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Importance:Newsfunding round - AI inference

Fireworks AI reportedly seeks funding at $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its October price tag

Fireworks AI is in talks to raise funding at a $15 billion valuation, nearly quadrupling its $4 billion price tag from its October 2025 Series C round. Source: cryptobriefing.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent... Source: techcrunch.com

Importance:NewsAI infrastructure funding - edge computing

Armada Closes Series B and Opens US Factory to Scale Sovereign AI Infrastructure at the Edge

Armada, which builds modular data centres for AI deployment in remote and sensitive environments, has closed a heavily oversubscribed Series B co-led by. Source: theaiinsider.tech

Importance:NewsAnthropic mega-round / AI market dynamics

Anthropic Funding Round to Top $30B: $900B Valuation Would Surpass OpenAI as Most Valuable AI Startup

Anthropic funding round set to close above $30 billion at a $900B valuation — here's what the revenue numbers actually show, what analysts dispute about the... Source: techtimes.com

Importance:NewsAI infrastructure funding

Exclusive: Modal Labs valued at $4.65 billion as AI coding takes off

AI startup Modal raised $355 million in a new round of financing, valuing the company at $4.65 billion, CEO Erik Bernhardsson ​told Reuters. Source: reuters.com

Importance:Newsquantum computing funding

Alice & Bob Announces Investment From NVIDIA’s VC Arm in Series B Extension

Alice & Bob said NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, expanded the company's €100 million Series B round. Source: thequantuminsider.com

Importance:NewsAI search funding - Exa Labs

Exa labs' $250m, Carbon cancels €1.7b factory, Sherritt eyes Gillon Capital stake

Venture Capital. • Exa Labs, an SF-based AI search startup, raised $250m at a $2.2b valuation led by a16z. Go deeper. • Mercury, an SF-based business... Source: axios.com

Importance:NewsAI startup funding

AI startup Unframe raises $50 million Series B after surpassing $100 million in contracts within a year

The Israeli startup, founded by former Noname Security executives, says it has signed more than $100 million in multi-year enterprise AI contracts as... Source: calcalistech.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Sigma Raises $80 Million Series E, Doubles Valuation to $3 Billion

Sigma, the AI Apps and agentic analytics platform, today announced the closing of $80 million in Series E financing at a $3 billion valuation. Source: businesswire.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Edge Inference Chip Startup SiMa.ai Raising at $1.4 Billion Valuation

Nvidia might be on a tear, but some investors are still convinced that there's demand for another kind of specialized chips. And they're putting their money... Source: theinformation.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

AI cloud DeepInfra raises $107m in Series B funding round

AI cloud provider DeepInfra has secured $107 million in a Series B funding round. The company will use the capital to expand its inference cloud platform... Source: datacenterdynamics.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

EQT wins €5b deeptech mandate, Decart nears $4b, and Uber's Delivery Hero increase

Venture Capital. • Decart, a real-time GenAI research lab, raised $300m at nearly a $4b valuation. Radical Ventures led, joined by insiders Benchmark,... Source: axios.com

Importance:Newsfunding round - AI/biotech

UAE’s MGX Joins USD 2.1B Round for UK-Based Isomorphic Labs

UAE's MGX joined London-based Isomorphic Labs' USD 2.1 billion Series B funding round to scale its technology. Source: waya.media

Importance:Newsdefense tech funding

Anduril Raises $5B in Series H Funding Round at $61B Valuation

Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf said the financing round reflects growing investor interest in defense technology companies. Source: govconwire.com

Importance:NewsAI training data / creator economy

Wirestock Raises $23 Million Series A to Expand Creator-Powered AI Data Platform

Wirestock has secured $23 million in Series A financing as the company accelerates its push to become a leading supplier of ethically sourced multimodal... Source: citybiz.co

Importance:Newsfunding round

Anduril Raises Another $5B As Defense Tech Startups Shatter Funding Records

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries said Wednesday that it has raised another $5 billion in funding at a $61 billion valuation — double the valuation of... Source: news.crunchbase.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Wilson Sonsini Advises Recursive on $650 Million Series A Funding at a $4.65 Billion Valuation

On May 13, 2026, Recursive, an AI start-up dedicated to advancing AI intelligence through recursive self-improvement, came out of stealth and announced that... Source: wsgr.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B

Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in process in March has officially closed. Source: techcrunch.com

Importance:Newsindustrial robotics funding

Kleiner Perkins backs Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s Mind Robotics with $400M to bring AI robots into factories

Mind Robotics has raised $400 million in a new funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with support from several new and existing investors. Founded in 2025. Source: techfundingnews.com

Importance:NewsAI biotech funding

Alphabet's AI biotech Isomorphic Labs bags $2.1B series B to fuel next-gen drug design model

If any proof was needed that big money is still available for AI drug development, look no further than the 10-figure series B hauled in by Isomorphic. Source: fiercebiotech.com