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$461B
Capital tracked
491
Funding rounds
369
Model releases
567
Acquisitions
634
Talent moves
27
Weeks · since Mar 2026
This week · Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
The latest edition
Etched
Application-specific chips for transformer AI inference
- Amount
- $700M
- Valuation
- $21B
- Investors
- Jane Street
- Date
- Sep 5, 2026
- Source
- View
Wonderful
Enterprise AI platform
- Amount
- $550M
- Valuation
- $5.0B
- Investors
- Insight Partners
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Source
- View
WhatsApp Remittance Startup Félix Secures $200M Series C Led By A16z, General Catalyst
WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants
- Amount
- $200M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Lyte Raises $165 Million Series C At $1.6 Billion Valuation For Physical AI Perception Platform
Physical AI perception technology
- Amount
- $165M
- Valuation
- $1.6B
- Investors
- Maverick Silicon
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Source
- View
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
Robotics data infrastructure platform
- Amount
- $70.0M
- Valuation
- $1.2B
- Investors
- 8VC
- Date
- Sep 4, 2026
- Source
- View
Qualcomm
Smart ring wearable device
- Amount
- $70.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Qualcomm Ventures, Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Alteria Capital
- Date
- Sep 3, 2026
- Source
- View
Introducing Physical Superintelligence: The World's Most Advanced Physics Lab, Staffed by Virtual Physicists to Discover New Laws of the Universe
Physical superintelligence systems for robotics and automation
- Amount
- $58.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Breakthrough Energy Ventures
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Conveo raises $50M to scale its AI-powered consumer intelligence platform - Tech.eu
AI-powered consumer intelligence platform
- Amount
- $50.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Balderton Capital
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Source
- View
SciFin launches with $44M to help revenue teams close the ‘context gap’ - SiliconANGLE
AI assistant for unified business information access
- Amount
- $44.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Altimeter, Madrona
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Corgi
AI insurance platform
- Amount
- $40.7M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- —
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
- Source
- View
Wafer raises $40M at $200M valuation, turns down acquisition offers
AI infrastructure for GPU utilization optimization
- Amount
- $40.0M
- Valuation
- $200M
- Investors
- —
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Reframe Systems raises $40M to scale its robotic microfactories for home building - The Robot Report
Physical AI robotics for automated home construction microfactories
- Amount
- $40.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Energy Impact Partners (EIP)
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
- Source
- View
Blackstone
Network security management platform across CDNs
- Amount
- $27.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Blackstone Innovations Investments
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Source
- View
Capacity
AI-powered capacity management platform for utilities
- Amount
- $26.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Insight Partners
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Exclusive: Aslan raises $20.8M for national security AI agents
AI agents for national security and law enforcement operations
- Amount
- $20.8M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Khosla Ventures and XYZ Venture Capital
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Clipto valued at $250M after raising $15M funding round
On-device AI software platform
- Amount
- $15.0M
- Valuation
- $250M
- Investors
- HSG (formerly Sequoia China), GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Palm Drive Capital, Hans Tung, Lu Zhang, and 522 Ventures
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
- Source
- View
Aranya raises $11M to turn bare-metal servers into AI clusters in less than 48 hours - SiliconANGLE
Transforms bare-metal servers into production-ready AI clusters
- Amount
- $11.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- First Round Capital Holdings L.P.
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
After raising $10M in funding, Visko debuts Orbis, its first live model for generating long-form videos - SiliconANGLE
Foundation model for generating long-form videos
- Amount
- $10.0M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Llama Ventures
- Date
- Sep 1, 2026
- Source
- View
Lab Automation Robotics Startup ABLE Labs Raises $8.7M Series A
Laboratory automation robotics for liquid handling and autonomous labs
- Amount
- $8.7M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- Innopolis Partners
- Date
- Aug 31, 2026
- Source
- View
Airlift Co-Founder's AI Startup Metal Raises $4.5 Million
AI-powered fundraising software platform
- Amount
- $4.5M
- Valuation
- —
- Investors
- a16z Speedrun, Y Combinator
- Date
- Sep 2, 2026
- Source
- View
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