Funding

Broadcom Pursues $60B+ Debt Facility for Anthropic and Hyperscaler AI Chip Financing

Broadcom is in advanced discussions with a syndicate of institutional lenders and private credit firms to raise more than $60 billion in debt to finance large-scale AI semiconductor infrastructure, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The capital package is structured to underwrite the manufacturing and deployment of custom AI processors, primarily benefiting frontier lab Anthropic alongside other enterprise compute customers. The financing structure highlights the growing role of complex pri

Nvidia Strikes $6B Licensing Deal with Poolside and Backs Startup at $12B Valuation

AI model developer Poolside has entered into a non-exclusive $6 billion licensing agreement with Nvidia, paired with a $1 billion direct equity investment that values the startup at $12 billion pre-money, according to an investor communication reported by Newcomer. As part of the transaction structure, Nvidia has extended job offers to 109 Poolside personnel, creating a hybrid licensing and talent transfer arrangement that mirrors recent structural deals across the frontier AI ecosystem. Deal

UK Heterogeneous Compute Startup Callosum Raises 00M Seed Backed by Atomico and Sovereign AI Fund

London-based AI infrastructure startup Callosum has raised $100 million in seed financing to develop systems software that orchestrates machine learning workloads across heterogeneous processor environments. The funding round was led by European venture capital firm Atomico, with participation from Plural and DCVC, alongside a major investment from the UK government's £500 million ($677 million) Sovereign AI Fund. Callosum did not disclose its post-money valuation. Breaking Homogeneous Comput

Vals AI Raises $40M Series A at $400M Valuation Led by a16z to Build Real-World AI Benchmarks

San Francisco evaluation startup Vals AI announced a $40 million Series A funding round at a $400 million post-money valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round included participation from existing seed backers 8VC, Pear VC, and Bloomberg Beta, alongside new institutional investors HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures. The financing brings total capital raised by the company to $45 million, following a $5 million seed round. Founded by Stanford computer science graduates Rayan Krishnan a

WhiteFiber Proposes 50M Convertible Debt Offering to Expand AI Data Center Capacity

AI infrastructure provider WhiteFiber announced a proposed private placement of $250 million in convertible senior notes due 2032, with an option for initial purchasers to acquire up to an additional $37.5 million in notes. The proceeds are designated to fund data center campus acquisitions, facility buildouts, utility interconnection agreements, and hardware procurement for the company's AI cloud business. The financing coincides with WhiteFiber's agreement to acquire two industrial sites in Y

Prevalent AI Secures 2M Growth Round to Build Knowledge Graph Context Layer for AI Agents

London-based enterprise data architecture startup Prevalent AI has secured $22 million in growth capital from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP). The investment represents the first primary institutional capital raised by the company since its founding in 2017. Prevalent AI was co-founded by CEO Paul Stokes and COO Arun Raj, both alumni of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The company had previously operated as a bootstrapped, profitable business focused on resolving complex

Natural Secures 00M Credit Facility to Scale Payments and Lending for AI Agents

San Francisco-based fintech startup Natural has secured a debt facility of up to $100 million from Upper90 Capital Management to fund credit and transaction settlement for autonomous AI agents. The debt financing arrives one month after the company closed a $30 million Series A equity round led by Forerunner Ventures, bringing its total equity raised past $40 million. Founded by Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, Natural is developing banking and payments rails tailored for autonomous sof

Veeda AI Raises 0M+ Seed Backed by Khosla and Radical for Physical AI World Models

Veeda AI, a Toronto-based foundation model startup established by former Nvidia AI research executive Sanja Fidler, has raised more than $90 million in seed funding. The round was backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, marking one of the largest seed financings recorded in Canada. Corporate filings reveal that the company, incorporated in June 2026 as Veeda Innovation, issued 60.6 million seed shares priced at $1 each in late July. Concurrent with the share issuance, Veeda added Radica

Pathway Secures 0M Seed at 00M Valuation to Scale BDH Post-Transformer Architecture

AI research company Pathway has secured additional capital at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed funding to $30 million. The company is developing a post-Transformer architecture dubbed Baby Dragon Hatchling (BDH) designed to combine continuous in-weights adaptation, long-horizon reasoning, and memory within neural representations without relying on expanding KV caches or external retrieval pipelines. The BDH Post-Transformer Architecture Standard Transformer architectures suff

Temporal in Talks to Raise 00M at 2B+ Valuation as Agent Orchestration Surges

Developer infrastructure platform Temporal Technologies is in discussions to raise approximately $500 million in a new funding round that would value the company at over $12 billion pre-money, according to reports from Bloomberg. The financing represents a rapid increase in valuation from its $5 billion Series D round earlier this year, driven by accelerating adoption of durable execution runtimes for multi-step AI agents. The Shift Toward Durable Execution Runtimes While foundational model d

Smack Technologies Raises 1M Series B to Scale Tactical Edge AI for the Joint Force

Austin-based defense AI startup Smack Technologies has raised $61 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate deployment of its tactical edge decision systems across the U.S. military. The round was co-led by Costanoa Ventures and First In, with participation from Point72 Ventures, Geodesic Capital, Nomi Capital, Felicis, Sapphire Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Fortitude Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and Palumni VC. The financing brings Smack's total capital raised to over $90 million and follo

Etched in Talks to Raise 00M Led by Jane Street at 1B Valuation

AI inference chip startup Etched is in negotiations to raise $700 million in a new financing round led by existing investor Jane Street, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. The proposed financing would value the San Jose-based semiconductor company at approximately $21 billion. The planned round follows a $300 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital that valued the startup at $10.3 billion, effectively doubling its valuation within weeks amid intensifying enterprise demand for

Gravis Robotics raises $200M to put autonomous control on existing excavators

Higgsfield AI Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation, Quadrupling in Seven Months

AI video generation startup Higgsfield has raised $400 million in a Series B round that values the company at $5.4 billion, up from $1.3 billion in January. The round was led by DST Global with participation from Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel Capital, and others. The 4x valuation jump in seven months signals intense investor appetite for the AI video layer that could become the foundation for robotics, world models, and the next generation of content creation. What Higgsfield Does Hig

Higgsfield AI Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation, Quadrupling in Seven Months

Higgsfield AI Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation, Quadrupling in Seven Months AI video generation startup Higgsfield has raised $400 million in a Series B round that values the company at $5.4 billion, up from $1.3 billion in January. The round was led by DST Global with participation from Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel Capital, and others. The 4x valuation jump in seven months signals intense investor appetite for the AI video layer that could become the foundation for robotics, world mod