Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI
Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI

Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the compan…

Five days after buying Cursor for $60bn, SpaceX tried to buy Cognition
Five days after buying Cursor for $60bn, SpaceX tried to buy Cognition

SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about an acquisition, Bloomberg reports, and Cognition did not engage. Chief executive Scott Wu replied publicly that his company is “not for sale and we haven’t been talking.” SpaceX approached the AI codi…

A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal
A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal

Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The jump follows a deal to supply chips to Anthropic. T…

Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge
Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge

Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year, has raised $150 million in a Series D round. The round values it above $1 billion. The company told Fortune the money will go towards its real ambition, which is not e-bikes but small a…

Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres
Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to build AI data centres

Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It will use the money to build data centres for artificial intelligence. The Amsterdam-based company set out the plan in a statement. The offering comes in…

Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February
Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February

Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The round would value the software startup at $12 billion or more before the new money, the news agency said. It cited people familiar with the talks. The ro…

Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger
Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger

Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’…

Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO

Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up the structure ahead of an initial public offering that could rank among the largest ever, Cory Wei…

Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed
Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed

A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and …

Prevalent AI raises $22m to fix the data problem behind failing AI projects
Prevalent AI raises $22m to fix the data problem behind failing AI projects

Prevalent AI, a London company that folds hundreds of scattered enterprise data sources into a single queryable graph, has raised $22m from Integrity Growth Partners. It is the first primary capital the business has taken in nine years of trading, whic…