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AI security startup Mindgard announced the completion of a $30 million Series A funding round, led by Album VC, with participation from Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar.Mindgard was founded by Dr. Peter Garraghan in 2022 and incubated at Lancaster University in the UK, with headquarters in Boston and London. The company's platform offers Shadow AI discovery, AI red team testing, and runtime AI protection capabilities, having helped disclose over 150 high-impact AI security vulnerabilities, including issues such as the Cursor IDE zero-day code execution vulnerability, Google Antigravity trusted workspace defects, and ChatGPT image generation protection failures.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: Team Heretics vs. Natus Vincere - VCT EMEA Qualifiers," the option "Team Heretics" in the sub-market "Map 3 Round Spread: Team Heretics (-2.5) vs. Natus Vincere (+2.5)" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, rising from 50% an hour ago to the current 90.05% (a fluctuation of 40.05%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "Valorant: Gentle Mates vs Eintracht Frankfurt - VCT EMEA Qualifiers", the "Map 2 Total Rounds: Over/Under 21.5" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: G2 Esports vs. Sentinels - VCT Americas Stage 2 Omega Group," the option "G2 Esports" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced significant fluctuations in win probability, soaring from 56.5% an hour ago to the current 89.5% (a fluctuation of 33%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Financial Times, after three years of record low stagnation, Chinese venture capital firms are accelerating the fundraising of new funds, seeking to capitalize on investors' renewed interest in the Chinese technology sector.Data from Asante Capital shows that at least 60 new dollar funds are planning to raise a total of about $35 billion, of which about 40 are venture capital funds. HSG, IDG Capital, Matrix Partners China, and Ming Shi Capital are promoting new funds or preparing to start fundraising, while ZhenFund and Qiming Venture Partners have recently completed fundraising.The successful listings of technology companies such as Zhipu and MiniMax, as well as progress in projects like The Dark Side of the Moon, DeepSeek, and the robotics field, have prompted investors to refocus on Chinese technology. Some investors view allocating to Chinese AI as a way to hedge bets on the U.S. market, as Chinese companies are highly competitive on costs and offer lower-priced model services.However, market participants indicate that this does not mean Chinese venture capital has returned to a boom period, but rather that dollar fundraising has selectively restarted after three consecutive years of low levels.Preqin data shows that in 2022, a total of 1,105 China-related funds raised $150 billion, while in 2025, only 97 funds raised $13.6 billion.Currently, some large U.S. investors remain cautious due to restrictions on sensitive technology investments, while European and Middle Eastern funds show stronger interest. Investors are vying for more co-investment rights in the current "buyer’s market" and are demanding fund managers to invest more of their own capital. Meanwhile, a large amount of capital is competing for a limited number of high-confidence projects, particularly concentrated in the AI sector.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Valorant: FUT Esports vs Team Vitality - VCT EMEA Alpha Group," the "Total Rounds on Map 3: Greater/Less than 18.5" sub-market's "Greater" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: Evil Geniuses vs MIBR (BO3) - VCT Americas Stage 2 Alpha Group," the sub-market "Map 2 Round Spread: MIBR (-10.5) vs Evil Geniuses (+10.5)" has seen a dramatic fluctuation in the win rate of the "MIBR" option, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: BBL Esports vs. Gentle Mates - VCT EMEA Alpha Group," the sub-market "Map 3 Spread: BBL Esports (-2.5) vs. Gentle Mates (+2.5)" saw the win probability for the "BBL Esports" option fluctuate dramatically, rising from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to The Block, Physical AI data engine company Axis Robotics has completed a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and others.Axis plans to build a large-scale "human-in-the-loop" global data engine to address the scarcity of training data for robots, difficulties in generalization, and compatibility issues with different hardware. Its platform covers task generation, simulation remote operation, mobile Ego data collection, and automated cleaning and labeling pipelines. Currently, it has over 100,000 active data contributors, generating approximately 1,200 hours of simulation data and 20,000 hours of real-world scenario data each month, and has established commercial partnerships with several hardware and industrial clients, including Booster Robotics and Geely Auto.

According to South Korean media Asiae, six leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, a16z, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and NEA, announced the signing of a strategic investment cooperation memorandum (MOU) with the National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea, planning to jointly explore investment opportunities, share investment information, and strengthen global venture capital布局.Furthermore, the South Korean government is accelerating the promotion of policies to attract overseas venture capital, coupled with the launch of the "National Growth Fund," which has a scale of 200 trillion won. The market expects that the Korean venture capital sector will see a simultaneous inflow of policy funds, private capital, and overseas capital, with strategic industries such as AI and semiconductors likely to receive more investment. However, industry insiders warn that if a large amount of capital concentrates on a few popular companies, it may inflate company valuations and create bubbles, potentially facing valuation adjustment pressure during future IPOs and mergers and acquisitions, affecting fund returns.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: Team Vitality vs Natus Vincere - VCT EMEA Alpha Group," the "Map 3 Total Rounds: Over/Under 24.5" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, soaring from 0.5% an hour ago to the current 49% (a fluctuation of 48.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

FameEX Exchange, which just celebrated its 8th anniversary, will hold a side event, AI Agents Night, with GAEA Ventures during Tokyo WebX 2026.Today, AI Agents are evolving from conversational models into on-chain autonomous executors, handling intent parsing, multi-step transactions, and dynamic asset allocation. This event will bring together Web3 founders, investors, and developers to discuss the future of cross-ecosystem collaboration and AI-driven trading architecture.

According to The Block, influenced by the maturation of the crypto market and the rapid development of emerging technologies, several leading crypto venture capital firms are shifting their investment focus from the pure crypto sector to a broader "frontier technology" track, involving AI, robotics, fintech, and biotechnology.It is reported that Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures have recently raised $400 million and $1 billion funds respectively to support cross-domain layouts; Paradigm is planning to raise up to $1.5 billion for a frontier technology fund; and the former Binance incubator YZi Labs has also ventured into the fields of AI and biotechnology.Industry investors analyze that the core reasons for this strategic shift are the demand for capital deployment brought about by the expansion of fund sizes, the decrease in high-quality pure crypto projects, and the increasing integration of adjacent technologies such as blockchain and AI. Some venture capitalists predict that as cryptocurrencies gradually integrate into a broader technology ecosystem, the exclusive label of "crypto VC" may gradually fade, and the market will ultimately differentiate into large multi-strategy investment funds and a few vertical investors focused on digital assets. However, some institutions like a16z Crypto and Dragonfly still insist on deepening their investment strategies in the pure crypto sector.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Valorant: Paper Rex vs Leviatán Esports - VCT Masters London Playoffs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Paper Rex" option in the sub-market "Map 4 Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 55.5% an hour ago to the current 11% (a fluctuation of 44.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: Team Vitality vs FUT Esports - VCT Masters London Playoffs," the "Map 3 Total Rounds: Over/Under 22.5" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 70.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 20.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.