#Startups

Anthropic Hits $47 Billion Run Rate — Menlo Ventures: No Growth Like This in 25 Years

SkyPilot Raises $20M From Lux Capital: A "Switzerland" for AI Compute From Databricks Co-Founders

QED Investors' Nigel Morris: Why AI Will Reshape Finance More Than Any Previous Wave

01Spanish startup Sherpa.ai raised $18 million for AI without access to raw dataJul 19, 2026·1 min 02Cursor Launches CFO Council: 88% of Companies Deployed AI, But Only 39% See EBIT GrowthJul 19, 2026·2 min 03Skello Raised €200M from Bridgepoint, Increasing Founders' Ownership StakeJul 19, 2026·1 min 04London Startup Fleek Raised $25 Million for AI in the Secondhand MarketJul 19, 2026·2 min 05AI Startup Rilla Spends $1.7 Million Annually on Employee Housing for 72-Hour Work WeeksJul 19, 2026·2 min

Moonshot AI Raising at a $50B Valuation: Kimi's Creator Opens Two Rounds Back to Back

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is closing a round at a $31.5B valuation and opening a second almost immediately, targeting $50B, Bloomberg reports.

Jul 22, 2026·2 min

Startups·OpenAI Blog

OpenAI Is Building Project Camellia: A New AI Infrastructure Site in Effingham County, Georgia

OpenAI is building Project Camellia, an AI infrastructure site in Effingham County, Georgia, and promises locals energy commitments, investment, jobs and access to…

Jul 22, 2026·2 min

Startups·OpenAI Blog

OpenAI unveils an AI ROI scorecard: four metrics instead of counting tokens

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar has published an "AI-era scorecard": measure returns on AI by work completed, cost per successful task, reliability and return on compute.

Jul 22, 2026·3 min

Startups·OpenAI Blog

OpenAI and Hugging Face Disclose Security Incident During AI Model Evaluation

Two leading AI companies published a joint account of an incident that exposed advanced cyber capabilities during model testing, along with lessons for defenders.

Jul 22, 2026·2 min

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Fi Startup Launches Fi Ultra Collar With Starlink Satellite Connection for Dogs

Lime, Backed by Uber, Completes IPO at $25 Per Share and Raises $174 Million

Startup Base44 Launched Base1 — Own AI Model for Vibe-Code Application Development

Bending Spoons Raises $1.68 Billion in IPO on Nasdaq Above Announced Range

Visa, Mastercard and 140 Other Companies Launch Open USD Stablecoin Against Circle and Tether

A consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched the dollar stablecoin Open USD.

Visa Names AI Investment and Online Competition as Keys to Global Economic Growth in 2026

Payment company Visa forecast global economic growth of 2.4% in 2026, naming the AI investment boom as the main support factor.

German fund Vsquared Ventures opens London office against Atomico and Balderton

Munich-based deep-tech fund Vsquared Ventures announced opening a London office, although Companies House records show it quietly registered a British legal entity back in October 2024.

Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok: Weak Margins of S&P 493 Pose Risk to Big Tech Valuations

Record AI Infrastructure Investments Rescue European Investment Bankers From IPO Slump

Google and RWE invested 411 million euros in nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion

Lerer Hippeau: venture market enters second generation of AI startups

Abu Dhabi's MGX raises $49 billion for one of the world's largest AI-focused funds

China Telecom becomes shareholder in AI content-security startup Zhongke Ruijian

MGX from Abu Dhabi Raised $49 Billion for One of AI's Largest Funds Ever

OCBC to Raise Annual Tech and AI Spending to 771 Million Dollars

IMF warns: AI company debt burden is more dangerous than stock overvaluation

The IMF's financial adviser Tobias Adrian stated that increased debt financing of AI infrastructure creates a greater risk to financial stability than overvalued…

Bain Capital: company leaders misunderstand AI implementation

Managing Partner at Bain Capital David Gross stated that CEOs incorrectly approach AI as a regular technology deployment.