Funding — Page 9
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Mercor seeks $20B valuation as AI training spend pours into human data
The AI training startup also said it will acquire Deeptune, pushing beyond expert matching into the environments used to train agents.
- Mark Lurie's M1X Global raises Paradigm-led Seed funding for on-chain sovereign debt
The round brings M1X Global's total funding to $8.5 million as USDM1 moves from Marshall Islands UBI disbursements into institutional working groups.
- Marker raises $13 million to build AI writing software against the slop machine
Jon Steinback, DeepMind's former creative lead, and Ryan Bowman are taking the waitlist route with Index and LocalGlobe backing them.
- Jeff Morgan's Ollama raises $65M as local AI becomes a cloud business
The 14-person YC W21 startup says nearly 9M developers use its local AI model runner each month; valuation and revenue remain undisclosed.
- One Raven raises $5M as Lucas Haldeman and Sarah Roudybush take smart homes local
Fifth Wall is backing the SmartRent veterans again, this time for a homeowner platform built around a local Home Server.
- Whering raises $7M as Bianca Rangecroft pushes wardrobe data toward AI styling and resale
eBay Ventures and Google AI Futures Fund led the UK digital wardrobe app's seed round as Tech.eu reports 10 million users globally.
- Display.dev Raises EUR 470K to Give AI Agents a Shared Document Layer
Ott Ilves and Carl Rannaberg are building a company-gated URL system for the HTML and Markdown files agents already produce.
- Clemens Wessendorff's ARC Intelligence raises EUR4M for its AI finance OS
42CAP led the Berlin company's seed as it tries to sit above ERP systems rather than replace them.
- Auxilius raises EUR 1.3M to turn enterprise compliance into code
Christian Hoppe and James Barnes are pitching continuous controls to banks and industrial companies still buried in audit evidence work.
- Panora raises $5M to keep insurance brokers in control of AI workflows
Diane du Paty and Fabian Langlet are building broker software for Europe's messy carrier portals, starting in France, Belgium and the UK.
- Bespoke Labs raises $40M for AI agent training environments
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy and Alex Dimakis are betting that agent reliability will be won in simulated workplaces before live deployment.
- Andra Keay's June robotics ledger turns funding into physical AI's scorecard
Robots & Startups counted 136 June rounds worth $6.57 billion, with defense dollars and late-stage checks distorting the readout.
- Duke Yan's Bidbus raises $15M to make dealers compete for used cars
Ibex Investors led the Series A as the Los Angeles marketplace expands beyond California and Texas.
- Dario Amodei's $65B Anthropic round reveals how narrow the AI funding boom is
Crunchbase says North American startups raised $392B in H1, with Anthropic, OpenAI and a few AI leaders carrying the market.
- Proxima Fusion raises EUR411 million as Francesco Sciortino turns stellarators into Europe's industrial fusion bet
Google and RWE joined the round as Proxima pushes Alpha, its Munich-area net-energy demonstrator, toward the early 2030s.
- Porelio raises EUR 2.4 million to take lab-born water treatment materials into factories
The Berlin spin-out says its FOMS adsorbents can recover palladium faster and remove persistent PFAS where activated carbon struggles.
- Gyre Energy raises over $1.3M as Oxford founders take AI cooling into cold-chain warehouses
The pre-seed, led by Speedinvest, backs a 2024 startup using thermal storage to cut power bills without replacing cooling systems.
- CurifyLabs raises $14 million Series A to push automated compounding into more U.S. pharmacies
Sandwater and HealthCap co-led the round as the Helsinki company spends on U.S. operations, supply chain and product development.
- 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.
- Dawnguard raises $3.3M as secure-by-design cloud security gets funded
Co-founders Mahdi Abdulrazak and Kim van Lavieren launch Dawnguard's platform publicly, add a New York office, and pass $6.3M raised.
- 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.