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Founders, CTOs and researchers on the problem they are actually solving. Conducted in writing, published as received.

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Funding

Who raised what in AI. Every round verified by an editor before it is published.

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The wire · Sep 1540 deals · largest first

  1. $550MTemporal Closes $550M to Scale AI InfrastructureSeries C+ · Led by Lightspeed · AI Infrastructure
  2. €419MCrane Venture Partners Raises €419M to Expand Global PlatformLed by MassMutual Ventures · London
  3. €300MOpen Cosmos Secures €300M to Expand Satellite IntelligenceLed by ETF Partners, Lightrock, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) · Satellite Intelligence, Earth Observation, Space Connectivity
  4. $270MExein Closes $270M to Expand Physical AI SecurityLed by Headline · Italy
  5. Over €200MEUCLYD Lands Over €200M to Scale AI InfrastructureSeries A · Led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, Scaleup Europe Fund, Innovation Industries · Eindhoven
  6. $200MFactory Reportedly Lands $200M to Scale AI Coding AgentsLed by Blackstone · San Francisco
  7. $180MProfound Lands $180M to Optimize AI Search MarketingSeries C+ · Led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins · AI Search Marketing Software
  8. $130MBuildots Lands $130M to Power Data Center BuildoutLed by O.G. Venture Partners · Construction AI Platform
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September 2026

$16.5B across 106 verified rounds this month, 16 of them $100M or more. AI Agents & Enterprise took 47.

Deals verified per week · last eight weeks82 this week

Rounds this month by sector · 5 unclassified

Biggest rounds · SepAll $100M+ →

  1. ByteDance$29.6B
  2. Figure$3.5B
  3. Mistral$3.5B
  4. Crusoe$3B
  5. Cognition$2B

Most active · Q3 2026All investors →

  1. Y Combinator20 deals
  2. Sequoia Capital19 deals
  3. General Catalyst18 deals
  4. Andreessen Horowitz16 deals
  5. Index Ventures15 deals

Intelligence

Short analysis built from Chinese-language AI reporting and our own interviews. Every argument is credited to the person who made it.

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  1. Consumer

    Volumetric Media at the Compression Threshold

    Volumetric media is approaching an infrastructure inflection point as 100x compression enables browser-native streaming. However, capture costs and interaction limits remain the primary structural constraints.

  2. Agents & Enterprise

    The Collapse of Initiation Latency in Web Systems

    Human-initiated web optimization has reached its economic limit. As CAC rises and SEO returns diminish, the competitive boundary is shifting from creative volume to decision latency compression.

  3. Defense & Security

    The Decoupling of Defense Hardware

    Modern warfare is shifting from high-cost platform preservation to modular, attritable systems. Here is why procurement inertia remains the primary barrier to the goal-oriented "agentic" battlefield.

  4. Physical AI

    The Architectural Mismatch in Micromobility Safety

    Automotive safety assumptions are structurally incompatible with two-wheel dynamics. The industry is moving toward vision-first systems as car-grade sensors reach their physical and economic limits.

  5. Agents & Enterprise

    The Governance Gap in Enterprise AI

    Enterprise AI is scaling faster than it can be governed. Prompt versioning and multi-agent monitoring are emerging as structural production risks. Here is why the industry is accumulating…

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  1. Vlad Gozman Involve.me CEO Vlad Gozman  identifies  the AI agent not as a builder, but as an  orchestrator within a predefined system of components.

    in How Risk Topology Shapes AI System Design

  2. Georgii Vysotskii Gracia CEO Georgii Vysotskii  benchmarks  the current inflection point at a  75 Mbps streamable format.

    in Volumetric Media at the Compression Threshold

  3. Michelle Lim When a six-week coordination cycle yields zero marginal business gain, the failure is not in the creative—it is in the  initiation latency.

    in The Collapse of Initiation Latency in Web Systems

Events

39 events in the next 30 days · 15 added this week

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Sep 14–17AixEnergy 2026LiveBangkok, Thailand · Conference
Sep 15MEICA Expo 2026LiveKuwait City, Kuwait · Conference
Sep 15AI Infra Summit 2026LiveSanta Clara, USA · Conference
Sep 16–18GISEC Global 2026Dubai, UAE · Conference
Sep 17–18AgriNext Conference 2026Dubai, UAE · Conference
Sep 24AI & Cybersecurity Summit 2026Berlin, Germany · Conference

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