Sandbar has raised $36 million for Stream, a private voice-enabled ring that captures ideas and controls music through push-to-talk interactions.
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its value as it expands beyond app creation.
Cognition is in early talks to raise about $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, months after its Devin coding agent startup raised $1 billion at $26 billion.
Valar Atomics closed a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital at a $6 billion valuation alongside a $200 million credit facility, shifting the nuclear startup from demonstrating small reactors to volume manufacturing for AI data centers.
K2 Space, a satellite manufacturer founded by former SpaceX engineers, raised $500 million in Series D funding at a $6.8 billion valuation to scale production of large, high-power spacecraft for commercial and defense missions.
Prentis, co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus, and Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation to build AI agents.
Wayve launches an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation, becoming the first major company to use the London Stock Exchange's new.
Founders raise millions for offline social experiences as investors bet against AI's isolation effect.
AI music startup Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, doubling its worth in seven months despite ongoing copyright litigation from major.
AI coding startup Cognition raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in eight months as annualized revenue run rate.
TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27, offering early-stage founders $100,000 in equity-free funding and global investor access.
NanoClaw founder Gavriel Cohen rejected a $20 million acquisition offer and raised $12 million in seed funding at a $62 million valuation.
Exa Labs raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Nvidia also backing the AI search startup.
Former OpenAI CTO's startup reveals real-time AI interaction models while losing 7+ founders to Meta and OpenAI in Silicon Valley's fiercest talent battle.
Former Snap engineers raise $14.7M seed to let creators like Crazy Lamp Lady build their own Amazon-style marketplaces without code.
