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16 September 2026 on AfterRaise

31 companies raised $1.6B in disclosed rounds of $5M or more. Every figure links to its source, and every company page follows what happens next.

FundingPublic signalyesterday
38 Degrees North
$260M · Debt · Sausalito, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $260M in Debt funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Factory
$200M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $200M.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Profound
$180M · Series D · NYC, USA · Media & Creative
What changed

Raised $180M in Series D funding, led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.

The company said the funding supports expand capabilities and further research efforts.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Sling Therapeutics
$123M · Series C · Ann Arbor, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $123M in Series C funding, led by Forbion.

The company said the funding supports the continued clinical advancement of linsitinib, an oral small molecule inhibitor of IGF-1R (insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor), a validated target for the treatment of TED.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
CADDi
$114M · Series D · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $114M in Series D funding.

The company said the funding supports further enhance its proprietary AI and technology development and expand its platform capabilities.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Thatch
$108M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $108M.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Circle Pharma
$92M · Series E · South San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $92M in Series E funding, led by The Column Group.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its R&D efforts Led by CEO David J.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Hang Ten Systems
$53M · Seed · Palo Alto, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $53M in Seed funding, led by Xora.

The company said the funding supports expand its engineering and consulting organization, and further enhance the development of its platform, infrastructure, and agentic skills library.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Polaris Electro-Optics
$50M · Undisclosed · Carlsbad, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $50M, led by Walden Catalyst Ventures.

The company said the funding supports portfolio expansion, volume scale-up, product tapeouts, qualification, and engineering hiring at both company sites.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
BackOps
$42M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · Logistics & Mobility
What changed

Raised $42M in Series B funding, led by Insight Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its resolution layer to support additional processes across operations, finance, and customer service, and grow its product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Noetive
$41M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $41M in Seed funding, led by Eclipse.

The company said the funding supports enable frontier research into self-improving AI for physical operations, prove its technology in the field, and expand its research and engineering team.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Rune
$40M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $40M in Series A funding, led by Spark Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand its pipeline of power partnerships and compute customers.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
TypeSafe AI
$40M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $40M in Seed funding, led by DCVC.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Permian Labs
$40M · Debt · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $40M in Debt funding, led by David Choi.

The company said the funding supports launch new financing products.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
TeRAM
$37M · Undisclosed · Los Altos, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $37M, led by Primary.

The company said the funding supports validate its technology and scale its team to build customized 3D SRAM memory chips for initial datacenter customers.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Veridion
$20M · Series A · Wilmington, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $20M in Series A funding, led by Hoxton Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product development and deepen relationships with American institutions.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Mithrl
$20M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $20M in Series A funding, led by Obvious Ventures.

The company said the funding supports roll out its second-generation platform, Mithrl-1, layered on its biomedical world model and paired with an agentic harness for model routing, token optimization, and context orchestration.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Fin.com
$20M · Seed · NYC, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $20M in Seed funding, led by Expa and Garrett Camp.

The company said the funding supports expand into additional corridors, continue acquiring local operators, and pursue a bank acquisition within the next six months.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Hackuity
$19M · Undisclosed · Lyon, France · Cybersecurity
What changed

Raised $19M, led by Forgepoint Capital International.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product innovation, AI capabilities, and international expansion across Europe and Asia.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Ayble Health
$16M · Series A · Boston, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $16M in Series A funding, led by Neon.

The company said the funding supports advance its proprietary care model, deepen data-driven personalization for patient engagement, enrollment, and care delivery, and expand into adjacent complex therapeutic areas, starting with autoimmune conditions.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
SquaredData
$13M · Growth · Switzerland · Other
What changed

Raised $13M in Growth funding, led by Expedition Growth Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand its default intelligence layer for the global ETF market and scale it from EMEA to two AMER and APAC.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Rebuild
$13M · Undisclosed · NYC, USA · Property & Construction
What changed

Raised $13M, led by Asymmetric Capital Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its New York City team across engineering, sales, and customer success as it builds the technology infrastructure for the $100 billion restoration industry.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Complir
$11M · Seed · Copenhagen, Denmark · Legal & Compliance
What changed

Raised $11M in Seed funding, led by General Catalyst.

The company said the funding supports support its commercial expansion and go-to-market efforts, as well as to scale its team and continue investing in engineering and product development.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Nix Biosensors
$10M · Series A · Boston, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $10M in Series A funding.

The company said the funding supports fuel product development, data science, market expansion, scale its Nix Health licensable algorithm, and explore additional sweat-detectable biomarkers such as lactate, cortisol, glucose, Vitamin D, testosterone, and estrogen.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Ferry Health
$9M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $9M in Seed funding.

The company said the funding supports expand the platform's capabilities ad its go-to-market efforts.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Gaia Dynamics
$7M · Seed · Palo Alto, USA · Legal & Compliance
What changed

Raised $7M in Seed funding, led by Corazon Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand its team and introduce new AI capabilities for strategic trade planning and compliance.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Expanse
$5M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $5M in Seed funding, led by Crane Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its engineering team, accelerate product development and bring its platform to more organisations across AI infrastructure, quantitative finance, life sciences, research and high performance computing.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Aristotle
$5M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $5M in Seed funding, led by True Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand the product, grow the team, and bring Aristotle to general availability.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
VerifAIX
$5M · Seed · Cupertino, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $5M in Seed funding, led by Endiya Partners and Bluehill VC.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the engineering development of its core chip-verification platform, fund expanding enterprise deployments, and grow its specialized semiconductor and AI research engineering teams across the United States, India, and Israel.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Kairon Health
$5M · Undisclosed · NYC, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $5M, led by Flare Capital Partners.

The company said the funding supports fund AI development across its five workflow clouds, deepen its care operations and patient outreach products, and expand the go-to-market team.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday
Axo Longevity
$5M · Seed · UK · Other
What changed

Raised $5M in Seed funding.

The company said the funding supports expand its laboratory network, continue to develop its AI health copilot and wearable integrations, and expand its services into the Nordics, Italy, and Portugal.

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