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Generative AI company Anthropic announced Thursday that it raised $30 billion in a massive Series G funding round that values it at $380 billion post-money. The financing marks the largest venture funding deal of 2026 so far and the second-largest of all time, per Crunchbase data, following only rival OpenAI’s $40 billion funding in 2025. […]
As global energy demand continues to surge, driven by both rising household consumption and fast-expanding AI infrastructure, startup investors are increasingly turning to nuclear fusion and fission startups to supply our power-hungry era. They’re not afraid to write big checks either. The latest evidence of this was a $450 million Series A that Livermore, California-based
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For a while, AI felt like a cheat code. Mention AI on an earnings call, announce a bigger data center plan, sign a flashy partnership, and the market filled in the rest. Spend meant ambition. Ambition which meant valuation. That world is gone. Over the past few quarters, markets have quietly flipped from “reward any
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AI-powered robotics company Apptronik announced Wednesday that it has raised $520 million in an extension of its $415 million Series A raise in February 2025, bringing the total round to over $935 million. Existing backers B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and Peak6 joined new investors including AT&T Ventures and manufacturing giant John Deere participating in the
Big-name investors. Big checks. Big deal flow. That, in the most basic prose, was the general atmosphere for U.S. startup funding in January. Well-known firms topped the ranks of active investors, including a few that were best known as prolific dealmakers during the last market boom. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz ranked
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Winn.ai, which has built an artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant, has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The company provides sales reps with a real-time AI assistant that “guides” them during a prospect call while integrating with enterprise CRM and business intelligence systems. It also aims to
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Runway, an AI research and technology startup, said Tuesday that it has raised $315 million in a Series E round of funding. General Atlantic led the financing, which included participation from Nvidia, Adobe Ventures, AMD Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Co. and Felicis Ventures 1 , among others. The capital was raised at a $5.3 billion
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About three years ago, a check for $1 trillion would theoretically 1 be enough to buy up all of the 100 most-valuable U.S. private, venture-backed startups. Today, it wouldn’t even be enough to buy one, if it was the newly combined SpaceX and xAI, now valuing itself at $1.25 trillion. It would also fall short
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Last year, AI grabbed half of venture dollars globally. But the sector’s blockbuster growth hasn’t necessarily come at the expense of other startup industries. Rather, areas that benefit from AI-driven automation such as legal tech, or that combine AI software with physical tech, like robotics and defense tech, are seeing record-high funding levels as well,
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal
