Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

Thrive raises $10B for new fund, its largest yet

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund– nearly double the size of its last fund.

Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions

Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Here are the 17 US-based AI companies that have raised $100m or more in 2026

Three U.S.-based AI companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion so far in 2026 with 14 others raising rounds of $100 million or more.

Just 8 months in, India’s vibe-coding startup Emergent claims ARR of over $100M

Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it’s generating annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million, thanks to surging demand by small businesses and non-technical users.

SpendRule raises $2M, emerges from stealth to help hospitals track spending

SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.

African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month

Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business. 

As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.