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11 hours agoStartups

Funding Startups

Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B Valuation for Robot Perception

The Series C places a $1.6 billion price on Lyte’s combination of custom chips, sensing and AI software, with warehouses and factories as its initial market.

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12 hours agoStartups

Funding Startups

HiddenLayer Raises $100M for Runtime Controls on Enterprise AI Agents

The startup is funding a security layer meant to observe and intervene as agents use enterprise tools. Its test is whether buyers will keep purchasing that layer independently of the platforms hosting their AI.

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Aug 31, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Lambda Adds $1B in Short-Dated Debt for Nvidia Chips Bound for Microsoft

The borrowing adds another customer-specific hardware deployment to Lambda’s balance sheet, while its reported equity plans remain unfinished.

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Last week

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Aug 28, 2026Startups

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.

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August 2026

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Aug 23, 2026Infrastructure

Funding Infrastructure

AI Data-Center Debt Moves Off Balance Sheets as Spending Could Reach $5.3T

Special-purpose entities can keep much of a project’s construction debt outside a technology customer’s financial statements, while disclosures, physical assets and demand remain central to the case for the buildout.

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Aug 21, 2026Business

Funding Business

Nscale’s Reported $3 Billion IPO Would Put AI Data-Center Contracts to a Public Test

Nscale’s prospective listing centers on a physical AI-cloud business: secure power and hardware, turn them into usable computing capacity, and deliver against large customer commitments.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Startups

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.

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