AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 8, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 8, 2026

64 rounds, $13.8B of announced capital. The largest: Databricks raised $7.0B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Databricks
$7.0B · Debt · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $7.0B in Debt funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
xAI
$3.0B · Series E · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $3.0B in Series E funding.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its platform-scale expansion and facilitate its strategic integration into SpaceX following their historic merger.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Apptronik
$520M · Series A · Austin, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $520M in Series A funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
inKind
$450M · Undisclosed · Austin, USA · Agriculture & Food
What changed

Raised $450M.

The company said the funding supports advance its platform growth to an additional 10,000 U.S. restaurants over the next year.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Vestwell
$385M · Series E · NYC, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $385M in Series E funding, led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street Growth.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Temporal
$300M · Series D · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $300M in Series D funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

The company said the funding supports invest in open source, expand its cloud platform, and enable companies everywhere to move agentic AI out of the lab and into the real world.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Wayflyer
$250M · Debt · Dublin, Ireland · Other
What changed

Raised $250M in Debt funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Korsana Biosciences
$175M · Series A · Waltham, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $175M in Series A funding, led by Wellington Management and TCGX.

The company said the funding supports develop potential best-in-class therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative diseases, with an initial focus on Alzheimer's disease.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Heron Power
$140M · Series B · Scotts Valley, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $140M in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz's (a16z) American Dynamism Fund and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

The company said the funding supports build a 40-gigawatt, highly automated U.S. manufacturing facility for Heron Link, its solid state transformer solution for critical energy and AI data center projects.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Render
$100M · Series C · San Francisco, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $100M in Series C funding, led by Georgian.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Utility Global
$100M · Series D · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $100M in Series D funding, led by Ara Partners and APG Asset Management.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Jump
$80M · Series B · Salt Lake City, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $80M in Series B funding, led by Insight Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its growth and the development of its intelligence and action layer for modern advisory firms.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Braintrust
$80M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $80M in Series B funding, led by ICONIQ.

The company said the funding supports scale its engineering and go-to-market teams, expand its physical office presence, and accelerate the development of new infrastructure products for production-grade AI.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Altesa BioSciences
$75M · Series B · Atlanta, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $75M in Series B funding, led by Forbion.

The company said the funding supports support the CARDINAL study, a Phase 2b multinational randomized placebo-controlled trial that will enroll 900 COPD patients in the US and UK, following them and randomizing when they experience a rhinovirus infection.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Novig
$75M · Series B · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $75M in Series B funding, led by Pantera Capital.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Efficient Computer
$60M · Series A · Pittsburgh, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $60M in Series A funding, led by Triatomic Capital.

The company said the funding supports advance its platform into embedded high-performance applications and further develop its efficient fabric architecture IP across edge, infrastructure, and emerging AI-driven markets.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
DG Matrix
$60M · Series A · Morrisville, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $60M in Series A funding, led by Engine Ventures.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
ChipAgents
$50M · Undisclosed · Santa Clara, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $50M, led by Matter Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports scale its platform, expand its engineering and research organization, and accelerate global deployment of multi-agent chip teams.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Onodrim Industries
€40M · Seed · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised €40M in Seed funding, led by Founders Fund.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product development and establish new manufacturing and R&D capabilities across Europe.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
LanzaJet
$47M · Grant · Chicago, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $47M in Grant funding, led by IAG and Shell.

The company said the funding supports support existing and future commercial deployments of its ATJ technology.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Ascent
$45M · Series C · San Diego, USA · Education & HR
What changed

Raised $45M in Series C funding.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Cogent Security
$42M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Cybersecurity
What changed

Raised $42M in Series A funding, led by Bain Capital Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product development, expand enterprise deployments, and continue building agentic security systems designed for governed, trustworthy execution at scale.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
FYLD
$41M · Series B · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $41M in Series B funding, led by Energy Impact Partners.

The company said the funding supports continue to scale its platform delivering operational certainty for distributed, high-risk fieldwork in energy, construction, water and more.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Phoenix Tailings
$40M · Series B · Woburn, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $40M in Series B funding, led by Olive Tree Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts Led by CEO Nicholas Myers, Phoenix Tailings is a rare earth metals production company building a stable, circular rare earth supply chain from tailings to metal.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
ProSomnus
$38M · Strategic · Pleasanton, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $38M in Strategic funding.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the global expansion of its technology-enabled sleep health platform.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Vizzia
€30M · Series B · Paris, France · Media & Creative
What changed

Raised €30M in Series B funding, led by Base10 Partners.

The company said the funding supports further develop its video surveillance technology, purpose-built for public safety and the protection of people and property, and to accelerate its deployment across France, the United Kingdom and Italy.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Codoxo
$35M · Series C · Duluth, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $35M in Series C funding, led by VS Health Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate growth and its speed of innovation across its GenAI-powered payment integrity solutions.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Venice
$33M · Series A · NYC, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $33M in Series A funding, led by IVP.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Selector
$32M · Undisclosed · Santa Clara, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $32M, led by AVP alongside Ansa Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate AI innovation, product development, global go-to-market expansion, and customer success.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Onshore
$31M · Series B · NYC, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $31M in Series B funding, led by FPV Ventures.

The company said the funding supports support expansion into additional U.S. tax and accounting domains.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Eagle Wireless
$30M · Series B · Cleveland, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $30M in Series B funding, led by Asymmetric Capital Partners and The O.H.I.O.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Circuit
$30M · Undisclosed · Austin, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $30M.

The company said the funding supports support continued product development, expanded customer deployments, and hiring across engineering and go-to-market teams.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Avantos
$25M · Series A · NYC, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $25M in Series A funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports support continued investment in its platform, including expanded AI agents as well as deeper integrations with custodians, CRMs, portfolio management tools, underwriting systems and policy administration platforms.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
VulnCheck
$25M · Series B · Lexington, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $25M in Series B funding, led by Sorenson Capital.

The company said the funding supports scale growth and expand its intelligence capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Stacks
$23M · Series A · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $23M in Series A funding, led by Lightspeed.

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

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
SurrealDB
$23M · Series A · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $23M in Series A funding, led by Tobie Morgan Hitchcock (CEO) and Jaime Morgan Hitchcock (COO).

The company said the funding supports accelerate product development and adoption, and expand its team to scale its cloud offering and deepen support for production deployments.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Tembo
£16M · Undisclosed · London, UK · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised £16M, led by Richard Dana.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and expand its app and end-to-end homebuying platform.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Seasats
$20M · Series A · San Diego, USA · Other
What changed

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

The company said the funding supports support the expansion of new facilities, additional product lines, and team growth.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Badge
$17M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $17M in Series A funding, led by TTV Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand product capabilities, and deepen partnerships to help enterprise brands and platforms adopt Apple and Google Wallets as a core customer interface.

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FundingPublic signal8 months ago
Zero Homes
$17M · Series A · Denver, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $17M in Series A funding, led by Prelude Ventures.

The company said the funding supports support the expansion of its digital-first approach into new markets, the enablement of broader product offerings, and the continued growth of its contractor network.

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