1. Naïve brand graphic for its AI agent infrastructure platform
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    Naïve Raises $28.5M Series A to Build Infrastructure for AI-Run Companies

    Naïve raised a $28.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners to build infrastructure that lets AI agents incorporate and operate businesses. The company has signed more than 30,000 developer customers since launch.

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  2. Base Power's Base Core, a 39.2 kilowatt-hour home battery manufactured in Austin, Texas
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    Base Power Raises $1 Billion Series D at $13 Billion Valuation

    Base Power closed a $1 billion Series D at a $13 billion post-money valuation and launched the Base Core, a 39.2 kWh home battery made in Austin. The company installs about 100 batteries a day across Texas and Illinois.

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  3. Hadrian, the defense manufacturer that builds highly automated factories for precision aerospace and submarine parts
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    Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion Series D at $7.87 Billion Valuation

    Hadrian, which builds highly automated factories for defense and aerospace parts, raised a $1.37 billion Series D at a $7.87 billion valuation. It runs four plants across 3 million square feet, including an Alabama site making submarine components.

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  4. Aerial rendering of a Valar Atomics site showing rows of black modular reactor units in a desert
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    Valar Atomics Raises $1 Billion Series B Led by Sequoia at a $6 Billion Valuation

    Nuclear startup Valar Atomics raised $1 billion led by Sequoia Capital at a $6 billion valuation, tripling its April mark, weeks after its Ward 250 reactor powered an Nvidia Blackwell system.

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  5. Neko Health co-founders Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek
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    Neko Health Raises $700M Series C Led by Lightspeed Ahead of New York Launch

    Daniel Ek's body-scanning company raised $700 million led by Lightspeed, reportedly at a $7 billion valuation, and is opening its first US clinic in New York. Three of four members prepay for next year's scan.

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  6. SambaNova's SN50 reconfigurable dataflow chip, the AI inference processor behind its $11 billion valuation.
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    SambaNova Hits $11B Valuation in $1B Series F as JPMorgan Adopts Its AI Chips

    SambaNova raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E, as JPMorgan Chase and SoftBank adopt its AI inference chips.

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  7. Prime Intellect, the AI training startup that raised a $130 million Series A in July 2026.
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    Prime Intellect Raises $130M Series A at $1B Valuation for Enterprise AI Training

    Prime Intellect raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation, backed by Nvidia, Intel, and Dell, to let enterprises train their own AI agents instead of renting them from frontier labs.

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  8. Suno Raises $400 Million at $5.4 Billion Valuation, Led by Bond Capital
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    Suno Raises $400 Million at $5.4 Billion Valuation, Led by Bond Capital

    AI music generator Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation led by Bond Capital — more than double its November 2025 mark, even as Universal and Sony press copyright suits against it.

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  9. Coralogix Raises $200 Million at $1.6 Billion Valuation to Monitor AI Agents
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    Coralogix Raises $200 Million at $1.6 Billion Valuation to Monitor AI Agents

    Coralogix raised $200 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, led by Advent and CPPIB, as the observability company bets that monitoring autonomous AI agents in production becomes the next big software market.

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  10. Cognition Raises $1 Billion at $25 Billion Pre-Money Valuation, Up 2.5x in Eight Months
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    Cognition Raises $1 Billion at $25 Billion Pre-Money Valuation, Up 2.5x in Eight Months

    Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC co-led Cognition's $1B+ raise at a $25B pre-money mark — 2.55x the $10.2B post-money valuation set just eight months ago. The Devin maker reports $492M ARR and says 10x enterprise usage growth since January.

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  11. Anthropic Agrees to a $30 Billion Round at $900 Billion Pre-Money Valuation, FT Reports
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    Anthropic Agrees to a $30 Billion Round at $900 Billion Pre-Money Valuation, FT Reports

    Sequoia, Dragoneer, Altimeter, and Greenoaks each writing $2B checks. The pre-money mark is 2.6x Anthropic's February Series G and pushes past OpenAI's $852B. Closing expected this week.

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  12. Hark AI universal interface concept
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    Brett Adcock's Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B Valuation Led by Parkway

    Hark, the third Brett Adcock company in five years, closed a $700M Series A from Parkway Venture Capital with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Salesforce, and Qualcomm participating. First multimodal models ship this summer.

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