November 2, 2026 — November 8, 2026
1 funding rounds totaling $4M tracked by Value Add VC for the week of Nov 2. These are the rounds our database recorded, not a total for the whole market.
Value Add VC intelligence database (rounds tracked from filings, wires and outlets)
| Item | Rounds | $M raised |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 6156 | |
| 26 | 5100 | |
| 33 | 7310 | |
| 32 | 14332 | |
| 51 | 8959 | |
| 47 | 4814 | |
| 52 | 4524 | |
| 65 | 8031 | |
| 79 | 5818 | |
| 82 | 23380 | |
| 76 | 30042 | |
| 1 | 4 |
| Company | Amount | Stage | Led by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marble | $3.75M | Pre-seed | — |
Trends by sector over 3, 6 and 12 months: startup funding by sector →
Value Add VC intelligence database (rounds tracked from filings, wires and outlets)
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 26 | $39.0B · 98 rounds |
| Jul 26 | $35.6B · 152 rounds |
| Aug 26 | $30.9B · 142 rounds |
| Sep 26 | $37.8B · 189 rounds |
| Oct 26 | $68.4B · 322 rounds |
| Nov 26 | $4M · 1 rounds |
Marvell will absorb optical-components maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valuing it at $115 billion, creating a combined AI-networking supplier with a $550 billion addressable market.
Creandum closed its eighth and largest fund at $750 million, betting half the capital on new seed and Series A deals and half on follow-ons into portfolio companies like Lovable and Klarna.
Three new U.S. raises crossed Value Add Pulse's desk this morning -- Platform Accounting Group's $355 million, Lumaril's $66 million and SuperMe's $20 million, totaling $441 million -- and none went to an AI foundation-model lab.
Northwood Space closed a $375 million Series C co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth to expand the ground network connecting satellites to Earth, with a reported $2 billion valuation.
SWI Compute launched a European AI data center network built on roughly $1 billion of Nvidia hardware, targeting 2.3 gigawatts of capacity by 2029.
Anthropic filed to sell up to $3.5 billion of shares to investors in Japan as part of its planned US listing, without disclosing the IPO's total size or valuation.
Platform Accounting Group secured $355 million in growth financing led by Treville Capital Group, more than four times the $85 million Cynosure Group led in 2024, as the Salt Lake City roll-up passes 65 acquisitions and 50,000 clients.
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