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The full thread of our OLIX coverage — a running record of every development we've tracked, with the VC take on each.

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  1. Aug 7, 2026FUNDINGThis Week's Mega-Rounds, By the Numbers~$2.13B combined→
  2. Aug 4, 2026IPOThe Nuclear-Chip IPO Pipeline Nobody's Pricing In→
  3. Aug 3, 2026FUNDINGOLIX's $312M Bet Against Nvidia's Chip Shortage$312M Series B→

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FUNDING· Aug 7, 2026

This Week's Mega-Rounds, By the Numbers

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FUNDING~$2.13B combined

This Week's Mega-Rounds, By the Numbers

Hadrian's $1.37B round, Function Health's $450M raise and OLIX's $312M photonic-chip round pushed this week's three largest US-linked venture rounds past $2.1B combined, none of it going to a foundation model.

Aug 7, 2026BY THE NUMBERS
IPO· Aug 4, 2026

The Nuclear-Chip IPO Pipeline Nobody's Pricing In

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IPO

The Nuclear-Chip IPO Pipeline Nobody's Pricing In

Valar Atomics at a $6B private valuation and OLIX at $3.3B are both explicitly infrastructure bets, not software -- and neither has a clear public comp set yet, which means whoever lists first effectively prices the entire category.

Aug 4, 2026
FUNDING· Aug 3, 2026

OLIX's $312M Bet Against Nvidia's Chip Shortage

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FUNDING$312M Series B

OLIX's $312M Bet Against Nvidia's Chip Shortage

OLIX raised $312M to build a photonic inference chip that skips the HBM shortage bottlenecking Nvidia -- backed by Arm, Hudson River Trading and Reed Hastings, and a real signal that the AI chip market is finally getting a credible non-GPU challenger.

Aug 3, 2026
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