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Inspiren Bags $70M Series C To Bring Physical AI To Senior Living — Sep 11, 2026 — NewView Capital leads a $70M Series C for Inspiren at a valuation above $500M as the New York startup scales its computer-vision fall detection stack...Salesforce In Talks To Buy AI Customer-Research Startup Listen Labs For ~$2B — Sep 11, 2026 — Salesforce is in advanced talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that runs customer research through autonomous interviews, for roughly $2 billio...Alibaba To Lead $300M Round For UniPat AI At $2.5B, Betting On China's AI Evaluation Layer — Sep 11, 2026 — Alibaba, Tencent and HSG are lining up a $300 million round for Chinese benchmarking startup UniPat AI at a $2.5 billion valuation — the biggest bet y...Harvey Locks In $550M At $15.5B Valuation As Legal AI's Runaway Leader — Sep 10, 2026 — Diffusion and Lightspeed co-lead a fresh $550M round that pushes Harvey's valuation to $15.5B just months after it hit $11B, with ARR already north of...XDOF In Talks For $1.2B Series B Led By 8VC Just Months After Stealth Exit — Sep 5, 2026 — XDOF is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at roughly a $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, less than three months after the robot teleoperation d...Bootstrapped Turkish Startup HubX Becomes 8th Turcorn With $75M From Point72 — Sep 4, 2026 — Izmir-based consumer AI app factory HubX has crossed $1.2 billion pre-money with its first ever outside round, a $75 million cheque led by Point72 Pri...Resect AI Emerges From Stealth With $25M To Kill LLM Hallucinations Mid-Generation — Sep 4, 2026 — Washington state startup Resect AI has come out of stealth with $25 million to commercialise an in-stream layer that inspects LLM internals and rewrit...AMD Ventures And Marathon Back Wafer With $40M Series A For AI Inference Silicon — Sep 3, 2026 — San Francisco startup Wafer raised a $40M Series A led by Marathon and Chemistry, with AMD Ventures, Wing, Y Combinator and Fifty Years joining to fun...JetStream's Clearance Puts A Zero-Trust Brake On Every AI Agent Action — Sep 3, 2026 — JetStream's new Clearance reasoning engine authorizes every AI agent MCP call in flight, backed by Redpoint and the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and demoed...Ranchbot Bags US$15M Series B To Take Farmbot Water Sensors Global — Aug 29, 2026 — Australian-founded agtech Ranchbot has closed a US$15 million (A$22 million) Series B co-led by Lewis & Clark Partners and Fulcrum Global Capital, mov...Universal, Sony, Warner Join Stability AI's $76M Series B — Aug 29, 2026 — Stability AI has closed a $76 million Series B backed by all three major music groups plus Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures...Arintra Raises $25M Series B For Autonomous Medical Coding AI — Aug 29, 2026 — San Francisco healthcare AI startup Arintra has closed a $25 million Series B led by Define Ventures, taking total funding to $51 million as its agent...SiFly Raises $20M Series A To Scale U.S. Q12 Drone Production — Aug 29, 2026 — Long-endurance drone maker SiFly Aviation closed a $20 million Series A led by Shield Capital to expand U.S. production of its record-setting Q12 airc...Yardstik Raises $30M Series B To Hunt Fraud After The Hire Date — Aug 29, 2026 — Harbert Growth Partners led a $30 million Series B into Minneapolis-based Yardstik, taking total funding to $65M as the platform pushes past one-shot...NVIDIA Weighs Fresh Perplexity Investment at $30B+ Valuation — Aug 29, 2026 — The Information reports NVIDIA is discussing a new equity check into Perplexity AI at a valuation topping $30 billion, more than 50% above the answer...NVIDIA nears $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisition — Aug 28, 2026 — NVIDIA is nearing a $12.9 billion deal to acquire Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source AI models, in what would be one of the largest AI...Instinct Raises $250M Series B At $2.5B For AI Personal Assistant — Aug 28, 2026 — Consumer AI assistant Instinct closed a $250 million Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, valuing the private-beta startup at $2.5 billion...Stellaria Raises $6.8M Seed To Scale UAE-Built Geospatial AI OS — Aug 27, 2026 — Stellaria, formerly Farmin, raised AED 25M ($6.8M) from UAE angel investors at a $114.4M valuation to scale its Stella geospatial AI platform for sate...Wrtn Raises $72M Series C at $722M+ Valuation for Global Push — Aug 26, 2026 — Seoul-based AI service company Wrtn Technologies said August 26 it raised roughly 100 billion won ($72.23 million) in Series C funding at a valuation...Generalist AI Raises $200M In 8VC-Led Round, Weeks After Debuting Gen-1.5 — Aug 26, 2026 — Robotics AI startup Generalist AI has raised $200 million in a fresh round led by 8VC, coming roughly a week after unveiling its Gen-1.5 embodied foun...