Venture Capital
Permanent Capital Ventures Raises $200M to Scale Applied AI Companies
A startup can find product-market fit and still break on the way to becoming a company. The first customers may come through founder obsession, personal networks and a willingness to sit inside every deal. The next hundred customers require something less romantic: hiring, segmentation, forecasting, revenue operations and a sales process that still works when […]
a16z Raises $1.1B Machine Age Fund for AI Hardware and Infrastructure
For most of the software era, money could buy engineers, distribution and time. It could not instantly erase a two-year technical lead. AI infrastructure is beginning to change that equation. More compute, memory, networking and electricity can translate directly into more capability, which means physical capacity is becoming part of the competitive advantage again. Andreessen […]
Blackbird has raised A$1.05 billion and founder access remains the scarce asset
A few hours changed the way Samantha Wong thinks about venture capital. When Wong met Craig Piggott, the founder of Halter, he had already entered into a Series A term sheet with a US investor. Blackbird eventually invested in a later round and continued backing the company. But Wong still remembers that first miss for […]
Biggest Tech Funding Rounds This Week: AI, Defense and DeepTech
From billion-dollar defense rounds to AI infrastructure, healthcare, robotics and fintech, capital moved across the technology stack this week. 🤖 AI & AI Infrastructure Neuromorphic Labs raises $5.1M for verifiable trust infrastructure across production AI systems. OpenRouter joins Stripe, combining AI model routing with global payments infrastructure. Wispr raises $280M to turn voice into a […]
Mirae Asset Venture Investments Raises ₹1,125 Crore for India Growth-Stage Startups
Some of the hardest capital for a startup to raise comes after the idea has already worked. The product has customers, the economics are becoming visible and the next ambition is larger, but scaling demands a different size of cheque. Mirae Asset Venture Investments India has built much of its investment philosophy around that crossing […]
Team8 Raises $365M to Back AI-Native Enterprise Startups
AI has lowered the cost of building sophisticated software. A small team can now use frontier models to create in weeks what once demanded years of engineering. For venture firm Team8, that abundance creates a different scarcity: if competitors can access much of the same intelligence, the harder question is what remains valuable after the […]
Top Five AI Startups Raised $1.36B in One Week
In five days, five companies took in roughly $1.36 billion. Read the round sizes and it looks like more of the same froth. Read where the money went, and something more deliberate emerges. Not one of these teams is building a smarter chatbot. CuspAI, Meshy, Augustus, Glow, and Humanoid are aiming AI at the places […]