Unconventional AI, a startup led by Naveen Rao, former head of AI at Databricks, released its first AI model on June 25, 2026, as an early demonstration of a new computing architecture the company…
General Intuition’s June 2026 $320M raise values it at $2.3B, led by Khosla Ventures, with General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Nico Rosberg, and DeepMind/MIT researchers participating. Its agents are trained on millions of Medal game-clip hours using embedded button-and-timing action labels, powering a Fortnite-like office agent and a quadrupedal robot fine-tuned with just 8 minutes of street data.
Network automation startup Netris has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the company announced in June 2026. The funding will be used to hire engineers…
Adobe announced in June 2026 that it is acquiring Topaz Labs, a company that develops AI-powered tools for video and image enhancement. The deal is expected to close in the second half of…
Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys, announced in June 2026 the launch of Hang Ten Systems, an enterprise AI services startup that has raised a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield, with a…
Qualcomm announced in June 2026 that it will acquire Silicon Valley chip software startup Modular for nearly $4 billion. Qualcomm said it expects to issue up to 19.2 million shares of common stock to…
Indian customer engagement software firm MoEngage has acquired San Francisco-based startup Aampe in an all-cash deal, announced in June 2026. While financial terms were not officially disclosed, a…
Superhuman—rebranded from Grammarly’s email app—acquired AI detection startup GPTZero on June 23, 2026, citing “two AI detectors are better than one.” GPTZero, built from Edward Tian’s roughly three-year-old Princeton thesis, had 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; financial terms were undisclosed.
Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs announced in June 2026 a $4 million pre-seed funding round to develop a hiring platform that replaces traditional resumes with AI-conducted video interviews and…
Reflection AI’s first compute deal with SpaceX is $150M/month for Nvidia GB300 chips at Colossus 2 near Memphis, starting July 1, 2026 through 2029 for up to $6.3B; both sides can exit with 90 days’ notice after the first three months. Founded in 2024 by ex–Google DeepMind researchers, it cites U.S. bans on Anthropic’s closed models.
Meta said in June 2026 that CRED founder Kunal Shah will replace Will Cathcart as WhatsApp head after nearly seven years. Meta also backed CRED with a $900M round valuing it at about $4.5B, up from $3.6B in May 2025.
Smartbird, formerly Allbirds, rebranded after pivoting to AI in April 2026 and named Nadia Carlsten (ex-AWS) as its first CEO for AI infrastructure. After a $43M shoe sale and $100M stock-market raise, Carlsten—based in Amsterdam—will earn $700K/year and about $9M in stock.
