Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale |

In Brief Posted: 11:19 PM PST · February 26, 2026 Plaid, a company that connects financial applications to users’ bank accounts, enabling payments and data…

Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M |

In Brief Posted: 4:45 PM PST · February 24, 2026 MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500…

InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting |

Even without a background in accounting, anyone who has ever glanced at a 10-K or 10-Q can tell that preparing financial statements is a complex,…

Ali Partovi’s Neo looks to upend the accelerator model with low-dilution terms |

For the most sought-after founders, the prestige of a top-tier accelerator is increasingly weighed against giving up a significant ownership stake in their company. Ali…

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot |

Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of…

Exclusive: AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

2:48 PM PST · February 11, 2026 Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is talking to VCs about a new round at…

Integrate raises $17M to move defense project management into the 21st century |

John Conafay, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has spent most of his career leading business development at public and private aerospace companies, including…

Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras |

9:23 PM PST · February 6, 2026 This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation…

AI SRE Resolve AI confirms $125M raise, unicorn valuation |

In Brief Posted: 1:39 PM PST · February 4, 2026 Resolve AI, a startup automating the work of system reliability engineering (SRE), aka troubleshooting systemfailures,…

How Sequoia-backed Ethos reached the public market while rivals fell short |

Ethos Technologies, a San Francisco-based provider of software for selling life insurance, debuted on the Nasdaq on Thursday. As one of the year’s first major…