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.
Patina raised $2M in May 2026 (including Betaworks and True Ventures) to develop Sense1, a foundational model that mimics nose scent receptors and targets a “universal code of smell and taste.” The New York startup says it can recreate rose-oil scents without plant extraction and is in talks with fragrance houses and fashion brands about custom formulas.
Maka Kids, a startup building a streaming app for children ages zero to six, announced in 2026 that it has raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform. The app is currently accepting…
AI startup Hark says it raised a $700M Series A in May 2026 at a $6B post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital and backed by Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures. Founded in late 2025 by Brett Adcock, the 70-person team runs Nvidia B200 GPUs and plans to release its first multi-modal models this summer for a personal AI platform.
A new AI therapy and coaching app called The Path has raised $14.3 million in seed funding, with motivational speaker and author Tony Robbins joining as a co-founder alongside former Calm employees Anson Whitmer and Tyler Sheaffer. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, where…
Fresha’s May 2026 $80M round led by KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund lifts its valuation above $1B and totals $285M raised. The London-founded platform now runs 35M appointments/month for 140,000 businesses, and plans to expand to more countries and add AI features.
