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…
Category: Funding
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…
Anthropic Raises $65 Billion, Overtakes OpenAI as the World’s Most Valuable AI Startup
Anthropic closed a Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI, as its run-rate revenue reportedly crossed…
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…
What a SAFE Note Actually Does to Your Cap Table, Explained for Philippine Founders
A SAFE isn't a loan and isn't equity yet, it's a promise of future equity that converts later, and understanding…
Equity Dilution Isn’t the Enemy. Not Understanding It Is.
Every funding round shrinks a founder's ownership percentage; the real question isn't whether you get diluted, but whether the shrinking…
Same Region, Four Different Funding Realities: What Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore Do Differently From the Philippines
The Philippines' funding gap isn't just about where capital lands domestically, it's about four structural levers, deal density, regulatory friction,…
SambaNova Raised $1 Billion to Prove AI Chips Don’t All Have to Come From Nvidia
SambaNova Systems closed the first $1 billion tranche of a Series F at an $11 billion valuation, five months after…