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…
Funding Pulse
Philippine funding rounds, VC activity, angel deals, and global funding trends with implications for PH founders.
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…
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…
A Startup Wants to Drill Three Miles Into the Earth With Microwaves to Power AI Data Centers
MIT spinout Quaise Energy raised $134 million to commercialize millimeter-wave drilling technology that reaches superhot rock, part of a wider…
A Three-Year-Old Legal AI Startup Just Became a Unicorn by Selling Compliance, Not Contracts
Norm AI raised a $120 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that the…
GoTyme’s Owners Just Wrote Another Check. What the Math Behind It Says About Digital Banking’s Real Cost.
GoTyme's parent companies injected another $13.9 million into the digital bank in July 2026, the second capital top-up in as…
Discord Filed for an IPO in January. By July It Was Worth Less Than Microsoft Once Offered to Pay for It.
Discord's confidential IPO filing has stalled at an implied $8.5 billion secondary-market valuation, below the $12 billion Microsoft offered to…
Chamath Palihapitiya Just Became a Full-Time CEO Again. His New Startup Wants to Replace the Traditional Software Team.
8090 raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures for its Software Factory platform, where human teams and…