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General Medicine Raises $120M to Build a 'Healthcare Store'
General Medicine raised a $120 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its platform letting patients search, compare and buy healthcare services with transparent pricing.
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Capitolis Raises $220M At $1.9B Valuation
FUNDING$220M at $1.9B valuation
Capitolis Raises $220M At $1.9B Valuation
Capitolis raised $220 million at a $1.9 billion valuation in a round anchored almost entirely by the banks whose balance-sheet risk it manages.
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Flai Raises $27M Series A For Dealership AI Agents
FUNDING$27M Series A
Flai Raises $27M Series A For Dealership AI Agents
Flai raised a $27 million Series A led by Base10 Partners to expand its AI-native CRM for auto dealerships, which the company says has grown more than 20x in the past year.
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Type One Energy Raises $200M For Fusion Power
FUNDING$200M Series B
Type One Energy Raises $200M For Fusion Power
Type One Energy raised $200 million in Series B funding to advance its stellarator fusion design toward a 2034 commercial power plant.
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Vinci Raises $250M At $1.5B To Simulate Chips With AI
FUNDING$250M Series B / $1.5B valuation
Vinci Raises $250M At $1.5B To Simulate Chips With AI
Vinci, a Palo Alto startup using AI to simulate chip and hardware physics, raised a $250 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, less than a year after emerging from stealth.
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Furientis Raises $25M Seed To Mass-Produce Interceptors
FUNDING$25M seed
Furientis Raises $25M Seed To Mass-Produce Interceptors
Furientis raised a $25M seed led by Benchmark, its first pure defense investment, to mass-produce low-cost interceptor missiles and close the gap with China's output.
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DeepSeek Set To Raise $12B War Chest Before IPO
FUNDING$11.93B (¥80B+) pre-IPO round
DeepSeek Set To Raise $12B War Chest Before IPO
DeepSeek is set to raise roughly $12 billion in a second pre-IPO round targeting a $74 billion valuation ahead of a planned Shanghai listing.
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NorthStar Lands $185M to Scale Cancer Isotope Supply
FUNDING$185M growth facility
NorthStar Lands $185M to Scale Cancer Isotope Supply
NorthStar Medical Technologies secured a growth-capital facility of up to $185 million from Hercules Capital to expand production of the cancer isotope actinium-225.
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Axiom Secures $2B Investment At $37.5B Enterprise Value
FUNDING$2B at $37.5B EV
Axiom Secures $2B Investment At $37.5B Enterprise Value
Flex's power-infrastructure unit Axiom Solutions landed a $2 billion convertible preferred investment at a $37.5 billion enterprise value, led by General Catalyst and Koch Equity Development, ahead of its 2027 spinoff.
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Clockwork.io Raises $31M To Stop Wasted GPU-Hours
FUNDING$31M
Clockwork.io Raises $31M To Stop Wasted GPU-Hours
Clockwork.io raised $31 million to expand its GPU fault-tolerance software after LinkedIn, Together AI and WhiteFiber adopted it to stop losing GPU-hours to hardware failures.
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Valon Raises $150M To Push AI Into Mortgage Servicing
FUNDING$150M Series D / $2.3B valuation
Valon Raises $150M To Push AI Into Mortgage Servicing
Valon Technologies raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.3 billion valuation, with new investor Ribbit Capital joining, to expand ValonOS and its AI agents across US mortgage servicing.
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Ghost Raises $11M For A $3,499 Personal AI Computer
FUNDING$11M seed
Ghost Raises $11M For A $3,499 Personal AI Computer
Ghost, founded by 19-year-old Zain Javaid, raised an $11 million seed led by Andreessen Horowitz to sell Core, a $3,499 dedicated computer built to run personal AI agents locally.
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Namespace Raises $42M To Build Developer Compute Cloud
FUNDING$42M Series B
Namespace Raises $42M To Build Developer Compute Cloud
Namespace Labs raised a $42 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners to expand its specialized compute platform for AI agents, CI pipelines and container builds.
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Etched In Talks To Nearly Double To $40B+
FUNDING$40B+ valuation (talks)
Etched In Talks To Nearly Double To $40B+
AI chip startup Etched is fielding funding offers at a valuation above $40 billion, nearly double the $21 billion mark it set seven weeks ago, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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Ghost Raises $11M Seed For $3,499 AI Computer
FUNDING$11M Seed
Ghost Raises $11M Seed For $3,499 AI Computer
19-year-old founder Zain Javaid raised an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz for Ghost, whose $3,499 Core computer runs AI agents locally instead of through a cloud chatbot.
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Five Startups Stood Out At PearX Demo Day
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Five Startups Stood Out At PearX Demo Day
Five early-stage companies -- from an on-device AI inference chip to an AI-native trust company -- stood out to investors at Pear VC's latest PearX demo day, spanning robotics, personal AI, estate planning and industrial design.
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Crunchbase: Q3 Set A Record For $1B+ Rounds
FUNDING$159B Q3 venture funding
Crunchbase: Q3 Set A Record For $1B+ Rounds
Crunchbase's Q3 2026 data shows a record 27 companies raised billion-dollar-plus rounds as global venture funding hit $159 billion, with AI startups taking 64% of the total.
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RobCo Hits $1B Valuation, Becomes Unicorn
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RobCo Hits $1B Valuation, Becomes Unicorn
Munich robotics startup RobCo doubled its valuation to $1 billion in nine months via new investment plus a $40 million employee secondary, backed by Sequoia and Lightspeed.
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Fintech Funding Cools While AI Megarounds Grab Headlines
FUNDING$541M across 15 deals
Fintech Funding Cools While AI Megarounds Grab Headlines
Fintech startups raised $541 million across 15 deals this week, a far smaller sum than the AI megarounds dominating headlines, with most checks going to smaller Series A and B rounds.
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Chip Startup Funding Still Running Hot Behind AI
FUNDING$10.7B sector total
Chip Startup Funding Still Running Hot Behind AI
Investors have poured roughly $10.7 billion into semiconductor startups in 2026, with physical-AI chipmaker SiMa.ai the latest to cross a billion-dollar valuation.
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Biotech's AI Drug Discovery Funding Keeps Climbing
FUNDING$140M-$220M rounds
Biotech's AI Drug Discovery Funding Keeps Climbing
AI-driven drug discovery startups keep pulling nine-figure rounds, with Basecamp Research closing an oversubscribed $140 million Series C and CellCentric raising $220 million.
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Basalt Health Raises $20M Series A Led By NEA
FUNDING$20M Series A
Basalt Health Raises $20M Series A Led By NEA
Basalt Health raised a $20 million Series A led by returning investor NEA to expand its AI platform for post-acute care admissions, a notoriously manual and fragmented corner of healthcare.
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AI Megadeals Just Reset What 'Big' Means
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AI Megadeals Just Reset What 'Big' Means
Five AI deals from the past two weeks -- AMD's $8.2B buy, Supabase's $150M round plus a Turso buy, two $400M security rounds, and a $1B agent round -- show AI financing repricing from billions into the trillions, benchmarked against Anthropic's $2T IPO target.
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Supabase Raises $150M, Acquires Turso for AI Agents
FUNDING$150M + Turso buy
Supabase Raises $150M, Acquires Turso for AI Agents
Supabase raised $150 million led by Singapore's GIC and agreed to acquire SQLite-based database startup Turso to power per-agent databases for AI workloads.
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PaleBlueDot AI Raises $200M at $3.2B Valuation
FUNDING$200M Series C
PaleBlueDot AI Raises $200M at $3.2B Valuation
PaleBlueDot AI raised a $200 million Series C led by ComputeCore at a $3.2 billion valuation to expand its GPU compute infrastructure for AI workloads.
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AI's Data Center Boom Runs On Debt, Not Equity
FUNDING$346B in 2026
AI's Data Center Boom Runs On Debt, Not Equity
Hyperscalers and neoclouds have raised $346 billion in debt and equity so far in 2026 to fund the AI buildout, more than double 2025's total, and cracks are starting to show.
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PaleBlueDot AI Raises $200M Series C at $3.2B Valuation
FUNDING$200M Series C
PaleBlueDot AI Raises $200M Series C at $3.2B Valuation
The AI-infrastructure startup's new round values it at $3.2 billion, its first disclosed valuation, as investors keep funding GPU-cloud capacity even while some warn the compute boom is overbuilt.
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CScale Exits Stealth With $145M For AI Data Centers
FUNDING$145M
CScale Exits Stealth With $145M For AI Data Centers
CScale exited stealth with a $145 million Series C from Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Premji Invest to build optical interconnects for AI data centers, bringing its total funding to $188 million, the company said.
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Lambda Closes $1B Investment-Grade GPU Debt Deal
FUNDING$1.008B debt financing
Lambda Closes $1B Investment-Grade GPU Debt Deal
Lambda closed a $1.008 billion investment-grade, fixed-rate term loan to fund GPUs tied to customer deployments including Microsoft, its first fixed-rate financing and first $1 billion-plus institutional debt deal.
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Homeward Raises $120M As Housing Market Stalls
FUNDING$120M Series D
Homeward Raises $120M As Housing Market Stalls
Homeward raised a $120 million Series D led by Saluda Grade, plus a $330 million asset-backed debt facility, to keep its buy-before-you-sell financing running as the housing market stalls, Crunchbase News reports exclusively.
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Nvidia, SoftBank Add $20B To OpenAI's Round
FUNDING$20B
Nvidia, SoftBank Add $20B To OpenAI's Round
Nvidia and SoftBank are putting in a final $20 billion to close out OpenAI's latest funding round, deepening two of its most consequential investor relationships ahead of a paused IPO.
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Flow Engineering Raises $50M Series B At $750M
FUNDING$50M Series B
Flow Engineering Raises $50M Series B At $750M
Flow Engineering raised a $50 million Series B at a $750 million valuation to build agentic AI tools for hardware design, led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management.
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Armadin Raises $255M At $2.5B Valuation
FUNDING$255.5M Series B
Armadin Raises $255M At $2.5B Valuation
Kevin Mandia's new startup Armadin raised $255.5 million in a Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion to build AI agent swarms that hunt security vulnerabilities, TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE report.
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Reco Raises $55M, Pushing Total Funding To $140M
FUNDING$55M funding round
Reco Raises $55M, Pushing Total Funding To $140M
Agentic security startup Reco raised $55 million in additional funding, including a strategic investment from AT&T Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to $140 million.
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Volantis Raises $88M To Build Photonic AI Chips
FUNDING$88M Series A
Volantis Raises $88M To Build Photonic AI Chips
Volantis raised an $88 million Series A led by angel investor Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures to commercialize a photonic chip architecture aimed at AI inference memory and bandwidth bottlenecks.
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Oaktree Closes Debut $2B Asset-Backed Finance Fund
FUNDING$2B fund close
Oaktree Closes Debut $2B Asset-Backed Finance Fund
Brookfield's Oaktree closed its debut Asset-Backed Finance Fund at $2 billion, adding a dedicated vehicle to a broader asset-based lending platform that has already deployed more than $19 billion.
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Hilbert Raises $28M Series A For B2C AI Analytics
FUNDING$28M Series A
Hilbert Raises $28M Series A For B2C AI Analytics
Hilbert raised a $28 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in April 2026 to build AI-driven analytics for business-to-consumer brands.
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doxx.net Raises $38M To Rein In AI Agents
FUNDING$38M Series A
doxx.net Raises $38M To Rein In AI Agents
doxx.net raised a $38 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to build tighter authorization and oversight controls for autonomous AI agents acting on users' behalf.
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Halluminate Raises $30M for AI Finance Training
FUNDING$30M Series A
Halluminate Raises $30M for AI Finance Training
Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building simulated environments to train AI agents for financial work, raised a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million.
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Audax Private Debt Closes Record $10B Fund
FUNDING$10B fund
Audax Private Debt Closes Record $10B Fund
Audax Private Debt closed its largest fund ever, a $10 billion direct-lending vehicle, the same week banks pulled back from some AI data-center loans.
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Stride Consumer Partners Closes $550M Fund II
FUNDING$550M fund
Stride Consumer Partners Closes $550M Fund II
Stride Consumer Partners closed an oversubscribed $550 million Fund II, pushing the consumer-focused growth equity firm's total AUM to roughly $1.3 billion.
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Metaview Raises $60M Series C For AI Recruiting
FUNDING$60M Series C
Metaview Raises $60M Series C For AI Recruiting
Metaview Labs raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners to expand its AI recruiting platform, betting that interview intelligence and hiring workflows are ready for heavy automation.
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Sydney Sweeney-Backed Novig Hits $2B Valuation
FUNDING$2B valuation (reported)
Sydney Sweeney-Backed Novig Hits $2B Valuation
Novig, the sports-only prediction market backed by Sydney Sweeney, raised new funding at a $2 billion valuation, quadrupling its February mark in about seven months.
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Metaview Lands $60M Series C From Insight Partners
FUNDING$60M Series C
Metaview Lands $60M Series C From Insight Partners
AI recruiting startup Metaview raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, betting the hiring industry is ready for its own 'Claude Code moment.'
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ElevenLabs Tender Doubles Valuation To $22B
FUNDING$22B valuation
ElevenLabs Tender Doubles Valuation To $22B
ElevenLabs closed a $300 million employee tender offer that doubled its valuation to $22 billion, without the company raising a dollar of primary capital.
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CScale Exits Stealth With $145M for AI Optical Links
FUNDING$145M Series C
CScale Exits Stealth With $145M for AI Optical Links
CScale emerged from stealth with $145 million in Series C funding -- $188 million raised in total, including backing from Nvidia and Intel Capital -- to build optical interconnects for gigawatt-scale AI data centers.
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TXSE Group Raises $155M For Texas Stock Exchange
FUNDING$155M
TXSE Group Raises $155M For Texas Stock Exchange
TXSE Group, the Dallas-based parent of the Texas Stock Exchange, raised $155 million in its third funding round, bringing its total to $430 million a year after winning SEC approval to operate as a national securities exchange.
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Miami's Jeeves Raises $110M For Stablecoin Banking
FUNDING$110M
Miami's Jeeves Raises $110M For Stablecoin Banking
Miami-based Jeeves raised $110 million in equity funding led by CoinFund to scale its stablecoin-native banking platform and launch a wallet making payouts across 190 countries.
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Flow Engineering Hits $750M Valuation
FUNDING$50M Series B
Flow Engineering Hits $750M Valuation
Flow Engineering raised a $50 million Series B at a $750 million valuation, co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management, to speed up hardware design iteration with AI agents.
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General Intuition Closes $220M At $6.2B
FUNDING$220M at $6.2B valuation
General Intuition Closes $220M At $6.2B
General Intuition closed a $220 million round at a $6.2 billion valuation, confirming the mark Pulse reported the company approaching earlier this month.
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GMI Cloud Raises $668M With Nvidia Backing
FUNDING$668M (equity + debt)
GMI Cloud Raises $668M With Nvidia Backing
GMI Cloud raised $668 million in combined equity and debt, with Nvidia investing again in one of its designated Cloud Partners, as banks grow choosier about data-center debt elsewhere.
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Tiny Health Raises $33M Series B For Microbiome
FUNDING$33M Series B
Tiny Health Raises $33M Series B For Microbiome
Austin-based Tiny Health raised a $33 million Series B led by B Capital, bringing its total funding to $46 million, to advance clinical research, expand education for healthcare practitioners and scale Powered by Tiny, its B2B platform.
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EliseAI Raises $350M, Valuation Doubles To $4B
FUNDING$350M at $4B valuation
EliseAI Raises $350M, Valuation Doubles To $4B
EliseAI raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, doubling its mark from 13 months ago on the strength of $200M-plus in ARR from housing and healthcare operations automation.
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OpenAI In Talks To Raise $30B At $1.4T Valuation
FUNDING$30B pre-IPO round
OpenAI In Talks To Raise $30B At $1.4T Valuation
OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at roughly a $1.4 trillion valuation, a bridge round before a public listing now pushed to 2027.
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Efficient Computer Raises $97M At $650M Valuation
FUNDING$97M Series B
Efficient Computer Raises $97M At $650M Valuation
Efficient Computer closed a $97 million round at a $650 million valuation for its energy-efficient dataflow chips, which are already shipping to battery-powered robots and drones.
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Tiny Health Raises $33M To Scale Microbiome Testing
FUNDING$33M Series B
Tiny Health Raises $33M To Scale Microbiome Testing
Tiny Health raised a $33 million Series B led by B Capital to expand its gut and vaginal microbiome testing, alongside a new $5 million clinical research program.
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Samsung Invests $1B In KKR-Backed AI Infra Firm Helix
FUNDING$1B investment
Samsung Invests $1B In KKR-Backed AI Infra Firm Helix
Samsung is investing $1 billion in Helix, an AI infrastructure company backed by KKR, extending its push to capture value across the AI buildout beyond its own memory-chip business.
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Peak XV Raises Surge Seed Check Size To $5M
FUNDING$5M max seed check
Peak XV Raises Surge Seed Check Size To $5M
Peak XV Partners raised the maximum seed check in its Surge accelerator program to $5 million and unveiled an 18-startup cohort, raising the bar for what a competitive seed round now looks like.
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SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C At $1.45B Valuation
FUNDING$150M Series C at $1.45B valuation
SiMa.ai Raises $150M Series C At $1.45B Valuation
SiMa.ai closed an oversubscribed $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Fidelity and Amplify, bringing its total capital raised to $500 million for its edge AI inference chips.
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Modal Labs Nears $750M Round At $15.75B Valuation
FUNDING$750M round (reported)
Modal Labs Nears $750M Round At $15.75B Valuation
Inference provider Modal Labs is reportedly closing in on a $750 million round that would value it at $15.75 billion, the latest sign that managed AI-inference startups are re-pricing as fast as the model labs they serve.
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