AI Models
A Spanish Startup That Shrinks Models by 95% Wants €500 Million for It
Multiverse Computing opened a Series C targeting up to $570 million at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation — five times its last round, and not yet closed.
Jul 27, 2026
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AI Agents
Glow Exits Stealth With $180 Million at $1.2 Billion to Rebuild Endpoint Security
Founded by a former Meta engineering VP and Snowflake's ex-head of cybersecurity strategy, the company runs more than a hundred specialised agents server-side to decide what software — and which AI agents — may run on employee devices.
Jul 22, 2026
AI Models
Meshy Raises Nearly $400 Million at $1.5 Billion for AI 3D Generation
The largest round yet in AI-native 3D lands as the company reports 12x annual revenue growth, 12 million registered users and more than 100 million models created.
Jul 22, 2026
AI Research
Humanoid Raises $152M at $1.35B, Becoming Europe's First Pure-Play Humanoid Unicorn
Prime Movers Lab led the largest Series A ever for a European humanoid robotics company, with Bosch signing on as contract manufacturer and Schaeffler committing to buy up to 2,000 robots.
Jul 22, 2026
Mistral AI
Samsung Is in Talks to Back Mistral at a €20 Billion Valuation, the FT Reports
The Korean group would put in hundreds of millions of euros — possibly close to €1 billion — in a round that would roughly double the French lab's valuation in under a year.
Jul 22, 2026
AI Agents
Ant International Raises $1.2 Billion to Push 'Agentic Commerce' Across 150 Million Merchants
The Singapore-based Alipay+ operator closed its first outside round with backing from Ant Group and Alibaba, arming its payments stack with AI agents for merchants and treasurers.
Jul 21, 2026
AI Agents
Ex-SentinelOne President's Startup Neo Emerges With $100M to Police AI Agents in the Enterprise
Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer co-led the Series A for a platform that inventories, monitors and controls the AI agents multiplying inside corporate software stacks.
Jul 21, 2026
AI Research
Zalando Takes a Strategic Stake in Warehouse-Robotics Startup Sereact, Extending Its Series B to $116M
The European fashion platform joined the German startup's round as a strategic investor, drawn by a problem it knows well: roughly half of everything ordered on Zalando comes back as a return.
Jul 20, 2026
AI Research
CuspAI Raises $450M at a $2.6B Valuation and Launches an 'AI Materials Foundry' With Nvidia and Meta
The Cambridge startup using AI to design new materials quintupled its valuation in ten months and pulled in Jeff Bezos, AMD and 45 organizations for a coalition aimed at chipmaking's rare metals.
Jul 20, 2026
Finance AI
Databricks Vaults to a $188 Billion Valuation in a Coatue-Led Round
The data-and-AI platform's new financing, expected to close this summer, lifts its valuation from $134 billion in February — a near-tripling in 19 months.
Jul 18, 2026
Nvidia
Nvidia Leads Gradium's Seed to $100 Million for Ultra-Low-Latency Voice AI
The Paris lab spun out of Kyutai, whose founders authored much of the research behind modern voice models, reopened its seed with Nvidia anchoring a new tranche — and will spend it opening a Bay Area office.
Jul 11, 2026
AI Agents
Straiker Raises $64M to Secure Enterprise AI Agents
The agentic-security startup's Series A lands as its own research finds most attacks on AI agents lead to data theft or code execution.
Jul 4, 2026