Every venture round we've covered on Value Add Pulse -- seed through mega-rounds, with the VC take on each.
ShareWillow has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to advance its AI-powered platform that gives home service technicians real-time visibility into their pay and performance.
Group14 Technologies closed a €150 million, or about $169 million, Series D extension on October 30, 2026, to build a new silicon battery materials plant in Sagunto, Spain.
Dren Bio closed an oversubscribed $350 million private financing, co-led by Juvia Group and Lightspeed Venture Partners, to advance its antibody therapy dibotatug and broader immunology pipeline toward regulators.
AvalonX, an Alpharetta, Georgia AI-powered offensive security startup, has emerged from stealth with up to $10 million from Ridown Capital to scale autonomous penetration testing.
Beijing-based GoodMood Holdings has raised nearly $45 million to expand AI-powered mental healthcare services that already reach more than 14 million users across China.
Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI expect the SPAC deal to bring in about $465 million in gross proceeds, with Foxconn leading a $201 million PIPE and Nasdaq trading as AGLT expected to begin November 5.
CoverGo has raised $6 million in an initial close of its Series B1 round, led by Betatron Venture Group, bringing its total funding past $30 million for its AI-native insurance operating system.
Setara Biosciences launched with $90 million in Series A funding to carry forward Actio Biosciences' rare-disease drug pipeline after Jazz Pharmaceuticals' $820 million acquisition of Actio.
Cyera is discussing a new funding round that would value the data-security startup at $20 billion, The Information reported, up from the $12 billion mark it set in June.
Serval, the AI startup challenging ServiceNow's IT service management business, raised a $150 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $3 billion valuation — its second Sequoia-led round in under a year.
Kalshi, the prediction-market platform where users trade on real-world events, raised $1 billion in a Series G that values the company at $40 billion, as reported by The Information, nearly double its $22 billion valuation from May 2026.
Three former Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India) managing directors have launched Mettle Capital, reported to have raised $350 million to back Indian technology startups after an acrimonious split from the firm.
PreScalar, a San Francisco startup that automates testing and firmware management for advanced manufacturers, raised $7 million in seed funding co-led by Dynamo Ventures and BMW i Ventures.
Wabi, the AI assistant from Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation led by IVP, weeks after Pulse first covered the relaunched personal AI messenger.
Birch Hill Holdings raised a $4 million seed round led by Multicoin Capital, bringing its total funding to $6.5 million, to build infrastructure for putting U.S. private credit products onto public blockchains.
Rendezvous Robotics raised a $20 million oversubscribed seed round co-led by MaC Venture Capital and Toyota Ventures to build spacecraft from modular tiles that assemble themselves autonomously in orbit.
Archera has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Pivot Investment Partners, after its cloud-cost platform delivered more than $700 million in savings to over 2,200 organizations.
Physical AI investment reached $72.2 billion in the first half of 2026 alone, already eclipsing all of 2025's full-year total of $64.7 billion, as hardware-heavy bets outpace software-only AI deals.
Reflex closed a $14 million Series A led by Standard Capital, with Lux Capital and Databricks Ventures participating, to scale AI agents that build custom business software for enterprises including Amazon and Walmart.
Sava emerged from stealth with $10 million led by Gradient Ventures to launch Sava Trust Company, a Nevada-chartered corporate fiduciary that uses AI agents to administer trusts.
Ravical raised a $17 million seed round led by MMC Ventures to expand its AI platform for standardizing accounting and tax-firm workflows, bringing the Ghent-based startup's total funding to $25 million.
Offe Market raised $3 million in seed funding led by Slauson & Co to expand its Los Angeles marketplace for discounted excess inventory, which now carries more than 200 fashion, beauty and home brands.
Bites, which turns company procedures into short AI training videos for frontline workers, raised a $40 million Series A led by PeakSpan Capital, bringing its total funding to $55 million.
Collective raised $100 million, split between a $40M Series B led by General Catalyst, QED Investors and Gradient Ventures and a $60M growth facility, to build an AI financial operating system for solo entrepreneurs.
US Series B-stage funding has reached roughly $48 billion in 2026, the highest tally in years, even as deal counts are on track for a multiyear low and about two-thirds of the dollars go to AI-focused startups.
U&I Ventures closed an oversubscribed $32.237 million debut fund to back seed-stage founders building AI-native security, engineering and IT infrastructure, built on a network of 1,800 CIOs, CTOs and CISOs.
Solink raised more than $100 million led by Vertu Capital to expand its AI Vision Intelligence platform, which turns existing security cameras into business-intelligence tools for 35,000 customer locations.
Foundry Robotics raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series A led by Marlinspike Partners to open a 130,000-square-foot autonomous factory in Emeryville, California, the company said October 29, 2026.
Broccoli AI has raised $52 million across its Series A and Series B rounds at a reported $300 million valuation, led by Khosla Ventures, to scale its AI dispatcher for home service companies.
Mintive raised a $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures on October 29, 2026, with AI researchers Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy among the angel investors backing its enterprise AI-agent identity platform.
PhotonPay closed a $40 million Series C led by Blockchain Capital on October 29, 2026, to expand its stablecoin-focused financial operating system for cross-border payments.
Cancore closed a $7.2 million seed round via SAFTs in mid-September 2026, valuing its planned CNRX token at $60 million fully diluted, to connect tokenized assets with public blockchain liquidity.
FinSight Ventures announced a $100 million Physical AI Index Fund targeting 10 to 12 robotics, hardware and foundation-model companies, betting that a shrinking global workforce makes automation inevitable through 2031 and beyond.
Easol raised $30 million in Series A extension funding, split between equity and debt, pushing its total capital raised to $60 million as the London-based experience commerce platform returns to its original investor syndicate.
Firehawk Defense, the Addison, Texas rocket-propellant maker, closed a $150M+ Series D at a $1.4B+ valuation led by Advent International and Rochefort Asset Management, reaching unicorn status.
AP Ventures, the London-based industrial and energy-tech investor, closed its third fund at $300 million on Oct. 28, broadening its focus from hydrogen alone to industrial productivity and resilient energy systems.
American Advanced Materials, a Mountain View and NYC startup reviving US titanium sponge production, raised a $12.5M seed led by Amity Ventures and signed over $1B in offtake letters of intent.
Casap, an AI platform that helps banks and card issuers fight first-party fraud and chargebacks, raised a $56 million Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90 million.
RapidCanvas acquired Entytle, the startup behind the 'Autonomous Aftermarket' for industrial OEMs, just days after closing a $29 million Series B — financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Upwind Security closed a $400 million Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $3.8 billion valuation, the same mark it set in September, as the cloud and AI security startup says its revenue quadrupled this year.
Numeracle, which verifies legitimate businesses and corrects incorrect spam labels on their calls, raised $28 million from Edison Partners, bringing its total funding to $34.8 million since its 2018 founding.
Circuit Mind, a London startup that uses AI to design and verify circuit boards, announced $25 million in new financing including an $18.5 million Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $33.4 million.
Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks to raise at least $1 billion at a valuation near $20 billion, nearly double the $11.5 billion mark it set earlier this year, Bloomberg reports.
Massachusetts-based manufacturing accelerator Rebuild raised $2.1 billion on Oct. 27, 2026, led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group, three years after spinning out electric pickup maker Slate Auto.
Re:Build, the Massachusetts manufacturing accelerator that spun out Slate Auto, raised $2.1 billion led by General Catalyst and JPMorgan Chase's Strategic Investment Group to expand U.S. hard-tech manufacturing capacity.
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners closed its eighth collateralized loan obligation, a $504 million vehicle investing in broadly syndicated US loans, its fourth consecutive CLO of at least $500 million.
Advent International has raised $30 billion across its global private equity fund complex, including nearly $27 billion for its 11th flagship fund and more than $3 billion for a new mid-market strategy, the firm said.
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.
Hex closed a $100 million financing round at a $1.2 billion valuation and launched Hex 4.0, a ground-up rewrite of its AI analytics platform built for autonomous agents.
Wealthsimple raised up to C$425 million (about $303 million USD) at a C$13.8 billion valuation (about $9.8 billion USD), led by GIC, as assets under administration hit $169.2 billion.
Machenta, an 11-person London robotics startup founded in 2025, raised a $40 million seed round co-led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures to build a foundation model that lets robots learn new tasks from one or two demonstrations.
Nevis landed a $70 million Series B led by EQT Ventures with Charles Schwab joining as a strategic investor, after its AI agents helped assets on the platform grow from $50 billion to $700 billion in a year.
Bedrock Robotics raised a $600 million Series C at a $4.1 billion valuation to expand self-driving retrofit kits for construction excavators, co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital.
S&P Global closed its acquisition of smart-contract security firm OpenZeppelin, adding onchain technology-risk assessment to its ratings business as digital asset markets keep growing.
California-based companies have raised an unparalleled $385 billion in seed-through-growth funding in 2026, according to Crunchbase, more than double last year's total and more than the entire US raised in any prior year on record.
Value Add VC's tracker now counts 40 VC and PE fund closes totaling $72.4 billion, a figure that dwarfs the roughly $10 billion six firms closed in just the past week.
Robinhood Ventures Fund I bought a $10 million stake in Cognition, the AI coding startup behind Devin, giving non-accredited investors indirect exposure to a private company valued at $48 billion.
Itaú Unibanco agreed to buy all shares of Brazilian AI startup NeoSpace AI for 2.925 billion reals, about $589 million, with part due at closing and the rest deferred over five years.
Dunamu & Partners disclosed Oct. 26 that it joined Starcloud's previously reported $250 million round, pushing the orbital-data-center startup's cumulative funding to $450 million at a $2.3 billion valuation.
Partners Group closed a $510 million rated feeder vehicle so U.S. insurers can buy into its private credit evergreen strategy with lower regulatory capital charges, its second such vehicle in 2026.
