AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 28, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 28, 2026

71 rounds, $6.9B of announced capital. The largest: SambaNova raised $1.0B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal3 months ago
SambaNova
$1.0B · Series F · San Jose, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $1.0B in Series F funding, led by General Atlantic.

The company said the funding supports expand capacity, accelerate product innovation, and scale deployments for enterprises, neo-clouds, sovereign AI customers, and service providers worldwide.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Keyfactor
$1.0B · Growth · USA · Other
What changed

Raised $1.0B in Growth funding, led by Summit Partners.

The company said the funding supports help accelerate its global scale and growth initiatives, enabling product innovation, geographic expansion, team building and strategic acquisitions.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Nscale
$900M · Debt · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $900M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its AI data center build-out and capital deployment across the US, Europe, and APAC.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Proxima Fusion
€411M · Undisclosed · Munich, Germany · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised €411M, led by XTX Ventures and East X Ventures.

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
inKind
$320M · Seed · Austin, USA · Agriculture & Food
What changed

Raised $320M in Seed funding.

The company said the funding supports support the continued expansion of its restaurant network and the development of new AI-native tools.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Oratomic
$300M · Series A · Pasadena, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $300M in Series A funding, led by ARCH Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports fund high-performance quantum hardware fabrication, accelerate deep algorithmic R&D across fault-tolerant logical qubit topologies, and aggressively expand its core physics and hardware engineering workforces.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Skello
€200M · Undisclosed · Paris, France · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised €200M.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its development around three priorities: consolidating its leadership position in France, pursuing its European expansion, and broadening the functional scope of its platform.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
EnergyX
$225M · Debt · Austin, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $225M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports fund the full commercial development of its 100,000-acre "Project Black Giant™" in Antofagasta, Chile, scale its technical pilot plant modules, and finance the construction of a 170-metric-tons-per-annum demonstration plant.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Kraken Technology
$175M · Series B · Fareham, UK · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $175M in Series B funding, led by DTCP.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its rapid capability development and international manufacturing expansion.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Quaise Energy
$134M · Series B · Houston, USA · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $134M in Series B funding, led by Prelude Ventures.

The company said the funding supports further enhance Project Obsidian, a commercial superhot geothermal power plant, and the continued development and commercialization of its millimeter wave drilling system towards depths in excess of 5 km.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Prime Intellect
$130M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Education & HR
What changed

Raised $130M in Series A funding, led by Radical Ventures.

The company said the funding supports scale its distributed compute clusters, fund large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL) runs, and accelerate R&D for next-generation Recursive Language Models (RLMs) and continual learning deployment systems.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Oxylabs
$130M · Undisclosed · Vilnius, Lithuania · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $130M.

The company said the funding supports further extend its competitive advantage and accelerate the development of new products and capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Beeline Medicines
$126M · Series A · Stamford, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $126M in Series A funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Norm Ai
$120M · Undisclosed · NYC, USA · Legal & Compliance
What changed

Raised $120M, led by Khosla Ventures.

The company said the funding supports accelerate hiring, expand practice area coverage, and advance Norm Ai's supervisory agents for regulated enterprise AI deployments.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Pearl Health
$110M · Debt · NYC, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $110M in Debt funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

The company said the funding supports expand its AI platform, turning clinical intelligence into measurable outcomes, and accelerate its growth across enterprise health system and payer partnerships, its expansion into Medicare Advantage, and new risk offerings.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Databento
$97M · Series B · Salt Lake City, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $97M in Series B funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

The company said the funding supports broaden its coverage across asset classes and geographies while continuing to scale the infrastructure that sets it apart.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
QuantumDiamonds
$91M · Undisclosed · Munich, Germany · Semiconductors & Hardware
What changed

Raised $91M, led by World Fund.

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Venus Aerospace
$91M · Series B · Houston, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $91M in Series B funding, led by Mercury Fund.

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
EDX Markets
$76M · Series C · Chicago, USA · Crypto & Web3
What changed

Raised $76M in Series C funding, led by SBI Holdings.

The company said the funding supports support its continued growth, enabling the firm to expand its trading, clearing and settlement capabilities, accelerate product development and scale its global operations.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
TJM Labs
$75M · Series B · Wilmington, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

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

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
FORE Biotherapeutics
$67M · Series D · Philadelphia, USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $67M in Series D funding, led by SR One.

The company said the funding supports support the ongoing late-stage development of plixorafenib, including delivering on the topline data from the recurrent or progressive BRAF V600E primary CNS tumor basket of the FORTE study around the end of 2026, a subsequent regulatory submission, and continued development in additional distinct monotherapy indications including rare BRAF V600 mutated solid tumors and advanced solid tumors with .

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Ollama
$65M · Series B · Palo Alto, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $65M in Series B funding, led by Theory Ventures.

The company said the funding supports invest in its product and open-source developer community, scale its cloud compute footprint, and bring on key hires.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Leo Cancer Care
$65M · Series D · UK · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $65M in Series D funding, led by Yu Galaxy and.

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Super.com
$65M · Series D · San Francisco, USA · Other
What changed

Raised $65M in Series D funding, led by TPG.

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
BIZAY
$55M · Series D · Lisbon, Portugal · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $55M in Series D funding, led by existing backer Indico Capital Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its commercial expansion across the United States, fund strategic acquisitions within the fragmented corporate merchandise market, and expand its AI infrastructure across automated catalog management pipelines.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Vendelux
$50M · Series B · NYC, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $50M in Series B funding, led by Tribeca Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports deepen its core artificial intelligence infrastructure, accelerate product development to bridge marketers with event organizers, and expand its global corporate sales engineering divisions.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Bespoke Labs
$40M · Series A · Mountain View, USA · Education & HR
What changed

Raised $40M in Series A funding, led by Wing VC.

The company said the funding supports expand its research team, scale its environment-building infrastructure, and accelerate its business momentum.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Cyllene Therapeutics
€33M · Series C · France · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised €33M in Series C funding.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its R&D efforts.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Sage
$35M · Debt · NYC, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $35M in Debt funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

The company said the funding supports scale its Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) initiative, helping senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities modernize aging infrastructure without requiring large upfront capital investments.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Allotera Therapeutics
$35M · Debt · USA · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised $35M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its R&D efforts.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Arkenstone Defense
$35M · Seed · Menlo Park, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace
What changed

Raised $35M in Seed funding, led by J2 Ventures.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Hippo Harvest
$30M · Series C · Pescadero, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing
What changed

Raised $30M in Series C funding, led by Cox Farms.

The company said the funding supports provide 30-acre expansion at a new Hollister, CA facility, currently in permitting, and the development its robotic growing system, expanding growing capacity from one acre today and accelerating the commercialization of indoor-grown Spinach.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Pediatrica Health Group
$28M · Series B · Miami, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $28M in Series B funding, led by Valspring Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate both organic growth, strategic acquisitions, support continued investments in clinical and operational infrastructure, technology enhancements, and the expansion of its value-based care capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Young Group
€22M · Undisclosed · Turin, Italy · Fintech & Insurance
What changed

Raised €22M, led by Azimut Group.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the consolidation of its digital financial services ecosystem, and strengthen the market positioning of its corporate tech divisions across Europe.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Axle Energy
$25M · Series A · London, UK · Energy & Climate
What changed

Raised $25M in Series A funding, led by Energize Capital.

The company said the funding supports fund core software product engineering, accelerate its geographic commercial expansion into European energy markets, and scale its localized cross-border team headcount.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Fleek
$25M · Series B · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure
What changed

Raised $25M in Series B funding, led by Burda Principal Investments.

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

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Klinic
$24M · Series A · Frisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $24M in Series A funding.

The company said the funding supports scale its digital platform across multiple medical disciplines, expand its operational support infrastructure, and alleviate administrative burdens for independent specialist practices.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Catalyxx
€20M · Undisclosed · flagship project selected by the Circular Bio, USA · Other
What changed

Raised €20M.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
The Protein Brewery
€18M · Series B · Breda, Netherlands · Biotech & Pharma
What changed

Raised €18M in Series B funding, led by ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal3 months ago
Handspring Health
$19M · Series B · NYC, USA · Healthcare & Medtech
What changed

Raised $19M in Series B funding, led by RPS Ventures.

The company said the funding supports scale its clinician workforce and its clinical-development model, expand value-based care partnerships and geographic coverage, deepen its Complex Care program, and further develop its technology platform.

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