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According to DealRoom, the Web3 integrated consumption platform Beezie announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with Psalion participating through its early-stage fund Psalion VC Fund III.The platform generates on-chain digital twins of physical goods, enabling programmability, tradability, and cross-scenario combinations. Through gamification mechanisms, it transforms physical asset transactions into interactive consumption experiences. The new funds will be used for global market expansion.

According to PR Newswire, the on-chain execution infrastructure company Birdai Labs announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing, led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Metalayer Ventures and The Venture Dept.Birdai Labs focuses on providing measurement, verification, and optimization infrastructure for transaction execution quality on high-performance public chains, aiming to reduce value loss between orders and executions caused by sorting and propagation, and to return more value to traders and market makers. The company's team comes from traditional financial institutions such as Franklin Templeton and Citadel, and is expanding its senior engineering and quantitative research team to adapt to on-chain execution competition under a multi-proposer architecture, and to provide verifiable fairness and transparency execution standards for future institutional participation in the digital asset market.

According to TechCrunch, Fish Audio announced on Tuesday that it has completed a $50 million seed round of financing. This round was led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from institutions such as 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners, Bayhouse Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, and HF0.Fish Audio was initially a small project initiated by former NVIDIA researcher Shijia Liao. Dissatisfied with the lack of expressive synthetic voice technology on the market, he trained a voice generation model using a single GPU and made it open source. Today, the Fish Speech project repository on GitHub has received over 31,000 stars and is widely used by independent developers, game designers, and content creators.In the past year, Fish Audio has launched five models, including four voice generation models and one speech-to-text model. The company has open-sourced three of the voice generation models, but the latest S2.1 Pro model is currently only available through a paid API. Since its launch last year, the startup's open-source and hosted version models have attracted over 8 million users, with current annual recurring revenue (ARR) reaching $21 million.

UK real estate technology startup Dwelly announced the completion of a $170 million financing round to acquire more real estate companies and integrate artificial intelligence into its operations.This round of financing was led by EQT Growth and General Catalyst, including $95 million in equity financing and a $75 million debt financing facility provided by Trinity Capital. The company did not disclose its valuation.

The Web3 AI infrastructure project AI W3 announced the completion of approximately $5 million in Pre-TGE round financing. This round of financing was led by Hundreds Capital, with follow-on investments from Kirin Capital and Crestwave Capital, and strategic investment from 0G Labs.It is reported that the leading investor, Hundreds Capital, is a private equity fund focused on growth-stage investments, with a long-term focus on technological innovation and the development of emerging industries. This investment in AI W3 marks Hundreds Capital's first foray into the Web3 space, as they express optimism about the long-term development potential of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology in the future digital economy, and recognize the next-generation infrastructure innovation opportunities brought by the integration of AI Agents and Web3.The strategic investment from 0G Labs further reflects the ecological value of AI W3 in the decentralized AI infrastructure field. 0G Labs is committed to promoting the integrated development of AI and blockchain technology, and this strategic investment further strengthens the ecological collaboration between both parties in the areas of on-chain AI Agents, decentralized computing, and open intelligent economy. Recently, AI W3 has also launched community incentive activities around ecological construction, attracting user participation through airdrop tasks, ecological interactions, and other methods to promote early community growth and ecological expansion.

Crypto KOL Phyrex posted on platform X, stating that American investors are chasing stock market highs with increasingly high leverage. As of June, the net credit balance of U.S. brokerage accounts fell by approximately $70 billion in a single month, dropping to negative $1.061 trillion, a historic low. During the same period, margin debt increased by about $86 billion to $1.53 trillion, rising for the third consecutive month and setting a new record.He pointed out that the continued deterioration of the net credit balance means that investors have less cash buffer and are increasingly reliant on borrowing for stock positions. Currently, leverage in the U.S. market is widespread throughout the brokerage system. In an upward phase, rising stock prices can further release financing limits after boosting account net worth, creating mechanical buying pressure; however, once the market weakens, margin pressure may force investors to add cash or sell stocks, turning the leverage that previously drove the rise into mechanical selling pressure. He believes that the U.S. stock market is currently facing both high valuations and a high financing environment, and if new funds slow down, leveraged positions may further amplify market volatility.

According to a report by Sifted, ETH Zurich spin-off startup ZuriQ announced the completion of a $25.5 million seed round financing.The company is dedicated to developing a new type of quantum chip architecture, which is said to have stronger scalability compared to existing solutions and is expected to accelerate the scaling process in the field of quantum computing.

According to Ventureburn, AI robotics company Enigma has completed a $71 million seed round financing, co-led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners and individual investors in the AI field such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, Cognition, and Wiz.The company was founded 11 months ago, and this round is one of the largest seed rounds in the physical AI sector. The funds will be used to expand the research and engineering team, enhance computing infrastructure, and increase real-world deployments. Enigma has developed over 100 self-developed robotic systems, operating in California and Israel, and has opened remote interaction to collect training data. The company believes that the biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of robots is the way humans interact with them, and its platform adopts a hardware-agnostic strategy that can adapt to robotic devices from different manufacturers.

ALPHEA announced the completion of a $5 million financing round to accelerate the construction of its next-generation distributed AI infrastructure.The project party stated that this round of funding was participated in by institutions such as MH Ventures, IBC Group, Titans Ventures, Becker Ventures, and Yellow Labs. It will be used to expand the distributed AI computing power network, launch new products aimed at developers and enterprises, and expand the core team in positions such as engineering, research, and ecosystem development.

According to The Block, Physical AI data engine company Axis Robotics has completed a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and others.Axis plans to build a large-scale "human-in-the-loop" global data engine to address the scarcity of training data for robots, difficulties in generalization, and compatibility issues with different hardware. Its platform covers task generation, simulation remote operation, mobile Ego data collection, and automated cleaning and labeling pipelines. Currently, it has over 100,000 active data contributors, generating approximately 1,200 hours of simulation data and 20,000 hours of real-world scenario data each month, and has established commercial partnerships with several hardware and industrial clients, including Booster Robotics and Geely Auto.

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek announced the suspension of its second round of financing and verbally notified some potential investors that it would not sign investment agreements as expected. This suspension partly stems from founder Liang Wenfeng's dissatisfaction with the leak of a 4-hour internal transcript during its first financing deal, where he made 52 statements in an investor meeting regarding DeepSeek's organizational culture, open-source logic, technology roadmap, and views on the competitive landscape of the industry. The nearly 4-hour meeting record recently went viral on social media, including statements such as "The biggest gap between China and the U.S. in AI is computing power resources." Both DeepSeek and Liang Wenfeng have not confirmed the authenticity of the leaked record.DeepSeek stated that it may still choose to resume the transaction process in the future and has begun preparations for an initial public offering, with the IPO potentially being filed as early as this year.DeepSeek completed its first round of external financing in June 2026, raising over 50 billion yuan, approximately 7.4 billion dollars, with a post-investment valuation of about 50-59 billion dollars. It adopted a special structure, with most funds entering a limited partnership managed by Liang Wenfeng, where investors have no voting rights and are locked in for 5 years. Liang Wenfeng himself contributed about 20 billion yuan as the largest contributor, with participation from Tencent, CATL, JD.com, NetEase, and the Chinese National AI Fund. DeepSeek subsequently initiated discussions for its second round of financing in mid-July, targeting a valuation of about 71 billion dollars.

According to a report by the WSJ, The Boring Company, founded by Musk, is seeking new funding support, and the new round of financing will value the company at approximately $20 billion.The Boring Company was established in 2016 and primarily develops underground transportation tunnel technology aimed at alleviating urban traffic congestion. Currently, the company is operating the Vegas Loop project in Las Vegas, USA, and plans to expand its underground transportation network to more cities.

According to official news, the Robinhood Chain ecological token issuance platform Memecoin.Fun announced the completion of a $3.5 million strategic financing. This round of financing was completed through the USDG Token, led by Becker Ventures, with participation from BitValue Capital, Mason Labs, Negentropy Capital, and angel investor Billy Wen.The announcement stated that this round of financing will be used to accelerate the construction of core products and infrastructure, including the Robinhood Chain Launchpad infrastructure; cross-chain bridge function development, as well as the research and operation of the revolutionary Memecoin All-chain Platform.

AI infrastructure chiplet platform company TYLsemi announced the completion of a $43 million early financing round, led by Matter Venture Partners, with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology, and others. The company launched a standardized chiplet portfolio covering IO interconnect, power management, and memory, and offers chiplet-based custom XPU design and packaging, as well as integrated supply chain services, claiming to reduce the time and cost of custom AI chips from architecture to mass production by up to 50%.The first batch includes TYL.IO for high-bandwidth interconnects such as PCIe, ESUN, and UALink, the TYL.Power integrated voltage regulation chiplet aimed at XPU, and the planned memory connection product TYL.Mem, providing custom AI silicon solutions for leading customers through the TYL.Forge full-stack platform.

According to market news, American defense technology company Anduril is in talks for financing, with a valuation of approximately $100 billion. No decisions have been made regarding future financing yet.It is reported that the company may ask investors to commit to participating in the subsequent second round of financing at a higher valuation.

According to Globenewswire, the stablecoin issuer Mandela Digital announced the completion of a $5 million financing round, with participation from Datavault AI. The new funds will be used for the construction of stablecoin infrastructure, compliance, exchange integration, liquidity and marketing, as well as to accelerate the launch of the 1:1 dollar-pegged stablecoin Mandela Dollar (MUSD).It is reported that Datavault AI will also provide technical support for MUSD, including an AI platform, blockchain tokenization, SanQtum quantum-resistant encryption, and a framework for real-world assets (RWA).

AI-native live streaming prediction platform K25.ai announced the completion of its Series A financing, receiving strategic support from Amber Group, with a post-investment valuation reaching $200 million, doubling its valuation in less than 60 days.This round of investment will accelerate K25.ai's product development, global expansion, institutional liquidity infrastructure, and creator ecosystem construction. Amber Group will provide support to K25.ai in market infrastructure, liquidity strategies, ecological development, and digital assets. K25.ai combines AI with live streaming content, allowing users to predict the trends in sports, esports, entertainment, and other scenarios in real-time, achieving real-time market generation, content monitoring, and outcome adjudication through its self-developed AI infrastructure. Previously, its Pre-A round was led by Nasdaq-listed company NewGenIVF Group.

According to Gelonghui, Atoms, a robotics company founded by Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, has completed a $1.7 billion financing round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with Ben Horowitz joining the board. The equity investors in this round include Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, A*, K5 Global, Abstract, SV Angel, Alpha Square Group, and Uber.Horowitz focused the logic of this investment on specialized robots rather than humanoid robots. He pointed out that in heavy industry, specialized robots are much more suitable for completing most tasks than humanoid robots.

The non-custodial fixed-rate lending platform Tenor announced the completion of its seed round financing, led by Variant, with participation from Nascent, Prelude, Coinbase Ventures, Lattice, Very Early, and several angel investors continuing to provide support. The amount of financing has not been disclosed.Tenor is built on the fixed-rate lending underlying protocol Midnight based on Morpho. It is currently live on the Base network and will expand to more chains in the future, supporting features such as automatic extensions, OTC quotes, and floating interest rates for pending orders. The platform currently supports crypto asset collateralized lending and plans to expand into the foreign exchange and credit markets.