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Fintech Funding Rose 23% in H1 as AI Bets Concentrate
Fintech venture funding rose 23% in H1 2026 even as deal count fell, per Crunchbase News, as investors concentrate bets around AI and financial infrastructure over consumer apps.
A SpaceX Vet Raised $65M to Fix Wire Harnesses
FUNDING$65M
A SpaceX Vet Raised $65M to Fix Wire Harnesses
A former SpaceX engineer raised $65 million to modernize wire-harness manufacturing, the labor-intensive cabling systems that route power and data through rockets, aircraft and vehicles.
Oak Raises $60M to Fix AI Agent Identity
FUNDING$60M
Oak Raises $60M to Fix AI Agent Identity
Oak came out of stealth backed by $60 million to build identity and access infrastructure purpose-built for autonomous AI agents rather than human logins.
Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises Another $700M
FUNDING$700M
Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises Another $700M
Neko Health, Daniel Ek's full-body scanning startup, raised another $700 million, extending one of the largest consumer health-tech rounds of the year as it scales its scanning-clinic network.
Indian AI Coding Startup Emergent Hits Unicorn Status
FUNDING$130M Series C
Indian AI Coding Startup Emergent Hits Unicorn Status
Emergent, an Indian AI coding startup, became a unicorn with a $130 million Series C roughly a year after launching, one of the fastest unicorn timelines in the current AI-coding wave.
Kevin Ryan's AlleyCorp Raises New $335M Fund
FUNDING$335M fund
Kevin Ryan's AlleyCorp Raises New $335M Fund
AlleyCorp, Kevin Ryan's NYC venture studio, closed a new $335 million fund to keep writing early-stage checks even as capital keeps concentrating in a handful of mega-managers.
Beckham's IM8 Takes $1B From General Catalyst's CVF
FUNDING$1B CVF deal
Beckham's IM8 Takes $1B From General Catalyst's CVF
IM8, David Beckham's health-drink startup, took $1 billion from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, an unusual structure that finances growth marketing spend instead of pure equity dilution.
Miles Wang, Ex-OpenAI Researcher, in Talks for $2B Drug-Discovery Bet
FUNDING~$2B pre-launch
Miles Wang, Ex-OpenAI Researcher, in Talks for $2B Drug-Discovery Bet
Ex-OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug-discovery startup at a roughly $2 billion valuation before the company has meaningfully operated.
Meta's $10B-to-$50B Blowup Is an LP Underwriting Risk
FUNDING5x cost growth in <2 years
Meta's $10B-to-$50B Blowup Is an LP Underwriting Risk
Meta's Louisiana data center going from a roughly $10 billion plan to a $50 billion-plus facility in under two years is a live case study in cost-estimate risk AI-infrastructure LPs need to underwrite, not assume away.
What Post-H1 Funding Data Already Shows for Q3
FUNDING86% AI, top 5 = 73.1%
What Post-H1 Funding Data Already Shows for Q3
Helsing, Gauntlet and Drug Farm's rounds this week are early evidence that H1 2026's concentration pattern -- record capital, AI capturing 86%, the top five managers taking 73.1% -- is continuing into Q3, not reversing.
Robotics Funding's Next Leg Is Chinese Humanoids
FUNDING$18.8B global robotics YTD
Robotics Funding's Next Leg Is Chinese Humanoids
AI2 Robotics raised roughly $735 million at nearly a $3 billion valuation and LimX Dynamics raised $200 million at a $2.21 billion valuation, as global robotics funding hits $18.8 billion in 2026, already ahead of all of 2025's $15 billion.
Europe's Defense-Tech Rounds Are Catching Up to the US
FUNDING$18B vs $61B
Europe's Defense-Tech Rounds Are Catching Up to the US
Helsing's $1.8 billion round at an $18 billion valuation puts a concrete number on how fast European defense-tech financing is closing the gap with a US market that produced four separate billion-dollar-plus rounds this year alone.
Drug Farm Raises $55M Series D for Rare Disease Drug
FUNDING$55M Series D
Drug Farm Raises $55M Series D for Rare Disease Drug
Biotech Drug Farm raised a $55 million Series D to advance DF-003, a Phase 3 ALPK1 inhibitor for rare autoinflammatory disorder ROSAH syndrome, alongside DF-006, a Phase 2 immunomodulator for hepatitis B and liver cancer.
Hermes Agent Maker Nous Research in Talks at $1.5B
FUNDING$1.5B valuation
Hermes Agent Maker Nous Research in Talks at $1.5B
Nous Research, maker of the open-weight Hermes agent models, is in talks for new funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, a meaningful mark for the open side of the AI stack.
Gauntlet Raises $125M Series C From SBI Holdings
FUNDING$125M Series C
Gauntlet Raises $125M Series C From SBI Holdings
DeFi risk-management firm Gauntlet raised $125 million in a Series C with Japan's SBI Holdings as the sole investor, its largest raise ever, to expand into stablecoins, tokenization and traditional capital-markets infrastructure.
Why VCs Keep Funding Plumbers, Homebuilders and Warehouses
FUNDING$50M+$95M+$15M
Why VCs Keep Funding Plumbers, Homebuilders and Warehouses
The past two weeks' funding data shows a consistent pattern: unglamorous, operationally-heavy industries -- supply chain, homebuilding, used cars -- are pulling real institutional capital into narrow, AI-native platforms.
Inside the $412.7B Venture Half: AI Ate 86 Cents of Every Dollar
FUNDING$412.7B H1 2026
Inside the $412.7B Venture Half: AI Ate 86 Cents of Every Dollar
US venture funding hit a record $412.7 billion in H1 2026 per PitchBook, with AI companies capturing 86% of it -- a concentration level that raises real questions about what happens to the rest of the venture market.
Defense Tech's $14.6B Pace Shows No Sign of Slowing
FUNDING$14.6B H1 2026
Defense Tech's $14.6B Pace Shows No Sign of Slowing
Defense tech startups raised $14.6 billion in the first five months of 2026 alone, already blowing past the previous full-year record of $9.6 billion set in 2025, led by Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic.
Capital Concentration Is the Real Story of This Cycle
FUNDINGTop 5 = 73.1%
Capital Concentration Is the Real Story of This Cycle
The top five venture managers captured 73.1% of all capital raised in H1 2026, and the top 15 captured 88.5% -- a concentration level that's reshaping who gets funded, not just how much total capital is flowing.
Open-Source AI Infrastructure's Funding Renaissance
FUNDING~$965M combined
Open-Source AI Infrastructure's Funding Renaissance
Ollama's $65 million Series B is the latest sign that open-source AI tooling -- once seen as a commodity layer -- is commanding real institutional capital alongside the neoclouds and frontier labs.
Quantum Computing's Venture Moment Keeps Compounding
FUNDING$300M Series A
Quantum Computing's Venture Moment Keeps Compounding
Oratomic's $300 million Series A -- Khosla's largest-ever first check -- is the clearest sign yet that VCs now treat quantum computing as its own well-capitalized category, distinct from the AI infrastructure boom.
Helsing Raises $1.8B, Europe's Biggest Defense Round
FUNDING$1.8B at $18B
Helsing Raises $1.8B, Europe's Biggest Defense Round
Munich-based Helsing closed a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation, Europe's biggest-ever defense-tech round, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, CPPIB and JPMorgan joining as new investors amid oversubscribed demand.
Phoebe Gates's $185M Startup Phia Faces Fraud Accusations
FUNDING$185M valuation
Phoebe Gates's $185M Startup Phia Faces Fraud Accusations
Phia, the $185 million shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates, was accused by Bloomberg of "cookie stuffing" -- overriding other affiliates' referral codes to claim commissions it didn't earn -- and was suspended from Impact.com.
Fizz Accuses VC of Leaking Its Data to Rival Sidechat
FUNDING
Fizz Accuses VC of Leaking Its Data to Rival Sidechat
College social app Fizz alleges Maveron investor Jerry Lu met founders under the guise of exploring an investment, then passed its confidential investor deck and financials to rival Sidechat.
Oratomic Raises $300M to Build a 20K-Qubit Quantum Computer
FUNDING$300M
Oratomic Raises $300M to Build a 20K-Qubit Quantum Computer
Oratomic, a Caltech-spinout quantum computing startup, raised a $300 million Series A to build a utility-scale quantum computer using roughly 20,000 qubits instead of the million-plus rivals are targeting.
Keyfactor's $1B Raise Leads a Week of Billion-Dollar AI Deals
FUNDING$1B+ (Keyfactor)
Keyfactor's $1B Raise Leads a Week of Billion-Dollar AI Deals
Machine-identity security firm Keyfactor closed a $1 billion-plus growth investment led by Summit Partners, one of two billion-dollar deals Crunchbase says led the week's 10 biggest funding rounds.
Traysar Raises $25M Seed to Build "Subterra" Defense Tech
FUNDING$25M seed
Traysar Raises $25M Seed to Build "Subterra" Defense Tech
Traysar emerged from stealth with a $25 million seed round led by Silent Ventures, betting the next contested battlefield is underground and building autonomous platforms that tunnel, map and breach subterranean infrastructure.
Oratomic Raises $300M for a 20,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
FUNDING$300M Series A
Oratomic Raises $300M for a 20,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Caltech-founded Oratomic raised a $300 million Series A co-led by ARCH, Spark Capital and Khosla, betting its neutral-atom architecture needs only 10,000-20,000 qubits for a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Probook Raises $40M to Be the AI OS for Plumbers
FUNDING$40M total ($34M Series A + $6M seed)
Probook Raises $40M to Be the AI OS for Plumbers
Probook raised $40 million across a Series A and seed round, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, to build an AI operating system that runs scheduling, dispatch and customer calls for plumbing, electrical and HVAC businesses.
AI Voice Startup Gradium Raises $100M Seed, Backed by Nvidia
FUNDING$100M
AI Voice Startup Gradium Raises $100M Seed, Backed by Nvidia
Paris-based Gradium, a voice-AI startup spun out of French lab Kyutai, reopened its seed round to raise $100 million in total with new backer Nvidia joining, and is opening a Bay Area office to compete for AI talent.
Mercor in Talks for a $20B Valuation, Doubling in Months
FUNDING~$500M round (talks), $20B valuation
Mercor in Talks for a $20B Valuation, Doubling in Months
AI data-labeling startup Mercor is in talks to raise roughly $500 million at a $20 billion valuation -- doubling its worth in under a year -- with CEO Brendan Foody saying annualized revenue has crossed $2 billion.
Ollama Raises $65M Series B as Open-Weight Models Scale
FUNDING$65M Series B
Ollama Raises $65M Series B as Open-Weight Models Scale
Ollama, the open-source platform for running AI models locally, closed a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88 million as its developer base grew to nearly 9 million.
Lyzr Let Its Own AI Agent Run Its $100M Fundraise
FUNDING$100M Series B, ~$500M valuation
Lyzr Let Its Own AI Agent Run Its $100M Fundraise
Lyzr, a three-year-old enterprise AI agent startup, used its own AI agent SivaClaw to run point on a $100 million Series B at a roughly $500 million valuation, fielding questions from more than 130 investors.
Nvidia Backs Paris Voice AI Startup Gradium's $100M Seed
FUNDING~$30M extension, $100M+ total seed
Nvidia Backs Paris Voice AI Startup Gradium's $100M Seed
Gradium, the Paris-based voice AI startup spun out of Kyutai, extended its seed round past $100 million with Nvidia joining seven months after launching out of stealth.
DeFi Risk Firm Gauntlet Raises $125M From SBI Holdings
FUNDING$125M
DeFi Risk Firm Gauntlet Raises $125M From SBI Holdings
Gauntlet, the DeFi vault-curation and risk-management firm whose clients include Coinbase, Circle and Apollo, raised $125 million in a single-investor round from Japan's SBI Holdings -- its largest capital infusion since founding in 2018.
Ollama Raises $65M Series B as Local AI Tool Hits 9M Users
FUNDING$65M Series B
Ollama Raises $65M Series B as Local AI Tool Hits 9M Users
Ollama, the open-source tool for running AI models locally, raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures as its monthly developer base doubled to nearly 9 million since January.
Gradium Extends Voice-AI Seed to $100M With Nvidia Backing
FUNDING$100M+ seed (extended)
Gradium Extends Voice-AI Seed to $100M With Nvidia Backing
Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium, spun out of French lab Kyutai, extended its seed round past $100 million after Nvidia joined as an investor alongside FirstMark, Eurazeo and Xavier Niel.
Nandan Nilekani Steps Back as Fundamentum Launches $200M Fund
FUNDING$200M Fund III (target)
Nandan Nilekani Steps Back as Fundamentum Launches $200M Fund
Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani is stepping back from his general partner role at Fundamentum as the India-focused VC firm he co-founded launches a roughly $200 million third fund.
QuantumDiamonds Raises EUR91M for Quantum Chip Inspection
FUNDINGEUR91M (equity + EU Chips Act grant)
QuantumDiamonds Raises EUR91M for Quantum Chip Inspection
Munich-based QuantumDiamonds raised EUR91 million -- EUR15 million in equity led by World Fund plus EUR76 million in EU Chips Act support -- becoming the first startup approved for manufacturing funding under the European program.
Blue Origin Raises Outside Capital for the First Time, at $130B
FUNDING~$10B raise, $130B valuation
Blue Origin Raises Outside Capital for the First Time, at $130B
Blue Origin is raising roughly $10 billion in its first-ever outside funding round, valuing Jeff Bezos's rocket company at $130 billion with Coatue Management as the anchor investor.
VC Funding Just Had Its Biggest H1 Ever. Here's Where It Went
FUNDING$510B global H1 2026
VC Funding Just Had Its Biggest H1 Ever. Here's Where It Went
Global startup funding hit a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, and the data shows the money increasingly concentrated in AI, mega-rounds and a small number of recognizable firms.
Crypto VC Paradigm Raises $1.2B for AI, Robotics
FUNDING$1.2B Fund III
Crypto VC Paradigm Raises $1.2B for AI, Robotics
Crypto-focused VC firm Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fund to expand beyond its blockchain roots into AI and robotics, its third venture fund and fourth overall.
SambaNova Raises $1B at $11B Valuation for AI Chips
FUNDING$1B Series F (1st close), $11B valuation
SambaNova Raises $1B at $11B Valuation for AI Chips
SambaNova closed the first tranche of a $1 billion Series F at an $11 billion valuation, just five months after its last mega round, with General Atlantic leading and JPMorganChase signing on as an inference partner.
Lovable in Talks to Double Valuation to $13.2B
FUNDING~$300M round (talks), $13.2B valuation
Lovable in Talks to Double Valuation to $13.2B
AI coding startup Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise at a $13.2 billion valuation, double its December mark, with Menlo Ventures fresh off a $3 billion fund said to be leading.
Prime Intellect Raises $130M to Build Enterprise AI Agents
FUNDING$130M Series A, $1B valuation
Prime Intellect Raises $130M to Build Enterprise AI Agents
Prime Intellect raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation led by Radical Ventures, giving enterprises compute and tooling to build their own AI agents without depending on a frontier lab's API.
Venus Aerospace Raises $91M to Scale Its Detonation Engine
FUNDING$91M Series B
Venus Aerospace Raises $91M to Scale Its Detonation Engine
Venus Aerospace closed a $91 million Series B led by Mercury Fund, with Lockheed Martin Ventures participating, to mature its flight-proven rotating detonation rocket engine into full propulsion systems.
Crypto VC Paradigm Raises $1.2B for AI and Robotics
FUNDING$1.2B fund
Crypto VC Paradigm Raises $1.2B for AI and Robotics
Paradigm, the crypto-focused VC firm founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, raised $1.2 billion for a new fund that explicitly broadens its mandate into AI and robotics alongside crypto and fintech.
Chamath's 8090 Raises $135M Led by Salesforce
FUNDING$135M Series A
Chamath's 8090 Raises $135M Led by Salesforce
8090, the enterprise AI-agent software company founded by Chamath Palihapitiya, closed a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya stepping down from the board to become full-time CEO.
Solo GP Ashley Smith Closes $25M Second Fund
FUNDING$25M Fund II
Solo GP Ashley Smith Closes $25M Second Fund
Solo GP Ashley Smith closed a $25 million second fund for Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, nearly doubling her debut fund to back technical founders in AI infrastructure, security and dev tools.
EdVisorly Raises $13.3M to Fix College Transfers With AI
FUNDING$13.3M Series A
EdVisorly Raises $13.3M to Fix College Transfers With AI
EdVisorly raised a $13.3 million Series A led by Breachway Capital to scale EddyAI, a platform that automates the transcript-reading and enrollment work behind college transfer admissions.
General Catalyst, YC, a16z Top Active US Investor Ranks
FUNDING39 deals (General Catalyst, Q2)
General Catalyst, YC, a16z Top Active US Investor Ranks
General Catalyst, Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz were Q2 2026's most active US investors, with over two-thirds of their deals going into AI startups, according to Crunchbase data.
Ant Group Backs Companion Robot Maker Zeroth
FUNDING$73.6M pre-Series A
Ant Group Backs Companion Robot Maker Zeroth
China's Ant Group led a $73.6 million pre-Series A round in companion-robot maker Zeroth, its 12th humanoid-robotics investment since 2025, as the startup reports 30,000 unit orders and 600% revenue growth.
Monogram Raises $40M Seed for Visual AI Interface
FUNDING$40M seed
Monogram Raises $40M Seed for Visual AI Interface
Coursera co-founder Eren Bali's new startup Monogram raised a $40 million seed led by DST Global and Lux Capital to build an AI app that generates full visual interfaces instead of just text.
Arkenstone Defense Emerges With $35M Seed Round
FUNDING$35M seed
Arkenstone Defense Emerges With $35M Seed Round
Arkenstone Defense launched with $35 million led by J2 Ventures to strip out the compliance and back-office burden that keeps commercial tech companies from selling to the Pentagon.
Norm AI Hits $1.2B Valuation With $120M Series C
FUNDING$120M Series C, $1.2B valuation
Norm AI Hits $1.2B Valuation With $120M Series C
Norm AI raised $120 million led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation, as its AI-native "Norm Law" agents take on document drafting and compliance work under attorney supervision.
EDX Markets Raises $76M, Files for Its Own OCC Trust Bank
FUNDING$76M Series C
EDX Markets Raises $76M, Files for Its Own OCC Trust Bank
Institutional crypto venue EDX Markets closed a $76 million Series C led by SBI Holdings and filed to establish EDX Trust, a national trust bank -- its first disclosed funding-round size since 2023.
Chemistry Ventures Raising $500M for Second Fund
FUNDING$500M target (Fund II)
Chemistry Ventures Raising $500M for Second Fund
Chemistry Ventures, the AI-focused firm founded by Bessemer, Index and a16z alumni, is raising $500 million for its second fund -- already oversubscribed just two years after its $350 million debut.
FORE Biotherapeutics Raises $67.4M to Push BRAF Cancer Drug
FUNDING$67.4M (Series D-2 extension)
FORE Biotherapeutics Raises $67.4M to Push BRAF Cancer Drug
FORE Biotherapeutics closed an upsized $67.4 million Series D-2 extension, bringing its total Series D-2 to $110 million, to fund late-stage development of plixorafenib toward a targeted 2027 FDA submission for BRAF-mutated tumors.
Super.com Raises $65M Series D at $1.2B Valuation
FUNDING$65M Series D, $1.2B valuation
Super.com Raises $65M Series D at $1.2B Valuation
Super.com raised $65 million led by TPG at a $1.2 billion valuation, positioning its savings "super app" as an Amazon Prime-style membership for everyday Americans' spending.
Quaise Energy Lands $134M to Drill for Geothermal
FUNDING$134M Series B (1st close)
Quaise Energy Lands $134M to Drill for Geothermal
Quaise Energy closed the first tranche of a $134 million Series B led by Prelude Ventures to scale drilling technology that could tap superhot geothermal energy anywhere on Earth.