Unlimit founder Kirill Eves provided a $45 million funding commitment to Phase on October 29, 2026, with Phase having no outside investors.

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Luxor Technology launched Luxor AI, extending its hardware, software, energy, data, and compute trading infrastructure into AI and high-performance computing markets

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AIsa, a startup that supports data purchases and payments for artificial intelligence agents, completed a seed extension round with Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors

Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturers Canaan and MicroBT participated in Luxor Technology's $16 million funding round alongside Halo, Steelhead, and angel investors.

Luxor Technology plans to use proceeds from its $16 million round to scale its cloud platform, expand GPU hardware sourcing, develop compute derivatives trading, and hire 12 additional staff before the end of 2026.

Prior to its October 2026 round, Luxor Technology had raised $6.575 million in primary capital across three rounds, including a $5 million Series A in June 2021 led by NYDIG.

Luxor Technology opened a new regional office in San Francisco as part of its ongoing corporate expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

Luxor Technology chief operating officer Ethan Vera stated that the company delayed raising capital until its AI expansion provided a clear use of proceeds.

According to startup data tracker Tracxn, Luxor Technology's seed round investors included Celsius, Valour, and Bitnomial.

Luxor Technology's $16 million financing round included primary preferred equity to fund company growth and secondary preferred and common equity to bring strategic investors onto the cap table.

Luxor Technology began raising its strategic capital round in August 2026 and closed the primary funding portion in October 2026.

Kirill Eves' $45 million commitment covers Phase's first two years of development and provides two additional years of runway.

Luxor Technology's employee headcount expanded from 11 at the time of its 2021 Series A round to 106 as of October 2026.

Sam Altman served as the president of Y Combinator when OpenAI was founded in 2015

a16z Frontier's expanded investment mandate beyond crypto startups includes autonomous machines, robotics, startups combining software, hardware, and services, and technologies drawing on biology and medicine

Managing partner Chris Dixon identified artificial intelligence as the central technology wave shaping a16z Frontier's expanded investment approach beyond crypto startups

San Francisco-based AIsa completed its seed extension funding round with Tether Capital and HIVEN joining as strategic investors, bringing total capital raised to over $9 million.

AIsa's seed extension investor group includes new backers Tether and HIVEN alongside existing investors Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital.

AIsa added over $2.5 million in funding since July 2026, when AIsa previously reported $6.5 million in cumulative raised capital.

Alibaba and Tribe Capital co-led AIsa's earlier seed funding round reported in July 2026.

Rising default risks and high bond yields at CoreWeave contributed to a pause in funding for AI startups by junk bond investors