N-gated Hacker News1d ago
πŸŽ‰ Oh joy, another tech company swimming in a pool of cash they promise to use for "growth" πŸš€. Congratulations to OpenRouter for amassing an army of investors with more #buzzwords than a Silicon Valley brunch πŸΎπŸ“ˆ. Surely, this is the dawn of a new era, same as the last one and the one before that... πŸ’€πŸ‘€.
https://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-b #techfunding #startup #SiliconValley #investment #growth #HackerNews #ngated
OpenRouter Raises $113M Series B | OpenRouter

OpenRouter has raised a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks

OpenRouter
PPC LandMay 18
ICYMI: Vapi closes $50M Series B as voice AI agents hit 1 billion calls: Vapi raised $50M in a Series B led by Peak XV, hitting 1 billion calls and 10x enterprise ARR growth as demand for production-grade voice AI intensifies in 2026. https://ppc.land/vapi-closes-50m-series-b-as-voice-ai-agents-hit-1-billion-calls/ #VoiceAI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechFunding #SeriesB #StartupGrowth
Vapi closes $50M Series B as voice AI agents hit 1 billion calls

Vapi raised $50M in a Series B led by Peak XV, hitting 1 billion calls and 10x enterprise ARR growth as demand for production-grade voice AI intensifies in 2026.

PPC Land
PPC LandMay 17
Vapi closes $50M Series B as voice AI agents hit 1 billion calls: Vapi raised $50M in a Series B led by Peak XV, hitting 1 billion calls and 10x enterprise ARR growth as demand for production-grade voice AI intensifies in 2026. https://ppc.land/vapi-closes-50m-series-b-as-voice-ai-agents-hit-1-billion-calls/ #VoiceAI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechFunding #SeriesB #StartupGrowth
Vapi closes $50M Series B as voice AI agents hit 1 billion calls

Vapi raised $50M in a Series B led by Peak XV, hitting 1 billion calls and 10x enterprise ARR growth as demand for production-grade voice AI intensifies in 2026.

PPC Land
Hacker NewsMay 14

Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership

#HackerNews #Anthropic #GatesFoundation #Partnership #AI #Innovation #TechFunding

Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Blaze TrendsMay 12
London-based Dessn has secured $6 million in seed funding to bridge the gap between design and code. Led by Connect Ventures, the startup is helping product teams ditch static canvases for live production environments. This is a major shift for the London tech scene. #Dessn #TechFunding #LondonStartups #DesignInProduction #SeedRound
https://blazetrends.com/london-startup-dessn-raises-6m-to-let-designers-build-directly-in-live-code/?fsp_sid=12219
London startup Dessn raises $6M to let designers build directly in live code

Imagine a world where the "handoff" between designers and developers just vanishes. That is the wild promise behind Dessn. The London-based startup just

Blaze Trends
knoppixMay 11

Lenovo and Dell become Premier sponsors of LVFS, funding $200K/year for Linux firmware delivery and ecosystem stability. βš™οΈ
The service adds fair-use download metrics and limits analytics to improve transparency. πŸ”§

πŸ”— https://itsfoss.com/news/lvfs-finally-has-premier-sponsors/

#TechNews #LVFS #Firmware #LinuxFirmware #OpenSource #Linux #FOSS #FirmwareUpdates #UserControl #Privacy #Transparency #Software #SoftwareFreedom #Freedom #LinuxCommunity #TechFunding #OpenHardware #SecurityUpdates #Security #fwupd

Good Job Dell and Lenovo! Hope Others Follow You

Lenovo and Dell are now funding the service that ships firmware to millions of Linux devices.

It's FOSS
NewsletterTFMay 1

Datavault AI Secures $120M Funding for Nationwide GPU Network Expansion

Datavault AI gets $120 million from Scilex Holding to build a GPU network in 100 US cities. This helps companies needing more computer power for AI.

#DatavaultAI, #GPU, #EdgeComputing, #AI, #TechFunding

https://newsletter.tf/datavault-ai-120m-gpu-network-100-cities/

NewsletterTFMay 1

Datavault AI will build a GPU network in 100 US cities. This is a big step to help companies that need more computer power for AI.

#DatavaultAI, #GPU, #EdgeComputing, #AI, #TechFunding
https://newsletter.tf/datavault-ai-120m-gpu-network-100-cities/

Datavault AI gets $120M for 100-city GPU network

Datavault AI gets $120 million from Scilex Holding to build a GPU network in 100 US cities. This helps companies needing more computer power for AI.

NewsletterTF
Marcus SchulerApr 22

DeepSeek's valuation reportedly doubled to $20B in five days as Tencent and Alibaba enter funding talks. The Chinese AI lab previously operated on hedge fund profits, avoiding outside investors for two years. A deal would mark DeepSeek's first external equity round and position it among China's top frontier labs alongside Moonshot AI.

#AI #China #TechFunding

https://www.implicator.ai/tencent-alibaba-in-talks-to-back-deepseek-at-20-billion-valuation-report-says/

Tencent, Alibaba in Talks to Back DeepSeek at $20 Billion Valuation, Report Says

Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a valuation above $20 billion, double the target from five days earlier. The figure isn't about cash. It's about what happens to the Chinese lab that spent two years refusing outside money, whose next flagship runs on Huawei chips, and whose best engineers keep leaving for rivals that can price their options.

Implicator.ai
Headlines AfricaApr 8
Africa: Egypt Leads As African Tech Startups Raise $711m in First Quarter: [Daba Finance] African startups raised $711 million across more than 80 deals in the first quarter of 2026, according to data tracked by TechCabal Insights. About 18% of deals had undisclosed values. The disclosed funding reflects a mix of equity, debt, and grants flowing into the ecosystem during the period. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRxG9H #AfricaTech #EgyptStartups #TechFunding #AfricanInnovation #StartupFunding