Blackstone, Apollo, KKR Invest $5.34B in Williams' AI Power Plants
A Blackstone-led investor group is funding 49% of five natural-gas power plants that pipeline giant Williams is building largely to supply electricity to AI data centers.
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AI funding covers the venture rounds, valuations, and public listings flowing into AI companies, now among the largest deals in tech. This hub tracks who is raising, at what valuation, and what the money signals about the industry.
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Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M, Nears $7B Valuation
Neko Health, the AI-assisted preventive health-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million in Series C funding as it prepares to open its first US clinic in New York.
Read more →AI Drug-Design Startup Chai Discovery Raises $400M Series C
Chai Discovery, an AI startup that designs antibodies and other molecules from scratch, raised a $400 million Series C led by Index Ventures at a $3.8 billion valuation.
Read more →Supply Chain AI Startup Auger Raises $50M Series B
Auger, the AI-driven supply chain startup led by former Amazon executive Dave Clark, has raised a $50 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $150 million.
Read more →DeepSeek in Talks for New Funding at $71 Billion Valuation
DeepSeek has opened talks for a new funding round valuing the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, just weeks after its first outside round closed near $50 billion, the Financial Times reports.
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What Is a Series E Round — and Why Do AI Startups Raise Them?
A Series E is the fifth major venture round a startup raises. AI companies now close them at record size to keep growing without going public — here's how the funding ladder works.
Read more →Innovative Eyewear Adds Claude AI to All Lucyd Smart Glasses
Nasdaq-listed Innovative Eyewear is rolling out free Claude AI access across its Lucyd smart eyewear lineup, letting wearers switch between Claude and ChatGPT mid-conversation.
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What Is Defense AI — and Why Is It Attracting Billions in Funding?
Defense AI fuses battlefield sensor data and guides autonomous drones — and it is now one of the fastest-growing corners of venture investment in Europe and the US.
Read more →European Defense AI Startup Helsing Raises $1.8B at $18B Valuation
German defense-AI company Helsing raised $1.8 billion in a Series E round, valuing it at $18 billion — Europe's largest-ever defense-startup funding round.
Read more →Meta Expands Louisiana AI Data Center to $50 Billion, 5 Gigawatts
Meta is expanding its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, to 5 gigawatts of capacity, pushing total investment past $50 billion and funding local schools and infrastructure.
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What Is a Secondary Market Valuation — and How Reliable Is It?
A secondary market valuation prices a private company by what its existing shares fetch between investors, not a funding round or IPO. Here's how it works, and why it can mislead.
Read more →Anthropic Valuation Hits $1.2 Trillion on Secondary Markets
Anthropic shares are trading at an implied $1.2 trillion valuation on private secondary markets, according to Business Insider, edging past OpenAI's roughly $908 billion for the first time.
Read more →SK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in Record Nasdaq Debut
SK Hynix, the top maker of AI memory chips, began trading on Nasdaq on July 10 in the largest-ever US listing by a foreign company, with shares jumping 13%.
Read more →Ollama Raises $65M Series B, Reaches 8.9 Million Developers
Ollama, the open-source tool for running AI models locally, has raised $65 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to $88 million as its developer base nears 9 million.
Read more →MiniMax Raises $2B, CEO Forgoes Salary Until AGI Is Achieved
Chinese AI startup MiniMax closed a $2 billion share-and-bond sale after its stock plunged on an IPO lockup expiry, with founder Yan Junjie vowing to forgo salary until AGI is achieved.
Read more →AI Training Startup Prime Intellect Raises $130M, Hits $1B Valuation
Prime Intellect raised a $130 million Series A led by Radical Ventures, valuing the AI infrastructure startup at $1 billion as it helps businesses train and run their own AI agents.
Read more →AI Chip Maker SambaNova Raises $1B, Hits $11B Valuation
SambaNova closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series F round led by General Atlantic, and said JPMorganChase will deploy its chips for on-premises AI inference.
Read more →Camera-Free Smart Glasses Maker Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation
Shenzhen startup Even Realities raised $150 million led by Tencent and Meituan, valuing the camera-free smart glasses maker at $1 billion.
Read more →AI Legal Startup Norm Raises $120M, Hits $1.2B Valuation
Norm Ai raised $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the AI-native law firm at $1.2 billion.
Read more →Syntiant Files for Nasdaq IPO to Scale 'Physical AI' Chips
Intel- and Microsoft-backed chipmaker Syntiant filed to list on Nasdaq under ticker SYTN, betting on demand for its low-power, on-device 'Physical AI' processors.
Read more →Global Startup Funding Hits $510B Record as AI Takes 70% of VC
Global startup investment reached a record $510 billion in H1 2026 — already past all of 2025 — with AI companies capturing over 70% of venture capital in Q2, Crunchbase data shows.
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