Eric Wu, the founder who built and ran Opendoor for eight years before stepping away in 2022, launched a new company called NavigateAI in late May 2026 with $25 million in seed funding at a $225…
Clucky launched on iPhone in Sept. 2026, waking users with a crowing-rooster alarm and requiring mission-based dismissal (math, tile tapping, dictated typing, phone shaking, or an AI camera challenge). Pro costs $39.99/yr and includes Extra Loud Mode, stats, and private “Nest”/“Flock” groups.
Crusoe raised $3B at a $30B valuation after landing Jane Street’s $13B, five-year cloud contract, Bloomberg reported in Sept. 2026. Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led with Mubadala Capital; valuation jumped from $10B after an Oct. 2025 $1.38B raise.
OpenAI ended its Cursor partnership on Friday, Sept 2026, after SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, estimating a $1B+ annualized revenue hit. OpenAI cited distrust of Elon Musk; Cursor CEO Michael Truell claims OpenAI models power ~5% of Cursor traffic, while head of core products Thibault Sottiaux says token usage isn’t a revenue/value proxy.
Wonderful, the Israeli-Dutch AI startup, raised $550M in a Series C at a $5B valuation—over 2x its ~$2B valuation from ~six months earlier. Insight Partners led; Salesforce joined. Wonderful AI OS works across 35+ countries, coordinating agents and workflows across any AI model.
Adobe has acquired Rilo, an India-based marketing intelligence startup, in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch reported on September 2, 2026. Financial terms were not…
Empirik, an AI-powered infrastructure monitoring startup incubated by Sequoia Capital, announced Tuesday that it is spinning out as an independent company after raising $21 million in seed funding….
Fambot launched its AI “chief of staff” in Sept 2026, creating daily checklists and a forward calendar when families connect email, calendars, and WhatsApp groups. It supports text as well as web and mobile (not text-only), claims its models don’t train on user data, and raised $3.5M pre-seed after testing with 1,000+ families.
Indian edtech startup Unacademy has been acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal valuing the company at ₹19.55 billion (approximately $206 million) — about 94% below its 2021 peak valuation of $3.44 billion. The deal closed on September 1, 2026, nearly six months after it…
Clipto, a San Francisco AI search startup, raised $15M in an all-equity round at a $250M post-money valuation (announced Aug 2026). Its system indexes files on users’ devices—no cloud—and lets people search by descriptions or via ChatGPT/Claude, with new MCP support gated by explicit authorization.
Ryan Breslow, the co-founder and CEO of checkout startup Bolt, announced in August 2026 that he is raising a bridge round of up to $27 million to keep the company operational while it works toward a larger Series E2 funding round.
Meeting note-taker app Circleback announced in August 2026 that it is introducing a free subscription tier alongside revised paid plans starting at $14 per month, down from a previous entry price of…
