Kleiner Perkins just raised $3.5 billion for AI, and the sector breakdown tells you exactly where smart money thinks agents will matter most. Kleiner Perkins closed a $3.5 billion fund targeting AI startups across autonomy, transportation, professional services, and space
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Japan's biggest financial institution just dropped $50M on blockchain infrastructure—not for speculation, but for real securities moving on-chain. Startale closed a $63M Series A with $50M from SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial services conglomerates
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A stablecoin startup just raised $6 million to build something the rest of crypto seems allergic to: financial privacy that doesn't require a PhD in cryptography. Payy raised $6 million in seed funding led by FirstMark Capital, with Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto joining the round
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Granola just 6x'd its valuation in one round by doing what most AI tools refuse to do: listening when users said "we don't want another chatbot, we want something that actually works."
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Vultr wants a billion dollars to prove that being early doesn't mean you win. Vultr, a 2014-vintage cloud provider backed by AMD, is raising at least $1 billion to compete in the AI compute arms race
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Europe just wrote a $40 million check to stop asking America for permission to move things in space. Swiss startup Pave Space raised $40 million in seed funding to build orbital transfer hardware for satellites and cargo
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A Thai AI startup just raised $100 million, and if you haven't heard of them, that's exactly the point. Amity, a Thailand-based generative AI company, closed a $100 million funding round as it prepares for an IPO and scales its enterprise AI integration platform
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OpenAI just killed Sora days after Disney committed $1 billion to build on it, and the lesson isn't about video generation. OpenAI shut down its Sora video tool this week, days after Disney agreed to invest $1 billion and license its characters for the platform in December
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Sam Altman just told his entire company that raising money and building datacenters matters more than safety oversight.
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OpenAI just committed to spending $1 billion through its nonprofit arm in 2026, a curious move for a company that just restructured to maximize for-profit returns.
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Ethereum's plumbing just got programmable, and that changes who can build what on-chain. Eureka Labs raised $6.7 million to introduce "programmable blocks" that embed logic directly into Ethereum block construction
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While crypto VCs tighten their belts, ParaFi just closed $125 million and nobody's talking about what that actually means. ParaFi Capital raised $125 million for a new fund during a crypto downturn, bringing total AUM to $2 billion
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Fast Company's 2026 finance innovators list is actually a snapshot of Web4 infrastructure being built in plain sight. Fast Company's 2026 finance innovation honorees reveal AI agents (Ramp's expense approval automation) and tokenization plays (Robinhood's stock tokenization) as the dominant themes
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Corporate America has frozen its checkbook because CEOs can't value what AI might destroy tomorrow. Tech M&A activity has stalled in 2026 as corporate leaders cite AI uncertainty as the primary blocker, according to bankers and lawyers at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
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A solo GP just raised $232M to bet on AI startups, and the size of the check tells you everything about where institutional money thinks the talent is.
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Europe's banks are blocking its AI future, and the ECB just said the quiet part out loud. ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane says Europe's bank-heavy funding model is keeping the continent from capitalizing on AI innovation
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Elon Musk is betting he can out-manufacture NVIDIA by vertically integrating chip production across Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Musk plans to manufacture custom chips for robotics, AI training, and SpaceX's orbital data centers, consolidating production across his empire
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Michael Saylor just announced plans to raise $42 billion for more Bitcoin, doubling down on the biggest corporate crypto bet in history. Strategy Inc. plans a $42 billion capital raise to buy more Bitcoin, expanding its existing $4+ billion holdings
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Gimlet Labs just raised $80M to make your AI model chip-agnostic, and if they pull it off, NVIDIA's moat just got a lot narrower. Gimlet Labs closed an $80M Series A to build software that runs AI inference across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras, and d-Matrix chips simultaneously
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Europe's rocket startups are learning Silicon Valley's playbook: raise fast, launch faster, and hope the trajectory holds. Isar Aerospace is raising €250 million just as they prep for a critical launch this week
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