Castelion — a four-year-old startup founded by SpaceX alumni — just raised $1B at a $13B valuation to mass-produce Blackbeard, a Mach-5 missile the Navy is buying for about $442,000 apiece.
Stripe is paying more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, a ~50-person startup that routes 400+ AI models and skims about 5% off every request. Here's why the payments giant just bought the AI tollbooth.
Groq raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation — half its $6.9B peak — after Nvidia licensed its tech and hired its founder. Inside the AI inference chip-maker's cloud pivot.
Etched, a transformer-only AI chip startup, just doubled to a $21 billion valuation on a $700M round led by Jane Street — with $1B in booked orders and one very concentrated bet.
Higgsfield raised a $400M Series B at a $5.4B valuation on $700M of annualized revenue — the fastest-growing proof that AI video finally has a real business model.
Databricks planned to raise $1 billion. Investors offered $15 billion. It took $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation — on a $7 billion run-rate growing 80% a year.
Astra Space cratered from a $2 billion SPAC to an $11.25M take-private. Now it's raising $250 million at a $1 billion valuation to fund Rocket 4.
Cognition, the maker of the Devin coding agent, is in talks to raise at a $40 billion valuation just 90 days after a $26 billion round — as its annual revenue run rate nears $1 billion.
Whatnot raised $545M at a $20 billion valuation, doubling in ten months while Silicon Valley chases AI. Here's the math behind live shopping's biggest round.
Neros just raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation—roughly triple its worth nine months ago—to scale toward a million American-made drones a year by 2028.
Erebor, Palmer Luckey's crypto-friendly startup bank, nearly quadrupled deposits to $4.05B in a quarter and is raising $1.5B at an $8B valuation. The SVB-shaped hole, filled fast.
Base Power raised $1B at a $13B valuation to bury US-made batteries in Texas backyards and run them as one giant virtual power plant.
