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According to TechCrunch, Indian enterprise voice AI startup Ringg announced it has secured a $10 million investment from Peak XV Partners as an extension of its Series A funding round; the company previously closed a $5.5 million Series A earlier this year, bringing its total funding to $15.5 million. Initially founded on text-to-speech technology, Ringg is now pivoting to provide AI agent services for businesses, with clients including Cred, Flipkart, Practo, Groww, and PolicyBazaar. Its voice AI platform has been integrated into approximately 1,200 clinics across Practo, facilitating patient appointments and post-consultation follow-ups.
According to Reuters, AI data center power infrastructure company Emerald AI announced the closing of its $150 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at $1.05 billion. Co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC, this round brings Emerald AI’s total funding raised past $220 million. Emerald AI is focused on transforming AI data centers into flexible grid resources, addressing one of the major bottlenecks hindering AI development: power supply. The newly raised capital will be used to expand global commercial deployments in partnership with AI companies, data center operators, and utilities.
According to The Block, crypto investment firm RockawayX announced the acquisition of crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital to integrate long/short and pairs trading strategies into its existing business and expand its presence in the U.S. market. Relayer will be renamed the RockawayX Liquid Opportunities Fund, focusing on investments in undervalued liquid tokens and crypto-related stocks; its founder, Austin Barack, will serve as the fund's CIO. RockawayX currently manages approximately $2 billion in assets, and the new fund plans to raise $150 million.
According to TechCrunch, Stability AI, the developer of the AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has completed a $76 million Series B funding round, bringing its cumulative funding to $232 million. Participating investors include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Electronic Arts (EA), as well as AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.
According to Fortune, Nikita Bier, former head of product at Elon Musk’s X and a serial entrepreneur, recently launched one-on-one video consulting services on the expert advice platform Intro, available exclusively to founders of venture-backed startups. His fee is $7,500 per 15-minute interval, with a minimum booking time of 30 minutes, bringing the starting price to $15,000 per session. Consultations cover topics such as startup growth, fundraising, investing, and product “virality.” Bier previously founded the anonymous social apps tbh and Gas, which both topped the US App Store charts before being acquired by Meta (formerly Facebook) and Discord in 2017 and 2023, respectively. He was named head of product at X in 2025, claiming to have driven the launch of around 30 products during his tenure. He has since stepped down from the position but remains on board as an advisor.
According to TechCrunch, robotics startup Generalist has secured nearly $200 million in follow-on funding led by 8VC, establishing a post-money valuation of approximately $3 billion. This capital extends its $400 million Series B round led by Radical Ventures in June, bringing the total for that round to $600 million. Founded in 2024, Generalist's founding team comprises former Google DeepMind researchers Pete Florence and Andy Zeng, alongside former Boston Dynamics engineer Andrew Barry. The company is developing AI foundation models compatible with a wide range of robots; its latest Gen 1.5 model claims to enable robots to learn and execute new tasks through video demonstrations as brief as three to twelve seconds.
According to Sina Finance, prediction platform Kalshi stated in filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it has raised approximately $1.12 billion through equity financing, with a total offering size of $1.5 billion.
According to Bloomberg, South Korean AI platform provider Wrtn Technologies announced it has completed a Series C funding round of approximately 100 billion won (around $69 million), valuing the company at 1.2 trillion won (approximately $870 million). The round will primarily be used to drive global market expansion. New investors Coreline Ventures and Eugene Asset Management participated in the financing, while existing shareholders including Goodwater Capital, Antler Global, Woori Venture Partners, Korea Development Bank, and Capstone Partners continued their support.
According to CNBC, program host Jim Cramer stated that Nvidia's position in the AI ecosystem has become "crucial," and its earnings performance will, to some extent, serve as a key metric for the market to evaluate the broader AI trade. Despite market concerns regarding risks such as intensifying competition, headwinds in data center projects, tight memory chip supply, and the sustainability of AI funding, Cramer maintains an optimistic outlook on Nvidia.
According to an official announcement from Hivemind, its subsidiary Hivemind Digital Group has completed a $17 million strategic financing round, led by M&G Investments, with participation from CPIC Investment Management (H.K.), ZA Bank, FalconX, and Sonic Boom Ventures, among others. Alex Seddon, Head of Impact and Private Equity at M&G Investments, will join the company's board of directors.
Odaily News: RockawayX, which manages approximately $2 billion in assets, is seeking to raise $150 million for a new liquidity opportunity fund. RockawayX has previously acquired the crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital. Austin Barack, founder of Relayer Capital and former Partner at CoinFund, will continue to work at RockawayX and manage this fund. The fund will focus on investing in undervalued tokens and crypto-related stocks. Recently, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have all risen more than 20% over the past week. Meanwhile, crypto venture capital firms such as Paradigm and Framework Ventures are incorporating fields like AI and robotics into their investment strategies.
Odaily News: Bitcoin treasury company Strategy's Bitcoin holdings are currently valued at $66.7 billion, with annual obligations such as preferred stock dividends and interest amounting to approximately $1.76 billion. According to Regime Intelligence analysis, the company's 840,447 BTC holdings correspond to roughly $22 billion in debt and priority claims, and continued access to capital market financing serves as the foundation for meeting its obligations.Stress tests show that Bitcoin prices would need to fall by approximately 96% before Strategy's Bitcoin holdings and reserves would be insufficient to cover its convertible bonds; its debt is not a traditional Bitcoin-collateralized margin loan, and there is no BTC margin call mechanism triggered by price declines.Report author Sherif Saad stated that Strategy needs to maintain its financing cycle to cover annual debt and preferred stock expenses, with cash reserves currently covering approximately 2.6 times the related annual expenses. If the financing environment deteriorates, the company may rely more heavily on reserves and Bitcoin sales to meet its obligations.Strategy has sold Bitcoin four times since May, with the most recent sale involving 1,690 BTC, using the proceeds to pay preferred stock dividends, repurchase shares, and increase its dollar reserves. CEO Phong Le said earlier this month that the company has purchased approximately 25 times the amount of Bitcoin it has sold this year, and plans to resume purchases later this year. (Cointelegraph)
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) CEO Michael Saylor denied reports that the company sold Bitcoin due to financing pressures, clarifying instead that it maintains ample cash reserves and continues to steadily increase its holdings.
According to CoinDesk, insiders revealed that crypto custodian Copper is attracting interest from potential buyers, but current acquisition offers of two or three are approximately $200 million, significantly below the roughly $500 million valuation that investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald was seeking for the company in May this year.
According to PR Newswire, Hivemind Digital Group announced the completion of a $17 million strategic financing round, led by M&G Investments, with participation from CPIC Investment Management (HK), ZA Bank, FalconX, Sonic Boom Ventures, and others. The funds raised will be used to accelerate the development of tokenization infrastructure and expand its capabilities in investing in cutting-edge technologies.
According to Bloomberg, Israeli AI security startup Alice has closed a $140 million funding round. The round was led by Apax Digital, a fund under private equity firm Apax Partners, with participation from cybersecurity company SentinelOne and Samsung Electronics.
According to The Securities Times citing sources, as Alibaba launched a placement to raise capital, founder Jack Ma has purchased additional shares of the company's Hong Kong-listed stock over consecutive days, with a total value exceeding HK$600 million. According to Bitget market data, possibly influenced by this news, Alibaba's US-listed stock (BABA.N) rose approximately 2% in pre-market trading, following an earlier drop of more than 1%.
XPeng (NYSE: XPEV)'s robot subsidiary has signed a stock purchase agreement with investors, planning to raise over $900 million at a post-money valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. XPeng stated that this is the largest single funding round for a Chinese company in the robotics sector to date. IDG Capital led the round, with Tencent and Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) participating as strategic investors.
According to analysis by BIT's official Chinese account (@BITofficial_CN), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s proposed crypto asset regulatory rules may provide securities registration exemptions for qualifying crypto asset financing activities, thereby lowering the compliance threshold for token offerings and improving the industry's financing environment. Under the proposal, eligible issuances may qualify for two types of exemptions: a one-time fundraising exemption capped at $5 million over four years, and another that permits issuers to raise up to $75 million within any consecutive 12-month period. Both categories must fulfill disclosure obligations, while the latter is also required to submit financial statements and make ongoing disclosures.
According to Chaoxiang Research, Goldman Sachs' research report dated August 24, 2026, indicates that cryptocurrency trading volume fell 30% in July and 21% in August, declining for 10 consecutive months, a duration that exceeded the median of the previous five cycles. Trading volume in this cycle has dropped 75% from its peak, while cryptocurrency market capitalization rebounded 21% over the past week. Goldman Sachs suggests a turning point in trading volume may emerge if market cap remains at current levels. On the regulatory front, 35% of institutional investors cite regulatory uncertainty as the biggest hurdle, while 32% identify regulatory clarity as the primary catalyst. The SEC recently proposed an innovation exemption framework. In 2026, over 10 additional digital asset companies received bank charters from the OCC, and more than 15 crypto firms have already been incorporated into the federal banking system. Crypto companies reduced expenses by an average of approximately 5% in 2026, lifting operating margins by roughly 5.8 percentage points. Goldman Sachs remains cautiously optimistic for the second half of the year, with sector valuations currently positioned at the 30th percentile over a five-year period. Key recommendations include COIN (target price $196), HOOD ($124), IBKR ($114, featured on Goldman Sachs' Conviction List US), and FIGR ($43). The investment logic diverges across the three sectors: traditional brokerages are poised for a September reversal, prediction markets are driven by the election cycle, and crypto equities benefit from a triple catalyst of market cap recovery, cost reductions, and regulatory reform.