- Ramp opens AI model router, says it cut internal LLM costs 30%
CTO Rahul Sengottuvelu is turning Ramp's internal model-selection layer into a developer gateway with per-request spend tracking.
- Cognition acquires TierZero to extend Devin into production operations
Anhang Zhu and Yun Park will bring incident response and infrastructure automations into Devin; financial terms were not disclosed.
- A-Comm opens its agentic commerce evidence protocol for industry review
Krystal Gracier is using an open protocol to turn agent transactions into dispute-ready records while building A-Comm's commercial services around it.
- Curb opens Flow network so taxi fleets can add demand without switching systems
Amos Tamam's Curb is using GoRide data from Washington to recruit demand and technology partners across the US, UK and Canada.
- Infinity Raises $15 Million Seed to Automate AI Inference Software for Any Chip
The San Francisco-based startup, founded by former Google Brain engineer Jeremy Nixon, secured $15 million at a $100 million post-money valuation to scale its 'Ignition' platform, aiming to accelerate AI chip development beyond NVIDIA's CUDA.
- ASIO Lands $15 Million Round, Secures Anduril Deal for GPS-Independent UAV Navigation
The Israeli defense technology firm, founded by former IDF reconnaissance officers, attracted its first outside capital after over two decades of bootstrapping, coinciding with a new U.S. defense contract.
- IG analyst estimates Kimi K3 cut OpenAI, Anthropic valuation estimates by $314 billion
Bloomberg reported Tony Sycamore's estimate that Kimi K3 erased $314 billion from private valuation estimates for OpenAI and Anthropic, though his methodology was not disclosed.
- Tempus AI to Acquire Personalis for $1.5 Billion, Expanding Oncology Portfolio
The AI-enabled precision medicine firm is set to integrate Personalis' cancer testing capabilities, bolstering its position in personalized cancer care.
- Giada De Laurentiis pushes Giadzy from online pantry into grocery stores
The Food Network veteran is personally checking store placement as Giadzy tries to turn an online audience into repeat retail demand.
- Empirical Security raises $25M to tailor exploit predictions to each customer
Brightmind led the Series A for the Chicago team behind Kenna Security and EPSS, taking disclosed funding to $37 million.
- Ursa Space discloses $27.9 million equity financing from two investors
Ursa Space Systems began selling the equity financing on March 27th; the filing omits the investors, valuation and round label.
- Your360 AI discloses $1.4 million SAFE for voice-based workplace coaching
The financing began in September 2025, and the SEC filing shows $600,000 remains available from a $2 million target.
- Neo emerges with $100 million to police AI agents on enterprise endpoints
Former SentinelOne operators Nick Warner and Shlomi Salem built Neo with Eran Shirazi, backed by a16z, Bessemer, Craft and Merlin.
- Y Combinator and Together AI Launch Dedicated GPU Cluster for Startups
The accelerator and AI platform partner to give early-stage companies improved access to scarce compute resources, a critical bottleneck for model training and scaling.
- Dispatch targets 2027 flight for a refurbishable orbital return vehicle
The two-person YC startup plans to carry 30 kilograms, replace the heat shield after landing and fly the primary spacecraft again.
- 10 US space startups moving from funded hardware to operational missions by 2027
Launch, orbital logistics, satellite production and lunar mobility companies face a year of costly, measurable execution tests.
- goNEON secures CHF150,000 from Venture Kick for infrastructure-planning AI
Raphael Eder and Dr Lukas Ballo plan to use the funding to turn repeatable infrastructure-planning workflows into product modules, though customers, terms and independent benchmarks were not disclosed.
- CuspAI raises $450M to build a global AI materials foundry
Kleiner Perkins and NEA co-led the round at a $2.6B valuation, five times CuspAI's September 2025 valuation.
- Meshy raises nearly $400 million to build AI-generated interactive worlds
Meshy topped a 10 billion yuan post-money valuation as IDG Capital, Matrix Partners China and Monolith joined the Series B.
- Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI seeks pre-IPO funding for a 2027 Hong Kong listing
01.AI is seeking fresh capital as Lee turns a foundation-model lab into a deployment-heavy enterprise AI business.
- Pedro Shakour ships an iPhone remote for xAI's Grok Build
The open-source SwiftUI client keeps xAI's coding agent on a Mac, using ACP to turn an iPhone into a sideloaded control panel.
- LlamaIndex backs You.com's live-data agent hackathon with builder credits
LlamaIndex, Jerry Liu's document-agent startup, is one of 11 partners supporting the July 24th event at San Francisco's AWS Builder Loft.
- Monumental raises $32 million to bring its bricklaying robots to US sites
Khosla Ventures is backing Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser's subcontractor model after more than 100 European structures.
- GLM-5.2 leads July's open-weight LLMs as Inkling tops US models
Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 remain outside the ranking because their downloadable weights were not available by July 20th.