Funding & Markets
Google Misses Earnings Target Similar To Facebook
Google's earnings miss looks a lot like Facebook's, and that's a credit to Google. The company is being more aggressive than they get credit for.
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Funding & Markets
30 stories from the past week in Funding & Markets, from Awesome B2B Growth.
Missile startup Hypersonica raises €100m from Lightspeed, General Catalyst as missile defence takes off
The S&P 500 Hasn’t Moved in Months, but 2 Sectors Jumped More Than 10 Percent in October
Friday’s 1.8 percent drop was the worst day since June.
Bloomberg Technology Reports Structured Notes Market Boom
The structured products business in the US has gotten very large recently — on track to hit $300 billion in sales this year. What was once an opaque financial product is getting a lot more attention. So what are structured products, exactly, and how are they…
Midstream Health Raises $20 Million to Help Hospitals Recover Missed Payments
AI is helping hospitals find money hiding in plain sight.
FBI Blames North Korea for $6 Billion Binance Crypto Hack
The FBI said that North Korea was responsible for stealing more than $6 billion in cryptocurrencies in a brazen hacking attack on Binance.
Why Nonprofits May Need to Think More Like Creators to Raise Money
Doing good is great. Getting noticed pays.
OpenAI Lowers Funding Target For New Round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
OpenAI Cuts Funding Target By $10 Billion
OpenAI has cut its fundraising target by $10 billion as an AI stock selloff and rival Anthropic PBC’s impending public listing complicate its efforts to secure investor commitments, the Financial Times reported.
Baseten Plans Funding To Double Value
Artificial intelligence startup Baseten is set to raise new funding that would more than double its valuation to about $30 billion, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Anthropic Expected To Receive Low Credit Rating After IPO
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its business.
Re:Build Leads Week's Biggest Funding Rounds With $2.1 Billion
This week featured a robust lineup of large rounds, led by manufacturing startup Re:Build, which closed on $2.1 billion, and predictions marketplace Kalshi, which picked up another $1 billion.
Talent tops European AI startups’ concerns as funding pressures mount
SuperMe Raises Funding For AI Expert Network
SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determines which experts are best suited to answer and creates a group chat with their AI profiles.
Exclusive: Fractile raises £540m in new Series C funding, filings show
Exclusive: Deeptech startup MuRay raises €7.1m to see inside rocket engines
Microsoft Generates $10 Billion From OpenAI Arrangements
Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.
Numeracle Secures Funding To Combat Spam Labels On Legitimate Calls
Numeracle, a McLean, Virginia-based company that verifies businesses and links their identities to the phone numbers they use to contact customers, has raised $28 million from Edison Partners to help businesses whose calls are incorrectly labeled as spam or…
Meta Earnings, Muse and the Frontier, Musebook
Meta's earnings come in the context of Zuckerberg delivering on his promise; if investors believe in Muse they must support Meta's spending on compute.
The climate tech startups still growing despite the funding slowdown
How to fund your robotics company: not another fundraise
This Startup Raised $40 Million to Fix College Recruiting. Its 7-Minute Test Is Part of a Much Bigger Plan
Scorability has attracted 1.2 million athletes and 4,500 college programs to its platform. However, a veteran coach says it can’t measure one key aspect.
ReBuild Raises $2.1 Billion To Expand Manufacturing Capacity
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."
Disruptive Raises $10 Billion To Invest In Late-Stage Companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
Robotics Startups See Funding Jump 185% As US And China Lead
Venture funding to robotics startups has soared in 2026, with the bulk of investment going to companies based in China and the U.S., Crunchbase data shows. All told, global venture funding to robotics startups totaled $9.9 billion in Q3, more than double the…
Microsoft Alumni Secure Funding For AI Finance Agents
Hyphenate Inc. has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, securing capital for an effort to create AI agents that can run finances for businesses.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $600 Million In Funding Round
Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.
Record Number Of Startups Raise First Venture Round
Through Q3 2026, an estimated 8,625 US startups closed their first-ever venture financing per Pitchbook. That already beats 2021’s full-year record of 8,507, with a quarter still to go. 2025 also came close to the 2021 record, so this is two near-record years…
Matiks Expands Gaming Platform After Raising New Funds
Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.
California Startups Raise Record Amounts In 2026
California companies have scooped up more than three-fourths of all U.S. startup funding this year. That, per Crunchbase data, is an apparent record share. And keep in mind: This year still has a couple months left.