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HappyRobot has raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Prysm Capital, with Eurazeo serving as co-lead investor. The startup aims to build what it calls enterprise-grade superintelligence. Source: businesswire.com
Global venture funding kept accelerating in July, with startups raising a combined $65 billion — double the amount from a year earlier. The month also set a record for the number of billion-dollar mega-rounds closed. Source: news.crunchbase.com
Mariana Minerals, a startup applying AI to mining and mineral refining, announced it has closed a $310 million Series B round. Source: tectonicdefense.com
DeepX, a South Korean designer of AI chips, closed the first tranche of its Series D funding at a $2.2 billion valuation. That's roughly four times higher than its previous valuation. Source: briefs.co
Nuclear startup Valar Atomics announced a $1 billion Series B funding round to scale up production of small nuclear reactors. The company plans to move from prototype development to mass manufacturing, aiming to meet the AI industry's growing energy demands. Source: siliconangle.com
Startup Turner Caldwell is betting that metals, not oil and gas, will power the next century — largely thanks to AI's growing hunger for hardware. The company has attracted backing from investors including Khosla Ventures and a16z. Source: fortune.com
Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy describes the current AI investment landscape as a rare land-grab opportunity for venture capital. The firm has raised $3 billion in fresh capital to invest in the next wave of AI startups. Source: news.crunchbase.com
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 closed a $250 million funding round at a $2 billion valuation. The company says demand is growing for continuous, AI-driven security testing instead of traditional annual audits. Source: techcrunch.com
Food-tech company Wonder closed a $650M Series D round at a $9B valuation, aimed at scaling robotics-powered kitchens and growing from 46 to 140 locations. The company is eyeing a potential IPO in 2027. Source: marketscale.com
Satellite maker K2 Space raised $500 million in a Series D round, pushing its valuation to $6.8 billion. The funding will support increased production of large, high-power satellites. Source: pulse2.com
July saw Israeli startups raise a combined $1.5 billion, with investors clearly favoring firms that help businesses safely adopt AI over those building consumer-facing models. Source: calcalistech.com
Simile, a startup building synthetic user models for research and product testing, has closed a $200 million funding round valuing it at $2 billion. The raise comes only five months after the company left stealth mode with a $100 million Series A, marking one of the fastest unicorn ascents in the current AI boom. Source: techcrunch.com
Enterprise AI startup Freehand has raised $75 million in a Series B round to expand its autonomous AI agents. These agents handle complex supply chain spending for Fortune 500 companies. Source: news.crunchbase.com
Cybersecurity startup Onyx Security has closed a $113 million Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The raise comes just four months after the company came out of stealth. Source: calcalistech.com
London-based Dwelly, which builds vertical AI services for the residential lettings market, has raised $170 million in a Series B funding round. Source: finsmes.com
Greyparrot has raised $27 million in Series B funding to scale its AI-powered network for waste analysis and build a larger data platform. The system is designed to measure and track waste streams more precisely. Source: pulse2.com
Greyparrot, a London-based company developing AI technology for the waste and recycling industry, has closed a $27 million Series B funding round. The investment will support further growth of its AI-driven waste analysis platform. Source: wastetodaymagazine.com
Greyparrot raised $27 million in a Series B round led by investor Omar Mir, pushing its total funding to $60 million. The company frames its AI-based waste intelligence as essential infrastructure for the circular economy. Source: waste360.com
Multiverse Computing SL, a startup focused on compressing AI models to run more efficiently on less hardware, has secured $570 million in new funding, valuing the company at $1.7 billion. Source: siliconangle.com
With its $27 million funding round, Greyparrot plans to grow its dataset used to identify types of waste, partnering with major players in the waste and recycling industry. The goal is to help divert more than one million tons of waste from landfills using AI-based analysis. Source: wastedive.com