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Sequoia led the Series A, with Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures; the one-year-old startup's platform lets companies post-train open-source models for fields such as law and finance.
a16z led the $75M Series B, per Tutor's own site and a16z, with Union Square Ventures and Neo; SiliconANGLE's report calls it a Series A. Tutor's warehouse and factory robots are sold on usage-based pricing.
Pelion Ventures led the Series A in the AI adoption-measurement startup, which links AI tool use to productivity and spend data; it has raised $47M in total.
Cheaper intelligence raises the bar for what an AI application can charge
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
Hex says it rebuilt its data analytics platform for AI agents; Peak XV led the $100M round at a $1.2B valuation.
Broccoli AI sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC and electrical companies; the Series A and Series B were announced together, with a source putting the valuation at $300M.
Hyperbolic lets companies rent AI compute across about 30 neoclouds; Walden Catalyst, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's fund, led the round and total funding is $50M.
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
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A self-funded mobile car detailing startup in Mysore says it did ₹1.7L in its first 50 days and lost half its leads to capacity, but could not raise pre-seed.
Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran argues AI will let law firms take cases they could not afford to before.
The WSJ reports about $11B committed so far at a $1.25T valuation, below the $30B and $1.4T first targeted; the FT says OpenAI now seeks about $20B as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff.
Led by manufacturing startup Re:Build's $2.1 billion and Kalshi's $1 billion.
What types of founders will thrive in the new cycle
Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data from US permit archives.
Dream, started by former Palantir executives, generates building designs with a world model trained on more than 100 million square feet of US permit data.
Wabi, an AI assistant that builds mini apps, raised $55 million in a seed round led by IVP; TechCrunch reports a $1.25 billion valuation.
Cohere completed the first close of a Series E it aims to grow to as much as C$7bn, which it says would value it at C$35.7bn.
Seoul-based FuriosaAI, which makes AI inference chips, raised a Series D valuing it at about $2.9bn; South Korea's National Growth Fund put in $280m.
Crunchbase data shows about $48 billion invested around the Series B stage this year, the most in years, while round counts head for a multiyear low.
Serval raised at a $3 billion valuation to take its automation agents from IT into more departments.
Cloud security startup Upwind raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation instead of selling itself to Datadog for the same price.
Sources: AI coding startup Cognition weighs a new funding round before year's end after receiving offers valuing it at $70B-$80B, up from $48B in September — Just weeks after announcing a new round of funding at a $48 billion valuation, AI coding startup Cognition is fielding new investor interest…
What CISOs told us about AI, budgets, and the priorities shaping 2027.
Avenir and Lux Capital would lead the round, at about $20B, up from $11.5B earlier in 2026.
The manufacturing accelerator, which spun out Slate Auto, bills itself as "America's answer to Shenzhen."
GIC led the round at a CA$13.8B post-money valuation, up from CA$10B in 2025.
Disruptive has backed companies like chip startup Groq and voice AI startup ElevenLabs.
Sequoia Capital and Shopify Ventures led the Series D; Whop plans offices in Europe and Colombia, Bloomberg reported.
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
What types of founders will thrive in the new cycle
Global venture funding to robotics startups was $9.9B in Q3, against $4.3B in Q3 2025.
Anthropic has filed for an IPO; the filing shows soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its safety mission.
California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share. And keep in mind: This year still has a couple months left.
Tunguz reads the S-1 as $4.6B of revenue growing 11.9-fold, a derived 40% gross margin, $974M of operating profit in Q2 and $637B of compute commitments.
Replit and the Agent Habitat
False claims about customers, revenue and AI capabilities can expose founders to personal securities-fraud liability, with D&O insurance offering limited protection against established misconduct.
OpenAI lowered the valuation it seeks for its new round to $1.25tn from $1.4tn after some investors pushed back, the Financial Times reported.
The Information reports Ramp investors Joe Lonsdale and Keith Rabois pushed US lawmakers to probe Airwallex's China ties after Airwallex scrapped a deal with Ramp.
