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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.

The New York AI startup, used by 35,000 finance professionals at firms like Rothschild and Jefferies, brought total funding past $300 million to scale Felix, its autonomous deal-workflow agent.

Devin's maker is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at $25 billion just seven months after a $10.2 billion round, putting fresh pressure on a sector already reshaped by the SpaceX-Cursor option and Anthropic-OpenAI competition.

Sequoia's $7B and Accel's $5B raises in a single week reflect a structural transformation in venture capital driven by AI's unprecedented capital requirements.

Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI coding tool, is negotiating a $2 billion round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital with Nvidia participating, nearly doubling its November 2025 valuation.

The Redmond, Washington-based startup closed a $170 million Series A led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures, valuing the company at $1.1 billion as it prepares to launch more powerful orbital compute satellites carrying Nvidia Blackwell chips.

SpaceX submitted a confidential draft registration statement to the SEC on April 1, seeking a Nasdaq listing that could value the company at $1.75 trillion and raise $75 billion, more than triple the largest U.S. IPO on record.

The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.

Kleiner Perkins leads the largest defense tech raise of 2026, more than doubling Saronic's valuation as the company expands shipyards and targets 20 vessels a year by 2027.

Defense AI startup Shield AI closes a $1.5 billion Series G and $500 million in preferred equity, more than doubling its valuation to $12.7 billion while acquiring simulation firm Aechelon Technology.

Mountain View startup Sunday has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to bring its Memo household robot from demos to real-world deployment, with beta units heading to 50 homes by late 2026.

February 2026 shattered all venture capital records with $189 billion deployed globally, but 83 percent of that capital flowed to just three AI companies, deepening a K-shaped market where mega-rounds surge while seed funding contracts.