Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation , the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers … Read More
Month: October 2026
EAIMove: Naming the Closure of Perception and Action
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a moment in the architecture of embodied intelligence when knowing must become doing. Perception has gathered the data. Cognition has formed … Read More
Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots, announced it has raised a $60 million Series B round … Read More
EAIBionic: Naming the Extension of Bion
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a distinction in the vocabulary of embodied intelligence that is rarely made explicit. It is the difference between the unit and … Read More
Ambrosia Energy and Bloom Energy join Disrupt 2026
AI may be built in software, but scaling it is becoming a physical-world problem. Every new model, agent, and AI application needs somewhere to run, and an infrastructure connecting them … Read More
EAIThink: Naming the Cognitive Threshold of Embodied AI
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a gap in the architecture of embodied intelligence that the industry has been slow to name. Perception has received enormous attention. … Read More
Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders
Vesta , an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced on Thursday that it raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital. The startup uses AI agents … Read More
EAIBion: Naming the Source Code of Life for Embodied AI
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a moment in the evolution of any technology when the old vocabulary stops working—not because the words are wrong, but because … Read More
China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta
Chinese AI lab Manus’ parent company, Butterfly Effect, said on Thursday in a WeChat post that it has raised more than $500 million, the company’s first funding round since Meta … Read More
EAILepta: Naming the Subtle Measure of Intelligence
By VCShot Brand Stories | Senior Editor There is a pattern in the most interesting brand names of the AI era. They do not describe what a company does. They … Read More