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FUNDING$16M
Japan's Letara Raises $16M Beyond Satellite Thrusters
Japanese space-propulsion startup Letara raised $16M to expand beyond its core satellite thruster business into broader space-systems work, as Japan's own satellite and launch industry attracts growing venture capital.
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Why I'm Wary of the New $1B+ Series A
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Why I'm Wary of the New $1B+ Series A
Velaura AI hit a $1B+ valuation on its first priced round. I like the team and the problem -- I'm just not sure a Series A should ever carry a unicorn price tag, no matter how hot the sector.
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Why Late-Stage AI Rounds Keep Doubling in Under a Year
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Why Late-Stage AI Rounds Keep Doubling in Under a Year
Higgsfield quadrupled its valuation to $5.4B in eight months, Etched doubled to $21B in under a month, and Rillet closed its Series C in under 48 hours -- late-stage AI markups are compressing from years to weeks.
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August's AI Infrastructure Deals Already Top $8.7B
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August's AI Infrastructure Deals Already Top $8.7B
Databricks' $5B raise, Firmus' $2B round, Castelion's $1B Series C and Etched's $700M add up to $8.7B in AI infrastructure and adjacent capital-intensive funding in August alone.
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Nvidia Pays Poolside $6B to License AI Models
FUNDING$6B license + $1B invest
Nvidia Pays Poolside $6B to License AI Models
Nvidia agreed to pay AI startup Poolside $6B to license its model-development software and invest $1B more at a $12B valuation, while hiring more than 100 Poolside employees onto its own teams.
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Bitcoin Jumps 12% as Crypto Clarity Act Nears Vote
FUNDING12% two-day gain
Bitcoin Jumps 12% as Crypto Clarity Act Nears Vote
Bitcoin surged roughly 12% over two days to about $72,384 as President Trump and crypto industry executives mounted a final push for the Clarity Act, a bill that would settle which federal agency regulates digital assets.
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Broadcom Seeks Up to $100B in AI Chip Debt
FUNDINGup to $100B debt
Broadcom Seeks Up to $100B in AI Chip Debt
Broadcom is in talks to borrow up to $100 billion to finance custom AI chip production for Anthropic and OpenAI, with Anthropic alone expected to account for more than 40% of the total.
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Vessev Raises $19M to Bring Electric Boats to the US
FUNDING$19M Series A
Vessev Raises $19M to Bring Electric Boats to the US
New Zealand's Vessev raised a $19M Series A led by Blackbird Ventures to launch its electric hydrofoil ferries in the US, naming Lake Tahoe operator FlyTahoe as its first American customer.
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Colossal Spinout Astromech Hits $3.8B on Biology AI
FUNDING$20M at $3.8B
Colossal Spinout Astromech Hits $3.8B on Biology AI
Astromech, a Colossal Biosciences spinout co-founded by Ben Lamm and George Church, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation to build AI models that predict evolutionary biological change.
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Twin1 AI Exits Stealth With $20M for Digital Twins
FUNDING$20M seed
Twin1 AI Exits Stealth With $20M for Digital Twins
Twin1 AI raised a $20M seed co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca Venture Partners and Aramco Ventures to build AI digital twins that preserve a professional's judgment and context across an organization.
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Fractile Nears $6.5B Value After Anthropic Chip Deal
FUNDING$600M at $6.5B
Fractile Nears $6.5B Value After Anthropic Chip Deal
UK chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise $600M at a $6.5B valuation, more than 6x its May mark, after agreeing to sell Anthropic $250M of unshipped SRAM-based inference chips.
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Castelion Hits $13B Value on $1B Hypersonic Missile Round
FUNDING$1B Series C at $13B
Castelion Hits $13B Value on $1B Hypersonic Missile Round
Castelion, the hypersonic-missile startup founded by former SpaceX executives, raised a $1B Series C co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle and JPMorgan Chase at a $13B valuation, more than double its prior mark.
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Muon Space Raises $250M to Build 500 Satellites a Year
FUNDING$250M Series C
Muon Space Raises $250M to Build 500 Satellites a Year
Satellite maker Muon Space raised a $250M Series C at a $1.5B valuation led by Eclipse, with Google and Salesforce Ventures joining, to scale production toward 500 satellites a year by 2027.
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Inside OpenRouter's Cap Table Ahead of a Sale
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Inside OpenRouter's Cap Table Ahead of a Sale
Newcomer's deep dive into OpenRouter's cap table shows how quickly the AI model-routing startup's ownership structure evolved en route to Stripe's roughly $7.5B acquisition, with early seed investors sitting on outsized returns.
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Apollo Atomics Raises $31M to Shrink Nuclear Reactors
FUNDING$31M seed
Apollo Atomics Raises $31M to Shrink Nuclear Reactors
Apollo Atomics, an MIT spinoff, raised a $31M seed to build factory-made compact nuclear reactors with 40x smaller footprints, targeting AI data centers hungry for dedicated power.
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This Week's Funding: $1.1B Across 5 Deals, Etched Takes Most
FUNDING$1.1B in 5 rounds
This Week's Funding: $1.1B Across 5 Deals, Etched Takes Most
Five disclosed rounds this week total roughly $1.1B, with Etched's $700M chip raise alone accounting for about 64% of it -- AI infrastructure still absorbing a disproportionate share of available capital.
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Fintech Startup Tabs Hits $400M Valuation on AI Billing
FUNDING$400M valuation
Fintech Startup Tabs Hits $400M Valuation on AI Billing
Tabs, a New York fintech automating revenue recognition and billing with AI, has raised roughly $92M total and is now valued at $400M, built by founder Ali Hussain, who left a PhD track at Oxford to join an early-stage startup.
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Early Cerebras Backer Adit Singh Joins Mayfield
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Early Cerebras Backer Adit Singh Joins Mayfield
Adit Singh, the Foundation Capital partner who co-led Cerebras's first funding round a decade ago, has joined Mayfield as an infrastructure partner focused on semiconductors, hardware, cybersecurity and physical AI.
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Anthropic's Enterprise Venture Ode Buys Casper Studios
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Anthropic's Enterprise Venture Ode Buys Casper Studios
Ode, Anthropic's enterprise AI services venture launched in July 2026 at a $1.5B valuation, acquired consultancy Casper Studios to embed Claude into corporate systems -- its second deal after May's Fractional AI purchase.
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UBS Poaches JPMorgan's AI Chief to Lead Banking Push
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UBS Poaches JPMorgan's AI Chief to Lead Banking Push
UBS hired Daniele Magazzeni, formerly JPMorgan's chief analytics officer for its investment bank after nearly six years in AI research, to lead its own AI strategy as banks compete for scarce AI talent.
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Marvell Gives Google Right to Buy $12.2B in Stock
FUNDING$12.2B stock warrant
Marvell Gives Google Right to Buy $12.2B in Stock
Marvell granted Google warrants to buy up to $12.2B of its shares, vesting as Google buys custom chips through fiscal 2033, in a deal that could bring Marvell roughly $120B in chip sales and diversifies Google away from Broadcom.
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Nvidia Plays Matchmaker as Nordic AI Data Centers Boom
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Nvidia Plays Matchmaker as Nordic AI Data Centers Boom
Nvidia is connecting GPU-buying customers with Nordic data-center operators as cheap power, available land and cooler climates drive a regional AI infrastructure boom, extending its influence beyond chip sales into deal-brokering.
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Rivian Spinout Also Raises $150M for Autonomous Delivery Push
FUNDING$150M
Rivian Spinout Also Raises $150M for Autonomous Delivery Push
Also, the micromobility company Rivian spun out in 2025, raised another $150M to expand from e-bikes and cargo quads into autonomous delivery vehicles, pushing its total funding past $500M.
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Bootstrapped Nine Years, Prevalent AI Takes $22M
FUNDING$22M growth
Bootstrapped Nine Years, Prevalent AI Takes $22M
London's Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, its first outside investment in nine years of bootstrapped, profitable operation building an AI data fabric for large enterprises.
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Relativity Networks Lands $22M for Faster Data Fiber
FUNDING$22M SAFE
Relativity Networks Lands $22M for Faster Data Fiber
Orlando startup Relativity Networks raised $22M for hollow-core fiber that moves data 47% faster than glass fiber, and landed a $40M follow-on order from an unnamed hyperscaler.
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Navi Raises $100M From Prosus, First Outside Capital in 8 Years
FUNDING$100M at ~$1.3B
Navi Raises $100M From Prosus, First Outside Capital in 8 Years
Sachin Bansal's Indian fintech Navi raised $100M from Prosus at a roughly $1.3B valuation -- its first institutional capital after eight years of being funded entirely by its founder.
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Rillet Hits $1B Valuation on $100M Series C
FUNDING$100M Series C at $1B
Rillet Hits $1B Valuation on $100M Series C
Rillet raised a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1 billion valuation, its third round in a year, pushing total funding past $200 million for an AI-native accounting platform aimed at NetSuite and Sage.
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Hopscotch Raises $53M Series D for Value-Based Pediatric Care
FUNDING$53M Series D
Hopscotch Raises $53M Series D for Value-Based Pediatric Care
Chicago-based Hopscotch raised a $53M Series D led by Town Hall Ventures to expand value-based pediatric and behavioral health care, betting outcomes-linked contracts scale better than telehealth access alone.
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Etched Raises $700M as Valuation Doubles to $21B
FUNDING$700M at $21B
Etched Raises $700M as Valuation Doubles to $21B
Etched raised $700 million led by Jane Street at a $21 billion valuation, doubling the $10.3 billion mark it set in July after the quant firm tested the startup's inference hardware and installed a rack in its own data center.
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Anthro Energy Breaks Ground on Kentucky Electrolyte Plant
FUNDING$24.9M DOE award
Anthro Energy Breaks Ground on Kentucky Electrolyte Plant
Anthro Energy broke ground on a Louisville factory sized for 25 gigawatt-hours of battery electrolytes annually, backed by $24.9 million from the Department of Energy and $18.4 million in investment tax credits.
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Daniel Ek's Neko Health Opens First US Clinic in SoHo
FUNDING$700M Series C
Daniel Ek's Neko Health Opens First US Clinic in SoHo
Neko Health will open its first American location on September 24 at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, with more than 25,000 New Yorkers already on the waitlist, a month after raising a $700 million Series C.
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Physical AI Startups Took $47.4B in the First Half
FUNDING$47.4B in H1 2026
Physical AI Startups Took $47.4B in the First Half
Global venture funding into physical AI reached $47.4 billion across 521 deals in the first half of 2026, nearly 4x the second half of 2025 and more than the entire 2022-2024 period combined.
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Reach Capital Closes $265M Fund V in Six Months
FUNDING$265M Fund V
Reach Capital Closes $265M Fund V in Six Months
Reach Capital closed a $265 million Fund V to back AI founders in learning, health and work, raising it in under six months with LPs including Capricorn, the LEGO Foundation and the LA Fire and Police Pensions.
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Smack Technologies Raises $61M for Battlefield AI
FUNDING$61M Series B
Smack Technologies Raises $61M for Battlefield AI
Smack Technologies raised a $61 million Series B led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, bringing total funding past $90 million, months after the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk" and sent military branches scrambling for alternative AI vendors.
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SoftBank Puts $200M Into Gravis Robotics at $1B
FUNDING$200M Series A at $1B
SoftBank Puts $200M Into Gravis Robotics at $1B
SoftBank sole-invested $200 million into Gravis Robotics, a 75-person ETH Zurich spinout that retrofits excavators with autonomy kits, at a $1 billion valuation -- what the company calls the largest Series A in construction-robotics history.
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Gravis Robotics Lands $200M From SoftBank Alone
FUNDING$200M Series A
Gravis Robotics Lands $200M From SoftBank Alone
SoftBank invested $200 million in Gravis Robotics, a Zurich startup that retrofits excavators with autonomous software, in what the company calls the largest Series A in construction-robotics history.
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Wispr Raises $280M at $2B on Voice AI Bet
FUNDING$280M at $2B
Wispr Raises $280M at $2B on Voice AI Bet
Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, more than six times its prior mark, as it expands from dictation into meeting notes and other text-box replacements.
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Wispr Flow Raises $280M at $2B Valuation
FUNDING$280M Series B at $2B
Wispr Flow Raises $280M at $2B Valuation
Wispr Flow raised a $280 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $361 million less than ten months after its prior round, and previewed a proprietary speech model that cuts word-error rates from over 30% to as low as 5%.
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Chip Giants Backed $250B of Startup Rounds This Year
FUNDING$250B+ in rounds
Chip Giants Backed $250B of Startup Rounds This Year
Semiconductor companies have participated in startup financings collectively valued at more than $250 billion in 2026, with Nvidia alone taking part in a record 59 rounds and leading or co-leading at least 11.
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Higgsfield Quadruples Valuation to $5.4B in 8 Months
FUNDING$400M Series B at $5.4B
Higgsfield Quadruples Valuation to $5.4B in 8 Months
AI video and image startup Higgsfield raised a $400 million Series B at a $5.4 billion valuation, four times its mark from eight months ago, on $700 million in annualized revenue.
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Nvidia Discloses $21B Stake in SpaceX
FUNDING$21B disclosed stake
Nvidia Discloses $21B Stake in SpaceX
Nvidia disclosed a stake in SpaceX worth roughly $21 billion at the end of Q2, its second-largest equity holding, acquired through its earlier $10 billion investment in xAI before SpaceX absorbed the company.
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Groq Raises $350M to Pivot From Chips to Neocloud
FUNDING$350M at $3.5B
Groq Raises $350M to Pivot From Chips to Neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, down from $6.9 billion last September, as it completes a pivot from AI chipmaker to inference cloud provider after Nvidia hired its founder in a $20 billion licensing deal.
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Terra Industries Closes $52M Seed for Defense Tech
FUNDING$52M seed
Terra Industries Closes $52M Seed for Defense Tech
Nigerian defense-tech startup Terra Industries closed a $52 million seed round, one of Africa's largest, and is opening a London office while booking $100 million in contracts including a federal deal.
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Sound-Powered Fire Startup Raises $15M Seed
FUNDING$15M seed
Sound-Powered Fire Startup Raises $15M Seed
Ohio-based Sonic Fire Tech raised a $15 million round to develop infrasound fire suppression that extinguishes flames with low-frequency sound waves instead of water or chemicals.
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Uber Invests in Zipline for Eats Drone Delivery
FUNDINGStrategic investment, undisclosed
Uber Invests in Zipline for Eats Drone Delivery
Uber is making a strategic investment in Zipline as part of a partnership to bring drone delivery to Uber Eats, targeting one million daily drone deliveries by the end of 2029.
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Defense Tech's Funding Boom Still Has Room to Run
FUNDING$35.6B H1 defense funding
Defense Tech's Funding Boom Still Has Room to Run
Anduril's talks for a $100 billion valuation, up from $61 billion two months ago, are the headline, but the real story is how deep the defense-tech funding bench has gotten behind it.
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Inside AI Infra's Money Trail: Databricks to Fireworks
FUNDING$5B round / $190B valuation
Inside AI Infra's Money Trail: Databricks to Fireworks
Databricks' $5 billion round at a $190 billion valuation, Together AI's doubled $8.3 billion mark, and Fireworks AI's leap to $17.5 billion trace a single financing pattern reshaping AI infrastructure investing.
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Live Commerce Defies the AI Narrative at Whatnot
FUNDING$545M Series G
Live Commerce Defies the AI Narrative at Whatnot
Whatnot doubled its valuation to $20 billion in a live-shopping market that has nothing to do with AI, proof that non-AI consumer businesses can still command venture megaround pricing in 2026.
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August's Mega-Rounds Have Already Cleared $9B
FUNDING$9.25B in 5 rounds
August's Mega-Rounds Have Already Cleared $9B
Five disclosed rounds in the first two weeks of August 2026 -- Databricks, Firmus, River AI, Lovable and Form Energy -- total roughly $9.25 billion, with data infrastructure and AI compute taking three quarters of it.
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The Seed Round Is Now an Infrastructure Round
FUNDING$1.1B seed + Series A
The Seed Round Is Now an Infrastructure Round
River AI raised $1.1 billion across a seed and Series A two months after leaving stealth, the clearest example yet of a 2026 pattern where pre-product AI infrastructure companies raise growth-stage sums at formation.
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Founders, Stop Chasing the Unicorn Math
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Founders, Stop Chasing the Unicorn Math
Forty companies crossed $1 billion in valuation in July alone, the fastest monthly pace in four years -- but a rising share of that math is markup, not revenue, and founders optimizing for the headline number are optimizing for the wrong thing.
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Air Taxis Consolidate: Archer Buys Wisk, Joby Buys Defense
FUNDING$500M Joby deal
Air Taxis Consolidate: Archer Buys Wisk, Joby Buys Defense
Archer Aviation acquired Boeing's Wisk Aero along with SkyGrid and Insitu, giving Boeing a 16.5% stake in Archer, while Joby paid $500 million for Resonant Sciences to launch a defense arm.
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Why VCs' Biggest August Checks Went to Reactors, Not Apps
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Why VCs' Biggest August Checks Went to Reactors, Not Apps
Five of the month's largest venture rounds funded nuclear reactors, home batteries, GPU-training infrastructure and automated factories rather than software, a distribution that says more about where capital is scarce than about any single pitch deck.
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Harvard's Endowment Discloses $2.2B SpaceX Stake
FUNDING$2.2B stake
Harvard's Endowment Discloses $2.2B SpaceX Stake
Harvard Management Company's 13F filing showed a $2.2 billion SpaceX position, the largest single stock in its disclosed U.S. equity book, turning a venture bet placed more than a decade ago into the endowment's biggest public holding.
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18 Fusion Startups Have Now Raised Over $100M Each
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18 Fusion Startups Have Now Raised Over $100M Each
At least 18 fusion-energy companies have raised more than $100 million each in private capital, led by Commonwealth Fusion Systems at roughly $3.94 billion and Helion at $3.2 billion in committed capital.
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AI Coding Tools Have Minted Five $1B+ Companies
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AI Coding Tools Have Minted Five $1B+ Companies
Five AI coding-tool startups now carry valuations above $1 billion after this month's rounds, a cluster of pricing that says more about how much capital is chasing the category than about any one company's product lead.
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Defense Tech's Funding Surge Shows No Sign of Slowing
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Defense Tech's Funding Surge Shows No Sign of Slowing
August alone has produced a $250 million Neros Technologies round and a fresh $1.37 billion Hadrian raise, extending a defense-tech funding pace that has now outrun every full prior year on record.
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Form Energy Raises $750M to Scale Grid Batteries
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Form Energy Raises $750M to Scale Grid Batteries
Form Energy raised $750 million led by T. Rowe Price to scale its 100-hour iron-air grid battery technology, the third-largest round in Crunchbase's tracking of this week's biggest U.S. deals behind Databricks and River AI.
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Thrive Capital Finds Its Own VC Lane
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Thrive Capital Finds Its Own VC Lane
A Newcomer profile describes Thrive Capital settling into three distinct strategies: a $9 billion growth fund, a $1 billion early-stage vehicle, and Thrive Holdings, which buys into AI-transformation bets inside existing companies.
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Nvidia Reveals $21B SpaceX Stake, $30B in Intel
FUNDING$21B + $30B stakes
Nvidia Reveals $21B SpaceX Stake, $30B in Intel
A regulatory filing disclosed Nvidia's SpaceX and Intel stakes are now worth roughly $51 billion combined, the first time the chipmaker has put a number on its SpaceX position since folding its xAI investment into the company.
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