Funding — Page 18
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Ornn's $33M seed puts two 20-something founders in the middle of Wall Street's compute trade
Kush Bavaria and Wayne Nelms are building pricing and hedging tools for GPU compute as ICE and CME race toward futures contracts.
- Pilot Photonics wins EIC approval for up to EUR10.4 million
The Dublin photonics company says the support will fund product qualification, manufacturing scale-up and hiring in Ireland and abroad.
- Kuaishou's Kling AI Raises $2 Billion as Cheng Yixiao Carves Out Its Video Bet
The video unit's first outside financing follows a May restructuring review and comes after Kling reached about $500 million in ARR in March.
- Together AI raises $800M as Vipul Ved Prakash tests the open-model cloud thesis
The Series C values Together AI at $8.3 billion and gives it capital to buy the compute behind cheaper open-model inference.
- Twelve Labs raises $100 million as Amazon turns video search into an AWS bet
Jae Lee's video intelligence company is raising a Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, with AWS tied to the compute and distribution strategy.
- MGX's $49 Billion AI Fund Turns Abu Dhabi Into a Whole-Stack AI Backer
The two-year-old state-backed investor beat its $45 billion target, but it has not named the limited partners behind Fund I.
- Wayve opens $85 million employee tender as Alex Kendall turns autonomy hype into a talent fight
The secondary sale gives staff liquidity at an $8.5 billion valuation while Wayve pushes toward Uber pilots and Nissan integrations.
- Omnea founder Ben Freeman wants to turn employee churn into a $250K seed check
The London procurement AI company will let five-year employees pitch for $250,000, even though no one is eligible yet.
- Sazabi raises $8M seed to make observability self-healing
Sherwood Callaway is turning his Brex infrastructure scars into an AI-native reliability layer for teams shipping agent-written code.
- Apptronik's $520M extension puts Apollo's factory bet on the clock
The Austin humanoid robotics company has raised nearly $1B, but Mercedes-Benz remains a pilot proof point, not a scaled deployment.
- General Intuition raises $320M for Pim de Witte's gamer-data bet on real-world AI agents
The $2.3B figure is valuation, not cash, as the Medal spinout tries to turn action-labeled gameplay into robotics and simulation agents.
- Probook raises $40 million by putting AI at the dispatch board
George Eliadis started with missed pressure-washing calls. Sequoia and a16z are betting that dispatch is the control point in home services.
- Coval raises $28M to test voice AI like Waymo tested cars
Norwest led Brooke Hopkins' Series A as enterprises push voice agents from demos into production calls.
- Seltz Lands $12.5 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
Antonio Mallia, an Amazon and Pinecone veteran, is betting agents need their own crawler, index, retrieval models, and ranking stack.
- Bloomberg: Dutch chip startup Euclyd is seeking about 200 million euros for a Series A, not yet closed
Bloomberg reports Euclyd has several term sheets, but no named lead investor or valuation, and the amount could change.
- Yinka Ogunbiyi's HaloBraid raises $7M to bring robotics into the braid salon
Seven Seven Six led the seed round for a salon assistant that starts with the stylist instead of trying to replace her.
- Fika Jobs raises $4M for AI video interviews that try to get past the resume
The Stockholm company is betting that candidates should keep live video profiles that employers can browse before a role opens.
- Firefly Aerospace's $110M EXIM loan would put Jason Kim's moon factory inside U.S. industrial policy
The expected loan would fund Texas spacecraft production after Firefly turned Blue Ghost into a credible lunar manufacturing story.
- Groq raises $650M for life after Ross and Nvidia
Adam Winter is taking Groq deeper into AI inference cloud after Nvidia licensed its LPU technology and hired away its founding CEO.
- Spiro adds $55 million from NewTrails as it pushes Africa EV network toward unicorn scale
The follow-on check lifts Spiro's June equity round to $270 million, but the valuation behind the unicorn claim remains undisclosed.
- Dino Mavrookas's Saronic leads an $18.8B robotics funding rush
Crunchbase says robotics startups have already topped 2025 funding, with maritime autonomy, humanoids and industrial robots pulling the biggest checks.
- Humble Robotics' $24M seed puts Eyal Cohen's cabless freight bet on the road
The San Francisco startup is aiming at short-haul, dock-to-dock freight instead of retrofitting a human truck for autonomy.
- Biwei Huang's Aether AI raises $20M to make robots reason through cause and effect
The UC San Diego causal AI researcher is turning a decade of academic work into a physical AI company with a still-unproven commercial path.
- CuspAI's Chad Edwards lines up $400M at a $2.6B valuation
The Cambridge materials AI company has signed term sheets, but the round is not closed - a key caveat for a 5x markup in nine months.