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ElevenLabs Hires OpenAI Sales Leader as Enterprise Revenue Reaches 55%

The appointment puts a dedicated leader over sales and partnerships as business customers become the larger share of the voice AI company’s revenue. The disclosed percentages show a changing mix, not the dollar scale behind it.

Yesterday

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Funding Startups

Wonderful Raises $550M at Reported $5B Valuation to Expand Enterprise AI Deployments

The financing puts more capital behind Wonderful’s high-touch approach to enterprise AI: combine a shared software layer with local teams that connect and scale systems inside customers’ existing operations.

Yesterday

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Funding Startups

Aranya Raises $11M for Software It Says Can Ready GPU Clusters in 48 Hours

The startup is targeting the operational work that follows GPU procurement: configuring workloads, storage and networking into infrastructure that can run AI services. Its deployment and scale figures are company-reported.

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Launch Startups

Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Build Discovery Loop, a Science AI Startup Backed by Radical Ventures

The new public-benefit company has an unusually experienced founding team and support from both Radical Ventures and Alphabet. Its central technical question is still unanswered: what system will turn the ambition to automate research into a usable product?

Aug 30, 2026

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Funding Startups

IndiGo Ventures Joins Sarvam’s $1.5B Series B, Linking Airline Work to Ownership

The airline’s venture arm is backing a supplier it plans to use for customer service, staff productivity and operations—where dependable deployment will be the real test.

Aug 28, 2026

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Funding Startups

Deep Cogito Raises $43M to Build AI Models Enterprises Can Own

The startup is betting that post-training and ownership can become an enterprise product, not just a model-development technique. Its next challenge is turning that control into repeatable customer deployments.

Aug 26, 2026

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Funding Startups

Nauta Lands BMW, Bosch, Hitachi and Yamaha Funding for Supply-Chain AI Agents

The undisclosed round backs Nauta’s effort to turn scattered operational records into context for AI agents. Its claimed savings are substantial, but they remain company-supplied customer results.

Aug 26, 2026

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Funding Startups

Runable Raises $21M to Push Its AI Agent From Building Sites to Finding Customers

The Bengaluru startup is betting that small businesses want outcomes across websites, analytics and marketing—not another coding tool. Its economic model and access to advertising accounts remain important constraints.

Aug 26, 2026

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Funding Startups

Arga Raises $10 Million to Build Resettable Enterprise AI-Agent Sandboxes

Its digital twins are meant to reproduce the permissions, webhooks and changing state that make business-software workflows difficult to test repeatedly and safely.

Aug 26, 2026

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Startups

Anthropic’s Reported $30 Trillion IPO TAM Would Turn Labor Tasks Into Its Market

A colossal market figure shifts the IPO conversation from near-term sales to the boundaries of what counts as an AI market.

Aug 26, 2026

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Funding Startups

Ringg’s Reported $10M Peak XV Round Has Conflicting Accounts of Whether It Closed

The Bengaluru company is positioning its voice software for broader enterprise workflows, but the capital meant to support that expansion has not been independently clarified.

Aug 25, 2026

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Funding Startups

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.

Aug 24, 2026

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August 2026

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Funding Startups

Veeda AI Raises $90M to Make Robot Training Less Physical

The new company is betting that robots cannot learn fast enough, cheaply enough, or safely enough through physical trial and error—and that world models can move that work into simulation.

Aug 22, 2026

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Startups

Outer Biosciences Uses Discarded Surgical Skin to Hunt Cosmetic Ingredients

The company’s bet is that keeping donated skin viable for weeks can reveal slower changes that short toxicity tests miss. The commercial proof will come when partners turn its leads into finished ingredients.

Aug 21, 2026

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Funding Startups

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.

Aug 21, 2026

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Funding Startups

Starcloud Has $250 Million for Orbital AI. It Still Needs a Ride.

The startup is financing factories, satellites and launch reservations at once. Its near-term 2027 missions are smaller tests; the data-center-scale ambition still rests on Starship becoming a frequent commercial launch option.

Aug 21, 2026

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Launch Startups

Vivodyne Builds a Human-Tissue Data Factory for Drug AI

The company’s new facility near San Francisco is designed to produce records of how diseased human tissue responds to treatment. Its early benchmarks are company-reported tissue-model results; clinical value remains the test that matters.

Aug 19, 2026

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Acquisition Startups

Stripe’s Reported OpenRouter Deal Is a Bet on Who Directs AI Demand

The reported acquisition remains unconfirmed, and its price is disputed. But OpenRouter’s position between developers, models and inference providers could give Stripe a foothold where AI costs are created and allocated.

Aug 19, 2026

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