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Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture, closed a $1.7 billion round led by a16z, with Uber and Bain Capital among the backers.

Natural closed a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner to build payment rails built for autonomous AI agents rather than human checkout, positioning itself against Stripe.

AI video startup PixVerse's Series C extension brings the round to $439 million and pushes its valuation above $2 billion, as it pivots from video clips toward real-time interactive worlds.

AI drug-design startup Chai Discovery raised $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in seven months as Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Novartis sign on.

The neutral-atom startup landed a $300 million Series A co-led by ARCH, Spark, and Khosla, months after launching with Caltech research claiming far fewer qubits are needed for useful quantum computing.

Washington startup Besxar is flying microwave-oven-sized 'Fabship' pods on Falcon 9 boosters, the first of 12 SpaceX flights testing whether the vacuum of space can produce purer semiconductor substrates.

AI inference platform Baseten closed a $1.5 billion Series F at a $13 billion valuation, lifting total funding past $2 billion and underscoring how aggressively venture capital is chasing the infrastructure that serves AI models.

THEKER raised $85M (€73M) led by CRV with Samsung and LVMH backing, for AI-native factory robots that reconfigure for different tasks.

The New York-based AI infrastructure startup grew annualized revenue fivefold to over $300 million in six months, fueled by the surge in AI-assisted coding.

The fintech platform for startups closed a TCV-led Series D valuing it at $5.2 billion, weeks after securing conditional OCC approval to become a national bank.

Quantum software startup Algorithmiq raised 18 million euros co-led by CDP Venture Capital and United Ventures, relocated its global headquarters to Milan, and pushed total funding to 36 million euros in what investors call Italy's largest quantum VC round.

TCV-led round more than doubles Corgi's valuation in four months and funds the AI-native startup insurance carrier's move into trucking, taking total funding past $268 million.