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Aug 28, 2026Startups

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DeepSeek Reportedly Seeks $7.4 Billion at $74 Billion Valuation for Compute Buildout

The proposed financing would move the AI lab further beyond its founder’s quant fund, while giving prospective investors a larger bet on research, infrastructure and a possible Shanghai listing.

3 min

Aug 27, 2026Startups

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Databricks Files $5B Equity Offering With Nearly All of It Already Sold

The filing records a large, nearly completed private equity sale. It establishes the dollars sold and investor count, but not the price, valuation, ownership stakes or identity of the buyers.

3 min

Aug 27, 2026Startups

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Portica AI Files $450,000 SAFE Offering Fully Sold to Three Investors

The Form D establishes a completed early financing event, but it does not show the conversion terms that would determine investors’ eventual ownership.

2 min

Aug 25, 2026Startups

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Nvidia Is Reportedly Discussing a Perplexity Stake at a $30 Billion-Plus Valuation

The prospective deal would extend a relationship that already includes Nvidia investment and a Vera CPU workload commitment. But the reported round has not been independently verified, leaving its terms and even its completion unresolved.

3 min

Aug 24, 2026Startups

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Generalist AI Reports $198.2M Sold in Equity Offering With $10M Still Available

The new Form D puts a large financing on the public record, with 32 investors already participating and a narrow remaining allocation. It does not provide the pricing terms needed to calculate a valuation or dilution.

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August 2026

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Aug 21, 2026Startups

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Rillet Raises $100 Million to Challenge Accounting’s Legacy Stack

The company is betting that finance teams will replace systems built around human data entry with agent-led workflows—but the controls around sensitive financial work remain central to that pitch.

4 min

Aug 21, 2026Startups

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Callosum Raises $100 Million as It Routes AI Work Across Models and Chips

The UK startup’s Tailored Inference service makes two choices for each piece of an AI workload: which model should handle it, and which accelerator should run it. Its performance claims remain limited to selected tasks.

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Aug 17, 2026Startups

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Higgsfield Raises $400 Million at a $5.4 Billion Valuation

The new round funds sales, infrastructure and enterprise products. The company’s reported revenue growth is striking, but its long-term economics remain largely undisclosed.

5 min

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Last week

DeepSeek Reportedly Seeks $7.4 Billion at $74 Billion Valuation for Compute Buildout

Databricks Files $5B Equity Offering With Nearly All of It Already Sold

Portica AI Files $450,000 SAFE Offering Fully Sold to Three Investors

Nvidia Is Reportedly Discussing a Perplexity Stake at a $30 Billion-Plus Valuation

Generalist AI Reports $198.2M Sold in Equity Offering With $10M Still Available

August 2026

Rillet Raises $100 Million to Challenge Accounting’s Legacy Stack

Callosum Raises $100 Million as It Routes AI Work Across Models and Chips

Higgsfield Raises $400 Million at a $5.4 Billion Valuation