FUNDING OpenAI Targets $30B Pre-IPO Round at $1.4T Valuation
OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $30 billion in a new funding round, seeking a ~$1.4 trillion post-money valuation—pushing back its IPO plans. The round would be the largest private tech raise on record.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising over $12 billion (80B+ yuan) led by Tencent and CATL, valuing the company at ~$75B. Funds will back a new data center in Inner Mongolia with 160K+ Huawei Ascend chips, ahead of a Shanghai STAR Market listing in early 2027.
CYBERSECURITY Armadin Raises $255.5M for AI Agent Swarms That Hunt Vulnerabilities
Kevin Mandia's Armadin launched a $255.5M Series B at a $2.5B+ valuation. The company deploys autonomous AI agent swarms to continuously find and chain enterprise vulnerabilities—addressing the rising threat of AI-driven cyber attacks.
INFRASTRUCTURE PaleBlueDot AI Lands $200M Series C at $3.2B Valuation
The Palo Alto GPU infrastructure startup now operates 220K+ interconnected GPUs across 150+ clusters in 60+ regions. It has signed over $5B in customer contracts and is competing directly with Sharon AI in the race for dedicated AI compute capacity.
AI AGENTS Photon Raises $4.5M Seed to Bring AI Agents to iMessage & WhatsApp
The Vercel-backed startup offers a unified API and framework letting developers build AI agents that operate directly inside messaging apps. Already 40K+ developer sign-ups and 10x revenue growth in four months with sub-3% churn.