Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Factorial, Europe’s leading AI Workforce Operations Platform, has announced the closing of a $150 million Series D funding round at a valuation of $2.5 billion, making it one of the most valuable Spanish and European scale-ups. The round is led by General Catalyst, which is making its first equity investment in Factorial, […]
Insider Brief Standard Bots has raised $200 million in a Series C funding round led by RoboStrategy, with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst, as the U.S. robotics company looks to grow production of its AI-powered industrial robots. The round values the company at $1 billion and the company indicated the new funding will […]
Insider Brief PhysicsX announced raising $300 million in a Series C funding round to develop its physics AI platform for engineers. The round was led by Temasek and included new investors M&G Investments and Intrepid Growth Partners, alongside existing backers Applied Materials, Atomico, General Catalyst, July Fund, NGP, Nvidia, Radius and Siemens. The latest round […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — DriveNets, a leader in large-scale networking solutions, has announced it has completed a $410 million Series D financing round, reaching $1 billion total capital raised. With more than $1B in secured business and having been cash-flow positive since 2025, the company will use the additional funding to scale inventory to support its […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE—Geordie AI, the purpose-built security and governance platform for AI agents, has announced it has closed a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital. The round included participation from Crosspoint Capital, as well as follow-on investment from existing investors General Catalyst and Ten Eleven Ventures, bringing total funding to $36.5 million. […]
ClickHouse has surpassed $250 million in annualised revenue run rate, tripling year-over-year, with co-founder and president Yury Izrailevsky projecting the figure will reach the high nine digits by year end. The database company, valued at $15 billion following a $400 million Series D in January, serves over 4,000 customers including Anthropic, Meta, and Capital One. […]
Cognition, maker of autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation — a remarkable jump from the $10.2 billion post-money valuation it carried just eight months ago. The round was led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with participation from Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Ribbit Capital, and […]
Fal, the generative media platform valued at $4.5 billion following a $300 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital, has named Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider in a deal designed to bring enterprise-grade reliability to AI-powered media creation at global scale. The San Francisco-based startup serves 2.5 million developers with unified API […]
Farther, the AI-native wealth management platform, has raised $150 million in Series D funding led by General Atlantic, bringing total capital raised to over $272 million and cementing its unicorn status. CEO and co-founder Taylor Matthews and CTO Brad Genser built the platform from scratch to replace fragmented legacy systems with a single AI-driven ecosystem, […]