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82 ACTIVE · 29 JUST DISCOVEREDAPI-first platforms enabling non-financial businesses to natively embed payments, banking, and financial services into their products.
Phytolon's $23.6M round backed by BASF and Chanel signals corporate giants are buying equity stakes in fermentation-based ingredient supply chains.
Khosla, Felicis & Accel back AI code verification in a 48-hour deal cluster — $6M seed to Theorem leads 3 rounds in 28 days.
Iceye closes at an $11B valuation as $771M floods spatial & environmental AI in 28 days, with Planet Labs stock up 10x.
Companies building end-to-end AI-native stacks that treat autonomous vehicles as embodied physical-AI systems — learning from real-world sensor data and simulation rather than relying on hand-coded rules.
AI agentic dev tooling surges to $418M across 19 deals in 28 days, with StackAI acquired for $75M and Felicis leading 5 rounds.
Infrastructure platforms enabling businesses and creators to manage, verify, and monetize digital ownership rights via blockchain and NFT technology.
Hedra lands $32M Series A from a16z as AI-native video and generative character platforms accelerate into 2026.
Cyera hits a $9B valuation and 27 deals close in 28 days as government-ordered AI model suspensions make data governance a board-level emergency.
Cognition raises $1B at a $26B valuation as agentic browser automation sees 9 deals and $5B deployed in 28 days.
Genesis AI's $105M seed and Decart's $300M raise signal AI simulation is now a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure race.
Wayve closes a $1.4B Series C as physical world model training attracts $5.3B across 10 deals in 28 days.
Lila Sciences raises $2B at $8.5B valuation as CalPERS and NVIDIA back AI Scientific Superintelligence in a record deep-tech round.
Rocsys and Encosa's $40M+ in fresh capital signals autonomous charging is becoming a standalone infrastructure category.
Tenstorrent closes a $1.4B Series C at a $7B valuation backed by Nvidia, Qualcomm, Amazon, and Bosch as intelligent electronics manufacturing hits $27B+ in 28-day capital deployment.
Platforms that use AI to deeply understand, index, and navigate large codebases to accelerate software development workflows beyond simple code generation.
AI-first platforms applying deep learning and generative models to accelerate the discovery and design of novel molecules, proteins, and therapeutics at the intersection of computational biology and chemistry.
AI-native platforms that autonomously execute and automate complex financial workflows — including deal sourcing, fund administration, risk decisioning, and investment research — specifically for private markets, venture, and alternative asset professionals.
Anthropic raises $3.5B at $23B valuation as the first-ever government model suspension redraws the frontier AI rulebook.
Meta's $14.3B Scale AI acquisition and SGLang's $100M seed round signal AI infrastructure is the hottest M&A and venture battleground of 2026.
Hardware startups building brain-inspired, non-von-Neumann chip architectures designed to dramatically improve energy efficiency and computational density for AI workloads.
AI platforms that help enterprises capture, organize, and surface institutional knowledge to improve employee productivity and decision-making.
Figure raises $1.4B Series C as Google DeepMind, Physical Intelligence, and Tencent race to ship production hierarchical VLA robot policies.
Autonomous aerial and last-mile delivery platforms using drone fleets to fulfill physical logistics at scale.
Neuralink hits 21 human implants as $1.4B Series C and Axoft's $55M Series A signal neural bioelectronics is entering its breakout funding cycle.
Figure raises $1.4B Series C as Nvidia's GR00T and Isaac Sim cement sim-to-real as humanoid robotics' defining infrastructure layer.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 now benchmarked in 10+ papers as CMU, AgiBot, and Mondo Robotics race to crack humanoid whole-body imitation learning.
Mock raises a $70M seed round at age 19, as a16z backs Cluely's $15M Series A in AI real-time assistant space.
AI platforms that automate and personalize employee onboarding, internal knowledge transfer, and workforce enablement workflows.
Andreessen Horowitz leads 4 deals as AI construction tech pulls in $328M across 14 rounds in 28 days, headlined by Endra's $50M Series A and Autodesk's $3.6B MaintainX acquisition.
NewLimit hits $3.1B valuation after $435M Founders Fund-led round as Sam Altman backs Retro Biosciences with $1B — longevity AI crosses $2.4B in 28-day deal flow.
Agentic finance explodes with $655M across 29 deals in 28 days — Ramp hits $44B valuation as OpenAI backs fraud-automation startup Poetic.
Developer infrastructure that uses AI to automatically generate, tune, and optimize low-level compute kernels and compilers for AI workloads.
Isomorphic Labs closes $2.1B Series B as AI materials and chemistry discovery attracts $4.78B across 15 deals in 28 days.
Cybersecurity hits $2.69B across 49 deals in 28 days as Dragos raises $600M at $12B and 7AI closes $130M Series A for agentic SOC automation.
TDK acquires Fabric8Labs for up to $400M as Impulse Space closes $500M Series D, deploying $4B+ into advanced manufacturing in 28 days.
Basis hits $1.15B valuation as AI accounting agents attract $478M across 20 deals in 28 days.
Iceye hits $11.6B valuation and Mach Industries closes $300M Series C as defense tech deploys $3.88B across 38 deals in 28 days.
Waymo holds at $126B while XPeng scraps its entire AV stack for a VLA bet — autonomous systems funding hits 3 deals in 28 days.
Helion raises $465M Series G at $15.5B valuation as fusion and next-gen energy attracts $3.1B across 24 deals in 28 days.
Autonomous vehicle Physical AI attracts $9.3B across 20 deals in 28 days, with NVIDIA leading 11 investments as end-to-end learned driving models displace legacy rule-based systems.
Infrastructure platforms purpose-built for vector embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines powering modern AI applications.
DriveNets raises $410M at an $8.5B valuation as AI-native networking attracts $825M across 6 deals in 28 days.
Project Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation to compress industrial engineering cycle times 10x, anchoring AI Design & Engineering's biggest-ever capital wave.
AI financial modeling hits $1.55B across 24 deals in 28 days, led by Rogo's $160M Series D and Hypha's $50M stealth seed.
Companies building regulated, institutional-grade financial services infrastructure — exchanges, custody, payments rails, and stablecoins — that bridges traditional finance and on-chain digital assets.
Crypto & Web3 hits $4.47B in 28-day deal flow as Goldman Sachs, Apollo, and Amazon co-invest alongside Paradigm in Morpho and Digital Asset mega-rounds.
SpaceX's $75B IPO — the largest in history — ignites a capital supercycle across on-orbit AI, propulsion, and space domain awareness.
Traversal's $48M seed and 17 deals in 28 days signal AI Observability is becoming the must-have infrastructure layer for production AI.
General Catalyst leads 5 manufacturing deals in 28 days as the sector pulls in $4.26B across robotics, AI tooling, and advanced materials.
Databricks closes $12B growth round at $41B valuation as BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Goldman lead a data infrastructure supercycle with $26.4B deployed in 28 days.
Biotech hits escape velocity: Lila Sciences raises $2B, GSK acquires Nuvalent for $10.6B, and Parabilis sets an all-time VC-backed IPO record in the same two-week window.
Fintech's 28-day surge hits $28.46B across 79 deals as Airwallex raises $355M and Ramp crosses $1B ARR at a $44B valuation.
AI platforms that accelerate scientific research, expert knowledge discovery, and structured synthesis of complex information for professionals.
Biotech companies developing therapeutic platforms based on gene editing, gene delivery, or genetic reprogramming to treat disease at the genomic level.
Mach Industries closes a $300M Series C at a $1.8B valuation as autonomous defense attracts Ribbit, Sequoia, and Khosla — and D-Fend's $1.5B exit sets a new M&A benchmark.
AI Vertical SaaS surges to 147 deals and $44.8B deployed in 28 days as Andreessen Horowitz leads with 24 rounds across legal, industrial, and healthcare workflow automation.
Suno's $400M Series D at a $5.4B valuation leads a $2.67B, 18-deal surge making generative AI audio an institutional investment category.
AI cybersecurity hits $17.65B across 81 deals in 28 days as Google's $32B Wiz acquisition and autonomous pentesting startups like Tenzai redefine the sector.
Thinking Machines Lab's record $2B seed and Basis's $1.15B unicorn valuation signal AI Agents is now the dominant capital magnet in tech, with $28.8B deployed in 28 days.
LLM inference infrastructure absorbs $4.36B across 27 deals in 28 days, led by Inferact's $150M seed and Groq's $650M restructuring raise.
Garner Health hits $2.74B valuation on $100M Series E as AI care navigation draws $663M across 20 deals in 28 days.
AI Infrastructure hits $16.5B in 28-day deal flow as KKR, Nvidia & Kuwait Investment Authority launch $10B Helix platform.
Anthropic's Fable 5 suspended by U.S. government order as $24.5B floods LLM deals in 28 days, led by Google's 7 investments.
Zepto hits $7B IPO valuation as General Catalyst backs 4 marketplace deals in 28 days, deploying $499M across the theme.
Corgi doubles to a $2.6B valuation in three weeks as AI-native insurance pulls in $670M across 11 deals in 28 days.
Anthropic's $65B Series H at a $965B valuation makes RLHF the most capital-intensive AI discipline, with 17 deals and $10.47B deployed in 28 days.
Meta acquires Scale AI for $14.3B as NVIDIA leads 12 deals in 28 days, signaling training data is the new AI battleground.
Wayve and PhysicsX pull in $1.7B combined as physical world model simulation hits $5.73B in 28-day deal flow.
Harvey serves 142,000+ lawyers across 1,500 organizations as Kirkland & Ellis bets $500M on internal legal AI — 31 deals totaling $7.18B closed in 28 days.
Genspark hits $2.6B valuation on $100M raise as 51 AI productivity deals close in 28 days, totaling $12.4B deployed.
Quantum computing attracts $10.6B in 28 days as Anderon lands $1B CHIPS Act grant and Quobly closes a $133.6M Series A.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 benchmarks dominate 19 deals totaling $44.9B as embodied foundation models hit institutional-scale funding.
Thinking Machines Lab's $2B seed round and Sierra's $15.8B valuation signal AI voice is now a platform-defining battleground.
Skild AI's $14B Series A and $26.97B deployed in 28 days signals deep learning's physical AI inflection point.
World model startups raise $1.3B in 28 days — Decart hits $4B valuation with Karpathy and NVIDIA backing.
Cursor rumored at $60B acquisition value as Anthropic, OpenAI & Google DeepMind snap up AI dev tools in a wave of foundation-model consolidation.
Defense AI multi-domain systems surge to $8.63B across 29 deals in 28 days, with Mach Industries closing a $300M Series C at a $1.8B valuation.
Wonderful raises $100M Series A as AI customer ops hits $504M across 15 deals in 28 days, with Sierra hitting a $15.8B valuation.
AI companions race into your DMs: 6 seed rounds closed in a single week as a16z, Sequoia, and General Catalyst bet on messaging-native AI relationships.
US government suspends Anthropic's Fable 5 & Mythos 5 in AI's first export control model pulldown as $6.93B floods into AI safety in 28 days.
Mind Robotics' $500M Series A and a Rivian spinout factory-as-data-moat signal humanoid robots are entering full-scale industrial deployment.
Deeptune raises $43M led by a16z/Andreessen Horowitz as RL environments attract 5 deals and $4B+ in 28 days.
Tenstorrent raises $1.4B Series C backed by Nvidia, Amazon & Qualcomm as hardware deals hit $7.28B across 24 rounds in 28 days.
Modal hits $300M ARR and closes $355M Series C as cloud AI infrastructure sees $13.4B deployed across 30 deals in 28 days.
Semiconductors hit $5.96B across 20 deals in 28 days as Nvidia, AMD Ventures, and CoreWeave co-invest in next-gen inference chips.
NinjaOne doubles valuation to $12.3B in 4 months as 42 enterprise SaaS deals close $3.98B in 28 days.
Nvidia reportedly acquires Boston Dynamics as Unitree G1 becomes the academic community's default humanoid testbed across 6+ research papers in 30 days.
Frame Security raises a landmark $50M seed led by Index Ventures as AI physical security draws 3 deals and $57M in capital in 28 days.
Project Prometheus raises $12B at a $41B valuation — backed by BlackRock, JPMorgan & Goldman — as Physical AI attracts $38.6B in 28 days.
Physical Intelligence's $1.4B Series C — backed by NVIDIA, Amazon, and Bosch — crowns dexterous manipulation as the most capital-intensive robotics bet of 2026.
Visa partners with OpenAI to let AI agents spend money as $507M floods agentic payments infrastructure in 28 days.
Companies building full-stack humanoid robots that tightly integrate Physical AI — including neural whole-body control, learned perception, and foundation model policies — rather than scripted or classical control.
Klaviyo hits $1.4B ARR and Hightouch closes $150M Series D as AI-native marketing intelligence surges to $8.2B deployed in 28 days.
AI chip startups attract $20B+ in 28 days as Tenstorrent fields acquisition bids from Intel and Qualcomm after raising $1.8B.
Andreessen Horowitz backs two VLM deals in 28 days as Conntour's $7M seed and ARGU's $2M pre-seed target enterprise camera search.
Generative AI creative tools surge to $4.36B across 42 deals in 28 days, with Suno's $250M Series C and Decart's $300M raise leading a wave of AI-native challengers to Adobe and Canva.
Robotics crosses $20B in 28-day capital deployment as Genesis AI's $105M seed and a $1.4B Series C signal a sector in hypergrowth.
Healthtech surges to $2.28B across 57 deals in 28 days, led by General Catalyst's 15-deal blitz and Hippocratic AI's $404M total raise at a $3.5B valuation.
Physical Intelligence's π0.5 benchmarks lead as $6.67B floods AI robot manipulation across 18 deals in 28 days.
Polimorphic closes a $50M Series A backed by Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and OpenAI as $1.19B floods AI GovTech in 28 days.
Europe's climate-tech surge hits $6.6B in a single quarter as CMBlu Energy closes a $240M Series A backed by RWE and Prime Movers Lab.
Mind Robotics lands $500M Series A as robot manipulation hits $916M in 28-day deal activity across 4 rounds.
Andreessen Horowitz leads District's $14.7M seed as AI-native commerce infrastructure heats up alongside Uber's $11.6B Delivery Hero deal.
Skild AI raises $1.4B Series C from Amazon, Nvidia & Bosch as RL-for-robotics enters hypergrowth with 4 deals and $16.8B deployed in 28 days.
Base Power raises at a $12B valuation as 14 grid-infrastructure deals deploy $430M in 28 days, with ERock's $600M NYSE IPO marking the AI energy moment.
Hippocratic AI hits $3.5B valuation as 31 AI clinical deals deploy $1.94B in 28 days, led by General Catalyst and a16z.
Low Carbon Materials and Cloover anchor a record $6.6B European climate-tech Q1, as 7 deals close in 28 days across carbon and sustainability marketplaces.
Motorola acquires D-Fend Solutions for $1.5B at ~20x ROIC as True Anomaly's $650M Series D and 8 new deals confirm drone defense's breakout moment.
Columbia RoboPIL Lab's FlexiTac cuts tactile sensing to $30/unit, unlocking cross-embodiment imitation learning across 4 robot platforms.
Mariana Minerals raises $120M seed from a16z to deploy AI-driven mining OS across 10 critical mineral projects in 10 years.