Funding — Page 3
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Onodrim raises $300M at $1.3B valuation to roll up European defence suppliers
Onodrim's founders include Aistis Simaitis, Alexander Blessing and Christian Garrett, who has no operational role.
- Sand.ai raises $200M and calls itself a unicorn
Beijing-based Sand.ai announced the $200M Series A+ on November 5th, its third round of 2026, co-led by CoStone Capital and Wangsu Science & Technology.
- Physicl raises $10M to turn e-commerce 3D into robot training data
Founder Alex de Vigan announced the $10M Inovia Capital seed on November 6th, 2026, as Physicl repurposes the 3D pipeline behind nfinite to generate labeled synthetic scenes for world models and robots.
- Harbinger raises $240M Series D to turn its truck platform into a defense and power business
Co-led by Tiger Global, Capricorn and Ridgeline, the round takes Harbinger past $650M raised after FedEx ordered 2,000 trucks.
- Groq chairman seeks $8 billion valuation for Series B, Bloomberg reports
Groq declined to comment on Bloomberg's report that executive chairman Alex Davis approached investors about a Series B at an $8 billion pre-money valuation.
- Synctera raises $24.5M to expand banking infrastructure for fintechs
The San Francisco BaaS platform raised about $9.5M in equity and the remainder in venture debt; its CEO says it could break even in early 2027.
- LeoLabs secures up to $150M conditional loan commitment for radar production
The Department of War said on November 4th, 2026, that its Office of Strategic Capital had signed a conditional commitment of up to $150 million for LeoLabs. LeoLabs announced the financing on November 5th, and the government describes the required match as a dollar-for-dollar co-investment toward a $300 million total.
- Mindmax raises £2.5M pre-seed for a conversational AI tutor for professional exams
Ed Cooke and Daniel Zohar announced the Concept Ventures-led round on November 5th, 2026, after launching a conversational tutor for professional exam preparation and upskilling.
- Darwin Robotics raises $3.6M pre-seed to build robot technicians for data centers
Led by Link Ventures, the San Francisco startup founded by brothers Sergio and Luigi Charles is targeting initial data center deployments in early 2027.
- OpenAI receives $11B in funding at a $1.25T valuation
OpenAI's first tranche was wired by November 6th, Bloomberg reports. The round could reach $20B, after OpenAI scaled back an earlier $30B-plus target.
- Vensum Power raises €9M to bring power converters into mass production
Led by CEO Peter Nisula after co-founder Jyrki Penttonen's death, Vensum Power plans mass production in 2027 and a push into AI data centres.
- CesiumAstro raises $730M to build a satellite communications network
Janus Henderson led the $730M Series D at a valuation above $4.5B. Bloomberg did not give a deployment schedule for CesiumAstro's planned network.
- Potential Sciences raises eight-figure seed to rebuild quantum chemistry for GPUs
Founder Hatem Helal, an ex-Graphcore researcher behind a billion-example quantum chemistry dataset, drew Sovereign AI, seven VC firms and Stripe's Patrick Collison into the seed.
- Siggy raises $6M to bring AI check-ins between clinician visits
Jonathan Sabbagh and Edvard Engesaeth started building Siggy in late 2025 and have already begun taking paying patients ahead of a public launch.
- Humble Robotics raises $51M to build trucks with no cab and no driver
Obvious Ventures led the round for Eyal Cohen's Humble Robotics, bringing total funding to $75M as pilots target Q1 2027.
- RadianX raises $5M for solar power components for devices
Led by CEO Vivian Qu, RadianX recently raised $5M plus $4M in non-dilutive backing, TechCrunch reported on November 5th, to package perovskite solar into power components for device makers. TechCrunch did not disclose the round's closing date.
- Zipline raises $1.5B at $21.5B valuation for drone delivery expansion
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton's Zipline raised $1.5B in a round led by Paradigm, WCM and Layer Global as Zipline and Walmart work to launch 300 additional planned delivery sites.
- SFC Capital leads Nayara pre-seed for AI support between appointments
Co-founded by Gal Moore and Rami Kahan, Nayara will use the SFC Capital-led funding for product development, clinical validation and commercial expansion.
- Kabilio raises €10M to put an AI agent on invoice-chasing duty for Spanish accounting firms
Jose Ojeda and Alex Valls bring total funding to €14M as Kabilio moves from invoice processing to agents that chase documents over email and WhatsApp.
- Three-month-old Tenspresso is in talks for a $500M valuation
Bloomberg reports that Tenspresso raised $20M from Striker weeks ago; Altimeter later approached it about additional investment.
- Goldman and Apollo reportedly seek buyers for SpaceX's $40B chip financing
Bloomberg reports, according to Reuters, that some investors were asked to take stakes of up to $500M ahead of formal syndication. The underlying Apollo-managed lease remains subject to closing conditions, and Reuters did not establish the exact day the outreach began.
- Pliant raises $80M to put AI agents on licensed B2B payment rails
Co-founders Malte Rau and Fabian Terner will use the Seaya Nova and Speedinvest-led round for US and Canada expansion after passing a company-reported $100M ARR.
- GE HealthCare leads Laza Medical's up to $160M Series B for AI imaging in the cath lab
Led by founder and chairman Amr Salahieh, Laza Medical will use GE HealthCare-led structured financing to move its AI imaging system toward the cath lab.
- Aformic raises $6.95M seed to expand factory robots into defense plants
CEO Michal Fiuk, a West Point graduate, leads the AIUT spinout as it uses its first institutional round to push factory robots deeper into defense.