Valar Atomics raised $1B from Sequoia at a $6B valuation to mass-produce small nuclear reactors for AI data centers. Its founder dropped out of high school at 16.
Hadrian raised $1.37B at a $7.87B valuation to scale AI-run factories making parts for rockets, subs, and jets — its price tag quintupled since January.
CuspAI raised a $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation to build MIRA, an AI that searches for materials that don't exist yet — backed by Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Meta and Bezos.
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285 billion in all cash — about 89% below the productivity startup's $11.7B pandemic-era peak, and its first deal since going public.
Valar Atomics raised $1B at a $6B valuation, led by Sequoia, to mass-produce small nuclear reactors for AI data centers.
Enigma exited stealth with a $71 million seed - one of robotics' largest first checks - on a contrarian bet: the bottleneck isn't smarter robots, it's making them usable.
Commonwealth Fusion raised another $1 billion — total now $4 billion — and this time pension and sovereign funds led the round. Here's why the boring money matters more than the number.
Spur Intelligence bootstrapped for nine years mapping the internet's shadow traffic. Now Insight Partners has handed the roughly 40-person bot-detection shop $200 million — as bots quietly overtake humans online.
Nvidia is reportedly investing $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence — a two-year-old lab with no product, now valued at $32 billion — for a stake and access to Vera Rubin.
Antares raised $470M to put factory-built microreactors on U.S. military bases — with a hard federal deadline of September 30, 2028 waiting on the other side.
Munich drone maker Quantum Systems closed a $1.2B Series D at an ~$8B valuation, doubling in eight months — with Blackstone, Airbus and Advent leading and 19,000+ Ukraine flights on the resume.
China's Psibot just hit a $1.48 billion valuation with automaker Chery leading the round — and it's selling the robot brain, not the robot.
