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Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Launch Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are leaving Google to found Discovery Loop, a startup automating scientific and engineering experimentation.

AI AgentsAugust 10, 2026

OpenAI Quietly Acquired Presentation Startup NextSlide

OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a startup that converts prompts and documents into editable presentations, folding it into ChatGPT

AI AgentsAugust 3, 2026

Cairo's Fincart Raises $2.8M to Bring AI-Driven Logistics to MENA Merchants

Cairo-based Fincart closed an oversubscribed $2.8M seed round co-led by Launch Africa and Antler Menap, with Yango Ventures among the backers.

RoboticsAugust 3, 2026

Enigma Emerges From Stealth With $70M to Make Robot Control as Simple as a Volume Knob

Enigma exited stealth with a seed round of about $70-71 million led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with Conviction Partners also participating.

LLMsAugust 3, 2026

Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Emerges From Stealth With Multibillion-Dollar Nvidia Deal

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by ex-OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has struck a long-term compute partnership with Nvidia after two years in stealth.

Arab AIJuly 28, 2026

Startup Radar: 4 Arab AI Companies Investors Are Racing To Back

Saudi startup Think announced a Pre-Seed round of over $8 million on July 15, 2026, led by RAED Ventures and Wa'ed Ventures, to build deep AI infrastructure.

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AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

London Fintech MDOTM Lands $27M to Scale AI-Driven Portfolio Management for Institutions

MDOTM, a London-based wealth and asset management fintech, raised $27 million in a growth funding round led by Expedition Growth Capital.

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Octozi Raises $3M to Clean Up Clinical Trial Data With Agentic AI

Octozi raised a $3 million seed round led by Surface Ventures, with continued backing from Debiopharm's venture arm

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Ex-DeepMind Researcher Lands $300M Valuation for Visual AI Startup Before Shipping a Single Product

Andrew Dai, a former Google DeepMind researcher, founded Elorian and raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation.

Health TechJuly 26, 2026

Neko Health Raises $700M to Bring Its AI Body Scanner to America

Neko Health closed a $700 million Series C led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners

RoboticsJuly 26, 2026

Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B to Bring AI Robotics to Factories, Mines and Kitchens

Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial AI and robotics company, raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board.

AI Video GenerationJuly 22, 2026

PixVerse Tops $2 Billion Valuation as Series C Swells to $439 Million

PixVerse's Series C extension brings total funding to $439 million, pushing its valuation above $2 billion

Healthcare AIJuly 22, 2026

Elevate Capital Buys Egypt's Nile Radiology in $19.5M Deal, Eyes AI-Driven Diagnostics and EGX Listing

Elevate Capital and the Moharram family signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Nile Radiology and Labs for approximately USD 19.5 million (EGP 1 billion)

AI AgentsJuly 22, 2026

Vercel Buys DevOps Agent Startup Stakpak, Its Third Acquisition in Weeks

Vercel has acquired Stakpak, an Egyptian-founded autonomous DevOps AI agent startup, with financial terms undisclosed.

AI in FinanceJuly 22, 2026

DeepSeek Founder's Quant Fund Loses 15.7% as China's AI Stock Bubble Deflates

High-Flyer, the quant fund run by DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, dropped 15.7% in the week ended 17 July 2026 as its $10B+ CSI 1000 fund got caught in an AI stock selloff.

AI AgentsJuly 16, 2026

Norm AI Hits $1.2 Billion Valuation as Legal Tech Bets Big on Outcome-Based AI Agents

Norm AI raised a $120 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing total funding to over $260 million in three years.

HardwareJuly 15, 2026

SambaNova Locks In $1B at $11B Valuation as JPMorgan Chase Signs On for AI Inference

SambaNova closed the first $1 billion of a Series F round led by General Atlantic, valuing the company at $11 billion.

AI AgentsJuly 6, 2026

Fika Jobs Secures $4M Pre-Seed to Launch AI-Powered Video Hiring Platform

Fika Jobs, a Stockholm-based startup, secured $4 million in pre-seed funding to launch its AI-powered video-first hiring platform.

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