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Cosmic Robotics Puts Up a Roadmap to Build a City on Mars
Cosmic Robotics, doing autonomous construction on Earth and beyond, led by James Emerick and Lewis Jones, has put up a roadmap to build a city on Mars. Cosmic Robotics’ mission is to enable the construction of a city on Mars. The company was founded in 2024 with the view that while rockets could enable human and cargo transport to Mars by the mid-2030s, several technologies still need to mature for a sustained human presence. One major challenge is providing the labor needed
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Cosmic Robotics Puts Up a Roadmap to Build a City on Mars
Cosmic Robotics, doing autonomous construction on Earth and beyond, led by James Emerick and Lewis Jones, has put up a roadmap to build a city on Mars. Cosmic Robotics’ mission is to enable the construction of a city on Mars. The company was founded in 2024 with the view that while rockets could enable human and cargo transport to Mars by the mid-2030s, several technologies still need to mature for a sustained human presence. One major challenge is providing the labor needed
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How Callosum is Redefining How Humanity Computes
Callosum, building the infrastructure where heterogeneous chips & intelligence co-evolve to solve the world's hardest problem, led by Jascha Achterberg, Danyal Akarca, and the team, has announced a $100M seed round to redefine how humanity computes for AI’s next chapter. The round is led by Atomico with significant participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, alongside other world-class investors and angels. AI is entering a “Cambrian explosion” of models an
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ALSO Announces $150 Million Series D Financing
ALSO, introducing transcendent mobility, led by Chris Yu and the team, has closed a $150 million Series D financing round, led by Prysm Capital, with participation from Eclipse Capital, Greenoaks, and MVP Ventures. The funding reflects confidence in the company’s product, technology roadmap, execution, and partnerships with operators including Amazon and DoorDash. The new capital will accelerate development of its autonomous vehicle platform across multiple form factors for t
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Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
Silicon Data, providing GPU performance data for companies, led by Carmen Li, and the team, has announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A, led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with additional investment from CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic, and Wintermute. Breed, Hack, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures, and SoGal Ventures also participated. The Series A will support expansion across four areas: benchmark pricing, performance mea
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Castelion is Scaling Production of Low-Cost Hypersonic Weapons with New Funding
Castelion, restoring America’s ability to field advanced weapons at speed and scale, led by Bryon Hargis, Sean Pitt, and Andrew Kreitz, has announced a $1 billion Series C fundraise to accelerate the scaled production of Blackbeard, Castelion’s first low-cost, mass-producible hypersonic strike missile, while expanding the company’s product portfolio to longer-range strike weapons and defensive systems. The Series C round is a combination of $800 million in equity financing an
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How Callosum is Redefining How Humanity Computes
Callosum, building the infrastructure where heterogeneous chips & intelligence co-evolve to solve the world's hardest problem, led by Jascha Achterberg, Danyal Akarca, and the team, has announced a $100M seed round to redefine how humanity computes for AI’s next chapter. The round is led by Atomico with significant participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, alongside other world-class investors and angels. AI is entering a “Cambrian explosion” of models an
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How Callosum is Redefining How Humanity Computes
Callosum, building the infrastructure where heterogeneous chips & intelligence co-evolve to solve the world's hardest problem, led by Jascha Achterberg, Danyal Akarca, and the team, has announced a $100M seed round to redefine how humanity computes for AI’s next chapter. The round is led by Atomico with significant participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, alongside other world-class investors and angels. AI is entering a “Cambrian explosion” of models an
Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
Silicon Data, providing GPU performance data for companies, led by Carmen Li, and the team, has announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A, led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with additional investment from CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic, and Wintermute. Breed, Hack, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures, and SoGal Ventures also participated. The Series A will support expansion across four areas: benchmark pricing, performance mea
Thunder Compute Plans to Put Idle GPUs Back to Work
Thunder Compute, building a new way to virtualize GPUs, led by Carl Peterson and Brian Model, has raised a $13 million Series A round led by Matrix Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and CEAS Investments. The capital will be deployed to address the GPU capacity shortage by eliminating the estimated $200 billion in wasted compute currently sitting idle, while building toward a future in which every GPU is virtualized. Enterprises currently underutilize GPUs, with a
Etched Ships First Rack to Jane Street, Secures New Funding
Etched, building frontier inference clusters, led by Gavin Uberti, Robert Wachen, and Chris Zhu, has shipped its first rack to Jane Street. The company has raised $700M at a $21B valuation, led by Jane Street, joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Tiger Global, Bain Capital Ventures, Neo, Stripes, Primary, Positive Sum, Diffusion, Argo, and Blackstone. Less than 1% of the world has access to frontier AI models, creating a need for new
Groq Closes $350 million Series A, Building the World's Leading AI Inference Cloud
Groq, the premier neocloud for fast inference, led by Adam Winter and the team, announced a $350 million Series A fundraise, and the round was led by Disruptive, with planned participation from NVIDIA. The fundraise values the company at $3.5 billion. This latest round, together with $650 million raised in June 2026, brings recent funding in the company to $1 billion. Groq operates 13 data centers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, serving more t
How Gravis Robotics is Reshaping the Physical World with Its Autonomous Earthmoving Technology
Gravis Robotics, a Zurich-based robotics company turning any earthmoving machine into a robot, led by Ryan Luke Johns, Dr. Dominic Jud, Burak Cizmeci, and Marco Tranzatto, has raised $200 million in Series A from Softbank. As the largest Series A in construction robotics history, the funding accelerates Gravis’s mission to advance physical AI and scale autonomous heavy machinery across jobsites worldwide. Global infrastructure is undergoing a massive expansion, driven by dema
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Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
Silicon Data, providing GPU performance data for companies, led by Carmen Li, and the team, has announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A, led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with additional investment from CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic, and Wintermute. Breed, Hack, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures, and SoGal Ventures also participated. The Series A will support expansion across four areas: benchmark pricing, performance mea
Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
Silicon Data, providing GPU performance data for companies, led by Carmen Li, and the team, has announced a $30.5 million initial closing of its Series A, led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund, with additional investment from CME Ventures, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung Next, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic, and Wintermute. Breed, Hack, Blank VC, Sancus Ventures, and SoGal Ventures also participated. The Series A will support expansion across four areas: benchmark pricing, performance mea
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Kita Raises $4.5 Million to Help Lenders Underwrite the Borrowers' Credit Bureaus Miss
Kita, an AI-native credit assessment built for lending globally, led by Carmel Limcaoco and Rhea Malhotra, has raised $4.5M in seed funding led by BoxGroup, with participation from Y Combinator, Golden Gate Ventures, US News Digital Ventures, BEENEXT, Kaya Founders, Genting Ventures, and Apex Star Capital, the family office of Xiaomi co-founder Lin Bin. The round is supported by angels including Shivani Siroya (Tala), Kaz Nejatian (Opendoor), Linda Du (Valon), Kulveer Taggar
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Axle Announces $17.5M Series A Led by Base10
Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled t
Aug 12
River Markets Announces $8.5M Seed Round
River Markets, building prime brokerage for prediction markets, led by Oscar Levy and Antonin Parrot, has announced $8.5M seed round led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures, UFO Holdings, Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), TENET, Humbition, Kima Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Stack Asset Management, Perpetual Strategies, Mark Kornfilt, Jacob Fortinsky (Novig), and other amazing angel investors from Citadel, Google, HRT, Tower Research Capita
Aug 12
Ellis Emerges from Stealth with More than $10 Million to Build the AI-Native Operating Foundation for Private Credit
Ellis, the AI-native operations platform for private credit, led by Ryan Williams, has launched today with more than $10 million in seed funding closed. First Round Capital led the financing with participation from a group of prominent operators and investors, including Kearny Jackson, 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla Ventures, Slow Ventures, Wilshire Lane, Westbound, Collide Capital, Gallery Ventures, Ariel Alternatives CEO Mellody Hobson, Thrive Capital Founder Josh Kus
Aug 1
Natural is Building Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents
Natural, powering agentic payments, led by Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, has raised a $30M Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued participation by all major investors. The round was raised when the company was 193 days old and brings Natural’s total funding to over $40M. The round was supported by Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, Restive, SV Angel, Darragh Buckley (CEO of Increase), Pablo Palafox (CEO of HappyRobot), Pau
Jul 21
Venture Capital
South Park Commons Announces $575M Fund IV
South Park Commons, helping the world's most talented technologists discover and build their life's work, announced $575M Fund IV. Since 2016, the firm’s thesis has been that exceptional outcomes emerge when high talent density meets innate curiosity. Its approach focuses on identifying intensely curious builders, bringing them together at the earliest and often most isolating stage of the startup journey, and supporting them through the uncertainty of company building. The f
South Park Commons Announces $575M Fund IV
South Park Commons, helping the world's most talented technologists discover and build their life's work, announced $575M Fund IV. Since 2016, the firm’s thesis has been that exceptional outcomes emerge when high talent density meets innate curiosity. Its approach focuses on identifying intensely curious builders, bringing them together at the earliest and often most isolating stage of the startup journey, and supporting them through the uncertainty of company building. The f
Aug 6
Highland Europe Raises €1.1B Fund VI to Continue Backing Exceptional Founders at the Growth Stage
Highland Europe, a growth-stage specialist investor, has announced its sixth fund of €1.1B and promoted two new Partners, on the back of generating over €1 billion of liquidity in 2026. The firm will continue backing Europe’s next generation of technology leaders. Founded in 2012, Highland has raised €3.75 billion across six funds, backed more than 80 companies, and completed 30 exits. Notable outcomes include the $3 billion sale of Nexthink, Huel's agreed acquisition by Dano
Aug 1
SuperCharger Ventures Announces €10M Fund I to Back EdTech and Future-of-Work Startups
SuperCharger Ventures, the global ecosystem for EdTech startups led by Janos Barberis and the team, has announced the launch of Fund I. It will invest in EdTech and Future-of-Work companies worldwide, with a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage startups. Initial investments in selected startups will be up to €250,000, with follow-on funding ranging from €500,000 to €1.5 million. The fund is backed by family offices and high-net-worth investors, with 90% of first-close commitments
Jul 22
Paradigm has Raised Its Fourth Fund: $1.2B
Paradigm, a technology investment firm led by Matt Huang and the team, has raised its fourth fund: $1.2B to back the most ambitious builders at the frontier of technology. Founded in 2018, Paradigm invests in frontier technologies spanning crypto, AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, combining research and product development with venture investing. The firm backs founders across stages, with investments in companies such as Zipline, SendCutSend, True Anomaly, and Nous R
Jul 10
Expeditions Closes €197M for Fund II to Shape the Future of European Security
Expeditions, investing in the future of European security, led by Mikołaj Firlej and Stanisław Kastory, has announced the final close of its second fund at €197M. Expeditions’ Fund II is investing in the technologies and founders that are shaping the future of European defence and strengthening its sovereignty, helping to define Europe’s role in the world over the next century. Founded in 2021 by defence technology and autonomous warfare experts Dr. Mikolaj Firlej and Stanis
Jul 8
Climentum Capital Launches Fund II
Climentum Capital, investing in climate hard tech companies shaping a sustainable, resilient, and competitive Europe, led by General Partners Doerte Hirschberg, Dr. Jennifer Jacobs Dungs, Morten Halborg, and Stefan Maard, has announced the close of the first €60 million of Fund II, matching the full size of Fund I. The new fund will continue backing hard tech for a new Europe, investing in climate hard tech companies shaping a sustainable, resilient, and competitive industria
Jul 4
Deep Tech
Cosmic Robotics Puts Up a Roadmap to Build a City on Mars
Cosmic Robotics, doing autonomous construction on Earth and beyond, led by James Emerick and Lewis Jones, has put up a roadmap to build a city on Mars. Cosmic Robotics’ mission is to enable the construction of a city on Mars. The company was founded in 2024 with the view that while rockets could enable human and cargo transport to Mars by the mid-2030s, several technologies still need to mature for a sustained human presence. One major challenge is providing the labor needed
Cosmic Robotics Puts Up a Roadmap to Build a City on Mars
Cosmic Robotics, doing autonomous construction on Earth and beyond, led by James Emerick and Lewis Jones, has put up a roadmap to build a city on Mars. Cosmic Robotics’ mission is to enable the construction of a city on Mars. The company was founded in 2024 with the view that while rockets could enable human and cargo transport to Mars by the mid-2030s, several technologies still need to mature for a sustained human presence. One major challenge is providing the labor needed
How Callosum is Redefining How Humanity Computes
Callosum, building the infrastructure where heterogeneous chips & intelligence co-evolve to solve the world's hardest problem, led by Jascha Achterberg, Danyal Akarca, and the team, has announced a $100M seed round to redefine how humanity computes for AI’s next chapter. The round is led by Atomico with significant participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, alongside other world-class investors and angels. AI is entering a “Cambrian explosion” of models an
ALSO Announces $150 Million Series D Financing
ALSO, introducing transcendent mobility, led by Chris Yu and the team, has closed a $150 million Series D financing round, led by Prysm Capital, with participation from Eclipse Capital, Greenoaks, and MVP Ventures. The funding reflects confidence in the company’s product, technology roadmap, execution, and partnerships with operators including Amazon and DoorDash. The new capital will accelerate development of its autonomous vehicle platform across multiple form factors for t
Castelion is Scaling Production of Low-Cost Hypersonic Weapons with New Funding
Castelion, restoring America’s ability to field advanced weapons at speed and scale, led by Bryon Hargis, Sean Pitt, and Andrew Kreitz, has announced a $1 billion Series C fundraise to accelerate the scaled production of Blackbeard, Castelion’s first low-cost, mass-producible hypersonic strike missile, while expanding the company’s product portfolio to longer-range strike weapons and defensive systems. The Series C round is a combination of $800 million in equity financing an
SweGaN AB Raises USD 14 Million in Series B Financing to Scale Production and Accelerate Global Growth
SweGaN, which manufactures high-quality, custom-made epitaxial wafers and materials based on robust GaN technology for manufacturers of leading components and devices for satellite, communications, and defense organizations, led by Jr-Tai Chen, has announced the closing of a USD 14 million Series B round. The round was led by Swedish investor Thisbe AB, Danish venture capital firm North Ventures, and existing shareholders, underscoring continued investor confidence in SweGaN’
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Mindgard Raises $30M Series A
Mindgard, the leader in AI security led by James Brear, Dr. Peter Garraghan, and the team, has raised a $30 million Series A financing led by Album VC with participation from Karma Ventures and existing investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard plans to use the funding to scale the company across product, engineering, sales, and marketing in response to significant customer demand. Mindgard combines AI security research with offensive securi
Mindgard Raises $30M Series A
Mindgard, the leader in AI security led by James Brear, Dr. Peter Garraghan, and the team, has raised a $30 million Series A financing led by Album VC with participation from Karma Ventures and existing investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard plans to use the funding to scale the company across product, engineering, sales, and marketing in response to significant customer demand. Mindgard combines AI security research with offensive securi
Cytix Raises $7M To Take On Cyber Risk Posed By AI-Driven Software Development
Cytix, the security decision layer for software change led by Ben Armstrong and Thomas Ballin, has raised $7M, led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from existing investors, Auriga Cyber Ventures and NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance, which is managed by PXN Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II). The Challenge. Software change is becoming a growing security risk as AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and continuous delivery outpac
Glow Announces Its Launch
Glow, the endpoint AI company led by Roi Tiger, Omer Singer, Ophir Arie, and the team, has announced its launch with $180M in funding, led by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Holly Ventures, Operator Collective, and Lux Capital. Traditional endpoint security has long forced organizations to choose between reacting after threats emerge or restricting business operations to reduce risk. As AI
Neo Launches with $100M to Secure AI Software Across the Enterprise
Neo, building real-time protection for the agentic enterprise, led by Nicholas Warner, Shlomi Salem, and Eran Shirazi, has emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Neo was founded by former executives and engineers from SentinelOne, Wiz and Palo Alto Networks. The company's platform provides security operations (SecOps) teams with inventory management, posture
Dawnguard Launches Platform to Build Secure Cloud Systems from Day Zero, with Fresh Funding and US Office
Dawnguard, building the next-gen platform that makes security easy from day one, led by Mahdi Abdulrazak, Kim van Lavieren, Sarah van Lavieren, and David van der Hoeven, has announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, making it available to organizations looking to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production. Dawnguard announced the opening of its New York City office and an additional $3.3 million
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