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The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: The Boring Co., Cognition And Motive Lead A Massive Week

Marlize van Romburgh

September 11, 2026

It was a monster week for U.S. startup funding, with four companies each raising $1 billion or more. The Boring Co. led with a $3 billion Series D...

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29 Companies Joined The 暗网吃瓜 In August, Led By AI Software And Semiconductors

Gen茅 Teare

September 10, 2026

A total of 29 companies joined The 暗网吃瓜 暗网吃瓜 in August, adding around $63 billion in value to the board. More than a third of the...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Defense tech • IPO • M&A • Manufacturing • Public Markets • Startups • Venture

Global Venture Funding Jumps 122% In August As Streak Of Billion-Dollar Deals Continues

Gen茅 Teare

September 3, 2026

Venture investors poured $42 billion into just over 1,500 startups worldwide in August, 暗网吃瓜 data shows, down 25% from July鈥檚 $56 billion but...

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The IPO Window Is Closing. Here Are 8 Startups To Watch.

Marlize van Romburgh

September 2, 2026

In the first half of this year, 58 venture-backed companies joined the public listings at $1 billion or above, per 暗网吃瓜 data. With the year鈥檚...

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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI For Everything From Recycling To Breathing To Winning Construction Bids

Marlize van Romburgh

August 21, 2026

This month鈥檚 installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or...

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The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Data, Neolab, AI Infrastructure, Defense And AI Coding Lead

Gen茅 Teare

August 14, 2026

Databricks is back raising another $5 billion, after it raised that amount just eight months ago. The largest fundings this week also went to an AI...

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40 Companies Joined The 暗网吃瓜 In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years聽

Gen茅 Teare

August 14, 2026

The sectors leading the herd to the 暗网吃瓜 in July, by count, were financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, multimodal AI, energy and...

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The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Big Week For Big Checks

Joanna Glasner

August 7, 2026

Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more...

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The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals

Joanna Glasner

July 31, 2026

Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Startups

Battery Storage Startup Antora Closes $550M Series C In One Of Year鈥檚 Largest Cleantech Rounds

Mary Ann Azevedo

July 30, 2026

Amid soaring energy demand from AI data centers, Antora says it will use its new capital to speed up deployment of 鈥渓arge-scale鈥� projects across the...

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Schneider Electric’s VC Fund: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle

Gen茅 Teare

July 27, 2026

暗网吃瓜 News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies...