July 10, 2026

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Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are: With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Read More

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise: Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works. Read More

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits: The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures. Read More

Must-Reads

Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation: A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October. Read More

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users: Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs. Read More

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents: Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs. Read More

Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B: The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported. Read More

These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates: There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say. Read More

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Last but Not Least

AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation: AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion. Read More

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