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According to Bloomberg, UK real estate tech startup Dwelly announced it has completed $170 million in financing to acquire more real estate businesses and integrate artificial intelligence into its operations. The round was led by EQT Growth and General Catalyst and included $95 million in equity financing and a $75 million debt facility provided by Trinity Capital. The company did not disclose its valuation.
According to Korean media Asiae, six top Silicon Valley VC firms, including Sequoia Capital, a16z, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and NEA, announced the signing of a strategic investment cooperation memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the South Korean National Pension Service (NPS), planning to jointly explore investment opportunities, share investment information, and strengthen their global venture capital layout. Additionally, with the South Korean government accelerating policies to attract overseas venture capital, coupled with the launch of the 200 trillion won "National Growth Fund," the market expects the Korean venture capital sector to see simultaneous inflows of policy funds, private capital, and overseas capital, with strategic industries such as AI and semiconductors expected to receive more investment. However, industry insiders warn that if a large amount of capital concentrates on a few popular enterprises, it may push up corporate valuations and create bubbles, potentially facing valuation correction pressure during future IPO and M&A exits, affecting fund return rates.
According to Reuters, AI chip startup Oxmiq announced the completion of a new $35 million funding round, led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo, with participation from Taiwan's MediaTek and Pegatron Venture Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $60 million. Oxmiq was founded by former Intel Chief Architect Raja Koduri and is headquartered in Campbell, California. The company plans to integrate GPU, CPU, and tensor engine components into a single IP module for licensing, and develop an integrated computing architecture including Chiplets and memory, while positioning itself in the custom chip market to compete with Broadcom, Marvell, and MediaTek. Koduri stated that Oxmiq's goal is to become the "ARM of the next era." The funds will be used to complete the development of the first batch of IPs and bring them to market, while expanding the engineering team.
AI Agent security platform Geordie has announced the completion of a $30 million Series A funding round, led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Crosspoint Capital, General Catalyst, and Ten Eleven Ventures. The company focuses on AI Agent governance and security, helping enterprises monitor the behavior, permissions, data access, and potential risks of internal AI agents in real time, while limiting non-deterministic AI agent decision-making behaviors. (Techfundingnews)
: AI programming startup Cognition announced the completion of a new funding round of over $1 billion, with its pre-money valuation surging to $25 billion, doubling from the $10.2 billion post-money valuation achieved just 8 months ago.This funding round was led by Lux Capital and General Catalyst, with continued participation from Founders Fund and 8VC. New investors include Ribbit Capital, Atreides, and Layer Global.According to official data, the company's AI programmer product, Devin, has achieved a 50% month-over-month growth in enterprise user adoption over the past 6 months. The company's current Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) has reached $492 million, with customers including major institutions such as Mercedes-Benz, NASA, Goldman Sachs, and Santander Bank.Facing competition from native AI coding tools such as Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Google Jules, Cognition stated that Devin's continued growth and the acquisition of Windsurf assets demonstrate that independent AI programming agents still possess commercial viability.
According to Bloomberg, AI programming startup Cognition AI has announced a new funding round exceeding $1 billion, valuing the company at $26 billion post-funding—more than double its valuation from the previous round in September 2025. Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC co-led the round, with participation from Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management LP, and Founders Fund—Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm.
According to Fortune, Catena Labs—founded by Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle—has raised $30 million in its Series A funding round, led by Acrew Capital and a16z crypto, with participation from Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, and QED. Catena Labs focuses on developing tools that enable AI agents to conduct financial transactions securely. The company has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in New York for a national trust bank charter, seeking regulatory authorization to process payments and hold customer funds. Previously, in 2025, Catena Labs secured an initial $18 million financing round led by a16z crypto.
AI social app Status AI has announced the completion of a $17 million seed and Series A funding round, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator, LightShed Partners, and Abstract.The project primarily focuses on developing a gamified AI social media application that allows users to play any role in a virtual world, transforming social media into an interactive entertainment experience. (TechCrunch)
According to Fortune, AI startup Ciridae has announced a $20 million seed funding round led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. The company was co-founded by Jack Soslow, former partner at a16z, and Jack Weissenberger, former head of machine learning at Apple, and focuses on delivering AI transformation services to mid-sized enterprises in the real economy—such as home services, construction, and industrial distribution.
According to the UK’s Financial Times, AI company Anthropic is considering launching a new funding round this summer, with a maximum fundraising target of $50 billion and a pre-money valuation of approximately $900 billion—potentially surpassing OpenAI (valued at $852 billion in March) to become the world’s most highly valued AI company. So far, investment firms including Dragoneer, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners have proactively expressed interest in investing. Sources indicate that Anthropic’s annualized revenue is poised to exceed $45 billion—roughly five times its $9 billion year-end figure from last year. This funding round is expected to close within two months and pave the way for an IPO later this year.
London-based AI recruitment platform Ethos has raised $22.75 million in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from General Catalyst. Ethos uses AI-powered interviews and assessments of professional artifacts—including essays, code, and more—to build detailed skill profiles of candidates and match them to paid opportunities such as expert consulting, market research, AI data labeling, advisory roles, and full-time positions. Founded in 2023 by James Lo and Daniel J. Mankowitz—former employees of Google DeepMind, McKinsey & Company, and SoftBank—the company aims to address the growing challenge of identifying genuine candidate capabilities amid rising numbers of fabricated or AI-generated resumes. The new capital will be used to scale its AI agents, expand its global network of experts, and deepen collaborations with AI labs and enterprise clients.
According to TechCrunch, AI research lab NeoCognition has announced a $40 million seed funding round, co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners and others. Founded by Professor Yu Su of The Ohio State University and others, the company’s core focus is enabling AI agents to build environment-specific “world models” through real-world operational experience—rather than relying solely on general pre-training—to improve task execution reliability. NeoCognition currently targets the enterprise market and plans to offer embeddable AI agent systems for SaaS companies.