News archive — August 2026
Consumer Electronics🇺🇸Aug 4, 2026
Elehear raises tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round led by Oriza Puhua
FundingTransportation🇺🇸Aug 4, 2026
HappyRobot raises $150M Series C at $1.2B valuation to scale enterprise AI agents
FundingSecurity🇮🇳Aug 4, 2026
Zoppler Systems raises $682K seed to build indigenous defence sensing tech
FundingTransportation🇨🇳Aug 4, 2026
U Power raises $16M to fund Thailand hydrogen, Europe battery-swap push
FundingEnergy🇦🇺Aug 4, 2026
DryFlow Magnetics lands US$8.09M seed extension to take waterless mining tech to the US
FundingEnterprise Software🇸🇦Aug 4, 2026
RIME raises $2M seed round to scale physical AI across Saudi Arabia
Products🇺🇸Aug 4, 2026
NVIDIA's own frontier model tops US open-weights charts — and it's giving it away