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AfterRaise/Weekly/Week 44, 2026

The AfterRaise week

Week 44, 2026

27 rounds, $2.2B of announced capital. The largest: Flapping Airplanes raised $1.0B. Sorted by size; every figure links to its source.

FundingPublic signal2 days ago

Flapping Airplanes

$1.0B · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Semiconductors & Hardware

What changed

Raised $1.0B in Series A funding, led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate its core machine learning research pipelines, expand its deep-tech engineering workforce, scale its software infrastructure testing, and commercialize its custom operational software stack.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceHardware engineeringIndustrial partnershipsMarket-entry advisersLocal employment infrastructureIn-market partnerships

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$237M · Series E · NYC, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $237M in Series E funding, led by Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY).

The company said the funding supports further scale its platform's capabilities and accelerate the clinical development of its AI-steered portfolio, including advancing JSKN016 toward registrational studies and driving the clinical advancement of pocenbrodib, AZD4241, and DO-2.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceProduct launches and new tiersProduct leadership hiringResearch programme expansion

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceClinical operationsScientific hiringLicensing and BD partnershipsProduct leadershipDesign partners

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

Star Therapeutics

$200M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $200M, led by OrbiMed and Janus Henderson Investors.

The company said the funding supports support its pipeline of therapies and advance its current preclinical programs into the clinic.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceResearch programme expansionScientific team growthAggressive multi-front expansion

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceClinical operationsScientific hiringScientific advisersResearch operationsSpecialist suppliers

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$130M · Series D · Atlanta, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $130M in Series D funding, led by Sapphire Ventures and co-led by M&G's Catalyst.

The company said the funding supports scale its platform further, providing manufacturers, data center operators, defense companies, utilities, and more with strategic insights to optimize machine health, close the alert-to-action gap, and eliminate unplanned downtime.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceProduct launches and new tiersProduct leadership hiringManufacturing capacity expansion

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

Hex Technologies

$100M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $100M, led by Peak XV Partners.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the development of its AI-powered data workflows, expand its core engineering and product development teams, scale its enterprise market footprint globally, and enhance its cloud data workspace infrastructure.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

General Compute

$100M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $100M in Series A funding, led by Blackbird and Abstract.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligencePlatform and infrastructure scalingInfrastructure hiringAggressive multi-front expansion

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceInfrastructure and computeSecurity reviewData partnershipsPlatform engineeringCloud and compute partners

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$70M · Series B · NYC, USA · Fintech & Insurance

What changed

Raised $70M in Series B funding, led by EQT Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand agent capabilities, deepen integrations across the custodian and wealthtech ecosystem, and grow its product and go-to-market teams.

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$62M · Series C · Menlo Park, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $62M in Series C funding, led by The Column Group.

The company said the funding supports support the Phase 1 clinical trial of HEX-360 and advance additional payload mechanisms and dual payloads from its proprietary platform.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$45M · Series A · New York City, USA · Enterprise Software

What changed

Raised $45M in Series A funding, led by Nexus Venture Partners.

The company said the funding supports scale its multi-agent software platform faster, embed its self-learning autonomous workflows deeper into strategic finance functions, expand its engineering team, and accelerate cross-module distribution among enterprise clients.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$40M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $40M in Series B funding, led by Elad Gil.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$40M · Seed · London, UK · Robotics & Manufacturing

What changed

Raised $40M in Seed funding, led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures.

The company said the funding supports scale its instant learning model, and expand its team at their new office and lab in King's Cross, London.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$30M · Series A · Seattle, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $30M in Series A funding, led by Frist Cressey Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand globally, further develop AI agents that help benefits teams analyze programs, evaluate vendors, and complete recurring work, and extend personalized guidance and actions that help employees understand and use their benefits.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$30M · Strategic · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $30M in Strategic funding, led by Walden Catalyst.

The company said the funding supports advance Forge, its unified control plane, expand its multi-cloud orchestration solutions and value-added services, and develop the first Global Compute Grid.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$25M · Undisclosed · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $25M.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the production engineering of its consumer hardware devices, optimize its proprietary on-device ambient machine learning models, expand its specialized mechanical design teams, and scale its global go-to-market initiatives.

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$17M · Undisclosed · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $17M.

The company said the funding supports expand its automated service architecture into additional household spending categories and regulated insurance verticals, accelerate international market expansion, and integrate advanced features for managing everyday administrative tasks.

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$16M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

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

The company said the funding supports further develop its underlying automation architecture, expand its engineering and product design teams, accelerate customer acquisition across US healthcare networks, and scale up integrations with existing electronic health record (EHR) software systems.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceQuality systemsClinical hiringProvider partnershipsMarket-entry advisersLocal employment infrastructure

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

Luxor Technology

$16M · Undisclosed · Seattle, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $16M, led by CMT Digital.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligencePlatform and infrastructure scalingInfrastructure hiringOperational scale

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceInfrastructure and computeSecurity reviewData partnershipsPlatform engineeringCloud and compute partners

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FundingPublic signaltoday

$15M · Series C · Seattle, USA · Enterprise Software

What changed

Raised $15M in Series C funding, led by Pivot Investment Partners.

The company said the funding supports expand its Guaranteed Commitments and its suite of free cloud cost tools,accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand its global partner network, and serve more teams focused on AI-driven workloads.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$14M · Series B · San Francisco, USA · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $14M in Series B funding, led by Dallas Venture Capital.

The company said the funding supports accelerate development of its inference engine and orchestration platform, expand its cloud-provider ecosystem and support growth across North America and other global markets.

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

£10M · Series A · Leeds, UK · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised £10M in Series A funding, led by PXN Ventures.

The company said the funding supports extend its work on heart models into devices for the brain (such as flow diverters used to treat brain aneurysms) and grow its team from 14 to 34 people.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceProduct launches and new tiersProduct leadership hiringRepeatable go-to-market build

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceProvider partnershipsProduct leadershipDesign partnersSpecialist engineeringClinical evidence

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$10M · Series A · San Francisco, USA · Healthcare & Medtech

What changed

Raised $10M in Series A funding, led by Allumia Ventures.

The company said the funding supports scale its remote clinical network, expand distribution partnerships with commercial health plans and Medicare Advantage providers, accelerate technical platform enhancements, and generate long-term clinical outcome data to prove home-based care efficacy.

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$7M · Seed · San Francisco, USA · Robotics & Manufacturing

What changed

Raised $7M in Seed funding, led by Dynamo Ventures and BMW i Ventures.

The company said the funding supports expand its R&D and manufacturing capabilities, grow its team, and bring its solution to more production environments.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceManufacturing scale-upCertificationFactory operationsEngineering hiringDistribution partners

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$6M · Seed · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $6M in Seed funding, led by Peak.

The company said the funding supports scale its UK operation.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceFounding team growthFirst commercial motion

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceInfrastructure and computeAI governanceEnterprise salesSecurity reviewModel evaluation

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$6M · Series A · Lausanne, Switzerland · Other

What changed

Raised $6M in Series A funding, led by Valquest Partners.

The company said the funding supports support the transition from engineered prototypes to qualified industrial products, fund customer integration, reliability testing, qualification, and regulatory compliance, expand its engineering and applications teams in Switzerland and internationally, and broaden international protection of its intellectual property.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceNew market entryFirst local hires in the new marketLocal entity and legal setup

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$5M · Undisclosed · USA · Other

What changed

Raised $5M, led by Playground Global.

The announcement did not set out what the funding supports.

Likely next AfterRaise intelligenceOperational scaleMarket consolidation

Where help may be relevant AfterRaise intelligenceCommercial leadershipOperations hiringGo-to-market partnershipsFinance and compliance

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FundingPublic signalyesterday

$5M · Seed · London, UK · AI & Data Infrastructure

What changed

Raised $5M in Seed funding, led by Co-Founders Rami Abi Habib (CEO) and Javier Bonilla (CTO).

The company said the funding supports accelerate product engineering for its decentralized data stack, expand its technical team, increase marketing outreach for its open-source migration tool, and build out its Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic developer ecosystem.

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FundingPublic signal2 days ago

$5M · Seed · Cambridge, USA · Biotech & Pharma

What changed

Raised $5M in Seed funding.

The company said the funding supports accelerate the commercialization of its first product, expand customer engagement models, and expand its global footprint.

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