Inertia Enterprises raises $450 million for fusion power plant
Inertia Enterprises raised $450 million to build a laser-based fusion power plant, which the startup hopes will serve as the foundation for grid-scale energy by 2030.
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Inertia Enterprises raised $450 million to build a laser-based fusion power plant, which the startup hopes will serve as the foundation for grid-scale energy by 2030.
Monaco, an AI sales startup co-founded by former VC Sam Blond, has raised $35 million to launch its platform featuring a human-in-the-loop approach.
Integrate raised $17 million in a Series A round led by FPV Ventures to scale its secure project management platform for government and defense contractors.
Complyance raised $20 million in Series A funding led by GV to scale its AI-native platform for automating governance, risk, and compliance tasks for enterprise clients.
Meridian raised $17 million in seed funding at a $100 million valuation to build an integrated development environment (IDE) workspace for autonomous AI financial modeling.
Veritas raised $1.75 million in pre-seed funding to deploy a custom, "hack-proof" NFC chip designed to help luxury brands combat more than $30 billion in annual counterfeit losses.
Vega Security raised $120 million in Series B funding, nearly doubling its valuation to $700 million, to scale its decentralized, AI-native security operations platform globally.
New York-based Hauler Hero raised $16 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered waste management software platform and deploy new AI agents.
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s new startup, Entire, has raised $60 million at a $300 million valuation to build tools for managing AI-generated code.
Runway raised $315 million in a Series E round, nearly doubling its valuation to $5.3 billion to fund team expansion and next-generation world models.
Primary Ventures has closed a $625 million Fund V to focus on nationwide seed investing, with plans to back 40 to 50 companies over three years.
Smart Bricks, an AI-powered property technology startup, raised $5 million in a pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build automated real estate underwriting infrastructure.
London-based Tem raised $75 million in a Series B round, valuing the energy transaction startup at more than $300 million as it plans expansion into the U.S. and Australia.
Beast Industries is acquiring Step, a fintech app with over 7 million users, as the creator-led company continues to diversify its business beyond YouTube.
Ouster has acquired StereoLabs for $35 million and 1.8 million shares, marking the latest consolidation move in the perception sensor market for physical AI.
Legal AI startup Harvey is reportedly in talks to raise $200 million at an $11 billion valuation, marking a rapid increase in its market value.
Anthropic is reportedly in the final stages of raising $20 billion at a $350 billion valuation, as competition among frontier AI labs drives massive capital requirements.
Tokyo-based InfiniMind raised $5.8 million in seed funding to build infrastructure that converts unviewed video and audio into structured, queryable business data for enterprises.
Uber is acquiring the delivery business of Turkish startup Getir for $335 million, aiming to integrate the assets into its existing Trendyol Go service.
Gather AI, which uses Bayesian-based 'curious' robotics for warehouse management, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, bringing its total capital to $74 million.