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Importance:Newsfunding round

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. Source: anthropic.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the AI lab at $965 billion post-money, in one of the largest private funding rounds in... Source: axios.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Anthropic's valuation surges to $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI

Anthropic said on Thursday it has raised $65 billion at a post-money valuation of $965 billion, as it aims to ​bolster computing capacity to meet growing... Source: reuters.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Anthropic tops OpenAI as most valuable AI startup, nears $1 trillion valuation in latest round

AI giant Anthropic is now worth more than OpenAI. Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H financing at a $965 billion valuation, a round led by Altimeter... Source: cnbc.com

Importance:Newsfunding round

Anthropic Rockets to $965 Billion Valuation, Topping OpenAI in AI Showdown

Latest $65 billion fundraising round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Source: wsj.com

Importance:Newsfunding rounds

Cognition's $26B valuation, Thea Energy's $100M raise, and Equal's new owner

Venture Capital. • Cognition, an AI coding company, raised $1b at a $26b valuation, per Bloomberg. Lux Capital, General Catalyst and 8VC led,... Source: amp.axios.com

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 - AI inference routing

OpenRouter raises $113M to bring order to enterprise AI inference routing

Artificial intelligence inference routing startup OpenRouter Inc. today announced it has raised $113 million in new funding led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.'s... Source: siliconangle.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 consolidation - acquisitions

Four labs, four acquisitions in five days: the consolidation signal hiding in plain sight

Something happened this week that does not collapse into a funding headline. Anthropic, Mistral, Google DeepMind, and Meta each made a deal to absorb an AI... Source: startuphub.ai

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:Newsfunding rounds roundup

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Massive Deals For Medical Devices, Futuristic AI Gadgets And Frontier Labs Lead

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Source: news.crunchbase.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