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Evvy, which sells an at-home vaginal microbiome test, raised a $40 million Series B to build a broader dataset linking microbiome biology to fertility, gynecological cancer, and other health outcomes.
AIUC, founded by an early Anthropic employee and a former METR COO, raised a $40 million Series A to run enterprise AI agents through a safety-certification standard modeled on the cybersecurity audit SOC 2.
Rome-based Exein has raised $270 million at a $1.7 billion valuation, betting that securing physical AI devices — from robots to self-driving cars — is the next chapter after its original IoT security focus.
OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Investors named nine standout startups from Y Combinator's latest Demo Day, a batch TechCrunch says skewed more toward deep tech than in past years, with one VC describing the ideas as feeling "like science fiction."
Khosla Ventures is opening its first-ever office outside Sand Hill Road, a New York outpost on 14th Street expected to open this fall, partner Keith Rabois confirmed.
Collaborative Fund, a roughly $1 billion venture firm, is taking a stake in MLS club D.C. United and its stadium, Audi Field, becoming the latest VC firm to follow Thrive Capital into pro sports ownership.
Furo, a German industrial battery-storage startup founded by three 28-year-olds who left Silicon Valley, has raised $4 million and signed enterprise clients including Deutsche Bahn within a year.
Elon Musk's Boring Company raised a $3 billion Series D round led by the United Arab Emirates, pushing its valuation to $23 billion.
Bending Spoons is buying workplace-collaboration platform Miro for $1.36 billion in cash, about 90% less than the $17.5 billion valuation Miro commanded in late 2021.
Defense-tech startup Mach Industries raised $600 million in a Series C extension, doubling its valuation to $3.7 billion in just three months.
Listen Labs walked away from a signed $125 million Series C term sheet at a $1.5 billion valuation as it held acquisition talks with Salesforce.
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, up from $11 billion just months earlier.
Uber has invested $10 million in Indian fleet management startup Carrum Mobility, valuing the company at about $168 million post-money.
Sequoia Capital co-led a $25 million Series A in Cymphony, valuing the AI-agent security startup at more than $100 million.
Cognition, the maker of AI coding assistant Devin, raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation just four months after its previous round.
The Exploration Company has raised $450 million in what it calls the largest-ever Series C by a European space company, aiming to build a reusable heavy-lift launcher to rival SpaceX.
French AI lab Mistral raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) in a Series D round led by Samsung Electronics, valuing the company at more than €21 billion.
Bluecore Energy has closed an oversubscribed $50 million seed round just months after a $10 million pre-seed, as it builds small nuclear reactors on floating barges.
Poseidon Aerospace has closed a $60 million Series A ahead of the first test flight of its uncrewed cargo plane, Egret, expected by the end of this year.