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Financing

  1. Lumilens raises $700 million for optical interconnect technology for AI data centers
  2. Earendil faces regulatory scrutiny during Hong Kong IPO process
  3. HappyRobot raises funding led by Andreessen Horowitz at a reported $1.2 billion valuation
  4. Exclaim Robotics emerges from stealth with a $4.95 million seed round
  5. Safe Superintelligence reportedly lands $5 billion financing backed by Nvidia
  6. Fish Audio raises $52 million seed round to expand AI voice models
  7. Etched reportedly reaches a $10.3 billion valuation from new investor backing
  8. ServiceNow invests $40 million in BusinessNext to expand AI banking software
  9. Glow emerges from stealth focused on endpoint security risks from enterprise AI agents
  10. Natural raises $30 million to build payments infrastructure for AI agents
  11. Inference startup Infinity raises $15 million seed round led by Touring Capital
  12. Oak emerges from stealth with a $60 million seed round for identity management
  13. Gradium raises $100 million seed round with backing from Nvidia
  14. Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises train their own AI agents
  15. Norm raises $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation
  16. Together AI raises $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation
  17. Chamath Palihapitiya’s AI coding startup raises $135 million Series A as he becomes CEO
  18. Netris raises $15 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz for AI cloud networking software
  19. Amazon commits $13 billion to expand AI infrastructure in India
  20. Menlo Ventures raises a $3 billion fund after AI gains tied to Anthropic investment
  21. Groq confirms a $650 million funding round and expands after Nvidia-related talent deal
  22. Probably raises $9 million to build AI systems aimed at reducing hallucinations
  23. Equal AI raises $30 million for an AI call-screening assistant in India
  24. Amazon reportedly secures $17.5 billion in bank financing as AI infrastructure spending rises
  25. Jedify raises $24 million to build enterprise context infrastructure for AI agents
  26. Sandstone raises $30 million Series A for AI tools aimed at in-house legal teams
  27. Alphabet raises $85 billion to expand Google’s AI infrastructure
  28. Suno raises $400 million at a reported valuation above $5.4 billion
  29. Coralogix raises $200 million to expand observability for AI agents
  30. Anthropic reportedly raises $65 billion in Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation
  31. Cognition raises $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation
  32. Hark raises $700M Series A for a planned multimodal AI platform and future hardware
  33. Ocean raises $28 million for AI-based email phishing defense
  34. Wirestock raises $23 million to supply multimodal training data to AI labs
  35. Exaforce raises $125 million Series B for AI-driven real-time cybersecurity
  36. Vapi reaches a reported $500 million valuation after customer growth and an Amazon Ring win
  37. Kodiak AI raises $100 million in discounted financing and shares fall after earnings
  38. Moonshot AI raises $2 billion at a reported $20 billion valuation
  39. CopilotKit raises $27 million Series A to help developers deploy app-native AI agents
  40. Sierra raises $950 million to expand its enterprise AI customer experience platform