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Cognition Raises $2B, Hits $48B Valuation
AI coding startup Cognition raised more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, nearly doubling its mark from four months ago as its annualized revenue grew from $492 million to $900 million.
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Harvey Hits $15.5B Valuation With $550M Round
FUNDING$550M at $15.5B valuation
Harvey Hits $15.5B Valuation With $550M Round
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, nearly doubling its mark in nine months, with the fresh capital earmarked for building its own AI models rather than relying solely on frontier labs.
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Clay Closes $115M Series D At $7.1B
FUNDING$115M at $7.1B valuation
Clay Closes $115M Series D At $7.1B
Clay's AI go-to-market platform closed a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation led by Wellington, confirming the $7 billion pre-money mark reported as a rumor eleven days earlier.
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Lightfield raises $47M to build CRM for the agent era
FUNDING$47M Series A
Lightfield raises $47M to build CRM for the agent era
Lightfield raised a $47 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to build an AI-native CRM that automatically structures customer data from email, calendar, calls and Slack, positioning itself against Salesforce and HubSpot.
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Harvey Raises $550M At $15.5B Valuation
FUNDING$550M at $15.5B valuation
Harvey Raises $550M At $15.5B Valuation
Legal AI startup Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, nearly doubling in nine months across two rounds while building its own open-weight model instead of depending solely on OpenAI or Anthropic.
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Rightway Healthcare Quietly Raises $155M
FUNDING$155M round
Rightway Healthcare Quietly Raises $155M
Rightway Healthcare closed a $155 million round disclosed only through an SEC filing, with no press release, named lead investor, or valuation -- unusually quiet for a company that has taken nearly $400 million since 2017.
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TRM Labs Valuation Doubles To $2 Billion
FUNDING$2B valuation
TRM Labs Valuation Doubles To $2 Billion
TRM Labs raised fresh capital from existing backers at a $2 billion valuation, doubling its worth six months after a $70 million Series C, as the blockchain-intelligence firm expands into AI-driven crime detection.
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Solstice Oncology Launches With $225M Series A
FUNDING$225M Series A
Solstice Oncology Launches With $225M Series A
Solstice Oncology launched with a $225 million Series A led by RA Capital Management to advance porustobart, a second-generation CTLA-4 immunotherapy licensed from Harbour BioMed, into two Phase 2 cancer trials.
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Savvy Wealth Raises $100M At $600M Valuation
FUNDING$100M at $600M valuation
Savvy Wealth Raises $100M At $600M Valuation
AI-native RIA platform Savvy Wealth closed a $100 million Series C at a $600 million valuation led by Ryan Smith and Ryan Sweeney's Halo Fund, after growing recruited assets past $4 billion this year.
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Besxar Builds Chip Fabs On SpaceX Rockets
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Besxar Builds Chip Fabs On SpaceX Rockets
Besxar is testing orbital semiconductor manufacturing pods called Fabships across a dozen SpaceX Falcon 9 booster flights, betting that the vacuum of space can produce cleaner wafers than Earth-based clean rooms.
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Listen Labs Ditches Term Sheet For Salesforce Deal
FUNDING$2B acquisition talks
Listen Labs Ditches Term Sheet For Salesforce Deal
Listen Labs walked away from a signed $125 million Series C term sheet at a $1.5 billion valuation to pursue acquisition talks with Salesforce reportedly worth around $2 billion.
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Startups Are Coming Back for More Money, Faster
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Startups Are Coming Back for More Money, Faster
A handful of 2026's hottest companies are raising follow-on rounds four to six months apart at 2x-plus step-ups, a pace with almost no historical precedent outside this cycle.
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Bluecore Energy Raises $50M Seed For Floating Nuclear
FUNDING$50M seed
Bluecore Energy Raises $50M Seed For Floating Nuclear
Bluecore Energy closed an oversubscribed $50 million seed round just two months after emerging from stealth, adding to a $10 million pre-seed as it develops floating small modular reactors for ports and AI data centers.
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Poseidon Aerospace Raises $60M for Pilotless Cargo
FUNDING$60M Series A
Poseidon Aerospace Raises $60M for Pilotless Cargo
Poseidon Aerospace raised a $60 million Series A led by TQ Ventures ahead of the first test flight of its uncrewed cargo aircraft, Egret, expected by the end of the year.
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Poseidon Aerospace Lands $60M Series A
FUNDING$60M Series A
Poseidon Aerospace Lands $60M Series A
Poseidon Aerospace raised a $60 million Series A led by TQ Ventures ahead of the first test flight of its uncrewed cargo aircraft Egret, adding to an $11 million seed round closed last year.
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Exploration Company Raises $450M To Rival SpaceX
FUNDING$450M Series C
Exploration Company Raises $450M To Rival SpaceX
The Exploration Company, a Munich- and Bordeaux-based spacecraft maker, raised a $450 million Series C led by Atomico, Bessemer and the Scaleup Europe Fund to fund its Storm rocket engine and Nyx reusable capsule program.
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Forus Triples Valuation To $3B In Series C
FUNDING$150M Series C
Forus Triples Valuation To $3B In Series C
Forus raised a $150 million Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures at a $3 billion valuation, tripling its worth months after its Series B, as its AI agents automate prescription prior authorization for providers nationwide.
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Moonwalk Biosciences Raises $70M For Obesity RNAi
FUNDING$70M Series B
Moonwalk Biosciences Raises $70M For Obesity RNAi
Moonwalk Biosciences closed an oversubscribed $70 million Series B to advance an adipose-targeted RNA interference therapy for obesity toward its first human trial, bringing total funding to roughly $127 million since its 2024 launch.
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BrainChild Bio Raises $116M for Kids' Brain Cancer Trial
FUNDING$116M Series A
BrainChild Bio Raises $116M for Kids' Brain Cancer Trial
BrainChild Bio closed $116 million in Series A financing to fund a pivotal Phase 2 trial of its CAR T-cell therapy for DIPG, a rare and near-uniformly fatal pediatric brain tumor.
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This Week Showed AI Funding's Two Speeds at Once
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This Week Showed AI Funding's Two Speeds at Once
Stoke Space and Mistral raised a combined $4.2 billion this week while Sapien and NavigateAI, two real vertical-AI companies with paying customers, raised a combined fraction of that -- the same split Pulse has tracked in AI money all year.
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Hardware Is Getting Software's Round Sizes Now
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Hardware Is Getting Software's Round Sizes Now
Stoke Space's $1 billion round joins Castelion's $1.05 billion and Atoms' $1.7 billion as capital-intensive physical-hardware startups now command the round sizes and speed that used to be reserved for software.
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Forus Triples to a $3B Value in Four Months
FUNDING$150M Series C
Forus Triples to a $3B Value in Four Months
Forus, an AI network that automates prescription access between doctors, pharmacies and payers, raised $150 million at a $3 billion valuation -- roughly triple its mark from four months ago.
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Venture Funding's 2026 Boom Is Really Fewer, Bigger Bets
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Venture Funding's 2026 Boom Is Really Fewer, Bigger Bets
August's $42B in global venture funding, a $14.6B defense-tech record, and a wave of billion-dollar seed rounds all point to the same mechanism: more dollars chasing fewer, later-feeling deals.
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Defense Tech's Record Year Is Concentrating, Not Broadening
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Defense Tech's Record Year Is Concentrating, Not Broadening
Defense tech has already topped 2025's full-year funding record with four months left in 2026, but deal volume is barely up -- the dollars are concentrating into fewer, larger rounds led by Anduril and Castelion.
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Robotics' $55.8B Year Looks Like Infra Spend, Not Venture
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Robotics' $55.8B Year Looks Like Infra Spend, Not Venture
Robotics companies have raised $55.8 billion in 2026, but the capital intensity and multi-year development cycles behind that number look more like project-finance infrastructure spending than a venture-return profile.
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Stoke Space Raises $1B to Out-Reuse SpaceX
FUNDING$1B Series E
Stoke Space Raises $1B to Out-Reuse SpaceX
Stoke Space closed a $1 billion Series E led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital, pushing total funding to $2.3 billion as it builds a rocket designed so both stages fly back and refly.
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The Exploration Company Raises $450M for Nyx
FUNDING$450M Series C
The Exploration Company Raises $450M for Nyx
The Exploration Company raised a $450 million Series C, the largest ever for a European space startup, to scale its reusable Nyx cargo capsule toward crewed and lunar missions.
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Mistral Raises Another €3B to Sell Europe Independence
FUNDING€3B Series D
Mistral Raises Another €3B to Sell Europe Independence
Mistral closed a €3 billion Series D at a valuation above €21 billion, led by Samsung Electronics and an EU-backed scaleup fund, betting that governments will pay a premium for AI infrastructure they control.
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Sapien Wants to Be the AI That Finds Your Margin
FUNDING$180M valuation
Sapien Wants to Be the AI That Finds Your Margin
Sapien, a two-year-old AI startup that traces operational decisions to their effect on a company's profit and loss, raised new funding at a $180 million valuation led by Neo's Ali Partovi.
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Why I'd Rather Own the Robotaxi Aggregator
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Why I'd Rather Own the Robotaxi Aggregator
Uber put $100 million into Atoms and builds nothing itself, while Atoms, Waymo and Tesla carry the full capital and safety burden of running actual fleets -- that asymmetry is the whole argument.
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Opendoor's Founder Built NavigateAI to Sell AI to Electricians
FUNDING$25M seed
Opendoor's Founder Built NavigateAI to Sell AI to Electricians
NavigateAI, the construction-labor AI startup from Opendoor founder Eric Wu, raised a $25 million seed at a $225 million valuation from Elad Gil, Khosla Ventures and a roster of operator angels.
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Pixxel Raises $100M, India's Biggest Space Round
FUNDING$100M Series C
Pixxel Raises $100M, India's Biggest Space Round
Pixxel raised $100 million in Series C funding, the largest single round ever for an Indian space startup, to expand its hyperspectral earth-imaging satellite constellation.
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August Venture Funding Hit $42B, Up 122%
FUNDING$42B in August
August Venture Funding Hit $42B, Up 122%
Global venture investors deployed $42 billion across more than 1,500 startups in August 2026 -- more than double August 2025, but a quarter below July's $56 billion.
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The Billion-Dollar Seed Round Is Now a Category
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The Billion-Dollar Seed Round Is Now a Category
Three AI labs have now raised a billion dollars or more in what their investors call a seed round, at valuations between $5 billion and $12 billion before shipping a product -- a pricing convention that did not exist two years ago.
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The Application Layer Is Where I'd Be Writing Checks
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The Application Layer Is Where I'd Be Writing Checks
Nearly $5 billion went into three compute-layer companies in a single week while the software built on top of that compute raised a fraction of it -- and the compute bets are credit trades wearing venture clothes.
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This Week's AI Money: Crusoe, Fluidstack and a $100M Security Check
FUNDING$4.5B+ disclosed this week
This Week's AI Money: Crusoe, Fluidstack and a $100M Security Check
Pulse's own tally of this week's disclosed rounds shows AI infrastructure and security pulling in well over $4.5 billion in six days, before counting fintech, space or robotics separately.
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Defense Tech's Two Speeds: Hypersonics and Everyone Else
FUNDING$13B and $12.7B valuations
Defense Tech's Two Speeds: Hypersonics and Everyone Else
Castelion's $13 billion valuation and Shield AI's $12.7 billion mark show defense-tech capital concentrating hard in a handful of hardware primes-in-waiting, while smaller Tier 2/3 suppliers are left to roll up instead of raise.
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Fintech's $1.36B Week, Led by FNZ's $450M
FUNDING$1.36B across 12 deals
Fintech's $1.36B Week, Led by FNZ's $450M
WealthTech giant FNZ took the largest of twelve fintech rounds this week at $450 million, in a period where US companies made up seven of the twelve deals and wealth-management platforms dominated the category mix.
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Kalanick's Atoms Is Building Robotaxi Tech
FUNDING$1.7B Series A
Kalanick's Atoms Is Building Robotaxi Tech
Travis Kalanick's robotics company, which raised $1.7 billion in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with $100 million from Uber, is hiring and acquiring toward becoming an autonomous-vehicle player.
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Humanoid Robots Are Funded Like Software
FUNDING$23B robotics, $8.6B humanoid
Humanoid Robots Are Funded Like Software
Robotics startups have raised roughly $23 billion in 2026, nearly matching all of last year, and humanoid funding alone has topped $8.6 billion -- multiples that only work if hardware margins behave like software margins.
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Why AI Compute Swallowed the Week's Venture Dollars
FUNDING$4.8B in five days
Why AI Compute Swallowed the Week's Venture Dollars
Crusoe, Fluidstack and Gimlet Labs closed $4.8 billion between them in five days, and every dollar landed in the layer between the chips and the models rather than in the applications built on top.
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Space Startups Raise a Record $20.3B in 2026
FUNDING$20.3B in 2026
Space Startups Raise a Record $20.3B in 2026
Venture funding into space companies has already topped every full prior year, with orbital data centers emerging alongside launch and satellite manufacturing as a category investors treat as a genuine new subsector.
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InsurTech Funding Is Really Just Three Companies
FUNDING$1.67B disclosed, 1 year
InsurTech Funding Is Really Just Three Companies
French insurer Alan's $550 million round and Corgi's three raises together account for more than half of all disclosed InsurTech capital over the past year, a category where a handful of winners absorb nearly everything.
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AI Labs Have Now Committed $275B to Cloud Compute
FUNDING$275B Committed
AI Labs Have Now Committed $275B to Cloud Compute
Anthropic alone has signed five multibillion-dollar compute deals in 2026 -- with AWS, Fluidstack, Nscale, SpaceX and Lambda -- pushing one company's committed cloud spending past a quarter-trillion dollars before it has even gone public.
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Defense Tech Funding Hits a Record $35.6B in 2026
FUNDING$35.6B YTD
Defense Tech Funding Hits a Record $35.6B in 2026
Defense-tech funding is up 40% year-over-year to $35.6B YTD, with robotics at $18.8B YTD versus $15B for all of 2025 -- both categories on pace for record annual totals.
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Scan.com Raises $220M to Build a US Imaging Network
FUNDING$220M ($90M equity + $130M debt)
Scan.com Raises $220M to Build a US Imaging Network
The diagnostic-imaging marketplace combined a $90 million equity round with $130 million in debt to expand a network booking MRIs and CT scans across independent US imaging centers, betting scheduling friction is the real bottleneck.
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Jane Street Leads $1.5B Into Fluidstack at $18B
FUNDING$1.5B at $18B valuation
Jane Street Leads $1.5B Into Fluidstack at $18B
The Oxford spinout that builds and operates data centers for Anthropic and Google has more than doubled its valuation since December, on the back of contracts it signed before it owned a single chip.
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Nscale Lines Up $3.5B Pre-IPO War Chest From Nvidia
FUNDING$3.5B Pre-IPO Financing
Nscale Lines Up $3.5B Pre-IPO War Chest From Nvidia
The London AI cloud firm is in talks for roughly $2 billion from Nvidia and $1.5 billion in Third Point-led convertible notes ahead of a planned New York listing, with contracts now topping $103 billion.
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XDOF Nears $1.2B Valuation Three Months Out of Stealth
FUNDINGSeries B at ~$1.2B
XDOF Nears $1.2B Valuation Three Months Out of Stealth
The robot training-data startup is in late-stage talks for a Series B led by 8VC, roughly three months after a $70 million Series A and with annualized revenue approaching $50 million.
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Gimlet Labs Hits $3B Valuation on Chip-Agnostic AI Bet
FUNDING$300M Series B
Gimlet Labs Hits $3B Valuation on Chip-Agnostic AI Bet
Andreessen Horowitz led a $300 million round for the startup that lets AI workloads run across Nvidia, AMD, and custom silicon interchangeably, with Arm and Microsoft's M12 joining as new backers.
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TabaPay Raises $155M and Buys a Bank
FUNDING$155M growth round
TabaPay Raises $155M and Buys a Bank
The Mountain View payments infrastructure company took strategic growth capital led by FTV Capital and agreed to acquire Denver-based Transact Bank, putting a national charter inside its own holding company.
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Thyme Care Doubles to $2B on Cancer Navigation
FUNDING$125M Series E
Thyme Care Doubles to $2B on Cancer Navigation
Morgan Health led a $125 million Series E with Humana and CVS Health Ventures joining, as the Nashville company's oncology navigation service reached 135,000 actively treated patients.
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HiddenLayer Raises $100M as AI Security Consolidates
FUNDING$100M Series B
HiddenLayer Raises $100M as AI Security Consolidates
The Austin startup that scans models for tampering and attacks grew ARR more than tenfold in a year and drew Delta-v Capital, Microsoft's M12, Morgan Stanley and Booz Allen into a $100 million round.
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Salesforce Leads $166M Into HiBob at $3.2B
FUNDING$166M growth round
Salesforce Leads $166M Into HiBob at $3.2B
The HR platform crossed $400 million in annualized revenue before raising the largest round in its history, with Salesforce supplying most of the capital and Farallon returning.
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Krafton Commits Another $250M to India Beyond Games
FUNDING$250M over 3-4 years
Krafton Commits Another $250M to India Beyond Games
The PUBG publisher will deploy $250 million over three to four years into Indian gaming, AI, robotics and deep tech, taking its total commitment to the country past $500 million.
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Ex-Replit GC Raises $60M to Build Legal AI
FUNDING$60M Series B
Ex-Replit GC Raises $60M to Build Legal AI
GC AI, founded by former Replit general counsel Cecilia Ziniti, raised a $60 million Series B at a $555 million valuation to sell AI legal software to in-house corporate legal teams rather than law firms.
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Elucid Raises $55M for AI Heart-Disease Imaging
FUNDING$55M Series D
Elucid Raises $55M for AI Heart-Disease Imaging
Boston-based Elucid raised $55 million in an oversubscribed Series D to expand its FDA-cleared Plaque-IQ software, which uses AI to read plaque risk from routine CT scans.
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Thinking Machines Nears $1B Round at $40B
FUNDING$1B round in talks
Thinking Machines Nears $1B Round at $40B
Accel is reportedly in talks to lead a $1 billion round for Mira Murati's Thinking Machines at a $40 billion valuation -- more than 3x its $12 billion seed mark, but below the $50 billion figure it was targeting late last year.
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Crusoe Triples to $30B Valuation on $3B Series F
FUNDING$3B+ Series F
Crusoe Triples to $30B Valuation on $3B Series F
The Denver AI data-center builder raised over $3 billion co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, tripling its valuation in ten months on the strength of a $13 billion Jane Street compute contract.
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Wiz Founder Backs Guardio at $1.1B Valuation
FUNDING$40M at $1.1B valuation
Wiz Founder Backs Guardio at $1.1B Valuation
Israeli consumer-cybersecurity startup Guardio raised $40 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Wiz co-founder Assaf Rappaport joining as it crossed 1 million paying customers and $150 million in ARR.
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