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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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 →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 →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 →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 →OpenAI Proposes 5% US Government Stake Worth $42.6 Billion
OpenAI has proposed granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake — worth roughly $42.6 billion at its current valuation — to ease regulatory pressure and share AI's economic gains with the public.
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 →SK Hynix Plans $29 Billion Nasdaq Listing to Expand AI Memory
South Korea's leading chipmaker SK Hynix plans to raise $29.4 billion via a Nasdaq ADR offering — which would be the largest in history — to fund new AI memory production capacity.
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