Startups & venture
Tech startups, funding rounds and venture capital, from the companies, investors and public funds involved.
MintNeuro Raises $5 Million to Scale Neural Device Chips
MintNeuro secured $5 million in funding to scale its specialized semiconductor platform for brain-computer interfaces and neural devices.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Mistral AI Raises €3 Billion in Series D Funding Round
Mistral secured €3 billion in Series D funding led by Samsung Electronics, reaching a valuation exceeding €21 billion.
Mistral AI
Tech IPO calendar this week (Sep 29–Oct 5, 2026): 3 deals to watch
This week's US tech IPOs: 0 priced, 3 expected, 0 new or updated filings, 0 postponed or withdrawn.
New York Stock Exchange
Y Combinator names Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad partners
The accelerator says both founders spent the last two batches as Visiting Partners and will now work with companies from their first weeks in the batch onward.
Y Combinator
Brightline Interactive closes $1.25m PIPE led by drone executive
The Nasdaq-listed company says the proceeds will fund SpatialCore, a platform meant to give sensors, robots and digital twins a shared view of the physical world.
Company filings with the US SEC
Tech IPO calendar this week (Sep 26–Oct 2, 2026): 2 deals to watch
This week's US tech IPOs: 0 priced, 1 expected, 1 new or updated filings, 0 postponed or withdrawn.
New York Stock Exchange
Supabase raises $150M and acquires database startup Turso
The Postgres platform says AI coding agents now create 70% of new databases on its service, pushing it to buy Turso and raise fresh capital four months after its Series F.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
PaleBlueDot AI raises $200M Series C at $3.2B valuation
The Palo Alto GPU cloud company says the ComputeCore-led round will fund more compute capacity after signing over $5 billion in customer contracts.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Volantis raises $88M to attack AI memory wall with photonics
The semiconductor startup says its photonic interconnect links compute chips to pooled memory, with first inference engines promised to customers in 2027.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)
Bain Capital Takes Minority Stake in Kahua Above $1 Billion
The construction software company said the growth investment will fund AI and product development after it reached $100 million in annualized revenue.
Company press releases (PR Newswire)