Starday Secures $11M Series A Funding Led By Slow Ventures And Equal Ventures

Starday, a Scottsdale, AZ-based AI-driven food innovation startup, raised $11M in Series A funding—$8M in equity led by Slow Ventures and Equal Ventures, and $3M in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank—with backing from major global food and beverage companies. Cofounded by CEO Chaz Flexman, Lena Kwak, and Lily Burtis, Starday uses AI to identify unmet consumer needs and rapidly develop tailored food products and brands for retail. The funding will fuel its retail expansion and deepen collaborations with CPG brands and retailers. Starday’s products are already on shelves at Sprouts, Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more. INVESTORS: Slow Ventures, Equal Ventures & Silicon Valley Bank ROUND: Series A AMOUNT: $11,000,000 HQ: #Scottsdale #Arizona #VentureCapital #Starday #ChazFlexman #LenaKwak #LilyBurtis #SlowVentures #EqualVentures #SiliconValleyBank #TradedVC

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Glow Secures $180 Million Investment Led By Sequoia Capital At $1.2 Billion ValuationGlow, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, emerged from stealth with $180 million in total funding and a $1.2 billion valuation, making it an instant unicorn focused on securing corporate devices against AI-driven threats. The Palo Alto-headquartered company’s funding round was backed by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Redpoint Ventures, and several other investors. Founded in 2025 by Roi Tiger, a former Meta vice president of engineering and co-founder of Onavo, Glow is developing an endpoint security platform that uses AI agents to monitor software, developer tools, and autonomous AI systems running on employee devices, helping organizations identify and prevent security risks in real time. The company says it already serves paying customers across healthcare, retail, and financial services while employing nearly 100 people across Israel and the United States. FOUNDER: Roi Tiger INVESTORS: Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks & Redpoint Ventures AMOUNT: $180,000,000 VALUATION: $1,200,000,000 HQ: Palo Alto, California #VentureCapital #Glow #RoiTiger #TradedVC

AMD Invests $5 Billion In AI Startup Anthropic And Partners With Microsoft For AI SolutionsAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) has strengthened its position in the AI infrastructure market with two major agreements aimed at challenging Nvidia’s dominance. AMD signed a deal with Anthropic covering up to 2 gigawatts of next-generation Instinct MI450 AI chips, with deliveries expected to begin in the first half of 2027, and will invest up to $5 billion in the AI startup. The company also expanded its partnership with Microsoft, which plans to deploy AMD’s Helios Rackscale Solution on Azure for frontier AI model inference workloads beginning in the second half of 2026. Investors responded positively to the announcements, sending AMD shares up 8%, while CEO Lisa Su is set to highlight the company’s AI strategy at the Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco. FOUNDER: Jerry Sanders AMOUNT: $5,000,000,000 HQ: Santa Clara, California #VentureCapital #AdvancedMicroDevices #JerrySanders #TradedVC

Humanoid Secures €133 Million In Series A Round Led By Prime Movers LabHumanoid, a London-based AI and robotics company developing industrial humanoid robots, has raised €133 million in a Series A round at a €1.1 billion post-money valuation, making it Europe’s newest unicorn. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to €236 million. Founded in 2024 by CEO Artem Sokolov, Humanoid plans to use the new capital to accelerate development of its next-generation robotics platform, expand commercial deployments across industries such as manufacturing and logistics, scale production of its wheel-based humanoid robots, and further advance its proprietary AI system, KinetIQ. FOUNDER: Artem Sokolov INVESTORS: Prime Movers Lab, Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital & Aglaé Ventures ROUND: Series A AMOUNT: $152,000,000 VALUATION: $1,300,000,000 HQ: London, United Kingdom #VentureCapital #Humanoid #ArtemSokolov #TradedVC