- Neros raises $250 million to expand autonomous drones and interceptor production
Drone-racing founders Soren Monroe-Anderson and Olaf Hichwa plan to use the Bloomberg-reported round to expand autonomous and interceptor programs and manufacturing capacity.
- Igor Babuschkin's River AI raises $1.1 billion for customer-owned models
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the combined seed and Series A, with Nvidia and AMD backing an open-weight training stack.
- Aureka raises $100M to build a biological world model for drug discovery
Granite Asia backed the first tranche as Aureka expands OpenDDE and its wet-lab feedback system for antibody discovery.
- Palette raises EUR 3M to make company context portable across AI models
The Copenhagen founders behind Linkfire and Airtame are selling a model-neutral layer for files, workflows and organizational memory.
- Pangram raised $9 million to expand AI detection into images
Pangram pairs a $9 million round announced July 29th with Pangram 4 and a public research preview of its image detector.
- CleanCore launches another stock offering as its $100 million data-center bill approaches
Tyler Hassen's cleaning-to-data-center pivot carries a near-term funding commitment larger than the issuer's recent operating scale.
- Lightview backs InStore Technology to build a grocery IT services platform
CEO Tom Courlas plans to expand InStore Technology's services, territory and acquisition pipeline; the deal's size and ownership terms were not disclosed.
- Exclusive: Ex-Meta AI Director discloses $10M financing for Noosphere Labs
Former Meta research director Kevin Carlberg leads the 2026 startup, whose filing lists 10 investors and a converted SAFE.
- heyyyyAI raises $10.5 million from one investor for AI character app
A Thinking Ape co-founders Wilkins Chung and Kenshi Arasaki are back in consumer apps after selling their game studio to Embracer.
- inKind adds $414 million financing as banks back its restaurant-credit model
Citi and Cross River supplied most of the new tranche, extending a 2026 capital push that mixes institutional credit with consumer dining demand.
- Sila secures conditional $1.4B Pentagon commitment for U.S. anode production
Gene Berdichevsky's 15-year battery bet is moving from a 2 GWh Washington plant toward defense and auto-scale production.
- Neo backs Daso's child-safe AI tablet with a $750K pre-seed check
Daso's pitch is that child safety should be the product architecture, not a parental-control setting: creative tools, a constrained AI tutor and no browser, app store or feed.
- Flora Coatings sells $800,000 offering to one undisclosed investor
Founder and polymer scientist Atul Tiwari is turning NSF-backed research into coating products for aerospace, marine and automotive applications.
- Latitude Health discloses $2M as CMS tightens prior-authorization rules
Chuck Feerick and Guru Nadiger are building an AI platform for payer workflows as CMS decision-time and electronic-interface requirements take effect.
- emberOS files $2.49 million fully sold seed round
Former Google executive Justin Inman is building software to monitor, predict and act on how brands appear in AI-generated answers.
- Hadrian raises $1.37 billion to build automated defense factories
Chris Power's factory network spans nearly 3 million square feet, including a Navy-opened Alabama site making submarine components.
- Firmus raises $2 billion to expand AI factories across Asia-Pacific
The August round includes follow-on investments from Coatue and Nvidia, new capital from Blackstone vehicles and participation from Jane Street, following a US$505 million equity investment announced in April.
- SkillBench sells $15.1M to measure AI's effect on developer skills
SkillBench's July financing backs a privacy-first system for measuring AI coding gains, human contribution and the skills developers retain.
- Gravity raises $30.5 million to build an ad exchange for AI agents
Lightspeed and Committed Capital co-led the Series A as Gravity tests ads that influence software agents before users ever see them.
- Pally raises $5.2 million to put an AI assistant in your text messages
Haz Hubble and Wyatt Lansford are running the YC-backed company as a two-founder team, with Pally valued at $30 million.
- Lumilens raises more than $700 million to connect AI data centers with light
The two-year-old startup says an unnamed hyperscaler is deploying its optical hardware under a multi-billion-dollar agreement.
- Malachyte raises $10M to bring Spotify-style user vectors to commerce
Bessemer and Gradient co-led the round backing Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson and Shivaditya Sinha's push to personalize stores from a shopper's first session.
- Ambrook raises $30M to take its farm accounting playbook into trucking and construction
Mackenzie Burnett's six-year-old fintech says it has grown to 8,000 businesses by pairing industry-specific software with hands-on service.
- Moove raises $250 million to finance and operate robotaxi fleets
Mubadala led the Series C at a reported $2.1 billion valuation as Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi expand from driver finance into autonomous fleet infrastructure.