ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.

The former Disney CEO hold a stake in Thrive and has previously held the role of the venture partner at the firm.

Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round this week but chose to halt discussions after SpaceX offered a $10 billion "collaboration fee" and a path to a $60 billion acquisition.

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

The startup says it grew its ARR by $70 million in just 20 months after launching an AI agent platform for marketers.

While many startups founded prior to the emergence of ChatGPT are struggling to position themselves for the AI era, Vercel, a 10-year-old dev tool and website hosting platform, is benefiting from the explosion of AI-generated apps and agents.

Last month, Sierra launched Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. With this “agent as a service” tool, the startup intends to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language. Users simply describe what they need, prompting Ghostwriter to autonomously create and deploy a specialized agent to execute the task.

The record quarterly fundraise largely fueled four mega-deals into OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo. But it also indicates a generally hot market.

We polled nearly a dozen VCs to find out which W26 startups are the sought after in the batch.

Wall Street giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are extending a 12-month, unsecured loan to the Japanese conglomerate.

The startup provides an e-prescribing marketplace for the booming cash-pay clinic market.

The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.

Doss's AI-powered inventory management system integrates with existing ERP systems. The Series B round was co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.

As prediction markets explode, the new firm called 5(c) Capital, will back startups supporting the burgeoning category.

The startup also announced a $5 million "rescue fund" to help credit unions ditch legacy software for its AI-native platform.

The data infrastructure startup raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons.

Rox, founded in 2024 by the former chief growth officer of New Relic, offers an AI-native alternative to CRM tools.