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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...Acorn Robot Lands Angel Round To Push "Zero-Data" Physical AI Model — Aug 23, 2026 — Beijing startup Acorn Robot closed an angel round led by CM Venture Capital and Nio Capital and released Natus AGE-0, a tactile-first foundation model...Rillet Hits $1B Valuation With $100M Series C To Build AI Accounting Agents — Aug 23, 2026 — AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1 billion valuation, its third round in a year, to expand agentic acco...Twin1 AI Emerges With $20M Seed to Build Digital Twins for Every Professional — Aug 23, 2026 — San Mateo-based Twin1 AI has emerged from stealth with a $20 million seed round co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca and Aramco Ventures to give every knowledg...Astromech Raises $20M at $3.8B Valuation to Predict How Biology Changes — Aug 23, 2026 — Colossal Biosciences spinout Astromech has raised $20 million at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI models that forecast how biological systems evol...Nvidia In Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions For Deal Or Buyout — Aug 22, 2026 — Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia HQ to discuss investment, partnership or acquisition of the $2.3B Korean AI inference chip sta...Nvidia Strikes Unusual $6B Poolside Licensing Deal Plus $1B Investment — Aug 22, 2026 — Nvidia will pay Poolside $6B in a non-exclusive licensing deal, add $1B in equity at a $12B pre-money valuation and hire 109 of its engineers.Ex-Nvidia Researcher Sanja Fidler's Veeda AI Bags $90M Seed To Build 'The Matrix' For Physical AI — Aug 21, 2026 — Toronto-founded Veeda AI has closed $90M+ in seed funding co-led by Khosla and Radical Ventures to build foundation world models for training humanoid...Edgify Raises $9M Series A+ to Scale Edge AI Beyond Retail Stores — Aug 19, 2026 — Israeli edge AI startup Edgify raised a $9M Series A+ led by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners to expand its on-device intelligence platform...Cambridge Aerospace Raises $300M Series C at $3.4B Valuation — Aug 18, 2026 — UK counter-drone startup Cambridge Aerospace has closed a $300 million Series C at a $3.4 billion valuation to scale production of its Skyhammer inter...