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Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne's startup has brought its one-hour, $499 body assessment to Manhattan, where thousands joined a waiting list before opening day.
The Palo Alto GPU cloud startup, founded in 2024, says it has signed more than $5 billion in customer contracts and will use the fresh capital to add compute capacity for frontier labs.
Volantis, a San Francisco chip startup founded in 2022, has now raised $97 million in total to commercialize an inference system that links compute chips to memory with lasers instead of copper wiring.
Simple Energy's all-equity Series C of Rs 1,750 crore, led by the Dr Arokiaswamy Velumani Family Office, pushes total capital past Rs 2,530 crore and funds a new factory and wider retail reach.
Biossil Inc. raised US$153 million in an all equity round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, reaching a US$1 billion valuation and becoming Canada's newest unicorn company.
The all-stock purchase moves the spatial intelligence startup and its co-founder into AMD, which is betting that world models will shape its chip roadmap in the fight with Nvidia.
Instinct, a 14-person San Francisco startup building a consumer AI agent, has raised $1 billion in Series C funding at a $10 billion valuation from Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue.
Stockholm based Refinyx has bought Northvolt's 134 patent recycling portfolio and a Vasteras pilot plant, secured Qarlbo Energy backing and signed a major American customer.
The London based AI cloud company secured the money through convertible loan notes a week after filing for a US listing, with Nvidia backing the deal.
Island's $400 million Series F, led by Evolution Equity Partners, values the enterprise browser and AI agent governance company at $6.4 billion, more than double its 2024 valuation.
Dallas-based cybersecurity firm Island has secured $400 million in Series F funding, led by Evolution Equity Partners, at a $6.4 billion valuation that more than doubles its 2024 worth.
The London AI drug developer secured an oversubscribed Series C led by S32, with Nvidia and Anthropic's Anthology Fund among investors, to train new EDEN models and advance in vivo cell therapies.
Verda, the AI cloud company from Helsinki formerly known as DataCrunch, has raised 164.8 million euros in a Series B led by Emergence Capital, reaching a valuation above $1 billion and total funding beyond $450 million.
HEO will use its A$37 million Series B, led by Beaten Zone Venture Partners and backed by Australia's National Reconstruction Fund, to move satellite inspection cameras into geostationary orbit.
Vitruvian Partners leads a $600 million equity package for Angle Health that mixes new capital with a large secondary, valuing the small business benefits platform at $2.7 billion.
D Robotics, the robotics infrastructure spinout of Horizon Robotics, has raised 400 million dollars in Series C funding to expand its Sunrise chip family and build a full robot development software platform.
Mantic, founded in 2024 by Toby Shevlane and Ben Day, impressed investors with a forecasting system that outperformed all human competitors in the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup.
A 3.9 billion dollar Series F values the Denver company at 30.9 billion dollars, with the cash aimed at large campuses and modular Spark units that can be hauled to power sources.
D-Robotics has raised a 400 million dollar Series C round led by Mirae Asset, with Meituan and Hefei state-backed capital participating, to expand its Sunrise robot chips and software platform.
A two-year-old New York company that helps brands track how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe them is now worth $1.8 billion after a round led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.
The Italian cybersecurity firm, founded in 2018, said the oversubscribed round makes it Europe's most valuable cybersecurity scaleup and will fund a foundation model for machine telemetry.