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Funding ● 5 sources confirmed · 95%
Eurazeo participated in HappyRobot's $150 million Series C funding round, co-leading the investment alongside Prysm Capital at a $1.2 billion post-money valuation. HappyRobot, an enterprise AI agent platform founded in 2...
Funding ● 5 sources confirmed · 99%
Prysm Capital led HappyRobot's $150 million Series C funding round, co-led by Eurazeo, valuing the enterprise AI agent startup at $1.2 billion post-money. The funding brings HappyRobot's total raised to approximately $20...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Etna Labs participated in Convex's $57 million Series B funding round, which was led by Insight Partners and also included Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. The investment brings Convex's total outside funding to $1...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Spark Capital participated in Convex's $57 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, alongside other investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Etna Labs. The funding brings Convex's total outside capital...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Andreessen Horowitz participated as a contributor in Convex's $57 million Series B funding round, which was led by Insight Partners. The funding, which also included investments from Etna Labs and Spark Capital, brings C...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 98%
Convex closed a $57 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with additional participation from Etna Labs, Andreessen Horowitz, and Spark Capital. The funding brings Convex's total outside capital to $110....
Funding ● 2 sources provisional · 95%
HappyRobot, an AI voice agent startup, closed a $150 million Series C funding round led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo, reaching a $1.2 billion post-money valuation and unicorn status. The company, which automates enterpri...
Funding ● 2 sources provisional · 98%
HappyRobot, an enterprise AI agent company founded in Madrid, completed a $150 million Series C funding round led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo at a $1.2 billion valuation. The company serves over 150 enterprise customers...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Y Combinator participated as an existing investor in HappyRobot's $150 million Series C funding round led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, which valued the enterprise AI agent company at $1.2 billion post-money. Y...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Base10 participated as an existing investor in HappyRobot's $150 million Series C funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo. The round, which brought total funding to approxima...
Funding ● 3 sources confirmed · 95%
a16z participated as an existing investor in HappyRobot's $150 million Series C funding round led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, which valued the company at $1.2 billion post-money. The enterprise AI agent start...
Open source release ● 4 sources confirmed · 95%
Mistral AI released Shieldstral 1.0, an open-weights safety classifier with 3 billion parameters that moderates text and images using plain-language policies supplied at inference time without requiring model retraining....
Partnership ● 2 sources provisional · 60%
Nscale, a London-based data centre builder, agreed to provide $1 million worth of compute resources to AI researchers at Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London to support sovereign UK research infrastructure. The compa...
Policy change ● 3 sources confirmed · 92%
Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state regulators to require comprehensive audits of all new data center projects before they can connect to the electrical grid. The directive, prompted by concerns about grid capacity...
Feature update ● 2 sources provisional · 75%
Wealthfront built Iris, an AI-powered code review system that uses Claude Opus as a lead agent with adversarial sub-agents to evaluate pull requests, achieving $4 average review cost and 10-minute turnaround while reduci...
Product launch ● 4 sources updated · 65%
AWS launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous agent orchestrator for continuous code development that coordinates multiple specialist agents, while Anthropic released Crew, a framework for Claude Code agents to collaborate on ta...
Open source release ● 6 sources confirmed · 95%
Cloudflare released Cloudflare OS as an open-source platform enabling employees to create AI-powered applications and automate business tasks through natural language prompts without requiring code. The platform features...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Hede Capital participated as an investor in Monava's funding round alongside lead investor Gungnir Capital and Foundry Ventures. Monava, a Swedish-Finnish company specializing in AI-powered acoustic drone detection, clos...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Foundry Ventures participated in a funding round for Monava, a Swedish-Finnish company specializing in AI-powered acoustic drone detection, alongside lead investor Gungnir Capital and Hede Capital. The funding will accel...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Gungnir Capital led a funding round in Monava, a Swedish-Finnish company specializing in AI-powered acoustic drone detection, alongside co-investors Foundry Ventures and Hede Capital. The investment will accelerate produ...
Acquisition ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Deel acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based deepfake-detection and identity verification startup, for $45-50 million in an all-cash and stock deal, marking Deel's 15th acquisition and first in Israel. The acquisition integra...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B funding round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics at a $6 billion valuation, with an additional $200 million credit line reported. The company has achieved self-sustaining critical...
Product launch ● 2 sources provisional · 92%
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets, a new product that enables AI agents to autonomously manage cryptocurrency transactions and digital assets. The system supports two wallet types—Virtual Wallets with spending limi...
Product launch ● 2 sources provisional · 92%
Wispr Flow Notetaker is an AI-powered application that automatically records meetings, transcribes audio to text, and generates structured summaries with action items and timelines. The tool integrates with popular platf...
Funding ● 2 sources provisional · 95%
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics secured $1 billion in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $6 billion, plus a $200 million credit line. The company has demonstrated its Ward-250 small modular rea...
Partnership ● 1 source provisional · 92%
Valar Atomics raised $1 billion in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital at a $6 billion valuation, along with a $200 million credit line. The nuclear startup demonstrated its Ward-250 reactor powering an NVIDIA Blackw...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 92%
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B funding round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics at a $6 billion valuation, with an additional $200 million credit line. The company has achieved self-sustaining criticality with...
Funding ● 2 sources provisional · 95%
Aavalynx, a legal AI startup founded in 2023, raised £1.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI tools for enterprise litigation management and dispute analysis. The company's platform, called Sisu, helps corporations...
Funding ● 1 source provisional · 95%
Vitosha Ventures led a €270,000 pre-seed funding round in Estel Technologies, a Bulgarian AI-powered platform that helps tech staffing firms identify and prioritize sales opportunities through demand verification, lead s...
Funding ● 1 source disputed · 15%
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19 September 2026
AI’s big throughline today wasn’t better models—it was better ways to find out what they can do, and what they shouldn’t. Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised $40 million to replace stale benchmarking with evaluations grounded in real industry tasks and measurable impact. It’s expanding from 8 to 25 staff, relocating, and starting work with federal agencies—an implicit admission that leaderboards don’t cover the failure modes executives actually worry about.
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