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15 artículosRondas de financiación, lanzamientos y tendencias del ecosistema startup.
Manifest OS raises $60M at $750M to kill the billable hour — the full-AI law firm has arrived
Manifest OS raises $60M Series A at $750M valuation from Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, First Round and Quiet Capital. The bet: operate its own law firms under the Manifest Law brand with flat-fee pricing. 3,000 cases handled, +15% visa approval rate, 100 attorneys already on the platform.
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Cursor Raises $2B at $50B Valuation — Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia Double Down, ARR Projected at $6B
On April 17, 2026, Cursor enters talks for a $2 billion round at over $50 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz co-leads, Nvidia and Thrive Capital participate, Battery Ventures joins as new investor. The round is oversubscribed. In six months, the valuation doubles (29.3 → 50+ B$) and ARR triples toward a $6B trajectory by year-end. Vibe coding enters its hyperscale phase.
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Jeff Bezos Raises $10B for Project Prometheus — His Physical AI Lab Valued at $38B with BlackRock and JPMorgan
On April 21, 2026, Jeff Bezos nears a $10 billion funding round for Project Prometheus, his secretive Physical AI lab, at a $38 billion valuation. BlackRock and JPMorgan lead. Launched November 2025 with Vikram Bajaj, Prometheus trains foundation models on real robotics data for aerospace, automotive, pharma and advanced manufacturing. The bet: the next AI frontier isn't text, it's the physical world.
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Factory AI Raises $150M at $1.5B Valuation — Droids Ship Code at Nvidia, Adobe and Adyen
On April 16, 2026, Factory closes a $150M Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.5B valuation. Its Droids — AI agents that code, test, review and deploy — are used by hundreds of thousands of developers at Nvidia, Adobe, Bayer, EY, MongoDB and Zapier. The enterprise vibe-coding category has hit capital maturity.
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UK Sovereign AI Fund — £500M, Callosum First Equity Stake and 6 Startups Granted Supercompute to Keep British Champions Home
On April 16, 2026, Liz Kendall launches the UK Sovereign AI Unit: £500M to stop British AI startups from being pulled to the US. Callosum is the first equity recipient, six others get supercomputer access.
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Perplexity Launches Billion Dollar Build — $1M Seed Funding to Build a Unicorn in 8 Weeks With Perplexity Computer
Perplexity announced on April 9, 2026 its Billion Dollar Build — an 8-week competition offering up to $3 million ($1M seed + $1M compute + $1M upside) to founders who build a startup with a credible path to a $1 billion valuation, exclusively using Perplexity Computer. Registration opens April 14, finale on June 9. Perplexity ARR now hits $450 million.
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Lovable at $400M ARR Goes Hunting: The Vibe Coding Unicorn Is Acquiring Competitors
Lovable ($6.6B valuation, $400M ARR) announces active acquisition hunt. Anton Osika targets founders and startups. Vibe coding consolidation begins.
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Station F Launches F/ai: Paris Wants to Become the World Capital of AI Startups
Station F launches F/ai, the first acceleration program dedicated to early-stage AI startups in Europe. AI labs, VCs and founders united in Paris.
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OpenAI Acquires Astral: After Models, the Conquest of the Entire Python Stack
OpenAI acquires Astral, the studio behind Ruff and uv. Goal: control the entire Python stack, from linter to package manager, against Anthropic and Cursor.
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Stripe MPP: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Banking System
Stripe launches the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with Tempo and Paradigm. AI agents can now pay for APIs and services autonomously, in stablecoin or fiat, with zero human intervention.
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Trustpilot No Longer Wants to Be a Review Site — It Wants to Be AI Shopping Agents' Memory
Trustpilot is repositioning as the source of truth for AI shopping agents. 330M reviews, DA 93, 190K new reviews/day: the GEO pivot explained.
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Whop: 20 Engineers, $1.2B GMV — The Startup Taking On Stripe, Shopify and Gumroad
Whop generates $1.2 billion in annualized GMV with just 20 engineers. Valued at $800M, this creator super-app combines payments, marketplace and business tools in one dashboard.
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AI Absorbs Global Venture Capital: $189B in February, OpenAI and Anthropic Crush Everything
OpenAI raises $110B, Anthropic $30B, Wayve $1.2B. Global startup funding hits $189 billion in February 2026, +780% YoY. Venture capital is undergoing a structural transformation.
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Finance Is No Longer Testing AI, It's Putting It to Work: Dyna.Ai, Rowspace and Banks Go to Production
Dyna.Ai raises an eight-figure Series A, Rowspace launches with $50M for private equity, JPMorgan and Citi industrialize AI. Finance shifts from POC to massive agentic AI deployment.
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Mistral AI Targets €1B Revenue in 2026: Arthur Mensch's Race Against Time
With €300M ARR, the Koyeb acquisition and 10,000 public agents equipped, Mistral AI wants to triple its revenue in 15 months. But competition from AMI, OpenAI and Google complicates the equation.
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