Every venture round we've covered on Value Add Pulse -- seed through mega-rounds, with the VC take on each.
Latin American startups raised $1.3 billion in Q3 2026, up 26% year over year even as the total fell 9% from Q2, with Mexico now out-raising Brazil for the first time in the region's recent history.
Swiss biotech Nouscom raised $135M (€120M) in a Series D co-led by M Ventures, Merck KGaA's venture arm, and Revelation Partners, to fund a global trial of cancer-prevention vaccine NOUS-209 in Lynch syndrome carriers.
Khosla Ventures led a $50 million Series B for Even Healthcare, tripling the Bengaluru hospital operator's valuation to $300 million as it pushes a capitated, outcomes-based care model into India's fee-for-service hospital market.
Salmon Group, a Manila-based banking and lending platform, raised an additional $140 million, combining fresh financing with bond proceeds, to expand lending products across the Philippines.
Three AI infrastructure megadeals are large enough to distort what a typical venture round even means right now, with the tracked average deal size running at $480 million.
Nvidia has mobilized more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastructure, and growing dependence on debt and credit markets is becoming as decisive a competitive edge as model quality.
Three separate AI financing deals have moved toward successively higher junior-tranche yields over the past year, while two straight IPO withdrawals suggest investors are getting pickier about who gets cheap capital next.
Junior-tranche yields on AI infrastructure financing rose from 8.5% on Project Big Sky to above 10% on Anthropic's Project North Star, while CoreWeave's bonds trade near 15%, a rising cost of capital across three separate deals.
AIsa completed a seed extension round with Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors, pushing its total funding for AI agent payment and resource infrastructure past $9 million.
Wall Street is split on whether CoreWeave's bond selloff and Firmus Grid's pulled $30B IPO mean a real crack in AI financing or just markets misreading a boom that's still intact.
LPs who think they've diversified away from AI-equity risk by also holding private-credit or infrastructure-debt funds may be making the same AI-demand bet twice, just through different legal structures.
Anthropic is negotiating a $60 billion chip-financing package, Project North Star, that would have Blackstone funds anchor an $18 billion junior tranche at yields above 10% to fund 1.5 gigawatts of Google TPUs.
Value Add Pulse's funding tracker has logged $196.2 billion across 521 disclosed deals in 2026, but the median round is just $110 million -- a sign capital is concentrating in a handful of giant checks.
Two numbers from this week -- CoreWeave's bonds near a 15% yield and cybersecurity startups raising $6.8B in Q3 -- show AI-adjacent investing splitting into a stressed infrastructure trade and a hot applied-AI trade.
Value Add Pulse's funding tracker has logged $196.2 billion across 521 deals, separate from $44 billion in VC fund closes -- and this week alone added Ramp's $60B valuation and OrbiMed's $3B in new funds.
Crunchbase's weekly ranking found just two U.S. rounds at or above $200M this week -- Modal Labs' $750M Series D and Icon's $200M Series D -- with investors otherwise sticking to the $60M-to-$135M range across AI, biotech and construction tech.
Estuary Biotherapeutics emerged from stealth with $103 million, including a $93 million Series A led by RA Capital, to advance gene therapies for a common inherited kidney disease.
RapidCanvas raised a $29 million Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India to build custom AI applications for mid-market enterprises, after growing annualized revenue eightfold in 18 months.
Veritas launched a second-generation anti-counterfeit chip that works on metal and scans through glass, and partnered with ATHLOS to embed the chip in all 18 championship crowns, building on the $1.75 million pre-seed round it raised in February 2026 led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six.
Parallel Loop raised a $6.6 million seed round led by 3one4 Capital to build an AI operating platform that modernizes legacy enterprise systems and deploys custom AI applications.
Asian startups raised $38.5 billion across Q3 2026, with AI-focused companies pulling in an estimated $21 billion, or about 55% of the total, according to Crunchbase News.
Dougs, a Lyon-based accounting platform for small businesses, reportedly raised €50 million in growth capital from existing backer Expedition Growth Capital.
CarbonAI raised $12 million led by Cowboy Ventures to build AI agents that handle underwriting, due diligence, investment memos and post-close monitoring for commercial real estate loans, with every output traced back to its source document.
Sunbound raised a $24 million Series A led by TTV Capital and acquired Richter Healthcare Consultants, combining its AI revenue platform with Richter's billing practice to process $3 billion in annualized payment volume.
Climate-risk insurer Stand raised a $70 million Series C led by Saga Ventures at a $1 billion valuation, insuring more than $10 billion in wildfire- and windstorm-exposed property, up from $1 billion a year ago.
OrbiMed closed $3 billion across two new vehicles, OrbiMed Private Investments X for US and European life sciences venture capital and OrbiMed Asia Partners VI for Asian healthcare growth equity, bringing the firm's total assets past $21 billion.
Cybersecurity and privacy startups raised $6.8 billion in Q3, up roughly 50% from Q2 and tied for the highest quarterly total in years, driven by larger rounds rather than more of them, per Crunchbase.
Sirona Medical, a San Francisco radiology software maker, raised a $40 million Series D led by Avidity Partners, bringing its total funding to roughly $150 million as it expands its cloud-native 'radiology operating system.'
Chariot Claims raised a $10 million Series A led by Silverton Partners for an AI platform that matches consumers to mass-arbitration claims, processing more than 200,000 pre-qualified claims a month.
North.cloud raised a $60 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital to expand its platform for tracking and automating cloud, AI and data spend, which it says now manages nearly $2 billion for customers.
BloomX raised a $13 million Series A led by Elah Fund to expand robotic pollination systems that it says lift grower yields by about 20% without replacing bees.
Fission raised a $10 million Series A led by Pantera Capital to let investors sell tokenized fund shares in minutes instead of waiting months for a redemption.
Stockholm-based Holyvolt raised $45 million in all-equity funding at a $245 million valuation to commercialize nickel- and cobalt-free DRX battery cathodes, starting with drones in 2027 before expanding into mobility and data centers.
Mueon Corporation raised $65 million in a Series A led by Maverick Silicon to scale a modular computing platform aimed at AI and hyperscale data centers.
Chariot raised a $10 million Series A led by Silverton Partners to help consumers fight hidden fees and hard-to-cancel subscriptions through mass arbitration.
Ramp raised a $1.85 billion primary round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, valuing the corporate card and spend-management startup at $60 billion as its annualized revenue passed $2 billion.
Rabot Energy, a Hamburg startup formerly known as Rabot Charge, raised a $50 million Series B led by Endeit Capital to expand Rabot Flow, a plug-in home battery that pools with others into a virtual power plant and claims to cut household energy costs 15%.
Cybersecurity and privacy startups raised $6.8 billion in Q3 2026, up about 50% from the prior quarter, as fewer but far larger rounds concentrated funding among AI-security leaders.
Oxford biotech OMass Therapeutics raised an oversubscribed $310 million Series C co-led by Bain Capital Life Sciences, Forbion and Novo Holdings to push its lead GPCR drug candidate through Phase 2.
Origin emerged from stealth with $20 million in total funding, co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures, to build OG-1, an autonomous robot that finishes drywall on construction sites alongside human crews.
Abby Care raised $82 million in a Series C led by Transformation Capital to expand its model of training and paying family members as certified home-care givers.
London growth investor Sprints closed its fifth fund at a €725 million hard cap, about 40% larger than its prior fund, fresh off Salesforce's $3.6 billion acquisition of portfolio company Fin.
Labelbox has raised more than $100 million in Series E financing led by Infinitum Partners to expand the reinforcement-learning data it builds for frontier AI labs, and says it reached profitability in 2026.
Forgepoint, a New York startup building an AI inside sales representative for manufacturers, raised a $9.8 million seed led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z speedrun, with angel backers tied to OpenAI, Brex, Vercel and SoFi.
The Information reports Anduril is discussing an employee share sale valuing the defense-tech company at $90 billion, a separate track from reported talks on a new primary round near $100 billion.
Modal Labs has closed the $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion valuation first reported as pending in September, and says the AI infrastructure company has now crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue.
The Information reports Berkshire Hathaway is investing $330 million in Bending Spoons, the Milan-based serial acquirer that bought Airtable and Miro and went public on Nasdaq this year.
Zenzap raised a $33 million Series A co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing total funding to about $44 million for its AI-powered workplace chat app.
Zippy, a U.S. fintech lender for the manufactured housing industry, raised a $20 million Series C from sole investor Saluda Grade as it expands its digital loan platform beyond the 27 states it currently operates in.
CodeWall emerged from stealth with $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Osney Capital to build autonomous agents that continuously probe a company's attack surface without credentials.
Duvo has raised a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital to expand its 'Enterprise Execution OS,' a platform for running company operations with people and AI agents together, into the U.S. retail and CPG market.
Salience Labs has closed an oversubscribed $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital to scale its photonic optical-switching chips for AI datacenter networking, with AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joining as new investors.
Harmonic Security raised a $50 million Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, bringing total funding to $76 million for its platform policing workforce use of AI tools.
Indian materials startup Scimplify raised $25 million at a $250 million valuation, with customers Henkel and Teknor Apex investing, as it claims to have reached EBITDA-positive status.
Crunchbase counted 38 new unicorns in September 2026, adding $71 billion in value and putting 2026 on pace for its second-busiest year for new billion-dollar startups on record.
Montevideo-based retail intelligence platform Scanntech raised $180M in Series F funding led by L Catterton and Partners Group, with Warburg Pincus taking a partial exit from its 2023 stake.
Hamburg-based clean-energy startup 1KOMMA5° raised over €70M ($78M) at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, up 35% from its July 2025 round, reaffirming the unicorn status it has held since June 2023.
Scuba, founded by ex-Slack CPO Noah Desai Weiss and former Browser Company engineering lead Dolapo Falola, raised $34M across two rounds for a workplace 'context engine' that feeds data to both humans and AI agents.
Nvidia agreed to take undisclosed minority stakes in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, the companies confirmed Tuesday, as the chipmaker widens its push into European AI investment.
Allara, a virtual insurance-covered women's health company founded by Rachel Blank, raised a $30M round with increased commitments from existing backers Index Ventures and GV, bringing its total funding to $75M.
