications, announced an $85 million Series B funding round led by Benchmark at a $700 million valuation. The funding will be used to scale its search infrastructure, which is designed to provide the fast, high-volume, and structured data retrieval that AI systems require. StartupHub.ai

Kite, a startup building a blockchain for communication between different AI applications, raised $18M in a Series A round co-led by PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst. Formerly known as Zettablock, the company aims to build the infrastructure for a future where AI agents can securely interact and transact with each other. Fortune Crypto

Farang, a Stockholm-based AI research lab, raised €1.5 million in seed funding from investors including Voima Ventures and Amadeus APEX Technology Fund. The company is developing a new foundational architecture for LLMs that it claims requires significantly fewer computational resources and can outperform current models in specialized domains like programming and medicine. Tech.eu

Mistral AI, the French AI startup, is finalizing a €2 billion investment that values the company at €12 billion ($14 billion). The round solidifies its position as one of Europe's most valuable tech startups. It will fuel its competition with US and Chinese rivals as it develops open-source language models and a chatbot tailored for European users. Bloomberg

Baseten, an AI inference unicorn, raised $150 million in a Series D round led by Bond, with participation from CapitalG and IVP, at a valuation of $2.15 billion. The company provides the "picks and shovels" infrastructure for companies like Abridge, OpenEvidence, and Patreon to deploy, manage, and scale AI applications. Fortune

Geniez AI, a startup that connects large language models and AI agents to legacy mainframe systems, secured $6 million in seed funding. Co-led by StageOne Ventures and Canapi Ventures, the investment will be used to develop its framework for providing real-time mainframe data access, enabling AI-driven analysis and automation for enterprises in sectors like finance and healthcare. StartupHub.ai

You.com, an AI startup that began as a consumer search engine, raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company has refocused on the enterprise market, offering a suite of APIs that allow developers to build their own AI applications with capabilities for research, data enrichment, and e-commerce. SiliconANGLE

Alpic, a Paris-based startup, secured €5.1 million in pre-seed funding led by Partech for its AI agent cloud platform. The company is building infrastructure to help businesses securely expose their services to AI agents, with a developer-centric toolkit for rapid deployment and observability. StartupHub.ai

Recall.ai, a developer platform providing a universal API for meeting bots, raised a $38 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The funding will help the company expand its tools that allow developers to build integrations across platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams without handling the complexities of real-time media and multiple APIs. Axios Pro

Fiveonefour, a startup providing a developer toolkit and managed cloud platform for data analytics and AI, announced it has raised $17 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Dimension Capital, will be used to accelerate the development of its AI agents, expand enterprise support, and grow its open-source community around its "Moose Stack" for building analytical backends. PR Newswire

Sierra, a startup building custom AI agents for enterprise customer service, raises $350 million Series D led by Greenoaks Capital at a $10 billion valuation. Founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Google exec Clay Bavor, the company is on track to exceed $100 million in ARR. Axios

LayerX, a Japanese AI SaaS startup that enables businesses to automate back-office workloads, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by TCV. The funding, which marks TCV's first investment in a Japanese startup, will be used to scale the company's expense management, invoice processing, and generative AI workflow solutions. TechCrunch

HappyRobot, an AI startup that automates communications for freight operators, raised $44 million in a Series B round led by Base10 Partners, valuing the company at around $500 million. The funding will be used to expand the company's team and enhance its software, which handles tasks like rate negotiation and appointment booking. Reuters

Darwin AI, a Brazil-based provider of AI agents for sales and customer support, closed $4.5 million in an additional seed funding round led by Base10 Partners. The new capital brings the company's total funding to $7 million and will be used to accelerate growth in Latin America and develop "AI Workers" for mid-market companies. FinSMEs

Sola Security, a cybersecurity firm developing an AI assistant to automate security tasks, raised $35 million in Series A funding. The round was led by S32, with participation from M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund) and New Era Capital Partners, bringing the company's total funding to $65 million. Its platform allows security teams to create custom security applications. Sola Security Blog

FireCompass, an AI-powered offensive security platform, received an investment of over $20 million from EC-Council. The funding, part of EC-Council's $100 million Cybersecurity Innovation Commitment, will support the expansion of FireCompass's agentic AI technology. Its AI technology automates penetration testing and red teaming, proactively uncovering vulnerabilities. StartupHub.ai

Supersonik, a startup building an AI sales agent for live software demos, raised a $5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company's conversational AI agent guides prospective buyers through a product in real-time, aiming to eliminate the wait times and bottlenecks associated with traditional sales demos. Forbes

Isotopes AI, a startup founded by the former CTO of Scale AI, launched from stealth with a $20 million seed round led by Vab Goel at NTTVC. The company is building an AI agent, Aidnn, designed to help business users query data from disparate sources like ERPs, CRMs, and cloud storage using natural language. It aims to solve the long-standing problem of data accessibility within enterprises. TechCrunch

Elysian, an AI-native third-party administrator for commercial insurance, secured $6 million in seed funding led by Portage. The capital will accelerate market entry for its platform, which uses AI to support human adjusters in handling complex commercial claims by surfacing liability insights and drafting communications. StartupHub.ai

SCOREalytics, an AI-powered legal intelligence platform, secured over $3 million in seed funding led by Moneta Ventures. The company will use the funds to scale its technology, which leverages LLMs to help enterprises and law firms proactively identify litigation threats and manage regulatory compliance. StartupHub.ai

MEGA, an AI voice agent platform for order-to-cash (O2C) management, announced a $2 million pre-seed round led by Spintop Ventures. The funding will accelerate its European expansion and the development of its compliance-focused platform, which automates regulated customer interactions in the O2C workflow. Startups Magazine

Predoc, an AI-driven health information management startup, has raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding in a round led by Base10 Partners. The company, founded in 2022, uses AI to automate the retrieval and analysis of medical records, aiming to reduce administrative work for doctors and care coordinators. Fortune

ArcaScience, an AI-driven healthtech startup, raised $7 million in seed funding led by The Moon Venture to expand its drug evaluation platform in the US and UK. The company turns unstructured biomedical data into benefit-risk insights, helping pharmaceutical companies better assess drug candidates. Tech.eu

XiFin, a leader in AI-driven healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, secured a new growth capital investment co-led by Goldman Sachs External Investing Group. The funding will support the development of its next-gen "XiFin Empower" platform and help the company capitalize on AI opportunities in the healthcare RCM sector. StartupHub.ai

Neon Health, an SF-based AI tool to help patients obtain specialty drugs, raised $6 million in seed funding. NFX led, joined by DigiTx, Olive Capital, Ascend, Village Global, and Digital Health Venture Partners. ENDPOINTS NEWS

Enveda, a biotech company using AI to discover drugs from natural sources, raised $150 million in Series D funding led by Premji Invest. The funding brings the company’s total to over $500 million. The funds will be used to advance multiple nature-inspired drug programs into clinical trials for conditions including eczema, inflammatory bowel disease, and obesity. Fierce Biotech

Ketryx, a company providing an AI-native compliance platform for medical device makers, raised $39 million in a Series B round led by Transformation Capital. The funding will help Ketryx expand globally and enhance its platform, which automates documentation and compliance to help MedTech companies ship products faster while adhering to safety standards. SiliconANGLE

Hello Patient, a conversational AI company for healthcare, raised $22.5 million in Series A funding led by Scale Venture Partners. The company's platform handles end-to-end patient communications across voice, text, and chat to book appointments and answer questions, aiming to improve patient access and reduce administrative burdens for providers. Business Wire

NewDays, a startup launched by former Amazon and Google X executives, raised a $7 million seed round from General Catalyst and Madrona. The company has developed "Sunny," an AI-powered companion for treating cognitive impairment and dementia through structured conversations and telehealth appointments with clinicians. Fierce Healthcare

Flax Health, an AI platform for skilled nursing facilities, raised $3.5 million in a pre-seed round co-led by Sorenson Capital and Pear VC. The company automates administrative workflows such as referral processing and patient intake, helping facilities reduce costs and make faster, data-driven decisions. Business Wire

Joint Ai, an AI-powered triage platform for orthopedic care, secured a $315,000 investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The funding will support the development of its clinical decision aid, which analyzes X-rays and patient symptoms to help diagnose and treat knee and hip arthritis. StartupHub.ai

Allasso, a Geneva-based fintech, secured $3 million in seed funding led by Fuel Ventures. The company's platform, "Allasso Copilot," provides AI-powered options analytics and risk management tools for traders, brokers, and hedgers, combining backtesting, scenario analysis, and historical data into a single interface. Tech.eu

Allocate, a platform that modernizes private market investing for wealth advisors and family offices, closed a $30.5 million Series B round led by Portage Ventures. The new capital will accelerate the development of the company's private market AI and workflow automation tools, bringing its total funding to $64 million. StartupHub.ai

Advisor.com, a platform for discovering financial advice, secured $9 million in seed funding led by Walkabout Ventures. The company will use the capital to enhance its AI-powered advisor-matching technology, which pairs investors, particularly those with under $500,000 in assets, with vetted fiduciary advisors. StartupHub.ai

Spinwheel, an AI-powered credit data and payments platform, received a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount from Citi Ventures. The funding will support the company’s go-to-market expansion and development of its platform, which integrates real-time consumer credit data to provide a more complete financial profile than traditional credit bureaus. StartupHub.ai

ProRata.ai, a generative AI startup, raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Touring Capital. The funding will support the launch of its new product, Gist Answers, an AI search tool that allows publishers to monetize their content by embedding it on their websites and sharing in the revenue generated from its use. Axios

Orchard Robotics, a startup using vision AI to help fruit growers manage their crops, raised a $22 million Series A led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital. The company's camera systems attach to farm vehicles to collect high-resolution images that are analyzed by AI to inform decisions on fertilization, pruning, and thinning. TechCrunch

Aurelius Systems, a defense tech firm developing autonomous laser defense technology, secured $10 million in seed funding co-led by General Catalyst and Draper Associates. The company's low-cost, high-powered laser systems are designed to neutralize drone threats on the battlefield and safeguard critical infrastructure. StartupHub.ai

LineWise, a Y Combinator alumnus, raised $1.1 million in pre-seed funding to deploy its "virtual engineer" for manufacturers. The company's multi-agent AI system ingests sensor data, event logs, and OEM manuals to provide root-cause analysis and troubleshooting guidance, aiming to reduce costly factory downtime and yield loss. StartupHub.ai

Mojo Vision secured $75 million in a Series B Prime round led by Vanedge Capital. The funding will support the commercialization of its high-performance micro-LED platform, which is designed for use in next-generation AI glasses and other advanced display technologies. StartupHub.ai

Loman AI, a voice AI platform for restaurants, raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Next Coast Ventures. The company's AI phone agent handles calls, orders, reservations, and questions, integrating with POS systems to help restaurants increase revenue by up to 22% and cut labor costs by 17%. Business Wire

Ordinal, an AI research assistant for local governments, secured a $1 million seed round led by Plains Ventures. The Arkansas-based startup's platform uses a secure retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model to help city staff find answers from verified internal documents like codes, ordinances, and meeting minutes. ACCESS Newswire

Human Behavior, a four-month-old Y Combinator startup, raised $5 million in a seed round led by YC and General Catalyst. The company is developing vision AI technology that analyzes real user session replays to provide product teams with deep insights into usage, conversion, and churn without manual event tagging. StartupHub.ai

Augment, an AI logistics startup from the founder of Deliverr, raised $85 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint. The company's AI assistant, "Augie," automates repetitive tasks for freight shippers, carriers, and brokers, aiming to streamline logistics operations and reduce administrative work. TechCrunch

Vouched, a Seattle-based identity verification startup, raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by Spring Rock Ventures. The company is using the funds to build out its AI tools for identity verification and expand into the emerging field of authenticating AI agents with its "Know Your Agent" platform. GeekWire

OpenAI announced it has agreed to acquire product testing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal. Statsig founder and CEO Vijaye Raji will become OpenAI's CTO of Applications, reporting to former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo. The move marks a significant push to expand OpenAI's applications business and accelerate product development. TechCrunch

Varonis Systems, a data security company, has agreed to acquire AI-based email security provider SlashNext for as much as $150 million. The acquisition will allow Varonis to expand its reach into email security, using SlashNext's predictive AI to detect and remove threats like business email compromise attacks. Bloomberg

SeqOne, a French pioneer in AI-driven genomic analysis, has acquired Congenica, a UK-based company spun out of the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The deal positions the combined entity as a global leader in AI-powered genomic medicine, uniting SeqOne's NGS analysis capabilities with Congenica's clinical decision support platform. Tech.eu

CoreWeave, a provider of cloud servers for training AI models, has acquired OpenPipe, a two-year-old Y Combinator-backed startup that helps enterprises develop custom AI agents using reinforcement learning. The deal will allow CoreWeave to power and offer customer-specific agent training services on its platform. TechCrunch

Cato Networks, a cloud networking company, has acquired Israeli AI security firm Aim Security for a reported $350 million. The deal will extend Cato's SASE platform with new AI security capabilities that protect how employees and applications interact with both public and private AI systems. SiliconANGLE

Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, the startup behind the Arc and Dia web browsers, for $610 million. The acquisition will integrate The Browser Company's technology, including its AI assistant features, to enhance the user experience for Atlassian's suite of products, like Jira, which are heavily dependent on browsers for work-related tasks. CNBC

OpenAI has acqui-hired the team behind Alex, a Y Combinator-backed startup that developed an AI coding assistant for Apple's Xcode development environment. The team will join OpenAI's Codex division to work on the company's AI coding agent, while the Alex app will no longer be available for new downloads after October 1. TechCrunch

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed that the company has cut 4,000 customer support jobs this year after deploying AI agents to handle a growing share of the workload. Benioff stated in a podcast that the support team was reduced from 9,000 to 5,000 and that AI systems conduct half of all customer conversations. San Francisco Chronicle

OpenAI plans to roll out new safety features, including parental controls and a system to route sensitive conversations to its more advanced reasoning models like GPT-5. The new guardrails are a response to a wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a teenager who discussed suicide with ChatGPT before taking his own life. TechCrunch

Tesla has disbanded its Dojo team and shut down the custom-built supercomputer project. Elon Musk declared the project "an evolutionary dead end" just weeks after the company signed a $16.5B deal with Samsung for its next-generation AI chips, marking a strategic pivot from high-risk, in-house hardware to reliance on external partners. TechCrunch

A global movement to protect children online is fueling a wave of AI-powered safety tech. New regulations like the U.K.’s Online Safety Act and the proposed U.S. Kids Online Safety Act are pushing tech companies to adopt age-verification systems, with some firms like Yoti using AI to estimate a user’s age from a selfie. CNBC

Walmart is launching four new AI "super agents" to streamline operations for shoppers, employees, and suppliers. The initiative includes "Sparky" for shoppers, which helps generate shopping baskets, and an "Associate Agent" that provides a single point of entry for employees to access all of Walmart's back-end AI tools. CNBC

Apple is planning to launch its own AI-powered web search tool, dubbed "World Knowledge Answers," to be integrated into a revamped Siri. The company this week reached a formal agreement to evaluate and test a custom Google Gemini model to help power the new Siri, signaling a major step toward outsourcing its AI technology. Bloomberg

OpenAI announced it is developing an AI-powered hiring service, the OpenAI Jobs Platform, to compete directly with LinkedIn. Expected to launch by mid-2026, the platform will use AI to match businesses with employees. The company also plans to launch an online "OpenAI Academy" to offer certifications in "AI fluency." TechCrunch

Anthropic will immediately stop selling its AI services to groups majority-owned by Chinese entities, as well as to other U.S. adversaries, including Russia and Iran. The move represents the first major policy shift of its kind from a leading U.S. AI company, aimed at preventing its technology from being used to benefit China's military and intelligence services. Financial Times

Microsoft unveiled its first in-house foundational models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, marking a strategic pivot to reduce its reliance on partner OpenAI. The move signals the company's commitment to developing its own core AI infrastructure, with the MAI-1 text-based model showing competitive initial performance and the MAI-Voice-1 model already integrated into Copilot products. StartupHub.ai

OpenAI placed a $10 billion order for custom AI chips from Broadcom, signaling a major strategic shift away from relying solely on Nvidia's GPUs. The deal underscores a trend of major AI labs developing bespoke silicon to optimize performance and control costs, potentially challenging Nvidia's market dominance and pricing power in the AI hardware space. StartupHub.ai

Tech leaders, including the CEOs of Apple, Google, OpenAI, and Meta, met with President Trump at a White House dinner to discuss AI innovation and investment. The executives praised the administration's "pro-business, pro-innovation" stance, and several companies announced new commitments to AI education initiatives in conjunction with the meeting. The Wall Street Journal

Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute have developed a single, generalist AI model that allows the Atlas humanoid robot to perform both walking and grasping tasks. This marks a significant advance toward general-purpose robotics, as the unified model demonstrates emergent skills like recovering a dropped item without explicit training, mimicking the learning patterns of large language models. WIRED

An analysis of over a billion job postings by labor insight platform Lightcast found that demand for AI skills is surging, particularly in non-tech sectors. Job postings mentioning at least one AI skill advertised salaries 28% higher on average, with the premium rising to 43% for two or more skills. The fields with the largest pay premiums were customer support, sales, and manufacturing. CNBC

Lambda, a Nvidia-backed cloud provider that rents GPUs to AI companies, has hired Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Citi to prepare for an IPO as soon as the first half of next year. The company's revenue grew nearly 60% to over $140 million in the second quarter, though it posted a loss of around $16 million. The Information

OpenAI is increasing the size of its secondary share sale to over $10 billion, up from an initial target of $6 billion. The transaction, which is slated to close in October, will be conducted at a $500 billion valuation and gives current and former employees an opportunity to sell a portion of their equity. CNBC

Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares surged 19% after the company reported accelerating sales at its cloud computing division and details emerged about its new AI chip development. The cloud unit's revenue grew 26% year-over-year, with AI-related product revenue maintaining triple-digit growth for the eighth consecutive quarter. CNBC

Morningstar identified six undervalued, wide-moat stocks positioned to benefit from the AI boom: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), Marvell Technology (MRVL), ASML Holding (ASML), Microsoft (MSFT), Salesforce (CRM), and ServiceNow (NOW). The analysis highlights hardware and software companies that are either direct enablers or key beneficiaries of the ongoing, once-in-a-generation spending on AI technology. Morningstar

xAI's CFO, Mike Liberatore, has left the company after only a few months on the job, the latest in a string of high-profile departures from Elon Musk's AI startup. His exit follows those of general counsel Robert Keele and co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who is leaving to start a VC firm focused on AI safety. The Wall Street Journal

OpenAI is escalating its fight against AI governance nonprofits that oppose its conversion to a for-profit company, issuing subpoenas and filing complaints that suggest the groups are part of a "billionaire-backed conspiracy." OpenAI alleges that groups like Encode and the Coalition for AI Nonprofit Integrity may be funded by competitors like Elon Musk or working with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. The SF Standard

Daimler Truck is seeking a partner to acquire a minority stake in its autonomous driving unit, Torc Robotics. The German truckmaker is looking to raise capital to support the unit's annual spending of around €600 million as it works to commercialize driverless freight transport technology. Bloomberg

OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires and is now issuing subpoenas and filing complaints against AI governance nonprofits, suggesting they are part of a conspiracy to halt its progress. The AI giant alleges that groups opposed to its for-profit conversion may be funded by Elon Musk or working with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. The SF Standard

Anthropic has agreed to a landmark $1.5 billion settlement with a group of authors and publishers over copyright infringement claims. The agreement, the largest in U.S. copyright history, resolves a lawsuit alleging the company illegally used pirated books to train its AI models and could set a powerful precedent for how AI companies compensate creators for their work. The New York Times

The Tesla board proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth up to $900 billion, potentially making him the world's first trillionaire. The pay package is tied to ambitious milestones, including increasing Tesla's market value to $8.5 trillion and achieving mass deployment of autonomous taxis and humanoid robots, signaling the company's deep strategic focus on AI. The New York Times