AI Startups & Funding: Rounds, Valuations, IPOs

AI rounds, valuations and deals

Woman climbs a glowing staircase of funding rungs — $200M, $500M, $3.5B, $50B — as onlookers watch Moonshot's ladder.

moonshot ai closes $3.5b at $35b, 13 days after kimi k3

Addy Crezee 29 Jul 2026 2 min read

Suited executive handing a key to a glowing holographic figure across a neon-lit desk with financial charts

5 rounds, 5 layers of the agent stack: payments to the ai ceo seat

Addy Crezee 26 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustration of an F1 driver in red racing suit beside a robotic arm in a garage, on ex-red bull engineer funding factory robots

a red bull racing engineer quit formula 1 to teach factory robots how to do human jobs. this week he raised the largest seed round germany has ever seen

Addy Crezee 21 Jul 2026 1 min read

Butler presenting silver platters with tech gadgets and a $2.255B price tag in neon-lit room

meta and snap put cameras on smart glasses. this week $150m went to the version without one.

Addy Crezee 12 Jul 2026 1 min read

Illustration of a man signing contracts under a spotlight as silhouetted figures queue behind him in a dark corridor

deepseek raised $7.4b – investors got no votes, only the state did

Addy Crezee 17 Jun 2026 1 min read

spacex acquiring cursor. how we got here

Nick Trenkler 16 Jun 2026 2 min read

Comic-style founder kneels between massive AWS and LLM server racks, reaching for a contract on the ground in a dark corridor

the stack that eats them: why most agentic ai startups will fail

Nick Trenkler 12 Jun 2026 12 min read

Comic-style man stamping AI onto a map of Brazil with Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX labels on panels behind him

three private companies now outrank brazil's $2.6t economy

Nick Trenkler 10 Jun 2026 1 min read

Man in patched suit labeled Anthropic and Nous Research faces polished mirror reflection with a $30B price tag

moonshot ai is remixing anthropic and nous research to chase a $30b valuation

Nick Trenkler 8 Jun 2026 1 min read

Gloved hand with pin popping SpaceX and Anthropic balloons against graffiti wall with dystopian messages

inside the tech debate over burry saying neither anthropic nor spacex is worth $1t

Nick Trenkler 3 Jun 2026 3 min read

Illustrated man in suit touches holographic $10B screen with file icon in dark boardroom, referencing Stepfun's IPO strategy

stepfun's flash model is a pre-ipo move, not a product launch

Addy Crezee 29 May 2026 2 min read

Armored figure holding glowing $113M Series B block with caduceus symbol in dark industrial setting

openrouter raised $113m at $1.3b valuation. here's where the money is going

Nick Trenkler 26 May 2026 1 min read

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