Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, July 2, 2026 

If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.

Isabelle Johannessen · 7 Jul 2026

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.

Anna Heim · 8 Jul 2026

China’s AI investment boom just got another major vote of confidence. Kling AI, one of the country’s most popular AI video generation platforms, has secured more than $2.8 billion in fresh funding from a group of investors led by tech […] The post Kling AI raises $2.8B at $15B valuation with backing from Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu first appeared on Tech Startups.

Daniel Levi · 3 Jul 2026

A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that crypto prediction market platform Polymarket paid dozens of social media creators to post videos showing what appeared to be large, profitable bets on its platform, even though many of those trades never […] The post Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets in 140 million-view marketing campaign, WSJ investigation finds first appeared on T

Daniel Levi · 3 Jul 2026