AI & Tech Funding Digest — Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026

AI Chip Startup Etched More Than Doubles Valuation to $10.3B in New $300M Round

AegisAI Banks $36M as AI Spear-phishing Surges Fivefold in a Year

Travis Kalanick's Industrial Automation Startup Atoms Raises $1.7B in Funding

Insurance Startup Corgi Reportedly Raised More Money at $4B - Its Third Round in 8 Weeks

Real-time Speech Intelligence Startup Cast Insights Raises $4.5M to Track the World's TV, Radio and Podcasts

Abstract Security Raises $25M Series a Extension, Recurring Revenue up 380%

Ropedia Raises $22M to Scale Human-centric Data Collection for Embodied AI

ServiceNow Beats Estimates and Raises Outlook as AI Passes $1B in Bookings

Yope Raises $12.3M to Build a Private Social Network Without Algorithms or Ads

3D Foundation Model Creator Meshy AI Secures $400M Series B at $1.5B Valuation

Cascade Raises $3.5M to Help Construction Firms Find and Win Projects

Exclusive: StrongestLayer Raises $4.1M for Reasoning-based Email Security

AI-native Endpoint Security Startup Glow Is Born a Unicorn After Raising $180M

Glow Emerges From Stealth at $1.2B Valuation to Challenge Endpoint Security in the AI Era

Dimension Capital's $800M Third Fund Shows the Intersection of Science and Compute Is Booming

SkyPilot Nabs $20M to Ease AI Infrastructure Management

AI Server Maker Supermicro's Stock Gains on $60B Order Backlog and Stronger Margins

AI Data Center Builder Fluidstack Raises $830M at $7.5B Valuation

Humanoid Raises $152M at $1.35B Valuation to Bring Human-like Robots Into Factories

Bluecore Energy Raises $10M to Build Portable Nuclear Reactors on Barges

Legal AI Startup Vikk AI Raises $4.2M to Build Lawyer Ads Inside AI Search

Closing the Series a Gap Is the Next Great Opportunity for Black Founders in the AI Era

LWiAI Podcast #249 - Fable 5 Ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty

LWiAI Podcast #248 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3

Anthropic Settles with Authors and Publishers for $1.5B in Landmark Copyright Case

AI Materials Science Startup CuspAI Raises $450M in Funding

Infinity Raises $15M to Run AI Inference on Any Chipset

Natural Raises $30M to Reinvent Payments for AI Agents - and Take on Stripe

Neo Security Bags $100M to Build the Secure Control Layer for Enterprise AI Agents

Inference Startup Infinity Raises $15M From Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic Researchers