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…
Category: Funding
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…
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,…
Nscale Just Paid $1.65 Billion to Stop Being ‘Just’ a GPU Landlord
Nscale's $1.65 billion purchase of Anyscale, the startup behind the open-source Ray framework, shows AI cloud providers racing to own…
Etched Doubles Its Valuation to $10.3 Billion Betting Nvidia Can’t Win Every Layer of AI
AI chip startup Etched raised $300M at a $10.3 billion valuation, betting that inference-specific silicon can beat Nvidia's general-purpose GPUs…
CuspAI Raises $450 Million as a 45-Company Consortium Bets AI Can Out-Search Nature for New Materials
Cambridge-based CuspAI raised $450M to scale MIRA, its AI platform for materials discovery, backed by a 45-company consortium including Nvidia,…
OpenAI Filed for an IPO. Its Last Private Round Was Already the Biggest in History.
OpenAI closed a record $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion valuation in March and moved toward an IPO…
Southeast Asia’s Startup Funding Just Exploded. Almost None of It Reached the Philippines.
Southeast Asian startups raised nearly $3.85 billion in June 2026, a record driven almost entirely by a handful of Singapore…