Funding & Investments News
Startup funding rounds, venture capital investments, and corporate funding in robotics and AI.
- Muon Space Closes $250M Series C at $1.5B to Scale Satellite Foundry — — Muon Space raised a $250M Series C led by Eclipse with Google and Salesforce Ventures, reaching a $1.5B valuation to scale its Mission Foundry and con...
- Wrtn Raises $72M Series C at $722M+ Valuation for Global Push — — Seoul-based AI service company Wrtn Technologies said August 26 it raised roughly 100 billion won ($72.23 million) in Series C funding at a valuation...
- Generalist AI Raises $200M In 8VC-Led Round, Weeks After Debuting Gen-1.5 — — Robotics AI startup Generalist AI has raised $200 million in a fresh round led by 8VC, coming roughly a week after unveiling its Gen-1.5 embodied foun...
- Fasset Hits $1B Unicorn Status With $68M SBI-Led Series C — — Fasset closed a $68 million Series C led by Japan’s SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation, minting the AI-powered stablecoin neobank as fintech’s newest...
- Japan Earmarks Another $944M For Rapidus To Race TSMC In 2nm — — Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to inject a further ¥150 billion — roughly $944 million — into Rapidus in its fiscal 2027 budget...
- Quintessent Raises $40M Series A for Quantum-Dot Comb Lasers in AI Datacenters — — Santa Barbara photonics startup Quintessent closed a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital and began customer sampling of its single-chip quantum-dot DWD...
- Acorn Robot Lands Angel Round To Push "Zero-Data" Physical AI Model — — Beijing startup Acorn Robot closed an angel round led by CM Venture Capital and Nio Capital and released Natus AGE-0, a tactile-first foundation model...
- Rillet Hits $1B Valuation With $100M Series C To Build AI Accounting Agents — — AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1 billion valuation, its third round in a year, to expand agentic acco...
- Starcloud Adds $250M Series A Extension As Nvidia Bets On Orbital AI — — Redmond-based Starcloud added a $250 million Series A extension led by Manhattan West Ventures, with NVIDIA writing a $25 million check to back its pl...
- Twin1 AI Emerges With $20M Seed to Build Digital Twins for Every Professional — — San Mateo-based Twin1 AI has emerged from stealth with a $20 million seed round co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca and Aramco Ventures to give every knowledg...
- Astromech Raises $20M at $3.8B Valuation to Predict How Biology Changes — — Colossal Biosciences spinout Astromech has raised $20 million at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI models that forecast how biological systems evol...
- Broadcom Seeks $60B+ Debt For AI Chip Financing With Anthropic — — Broadcom is arranging $60B+ of senior debt and up to $30B of junior financing for an AI chip package tied to Anthropic and other hyperscale customers.
- Alibaba-Backed Dexmal Seeks $3 Billion Valuation In Robotics AI Round — — Shenzhen embodied-AI startup Dexmal is targeting a valuation of about 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) in a new funding round, building on prior backing f...
- Ex-Nvidia Researcher Sanja Fidler's Veeda AI Bags $90M Seed To Build 'The Matrix' For Physical AI — — Toronto-founded Veeda AI has closed $90M+ in seed funding co-led by Khosla and Radical Ventures to build foundation world models for training humanoid...
- Castelion Locks In $1B Series C At $13B To Mass-Produce Blackbeard Hypersonic Missiles — — California defense-tech startup Castelion has raised a $1 billion Series C at a $13 billion valuation to scale production of its low-cost Blackbeard h...
- ALSO Bags $150M Series D To Take Rivian Spinout's Small EVs Autonomous — — Rivian micromobility spinout ALSO has closed a $150 million Series D led by Prysm Capital to accelerate autonomous versions of its TM-B e-bike and TM-...
- Mariana Minerals Bags $310M Series B At $1.5B To Scale Autonomous Mines — — Mariana Minerals raised $310M in a Khosla-led Series B at a $1.5B valuation to expand its Copper One and Lithium One projects and MarianaOS AI mining...
- Edgify Raises $9M Series A+ to Scale Edge AI Beyond Retail Stores — — Israeli edge AI startup Edgify raised a $9M Series A+ led by Rank Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners to expand its on-device intelligence platform...
- Velaura AI Bags $110M Series A At $1B+ For Ultra-Low-Power AI Chips — — Velaura AI closed a $110M Series A at $1B+ led by Seligman Ventures to scale its Titan Core silicon IP delivering 2-4x better performance per watt for...
- Point2 Bags $136M Series B As Arm Joins AI Interconnect Push — — Point2 Technology closed a $136M Series B led by LB Investment with new backing from Arm to scale its e-Tube plastic-waveguide interconnect for AI rac...