Baseten, Together AI and Crusoe have each raised nine- or ten-figure rounds within the past year, showing AI infrastructure capital increasingly recycling into a small, familiar set of 'neocloud' names rather than funding new entrants.
Jul 5, 2026A string of multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure raises this year -- Crusoe, Together AI, Quantum Systems, National Grid's Joulent bet -- shows venture capital concentrating in physical AI infrastructure at the expense of traditional Series B-sized rounds.
Jul 4, 2026Crunchbase News' roundup of the week's 10 biggest funding rounds (June 27-July 2) was led by Houston-based energy infrastructure provider Joulent's $1.75 billion raise from National Grid Ventures, aimed squarely at AI and compute-intensive industries' power needs. Together AI's $800M Series C and Venice AI's $65M unicorn round both placed inside the top 10, alongside biotech, legal-tech, sports and video-AI rounds spanning a genuinely broad set of categories beyond pure frontier-model AI.
Jul 2, 2026Together AI closed an $800 million Series C on July 1 at an $8.3 billion post-money valuation, more than doubling its prior mark. The round was led by Aramco Ventures with Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital and others participating, as annual bookings crossed $1.15 billion on the back of open-source model usage tripling industry-wide in twelve months.
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