venture-capital

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.

Founder Jay Graber becomes chief innovation officer as Bluesky discloses a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, but daily active users have fallen 40 percent year-over-year.

Sunday raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to deploy its household robot Memo to homes by Thanksgiving 2026, using a novel low-cost data capture approach.

UK-based AI infrastructure hyperscaler Nscale closes a $2 billion Series C at $14.6 billion valuation, adding Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board.

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup raises the largest seed round in European history to develop world models, an alternative AI architecture that learns from physical reality rather than text prediction.

Nominal, an Austin-based hardware data platform, reached a $1 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series B extension led by Founders Fund, bringing total funding to $155 million in under ten months.

German startup Neura Robotics raises €1 billion led by Tether Holdings, becoming Europe's most valuable humanoid robotics company as cryptocurrency profits flow into physical AI.

Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank pour $110 billion into OpenAI at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, reshaping the AI capital landscape and ending Microsoft's exclusive cloud partnership.