Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product |

Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, announced on Tuesday that it raised a total of $25 million in funding, including…

AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO |

In Brief Posted: 1:00 PM PDT · October 6, 2026 Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation,…

Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for |

Two Google alumni have closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups, betting that the era of enterprise AI experimentation is ending and…

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. |

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…

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…