This week delivered a bountiful supply of big startup funding rounds, led by two $400 million financings for cybersecurity unicorns and large financings for startups across hot sectors, including foundational AI, drug discovery, neurotech, and even rainmaking.
Summary published by Crunchbase News · 25 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Ahead of CoreWeave Inc.’s Fully Connected conference in San Francisco, we have made a notable investment in proprietary customer research with Qualitate. Rather than simply repeat the earnings call, we went to the people evaluating, buying and running the infrastructure. This analysis draws on 13 in-depth interviews and more than seven hours of interview time. […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 26 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Enterprise AI is moving past experimentation, and the infrastructure decisions behind it are becoming business decisions. As companies put AI into production, the conversation is expanding beyond models and GPUs to the data, infrastructure and operating models required to support AI at scale. Dell Technologies Inc. has been building around that shift through its AI […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 26 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Fresh off my jaunt to AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe last week, I headed back to Amsterdam for the first European installment of the artificial intelligence-focused HumanX conference so I could meet with another round of AI startups. As always, my goal was to uncover the untold stories of innovation across the software landscape – and […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 25 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.
Summary published by AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch · 25 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
With Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin This week’s 20VC x SaaStr covered a lot. Anthropic moved its IPO back a month. OpenAI’s internal forecast put total burn through 2030 at $278 billion. Meta shipped the first consumer AI product that competes head-on with ChatGPT and added about $100 billion in market cap in...
Summary published by SaaStrAI · 25 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
The rise of AI-native cloud provider CoreWeave Inc. is part of the greater story emerging around operationalizing AI. As enterprises shift from training to inference, neoclouds such as CoreWeave are providing cloud infrastructure tailor-made for AI. The company made waves by completing the industry’s first bring-up and validation of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave […]
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Colton Malkerson, COO of EdgeRunner AI, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We define our Total Addressable …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 25 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
This month, the pressure to secure enterprise AI agents has dialed up. A few notable moves from the last few weeks: Companies are setting limits. JPMorgan is restricting Claude’s system access, while Okta expanded its controls for governing AI agents. …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 24 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
Anthropic and OpenAI released new models this week, expanding the range of models enterprises can use for different workloads and raising new considerations for multi-model management.
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Alex Hijab, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Rapid Venture Group (Knowz AI), tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that …
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Michael R. Benezra, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Signal87 AI, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? The …
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Stripe processes payments for most of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world, so it sees their actual revenue data. At her SaaStr AI session, Maia Josebachvili, Chief Revenue Officer of AI at Stripe, walked through what Stripe is seeing across its AI customer base and how differently she would run a company if she...
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So far this year, companies in the gaming space have raised around $2 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding. That's already ahead of the 2025 full-year total, driven in large part by big rounds for companies at the intersection of AI and gaming.
Summary published by Crunchbase News · 24 Sep 2026 · Read the original ↗
50skills, a Reykjavík-based startup building the operating system for people workflows, has raised a €5.3 million ($6 million) funding round to accelerate hiring in sales, marketing, and community, while continuing to invest in the platform, including the AI agents that work alongside HR teams. The round was co-led by Frumtak Ventures, Swiss Post Ventures, Avant, […]
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