Every venture round we've covered on Value Add Pulse -- seed through mega-rounds, with the VC take on each.
Nvidia plans to invest in inference-chip startup d-Matrix, a competitor, while linking its chips to Nvidia's NVLink Fusion interconnect -- deepening Nvidia's pattern of backing rivals it also competes against.
Vesta raised $30 million led by Conversion Capital, with Citi Ventures, a16z and customers Pennymac and New American Funding participating, to expand AI agents that automate mortgage loan origination and now handle some underwriting decisions.
Sheridan Capital Partners closed its fourth flagship healthcare private-equity fund at a $1.1 billion hard cap in under 60 days, nearly double Fund III's $575 million, and separately closed a $245 million first dedicated healthcare IT fund.
Rein Security raised a $25 million Series A led by Glilot Capital to expand its runtime monitoring platform for enterprise AI agents, bringing its total funding to $35 million.
Manus's parent company closed the AI agent startup's first funding round as an independent company, with new backers stepping in after Chinese regulators forced Meta to abandon its roughly $2 billion acquisition.
European startups raised roughly $25 billion in Q3 2026, up 77% from $14 billion a year earlier, as AI captured a record 75% of regional funding and Germany and France posted their strongest quarters since 2021.
UK quantum computing startup Universal Quantum raised more than $100 million in a Series A co-led by DCVC and Firgun Ventures, the same day rival Oratomic closed a $475 million round at a $5.5 billion valuation.
Endeavor Catalyst closed an oversubscribed $320 million fifth fund, pushing total assets under management past $850 million, to keep co-investing in founders building outside Silicon Valley.
TeddyHoldings.AI raised a $60 million seed round and says it has surpassed $25 million in revenue, while keeping its focus, leadership and cap table confidential.
North American startups raised $92 billion in Q3 2026, down 35% from Q2's megaround-fueled high but up 50% year over year, as AI companies captured roughly two-thirds of all venture dollars, per Crunchbase.
Healthleap raised $38 million combined seed and Series A funding for AI that flags hospital patients doctors may be missing, now live in 50-plus hospitals.
Parallel Systems closed a $100M Series C to scale driverless electric freight trains that haul cargo up to 500 miles on existing track, undercutting short-haul trucking routes.
Boston-based Ledgebrook raised $200 million in primary equity co-led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management to scale Blackbird, its AI-native underwriting platform for excess and surplus insurance.
Atomic Machines, founded by ex-Amazon and Uber executive Jeff Holden, emerged from six years in stealth with $250 million in cumulative funding and PrimeSwitch, a relay built by its AI-native Matter Compiler manufacturing system.
Paris-founded WhiteLab Genomics raised a $26 million Series B led by AVP to expand ALFRED, its AI platform for designing delivery systems for cell and gene therapies.
Stuut raised a $52.5 million Series B from Insight Partners and a16z to expand AI agents that chase down enterprises' unpaid invoices.
North American startups raised $92 billion in Q3, down sharply from the prior quarter's AI megarounds, with Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face standing as the period's single largest deal.
Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images and videos, raised $25 million total — a $20 million Series A led by CRV plus a $5 million seed led by General Catalyst — after scrapping its original product.
SpaceX is reportedly in talks to raise about $40 billion arranged by Apollo Global Management, split between bank loans and investment-grade debt, to fund a large Nvidia chip order, per the Financial Times.
Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation in what could be its final private round before a 2027 IPO.
Spiko raised a $90 million Series B led by New Enterprise Associates to expand its multi-currency tokenized cash fund platform, which already manages about $2.7 billion for more than 10,000 businesses across 25-plus jurisdictions.
Vitalize raised a $31 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT to expand its AI platform for real-time hospital labor scheduling and capacity management, which it says saves health systems over 2,000 clinical hours a day.
Ampersand raised a $15 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners to build integration infrastructure that lets AI agents read from and write into enterprise systems like CRMs and ERPs.
KymaThera raised an $80 million Series B led by Alta Partners to advance K-1728, an oral PI3K-alpha inhibitor designed to treat breast cancer and vascular malformations while avoiding the toxicity that has limited earlier drugs in its class.
LS Power closed its sixth flagship fund at $6 billion, 50% above its original $4 billion target, with the capital already partly committed to a roughly $1.7 billion deal buying gas-fired power plants from Constellation Energy.
Multiply Labs raised a $75 million Series B led by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks to scale robotic systems that automate biologics manufacturing, pushing its total funding past $100 million.
Vinci4D closed a $250 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, co-led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, to scale an AI-driven engineering simulation platform that started with chip thermal modeling.
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.
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.
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.
Type One Energy raised $200 million in Series B funding to advance its stellarator fusion design toward a 2034 commercial power plant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lambda closed a $1.008 billion investment-grade, fixed-rate term loan to fund GPUs tied to customer deployments including Microsoft, its first U.S. fixed-rate financing and first $1 billion-plus institutional debt deal.
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.
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.
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.
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.