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Investment news, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs, and strategic partnerships in robotics and AI.
- Qingxing Raises 100M Yuan Series A+ For Quantum-Inspired AI On Regular GPUs — — Shanghai's Qingxing Heterogeneous Computing has raised ~100M yuan ($14.9M) across two rounds in three months to scale RiverONE, a quantum-inspired vis...
- China Freezes Humanoid Robot IPO Rush As Regulators Probe Valuations — — Chinese regulators have effectively frozen humanoid robot IPOs, probing whether government-backed data-collection revenue distorts valuations at Unitr...
- Feather Robotics Bags $7.6M Pre-Seed To Sell A $30K Developer Humanoid — — Feather Robotics raises $7.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Gradient Ventures to sell a $30,000 modular humanoid that developers can customize and...
- Iridium Stockholders Approve $8B Rocket Lab Acquisition With 99.6% Vote — — Iridium stockholders overwhelmingly cleared Rocket Lab's $8 billion cash-and-stock takeover with 99.6% of votes cast in favor, keeping the deal on tra...
- Arbe Robotics Prices $15M Direct Offering To Fund L3 Radar Push And Counter-Drone Move — — Israeli 4D imaging radar specialist Arbe Robotics has priced a $15M underwritten direct offering with Canaccord Genuity to bankroll an L3 program ramp...
- Cognition Says Devin Has Doubled To $1B ARR In Four Months — — AI coding startup Cognition told Bloomberg on 25 September that Devin's annualized revenue has crossed $1 billion, up from $492M in May — roughly a 20...
- Noxtua Raises €100M Series C As C.H. Beck Takes Majority Stake In Sovereign Legal AI — — Berlin-based sovereign legal AI startup Noxtua closed a €100M+ Series C on September 23, 2026 with German legal publisher C.H. Beck taking a majority...
- Siemens And TSMC Deepen AI Chip Design Pact, Add DRC Fixing Agent For N2 And A16 — — Siemens and TSMC extended their Open Innovation Platform tie-up on September 23, 2026 with a joint AI-powered DRC fixing agent and expanded Calibre, A...
- FlexGen And Lightshift Team Up On 16 Battery Projects Across PJM And New England — — FlexGen's HybridOS EMS is being deployed across 16 Lightshift Energy battery projects — 25 MW/85 MWh already online and 55 MW/200 MWh under constructi...
- Eight Knot Closes First Tranche of ¥450M Series A for Autonomous Ships — — Osaka's Eight Knot has closed the first close of a ¥450M Series A led by ITOCHU Technology Ventures and Nissei Capital to scale its AI CAPTAIN autonom...
- Redefine Surgery Closes $10M Pre-Seed, Names Catalyst OrthoScience Partner — — Redefine Surgery has closed an oversubscribed $10M pre-seed and named Catalyst OrthoScience as its founding partner in shoulder replacement.
- ASI, SoftBank Form JV and Take $225M Bet on Autonomous Construction — — SoftBank Group has invested $225M in Autonomous Solutions Inc and formed a joint venture to develop fully autonomous construction equipment at scale.
- China's Direct Drive Tech Prices $138M Hong Kong IPO for September 29 Listing — — Dongguan-based Direct Drive Tech is set to raise about $138 million in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing on September 29, 2026, extending a wave of C...
- Cloud-Seeding Startup Rainmaker Raises $100M Series B To Scale Drone Fleets — — Rainmaker has raised $100M Series B led by NOA VC to scale its drone-based glaciogenic cloud-seeding platform after producing 145M gallons of precipit...
- Crusoe Walks Away From $1.25B Boom Superpower Turbine Order — — Crusoe has cancelled the launch order for 29 Boom Superpower gas turbines, worth about $1.25 billion, saying gas is no longer part of its near-term Ab...
- Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...
- Energy Vault Buys Goshe's 2.3 GW US BESS Pipeline, Adds $40M S2G Facility — — Energy Vault folds Goshe's 15-project US battery pipeline into Asset Vault, gaining 350 MW ready-to-build with a $40M S2G credit facility.
- House Lofgren, Obernolte Roll Out $10B American Leadership In Fusion Act — — The bipartisan H.R. 10574 authorises ~$4B for test facilities, $2B for milestone-based development and $3B for demonstration cost-share, plus a codifi...
- nT-Tao And Orion Nuclear Team On 20 MW Compact Fusion For US Data Centers — — nT-Tao's MEGA pulsed-power fusion platform meets Orion Nuclear's six-state US development pipeline in a study-and-site MoU for 20 MW on-site power.
- BigHat Biosciences Closes $75M Series C, Pushes AI-Designed ADC Into Phase 1 — — DFJ Growth and Premji Invest co-lead BigHat's $75M Series C as its first Milner-designed antibody, BHB810, doses first patient in gastric cancer trial...