Supabase raised $150 million and agreed to buy Turso, whose SQLite-compatible engine gives AI agents large numbers of small, isolated databases. The deal rests on Supabase's own count of agent-created databases, and Turso's customers now build on that bet.
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Flow Engineering raised a $50 million Series B at a $750 million valuation for AI agents that check hardware designs against requirements. The months-to-days speedup is Flow's own figure, so buyers should test it against how long their own design changes take to verify.
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Metaview raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110M for AI agents that source and screen job candidates. Its sourcing agent already works in Slack, so teams can trial it on one role before reorganizing recruiters.
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Homeward raised a $120 million Series D at roughly its 2021 valuation and added a $330 million asset-backed debt facility to fund more home transactions. Debt makes up nearly three-quarters of the $450 million in new capital, so Homeward's growth now runs mostly on money borrowed to buy and finance homes.
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Flow Engineering raised $50 million at a $750 million valuation to sell AI agents that track and verify hardware design changes. Its only quantified usage comes from Rivian and counts seats and API calls, while the promised cut in design cycles from months to days is still a stated goal.
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Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, 3.6 times the $11 billion it was worth in December 2025. Most of the volume behind that price comes from sports contracts, so the new investors are betting that regulators and courts keep allowing them.
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Ascerta raised an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital for software that ties enterprise AI spending to revenue and savings. So far, the evidence that buyers want it is two named customers and performance figures Ascerta reports about itself.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, four times the price TechCrunch reported for its August round. Its agent works through users' own screens and accounts, so permission and recovery are Instinct's to engineer before any app maker is asked.
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Instinct raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation on September 28, four times the $2.5 billion it carried a month earlier while still in early access. The mark repriced faster than any metric the company has published.
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Corgi CEO Nico Laqua told staff in writing that buying pee pads for the office puppy was grounds for firing on the spot, at an insurer one source values at $5 billion. Some Corgi policyholders have no state payout guarantee, so how he gives orders is a matter for the board.
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Atomic raised $12.5 million after its recurring revenue quintupled this year, according to Jon McNeill, whose firm incubated it. The case that operators now let its software reorder stock on its own rests on what McNeill and the founders say.
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Confido raised a $55 million Series B led by Insight Partners for AI software that automates deductions and trade spend for consumer packaged goods brands. Its chief executive says most customers end up buying the whole suite, and the case for the round depends on that bundle.
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A $500 million round at a rumoured $12 billion would be 2.4 times February's mark. The numbers underneath it are company-reported and six months old.
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A $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ, the third round in about a year, buys a board seat and a claim on general ledger spend. The growth disclosure is rates, not levels.
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A reported $500mn round at $12bn pre-money values the workflow engine at roughly seven times its March 2025 mark. The revenue figure behind it is nine months old.
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The Prysm-led Series D is earmarked for an autonomous platform for vehicles smaller than a car. The $3,500 bike is the first housing for the motors, batteries and compute.
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The $100m cheque is Navi's first institutional money and lands roughly 35% below the $2bn Sachin Bansal sought in 2024. It also sets a visible comparable ahead of an IPO refiling.
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The design premise is that an aircraft should weigh less than its cargo. The one flying today weighs about 1.5 times its payload; the one that clears the bar is still under development.
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Keenable left stealth with $26 million and says AI labs already query its index during training and at runtime. The scarcity argument comes from the investor who led the round.
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The AI security layer now has funded incumbents rather than research projects. What this round does not break out matters as much as what it does.
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