Funding Announcements & Rumours

Starbridge raises $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures to help businesses better monitor public service opportunities. https://t.co/MTHiUZ2PuF

The platform engineering startup Shuttle announced $6 million in seed funding to handle the infrastructure problems that start where products like Lovable and Cursor leave off. https://t.co/r1cdcwaLZX

Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes. https://t.co/OyYHzPXtut

As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn. https://t.co/p2om3ABjjL

Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s new startup, Sesame, is building AI-powered smartglasses with natural, humanlike voice interaction. Backed by Sequoia and Spark, the company also launched an invite-only iOS beta to preview its conversational AI. https://t.co/VNnvtXh2hv

That's right — a $4B valuation for a company you likely haven't heard about...yet. @fal hosts image, video, and audio AI models, providing the infrastructure for models with more and more intensive generative demands. https://t.co/8unidVGpmI

Nord Security co-founders have closed a €30 million Series A for their new startup, https://t.co/pmwx6xvZ6a, an orchestration platform aimed at helping companies adopt AI securely. https://t.co/BoNMF1GMCz

This YC HR startup grew its revenue 10x to close a $12M Series A just a year after raising $4M in seed, buoyed by its AI-native capabilities. https://t.co/05BuSSj2In

When Liam Fedus announced he was quitting OpenAI, VCs swarmed. One even wrote a love letter. Here's how Felicis' Peter Deng won the deal. https://t.co/k3IsawpY5E

1001, the startup founded by an ex-Scale operator, raises a $9 million seed round led by CIV, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital. https://t.co/nGqkMtTm5e