Kochava unveils creative services workspaces on StationOne. StationOne connects marketing's critical operations into a single, open, collaborative platform designed for creative excellence and team-wide productivity. Kochava, the real-time data solutions company for omnichannel outcomes, has announced the expansion of StationOne by Kochava with new, purpose-built workspaces for marketers and creative professionals, powered by top AI partners Higgsfield, Luma, and Spaceback by Rembrand. The announcement signals a new era of creative workflow: one where campaign assets are not just rapidly produced and adapted, but strategically optimised for every segment, every screen, and across every channel - unlocking new value for creative teams and marketers alike. The New Creative Imperative: Speed, Fidelity, and Human Focus Modern campaigns demand unmatched speed, personalisation, and creative excellence - yet creative leads and teams are still too often burdened with busy work, manual resizing, and repetitive adaptation for dozens of formats and audiences. With StationOne's new workspaces, all that changes. By seamlessly integrating industry-defining creative tools from Higgsfield, Luma, and Spaceback by Rembrand, StationOne synthesises model-driven creative iteration directly into the workflows of activation and optimisation. "Our vision for StationOne is simple: unlock creative possibilities, eliminate repetitive barriers, and amplify what human teams do uniquely well," said Charles Manning, CEO at Kochava. "With these workspaces, AI doesn't replace creativity - it embeds it into accelerated ad operations workflows natively." Higgsfield: Unmatched Customisation, Effortless Asset Creation Higgsfield pushes creative boundaries further with AI-driven video and image generation built for marketers seeking distinctive, hyper-customised content. With direct integration into StationOne, creative leaders can harness Higgsfield to produce, test, and refine dynamic creative assets at scale, making true content personalisation not just viable, but effortless. "Higgsfield exists to turn every brand's vision into personalised creative at the speed and quality modern campaigns demand. Together with StationOne, we're giving creative teams a faster path from idea to finished work, with each asset built for the audience it needs to reach," said Taz Patel, Vice President of Platform Partnerships at Higgsfield. Luma: Fastest Path from Idea to Impact Luma is renowned among creative pioneers for delivering game-changing speed, model-level brand intelligence, and absolute creative control. Teams can explore ten creative directions before the morning standup and deliver fifty on-brand variants by end of day. By bringing creative generation and workflow orchestration closer together, Luma and StationOne enable teams to spend less time managing processes and more time focused on strategy, storytelling, and creative development. "Creative teams are under growing pressure to produce more content, adapt campaigns faster, and maintain brand consistency across channels. By bringing Luma's generative AI capabilities into StationOne, we're helping creatives move from concept to execution more efficiently while giving greater control over the final outcome," said Caroline Ingeborn, COO, Luma Spaceback by Rembrand: Social Creative Intelligence, Built for the AI Age Spaceback's AI-native Social Creative Intelligence platform helps marketers identify what resonates with audiences, uncover competitive opportunities, and turn those insights into high-performing creative. Through its integration with StationOne, brands can generate, activate, and measure multiple creative variants across programmatic and CTV, bringing the impact of social beyond walled gardens and from insight to activation in the same day. "Generative AI makes creativity limitless, but social shows marketers what's worth making," said David Wiener, Chief Product Officer at Rembrand. "StationOne and Spaceback turn those signals into creative that can be generated, activated, and measured across programmatic and CTV, helping marketers move from insight to outcomes faster." StationOne: The Creative Orchestration Layer Marketers Demand More than a toolkit, StationOne connects marketing's critical operations - creative, analytics, attribution, and more - into a single, open, collaborative platform designed for creative excellence and team-wide productivity. By unifying leading AI partners, StationOne offers: For Creative Leads: No more creative grunt work, endless resizing, or workflow silos. Reclaim your team's energy for strategy, concept, and inspiration - unlocking outcomes at the new intersection of human vision and intelligent automation. Sophia Bennett is a news curator at Martechvibe, covering global developments across marketing technology, digital transformation, AI, data, and customer experience trends. View More

The week's 10 biggest funding rounds: defense tech, AI tools and infrastructure lead the way. August 21, 2026 Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week's biggest funding deal roundup here. Startup investors were busily closing on big rounds this week, with AI and defense among their favored target sectors. The biggest financing went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technology, a video-creation platform, data centers and voice-to-text tools. 1. Castelion, $800M, defense tech: Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic strike missile, raised new Series C funding consisting of $800 million in equity capital along with $250 million in debt financing. JPMorgan Chase, Andreessen Horowitz and Carlyle led the equity financing, which set a $13 billion valuation for the Torrance, California-based company. 2. Etched, $700M, semiconductors: San Jose, California-based Etched, a developer of inference clusters to accelerate AI computing, secured $700 million in a new funding round led by Jane Street and joined by a long list of prominent investors. The financing set a $21 billion valuation for the 4-year-old company. 3. Higgsfield, $400M, AI video tools: AI video- and image-creation platform Higgsfield closed on $400 million in Series B financing at a $5.4 billion valuation. DST Global led the round for the San Francisco-based company, with the financing drawing at least 18 investors. 4. Groq, $350M, data centers: Groq, an operator of 13 data centers across the globe, pulled in $350 million in a new fundraise led by Disruptive, with planned participation from Nvidia.The fundraise, which values the San Francisco-based company at $3.5 billion, comes on the heels of a $650 million round in June. 5. Wispr Flow, $280M, voice-to-text AI: Wispr Flow, a provider of an AI-powered voice-to-text tool called Flow, picked up $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation. Menlo Ventures led the financing, joined by a long list of new and existing investors. 6. Muon Space, $250M, satellites: Muon Space, a designer, builder and operator of satellite constellations, closed on $250 million in Series C funding led by Eclipse. The Mountain View, California-based company also recently opened a manufacturing facility in San Jose, California, designed to produce up to 500 satellites annually by 2027. 7. Also, $150M, micromobility: Also, a Rivian spinout that makes electric bikes and small four-wheeled micromobility vehicles, secured $150 million in Series D funding led by Prysm Capital. The Palo Alto, California-based startup said the financing will go in part toward accelerating development of its autonomous vehicle platform. 8. Velaura AI, $110M, AI computing: Velaura AI, a developer of AI compute infrastructure focused on ultra-low-power silicon and software technologies, picked up $110 million in Series A funding. Seligman Ventures led the financing, which set a valuation of over $1 billion for the Silicon Valley-based startup. 9. Rillet, $100M, agentic finance: Rillet, a developer of AI-powered enterprise resource planning tools, landed $100 million in Series C funding led by Iconiq Capital. The round, which sets a $1 billion valuation for the San Francisco company, is Rillet's third financing in the past year. 10. Happy Health, $75M, sleep testing: Happy Health, and Austin-based developer of a ring device for diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea, raised $75 million from Arch Venture Partners and OpenLoop. Methodology. We tracked the largest announced rounds in the Crunchbase database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the period of Aug. 15-21. Although most announced rounds are in the database, there may be a small time lag, as some rounds are reported late in the week.