Lovable Series C Doubles the Vibe Coding Startup’s Valuation to $13.3 Billion

Stockholm-based Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, the company announced on August 12, 2026, following its Series B in December 2025 (valuation not discl [...]

Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise

Legora, the Swedish legal-AI company that has become one of Europe’s fastest-rising startups, is reportedly seeking to raise fresh funds at a valuation of more than $10bn. If it lands, the deal woul [...]

Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US

Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque [...]

Robinhood's second venture fund debuted on NYSE, raising $225.5 million for retail investors

RVII opened at $22.50 after pricing 8 million shares at $25 each, giving retail investors access to early-stage startups [...]

Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster

Hauser sat down with CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the write-up on 14 August. His track record is the reason to listen. He co-founded Aco [...]

Azerbaijan wants to become a tech hub as its startups raised $2.6m last year

Every petrostate eventually discovers that the oil will not last forever, and Azerbaijan has reached the stage of the story where the government starts talking about technology. Hydrocarbons once made [...]

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival i [...]

Ukraine opens its massive labeled battlefield dataset to British firms in a landmark AI weapons partnership

The UK becomes the first country to get access to Avengers Labs, Ukraine's platform holding roughly five million annotated combat images for training military AI. Three British startups are alrea [...]