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  1. Oct 27, 2026Disruptive Closes $10B Fund | Largest Ever Raised In Texas Pulse story

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  1. Shield AI's $2.5B Leads Week's 10 Biggest US Funding RoundsShield AI's $2 billion raise plus a $500 million debt facility led the week's 10 biggest US funding rounds, which Crunchbase News reported Nov. 6 were dominated by AI, defense and space-tech deals.→
  2. Disruptive Closes $10B Fund | Largest Ever Raised In TexasDallas-based Disruptive closed a $10 billion blind-pool fund on Oct. 27, 2026, its first after 14 years of deal-by-deal SPVs, to write checks up to $1 billion into at least 10 late-stage AI and defense companies.→
  3. August's Megarounds Went to Missiles and InferenceIn a single mid-August week, six US startups raised $2.63 billion between them, and the two largest -- a hypersonic missile maker and an inference chip company -- accounted for $1.5 billion of it.→
  4. Groq Raises $350M to Pivot From Chips to NeocloudGroq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, down from $6.9 billion last September, as it completes a pivot from AI chipmaker to inference cloud provider after Nvidia hired its founder in a $20 billion licensing deal.→
  5. Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud and LPU ChipsAI inference chipmaker Groq raised $650 million from investors including Infinitum and Disruptive to scale its LPU-based inference cloud, betting that purpose-built silicon can undercut GPUs on the cost and speed of serving large models. The round is part of a week dominated by bets on the inference layer, from Baseten's $1.5B to AI-networking deals.→
  6. Groq Raises $650M to Scale Its AI Inference Cloud and LPU ChipsAI chip and inference-cloud company Groq raised $650 million in a round led by Infinitum and Disruptive, fueling its bid to be the fast, low-cost alternative for running AI models. Founded by a former Google TPU architect, Groq builds its own Language Processing Unit silicon and sells inference as a service -- a vertically integrated play against both Nvidia and cloud incumbents.→
  7. Groq Confirms $650M Raise and Rebuilds Leadership After Nvidia's $20B 'Not-Acqui-Hire'AI chipmaker Groq confirmed a $650 million funding round and a near-total leadership rebuild, six months after Nvidia signed a roughly $20 billion non-exclusive licensing deal that also hired away Groq's founder-CEO Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra and other senior staff. The round -- led by Dallas firm Disruptive and hedge fund Infinitum -- bankrolls Groq's pivot from selling chips to running an AI inference 'neocloud.'→

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Disruptive Closes $10B Fund | Largest Ever Raised In Texas

Dallas-based Disruptive closed a $10 billion blind-pool fund on Oct. 27, 2026, its first after 14 years of deal-by-deal SPVs, to write checks up to $1 billion into at least 10 late-stage AI and defense companies.

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