Profound says its Sept 2026 $180M Series D values it at $1.8B—unicorn status in under seven months after a $96M Series C. Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins led as revenue grew 3x in six months and it topped 1,000 enterprise customers including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart.
Light adds Uber+Lyft ridesharing to Light Phone III and the upcoming Light Flip via a new Rideshare tool announced in Sep 2026. Powered by Tremp SMS ordering, it charges 10% with a $2 minimum (waived for the first five rides in 30 days) and previews LightOS’s “tool library” SDK. Light expects Tool Library user submissions by end of Sep 2026, with tools landing for all users a few weeks later.
Email and productivity platform Superhuman announced in September 2026 that it has acquired Fathom, a Y Combinator-backed AI meeting notetaker, rather than continuing to develop a comparable tool…
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera technology company, in a deal valued at over $300 million, according to a September 2026 report from The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI did not…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is targeting $2 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, according to a Bloomberg report published Friday — double the company’s revenue run rate recorded in…
Austin-based navigation startup Tern has secured an $11.26 million contract from the U.S. Army to deploy its GPS-alternative technology in military vehicles, the company announced in September…
Automattic’s board placed founder/CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, confirmed Sept. 9, 2026, after a Slack message says CFO Mark Davies and board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker voted him onto leave. Davies becomes interim CEO.
Legal AI startup Harvey announced on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, that it has raised $550 million in a new funding round, valuing the company at $15.5 billion.
The round was co-led by Diffusion and…
Suno launched Suno v6 on Sept. 9, 2026, trained on licensed music from WMG, BMG, and Believe, as suits from Sony, UMG, and Jason Isbell remain active. Base, Wild, and Mini debut with prompt/lyric editing, text/image/video references, and instrument separation; remixing requires artists to opt into Suno’s label program.
UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced in September 2026 a $20 million Series B extension round, bringing its total funding to $128 million. The round was led by Nimble Ventures,…
Led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, Cognition’s $2B September 2026 round values it at $48B—up from $26B four months earlier. Annualized revenue rose to $900M from $492M as it leases an Nvidia cluster and trains its own model to lower OpenAI/Anthropic reliance.
Mistral AI raised €3B on Sept. 8, 2026 in a Series D led by Samsung, valuing it at >€21B—Europe’s largest-ever tech equity round. It’ll scale compute and infrastructure, targeting 1 GW of compute capacity in Europe by 2030, while offering region-based processing for “sovereign” AI.
