OpenAI Completes $7 Billion Employee Share Sale
OpenAI completed a tender offer that allowed current and former employees to sell about $7 billion in shares at an $852 billion valuation.
August 11, 2026
Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Global AI Raises $441 Million for Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Global AI has closed $441 million in financing in its first debt raise. J.P. Morgan led and arranged the senior secured credit facility.
August 10, 2026
5C Group Raises $605 Million for North American AI Data Centers
5C Group closed $605 million in debt financing led by Brookfield Asset Management to expand AI data center campuses in North America.
August 10, 2026
SAIHEAT and Canopy Wave Sign Merger Deal for AI Inference Platform
SAIHEAT has agreed to merge with Canopy Wave, creating Canopy Wave Holdings Inc. The combined company is expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker CWAV and focus on AI inference services.
August 10, 2026
Kyndryl to Buy Healthcare IT Leaders for Healthcare AI Services
Kyndryl plans to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders to expand healthcare consulting, application managed services, infrastructure and AI services for U.S. providers and payors. Terms were not disclosed.
August 10, 2026
FM Acquires FortressFire for Wildfire Risk Modeling
FM has acquired FortressFire, a wildfire intelligence provider that uses machine learning and physics based modeling. Financial terms were not disclosed.
August 10, 2026
OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a presentation startup whose team is now working on ChatGPT. Terms were not disclosed.
August 10, 2026
VibeIQ Raises $22.5 Million for AI Product Decision Platform
VibeIQ raised $22.5 million in growth financing led by Volition Capital, with Venture Guides participating. The company plans to use the funding for product work, AI features, integrations, hiring, and expansion across consumer product categories.
August 10, 2026
Netlist and Samsung Sign AI Memory Alliance
Netlist and Samsung signed five year agreements covering patent licensing, memory supply, and technology cooperation. Samsung will access Netlist patents for server DIMM and High Bandwidth Memory technologies.
August 07, 2026
SiteVue AI Raises $7.5 Million for AI Vision Cameras
SiteVue AI raised $7.5 million in seed funding to support its AI camera systems for manufacturing, food processing, and construction.
August 07, 2026
Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5 Million for Industrial Humanoid Robots
Avatar Robotics raised a $6.5 million seed round led by AlleyCorp to expand deployments of humanoid robots for warehouse and manufacturing work.
August 06, 2026
Acrab Raises US$130 Million for Agentic AI Compute Platform
Acrab raised US$130 million in Series B funding to scale its agentic AI compute platform and support commercialization.
August 06, 2026
ClaimsBridge Gets Eir Partners Investment and Buys DialysisPPO
ClaimsBridge received a strategic investment from Eir Partners and acquired DialysisPPO, adding dialysis cost containment to its claims technology platform.
August 06, 2026
Body Vision Medical Raises New Funding for Lung Imaging Expansion
Body Vision Medical has closed a new funding round led by Business Asia Consultants and Sprim Global Investments. The company said the capital will support global expansion of its AI imaging technology for early stage lung disease procedures.
August 06, 2026
Delightree Raises $25 Million for AI Operations Platform
Delightree has raised $25 million to expand its AI operations platform for franchise and multi unit brands. The company says its software is now used across more than 6,000 locations.
August 05, 2026
Wellinks Raises $10 Million for Predictive Cardiopulmonary Care
Wellinks closed the first $10 million tranche of its Series B round with backing from UMass Memorial Health and existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to expand its predictive cardiopulmonary care model and remote patient monitoring system.
August 05, 2026
Convex Raises $57M Series B for Backend Platform
Convex raised a $57 million Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $110.5 million. The company plans to use the funding for product development, agentic development tooling, and hiring in San Francisco.
August 05, 2026
RWS Agrees to Acquire Acolad Parent Acogroup
RWS has agreed to acquire Acogroup, the parent company of Acolad, in a deal expected to close by 31 March 2027 pending consultation and regulatory approvals.
August 03, 2026
Bidbus Raises $15 Million for Dealer Auction Marketplace
Bidbus raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Ibex Investors to expand its live dealer auction marketplace and invest in AI powered marketplace tools.
August 03, 2026
d-Matrix Acquires Wallaroo.ai for AI Inference Deployment Software
d-Matrix has acquired Wallaroo.ai, adding AI inference deployment and orchestration software to its data center inference stack.
August 03, 2026
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