VC deals, seed rounds, and late-stage raises shaping the AI economy.
Together AI closes $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation with $1.15B annual inference bookings, signaling shift from closed APIs to enterprise-controlled open-weight infrastructure.
Sarvam AI raises $234 million Series B at $1.5 billion valuation, with HCLTech leading as India pushes for domestic AI sovereignty independent of U.S. models.
THEKER's $85M raise marks Europe's largest robotics Series A. The Barcelona startup's AI-native factory robots already run inside Inditex lines.
Mistral AI is seeking 3 billion euros at a 20 billion euro valuation, its biggest raise ever, as Europe's AI champion races US and Chinese rivals.
EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO at $1.5B, joining China's humanoid robotics wave as Unitree and AgiBot near public markets too.
Bezos reveals Prometheus is not a robot company but a 12B bet to build AI that designs and manufactures any physical product from jet engines to chips.
Neura Robotics' $1.4B Series C backed by Nvidia, Amazon and Tether signals humanoid robots' shift from demos to a funded commercial economy.
Anthropic confidentially filed its IPO S-1 at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI for the first time and targeting a fall 2026 debut.
SpaceX prices at 135 a share on June 11 and could join the Nasdaq-100 in 15 days, forcing passive funds tracking QQQ to buy billions in SPCX.
Cognition's Devin AI engineer surpassed 492M in ARR and raised 1B at a 26B valuation, with Goldman Sachs reporting 3x to 4x productivity gains.
OpenAI filed a confidential IPO on June 9, 2026 with 900 million weekly users and a $852 billion valuation, while reframing AI as a partner to humans.
ICEYE raised Euro 450M at a valuation above 10B, doubling SAR satellite production to 100 per year by 2028 on 250M revenue and a 1.5B contracted backlog.
Standard Bots raised $200M at $1B to scale AI-native US factory robots that need no coding, targeting 10% of all new American deployments by 2027.
OpenAI's confidential S-1 targets a $1 trillion public valuation by September 2026, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the offering.
SpaceX prices its SPCX IPO at $135 per share on June 11 for a $1.77T valuation, even as Morningstar warns the target price is nearly twice fair value.
PhysicsX raises $300M at a $2.4B valuation to replace slow physics simulations with AI models that cut engineering compute from days to seconds.
AlphaSense raises $350M at a $7.5B valuation with $600M ARR, serving 70% of S&P 500 firms and targeting AI market intelligence dominance.
SpaceX sets its IPO price at $135 per share for a $1.77T valuation and $75B raise on Nasdaq June 12, potentially the largest public offering in history.
SpaceX's S-1 reveals $11.4B Starlink revenue and 70% gross margin targets as its $1.75T IPO roadshow begins. Morningstar says it's worth half.
OpenAI files for a fall IPO at up to $1 trillion despite projecting a $14B loss in 2026, as $1.4T in compute commitments define its growth model.
Anthropic's $65B Series H at $965B values Claude above OpenAI as run-rate revenue hits $47B, driven by 1,000 enterprise clients paying $1M-plus annually.
OpenAI's confidential S-1 targets a $1T public debut in Q4 2026, putting it in a direct IPO race against Anthropic's $965B filing a week later.
AI claimed 80% of $300B in Q1 2026 VC as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo raised $188B alone to shatter every prior venture record.
SpaceX targets a $1.75 trillion valuation on June 12 Nasdaq debut, a raise that dwarfs Saudi Aramco's $35B 2019 record by more than 2x.
Cerebras priced at $185 and surged 68% to $95B market cap on May 14, making the AI chip IPO the first real Nvidia challenger in public markets.
Shield AI closes $1.5B Series G at a $12.7B valuation, 140% higher in one year, after winning the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft contract.
Coralogix raised 200 million Series F at a 1.6 billion valuation, building the observability layer AI agents need before they run production systems.
AI funding crushed pre-ChatGPT startups, with 2021-vintage unicorns down 68% as $250B flowed to OpenAI and Anthropic, stranding over 220 fallen unicorns.
DeepSeek raises $7.4 billion at up to a $59 billion valuation, its first ever outside round, as Tencent, CATL, and state funds back China's AI champion.
Lovable is in talks to raise at a 12 billion valuation, nearly double its last round, on 200 million ARR as the vibe coding race accelerates.
OpenAI is in talks to give the US government equity in a Public Wealth Fund, a stake that could reshape AI regulation as it nears a 2026 IPO.
Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, more than doubling in six months as UMG and Sony press a 61,000-track copyright suit.
Mach Industries raised $300 million at a $1.8 billion valuation led by Infinite Capital and Ribbit to mass produce AI strike drones for the Pentagon.
Mecka AI raised $60 million led by Framework Ventures to train robots on human motion data from body sensors and iPhones, projecting a $100M run rate.
Helion raised $465 million at a $15.5 billion valuation to build the first fusion power plant, betting AI data centers run out of power first.
Flourish raises $500M at a $2.5B valuation to build brain inspired AI that aims to cut model power draw more than tenfold versus large language models.
Berkshire invests $10 billion in Alphabet's $80 billion AI raise, its first major AI bet and a wager that incumbents not startups win.
Groq is raising $650M from Disruptive and Infinitum to rebuild as an AI inference cloud after Nvidia paid a reported $20B for its engineers and chip IP.
Innefu Labs raised $30M led by Panthera as governments bet that sovereign defense AI they control beats more capable foreign models.
Supabase raised $500M at a $10.5 billion valuation led by GIC, doubling in eight months as the default backend for AI vibe-coding tools.
Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise $1B at an $11B valuation, doubling its worth in four months as investors race to fund AI models for robots.
XCENA raised $135M at a $570M valuation to scale its MX1 memory chip, betting AI's true bottleneck is memory bandwidth, not raw GPU compute power.
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion in Europe's largest seed at a $3.5 billion valuation to build world models that learn physics, not text.
Pax raised a $40M seed from Greenoaks and Benchmark after cutting violent crime 27% in six months, a record Latin America public safety AI bet.
Kodesage raised a 6.6 million dollar seed for on-premise AI that documents and modernizes legacy enterprise code without it leaving the building.
Anthropic secured a 36 billion dollar Apollo and Blackstone debt deal to buy Google TPU chips, the largest chip financing transaction ever recorded.
France locked in over 110 billion euros of AI data center investment led by SoftBank's 75B pledge, betting nuclear power can win Europe's compute race.
Quantinuum priced its Nasdaq IPO at $60 a share to raise $1.68 billion at a $15.7 billion valuation, the largest pure-play quantum debut yet.
Wayve raised $1.2 billion at an $8.6 billion valuation to bring its mapless self-driving AI to London robotaxis with Uber, backed by SoftBank and Nvidia.
Anduril raised $5 billion in a Series H at a $61 billion valuation, doubling its worth in under a year as defense AI funding hits new records.