Venture-capital is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 14 linked articles.
StrictlyVC returns to NYC on Sept 10 at Ideal Glass Studios with $180 tickets, riding a clear momentum in NYC seed funding: ~240 startups raised $1.13B in H1 2026, averaging seed rounds around $6.64M and totaling $16B across the year’s first half.
Infinity raises $15M at a $100M valuation to build a CUDA-style, chip-agnostic kernel software stack for universal AI inference, backed by Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from OpenAI/Anthropic, with 26 employees and a notable customer (D-Matrix).
Moonshot AI’s open-source Kimi K3 prompts heightened regulatory and geopolitical risk around open-weight AI, with market implications and wealth-concentration debates likely to influence policy and IPO dynamics.
Eight Australian startups will pitch at Stripe Tour Sydney on August 19; one winner gains automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco and a guaranteed global-stage spot, with no further application.
BP Ventures is shutting down after nearly 20 years due to reportedly lackluster returns.
Mega-rounds accounted for 81% of Q2 funding, underscored by Helsing’s $1.8B Series E, showing outsized impact of a few late-stage rounds on overall VC activity.
Subscribe for real-time topic updates and unlimited access to our intelligence platform.