What Is AI Drug Discovery — and How Does It Work?
AI models now help scientists find and design new drug candidates in weeks instead of years. Here's what AI drug discovery is and how it actually works.
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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.
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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.
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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 →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 →What Is Decentralized AI Training — and How Does It Work?
Decentralized AI training splits a model's training run across GPUs scattered around the world instead of one data center — here's how the compute actually gets coordinated.
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 →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.
Read more →Together AI Raises $800M to Scale Open-Source AI Infrastructure
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures, more than doubling its valuation to $8.3 billion as industry-wide use of open AI models has tripled over the past year.
Read more →Unitree Robotics Wins Final Approval for $620M Shanghai IPO
China's top humanoid robot maker received China Securities Regulatory Commission clearance on July 2 to list on Shanghai's STAR Market, aiming to raise 4.2 billion yuan to fund AI model development and new products.
Read more →8090 Labs Raises $135M as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes CEO Role
Enterprise AI coding startup 8090 Labs closed a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with founder Chamath Palihapitiya stepping in as full-time CEO — his first operating role since leaving Facebook.
Read more →OpenAI May Delay IPO to 2027 as Altman Holds Firm on $1 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI is leaning toward pushing its stock market debut to 2027, with CEO Sam Altman rejecting any listing price below $1 trillion even as advisers flag tech market volatility.
Read more →Qualcomm Agrees to Acquire AI Software Startup Modular
Qualcomm has agreed to buy Modular, the AI infrastructure startup behind the Mojo programming language and MAX platform, for a reported ~$4 billion, aiming to build a cross-hardware AI deployment stack.
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