Global Funding Radar

Late-stage Indian deals averaged $86 million in H1 2026, concentrated in AI, energy and lending with investors demanding profitability and...

Mega-Round Valuations

• 🔥 Mercor $20B Round: AI training startup Mercor is in talks to raise a new round at a $20 billion valuation, up from its...

Fresh unicorns continue to surface even as critics flag systemic risks in inflated valuations.

• Kraken hit unicorn status with a €152.9M Series B at...

AI Mega-Rounds and Valuations

• 🔥 Anthropic Profitability: Anthropic posted over $1B in 3Q26 profit with a confidential IPO filing on June 1st and...

Kraken Technology Group raised $175m in Series B funding at a $1bn valuation, becoming Europe's newest defence unicorn. DTCP led the round with...

AI concentration reached extreme levels in H1 2026, with mega-rounds reshaping capital flows across regions.

• US deployed $412.7B, 86% to AI...

Anthropic has pivoted from cash-burning GPU lab to >$1B quarterly profit via revenue exploding from $9B to $44B ARR and inference margins jumping from...

AI Mega-Rounds & Unicorns

• 🔥 Positron: Positron is negotiating a $750M two-tranche raise targeting $3.5B then $5B valuation, five months after...

• Oratomic raised $300m Series A for neutral-atom quantum machines
• Prime Intellect hit $1bn valuation with $130m Series A for AI agent tools
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• Anthropic alone captured one-third of global VC in Q2 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic together taking 43% of H1 flows.
• Corporate venture hit a...

AI hardware is attracting major capital across infrastructure and devices.

• Positron is negotiating a $750M two-tranche raise valuing the...

Today's Mega-Rounds

• 🔥 Proxima Fusion: Munich-based fusion company raised $468M led by XTX Ventures and East X Ventures, reaching $2.7B...

• North American startups raised a record $392 billion in H1 2026, with Q2 alone hitting $137.2 billion.
• A handful of AI mega-deals drove nearly all...

Norm Ai's $120M Series C at a $1.2B valuation underscores surging demand for AI in legal services, with clients overseeing $30 trillion in assets adopting its platform.

Keyfactor's $1B+ raise from Summit Partners signals surging enterprise demand for tools that automatically inventory encryption keys, flag hardcoded...

Proxima Fusion's $468 million round, backed by RWE and Google, marks one of Europe's largest private tech investments this year and makes it the continent's best-funded fusion company.

Mega-Rounds

• 🔥 Crusoe: Crusoe is raising $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation to expand AI computing infrastructure.
• 🔥 DayOne: DayOne raised...

AI is powering a record 90 new unicorns in H1 2026, yet mega-rounds like Prometheus at $41B with no product spark sustainability concerns.

• AI...

Cleantech startup funding stabilized at $15 billion in H1 2026, with Q2 hitting $8 billion—the highest quarterly total since 2024. Major rounds...

CRED's $900 million Series H from Meta, Peak XV and Z47 accounted for 96% of June's $935.5 million total across 10 deals, highlighting both Big Tech's...