Hyperbolic Raises $30M for a Global GPU Compute Grid
The San Francisco startup says Walden Catalyst led its Series A-1 round. The money goes to its Forge platform and a planned marketplace for spare GPU capacity.
Entrepreneurship
Imperial College Spinout Machenta Lands $40M Seed Round
The London robotics startup has 11 employees. It trains its model only in simulated environments and aims to teach robots a task from one demonstration.
Databricks Co-Founder Lists How Startups Land Big Customers
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji says startups lose enterprise deals by trusting their technology to sell itself. He named partnerships, four buyer concerns about AI and legacy systems as the ways in.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $600M at a $4.1B Valuation
The two-year-old maker of self-driving kits for excavators closed a Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, two months after its machines went to work on live sites.
Nous Raises $17M for an AI Agent That Handles Household Bills
The UK startup founded by onefinestay's Greg Marsh plans to expand abroad and add insurance and financial services.
Adsilico Raises £10M to Test Heart Devices on Virtual Patients
The Leeds spinout, led by PXN Ventures in this round, simulates how implants perform across patients of different ages, sexes and body sizes.