Funding — Page 8
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- OptQC raises $47M as NTT backs its room-temperature quantum computer bet
Kan Takase left the University of Tokyo in 2024 to commercialize Furusawa Lab research; OptQC has since put its first demonstration machine into operation.
- Lunar's founders raise €8.2M to build AI audit firm Repodo
The four-founder team is pairing AI agents with licensed auditors, starting in Denmark before a country-by-country European push.
- Embedd's Ukrainian founders raise $2.7M to automate the chip integration grind
Seedcamp led the pre-seed round as Embedd expands software that turns semiconductor documentation into production code.
- Light Links raises $6M to replace radio with infrared for robots and defense
Founder Firouz Vafadari is turning UCSC networking research into Wi-OW, a diffused-light system claiming 25 Gbps links without RF spectrum.
- Quintessent raises $40M and starts sampling its eight-wavelength laser for AI clusters
Cycle Capital led the Series A as Alan Liu's photonics startup moves from lab demonstrations to customer evaluation kits.
- Payloop sells $4.5M of a planned $6.5M round for AI margin software
Payloop reported 10 investors and $2M left to sell; its filing names Adam Struck and Moonshots Capital's Kelly Perdew as directors.
- Mantel raises $18.3M to make molten-salt carbon capture repeatable
Constellation Technology Ventures and Azimut backed the MIT spinout as it moves from material science into industrial plant construction.
- Lambda weighs up to $3B round at $12B-plus valuation before possible 2027 IPO
The Balaban brothers' AI cloud, valued by Forbes at about $2.5 billion in 2025, has closed a $1 billion credit facility and priced a separate $926 million loan as it considers a public listing.
- Generalist raises $198M, two months after its $400M round
An SEC filing shows 32 investors joined the $208.2M offering; Axios reports 8VC led at a valuation above $2B.
- Standard Metrics raises $20M from the investors whose portfolio data it organizes
The 8VC-led Series B extends a customer-backed financing model as John Melas-Kyriazi's platform adds AI tools for 150 private-market firms.
- Mundo raises $20M to build training data for AI beyond text
GreatPoint Ventures led the Series A as the Vancouver startup expands from multilingual datasets into audio, video and evaluations.
- General Intuition talks $6B valuation two months after its $320M round
Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six are among the new investors in a proposed round that would fund robotics, compute and hiring.
- Rillet raises $100M at a $1B valuation to replace accounting software
ICONIQ led the Series C after Rillet reported that its annualized revenue rate had doubled in one quarter, though the company did not disclose its underlying revenue.
- Starcloud raises $250M as orbital AI runs short of rockets
Manhattan West led the extension at a $2.3B valuation, giving Philip Johnston capital for a factory, spacecraft and scarce launch slots.
- Assil Halimi's Apollo Atomics raises $26M to shrink nuclear's steam generator
Drew Walker joins the MIT nuclear engineer in betting that one person-sized component can turn reactors into factory-built machines.
- Callosum raises $100M to route AI tasks across models and chips
Bloomberg says Atomico led the early financing for Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg's London startup, with Plural, DCVC and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund joining.
- Higgsfield puts its video models on Together AI after its $400M Series B
The customer win adds another cloud supplier as Alex Mashrabov's platform funds infrastructure, research and a global sales push.
- Idler launches AI data lab after a $9M Paradigm-led seed
The YC startup is selling RL environments built from production data as Paradigm puts its broader frontier-tech mandate to work.
- Also raises $150M to take its e-bike platform autonomous
Chris Yu's small-EV venture has raised $455M, with Prysm Capital leading its expansion into autonomous delivery vehicles.
- Ours Privacy raises $15M to make healthcare marketing measurable again
Lightbank and Health Velocity Capital led the round for the founders' healthcare CDP, which Ours Privacy says serves more than 200 organizations.
- Relativity Networks raises $22M to stretch AI data centers beyond power bottlenecks
Luminar co-founder Jason Eichenholz is commercializing UCF photonics research, backed by a $40M follow-on order from an unnamed hyperscaler.
- Medly AI raises $8M as two former NHS doctors launch SAT tutoring in the US
Felix Capital led the seed round as Paul Jung and Kavi Samra expand Medly in the UK, launch US SAT prep and study learning outcomes.
- Temporal discusses $500M round at $12B, six months after its $5B raise
The durable-execution maker is discussing another round six months after Andreessen Horowitz led a $300M financing at a $5B valuation.
- Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation in Jane Street-led round
Jane Street led the round, bringing Etched's reported funding to $1.9B as the AI inference startup says it has secured more than $1B in customer contracts.