Every venture round we've covered on Value Add Pulse -- seed through mega-rounds, with the VC take on each.
Pluto Security emerged from stealth with $42 million -- an $8.5 million seed and $34 million Series A -- to help enterprises monitor and control employee use of AI tools and agents, TechCrunch reported.
Satlyt, founded by former Google and SpaceX engineer Rama Afullo, raised an $8 million seed round led by Houston's Non Sibi Ventures to build software that lets satellites share AI computing jobs in orbit.
Albert Invent raised a $55 million Series B led by TCV on Oct. 13 to expand its chemistry-native AI platform, pushing the Oakland startup's disclosed funding past $100 million.
New York-based Brellium raised $23M led by Left Lane Capital and First Round Capital, with its CortexLM system now auditing more than 22 million patient visits for billing and documentation errors.
San Francisco-based Reach Security raised more than $50M in Series B funding led by Top Tier Capital Partners to run cybersecurity defenses at machine speed against AI-powered attacks.
ICON closed a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds on Oct. 13 to scale its robotic home-building systems across Texas, Florida and Washington, D.C.
Souffle Therapeutics closed an oversubscribed $135 million Series B led by Juvia Group on Oct. 13 to push its RNA-delivery platform's first three programs toward the clinic.
Suki raised a $90 million Series E, adding new investors Healthier Capital, Crosslink Capital and Hercules Capital to expand its AI agents for health systems.
Jefferies estimates OpenAI and Anthropic owe roughly half of the $2.3 trillion AI infrastructure backlog at Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Oracle, and questions whether hyperscaler capex is paying off, The Register reported.
LearnUpon secured a $50M non-dilutive growth financing facility from Claret Capital Partners to build out its Agentic Learning Platform, used by customers including Waymo and World Rugby.
Causa Prima raised a $20 million seed round led by Base10 Partners for an AI agent platform that resolves B2B billing disputes and speeds up supplier payments, taking its total funding to $30 million.
MakeO, the Mumbai-based parent of dental brands Toothsi and Zenyum, raised $10 million led by Singularity AMC eight months after acquiring former rival Zenyum, with the combined group claiming S$70M in ARR.
NEU Battery Materials raised an oversubscribed $7.6 million round, co-led by Shift4Good and SGInnovate, to scale its lithium iron phosphate battery recycling technology.
AlgoX2 raised a $10M seed extension led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Fin Capital for its 'Data Streaming Operating System,' which it says delivers up to 10x throughput over legacy Kafka-based stacks.
Klarent, a Zurich startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, raised an $8M seed led by Mosaic Ventures to sell AI agents that write and reuse test code instead of calling a model at runtime.
Energy Capital Partners closed an $834M single-asset continuation vehicle for Next Wave Energy Partners, its third such deal, letting Fund IV investors cash out while ECP reinvests its own proceeds.
Osavul, born out of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, raised a $10M Series A led by 33N Ventures to expand its AI platform for tracking hostile intent across cyber, physical and information threats.
Golf media company Pro Shop raised a $24 million Series B led by Arthur M. Blank Sports and Entertainment, with new backing from Causeway Media Partners and Ares, to expand its live-events and commerce business.
Scarlet, a London-based certification body for AI and software medical devices, raised a $50 million Series B led by Headline to expand its EU, UK and US review operations into the US and Asia-Pacific.
Amsterdam-listed SWI Group raised €800 million (about $900 million) at a €6.1 billion valuation to convert former FTX-backed bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets into AI data centers.
Ambi, founded by former Plaud executive Peter Mo, raised $26 million across multiple rounds led by Luminous Ventures to build an AI meeting-notes app that can listen continuously in the background.
Paris-based Wiremind raised €35 million (about $39 million), its first outside funding round since founding in 2014, after 12 years of bootstrapped, profitable growth.
German climate-tech firm 1Komma5Grad landed a fresh financing round at a $1.35 billion valuation as it eyes a US expansion and weighs a 2027 IPO.
Life sciences investor Forbion closed €2.3 billion ($2.6 billion) across two new funds, its largest fundraise in 20 years, lifting total assets under management to about €7.5 billion.
Fortem Technologies closed a $50 million Series B led by Lockheed Martin, days after landing a counter-drone contract with a $1 billion ceiling.
Restate raised $20 million in Series A funding to build infrastructure that lets AI agents and distributed apps resume after failures without losing state.
AMP closed $70 million in project debt led by Galvanize Climate Solutions to build a new AI-powered waste sorting and organics facility in Portsmouth, Virginia.
TriGemX Bio, formerly Kallyope, raised $94 million co-led by The Column Group, TCGX and Viking Global to push its migraine drug elismetrep through Phase 3.
Fairtide Partners committed an additional $800 million to buy battery storage and solar projects from Maxwell Power, lifting its total commitment to Maxwell to $1.8 billion.
Proximal emerged from stealth with a $15 million seed led by General Catalyst at a $300 million valuation, building AI infrastructure that automates the post-training feedback loop for frontier models.
Petra Power, a 15-person startup building solid oxide fuel cells, is targeting both data-center operators and the Defense Department, which has already awarded it nearly $9 million in contracts.
VEIR closed an oversubscribed $110 million Series C, co-led by Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners, to scale superconducting power-delivery systems built for the energy demands of AI data centers.
Fortastra raised a $30 million Series A led by First In to expand production of maneuverable spacecraft designed for on-orbit security and national defense.
Vinci Pharmaceuticals raised more than $8 million in Series A funding, reportedly led by Dynagrow Capital, to advance EPIPLANT, a bioerodible implant designed to deliver drugs to retinal tissue without repeat injections.
Atrium Therapeutics raised a $50 million private placement priced at market to fund two RNA-therapy programs for rare heart conditions through 2028.
Valar Atomics is suing early investor Day One Ventures in Delaware court over how its roughly $1 billion Series B was allocated and whether pro-rata rights were improperly stripped before closing.
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a reported $7.5 billion valuation for Jev, its non-text AI model that outputs probabilities instead of generating prose.
Meticulous raised a $15 million Series A led by Chemistry to expand its autonomous software-testing platform as AI coding agents accelerate the pace of code shipped.
Bitcoin-native life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million from existing backers, including OpenAI's Sam Altman, as it expands its all-crypto policies to wealthy clients in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
MMI raised $125 million in Series D funding led by BioStar Capital to expand access to its Symani robotic microsurgery system and fund a clinical trial exploring whether it can help clear neurotoxins linked to Alzheimer's progression.
Masayoshi Son is in early talks to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf sovereign investors for a fund that would buy and upgrade companies with AI, as SoftBank's own AI bets strain its balance sheet.
Omni Bridgeway closed Funds 4 and 5 Series 2 at its full $1 billion target, with investors holding 99% of the prior series choosing to reinvest.
Seattle-based Kapta Space raised a $24 million Series A led by Washington Harbour Partners to scale production of its spaceborne radar payloads and fund its first orbital demonstration.
The U.S. Navy added $150 million to Shield AI's X-BAT vertical-takeoff fighter drone program, matched dollar-for-dollar by the company, pushing combined investment in the autonomous jet to $400 million.
Oxide Computer raised a $445 million Series D led by Eclipse, with new backing from AMD Ventures and Atreides Management, to expand manufacturing of its on-premises cloud hardware.
Xona Space Systems has raised more than $300 million, including $20 million from the U.S. Space Force, to build Pulsar, a planned 258-satellite constellation offering GPS-alternative positioning precise to the centimeter rather than the meter.
Consonance Capital Partners closed its third healthcare-focused private equity fund at a $1.35 billion hard cap after less than four months in market.
Ultra Robotics has raised $62 million in total, including a new $50 million Series A led by Framework Ventures, to lease warehouses AI-controlled picking robots under a monthly 'robots-as-a-service' model built on Physical Intelligence's AI.
Hone, a San Francisco startup building autonomous AI systems for enterprise outcomes, raised $60 million at a $285 million valuation in a round led by Benchmark and Index Ventures, with Elad Gil also participating.
Jacksonville-based surgical robotics maker Medical Microinstruments raised $125 million in Series D funding to scale its Symani microsurgery system, now used in more than 3,500 procedures worldwide.
Stord has secured a $400 million credit facility led by Citi to expand the fulfillment, robotics and software platform it calls a 'physical intelligence platform for independent commerce.'
Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Series A led by 8VC and Silent Ventures to expand Navigator, its AI platform for forecasting US military supply shortages, more than three times the size of its 2025 seed round.
The AI leaderboard startup raised a $200M Series B led by Lightspeed and Khosla, nearly doubling its valuation from January as it pushes into AI-safety grading.
Quantum computing startup Oratomic raised a $475 million Series B at a $5.5 billion valuation, up from $1.5 billion three months ago, the same day rival Universal Quantum closed a $100 million-plus Series A.
AblePay Health raised a $20 million Series A led by F-Prime Capital to expand its platform for guaranteed provider payments and flexible patient billing.
Spectrum Equity closed Fund XI at $2.5 billion in an oversubscribed single close, its largest fund since the growth-equity firm's founding.
SEVA Growth closed its second fund, SEVA II, at $160 million -- well above its $125 million target and more than the firm's entire first fund -- in under one month.
Waymo secured its first-ever debt financing -- a $5 billion loan led by Goldman Sachs with PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street -- to fund robotaxi expansion beyond its 15 current markets without diluting equity holders.
Zach Yadegari, the 19-year-old co-founder of calorie-tracking app Cal AI, raised $10 million led by Vine Ventures for Persona, a personal AI agent reachable via iMessage with a $179 wearable band shipping in December.
Voltus raised a $225 million Series D co-led by Al Gore's Generation Investment Management, Activate Capital and Vitol to scale a program that gives data centers facing grid interconnection delays access to flexible power capacity.