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AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

Town raises $108M at a $1B valuation so AI assistants can work as a team

Town, a San Francisco startup that gives each person at work an AI work assistant, has raised $108m in a Series B that values it at $1bn. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-led the round, the company announced on Monday.

Uber wins bid to throw out £340m black cab claims

Claims that Uber misled TfL over its licence were thrown out because they were brought too late.

Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation to scale its Galaxy servers

Tenstorrent, the AI chip company run by Jim Keller, has closed a $1.5bn Series E round at a $6.2bn post-money valuation, it announced on Monday. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round. New and existing investors also took part.

Nscale reportedly faces investor pushback on its $30B IPO valuation

Some investors are pushing back on the roughly $30bn valuation that British AI cloud company Nscale is seeking in its planned New York listing, Bloomberg reported on Sunday. A valuation of $16bn to $19bn would be more likely to attract buyers, a group of investors told Bloomberg.

LatAm Startup Funding Jumps 26% In Q3 As VCs Begin ‘Rediscovering’ The Region

A continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture investment in Latin America for the third quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows.

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