AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 27, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 27, 2026

62 rounds, $8.8B of announced capital. The largest: Joulent raised $1.8B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Joulent
$1.8B · Undisclosed · Houston, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $1.8B.

The company said the funding supports advance its high-voltage project pipeline, fund modular generation infrastructure, scale its technical capabilities, and expand its engineering workforce to meet AI data center electricity demand.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Quantum Systems
$1.2B · Series D · Munich, Germany · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $1.2B in Series D funding, led by Blackstone.

The company said the funding supports expand its global physical manufacturing capacity, fortify cross-border supply chain resilience, and accelerate software R&D across its allied defense network.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Together AI
$800M · Series C · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $800M in Series C funding, led by Aramco Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand its products and features and to scale its capacity and infrastructure footprint, which the company expects to grow roughly 50-fold over the next five years.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Etched Emerges From Stealth With $800M
$800M · Undisclosed · San Jose, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $800M, led by Gavin Uberti.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Groq
$650M · Growth · San Francisco, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $650M in Growth funding, led by Disruptive and Infinitum.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the physical fit-out of its infrastructure footprint, integrate next-generation LPX hardware platforms, and scale its global data center power capacity toward 200 megawatts by the end of 2027.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Stark
€500M · Undisclosed · Berlin, Germany · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised €500M.

The company said the funding supports accelerate electronic warfare (EW) research and development and ramp up its hardware production lines to manufacture thousands of units per month, with the remaining capital (approx.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Alan
€480M · Undisclosed · Paris, France · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised €480M, led by Prosus.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its international geographical expansion, support its consumer health ecosystem, and expand its AI product development efforts by integrating Prosus's Large Commerce Model (LCM).

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Quantifind
$200M · Growth · Palo Alto, USA · Cybersecurity
What changed

Raised $200M in Growth funding, led by Summit Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its international market expansion across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, strengthen regional ecosystem partnerships, and advance its localized regulatory compliance capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Celea Therapeutics
$180M · Undisclosed · Boston, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $180M, led by Sven Dethlefs.

The company said the funding supports the planned early Q3 2026 initiation of the Phase 3 SURPASS-IPF trial of deupirfenidone (LYT-100), an investigational next-generation antifibrotic with the potential to serve as a new standard of care for people living with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
LeapXpert
$180M · Growth · New York City, USA · Legal & Compliance
What changed

Raised $180M in Growth funding, led by Riverwood Capital.

The company said the funding supports deepen its platform's conversational intelligence capabilities, accelerate enterprise sales across the public sector and Forbes Global 2000 markets, and expand its senior leadership team.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Dominion Dynamics
$139M · Series A · Ottawa, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $139M in Series A funding, led by Georgian.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the technical deployment of its software, fund its "Scout" autonomous collaborative platform, expand its multi-regional engineering workforce to over 100 employees, and ramp up its production footprint.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
8090 Labs
$135M · Series A · Menlo Park, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $135M in Series A funding, led by Salesforce Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate corporate hiring, expand its technical team, and invest in high-performance compute and infrastructure to scale its solutions.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Shortical
$100M · Undisclosed · Tel Aviv, USA · Media & Creative
What changed

Raised $100M.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its global growth as it scales its library of original content and expands its reach among mobile audiences.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
TwelveLabs
$100M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · Media & Creative
What changed

Raised $100M in Series B funding, led by NEA and NAVER Ventures.

The company said the funding supports invest in research and development in San Francisco and Seoul, and support geographic growth, with new offices in New York and London to serve demand from global customers.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Premier Lacrosse League
$100M · Series E · NYC, USA · Consumer & Retail
What changed

Raised $100M in Series E funding, led by Ares Sports.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Reed Semiconductor
$100M · Undisclosed · Warwick, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $100M.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product development, expand its international market reach, and enhance operational scale to support power demand surges across high-density hardware infrastructure.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Higharc
$95M · Series C · Durham, USA · Property & Construction
What changed

Raised $95M in Series C funding, led by Insight Partners.

The company said the funding supports scale its AI product development, expand its core platform architecture to a broader segment of the residential housing market, and onboard building materials suppliers onto its data network.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Addi
$85M · Series D · Bogotà, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $85M in Series D funding, led by Citius.

The company said the funding supports continue growing the credit platform, strengthen technology infrastructure, and expand the portfolio of financial products for consumers and merchants across Colombia.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Lycia Therapeutics
$75M · Series D · South San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $75M in Series D funding, led by Janus Henderson Investors and Balyasny Asset Management.

The company said the funding supports advance its lead cataLYTAC pipeline programs-including "LCA-0061" for food allergy and "LCA-0321" for Graves' disease-to early Phase 1 clinical proof-of-concept.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Tissium
€60M · Debt · Paris, France · Property & Construction
What changed

Raised €60M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports execute the United States commercial rollout of its newly authorized product, advance multi-application clinical pipelines, and accelerate the development of its modular polymer platform.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Venice AI
$65M · Series A · USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $65M in Series A funding, led by Dragonfly.

The company said the funding supports expand its core product engineering team, procure high-performance graphics processing unit (GPU) compute resources, and accelerate the rollout of its enterprise-grade zero-knowledge data security solutions.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Straiker
$64M · Series A · Mountain View, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $64M in Series A funding, led by Marathon Management Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its core security platform capabilities, fund its specialized STAR Labs threat research division, and accelerate its international commercial expansion.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Aligned
$60M · Series B · New York City- and Tel Aviv, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $60M in Series B funding, led by PeakSpan Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its transition into a fully agentic deal-execution layer, expand its core engineering workforce, and finance its commercial scale across the enterprise business software market.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Qolab
$54M · Series B · Santa Barbara, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $54M in Series B funding, led by UC Investments (the University of California Office of the Chief Investment Officer).

The company said the funding supports continued development of scalable superconducting quantum computing technologies, expansion of strategic semiconductor collaborations, and acceleration its target toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Xellar Biosystems
$50M · Series A · Boston, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $50M in Series A funding, led by Xin Xie.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
CarbonSix
$40M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $40M in Series A funding, led by DSC Investment and LB Investment.

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

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
OXMIQ Labs
$35M · Series A · Campbell, USA · Property & Construction
What changed

Raised $35M in Series A funding, led by Fundomo and Samsung Catalyst Fund.

The company said the funding supports scale mass production and licensing pipelines for its core GPU architecture, accelerate the adoption of its chiplet integration frameworks, and expand its hardware-software customer engineering teams.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Omen AI
$31M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $31M in Series A funding, led by Nava Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate product engineering, scale manufacturing for its sensor configurations, and expand its operational presence across the data center and heavy machinery logistics sectors.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
1001
$30M · Series A · GCC- and London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $30M in Series A funding, led by Lux Capital.

The company said the funding supports expand its engineering workforce, recruit technical talent from premier global institutions, and strengthen its commercial sales and go-to-market operations across key GCC markets.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Nebex
$30M · Seed · New York City, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $30M in Seed funding, led by Google Ventures.

The company said the funding supports build out its electronic transaction framework, establish compliance guardrails for cross-border defense and aerospace tech trade, and scale its engineering workforce.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Gaussion
$28M · Undisclosed · London, UK · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $28M, led by BGF and AlbionVC.

The company said the funding supports accelerate commercial deployment of its energy intelligence technology.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
MDOTM
$27M · Growth · UK · Other
What changed

Raised $27M in Growth funding, led by Expedition Growth Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the international expansion of its proprietary platform, finance enterprise sales initiatives across the United States and Europe, and fund extensive hiring across its AI research, engineering, and client solutions divisions.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Integral Privacy Technologies
$25M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · Enterprise Software
What changed

Raised $25M.

The company said the funding supports expand its privacy engineering and statistical methodology divisions, invest in continuous risk-assessment linkage infrastructure, and accelerate its go-to-market operations across global AI development labs.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Taxwire
$25M · Series A · New York City, USA · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised $25M in Series A funding, led by Co-founders Andrew Rea (CEO) and Steven Schmatz (CTO).

The company said the funding supports scale its fully managed tax infrastructure, expand its automated geocoding capabilities across global tax systems, and invest in strategic data engineering talent.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
10Beauty
$24M · Undisclosed · Burlington, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $24M, led by Story Ventures.

The company said the funding supports continued technology development, operational readiness, and the broader rollout of its across retail and salon partners.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
LinqAlpha
$22M · Series A · NYC, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $22M in Series A funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Telum Therapeutics
€18M · Series A · Noáin, Spain · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised €18M in Series A funding, led by AMR Action Fund.

The company said the funding supports advance its lead program targeting hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia (HABP) and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VABP) caused by Acinetobacter baumannii.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
StirlingX
$20M · Series A · Oxford, UK · Cybersecurity
What changed

Raised $20M in Series A funding, led by Ventura Capital and RCM Private Markets Master Fund (managed by Rokos Capital Management US LP).

The company said the funding supports accelerate operational enterprise growth, expand its security software engineering capabilities, and finance product development to support military and civilian clients deploying complex missions in highly contested environments.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Pie
$20M · Series A · NYC, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $20M in Series A funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports scale its platform distribution model, deepen its product suite and grow its team.

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FundingPublic signal4 months ago
Almetra
$18M · Series A · Berlin, Germany · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $18M in Series A funding, led by blisce/.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its product development pipeline, finance its upcoming corporate expansion into the United States market, and introduce automated robotics integrations across heavy industrial plants.

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