Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5 billion at a $40 billion pre-money valuation, Business Insider reported on November 6, 2026. Accel is leading the round, according to multiple sources cited in the ...

Source: Crunchbase News, Q2 2026 global report (July 2, 2026) and Q3 2026 global report (October 5, 2026, data as of October 2), global. The Q1 2026 figure is implied from Crunchbase’s October year-to ...

Americans filed 5.67 million business applications in 2025, the highest annual count on record, according to US Census Bureau data. Picking which business ideas to start is harder than filing the ...

Block owns every Afterpay share. The deal ran through a court-approved scheme of arrangement under Australian law, according to Block’s 8-K filing dated January 28, 2022. Afterpay shareholders ...

Fal raised $1.3 billion in a Series F round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Bloomberg reported on November 3, 2026. The deal values the San Francisco company at $16 billion. That valuation is double ...

AI startups announced five funding rounds above $2 million on Monday, November 9, 2026, for a combined $344.5 million. Nominal recorded the largest deal, a $240 million Series C that values the ...

Shield AI funding: a $2.5B package with a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation backs its $5.3B Echodyne deal. See investors and ...

AI funding news for November 7-8, 2026: no new rounds above $2M were announced, while OpenAI's $11B open round and Firmly's ...

Affirm Holdings has no parent company. It is an independent US public company listed on Nasdaq as AFRM, and founder and CEO Max Levchin is its largest voting holder, with 44.04% of total votes as of ...

Generative AI companies raised $170.9 billion in private investment in 2025, according to Stanford HAI’s 2026 AI Index. That was close to half of all private AI investment worldwide. In Q1 2026, AI ...