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Rounds of private investment capital raised by startups from venture firms, typically tied to new valuations, investor syndicates, and growth milestones.
RapidCanvas raised a $29 million Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, taking total funding to $52.5 million. The company claims its ARR rose 8x over six quarters, a compound rate of about 41% a quarter.
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Stand, a San Francisco home insurer, raised $70 million at a $1 billion valuation to price wildfire risk by simulating each house. Its accuracy case is a backtest on roughly 310 homes that the company describes itself, so the round pays for growth ahead of outside proof.
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Sunbound, an AI revenue platform for senior living, bought Richter Healthcare Consultants after a $24 million Series A led by TTV Capital. It adds skilled nursing billing expertise, and one purchase does not yet show a sector pattern.
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Modal raised $750 million in a Series D led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation, with annualized revenue above $1 billion. Modal says nearly a third of that revenue comes from Sandboxes, its containers for agents and the code they write.
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North.cloud raised a $60 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital to automate cloud and AI cost optimization. It says it is approaching $2 billion in managed cloud spend and has helped customers save more than $400 million.
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Startups catching fake voices and identities took $74 million of the roughly $125 million AI-fake detectors raised since January 2025, cbinsights.com says. Incode's $37 million round is about 30% of the total, so a count of 26 deals overstates how widely the money is spread.
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Stockholm startup Holyvolt raised $45 million in equity from Fifth Wall, Zone II and CC.VC to hunt for battery chemistries China doesn't control. Chief operating officer Steven Prast puts lithium-ion at best 20% through its maturity curve, an estimate the thesis depends on.
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Chariot Claims raised a $10 million Series A led by Silverton Partners to prepare consumer arbitration claims for law firms. Its CEO says it has taken roughly 80 cases in just over a year, a thin base for a thesis about companies that rely on class-action waivers.
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ICON raised a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock-managed funds to manufacture more robotic building systems. CNBC reported a $1.4 billion valuation, and the company says 2026 revenue is on pace to quadruple.
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Causa Prima raised a $20 million seed round led by Base10 Partners for software agents that resolve billing disputes between companies. Fortune reported that it earns a cut only on negotiated early payments and declined to disclose a valuation.
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Harmonic Security raised a $50 million Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners to govern how employees use AI tools. Its checks began in the browser and now cover desktop AI apps and agentic workflows, the company says.
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Crunchbase counted 38 new unicorns worth $71 billion in September, putting 2026 at 311 and on track for second place behind 2021. Step-ups at Cognition, Crusoe and Mistral total about three-quarters of what the newcomers added.
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Scuba emerged from stealth with $34 million across a pre-seed led by Accel and a seed co-led by Accel and IVP. One deal backing two ex-Slack founders is thin evidence that investors are still funding shared-context layers.
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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics named former Ford EV chief Doug Field president, a year after its founding and with more than $1 billion raised. Field takes over the daily business from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, though the company has yet to show a robot in public.
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Giraffe Bio raised a $6.4 million seed round led by Orion Industrial Ventures for chemicals it says recover up to 5% more copper. The chemicals act in flotation, and TechCrunch reports most would settle for 1% to 2%.
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Oxide Computer raised a $445 million Series D led by Eclipse Capital to expand production of its pre-integrated on-prem data center rack. For infrastructure teams weighing one, the round is mostly about delivery, since chief executive Steve Tuck says demand still outruns supply.
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Parallel Systems raised $100 million in a Series C to build its third-generation Panther, a battery-electric railcar that runs without a locomotive. The money arrives while the cars are still in supervised pilots, so railroads judging the system have the same evidence they had before the round.
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Sequoia led a $30 million seed round in Catalyst, a startup founded in 2025 to build AI trading agents for retail investors. How closely users check each agent-built trade before it runs will decide how much of the investing judgement sits with software.
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Oxide Computer raised a $445 million Series D to pay for parts and manufacturing on rack orders before they ship. Its operations produced taxable income in the spring, so the new equity is for taking more orders without exposing the business to a supply disruption.
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Sequoia led a $60 million Series B in Mecka AI, joined by Nvidia, Qualcomm and Microsoft's M12. TechCrunch's reported $500 million valuation is at most five times the $100 million-plus run-rate Crypto Briefing cites, a low price for data sold as scarce.
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