AI Startup Funding Pulse

Mega Funding Rounds

• 🔥 VAST Data Series F: VAST Data closed a $1B Series F funding round including primary and secondary capital at a $30B...

• Nvidia-backed $1B Series F at $30B valuation signals hyperscaler nod to AI data platforms in infra boom.
• Cash-positive (>$100M/quarter), raise...

Cursor's valuation exploded: $2.5B (Jan '25) to $9B (May), $29.3B post-$2.3B Series D (Nov), eyeing $50B round.

• SpaceX partnership: Builds coding...

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's GB300 chips. Signals hyperscalers fueling new AI labs with massive compute access.

Massive funding push for Bezos' stealth AI startup: raising $10B at ~$38B valuation—first since $6.2B launch round.

• Elite backers: JPMorgan Chase...

Amazon-Anthropic Mega Investment

• 🔥 Amazon invests $5B now with up to $25B more: Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic immediately, with...

Key angles on Amazon-Anthropic mega-deal:

• Investment: $5B now + up to $20B on milestones (total $25B atop $8B prior) at $380B valuation
• AWS...

Elite founder speed in physical AI: Project Prometheus, launched Nov 2025 with $6.2B, nears $10B round at $38B post-money—yet to close.

• Focus:...

Recursive Superintelligence raises $500M at a $4B valuation from Google Ventures and Nvidia to build self-improving AI systems. Elite backing underscores VC hunger for bold superintelligence bets.

OpenEvidence, dubbed the ChatGPT for doctors, raised $200M led by Google Ventures—a clear sign of investor shift toward specialized healthcare AI, fueling vertical traction for startup builders.

Frontier AI Lab Mega-Raise

• 🔥 Recursive Superintelligence $500M Round: Recursive Superintelligence raised at least $500 million at a $4 billion...

Exploding valuations in AI devtools: Cursor in talks for $2B raise at >$50B pre-money valuation, up from $29.3B post-money in Nov after June's $900M...

• Warp-speed funding: 4-month-old AI lab raises $500M at $4B pre-money led by GV, with Nvidia strategic
• Elite team of Richard Socher, Tim...

Investor surge for enterprise AI platforms: Factory raises $150M Series C led by Khosla Ventures at $1.5B valuation, with Sequoia, Insight,...

Major Startup Fundraises

• 🔥 Recursive Superintelligence: Landed $500M funding at $4B valuation.

IPO Filings

• 🔥 Cerebras Systems: AI...

Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old London AI startup, just raised at least $500M at a $4B valuation led by Google's GV with Nvidia joining—extreme early-stage hype and hyperscaler FOMO in foundational AI research.

Cerebras Systems, the AI chipmaker, has filed publicly for a US IPO – just months after raising $1B at a $23B valuation (including the round) led by...

Sequoia Capital has raised a $7B expansion fund under new leadership, targeting late-stage AI startups in the US and Europe. Huge boost for founders scaling AI ventures amid fierce competition.

Blockbuster AI Funding Rounds

• 🔥 Cursor (Anysphere): Cursor is in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a $50 billion valuation, co-led by...

Cursor sets the bar for AI devtools with $2B ARR from zero in just 3 years – fastest B2B scaling ever.

• Oversubscribed round co-led by a16z, Thrive,...