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The AI company serving housing and healthcare has reached unicorn status with a new funding round led by a16z and Bessemer. CEO Minna Song argues that the industries where AI matters most are still not getting the most attention. Source: fortune.com
Efficient Computer Corp. has raised $97 million in a Series B round led by TQ Ventures. The financing lifts the Carnegie Mellon spinout's total funding to $173 million and values the startup at $650 million. Source: bizjournals.com
Instinct announced on Monday it raised $1 billion in a new funding round, quadrupling its valuation to $10 billion amid surging demand for AI agents. Source: reuters.com
Chipmaker SiMa.ai raised $150 million in a Series C round that pushed its valuation to $1.45 billion, the San Jose-based company said Monday. It builds chips and software for physical, real-world AI applications. Source: thenextweb.com
Instinct, developer of a personal AI agent for everyday tasks, said on September 28, 2026 that it raised another $1 billion in Series C funding. The round lifts the company's valuation to $10 billion as it pushes to make useful AI accessible to a broader audience. Source: unite.ai
Dige Robotics, a company focused on intelligent robotics and core chip technology, has closed a $400 million Series C funding round. Investor Linear Capital increased its stake, marking its seventh consecutive investment round in the firm. Source: eu.36kr.com
The AI insurance startup has been raising capital nonstop since May, even as it navigates controversies including the temporary shutdown of one of its operations. Source: forbes.com
In venture capital news, SF-based AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly in talks to raise a Series G round at a $26 billion valuation, according to Axios Pro. Source: axios.com
Nscale raised $3.36 billion in convertible notes led by Third Point, with NVIDIA, Apollo and Citadel among the backers. The company's total contracted value now exceeds $103 billion. Source: en.wowtale.net
Feather Robotics raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding to grow its modular humanoid robot platform, aimed at letting third-party developers build physical AI applications on top of it. Source: theaiinsider.tech
Dallas-based Island Technology raised $400 million in a Series F round on September 24, pushing its valuation to $6.4 billion. The company builds an enterprise browser aimed at securing corporate data and, more recently, supporting AI agent workflows. Source: bizjournals.com
Mountain View-based Ema, which develops AI agents for enterprises, raised $77 million in a Series B round led by Creaegis. Existing backers including Accel also participated, bringing the startup's cumulative funding to $140 million. Source: pulse2.com
MixMode, based in Santa Barbara, California, develops self-learning AI technology for detecting cyberattacks in real time. The company announced a $45 million Series B funding round led by PSG on March 23. Source: app.dealroom.co
Ema, which builds AI agents for enterprise employees, raised $77 million in a Series B led by Bengaluru-based Creaegis on September 23, 2026. The round brings the company's total funding to $140 million. Source: hedgeco.net
European autonomous systems developer TEKEVER announced the first close of a $580 million Series D funding round, valuing the company at $6.4 billion. The round was led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford, backing TEKEVER's AI-powered autonomous technology. Source: pulse2.com
Ema, a startup building teams of AI agents to automate corporate workflows in HR, IT, and finance, has closed a new $77 million funding round. The investment comes as AI increasingly takes over tasks traditionally handled by enterprise software and human staff. Source: techcrunch.com
The Series B round was led by Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, S32, and Prosus also increasing their stakes. Ema plans to use the funds to expand its go-to-market efforts and further develop its AI employee platform. Source: finance.yahoo.com
Basecamp Research announced a $140 million Series C funding round, pushing its valuation to $800 million. The company uses AI to accelerate drug discovery and development. Source: reuters.com
Confido secured a $55 million Series B round to speed up product development, expand into food service, and grow its product, engineering, and go-to-market teams. The startup builds AI-powered automation tools for the back-office operations of consumer brands. Source: businesswire.com
Firecrawl Inc., which builds web scraping tools for AI agents, announced it raised $75 million in new investment. The funding will support further development of its scraping infrastructure used by AI-based applications. Source: siliconangle.com