The Philippines’ Startup Funding Gap Isn’t About Capital Anymore. It’s About Where It Lands.
Philippine startup funding is technically climbing, but almost every peso and dollar of it still lands in Metro Manila, leaving…
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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…
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…
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…
Crypto’s Hottest Funding Category Right Now Isn’t Trading. It’s Infrastructure Nobody Sees.
Late-stage crypto funding surged over 1,000 percent year-on-year even as overall venture dollars declined, with Rain, Alpaca, and EDX Markets…
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…
US Fintech Funding Just Had Its Best Quarter in Over a Year. Wealthtech Missed the Memo.
US fintech raised $16 billion across 445 deals in Q2 2026, its strongest quarter in over a year, but nearly…
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…
DeepSeek Just Raised $7.4 Billion. Almost Nobody Who Bought In Gets a Vote.
DeepSeek closed its first-ever outside funding round in June at more than $50 billion in valuation, but the deal's structure…