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According to Business Insider, Hyperbolic, an AI computing infrastructure startup, has completed a $30 million Series A-1 funding round led by Walden Catalyst, co-founded by Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and former Samsung President Young Sohn, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, and others.
According to reports by Sifted, London-based UK AI startup 22one has reached a valuation of approximately $400 million, with backing from venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst. Founded by a former senior police officer, the company primarily develops AI tools for police departments. The report notes that the UK government is driving police modernization, providing a policy backdrop for the application of such technologies.
Hyperbolic, an AI chip trading marketplace and software startup, has announced the completion of a $30 million A-1 round of financing led by Walden Catalyst, with participation from Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, Vista Equity Partners, and Cambium Capital. Hyperbolic's total financing to date has reached $50 million. (Business Insider)
据 Fortune 报道，专注于为普通投资者构建人工智能（AI）交易代理的初创公司 Catalyst 完成 3000 万 美元种子轮融资，红杉资本（Sequoia）领投，Jump Trading、PeakXV、Lux Capital、AntiFund、Coinbase 以及 Premji Invest 参投。
According to EU-Startups, Berlin-based AI services company Integral announced the closing of an €18 million Series A financing round, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures participating. Since its founding in 2024, the company has raised over €30 million in cumulative funding. Integral specializes in providing AI-driven accounting, tax, and payroll services for SMEs. It leverages AI agents to handle invoice reconciliation, bookkeeping, payroll calculation, and tax filing, with every document reviewed and signed by licensed professionals. Currently, over 50% of its clients have achieved fully automated accounting processes, shortening the monthly accounting cycle from several weeks to just a few hours.
AI physical operations platform Motive has announced the completion of a $1.3 billion funding round, with General Catalyst participating through its Customer Value Fund. Exact valuation figures have not been disclosed. Additionally, the company disclosed that it has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement, formally abandoning its plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange.
According to Forbes, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-led Cognition, an AI coding agent company, in a Series E funding round of more than $2 billion, pushing its latest valuation to $48 billion, a substantial increase from the $26 billion valuation four months prior. Over 30 other institutions, including Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Avenir, and NVIDIA, participated in the round. Operating revenue for Cognition’s AI coding agent product Devin has grown from $492 million in May to nearly $900 million, with The Information forecasting that its annualized revenue could reach $4 billion to $5 billion by year-end.
According to Bloomberg, remittance startup Felix Pago announced the completion of a $200 million Series B financing round, featuring an $87 million equity investment led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $113 million credit facility from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. Felix Pago plans to leverage the proceeds to expand from its remittance business into other financial services, including lending and savings, targeting Latin American immigrants in the United States.
Odaily Planet Daily Report: AI Agent testing infrastructure startup Arga Labs has announced the completion of a $10 million seed funding round, led by General Catalyst, with participation from BoxGroup, Emergence Capital, Gradient Ventures, and SV Angel. The company aims to address the challenges of testing, training, and adapting AI Agents to complex business systems during enterprise-level deployment. By creating complete digital twin environments of enterprise software, replicating permission systems, Webhooks, and system interaction logic, it enables AI Agents to train in environments that closely resemble real-world operations. (TechCrunch)
According to Reuters, chip design startup Velaura AI announced the completion of a $110 million Series A financing round, with a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion. This round was led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Capricorn Investment Group and existing investors Samsung Catalyst Fund, StepStone Group, and Maverick Silicon.
UK agricultural robotics startup Versatile RobotX announced it has completed over 1.17 million euros (approximately 1 million pounds) in financing, with funding sources including the British Design Fund (BDF), the Innovate UK Growth Catalyst Investor Partnership Programme Round 2, and Defra Farming Innovation Programme grants. The company was co-founded by University of Essex Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier and Dr. Vishwanathan Mohan in July 2024, and its two core products—automatic fruit and vegetable picking robots and hydroponic robotic harvesters—have completed field validation at well-known UK farms such as Wilkin & Sons.
According to River AI's announcement, River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has completed a $1.1 billion financing round led by General Catalyst and AMP, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD. Other investors include Y Combinator and Temasek.
Odaily News: River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has announced a $1.1 billion funding round, led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia and AMD. The round also includes strategic investments from Y Combinator and Temasek.
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.