A Filipino VC Just Backed a B2B Sales-AI Startup Betting the Entire Enterprise Sales Stack Is Broken
Kickstart Ventures joined True Global Ventures and Accel in a $9 million pre-Series A for Sprouts.ai, an AI-native platform building…
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Asana Just Finished Buying Its Way to Becoming an ‘Operating System’ for AI Agents and Employees Working Together
Asana's completed $75 million purchase of no-code agent-builder StackAI is the last piece of a deliberate bet on orchestrating human…
AMD Just Bought Its Fourth AI Chip Startup in Nine Months. Nvidia Should Be Paying Attention.
AMD's acquisition of Taalas, a startup that bakes AI model weights directly into custom silicon, marks its third major AI…
A Weather-Balloon Startup Just Raised $37 Million to Out-Forecast the National Weather Service
WindBorne Systems raised an oversubscribed $37 million Series B at a $250 million valuation to expand its balloon-fed atmospheric sensing…
Schneider Electric Just Paid $350 Million to Predict Which Power Lines a Storm Will Take Down Next
Schneider Electric's $350 million purchase of satellite-and-AI risk startup AiDASH is one of climate adaptation's biggest exits — and a…
A Cybersecurity Startup Tripled Its Valuation in 14 Months Because AI Agents Keep Breaking Into Things
Horizon3 raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation — triple its mark from 14 months earlier…
Airtable Was Worth $11 Billion in 2021. It Just Sold for $2.25 Billion.
Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the no-code database pioneer at $2.25 billion — less…
Okta Just Spent $200 Million Betting That AI Agents Need Their Own Security Guard
Okta's near-$200 million purchase of Permiso Security signals identity security's next battleground: not human logins, but AI agents and machine…
A London Robotics Startup Just Bet Europe’s Humanoid Race Will Be Won on Wheels, Not Legs
London's Humanoid raised $152M at a $1.35B valuation, betting industrial customers want wheeled robots deployable now rather than legged ones…
Sequoia Just Put $1 Billion Into a Nuclear Reactor Startup — Because AI Data Centers Need More Power Than the Grid Can Give Them
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics raised a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $6 billion,…