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📝 A new list highlights 174 venture funds backing women founders A curated list of 174 venture capital funds that explicitly invest in women founders has been published, aiming to make fundraising slightly more navigable in a landscape where capital access remains uneven. 🖱 The list includes 174 funds in total, with geographic focus specified for 108 of them and sector or vertical focus listed for 69. Each entry links to the fund’s website, and unusually the time zone of the fund is also included, which could be helpful for founder outreach. 🖱 While the list does not provide individual partner names or direct contact details, it offers a structured starting point for founders looking to prioritize investors who publicly state an interest in backing women-led companies. 🖱 Given persistent funding disparities, investors on this list may represent a higher-probability audience, even if additional research and warm introductions are still required.

The list was compiled and shared on LinkedIn by influencer Alex Milman-Bloom, adding another resource for women founders building their fundraising pipelines.

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🚀 Airwallex raises $330M at an $8B valuation just six months after its last round Airwallex has closed a $330 million Series G funding round, valuing the global payments company at $8 billion, only six months after its previous financing. 🖱 The round was backed by Addition, T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., Activant, Lingotto, Robinhood Ventures, and TIAA Ventures, reinforcing investor confidence in the company’s cross-border payments and financial infrastructure platform. 🖱 Founded in 2015, Airwallex has navigated repeated near-death moments. In 2016, the company came close to running out of cash after a venture capital firm withdrew a term sheet, leaving the startup scrambling to survive. 🖱 In 2018, Stripe reportedly made a $1.2 billion acquisition offer for Airwallex, which the founders declined, choosing instead to remain independent and continue scaling the business globally. 🖱 The company was hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic, losing roughly 40% of revenue, before rebounding sharply. Between 2021 and 2025, Airwallex grew annual recurring revenue from $100 million to $1 billion and, in 2025, launched AI-driven payment agents. 🖱 Following the announcement, co-founder and CEO Jack Jiang reflected publicly on his journey, from emigrating to Australia in 2015 and working long shifts in a factory and gas station, to building one of the world’s most valuable private fintech companies.

The latest raise cements Airwallex’s position as a leading global fintech as investors continue to bet on infrastructure players enabling international commerce at scale.

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🚨 Trump moves to block state AI laws and here’s what’s behind it U.S. President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order aimed at curbing state-level artificial intelligence laws, a move that could dramatically reshape how AI is regulated across the United States. 🖱 According to Reuters, the order would seek to override or limit state AI regulations by tying compliance to federal funding, arguing that a patchwork of state rules risks slowing innovation and weakening U.S. competitiveness against China. 🖱 The administration says the goal is to push toward a single national AI framework, with federal agencies and Congress working together to establish uniform standards rather than allowing states like California and Colorado to set their own rules. 🖱 The order is expected to empower the Justice Department to challenge state AI laws in court, setting up potential legal battles over federal authority versus states’ rights. 🖱 Tech companies have broadly welcomed the idea of a unified national approach, while state officials and legal experts warn the move could undermine consumer protections, AI safety rules, and privacy safeguards already enacted at the state level.

The announcement signals a major escalation in the AI policy fight, positioning AI regulation as a national security and economic issue and setting the stage for prolonged legal and political conflict over who gets to govern the future of artificial intelligence.

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🚀 After years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public and here’s why SpaceX, the space-exploration company founded by Elon Musk, is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) in 2026, marking a major shift from its long-held stance against becoming a public company. 🖱 Elon Musk responded to an Ars Technica report outlining this shift by saying “As usual, Eric is accurate” in a social-media exchange, signaling the company may indeed pursue a public listing after years of staying private. 🖱 According to multiple media reports, SpaceX is aiming to raise well over $25 billion to $30 billion in the offering, potentially valuing the company around $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion which would make it one of the largest IPOs in history. 🖱 The strategic reasoning for the shift appears partly tied to funding new capital-intensive initiatives, including expanding Starlink satellite broadband, backing space-based AI data centers, and accelerating long-term projects such as lunar infrastructure and Mars-related endeavors.

This marks a dramatic reversal from SpaceX’s previous approach, where Musk resisted going public concerned that shareholder pressure and public scrutiny could constrain the company’s bold, long-horizon missions like Mars settlement.

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⚖️ U.S. state attorneys general warn AI giants to fix “delusional” model behavior A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has issued a formal warning to major AI developers including Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Apple, Anthropic, and xAI demanding immediate action to curb harmful and misleading chatbot outputs. 🖱 The letter cites cases where AI systems produced confidently stated falsehoods and psychologically harmful responses, including incidents allegedly tied to suicides, violence, and severe mental-health impacts. 🖱 Regulators are pressing the companies to introduce clearer warnings, independent audits, and mandatory incident-reporting processes measures similar to data-breach rules to address “hallucinations,” sycophantic behavior, and unsafe suggestions. 🖱 The companies have been given a mid-January 2026 deadline to commit to new safeguards, with attorneys general warning that failure to improve consumer protections could trigger legal action under state laws.

The warning marks one of the most aggressive coordinated interventions into generative AI yet, signaling that U.S. regulators are preparing to treat unsafe model outputs as a consumer-protection issue, not just a technical flaw.

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🧠 Time names the “Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year Time magazine has broken tradition by awarding its 2025 Person of the Year title to an entire group of tech leaders, a collective it calls the “Architects of AI.” 🖱 The honorees include Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Jensen Huang, Fei-Fei Li, Elon Musk, Lisa Su, and Mark Zuckerberg, figures who have driven the year’s most significant breakthroughs and controversies in artificial intelligence. 🖱 Time says 2025 marked the moment when AI’s capabilities fully surfaced, reshaping industries, public discourse, and global power dynamics. The group was recognized for accelerating the rise of “thinking machines” and bringing their promise and risks into clearer view. 🖱 The magazine’s editors emphasized that the collective influence of these leaders defined the year, capturing both the optimism and unease surrounding AI’s rapid expansion.

By naming an entire cohort, Time signals that AI’s trajectory is now shaped not by one individual but by a powerful, interconnected group steering the most consequential technology shift of the decade.

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💰 Unconventional AI raises a massive $475 million seed round at a $4.5 billion valuation Unconventional AI, the new company founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao has secured $475 million in seed funding, giving the startup a striking $4.5 billion valuation before it has shipped a product. 🖱 Investors backing the round include a16z, Lightspeed, Lux Capital and DCVC, with Jeff Bezos also participating. Rao himself put in roughly $10 million on the same terms as other backers. 🖱 The company is building a new class of AI-native computers, aiming to design hardware that is dramatically more energy-efficient and biologically inspired, targeting performance that today’s GPU-based systems can’t reach. 🖱 Rao says the $475 million is only the first phase of what could become a $1 billion fundraising effort, underscoring how aggressively investors are betting on next-generation AI compute.

Unconventional AI’s debut instantly positions it as one of the most valuable hardware startups ever and its ambitious plan to rethink AI computing architecture could reshape how the next decade of models are built.

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🇦🇺 Australia begins enforcing a world-first national ban on social media for under-16s Australia has officially activated a new law that blocks children under 16 from using major social media platforms, marking the first nationwide ban of its kind. Platforms that fail to comply face fines of up to A$49.5 million. 🖱 The government says the measure is designed to curb mental-health harms, cyberbullying, and exposure to inappropriate content, arguing that tech companies have not done enough to protect younger users. 🖱 Ten major platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Facebook are required to block under-16 accounts and verify ages using tools ranging from behavioral analysis to ID checks. 🖱 Companies that do not comply risk significant penalties, and the government has warned that enforcement will tighten over time as verification systems improve.

Australia’s move sets a global precedent: other countries are watching closely to see whether the ban reduces online harm or sparks new debates about privacy, enforcement, and youth digital rights.

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🚀 SpaceX reportedly preparing a 2026 IPO that could raise far more than $30 billion According to multiple reports, SpaceX is moving toward a public offering planned for mid-to-late 2026, with expectations that the listing could raise well over $30 billion and value the company at roughly $1.5 trillion. 🖱 Early disclosures suggest the scale of the deal would be unprecedented: • Target valuation near $1.5 trillion, making it the largest IPO to date • Fundraising ambitions exceeding $30 billion, surpassing Saudi Aramco’s record 2019 debut • Internal share pricing around $420 per share, with employees allowed to sell roughly $2 billion in stock through a secondary sale 🖱 SpaceX’s fast-growing businesses appear to be driving the timing: • Starlink revenues are projected to push total sales from about $15B in 2025 into the low-to-mid-$20B range in 2026 • The Starship program remains central to long-term deep-space and launch ambitions • Musk has recently floated the idea of space-based data centers, broadening investor interest in future infrastructure opportunities 🖱 The timeline is still fluid. Advisers note that volatile market conditions could shift the IPO into 2027, and SpaceX itself has not publicly confirmed any listing plans.

If SpaceX proceeds, the offering would mark one of the most consequential moments in modern capital markets but executing a deal of this size will test both investor appetite and the company’s ability to maintain its rapid expansion.

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🔔 FDA clears the first AI system designed to speed up liver-disease drug development The U.S. FDA has officially qualified AIM-NASH, the first AI tool allowed to be used in clinical trials to evaluate liver-biopsy images for MASH (metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis). 🖱 The software analyzes microscopic liver-tissue scans and generates standardized scores for fat buildup, inflammation, and fibrosis, steps that normally require multiple pathologists and introduce delays and subjective variation. 🖱 By automating the initial readout, AIM-NASH could shorten drug-development timelines for liver-disease therapies, giving researchers faster and more consistent data during clinical trials. 🖱 The FDA’s qualification makes the tool available for use across drug-development programs, signaling a major shift toward regulatory-grade AI in core medical workflows.

This is a milestone: if AI can reliably accelerate liver-disease trials, similar tools may soon reshape drug development across other major therapeutic areas.

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