Berlin-based defense-technology startup Stark raised roughly $569 million in a round led by Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital, one of the largest European defense-tech financings on record. The deal underscores how aggressively top US venture firms are now backing European defense as the continent rearms and attritable autonomous systems reshape the battlefield.
Jun 26, 2026Peregrine Technologies, which builds a data and software platform for government public-safety agencies, raised a $250 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, with Sequoia Capital, XYZ Ventures and others joining lead investor Fifth Down Capital. The round marks one of govtech's largest financings and reflects surging demand for AI-enabled tools that unify fragmented police and emergency data.
Jun 26, 2026Ent.AI came out of stealth with a $100M seed round led by Decibel Partners, with Sequoia Capital and Felicis participating, to build AI-native endpoint security. A nine-figure seed signals how aggressively top funds are pre-empting the next category winners in AI security.
Jun 18, 2026Cybersecurity startup Ent raised a $100M seed -- enormous for the stage -- from Sequoia, Craft, Felicis, Crosspoint, Shield Capital and In-Q-Tel. The thesis: as attackers weaponize AI, defense has to be AI-native from day one, and that requires frontier-scale capital before product-market fit.
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