A two-year-old AI notetaker just hit unicorn status by doing one thing better than everyone else: getting out of the way. Granola raised $125 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Index Ventures, two years after launch
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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 pulled another $10 billion, pushing its latest funding round past $120 billion total, and the composition of who's writing checks tells you everything about where AI capital flows are heading.
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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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OpenAI just closed another $10 billion, bringing their latest round to $120 billion total, and the size of that number should terrify every other AI company. OpenAI is raising ~$10 billion from MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, pushing their current funding round to approximately $120 billion
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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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While you were arguing about chatbots, someone just raised $220 million to put AI collars on cows. Halter, a New Zealand startup, raised $220 million for AI-powered cow collars that manage livestock autonomously
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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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Kleiner Perkins just raised $3.5 billion for AI bets, and the size of that checkbook tells you everything about what institutional capital believes happens next. Kleiner Perkins closed a $3.5 billion fund targeting AI companies across software, healthcare, transportation, and autonomy
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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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ParaFi just closed $125 million for a new venture fund while crypto's supposed to be in a bear market. ParaFi Capital raised $125 million for a new venture fund, adding to $325 million raised for digital asset strategies since early 2025
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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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Europe just minted a $14.6 billion data center company, and Sheryl Sandberg joining the board isn't the real story. UK data center developer Nscale raised $2 billion, hitting a $14.6 billion valuation and becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups
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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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