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Profound, which builds marketing software to help brands appear in AI search results, on Tuesday said it has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.

Europe has a new unicorn: Italian startup Exein has just raised a $270 million funding round led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation on the promise of providing a cybersecurity layer for physical AI — an evolution of its initial focus on IoT.

New analysis of 760 unicorn founders and more than 81,000 funding rounds finds Europe is producing unicorns faster than ever, even as fewer than one in 10 Seed-stage startups progress to Series A. Cate Lawrence12 hours ago

Nearly one in four newly minted billion-dollar startups this year operates in artificial intelligence, reshaping private market opportunity for advisors. SEP 09, 2026 By Steve Randall

Raised 4.5 billion yuan in financing within 2 years, with a valuation of 22 billion yuan.

The marketing automation industry contains 12 unicorn companies. At the top of the list is Attentive, a mobile messaging platform with a $7 billion valuation.

Today (August 31), Nova Fusion announced that it has officially completed the Pre-A series financing totaling RMB 1.2 billion (covering Pre-A and Pre-A+ tranches). The round saw continued heavy investment from Meituan Longzhu and GL Ventures, while Lenovo Capital and Guozhong Capital joined as new strategic investors with significant capital contributions.

AI-native accounting startup Rillet just raised $100 million in Series C funding.

A mentor and his student from UC Berkeley teamed up to start a business, and the startup has completed 11 consecutive rounds of financing.

In what might be the fastest path to unicorn status this year, AI accounting startup Rillet just closed a $100 million funding round in 48 hours without even trying. CEO Nicholas Koop simply shared growth metrics during a routine board meeting, and before the week ended, Iconiq Capital and Sequoia Capital were leading a round…