Meshy raised nearly $400M at a $1.5B valuation — the largest AI-3D round ever — to turn text and photos into usable 3D models in about a minute.
Skyroot's Vikram-1 just became the first privately built Indian rocket to reach orbit, making India the third nation with a private launch capability — and its builder is a $1.1B unicorn.
Etched just raised $300M at a $10.3 billion valuation — more than doubling in seven months on a chip that deliberately runs only transformers. Inside the boldest bet against the GPU.
Valar Atomics tripled to a $6B valuation in four months, with Sequoia set to lead a $1B round — after a 27-year-old dropout's reactor powered a live Nvidia AI chip.
Travis Kalanick's new company Atoms just raised $1.7 billion in an a16z-led round for industrial AI — and Uber, the company that fired him in 2017, is one of the backers.
Munich's Helsing just raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation — Europe's biggest defense-tech round ever, chaired by Spotify's Daniel Ek.
CuspAI just raised a $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation — 5x its worth nine months ago — to use AI to invent the materials the physical world is missing. Kleiner Perkins and NEA led; Bezos Expeditions backed.
India just became the third nation with a private company in orbit: Skyroot's 3D-printed Vikram-1 hit 450 km LEO, backed by a $1.1B valuation.
DeepSeek, the Chinese lab that wiped ~$600B off Nvidia in a day, is raising up to $7B at a $74 billion valuation ahead of an onshore IPO.
Valar Atomics used a 100-kilowatt reactor to power an Nvidia Blackwell chip in Utah — and Sequoia is reportedly in talks to lead a ~$1B round at a $6B valuation, triple its March mark.
Databricks just repriced 40% higher to $188 billion in seven months — a ~$3B round led by Coatue, still stubbornly private, and quietly running the AI economy's plumbing.
Walden Robotics left stealth with a $300M seed at a $1.1B valuation — and its wheeled robots are already working in a Toyota factory.
