Startups

AI coding startup Cognition is reportedly back with investors floating a $40 billion valuation after closing a $1 billion round...

Blacksmith, which builds software testing and validation tools, convinced investors it is worth $550 million after its valuation rose nearly...

Hadrian’s $1.37B Series D values the automated-factory startup at $7.87B, with JPMorgan anchoring a round aimed squarely at U.S. defense...

Accel raised $550 million for its newest India fund in a matter of weeks while still sitting on more than...

Crunchbase counts 195 new unicorns in H1 2026, already topping last year's total. DeepSeek leads at $50B as China's startup...

London's OLIX lands Europe's biggest semiconductor venture round, betting light-based OTPU chips can break the AI inference bottleneck.

On August 5, Meta unveiled Muse Code, an AI coding agent built for sprawling, tangled, decades-old code bases where most...

According to TechCrunch, Jeff Dean is leaving Google with other senior executives for a venture that aims to use AI...

DesignArena raised a round to teach AI models something closer to human judgment, using evaluations from its 5.3 million users...

June came out of stealth on August 3, 2026, with $20 million in pre-seed funding and a pitch to use...