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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 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.

Lyzr's AI agent SivaClaw fielded questions from 130-plus investors and drafted memos for the enterprise AI startup's in-progress $100 million Series B, which would value the three-year-old company near $500 million.

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.

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.

The open-source Postgres platform raised $500M led by GIC just seven months after its Series E, citing 600% database growth driven by AI coding agents.

Fintech Ramp closed a $750 million Series F at a $44 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in a year as it pitches tools to manage corporate AI token spending.

The maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, closed a Series D round led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, more than doubling its valuation from $10.2 billion eight months earlier.

Anthropic's Series H puts it within striking distance of a $1 trillion valuation on $47 billion run-rate revenue, with Altimeter, Sequoia, GIC, and two dozen other institutions as backers.

The AI startup founded by Figure AI's CEO closed an oversubscribed round led by Parkway Venture Capital, with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm among the backers.

Andreessen Horowitz leads a $250M Series C in Exa, valuing the AI-native search startup at $2.2B as it serves over 5,000 companies including Cursor, Cognition, and HubSpot.

Defense tech startup Anduril closed a $5B Series H led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, doubling its valuation to $61B as its Ohio weapons factory readies for output.