Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round in May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, in what the company suggests may be its last private fundraise before an IPO.
The round was…
Bluesky rolled out an update in May 2026 that brings long-form content to its platform, integrating with Standard.site — a community project that enables articles, blog posts, and newsletters to be…
General Compute raised a $15M seed in 2026 at a $60M post-money valuation (led by FUSE VC) to sell an inference cloud on SambaNova SN50 chips, with a $300M order targeting 600–700 tokens/sec vs ~250 on GPUs. Launched in late May 2026, the air-cooled, low-power setup is designed for existing data centers and claims top MiniMax 2.7 performance.
Triomics, a startup that builds AI tools for oncology teams, announced a $22 million Series B funding round in May 2026, led by Battery Ventures. Returning investors Nexus Venture Partners,…
Database provider ClickHouse has reached $250 million in annualized revenue run rate, tripling its business from the prior year, co-founder and president of product and technology Yury Izrailevsky…
AI coding startup Cognition announced on May 27, 2026, that it has raised more than $1 billion in a new funding round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation — more than doubling its valuation in eight…
Trajectory, launched in May 2026 by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI and Meta researchers, raised a $15M seed at a $115M post-money valuation led by Conviction with Bessemer VC, Radical VC and BoxGroup. Founded by Ronak Malde, it has 11 people and targets continual learning from real user interactions.
ElevenLabs launched Music v2 in May 2026, enabling mid-track genre switching (opera ↔ heavy metal) without losing coherence. The model supports section-based, text-prompt regeneration, intro/verse/chorus stitching, and more reliable results across languages, lyrics, vocals, and arrangements, built on licensed data cleared for commercial use.
A third-party website called UK Visa Portal has been publicly exposing the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants — and as of publication in May 2026, the security lapse remains…
OpenRouter (founded 2023) raised $113M Series B led by CapitalG, announced May 2026, valuing it at ~$1.3B post-money—up from ~$547M a year earlier. It claims 8M users and ~100T tokens/month (~25T/week), fivefold from 5T/week six months ago.
Stord raised $250M on May 26, 2026 at a $3B valuation—up from $1.5B a year earlier—and has now pulled in about $775M total. The round was led by Strike Capital; Google spotlighted its AI interface at Cloud Next in April 2026.
Peec, a Berlin GEO startup that checks whether brands appear in AI results for specific prompts like ChatGPT, reports $10M+ annualized revenue from an internal May 2026 dashboard. Six months earlier, a $21M Series A valued above $100M followed >$4M ARR in its first 10 months.
