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Founder Traits And One Big AI Test: How Former NEA Partner Vanessa Larco Picks Winners
Crunchbase News talks with former NEA partner Vanessa Larco about how she evaluates startups based on founder potential rather than initial ideas and how she looks for teams that leverage AI to make products dramatically faster, cheaper, or easier to use.
Pangram Labs raises $9M to launch more accurate AI detection for text and images
Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised $9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text detection and expand into other media, starting with images. Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital and Cadenza also participated in the investment round. The [...] The post Pangram Labs raises $9M to launch more accurate AI detection for text and images appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today's workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum demands funding and access to industry networks, resources that remain unevenly distributed across higher education. At North Carolina Central University, Siobahn Day Grady is trying to change that equation. In January 2025, Grady, an associate professor in the NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences, launched
Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A 'Deal GPS' For Enterprise Sales
Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with Crunchbase News.
Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.
AI model compression startup Multiverse raises $570M at $1.7B valuation
Multiverse Computing SL, a startup working on technology that compresses artificial intelligence models so that they run more efficiently on less hardware, announced Monday it raised $570 million in Series C funding. The round was co-led by Forgepoint Capital International, BNPP SIVF, and Bullhound Capital. Santander Alternative Investments, Tikehau Capital, HP Inc., Orange Ventures, Scania [...] The post AI model compression startup Multiverse raises $570M at $1.7B valuation appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Fish Audio makes a splash after raising $52M seed funding for AI voices
Fish Audio, an ambitious artificial intelligence startup that began life as a weekend project in its founder's bedroom, said today it has raised an impressive $52 million in seed funding to try and establish voice as the default interface for every AI model. Coreline Ventures and Capital Today led the round, which also saw participation [...] The post Fish Audio makes a splash after raising $52M seed funding for AI voices appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Exclusive: Co-Founded By Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M To Track Gut Health From The Toilet
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and several other investors also participated in the financing. The round [...]
AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.
Enigma raises $71M to develop foundation models for robots
Engima Ltd., a provider of artificial intelligence software for robots, launched today with $71 million in funding. Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital jointly led the seed round with participation from Conviction Partners. They were joined by a group of angel investors that included employees at Google DeepMind, Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC. Teaching an [...] The post Enigma raises $71M to develop foundation models for robots appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
European tech weekly recap: Over €1B invested across 50+ deals
Last week, we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. 📊 The top three industries that ra...
The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
Startup investors poured capital into a varied lineup of large rounds this week, targeting sectors including physical AI, biotech, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure and fintech.
Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore
Together, Motorway and AWS built an end-to-end evaluation pipeline that reduced incorrect results from 1 in 8 queries to 1 in 50 and cut issue detection time from few hours to few minutes. The pipeline combines the Strands Agents SDK with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed service for deploying and operating AI agents at scale. In this post, you will learn how to build this pipeline for your own agents.
The Rise And Rise Of Billion-Dollar-Plus Rounds
So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages - around $320 billion - went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with such rounds instrumental in pushing global funding for the first half of the year to record levels.
Closing The Series A Gap Is The Next Great Opportunity For Black Founders In The AI Era
While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid-2022, the improvement was driven largely by a handful of unusually large financings. James Norman and Sean Green, co-founders of Black Operator Ventures share their thoughts on how Black founders can close the Series A gap.
Mexico Extends Its Venture Lead Over Brazil As More Global VCs Enter Latin America
Mexico's startups led the LatAm pack in Q2 - by a wide margin. The country's startups raised $944 million in the second quarter, up 131% compared to $409 million in last year's Q2, and up 136% from the $401 million raised in this year's first quarter, per Crunchbase data. For comparison's sake, that's almost as much as Latin American startups as a whole raised in the second quarter of 2025.
The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
Where Argentina And Spain Are Scoring Startup Goals
We put together a snapshot of recent startup funding tallies and trends for World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina. While neither accounts for a particularly large share of global or even regional investment, both have an intriguing pipeline of recently funded companies. Here's what we found.
The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem - and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully trusts automated evaluation today; and the most-cited weakness is that evaluations do not align with real-world outcomes. Yet two-thirds already allow, or are actively engineering toward, deploying agent changes to production on automated evaluation alone - with no human in the loop. The result is an evaluation gap -
Why the best time to invest in Ukraine is now
Roman Sulzhyk, Founding Partner of Ukrainian investment fund Resist.UA, has a message for the world when it comes to investing in the Ukrainian startup ecosystem: "If you wait until after the war, yo...
The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn't The Deal You Think It Is
Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because high entry valuations limit investor upside. Instead, argues guest author Ellie McDonald, the strongest venture outcomes have typically come from capital-efficient startups that raised modest early rounds.
China And AI Lead Asia's Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2
Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China's $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that's by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.
Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M
Monumental BV, a Dutch startup that operates a fleet of bricklaying robots, has raised $35 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series B investment. Monumental stated in its funding announcement today that existing backers Plural and Hummingbird chipped in as well. Monumental uses robots to construct the walls of homes, schools and other buildings. [...] The post Construction robot startup Monumental reels in $32M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance
Built partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC), AWS Partner AND Digital, and AWS account teams to create a scalable, AI-powered document processing engine that can classify, split, extract, evaluate, and reason over complex real estate finance documents. It reduces workflows that previously took days to minutes, supports hundreds of document types, and gives technical teams and industry experts a shared environment for building and improving document processors.
Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding
Emergent Labs Inc., a vibe coding startup that aims to give nontechnical users the tools to develop production-grade enterprise software, has closed on its third major round of funding in just 10 months after raising $130 million. The Series C round, announced today, was led by Creaegis and Claypond and saw participation from Khosla Ventures, [...] The post Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations
A startup called American Growth Insurance said today it has raised almost $70 million in committed equity capital to transform the insurance industry. It plans to do so with an aggressive, technology-focused business model that's quite unlike anything its competitors do. AGI, officially known as AGI Holdings LLC, says it has worked out how to use [...] The post AGI raises $70M to buy up and transform insurance firms into AI-native operations appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
AI DevOps startup MyDecisive launches with $12M and open-source SmartHub
Artificial intelligence DevOps startup MyDecisive formally launched today and announced $12 million in new funding to bring to market an open-source foundation for managing observability data and a commercial suite it says can slash what enterprises spend running production systems. Ari Zilka founded MyDecisive in San Francisco in 2023, backed by a long track record [...] The post AI DevOps startup MyDecisive launches with $12M and open-source SmartHub appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Fintech Funding Surges 23% In H1 2026 As Investors Concentrate Their Bets On AI And Financial Infrastructure
Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25%, Crunchbase data shows, a sign that investors are writing fewer, but much larger checks into the sector as they focus on areas such as wealth management, financial infrastructure and enterprise automation. We take a look at the numbers.
Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two
The wind-downs at PayPal and Fidelity International may look like a retreat, but the data points to a concentration of power at the top of the market that smaller funds will feel first, writes guest author Steve Brotman of Alpha Partners.
Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M
TerraFirma Inc., a startup with a platform that enables construction teams to remotely operate heavy machinery, has raised $115 million in funding. The bulk of the capital arrived in the form of a $100 million Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins. TerraFirma disclosed today that Bain Capital, Definition and more than a half-dozen other [...] The post Construction automation startup TerraFirma raises $115M appeared first on SiliconANGLE.