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Every AI story we track on Startup Funding — 37 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.
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Today's stories
Business & Enterprise10 min read
29 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In August, Led By AI Software And Semiconductors
Crunchbase
This week
Peter Thiel-Backed AI Startup Cognition Raises Funds at $48 Billion Valuation
The Wall Street Journal
Source: Gimlet Labs raised its $300M round after telling investors OpenAI may spend $100M+ annually on its services; OpenAI says it's not a paying customer yet (The Information)
Techmeme
Business & Enterprise6 min read
Cato raises €6m to sell AI into Italy’s €309.7bn tender market
The Next Web
This month
Business & Enterprise4 min read
Global Venture Funding Jumps 122% In August As Streak Of Billion-Dollar Deals Continues
Crunchbase
Business & Enterprise1 min read
Salesforce Backs Software Firm HiBob at $3.2 Billion Value
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise2 min read
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
TechCrunch
Business & Enterprise5 min read
I dropped out of high school at 16 to become a Buddhist monk. Now I run a startup taking on Accenture.
Business Insider
Business & Enterprise3 min read
OpenAI Reportedly Just Gave Investors Bad News on Eventual Profitability
Gizmodo
Business & Enterprise2 min read
AI proptech startup EliseAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a $3.7 billion valuation
Covered by 2 sources
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal)
Covered by 6 sources
Business & Enterprise12 min read
40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years
Crunchbase
Dev2 min read
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
TechCrunch
Finance4 min read
Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
TechCrunch
This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.
The Next Web
Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups
The Next Web
An ‘anti-private-equity’ startup raised $225M to buy Main Street software and rebuild it with AI
The Next Web
SOND, a sleep tech startup from Bose’s former head of sleep, exits stealth with $7M
TechCrunch
A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself
The Next Web
Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose last startup, Bench, imploded
TechCrunch
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power
The Next Web
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups
TechCrunch
OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation
The Next Web
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