AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 43, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 43, 2026

86 rounds, $5.9B of announced capital. The largest: Tenstorrent raised $1.5B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Tenstorrent
$1.5B · Series E · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $1.5B in Series E funding, led by Trace Capital and Innovation X.

The company said the funding supports deploy Galaxy servers at scale, continue serving open-weight models across LLMs and video generation, and advance the AI and CPU IP it licenses to customers designing their own silicon.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
ASI
$325M · Series C · Boston, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $325M in Series C funding, led by Spark Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate deployment across energy, logistics, and tactical edge environments, while expanding its frontier AI research and engineering teams.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Otter.ai
$320M · Undisclosed · Mountain View, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $320M.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion,and product innovation, including the development of enterprise agentic workflows.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Xona
$250M · Series D · Burlingame, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $250M in Series D funding, led by Future Ventures.

The company said the funding supports deliver its commercial navigation service, expand operational capacity, and support the manufacturing and deployment of its satellite constellation at scale.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Pigment
$250M · Series E · Paris, France · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $250M in Series E funding, led by Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT).

The company said the funding supports accelerate R&D, fuel the expansion of its engineering team focused on its proprietary compute engine, Graphite, and advance its autonomous AI agents to run end-to-end planning workflows,while expanding its global presence and growth in new regions.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Arda Industries
$232M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $232M in Series A funding, led by Altimeter.

The company said the funding supports grow its engineering and research teams, expand deployments with manufacturers across defense, electronics, and the data center supply chain, and develop the robotics models needed to automate assembly lines.

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FundingPublic signal17 days ago
Warp Sciences
$215M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $215M, led by Lightspeed.

The company said the funding supports build its U.S.-based chemistry labs, advance its AI and robotics automation capabilities, expand its research and engineering teams, and accelerate the discovery of new medicines.

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FundingPublic signal17 days ago
Warhound
$200M · Seed · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $200M in Seed funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Whop
$200M · Series D · Palo Alto, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $200M in Series D funding, led by Sequoia and Shopify Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate global expansion and R&D efforts.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Viva Finance
$150M · Debt · Atlanta, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $150M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the growth of its core lending operations and bring its responsible credit solutions to more consumers.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
Nouscom
€120M · Series D · Basel, Switzerland · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised €120M in Series D funding, led by M Ventures and Revelation Partners.

The company said the funding supports advance its lead asset, NOUS-209, through a global, registration-enabling clinical trial for cancer interception in Lynch Syndrome (LS) carriers.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Reliable Robotics
$115M · Series D · Mountain View, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $115M in Series D funding, led by Nimble Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its fleet of aircraft and production facilities, and to rapidly scale the engineering team.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Peak Energy
$108M · Series B · Sacramento, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $108M in Series B funding, led by General Motors Ventures.

The company said the funding supports scale domestic manufacturing and launch its product to the data center market.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Town
$108M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $108M in Series B funding, led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and continue developing its platform.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Blackwall
$100M · Series C · London, UK · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $100M in Series C funding, led by AVP.

The company said the funding supports scale its global presence, establishing and expanding operations across 12 strategic regions spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East, while expanding its platform to introduce new traffic security capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
Estuary Biotherapeutics
$93M · Series A · Newton, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $93M in Series A funding, led by RA Capital Management.

The company said the funding supports support the advancement of its two lead programs, EST-201 and EST-101 to further develop its kidney-targeting platform.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Dream Labs
$90M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $90M in Seed funding, led by B Capital.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
Antheia
$80M · Debt · Menlo Park, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $80M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports support its U.S. manufacturing strategy and onshore the production of key starting materials (KSMs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) vital to public health and national security.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Blacksmith
$66M · Series C · San Francisco, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $66M in Series C funding, led by Sequoia Capital.

The company said the funding supports grow its team and expand its compute footprint.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Daytona
$60M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $60M in Series B funding, led by FirstMark.

The company said the funding supports expand its agent cloud beyond its initial sandbox product, scale its compute infrastructure, and grow its global team, hiring across San Francisco, Croatia, and Singapore.

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FundingPublic signal17 days ago
Kevel
$52M · Growth · Durham, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $52M in Growth funding, led by James Avery.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its next stage of growth, continue developing its AI decisioning and optimisation capabilities, and expand globally into new retail and commerce media categories and deepen its strategic advisory services.

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FundingPublic signal17 days ago
Formic
$50M · Series B · Chicago, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $50M in Series B funding, led by Mercato Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its shift from task-specific automation to general-purpose robotics,strengthen its AI and robotics capabilities, expand into new applications such as metal fabrication, and deepen its work across aerospace, space, defense, medical, energy, and the broader U.S. industrial base.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Different
$48M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $48M in Seed funding, led by General Catalyst.

The company said the funding supports expand its engineering and go-to-market teams.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
Microbiotica
£36M · Series C · Cambridge, UK · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised £36M in Series C funding, led by British Business Bank.

The company said the funding supports advance its lead asset, MB310, into Phase 2 clinical development in ulcerative colitis following positive results from its COMPOSER-1 Phase 1b study.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Coherence Neuro
$45M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $45M in Series A funding, led by Founders Fund and the OpenAI Startup Fund.

The company said the funding supports advance toward its first chronic human clinical trial in glioblastoma, seek an official FDA breakthrough device designation, expand its preclinical research and development pipeline into pancreatic cancer and other indications, and grow its cross-disciplinary team of hardware builders and operators.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
Holyvolt
$45M · Undisclosed · San Diego, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $45M.

The company said the funding supports expand its AI capabilities, laboratory capacity, and scientific team, while advancing its nickel- and cobalt-free DRX cathode materials toward commercial deployment.

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FundingPublic signal17 days ago
Wilde
$40M · Undisclosed · Lexington, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $40M.

The company said the funding supports advance product innovation and brand building.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Cognitive Credit
$40M · Debt · London, UK · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $40M in Debt funding, led by Summit Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its global commercial expansion, particularly in the U.S., expand its global bond and loan issuer coverage into new credit markets, and advance its product pipeline.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
ZAP Surgical Systems
$36M · Undisclosed · San Carlos, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $36M, led by Catalio Capital Management.

The company said the funding supports support the global expansion of its platform across academic medical centers, community hospitals, and physician-led practices, as well as scale production capacity to meet global demand.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Coast
$35M · Undisclosed · NYC, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $35M, led by Thomvest Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand into a broader financial operating system, reach more customers, and invest in AI-powered expense automation.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Watchtower Labs
$35M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $35M in Seed funding, led by Shield Capital and Conviction.

The company said the funding supports support team growth and expand the set of applications built on its core platform.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Mach9
$34M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $34M in Series A funding, led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its AI software for surveying and civil engineering.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Optivolt
$32M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $32M in Series A funding, led by VXI Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand manufacturing and bring its technology to solar systems from individual homes to utility-scale projects.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Beyond Vision
€28M · Undisclosed · Alverca do Ribatejo, Portugal · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised €28M, led by Índico Capital Partners and Lince Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand its industrial capacity and across international markets.

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FundingPublic signal17 days ago
Maxinsights
$30M · Seed · Santa Clara, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $30M in Seed funding, led by Peak XV.

The company said the funding supports expand its data collection infrastructure, advance its software and hardware technologies, and support global operations.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Enact Intelligence
$30M · Seed · Zurich, Switzerland · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $30M in Seed funding.

The company said the funding supports expand its team, accelerate its hardware and R&D pipelines, and deploy its robots with industrial partners.

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FundingPublic signal20 days ago
Tolan
$30M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $30M.

The company said the funding supports further develop its underlying long-term memory architecture, expand its multimodal voice-processing capabilities, scale its machine learning engineering teams, and accelerate user acquisition for its personal organization ecosystem.

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FundingPublic signal21 days ago
RapidCanvas
$29M · Series B · Austin, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $29M in Series B funding, led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India.

The company said the funding supports grow its go-to-market teams, expand its network of private equity and advisory partners, scale its field AI engineering team across the U.S., Brazil, and India, and invest in product development across its platform.

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FundingPublic signal18 days ago
Slingshot Insurance
$27M · Seed · Minneapolis, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $27M in Seed funding, led by Rally Ventures and Skyward Group.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and accelerate the development and deployment of its infrastructure platform.

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FundingPublic signal19 days ago
Dan-O's Seasoning
$25M · Undisclosed · Louisville, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $25M.

The company said the funding supports bring new formats to market and expand availability across retail and online channels.

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