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According to The Information, cloud computing startup Runpod announced the completion of a $100 million financing round and stated that it has rejected multiple acquisition offers, with specific investor information not yet disclosed.The company focuses on providing GPU computing power rental services for developers, supporting the deployment of open-source models and AI applications. Currently, this sector generally relies on NVIDIA GPU servers for computing resources. As AI applications expand, the market demand for low-cost, highly flexible computing infrastructure continues to rise, driving up the valuations and financing enthusiasm for cloud service providers like Runpod.

According to Techstartups, AI infrastructure startup Upscale AI announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $190 million, with investors including NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures. After this round of financing, the company's valuation reached $2 billion.This round of financing is part of its Series A extension, bringing Upscale AI's total financing to $500 million, led by Premji Invest, with new investors such as Temasek and Seligman Ventures participating, while existing shareholders including Maverick Silicon, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, StepStone Group, and Tiger Global continue to invest.Upscale AI focuses on building network infrastructure for large-scale AI clusters, attempting to solve the "computing power interconnection bottleneck" problem in AI training and inference. The company is developing a full-stack AI network architecture covering chips, systems, and software, aiming to create an open standard network interconnection solution suitable for large-scale AI workloads.The company stated that as the scale of AI clusters continues to expand, network performance is becoming a key limiting factor affecting GPU utilization and training efficiency. Inefficient interconnection can directly lead to wasted computing power and increased training costs. Currently, Upscale AI has begun collaborations with several hyperscale cloud providers and "new cloud" infrastructure providers for evaluation and deployment, but has not disclosed specific client information.Analysts point out that investment in AI infrastructure is spreading from the model layer to the underlying hardware and network layers, with network interconnection becoming one of the most关注的 key infrastructure tracks following GPUs.

According to Axios, cryptocurrency payment company MoonPay announced the acquisition of AI accounting startup Entendre, which focuses on providing intelligent accounting solutions for businesses using stablecoins and other digital assets.MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright stated that after this acquisition, the company will continue to seek more merger and acquisition opportunities to further expand its business landscape.

According to Techfundingnews, the medical AI startup Prosper AI announced the completion of a $30 million Series A funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Base10 Partners, Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, and others. After this round of financing, the company has raised a total of approximately $36.6 million.Prosper AI focuses on covering the entire patient visit process through AI voice agents, including appointment scheduling, insurance verification, communication with insurance companies, and billing processing. It has currently served over 150,000 medical institutions. The company stated that the U.S. healthcare system wastes over $450 billion annually due to administrative processes, and its AI system can handle key processes from appointment to payment on a single platform, reducing the costs for medical institutions associated with switching between different systems.It was reported that Prosper AI's revenue has grown approximately five times since the last funding round in September of last year, and it has established partnerships with large healthcare IT platforms such as Athenahealth and ImagineSoftware. Investor a16z noted that healthcare institutions are shifting from "point automation tools" to "end-to-end process automation," and Prosper's goal is to eliminate all administrative friction between patient care and payment.

According to Fortune, cryptocurrency trading startup Fomo announced the completion of a $75 million Series B funding round, led by Index Ventures, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus, Discord CEO Humam Sakhnini, and Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, among others. The company's valuation has reached $550 million.Fomo was founded in 2025 by former dYdX team members Paul Erlanger, Se Yong Park, and Prashan Dharmasena.

According to the official announcement, Galaxy Ventures has announced the lead investment of $15 million in the Series A funding round for the high-end credit card startup Karta. This funding is part of Karta's total fundraising plan of $140 million, which also includes a $125 million credit line provided by Community Investment Management (CIM).It is reported that Karta is dedicated to providing high-quality credit card products issued in the United States for high-net-worth (HNW) individuals globally. The platform combines stablecoin infrastructure with artificial intelligence technology, breaking the reliance on traditional FICO scores. By collaborating with over 80 large private banks and brokerages worldwide (such as Raymond James, Itau, etc.), it offers unsecured credit underwriting based on users' verified assets at these institutions. Additionally, the credit card provides zero foreign exchange fees and a 24/7 AI-native concierge service based on WhatsApp.Data shows that Karta's revenue and payment transaction volume achieved over tenfold growth in 2025 and continued to record a fourfold quarter-on-quarter growth in the first quarter of 2026.

According to GeekWire, AI startup Prometheus, co-founded by Jeff Bezos, has completed a $12 billion Series B funding round, with a valuation of approximately $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners.Prometheus has dropped "Project" from its original name and is dedicated to creating what Bezos calls "general artificial intelligence engineers," using AI tools to accelerate the physical product development process from design to manufacturing. Prometheus co-CEO Vik Bajaj stated that over the past few years, they have been able to transform complex issues from design to manufacturing into end-to-end AI problems. Bezos revealed that the company may acquire some manufacturing businesses that could benefit from its technology and help improve their production processes.This marks Bezos's first CEO role since stepping down as Amazon's CEO in 2021. The company currently has about 150 employees and is headquartered in San Francisco, with teams in London and Zurich. Bezos mentioned that the product launch timeline has not yet been determined, but an early version is set to be released soon.

According to a report by The Information, Helion, a fusion startup backed by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, announced the completion of a $465 million financing round, led by Thrive Capital.After this investment, Helion's valuation reached $15.5 billion, nearly three times its previous valuation of $543 million.

Robot AI startup Generalist AI has completed a new round of financing of $400 million, led by Radical Ventures, with participation from 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and existing investors NVIDIA and Bezos Expeditions. After this round of financing, the company's valuation has reached $2 billion.The company was co-founded by Pete Florence, Andy Zeng, and Andy Barry, focusing on leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to iterate robot models and develop intelligent robot products capable of handling complex tasks. The funds raised in this round will be used for advanced AI model development and expanding the application scenarios for robots.

According to Techinasia, AI startup Special, founded by former U.S. government efficiency members Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, has completed a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with investors including Valor Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias, former xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong, Steve Davis, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, and Palantir Technologies CTO Shyam Sankar.Special plans to reduce costs through company acquisitions and the use of AI. The company also announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire a healthcare company in Texas, which will incorporate the Figure Health business line focused on the aging population.

According to Bloomberg, AI programming startup Cognition AI announced the completion of a new funding round of over $1 billion, with a post-funding valuation of $26 billion, more than doubling the valuation from the last funding round in September 2025.This round of financing was co-led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, with follow-on investments from Ribbit Capital, Atreides Management LP, and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, among others.

Web3 fintech startup Jia announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, A100x Ventures, TCG, and Hashed Emergent. So far, Jia has raised a total of $7.3 million.Jia currently operates multiple decentralized lending pools and introduces liquidity through networks such as Base, Stellar, Arbitrum, and Polygon, while using stablecoins for cross-border settlements to reduce the cost and time of cross-border remittances. The new funding will be used to expand features such as business bank accounts and cash flow management.

AI startup Hark announced the completion of a $700 million financing round, with a post-money valuation of $6 billion. This round is Series A financing, led by Parkway Venture Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and others.Hark stated that it will use the funds to expand GPU infrastructure, accelerate the development of large models, grow its team from about 70 people to 200 engineers, and develop next-generation AI hardware, aiming to create a personal intelligent system capable of voice interaction, visual understanding, persistent memory, and high personalization.

According to Bloomberg, AI search startup Exa Labs has completed a new round of financing of $250 million, led by a16z, with a post-investment valuation rising to $2.2 billion.The company focuses on building the infrastructure for search engines in the AI era. After this round of financing, its valuation has increased more than three times compared to about $700 million last fall. Industry insiders believe that with the accelerated popularization of artificial intelligence, the traditional search industry landscape dominated by Google may undergo a reshaping.

The German stablecoin startup AllUnity plans to launch the SEK anchor stablecoin SEKAU in June after completing final regulatory and operational approvals, and will issue it under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework.At the same time, AllUnity has also released Agentic Payments, which supports businesses in receiving transactions initiated by AI autonomous software agents, with funds settled directly to local bank accounts. The system uses Coinbase's x402 payment standard and is aimed at online digital services, content, and data sales scenarios. AllUnity is supported by DWS, Flow Traders, and Galaxy Digital, and is regulated by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) of Germany.

According to The Wall Street Journal, manufacturing startup SendCutSend has completed a $110 million financing round, co-led by Sequoia Capital, cryptocurrency venture capital fund Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison, bringing its valuation to $1 billion.It is reported that Paradigm was originally a top-tier crypto-native venture capital firm, managing approximately $12.7 billion in assets. However, since 2023, the firm has begun to adjust its strategic direction: it removed references to "crypto" and "Web3" from its official website, and co-founder Matt Huang publicly stated, "The development of AI is too interesting to ignore." Against this backdrop, investing in SendCutSend aligns with Paradigm's logic of expanding towards "AI + robotics + advanced manufacturing."

According to Axios, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Playground Global has completed fundraising of $475 million for a new fund, which will focus on investing in startups in the fields of artificial intelligence, automation, advanced computing, and deep tech.Playground Global was founded by Android co-founder Andy Rubin and others, and has long focused on AI infrastructure, robotics, and hardware innovation. This new fund indicates that, driven by the surge in generative AI and automation, capital continues to pour into the frontier technology sector.Playground Global is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and previously completed fundraising of $410 million for its third fund in 2022. Its investment portfolio includes companies such as Agility Robotics, PsiQuantum, Skydio, Ultima Genomics, Virta Health, and Unconventional AI.

The artificial intelligence startup Wispr is in financing negotiations, with a valuation of 2 billion dollars.

According to Fortune, AI startup Ciridae announced the completion of a $20,000,000 seed round financing, led by Accel, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.The company was co-founded by former a16z partner Jack Soslow and former Apple machine learning head Jack Weissenberger, focusing on providing AI transformation services for medium-sized enterprises in the real economy, such as home services, construction, and industrial distribution.