AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 35, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 35, 2026

70 rounds, $6.4B of announced capital. The largest: Imprint raised $2.0B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Imprint

$2.0B · Debt · NYC, USA · Consumer & Retail

What changed

Raised $2.0B in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports diversify its funding sources, reduce the cost of fund margin, and support the continued growth and scaling of its programs.

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FundingPublic signal48 days ago

Lambda

$926M · Debt · San Jose, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $926M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports fund the acquisition and installation of GPU servers and related infrastructure used to deliver compute services dedicated to an investment-grade offtaker, and support the expansion of its platform.

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FundingPublic signal52 days ago

Starcloud

$250M · Series A · Redmond, USA · Defence, Space & Aerospace

What changed

Raised $250M in Series A funding, led by Manhattan West.

The company said the funding supports build out manufacturing capacity, support engineering work in collaboration with NVIDIA, and secure procurement of future launch allocation.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

Regent Craft

$240M · Series B · North Kingstown, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing

What changed

Raised $240M in Series B funding, led by Mare Liberum and AE Ventures.

The company said the funding supports scale manufacturing, execute key certification milestones, expand engineering, advance commercial and defense pipelines, and deliver Seagliders to customers.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Gatik

$200M · Series D · Santa Clara, USA · Logistics & Mobility

What changed

Raised $200M in Series D funding, led by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT).

The company said the funding supports expand its high-frequency regional route network and scale its fleet from dozens to thousands of driverless trucks.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Generalist AI

$200M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing

What changed

Raised $200M in Series B funding, led by 8VC.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

Quaise Energy

$180M · Series B · Houston, USA · Energy & Climate

What changed

Raised $180M in Series B funding.

The company said the funding supports finance Project Obsidian, and accelerate the commercialization of its millimeter wave drilling system toward depths in excess of 5 km.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

Socure

$156M · Undisclosed · Incline VIllage, USA · Cybersecurity

What changed

Raised $156M, led by Summit Partners.

The company said the funding supports global expansion and integration of Fravity's 1st party agent building capabilities natively into its RiskOS platform.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Emerald AI

$150M · Series A · Washington, USA · Energy & Climate

What changed

Raised $150M in Series A funding, led by Energize Capital and DCVC.

The company said the funding supports expand operations and its development efforts Led by Founder and CEO Dr.

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FundingPublic signal52 days ago

Niron Magnetics

$150M · Debt · Minneapolis, USA · Other

What changed

Raised $150M in Debt funding.

The company said the funding supports support construction, equipment, and operational readiness activities at its magnet manufacturing plant in Sartell, Minnesota.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Alice

$140M · Undisclosed · NYC, USA · Cybersecurity

What changed

Raised $140M, led by Apax Digital Funds.

The company said the funding supports further advance its AI platform, deepening the technology that tests, defends, and monitors AI models across their lifecycle, expand the team behind its proprietary dataset (Rabbit Hole), and scale its go-to-market organization serving foundation model labs and enterprises.

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FundingPublic signal48 days ago

AusperBio

$120M · Series C · San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $120M in Series C funding, led by a strategic investor.

The company said the funding supports support the continued development of AHB-137, including its Phase 3 registrational program and commercialization readiness, accelerate the development of AHB-171, advance new combination approaches for CHB, and expand its pipeline of targeted oligonucleotide therapeutics.

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FundingPublic signal52 days ago

Cityblock Health

$116M · Series E · New York City, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $116M in Series E funding, led by General Catalyst.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Blank Street

$105M · Undisclosed · New York City, USA · Consumer & Retail

What changed

Raised $105M, led by General Atlantic.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Unrivaled

$100M · Series C · Miami, USA · Consumer & Retail

What changed

Raised $100M in Series C funding, led by Ten Pillars Sports Fund.

The company said the funding supports fuel its next stage of growth, expand its impact across the women's basketball ecosystem, support its players, and elevate the fan experience.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Natural

$100M · Debt · San Francisco, USA · Fintech & Insurance

What changed

Raised $100M in Debt funding.

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

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Stability AI

$76M · Series B · Los Angeles, USA · Consumer & Retail

What changed

Raised $76M in Series B funding.

The company said the funding supports fuel the development of its product suite for creative production, deepen its applied research discipline, and expand its professional services arm.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

Cyclic Materials

$75M · Undisclosed · Toronto, USA · Energy & Climate

What changed

Raised $75M, led by T.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the deployment of its rare earth recycling campus in South Carolina and expand its Hub-and-Spoke infrastructure across the United States.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Happy Health

$75M · Series A · Austin, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $75M in Series A funding, led by ARCH Venture Partners and OpenLoop.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

RQD*Clearing

$74M · Undisclosed · NYC, USA · Fintech & Insurance

What changed

Raised $74M, led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities.

The company said the funding supports support its expansion across North America, Asia, and the Middle East, accelerate investment in its technology and product capabilities (including digital assets and tokenization), and expand its capacity to serve financial institutions accessing U.S. markets.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Airway Therapeutics

$50M · Series E · Atlanta, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $50M in Series E funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

Deep Cogito

$43M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Education & HR

What changed

Raised $43M in Series A funding, led by TQ Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand its research and engineering team, scale the infrastructure required to train frontier models, advance future Cogito releases, and grow its work with enterprises building specialized intelligence on proprietary data.

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FundingPublic signal52 days ago

Quintessent

$40M · Series A · Santa Barbara, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

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

The company said the funding supports further maturation of its comb laser, including sampling, reliability/qualification, ramping up manufacturing, and developing other optical components such as semiconductor optical amplifiers and optical engines.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Faro AI

$37M · Series B · San Diego, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $37M in Series B funding, led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32.

The company said the funding supports expand its agentic AI capabilities and accelerate its work with customers deploying AI agents across their development organizations.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Liner

$36M · Series C · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $36M in Series C funding, led by LB Investment.

The company said the funding supports advance its core technologies and infrastructure, dedicate research capabilities to establishing a foothold in the domestic and international enterprise AX markets, acquire global talent, as well as conduct marketing, and business expansion activities.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

ProFound Therapeutics

$35M · Undisclosed · Cambridge, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $35M.

The company said the funding supports advance its ProFoundry platform and agentic AI capabilities to discover novel biomarkers, protein drugs, and drug targets for preeclampsia and eclampsia Led by CEO John Lepore, ProFound Therapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on uncovering new protein drugs and drug targets hidden within the expanded human proteome.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Voya Energy

$35M · Series A · Hayward, USA · Energy & Climate

What changed

Raised $35M in Series A funding, led by Energy Impact Partners.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal48 days ago

Yardstik

$30M · Undisclosed · Minneapolis, USA · Enterprise Software

What changed

Raised $30M, led by Harbert Growth Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the development of new fraud prevention defenses and monitoring technology, including motor vehicle reports, OIG exclusion monitoring, and automated alerts for expiring worker licenses, insurance, or certifications.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Celera Semiconductor

$30M · Series B · Santa Clara, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware

What changed

Raised $30M in Series B funding.

The company said the funding supports expand its product development team in Portugal, enhance design and AI leadership in California to broaden power management applications, and accelerate its design automation roadmap.

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FundingPublic signal52 days ago

PayRewards

$28M · Series E · Dallas, USA · Fintech & Insurance

What changed

Raised $28M in Series E funding.

The company said the funding supports launch and expand its operations in the U.S. Led by CEO Blake Hutchison, PayRewards provides a platform that allows small businesses to earn rewards points on all bill payments, including ACH bank transfers and credit cards.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Breedr

$27M · Series B · Austin, USA · Agriculture & Food

What changed

Raised $27M in Series B funding, led by Partech.

The company said the funding supports grow the team, bring more ranchers and farmers onto the platform, and enhance the platform to capture more data points such as genomic data.

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FundingPublic signal48 days ago

CivilGrid

$26M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Energy & Climate

What changed

Raised $26M in Series A funding, led by Spark Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its national expansion and deepen its product capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal48 days ago

Metriport

$26M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $26M, led by Matrix.

The company said the funding supports scale its platform and expand its AI/machine learning and agentic capabilities.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Keenable

$26M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $26M in Seed funding, led by Accel.

The company said the funding supports grow its engineering team based across the Bay Area and Europe, expand its independent web index and crawling infrastructure, and continue developing the retrieval systems underpinning Web Query Language.

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FundingPublic signal49 days ago

Digs

$25M · Series A · Vancouver, USA · Property & Construction

What changed

Raised $25M in Series A funding.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Transfyr Bio

$25M · Seed · Cambridge, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $25M in Seed funding, led by General Catalyst.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Arintra

$25M · Series B · Austin, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $25M in Series B funding, led by Define Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand across more enterprise health systems, deepen its clinical and specialty coverage, and extend the platform to new areas of the revenue cycle.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Agentrys

$24M · Pre-Seed · San Jose, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing

What changed

Raised $24M in Pre-Seed funding, led by Etna Labs.

The company said the funding supports hire researchers and engineers, build out agent-native tooling, and expand enterprise customer engagements across chip verification and physical design.

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FundingPublic signal50 days ago

Outer Bio

$23M · Undisclosed · USA · Other

What changed

Raised $23M.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signal51 days ago

Hike Medical

$22M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $22M in Series A funding, led by Max Altman at Saga Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand hiring across engineering and sales roles in San Francisco and manufacturing in Peoria, and extend the platform beyond insoles to serve the broader durable medical equipment (DME) market.

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