Shield AI’s $12.7 billion valuation — reached in a single round led by Advent International and JPMorgan on March 26, 2026 — …
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Why 41 Cents of Every Venture Dollar Now Goes to AI Startups — and What That Means for the Rest of the Startup Ecosystem
Venture capital has always been a concentrated industry: a small number of investors betting on a small number of companies account for …
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Granola Raises $125 Million From Index Ventures — The AI Meeting Notes App That Wants to Become Your Whole Work Copilot
Granola, the AI-powered meeting notes and workplace productivity platform, raised $125 million in a Series C funding round led by Index Ventures …
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NVIDIA-Backed Reflection AI Eyes $2.5 Billion at $25 Billion Valuation — The Open-Source AI Lab Built to Rival DeepSeek and Meta’s Llama
Reflection AI, a New York-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, is …
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Mind Robotics Raises $500 Million Series A — The Rivian Spinout That Wants to Automate Every Factory Floor With Foundation Model AI
Mind Robotics, a Palo Alto-based industrial robotics startup that spun out of Rivian Automotive and retains Rivian as both a major shareholder …
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Nexthop AI Raises $500 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation — The Startup Building the Networking Backbone for the $650 Billion AI Data Centre Build-Out
Nexthop AI, a Santa Clara-based startup developing purpose-built networking hardware and software for artificial intelligence data centres, raised $500 million in a …
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Shield AI Raises $2 Billion at a $12.7 Billion Valuation — Its Autonomous Drones Now Fly Combat Missions Without a Human Pilot.
Shield AI, the San Diego-based defense technology startup that develops AI autonomy software for military drones and aircraft, raised $2 billion in …