Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That …

Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system
Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed roun…

Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models
Anthropic and Blackstone bet the next fortune in AI is implementation, not models

The race in AI has been about who builds the best model. A new company backed by Anthropic thinks the real money sits elsewhere: in getting those models to actually work inside big companies. That company is Ode with Anthropic, and it launched under it…

A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test
A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test

One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is si…

Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery
Applied Computing raises $20m to build a foundation model for the refinery

A single refinery can carry thousands of sensors measuring temperature, pressure, velocity, and viscosity. According to Applied Computing, operators make decisions using less than 8% of what those sensors tell them. The London startup has raised a $20m…

Uber agrees $14.8bn Delivery Hero takeover, 26% above its May bid
Uber agrees $14.8bn Delivery Hero takeover, 26% above its May bid

The May bid was €33 and landed below the close. Eight weeks later it is €41.50, with 14 markets carved out to a New York firm before anyone asks about competition. Uber has agreed to buy Delivery Hero for €41.50 a share in cash, a 26% improvement on th…

Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs
Walden Robotics launches with $300M, and its factory humanoids have no legs

Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300m and a $1.1bn valuation. The Toyota spin-out builds humanoids for factories, and it left off the legs on purpose. “If you listen to the people on the factory floor, they aren’t ready, and they don’t w…

An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet
An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet

No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise …

Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York
Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York

Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. “We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and…

Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn
Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn

Emergent’s vibe coding platform hit a $1.5bn valuation a year after launch. Its founder says most businesses do not need software, they need a way to turn how they work into it. “Most businesses don’t need any software. They need a way to turn how they…