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Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/video-hosti…

Video Hosting Startup Fal in Funding Talks at $8 Billion Valuation
Fal, a fast-growing cloud service for accessing and storing AI models that generate images, video, and audio, is in talks to raise $300 million to $350 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fundraise. The deal, which would nearly double the company’s paper valuation to ...

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/ex-splunk-execs-…

Ex-Splunk execs' startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.

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Aleksi Salonen Minun ajattelussani perustulo ei ole visio täydellisestä yhteiskunnasta eikä lupaus helposta elämästä. En pidä sitä ratkaisuna kaikkiin ongelmiin, eikä sen ole tarkoituskaan olla. Kyse on perustavanlaatuisemmasta kysymyksestä: kykeneekö nykyinen järjestelmä turvaamaan elämän perusedellytykset tavalla, joka kestää jatkuvaa muutosta. … Lue loppuun →

ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/st

Startup Developing GPS Alternative for Physical AI Earns $1 Billion-Valuation
Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars.Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other ...

Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kalshi-cinc…

Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/thinking-mach…

Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation
The timing couldn’t have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup, its CEO, Mira Murati, announced that she had fired one of Thinking Machines’ co-founders, its Chief Technology Officer Barret Zoph, for poor performance and speaking ...

Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…

Legal AI Startup Legora Eyes $400 Million Raise At $5 Billion-Plus Valuation
As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.

Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/andromeda-ai-compute-startup-raises-60m
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AI Compute Startup Andromeda Raises $60M At $1.5B Valuation
Led by Wil Moushey, the startup is backed by Paradigm and NFDG, the firm founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, and connects leading AI startups to GPU access.

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post-money valuation (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/02/19/emerald-ai-varun-s…

Scoop: Nvidia-backed Emerald AI raising $25M to cut data center energy demand
The round has a roughly $250m post-money valuation, sources say.