Quince hits $10B valuation with giant $500M round led by Iconiq |

1:50 PM PDT · March 11, 2026 In a sea of massive valuations for early-stage AI startups, today we have a bit of rare news:…

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…

ElevenLabs raises $500M from Sequoia at an $11 billion valuation |

7:33 AM PST · February 4, 2026 Voice AI company ElevenLabs said today it raised $500 million in a new funding round led by Sequoia…

Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation |

Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round at…

Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve |

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang descended on the United Kingdom this week, armed with a pledge to invest £2 billion ($2.6 billion) to supercharge the country’s…

Micro1, a competitor to Scale AI, raises funds at $500M valuation |

If you’ve ever woken up to a trending hashtag about your brand — and not in a good way — you know how fast a…