Today's Venture Capital Pulse
Clip secures $500M to accelerate consumer wallet rollout
Mexican fintech Clip raised $500 million, pushing its valuation above $2.5 billion. The new capital will fund the rollout of a consumer‑focused wallet and broaden its financial‑services platform. Investors were not disclosed and the round remains under review.
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By the numbers: Francisco Partners raises $18B for new tech funds
Lugano’s GR3N Closes €15.5 Million Series B to Build the World’s First Microwave-Assisted PET Recycling Plant in Spain
Lugano‑based clean‑tech startup GR3N closed a €15.5 million (≈$16.7 million) Series B round led by 360 Capital. The funding will accelerate construction of MODUS, a 40,000‑ton‑per‑year microwave‑assisted depolymerisation plant in Spain, backed by a €35 million (≈$38 million) EU Innovation Fund grant. GR3N’s patented MADE technology can chemically recycle 100 % of PET waste, including colored bottles and textile fibers, with up to 80 % lower CO₂ emissions than virgin PET. The company also appointed Martin Stephan as CEO and added VP Textile as a new investor.
Panthera Growth Partners Leads $30 Mn Series B Round in Innefu Labs
Innefu Labs, an AI firm focused on national security, closed a $30 million Series B round led by Panthera Growth Partners. The capital, raised through primary and secondary transactions, will fund global market expansion and deep‑tech R&D. Innefu already operates over 100...
Exclusive: Aadyah Aerospace Raises Fresh Funds in Series A Round
Aadyah Aerospace, an Indian aerospace and defense startup, raised Rs 31.5 crore ($3.3 million) in a Series A round led by Helios Holdings, with angel investor Meenu Sharma contributing Rs 1 crore. The financing increased the company’s valuation by roughly 26% to Rs 206 crore ($21.6 million). Proceeds will...
Impulse Space Scores $500M Series D
Impulse Space announced a $500 million Series D round, led by 137 Ventures and Banner VC, bringing total capital raised to over $1 billion. The funding follows a $300 million Series C raised a year earlier. The Los Angeles‑based startup...
Forage Raises $40M in Series B
Fintech platform Forage announced a $40 million Series B round, led by Mouro Capital with participation from PayPal Ventures, Intuit Ventures, Nyca Partners and other investors. The capital infusion backs Forage’s recently launched consumer app that lets low‑income families securely check EBT...
Scotch Announces $20M Series A Round
Scotch, a Denver‑based all‑in‑one operating platform for liquor retailers, announced a $20 million Series A round. The financing was led by VMG Partners with participation from First Round Capital, Lerer Hippeau and Toba Capital. Scotch has already surpassed a $1 billion annual run...
ARCH Funds Flourish to Expand Low‑Power Distributed Cognition
ARCH is excited to back Flourish in its initial financing. Low power, distributed cognition is how humans invented these words and LLM’s. Exploring how it can be harnessed and expanded further will be fun and maybe world-changing.
Dimension VC Ups Fund Target to $750M for AI‑biotech
Back in March, I first reported that Dimension was looking to raise ~ $700 million fund. The VC firm, which has nestled itself at the buzzy intersection of AI and biotech, confirmed that in an SEC filing today, bumping up the...
A $2.5trn Question
The venture capital market is eyeing a potential $2.5 trillion influx as limited partners anticipate cash returns from recent IPOs of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX. Analysts question whether this windfall will translate into renewed fundraising activity for VC funds. The article...
Greg Gretsch: Venture Capital in the AI Supercycle
In this episode, Evan Epstein talks with Greg Gretsch, founding partner of Jackson Square Ventures, about the AI supercycle reshaping venture capital. Gretsch explains how AI is accelerating startup formation, enhancing deal sourcing, selection, and stewardship, and driving down costs...
AlphaSense Secures $350 Million Funding, Valuation Hits $7.5 Billion
AlphaSense closed a $350 million financing round that lifted its valuation to $7.5 billion. The round was led by Vitruvian Partners, Accenture Ventures and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and coincided with the launch of a new AI agent, SuperAnalyst. The capital will accelerate...
Kiara Ventures Deploys $25 Million Fund to Back Silicon Valley Early‑Stage Startups
Kiara Ventures has launched a $25 million venture capital fund focused on pre‑seed and seed‑stage technology startups in Silicon Valley. The Spanish firm aims to create a direct pipeline between European capital and the Bay Area’s most technical founders, targeting AI,...
Mach Industries Secures $300 Million Series C, Valuation Hits $1.8 Billion
Mach Industries announced a $300 million Series C round led by Infinite Capital and Rabbit Capital, lifting its valuation to $1.8 billion. The funding will accelerate production of unmanned systems and deepen ties with the U.S. military, underscoring a surge of venture...
Town Raises $55M to Expand Personalized AI Assistant
Town announced a $55 million Series B round, led by General Catalyst and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and strategic angels. The funding lifts the startup’s total capital to $72 million since its 2024 launch and will fuel custom model...
Anthropic Raises $65B in Series H Funding at $965B Post-Money Valuation
Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $965 billion. The funding, led by Altimeter Capital and a slate of blue‑chip investors, follows a run‑rate revenue surge past $47 billion as enterprises embed its Claude model into core...
FirstClub Secures $55M Series B, Valuation Doubles to $255M in India's Quick‑Commerce Surge
FirstClub, the Bengaluru‑based quick‑commerce platform, raised $55 million in a Series B led by Peak XV Partners and Sofina, lifting its post‑money valuation to $255 million. The funding fuels expansion beyond Bengaluru and a shift toward premium, curated grocery offerings in India's...
Freshflow Lands $10 Million Series A to Scale AI Platform Cutting Grocery Waste
Freshflow, the Berlin‑based AI food‑waste startup, closed a $10 million Series A round led by Reimann Investors. The funding will fund expansion of its forecasting platform beyond produce into meat, bakery and other perishable categories, and accelerate rollout across Europe. Investors cite...
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[Startup Story] $42 Million Raised for an ‘Amazon of Composites’
Layup Parts, a startup that lets companies order composite parts through an online portal, announced a $42 million Series A round on June 3, 2026. The funding was led by Marlinspike with participation from Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Haystack, Cerberus Ventures and Pinegrove Venture...
Kuaishou’s Kling AI Seeks Fresh Funding Ahead of Planned 2027 IPO
Kuaishou’s AI video‑generation arm, Kling AI, is courting its first external funding round with a pre‑money valuation of roughly $18 billion, equivalent to about two‑thirds of Kuaishou’s market cap. The financing is being treated as a pre‑IPO bridge ahead of a...
Kodesage Raises $6.6M for AI-Powered Legacy Software Modernisation
Kodesage, a 2024 startup, raised $6.6 million in a seed round led by VentureFriends to accelerate its AI‑powered platform for legacy software modernization. The on‑premise solution extracts code and documentation from aging stacks such as COBOL, Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, PowerBuilder...
Quobly Closes €115 Million ($133.5 Million USD) Series A to Industrialize Silicon-Spin Qubit Processors
Grenoble‑based Quobly closed a €115 million ($133.5 million) Series A round led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ and STMicroelectronics to industrialize its silicon‑spin‑qubit processors. The financing builds on a €19 million ($22 million) seed phase and will fund FD‑SOI wafer fabrication, packaging and commercial delivery. Quobly’s architecture...
Brook Bay Capital, Inovia, and Highgate Technology Ventures at Skift Data + AI Summit 2026
At the Skift Data + AI Summit 2026, investors Gilad Berenstein of Brook Bay Capital, Mia Morisset of Inovia, and Kurien Jacob of Highgate Technology Ventures debated whether travel‑AI startups that prioritize revenue growth or cost reduction attract more funding....
Benchmark's 15-Year Tech Track Record Sparks Rapid Fund Oversubscription
Never say never ;-) But - 15 years is an eternity in tech land. And if there’s one fund that earned the right to raise a larger growth fund, it’s Benchmark. I bet it was oversubscribed in half an hour.
Apoha Emerges From Stealth With $36 Million in Funding
London‑based deep‑tech startup Apoha has emerged from stealth with a $36 million Series A round to build its Liquid State Intelligence platform, which positions molecular behavior as a new fundamental data class. The round was led by European VC Singular and included...
Quantum Startup Quobly Secures €130 Million to Advance Silicon Spin‑Qubit Chips
French quantum‑hardware venture Quobly SAS announced a €130 million (≈$150 million) Series A round led by STMicroelectronics, Bpifrance, SEALSQ and Isalt. The funding will accelerate the company’s silicon spin‑qubit chip program and target a first commercial quantum computer shipment by the end of...
Khosla Ventures Backs Terra AI in $20M Series A Round
Terra AI, an AI‑driven subsurface modeling startup, secured $20 million in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures, with BHP Ventures joining as a strategic backer. The funding will expand its generative geological engine, enterprise deployments, and subsurface inference tools. Terra’s...
Clinical and Economic Evaluation of Autonomous Artificial Intelligence in Musculoskeletal Therapeutics: Flok Health's Series A and the Shifting Competitive Landscape
Flok Health, a Cambridge‑based digital health firm, closed an oversubscribed $12.5 M Series A led by AlbionVC to scale its autonomous AI‑driven physiotherapy clinic across the NHS and into international markets. The platform, a CQC‑registered Class IIa medical device, can triage, diagnose, treat...
Mach Industries Hauls in $300M to Move on Second-Generation Systems
Mach Industries, a defense unmanned‑systems startup founded in 2022, closed a $300 million Series C round that values the company at $1.8 billion. The financing, led by Infinite Capital and Ribbit Capital with participation from Bedrock, Sequoia and Khosla, will fund expansion of...
NewLimit Secures $435 Million, Valued Over $3 B
NewLimit, one of the 'epigenetic reprogramming' companies, raised $435 million. Very big number. Second biggest after Altos. Claims payload will be RNA to the liver. Presumably its 1 or more transcription factors carried by LNPs. New valuation >$3 billion....
NewLimit’s $435M Megaround; Lilly’s Busy Dealmaking Week
Longevity startup NewLimit announced a $435 million Series C round, the largest biotech raise this year, led by Founders Fund and joined by Eli Lilly Ventures among others. The capital will fund its epigenetic reprogramming platform, with a first liver‑reprogramming trial expected next...
V3 Ventures Leads $3 Mn Series A Round in Perfumery Brand Fraganote
Fraganote, a Delhi‑based perfumery startup, closed a $3 million Series A round led by V3 Ventures, which contributed $2.4 million, with Rukam Capital adding $0.6 million. The company, founded in 2022, now serves over 400,000 customers and boasts a 35% repeat‑purchase rate. It aims...
Focused Energy Secures $240 Million Series A to Build Laser‑Fusion Reactor
Focused Energy, a German deep‑tech startup, closed an oversubscribed $240 million Series A led by utility RWE to commercialise laser‑fusion power. The funding will finance a demonstration reactor, “Lighthouse,” at a decommissioned nuclear plant, marking one of the largest private investments...
Coralogix Raises $200M on Bet that Someone Needs to Watch the AI Agents
Coralogix announced a $200 million Series F round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $1.6 billion. The Boston‑based observability startup says the surge in autonomous AI agents is driving demand for next‑generation monitoring tools. Revenue has risen more than 60% year‑over‑year, with over...
VC Fund Blue Ocean Games Partners with Polden Publishing on Data-Driven Market Validation
Blue Ocean Games, a Krafton‑backed early‑stage VC fund, has partnered with indie publisher Polden Publishing to co‑invest in games that prove market demand through Polden’s data‑driven validation process. Polden’s methodology has already generated more than 1 million Steam wishlists for prospective...
SG Enviro Closes Series A, Targets Water- and Energy-Hungry Data Centres and Fabs in SEA
Singapore‑based SG Enviro has closed a Series A round led by Emerald Ventures with co‑investment from SEEDS, the investment arm of SG Growth Capital. The capital will accelerate the firm’s regional rollout across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and plans for Thailand, while sharpening...
NewLimit Secures $435 Million Series C to Fast‑Track Cell‑Rejuvenation Therapy
Anti‑aging biotech NewLimit closed a $435 million Series C round, led by Founders Fund and joined by Kleiner Perkins, Eli Lilly Ventures and others. The capital will fund a Phase 1 trial of its liver‑rejuvenation candidate and broaden its pipeline into kidney...
Layup Parts Lands $42 M Series A to Build an “Amazon of Composite Parts”
Ex‑Anduril engineer Zack Eakin’s Huntington Beach startup Layup Parts announced a $42 million Series A, led by dual‑use venture fund Marlinspike and joined by Cerberus Ventures, Pinegrove Venture Partners, Founders Fund and Lux Capital. The capital will fund hiring, a larger facility and...
AI Deep Tech Firm Apoha Secures £26.7m
London‑based deep‑tech startup Apoha announced a $36 million (£26.7 million) financing round to expand its "liquid state intelligence" data layer, which captures empirical behavior of matter, molecules and materials. The round was led by Singular with participation from Draper Associates and existing...
Molfar Raises €1.5M to Bring Tactical Anti-Drone Radar Systems Closer to the Frontline
Polish‑Ukrainian defence startup Molfar Defence Technologies closed the first €1.5 million (~$1.6 million) tranche of a €2 million (~$2.2 million) funding round, led by Sweden’s Front Ventures. The company builds modular tactical radars that detect, locate and track low‑flying micro‑drones in 90° sector or...
Factorial Raises $150M at a $2.5bn Valuation, with General Catalyst Betting Twice
Factorial, the Barcelona‑based HR software firm, closed a $150 million Series D that lifts its valuation to $2.5 billion, positioning it among Europe’s most valuable AI scale‑ups. The round, led by General Catalyst, also introduces a $540 million Customer Value Fund that ties returns...
Factorial Raises €129 Million, Reaching €2.1 Billion Valuation to Become on of Europe’s Most Valuable Scale-Ups
Spanish HRTech unicorn Factorial closed a €129 million ($150 million) Series D round, lifting its valuation to €2.1 billion ($2.5 billion) and placing it among Europe’s top‑20 scale‑ups. The round was led by General Catalyst, which also pledged up to €465 million ($540 million) via its Customer...
Quantum Startup Quobly Raises €115m Backed by STMicroelectronics
French quantum‑computing startup Quobly announced a €115 million (≈$124 million) Series A round led by Bpifrance, Sealsq and STMicroelectronics, with participation from the European Innovation Council and Air Liquide’s venture arm. The funding will shift Quobly’s silicon‑based qubit production from a pilot line...
Agilitas Sports Raises Rs 225 Cr From Nexus Venture Partners and Rainmatter
Agilitas Sports, a vertically integrated sportswear and athleisure startup, raised roughly $27 million (Rs 225 crore) from Nexus Venture Partners and Rainmatter, including a $24 million follow‑on from Nexus and $3 million from Rainmatter. The capital backs product R&D, manufacturing capacity, retail expansion, technology, talent...
Anthropic Files Confidential IPO, Targeting $965B Valuation in AI Gold Rush
Anthropic submitted a confidential Form S‑1 to the SEC, seeking a public listing after a $65 billion funding round that lifted its valuation to $965 billion. The filing puts the five‑year‑old AI startup head‑to‑head with rivals OpenAI and SpaceX for investor dollars...
Cyera Eyes $12B Valuation at 80x ARR Multiple Despite Operating Losses
Cyera, a data‑storage security startup founded in 2021, is closing a new financing round of at least $300 million that values the company at $12 billion. The valuation reflects an 80‑times multiple on its reported $150 million annual recurring revenue, a ratio that...
Uncover Raises $16M Series A Led by Cloud9 Capital
Uncover, a Brazilian marketing‑mix modeling startup, closed a $16 million Series A round led by Cloud9 Capital, with participation from ABSeed Ventures, Endeavor and three strategic investors. The funding will accelerate the company’s U.S. expansion and broaden its enterprise customer base. Uncover’s...
Mecka AI Announces $60 Million USD to Power Physical AI
Mecka AI, a Toronto‑New York startup focused on training robots with human‑generated sensor data, announced a $60 million financing round. The capital came from two previously undisclosed SAFE financings—a $25 million Series A in November and a $35 million extension closed this week. Led...
Plot Lands $10M Seed Round
Plot, a social video intelligence platform, announced a $10 million seed round, bringing its total capital to $14 million. The round was co‑led by XYZ Venture Capital and Mischief Ventures, with participation from Seven Seven Six and Acme Capital. Plot’s technology analyzes...
Ilant Health Raises $15M for AI Obesity Care
Ilant Health announced a $15 million Series A round, bringing total capital to over $22 million, to scale its employer‑directed obesity and cardiometabolic program. The company uses a value‑based care model, earning fees only when health outcomes improve, and has secured direct pricing...
Orbital Tug Startup Impulse Space Raises $500 Million in Private Investment Capital
Impulse Space announced a $500 million Series D round, bringing its total capital to over $1 billion. The funding, co‑led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, will accelerate hiring and manufacturing as the company expands its in‑space mobility platform. Founder Tom Mueller, a...