Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 28 July 2026 at 20:09 The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 27 July 2026 at 09:00 The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 24 July 2026 at 18:25 The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 23 July 2026 at 14:38 AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldnβt catch.
Dimension Capitalβs $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 21 July 2026 at 21:27 The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20Bβ$30B valuation TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 20 July 2026 at 19:39 The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents β and take on Stripe TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 20 July 2026 at 15:11 The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation TechCrunch By: Marina Temkin 17 July 2026 at 15:22 The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.