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Sources: SoftBank is seeking to raise up to $100B from Gulf investors for a fund to buy companies and improve their operations with AI and other advanced tech (Financial Times)

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Arena, which develops the popular AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January, and launches an Alignment Index (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI

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Hone, founded by former OpenAI and Cognition staffers to create AI agents that can help run a business, raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Flock plans to let go of ~270 employees, or 18% of its staff, at the end of October; the layoffs come after a voluntary buyout program in September (Reuters)

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Sources: the IPO of Nvidia-backed data center provider Firmus is uncertain after failing to attract adequate support, underscoring concerns over AI funding (Bloomberg)

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Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait (The Information)

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USV raised $900M, including a $500M early-stage fund, up from $275M in 2024, cuts general partnership to four investors, and aims to lead more AI rounds (Bloomberg)

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Gallatin AI, which uses AI to digitize and streamline military logistics data, raised a $50M Series A, bringing its total funding to $70M (Colin Demarest/Axios)

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Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout (Anniek Bao/CNBC)

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European venture funding rose 77% YoY to $25B in Q3, the region's strongest funding quarter in four years, representing 16% of global VC and led by AI startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

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Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders

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China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta

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AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-cons

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From start-ups to scale-ups – is the UK finally solving its problem with growing tech talent?

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Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (Bloomberg)

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The complete Side Events lineup at Founder Summit 2026

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Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M from 5Y and IDG for his unnamed AI lab that focuses on building world models, at a $200M post-money valuation (Bloomberg)

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Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup

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