Etched was valued at $5 billion in December. It raised a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation in July. Now investors have doubled its valuation to $21 billion, up nearly $11 billion, in a month.
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Checkr, the AI-powered verification platform for high-stakes decisions, today announced its acquisition of Truv, a leader in consumer-permissioned income, employment, and asset verification.
Uplift Corp's modular homes aim to address critical needs like housing affordability and provide rapid solutions for disaster relief efforts. This funding boosts their capacity to scale production.
Agricultural and small-business fintech platform Ambrook raised $30 million in a Series B funding round in August 2026.
Edacious is the developer of a radical transparency-based food verification system designed to create a nourishing and sustainable agri-food system.
Founded in 2025, Furientis is a defense technology startup developing cost-effective, ship-based defensive munitions designed for high-volume production.
Integrated Biosciences is a Redwood City, California biotechnology company combining synthetic biology and AI-driven small-molecule drug discovery to develop therapeutics for age-related diseases.
Buzz Solutions, Palo Alto, CA-based AI software company that enables a smart, stable, and resilient energy infrastructure, closed a $20m Series A funding round.
Led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the round will support AI security, platform development, and continued international growth.
Last month, Etched announced that it had successfully manufactured its homegrown chips, that its first full systems were being tested by clients, and it had already booked $1 billion worth of orders.
The startup is repurposing chemical compounds from the cosmetics industry to develop fungicides with low production costs and a minimal environmental footprint.
Fireworks helps companies transform general-purpose models into specialized intelligence trained on their own data and deliver it at scale on the top-performing inference stack. This milestone comes as Fireworks surpasses $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and serves more than 40 trillion tokens every day.
Resource Monitor offers a unified hardware and software platform for groundwater production and management, managing billions of gallons of water while helping operators cut water losses.
Proxima Fusion is developing stellarator technology, one of a handful of approaches to fusion, and hopes to have its fusion demonstrator — a proof-of-concept precursor to a commercial power plant — up and running in the early 2030s.
Etched now plans to begin shipping chips to some customers this summer, which could put the startup closer to commercial deployment after staying quiet publicly for about two years.
Roqad is Europe’s largest trusted identity aggregator and data onboarding partner. They focus on expanding clients' reach in digital advertising while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations.
While most skincare products target the visible signs of aging, Rapalogix is focused on the biology that drives aging itself.
Orange Health Labs operates a full-stack diagnostics platform offering on-demand health testing services. The startup provides at-home sample collection for most routine diagnostics.
A graduate of Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 cohort, Continue positioned itself as the open-source alternative to the proprietary coding assistants flooding the market.
The equity-free funding will advance PowerAI’s solar capabilities and reinforce Buzz Solutions’ role as a trusted inspection platform for energy infrastructure.
Rime blends advanced ML with deep linguistic and sociolinguistic insight to create ultra-realistic voices that breathe, laugh, code-switch, and carry the subtle rhythms of real speech.
Reset plans to invest in expanded sales and implementation capacity, deepen product development, and accelerate deployments currently underway.
January’s precision health platform is designed to unify multiomic data, predictive AI, and personalized insights to improve individual health outcomes.
The acquisition will combine Tachyus' advanced modeling and optimization platforms with SLB's global scale, digital ecosystem, and industry expertise.
DIMAAG announced the acquisition of Akridata, a company specializing in AI vision systems and edge-to-core AI infrastructure.
Already powering $200B+ in crypto volume, Variational is using its zero-fee liquidity aggregation model to bring traditional markets on-chain.
The company supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.
Proceeds will be used to support the Company's ongoing RAPID III pivotal clinical trial, achieve regulatory approval in the United States, and prepare for commercial launch of Rivermark's flagship product, the FloStent™ System.
Thrive provides a blockchain-based protocol that rewards users for verified attention and interactions, enabling advertisers to run transparent campaigns and publishers to monetize traffic directly.
Epicurate is known for redefining high-end travel experiences by connecting independent private chefs, wellness experts, and other experience providers directly with high-value travelers.
District is an AI-powered commerce platform designed to help anyone build and grow a world-class commerce business. After quietly building for the past three years and onboarding more than 1,000 businesses, District is now launching in General Availability.
Magrathea extracts magnesium metal from waste brines and seawater. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts and build a demo smelter.
Hememics Biotechnologies is transforming the future of antibody screening with breakthrough monolayer graphene technology.
Sapho Bio is a biotechnology company developing a rapid microbiology release platform for precision medicines. The company’s first product is an RNA-based rapid sterility assay detecting living bacteria and fungi in 20 hours, replacing the 14-day standard.
Anaconda's acquisition of Outerbounds marks a significant step in its evolution from the world's most trusted foundation for developing enterprise AI, to the first unified platform spanning the entire AI-native development software lifecycle.
This acquisition marks a major step forward in ModMed's journey to create the AI-Powered Practice, integrating powerful new front-office automation capabilities such as automated patient reactivation and AI-driven self-scheduling.
Ulysses describes its mission as “building the operating system for the ocean: massive, networked fleets of low-cost, autonomous vehicles that operate above and below the surface”.
The acquisition gives Lettuce customers access to tax-advantaged retirement accounts and alternative investment accounts traditionally reserved only for those with access to institutional wealth management.
Citra Space is developing technology to improve how object identity is established and maintained. The funding will be used to support development and deployment of Citra’s technology among commercial and government partners.
The company provides online courses that combine the flexibility of asynchronous learning with the interactivity of synchronous, small-group learning.
Go Vocal’s citizen engagement platform intends to turn unstructured citizen input into actionable insights.
Municipal governments are eager to realize their participatory democracy ambitions and Go Vocal is positioning itself as their top choice.
Arinna builds solar cells specifically for spacecraft. The company’s ultrathin solar technology allows for extremely flexible cells that the company claims are cheaper and more durable than legacy space solar panels.
Slingshot Aerospace, the leader in Space Operations Intelligence & Autonomy (SOIA), is proud to have been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026.
The transaction accelerates the development of a unified digital infrastructure designed to support the commercial insurance placement lifecycle.
The acquisition brings together Riverside Insights’ DESSA system, which focuses on screening, assessment, and progress monitoring of student social and emotional competencies, with Move This World’s multimedia-based instructional programming.
Over the past year, ORO has experienced 300% revenue growth, fueled by a rapidly growing demand from global organizations looking to modernize how work gets done across procurement, finance, legal, and supply chain teams.
Qurrent is building autonomous digital workers that own complex back-office functions end to end. The funding will be used to accelerate enterprise expansion and deepen Qurrent's platform capabilities.
Axiamatic's Agentic platform continuously monitors transformation progress, surfaces risks early, and delivers the insights and recommendations teams need to take proactive action.
The company offers drugs to reverse synapse loss, restoring connections lost to neurodegenerative diseases and other conditions involving the central nervous system, enabling patients to regenerate synapses through their direct modulation of synaptic proteins.
HubiFi seamlessly integrates with Stripe's 35 endpoints, usage-based data, app stores, and ERPs so that high volume companies can have fully GAAP compliant accounting.
Akave, an enterprise cloud infrastructure company delivering a modern, S3-compatible decentralized alternative to traditional cloud storage, today announced its entrance into the data storage market with the availability of Akave Cloud.
The company’s goal is to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and delivering results than Nvidia’s GPUs.
The acquisition strengthens CUBE's ability to deliver fully automated compliance and risk solutions, complementing its existing capabilities in regulatory compliance, operational risk and regulatory change management.
Temporal, the open-source platform powering the world’s most reliable agentic applications, today announced a $300 million Series D financing at a $5 billion valuation.
Novig operates a commission-free, peer-to-peer exchange designed for sports traders, utilizing an order-book model to provide market-driven odds. Novig's annualized trading volume currently exceeds $4 billion.
Founded in 2022, Nullify offers what it calls the world’s first autonomous AI workforce for product security.
With this funding, the company plans to expand its team and strengthen its platform to connect and coordinate millions of smart energy devices nationwide, enabling customers to innovate faster and build entirely new grid-centric products.
The company offers all-in-one DNA panels along with tools for analyzing behavior, health risks, performance, and ancestry, enabling animal owners, veterinarians, and breed registries to access actionable data and improve animal well-being.
Cleanlab, founded in 2021, is a startup that provides software for improving the quality of data produced by human labelers.
The funding round and government contract are major milestones for the company, which is just a few years old and only closed its $30 million Series A less than a year ago.
BasicBlock provides efficient freight factoring and fast payment solutions for owner-operators and carriers.
The investment arrives as the company launches Ditto 2.0, a rebuilt platform designed to centralize how teams create, manage, and deploy product text across their entire workflow.
Slingshot Aerospace won a $27 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to further develop an artificial intelligence–based training system designed to prepare military personnel for conflict scenarios in space.
The companies will create an end-to-end, next-generation underwriting platform that covers all underwriting components, including collateral, income, assets, and credit.