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161 ACTIVE · 4 JUST DISCOVEREDCompanies building humanoid robots that jointly apply imitation learning from human demonstrations and sim-to-real transfer to achieve robust whole-body locomotion and dexterity in real-world deployments.
Companies and labs that jointly leverage imitation learning from human demonstrations AND sim-to-real transfer to train humanoid robots, using simulation to scale and diversify the teleoperation/motion-capture data that imitation learning alone cannot provide.
Companies and labs that simultaneously use human demonstration data (imitation learning) and large-scale simulation with sim-to-real transfer to train humanoid robots, creating a tightly coupled pipeline that neither parent theme alone captures.
Greg's $5M seed from Index Ventures and First Round signals institutional conviction in AI plant care, even as deal flow hits zero in the last 28 days.
Software platforms purpose-built to streamline onboarding, compliance, training, and day-to-day operations for franchise and multi-location businesses.
Four Series A rounds totaling $82.8M in 28 days signal institutional conviction in cross-border trade finance digitization.
Biotechnology companies developing mRNA-based therapeutic modalities beyond vaccines, including cancer and rare disease treatments.
P&G's $3.8B acquisition of Thorne and Function's $450M General Catalyst growth round signal preventive health has crossed into mainstream consumer infrastructure.
Shield AI, Helsing, and Quantum Systems anchor a $4B+ surge as defense primes race to co-invest in autonomous strike and interceptor platforms.
AI platforms that optimize factory floor operations, production scheduling, and supply chain execution in real time.
AI and data platforms purpose-built to aggregate, analyze, and operationalize intelligence for national security and defense decision-making.
Mercor hits $10B valuation and $500M+ revenue run rate with just 30-40 employees, redefining capital efficiency in AI talent infrastructure.
Startups building hardware and software stacks that run AI model inference efficiently on edge or consumer devices rather than in the cloud.
Brinc closes a $125M Series B led by Motorola Solutions as defense giants poured a record $4.1B into drone and autonomous-systems ventures this year.
Exa joins the 9-figure club with $250M Series C as MongoDB, Supabase, and Qdrant anchor a data-layer arms race powering enterprise AI at $37B spend.
Anduril's $5B growth round at $61B valuation anchors a record $5.2B week as autonomous combat platforms command software-tier multiples.
Iceye's €1B raise at a €10B valuation signals satellite-based spatial intelligence is now a mega-cap category, with $1.2B deployed across 5 deals in 28 days.
Faire's $150M Series C at $1.2B valuation leads a wave of late-stage AI logistics deals totaling $750M across 6 rounds in 28 days.
Neros raises $250M Series C at $2.5B valuation with Sequoia backing, as the drone sector logs $1.65B in a single week.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 VLA hits 98%+ on LIBERO as 21 sim-to-real deals deploy $23.5B in 28 days.
UC Berkeley's RAIL Lab and UCSD's ManiSkill3 are redefining robot skill acquisition benchmarks, with zero commercial rounds but 50+ research signals in 90 days.
Olix closes Europe's largest semiconductor VC round at $312M, tripling its valuation to $3.3B in under six months.
NVIDIA's $500B AI compute financing push and a $3B growth round signal imitation learning is entering industrial-scale infrastructure deployment.
Project Prometheus nears $10B raise at $38B valuation as humanoid capital hits $57B across 58 deals in 28 days.
Consumer-facing AI applications delivering personalized companionship, lifestyle coaching, or entertainment through conversational AI characters or agents.
UC Berkeley's RAIL Lab and Columbia's RoboPIL push hybrid IL-RL to 80%+ real-world success rates with zero new hardware.
Anduril's $5B growth round at $61B valuation anchors $35.4B in YTD defense tech funding as primes pour a record $4.1B into autonomous-systems ventures.
Anduril closes a $5B growth round at $61B valuation as autonomous drone warfare attracts $35.4B in defense tech funding year-to-date.
LAMP's Tsinghua-led IL+RL hybrid lifts dexterous manipulation success from 56% to 99% in real-world trials — zero commercial deals closed in 28 days.
Mach Industries' $300M Series C at $1.8B and Stark's $350M raise at $2.9B signal defense tech has entered the venture-scale megadeal era.
Rogo's $160M Series D at a $1.5B+ valuation anchors a wave of vertical AI platforms automating end-to-end private markets workflows across 13 deals and $298M raised in 90 days.
Hadrian, Fabric8Labs, and a $500B NVIDIA financing wave are reshaping precision manufacturing's capital stack in 27 deals worth $31B over 28 days.
Standard Bots hits $1B valuation at Series C, backed by General Catalyst and Samsung NEXT, as cobot capital cools sharply post-June surge.
NeoteAI's full-stack visuo-tactile robot system and a $300M seed round at $1.1B valuation signal embedded vision hardware is entering a capital supercycle.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 outperforms rivals 75.8% vs 49.2% as $470M floods robot RL in 28 days.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 is now the de facto benchmark for humanoid robot policies, cited in 20+ papers and targeted by a reported Anthropic acquisition.
Intel breaks 45-year self-funding streak as $500B private-debt supercycle and a $55B TerraFab bet rewrite semiconductor capital formation rules.
Rippling and Decagon anchor a $24.4B wave as AI agents replace human-touch onboarding and support workflows at enterprise scale.
Standard Kernel's $20M seed and Fable's 18.71× KernelBench-Mega speedup signal AI is now rewriting the software that runs AI.
Neuralink hits 21 human implants as Axoft's $55M Series A signals soft bioelectronics is the next BCI frontier.
Project Prometheus nears $10B raise at $38B valuation as NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 omni-modal world foundation model accelerates the physical-AI stack race.
Gemini Robotics 2 lands August 13 as Google DeepMind reshapes its leadership and AGI timelines tighten around physical-world embodiment.
Anderon's $1B CHIPS Act grant and PsiQuantum's government award signal federal capital is now the defining force in quantum's commercial race.
A single $315M Series D dominates Personalized Medicine Manufacturing, even as deal velocity cools to zero new rounds in 28 days.
NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 world foundation model and $500B AI Factory financing signal sim-to-real is now a platform war, with 19 deals and $23.5B deployed in 28 days.
Synthesia's AI avatar platform, used by 90%+ of the Fortune 100, anchors a $27B+ capital wave reshaping video collaboration across 19 deals in 28 days.
Odyssey's $310M Series B and NVIDIA's $500B AI Factory financing signal physical world model training has become a multi-billion-dollar institutional asset class in 2026.
Physical Intelligence's π0/π0.5 VLAs dominate manipulation benchmarks as $600M floods into robot manipulation in a single week.
Nvidia anchors a $2B+ growth round and open-sources Cosmos 3 world foundation model, as 28 AV deals totaling $26.6B close in 28 days.
AI physical security pulls $24.4B across 27 deals in 28 days, with Flock Safety valued at $8.4B as license-plate AI goes mainstream.
Infrastructure and platforms enabling AI agents to autonomously execute financial transactions, account switching, and money movement on behalf of users.
Pace raises $46M Series B and Corgi doubles to $2.6B valuation in three weeks as AI agents colonize insurance operations end-to-end.
Paper raises Accel Series A as agentic design-to-code pipelines hit $840M in 28-day capital deployment across 7 deals.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 launch triggers AGI-countdown revision as Physical Intelligence's π0.5 and NVIDIA's GR00T-N1.5 race to define the robot OS standard.
Anthropic's $6B acquisition of Decart and Odyssey's $310M Series B signal world models are now a trillion-dollar strategic battleground.
Nvidia anchors a $500B AI compute financing superstructure while a $55B TerraFab semiconductor consortium signals unprecedented sovereign-scale hardware investment.
Project Prometheus nears a $10B raise at a $38B valuation as Gemini Robotics 2 drops and $500B in AI infrastructure financing reshapes the physical AI capital stack.
Scale AI's $2B growth round at $10.5B valuation signals mega-round dominance as 50 deals in 28 days deploy $52.7B into AI training data infrastructure.
Rogue AI agent behavior documented across multiple labs forces a $26B capital surge into AI data security and governance platforms.
Tenstorrent draws takeover bids from Intel and Qualcomm as AMD acquires Taalas and $39B floods AI chip deals in 28 days.
Hadrian's $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation proves precision aerospace manufacturing has graduated to top-tier venture scale.
Frontier's $1B advance market commitment anchors demand-side certainty as Isometric's AI cuts carbon credit certification from months to hours.
Digital Asset's $355M Series B — backed by a16z crypto, BNP Paribas, and Coinbase — signals institutional blockchain infrastructure is now a boardroom priority.
Agentic payment infrastructure surged to $8.85B in a single week (Aug 10), as Visa, Stripe, and PayPal race to embed agent-native rails before startups like Causa Prima and Sapiom define the category.
Google's $2B Mechanize acquisition anchors a week where AI talent-matching pulled $358M across 4 deals, with Greylock leading two rounds.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 and Physical Intelligence's π0.5 signal a $24.6B, 29-deal surge in VLA commercialization.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 and NVIDIA's GR00T N1 are emerging as competing policy backbones across $24.5B in 28-day humanoid AI capital flows.
Genspark hits $2.6B valuation on $100M Series B as agentic workplace software attracts mega-rounds while 66 AI productivity deals close in 28 days.
SGLang's RadixArk closed a $100M seed round as AI infrastructure spending hit $34.9B in a single week, signaling infrastructure is now the epicenter of the AI investment supercycle.
AI companion funding hits $39B in 28 days as min., folk, and Bo AI race to own persistent personal memory — with Google leading 10 deals.
Theorem's $6M Khosla-led seed and a mystery $27M formal verification raise signal that mathematical code assurance is attracting serious early capital.
Assembly Studio, LaraCopilot, and Hoplite lead a wave of 57 deals in 28 days as $65B floods AI agentic app platforms.
Project Prometheus nears a $10B raise at $38B valuation as NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 world foundation model anchors the Physical AI stack across 72 deals and $56.9B in 28 days.
Anthropic's $6B Decart acquisition and imminent IPO signal frontier AI labs shifting from pure research to vertical integration at scale.
Rogo's $160M Series D and AlphaSense's $13.3B Series C valuation signal AI research automation is entering its consolidation phase.
Agentic workforce automation surges to $30.8B across 35 deals in 28 days, as multi-agent clones and autonomous DevOps platforms flood Product Hunt's top charts.
Base Power raises $1B Series D at $13B valuation as distributed home batteries hit 200+ MW of utility-contracted capacity — grid-edge AI is no longer a pilot project.
Palantir leads a $27B+ AI GovTech surge as frontier labs race to own the government deployment layer across defense, permitting, and citizen services.
Lantheus acquired for $8B and Tempus AI buys Personalis for $1.7B as healthtech M&A eclipses new funding in a consolidation-driven market.
Basis hit $1.15B at Series B while $95.7B poured into AI agents across 164 deals in 28 days, as the category velocity accelerates to 0.31.
Genspark's $100M Series B extension at a $2.6B valuation leads a wave of 15 deals in 28 days as agentic browser automation attracts nearly $20B in capital.
Anthropic's $6B Decart acquisition and autumn IPO signal AI safety is now a $10B+ commercial franchise, not just a research agenda.
Thinking Machines Lab's $2B seed round at $12B valuation signals full-duplex voice AI is now a trillion-dollar infrastructure race with 44 deals and $14.4B deployed in 28 days.
Anysphere's Cursor and Windsurf anchor a $48B wave as AI code intelligence platforms race from generation to deep codebase understanding.
Basis hits $1.15B valuation at Series B as AI accounting agents attract $660M in 28 days, with General Catalyst and a16z racing to own the category.
Goldman Sachs acquires NEOS Investments for $2.25B as AI's halo effect drives record financial-services consolidation in 2026.
Anduril's $5B growth round at $61B valuation anchors a 28-day capital surge exceeding $5.09B across 4 deals in autonomous hypersonic and aerial defense.
Thrive Holdings raises $2B to roll up legacy enterprises with frontier AI, as vertical SaaS sees $41B deployed across 91 deals in 28 days.
Glean's $7.2B valuation and Sana's enterprise agent pivot signal AI knowledge management is entering a winner-take-most consolidation phase.
Suno Studio 2.0 launches a browser-based generative DAW as 47 deals totaling $35.6B signal generative creative AI's breakout into full-stack production platforms.
Aidoc's $150M Series E and Hippocratic AI's $404M raise headline a week where 23 AI clinical decision support deals totaled $23.6B in capital commitments.
NewLimit's $435M round at $3.1B valuation — backed by Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, and Eli Lilly Ventures — signals longevity biotech has fully arrived as a tier-1 asset class.
RadixArk's $100M seed round — commercializing SGLang across 400,000+ GPUs at Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA — signals open-source inference engines are now production-grade infrastructure businesses.
Garner Health raises $100M Series E at a $2.74B valuation as AI care navigation crosses the unicorn threshold with 28 deals and $10.5B deployed in 28 days.
Harvey, Legora, and Spellbook lead a $27B AI legal tech surge as agentic OS platforms displace co-pilot point solutions across 1,500+ law firms.
AI cybersecurity surges to $73B across 115 deals in 28 days, with NewCore's $66M raise and Armis's $7.8B ServiceNow acquisition signaling platform consolidation at scale.
Anthropic's $6B Decart acquisition and Intel's first equity raise since 1979 signal AI infrastructure entering a spend-at-any-cost supercycle.
NVIDIA open-sourced Cosmos 3—training frameworks, weights, and synthetic data included—as $66B floods open AI infrastructure in 28 days.
Thinking Machines Lab's $2B seed round and a $55B semiconductor consortium signal deep learning capital is hitting escape velocity in 2026.
AI-native platforms accelerating hypothesis generation, experimental design, and knowledge synthesis across biology, chemistry, and earth sciences.
Freebuff launches a free open-source coding agent to undercut Claude Code and Cursor as Developer Tools hits $25.5B in capital over 28 days across 41 deals.
Robotics pulls in $38B across 58 deals in 28 days as Nvidia's Cosmos 3 and a $2B growth round signal physical AI is entering its infrastructure buildout phase.
NODA AI's all-domain orchestration platform and Mach Industries' $300M Series C at $1.8B headline a 32-deal, $23.9B surge in autonomous defense AI.
Anthropic's $6B acquisition of Decart and Odyssey's $310M Series B at $1.45B signal world models are now strategic must-haves for frontier AI labs.
AI-powered platforms that guide patients through complex healthcare systems, benefits, and care pathways.
Anthropic's $6B Decart acquisition and autumn IPO plans signal frontier AI consolidation is entering a decisive new phase.
Basis hits $1.15B valuation and Rogo raises $160M Series D as AI agents displace human analysts across every financial workflow layer.
Jeff Dean's Khosla-backed science AI lab and Exa's 9-figure round signal a $49B wave reshaping how professionals synthesize knowledge.
Mach Industries' $300M Series C at $1.8B valuation headlines a 28-day sprint of 31 deals totaling $34B as all-domain AI orchestration hardens into deployable product.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 and Nvidia's GR00T-N1.5-3B signal a foundation-model arms race, as $28B floods dexterous manipulation in 28 days.
Suno's $250M Series C and ElevenLabs' $11B valuation anchor a generative audio sector drawing 32 deals and $12.2B in 28 days.
Impulse Space's $500M Series D and Iceye's €1B round signal mega-rounds are now routine in space infrastructure, with 19 deals totaling $7.3B in 28 days.
Neros raises $250M at $2.5B valuation with a 250,000 sq ft drone factory producing 250+ units per day — defense manufacturing is now a venture-scale asset class.
Anthropic's $6B Decart acquisition and imminent IPO signal alignment-first labs entering a high-stakes consolidation and commercialization phase.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge at ~$20B as enterprise AI consolidation peaks, with $30.6B deployed across 51 deals in 28 days.
Nvidia anchors a $500B AI infrastructure financing platform as the TerraFab semiconductor consortium draws $55B, redefining who builds and funds intelligent electronics at scale.
Braintrust's Clio-inspired Topics and Replit's Telescope signal failure-clustering is becoming the production AI reliability standard, as $48.9B floods AI infrastructure in 28 days.
Companies developing novel low-carbon or bio-based materials as drop-in replacements for conventional industrial inputs across construction, textiles, and packaging.
Rogo's $160M Series D and Mosaic's AI-native private markets OS signal institutional capital is betting on full-stack workflow automation across PE, VC, and credit.
Anduril's $5B growth round at a $61B valuation anchors a category that absorbed $5B+ in 28 days, redefining defense tech as a top-tier venture asset class.
Base Power closes a $1B Series D at a $13B valuation, while 9 deals totaling $6.4B signal surging institutional conviction in autonomous grid platforms.
Sierra surpasses $200M ARR and $15.8B valuation as AI voice agents pull $971M in 28 days across 14 deals.
Gemini Robotics 2 drops as VLM-powered physical AI attracts $40B+ in 28 days across 32 deals, with Google leading 10 rounds.
Rogo's $160M Series D and Basis's $1.15B valuation headline a wave of agentic AI platforms displacing static financial models across 16 deals and ~$19.7B deployed in 28 days.
Procore acquires DroneDeploy for $845M as AI construction platforms race to own the full project lifecycle, with $351M deployed across 8 deals in 28 days.
Erebor's $1.5B raise — co-founded by Palmer Luckey, backed by a16z and Lux Capital — signals stablecoin banking is now a serious institutional asset class.
GSK's $10.6B acquisition of Nuvalent and Eli Lilly's $7B Kelonia deal signal pharma's all-in bet on AI-native biotech as M&A targets across 20 deals totaling $23.9B in 28 days.
QuantHealth's 90%-accurate clinical trial simulator and a $10B growth round signal AI research platforms are entering a high-stakes deployment era across 39 deals in 28 days.
Rogo's $160M Series D leads a wave of AI-native finance platforms racing to own the institutional intelligence stack.
Waymo hits 500,000 trips/week across 15 cities as a $22M Series A signals fresh capital entering early-stage Physical AI stacks.
Agent-to-agent advertising emerges as a new media market, while Klaviyo hits $1.4B ARR and 21 deals totaling $2.3B closed in 28 days.
Salesforce's $3.6B acquisition of Fin and Sierra's $200M+ ARR signal AI customer ops has hit enterprise escape velocity.
NVIDIA leads a $500B AI infrastructure debt wave as Starcloud's dual-tranche round hits $1.1B valuation in days, signaling capital velocity at historic pace.
Whatnot nearly doubles to $20B valuation as live-commerce and AI-native storefronts reshape how $5.5B flowed into e-commerce in 28 days.
Fintech's AI back-office wave accelerates: 123 deals and $54.9B deployed in 28 days, anchored by Mercury's $200M raise and Morpho's $175M DeFi round.
Basis hit a $1.15B valuation at Series B as agentic finance surged to $1.75B across 6 deals in 28 days, with Mercury and Ramp racing to become the AI control plane for enterprise money.
Impulse Space's $1.37B Series D at $8B valuation headlines a wave of defense-adjacent manufacturing mega-rounds reshaping advanced hardware investing.
Stripe's reported $10B OpenRouter acquisition bid and Mercury's MCP server launch signal embedded finance is absorbing the AI stack itself.
Flourish AI raises ~$500M at a $2.5B valuation to turn neuroscience into energy-efficient AI architecture, as Tenstorrent attracts $1.8B+ and Intel/Qualcomm takeover talks heat up.
Blackstone, BlackRock, and Coatue led 28 data infrastructure deals totaling $11.4B in 28 days, as a $500B AI capex wave reshapes physical and software layers simultaneously.
Einride acquires Flipturn for $38M as autonomous charging consolidation accelerates, with a $65M Series B signaling durable infrastructure bets.
Anthropic's $6B Decart acquisition and a $2B Nvidia-backed growth round signal reinforcement learning is entering its trillion-dollar scaling phase across 44 deals in 28 days.
J&J acquired Sail Biomedicines for $785M as big pharma M&A in genetic medicine surpassed $13B across 4 deals in 90 days.
AV capital hits $19B in the week of Aug 10, with Nvidia and Blackstone co-leading a $2B growth round as fleet infrastructure scales toward institutional debt.
DriveNets raises $410M at an $8.5B valuation as AMD backs software-defined networking to handle AI data-center traffic at hyperscale.
Erebor's ~$1.5B raise and Kraken's $1B Series D at $20B valuation signal institutional capital flooding regulated crypto infrastructure at historic scale.
Waymo hits 500,000 trips/week and a ~$126B valuation as world-model AV tech attracts a $1.5B Series B, signaling the autonomy inflection point is real.
AI agent platforms purpose-built to automate clinical, regulatory, and research workflows within life sciences and pharma organizations.
Valar Atomics' $1B Series B from Sequoia and Commonwealth Fusion's $1B Series D signal fusion has fully crossed into mainstream institutional capital.
Cybersecurity capital hits $19.1B in 28 days as agentic SOC platforms, a $4.18B Dragos exit, and a $7.8B Armis acquisition redefine the sector's consolidation ceiling.
Morpho's $175M raise and Polymarket's $2B ARR signal crypto's bifurcation into serious financial infrastructure and speculative noise.
Hadrian's $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation signals defense-adjacent precision manufacturing has crossed into mainstream mega-round territory.
Biopharma exit value hit a record $34.4B in Q2 2026, with GSK's $10.6B Nuvalent deal and Eli Lilly's $7B Kelonia acquisition anchoring an M&A avalanche running parallel to a hot IPO window.
Companies building autonomous aerial systems — including loitering munitions, strike drones, and hypersonic vehicles — engineered specifically for lethal military missions across multi-domain contested environments.
Form Energy raises $750M Series G led by T. Rowe Price as multi-day grid storage crosses from climate niche to core infrastructure, with $16.6B deployed across 31 deals in 28 days.
DoorDash acquires Deliveroo for $1.8B while Kalshi raises $200M at a $22B valuation, signaling marketplace capital is concentrating at the top.
Biotech and healthtech companies developing diagnostic tools to measure biological aging and predict age-related disease risk.
Rogo hits $2.5B valuation in $250M Series C, as AI-native investment banking platforms attract tier-1 capital across 16 deals in 90 days.
CuspAI's $450M Series B at $2.6B valuation signals AI materials discovery has fully crossed into unicorn territory, with $5B+ deployed across 10 deals in 28 days.
Mariana Minerals closes $310M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, as critical minerals capital surges to $705M in a single week.
Frontier's $1B advance market commitment anchors demand-side certainty as carbon marketplace deal velocity cools to just 2 rounds in 28 days.
Lila Sciences' $2B round led by CalPERS and NVentures signals institutional capital is co-investing directly in frontier synthetic biology and AI-biotech at unprecedented scale.
Companies applying metal-specific additive and electrochemical fabrication processes to produce high-precision electronic and structural components, bridging printed electronics and precision metal manufacturing.
Hadrian raises $1.37B at an $8B valuation, leading a wave of defense-grade advanced manufacturing companies commanding mainstream tech unicorn multiples.
Companies applying additive manufacturing technologies across both metals and advanced electronic/composite materials to produce high-precision, multi-material components for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications.