There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They often have to sell more shares than…
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AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · August 12, 2026 Cognition, makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about…
Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models |
As co-founder Grace Li tells it, her company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, with a handful of college friends trying to make…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M |
Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus,…
Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year's mark |
Defense tech company Anduril is said to be raising a new round of capital that may push its valuation up by a whopping $40 billion…
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation |
When de-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences revealed last year that it was attempting to “resurrect” the dire wolf from genetic material found in fossils, we argued…
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation |
Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) — essentially miniaturized, factory-built power plants designed to be cheaper and faster to deploy than…
DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO |
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this…
Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg |
In Brief Posted: 6:58 AM PDT · June 24, 2026 New details have emerged about Valor Equity Partners’ Fund VII, which last year filed paperwork…