Funding — Page 5
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Crux Labs raises over $6M to evaluate agents against expert judgment
Crux Labs says its platform turns specialists' decisions into tests for agents in production. Crux Labs emerged from stealth on October 29th with an oversubscribed round.
- FuriosaAI raises $620M to scale inference chips at a $2.9B valuation
Founder June Paik says the Series D will fund global RNGD deployments and a third-generation chip as FuriosaAI moves from production ramp to customer scale.
- NeuroXess raises 700 million yuan to fund brain implant trials and production
NeuroXess founder Tao Hu is pairing a multicenter registration trial with plans for a 14,300-square-meter factory targeting 10,000 units of capacity.
- Easol raises $30M to put AI agents inside experience businesses' operating software
Founders Ben and Lisa Simpson built Easol after running festivals themselves; the extension includes $20M in equity and $10M in debt.
- Foundry Robotics raises $100M to build a factory for complex assembly
Led by Marlinspike Partners, the Series A will expand the Emeryville facility and fund FoundryOS, its software for coordinating robotic assembly cells.
- Upwind raises $400M to extend its runtime security platform into AI
Bessemer led the Series C at a $3.8 billion valuation; co-founder Amiram Shachar is steering his second cloud company toward security for AI systems.
- Sava raises $10M to automate trust administration under human fiduciaries
Nimit Maru says his own estate-planning delays inspired the Nevada-chartered service, backed by Gradient Ventures, Y Combinator and other investors.
- Lette raises $6.5M to automate rental work without replacing property software
Lette founders Mohan Sai and Jakub Rajek will use the seed to expand UK hiring and enter more European markets in 2027.
- IREN secures $363M against AI servers already earning revenue
IREN is refinancing deployed GPU systems backed by customer contracts, freeing capital for expansion while Bitcoin mining still supplies most of its revenue.
- Upwind adds $100M to its round at the same $3.8B valuation
Bloomberg reported Upwind's $400M financing on October 28th; TSN says it adds about $100M to the $300M round reported in September, leaving the valuation at $3.8B.
- Numeracle raises $28M to take business verification beyond phone calls
Founder Rebekah Johnson started with a warning about spam filters; Edison Partners is backing her push into messaging, marketplaces and AI agents.
- Archera raises $15M to expand insurance-backed cloud commitments
Archera says Pivot Investment Partners led the Series C, bringing its reported total funding to $38.3 million as it expands its guarantee and FinOps tools.
- General Compute raises $100M to sell inference capacity across rival chips
Finn Puklowski's startup says its first deployments begin in Q1 2027; TechCrunch reports an $800M post-money valuation and a customer deal worth $100M in annual recurring revenue.
- Infisical raises $40M at a $600M valuation to secure AI access
CEO Vlad Matsiiako says the round was led by Elad Gil as Infisical expands from secrets management into controls for AI agents.
- Hex raises $100M at a $1.2B valuation to rebuild analytics for AI agents
Co-led by Peak XV Partners and 137 Ventures, the financing backs Hex 4.0, a code-first platform that is in private beta.
- Hyperbolic raises $30M to turn GPU orchestration into a compute market
CEO Jasper Zhang says the round will fund Forge and a planned capacity marketplace, with Walden Catalyst leading and Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst and Vista Equity participating.
- EDGE Sound Research raises $2M to take sports audio tech into robotics
The Stormbreaker-led investment brings EDGE Sound Research's company-reported total to $9M as co-founders Valtteri Salomaki and Ethan Castro expand beyond live sports.
- Vera Health raises $28.5M to grade evidence behind clinical AI answers
Threshold Ventures led Vera Health's Series A, bringing its reported total funding to $32M. Vera plans to expand its clinical search product and partnerships.
- Argentum AI discusses $5 billion in chip financing for lower-rated customers
Argentum AI founder Andrew Sobko is applying his logistics-marketplace playbook to AI infrastructure, where proposed debt would fund chips leased to customers without investment-grade ratings.
- General Compute raises $100M to finance inference beyond Nvidia
General Compute is valued at $800M after a reported customer deal worth $100M in annual recurring revenue helped pave the way for its Blackbird- and Abstract-led Series A.
- Robotics startups raised $9.9B in Q3, more than twice last year's haul
Crunchbase puts China and U.S. robotics funding at $13.2B and $12.1B year to date, as investors back robot makers, models and data infrastructure.
- Agora Labs raises 4.3 million euros to expand its hospital data network
Agora Labs says it connects 50 healthcare facilities and plans to hire about 20 people; its website lists 26 installations and 26 active research sites.
- Hyphenate raises $45M to automate finance beyond the month-end close
Hyphenate, the New York startup founded by former Microsoft finance-transformation colleagues, says its agents now span five areas of the CFO's office.
- Bedrock raises $600M after putting autonomous excavators on paid job sites
The round values Boris Sofman's startup at $4.1 billion as it expands from early commercial deployments to more contractors and regions.