Funding
Upwind raises $400M after walking away from Datadog acquisition offer (opens techcrunch.com)
Cloud security startup Upwind raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation instead of selling itself to Datadog for the same price.
Funding
Seoul-based AI chip startup FuriosaAI raised a $620M Series D at a $2.9B valuation, up from $735M in 2025 (opens bloomberg.com)
South Korea's National Growth Fund contributed $280M of the round.
Funding
Circuit Mind lands $25M and puts AI agents to work checking circuit board schematics (opens siliconangle.com)
The British startup uses AI agents to check circuit board schematics and will extend the platform across more of the hardware design process.
Funding
Inference cloud startup General Compute reels in $100M, despite broader AI funding fears (opens siliconangle.com)
Neoclouds are supposed to be under pressure, with the likes of Gartner Inc. and Elon Musk both predicting a bloodbath in the nascent cloud infrastructure segment in the not-too-distant future, but apparently nobody told General Compute Inc.
Gathered from 37 of 50 sources · how to read this
Headlines link to the original source. Confirmed means the company said it, reported means a publication did, and unverified marks a claim nobody independent has checked. How this feed is made
- Hacker News8
- YC Launches6
- Product Hunt0
- TechCrunch13
- Crunchbase News1
- Techmeme5
- StrictlyVC0
- GeekWire1
- SiliconANGLE2
- The Verge0
- Wired0
- The Next Web1
- Sequoia Capital0
- a16z1
- Lenny's Newsletter0
- Not Boring0
- Tomasz Tunguz0
- Latent Space0
- Sam Altman0
- Simon Willison1
- Elad Gil0
- Benedict Evans0
- Andrej Karpathy0
- Dwarkesh Patel0
- Andrew Chen0
- Stripe0
- Interconnected (Kevin Xu)0
- ChinAI (Jeffrey Ding)0
- Sajith Pai (Blume Ventures)0
- OpenAI2
- Google AI0
- Hugging Face0
- GitHub Blog0
- Reddit (startups, founders)1
- Reddit (SaaS, side projects)2
- Reddit (Claude, local LLMs)0
- Reddit (Indian startups)1
- Y Combinator (YouTube)unavailable
- a16z (YouTube)unavailable
- Lenny's Podcastunavailable
- Greg Isenbergunavailable
- Starter Storyunavailable
- My First Millionunavailable
- All-In Podcastunavailable
- Latent Space (YouTube)unavailable
- Every: AI & Iunavailable
- 硅谷101 (Silicon Valley 101)unavailable
- Think School (India)unavailable
- 小红书 (needs your login)unavailable
- X search (needs your login)unavailable