AMD, Arm and Qualcomm back London's Wayve; Anthropic rejects VC
offers valuing it above $800B
💰 23 new AI deals profiled below by category.
Highlights:
- 🇺🇸 Anthropic receives, but turns down, funding offers at $800B. ARR now surpassing $30B, up from about $9B end of 2025.
- 🇬🇧 Reward acquired by Rezolve AI for $230M, enhancing customer engagement tech.
- 🇮🇹 Camgraphic receives €211M in state aid to advance graphene-based optical technology.
- 🤖 Sygaldry Technologies raises $139M to enhance AI hosting infrastructure.
- 💊 Alloy Therapeutics secures $40M to boost AI-driven drug development platform.
- 🇺🇸 Hockeystack raises $50M to launch AI-driven revenue agents platform for enterprise sales.
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⭐ Featured Deal
Wayve
🇬🇧
$60M
London-based AI
group Wayve has
secured $60
million in new
funding from major
chip companies,
following a
previous $1.2
billion
investment. The
autonomous driving
software developer
aims to integrate
its platforms into
vehicles,
enhancing
commercial
partnerships like
the one with
Nissan for
robotaxis. The
Series D extension
was led by AMD,
Arm, and Qualcomm
Ventures, focusing
on improving
relations in the
automotive sector
to ensure the
commercial success
of its AI driver
technology.
Investors: AMD,
Arm, Qualcomm
Ventures
🔥 Major Deals
Anthropic
🇺🇸
$30B
Anthropic, an AI company,
has received VC funding
offers valuing it at over
$800 billion, but it has
not pursued these offers.
Previously, it announced a
$30 billion funding round
at a $380 billion
valuation. The company has
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Reward
🇬🇧
$230M
Loyalty tech firm Reward
has been acquired by
Rezolve AI for $230
million. Founded in 2001,
Reward offers a
cloud-based API platform
that enhances customer
engagement and commerce,
serving major clients like
Visa and Amazon. The new
CEO, James House,...
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Camgraphic
🇮🇹
$227.88M
Camgraphic, founded in
2018 at the University of
Cambridge, has secured
€211 million in Italian
state aid to advance its
graphene-based optical
interconnect technology.
This funding, one of the
largest public investments
in an Italian deep-tech
startup, aims to
address...
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$139M
Sygaldry Technologies,
founded by Chad Rigetti in
the United States,
announced $139 million in
funding, including a $105
million Series A round led
by Breakthrough Energy
Ventures and a $34 million
seed round from
Initialized Capital. The
company aims to...
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Investors: Bill Gates’
Breakthrough Energy
Ventures, Initialized
Capital
💪 Mid-Sized Deals
Artemis
🇺🇸
$70M
Artemis, a cybersecurity
startup, has secured $70
million in Series A
funding to combat
AI-powered attacks using
AI technology. Led by
Felicis, with
participation from First
Round Capital, Brightmind,
and industry leaders, the
company aims to provide a
centralized security...
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Investors: Felicis, First
Round Capital, Brightmind
Wayve
🇬🇧
$60M
London-based AI group
Wayve has secured $60
million in new funding
from major chip companies,
following a previous $1.2
billion investment. The
autonomous driving
software developer aims to
integrate its platforms
into vehicles, enhancing
commercial partnerships
like the one with...
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Investors: AMD, Arm,
Qualcomm Ventures
Hockeystack
🇺🇸
$50M
Hockeystack has raised $50
million to launch its
AI-driven revenue agents
platform aimed at
transforming enterprise
sales. The funding round
saw participation from
Bessemer Venture Partners,
Y Combinator, and
Uncorrelated Ventures,
bringing the company's
total funding to over $50
million.
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Investors: Bessemer
Venture Partners, Y
Combinator, Uncorrelated
Ventures
Bluefish
🇺🇸
$43M
bluefish, an enterprise
marketing technology
company specializing in
AI-driven 'agentic
marketing,' has secured
$43 million in a Series B
financing round co-led by
Threshold Ventures and
NEA. This funding will
support the expansion of
their innovative marketing
platform.
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Investors: Threshold
Ventures, NEA
$40M
Alloy Therapeutics has
raised $40 million in a
Series E round, valuing
the Boston-based biotech
company at $1 billion. The
funding will enhance its
tech-enabled drug
development platform,
which integrates AI with
laboratory and clinical
capabilities. Key
investors include
8VC...
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Investors: 8VC,JIC Venture
Growth
Investments,Mubadala
Capital,Founders Fund
Parasail
🇺🇸
$32M
Parasail has raised $32
million in a Series A
funding round to enhance
its AI supercloud
platform, increasing total
funding to $42 million.
The round was co-led by
Touring Capital and
Kindred Ventures, with
participation from Samsung
Next, Flume
Ventures,...
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Investors: Touring
Capital, Kindred Ventures,
Samsung Next, Flume
Ventures, Banyan Ventures
Gizmo
🇬🇧
$22M
Gizmo, an AI-powered
learning platform, has
raised $22 million in
Series A funding to expand
its engineering and AI
teams and enhance its
presence in the U.S.
college market. The
platform, which transforms
students' notes into
interactive study
materials, has...
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Auctor
🇺🇸
$20M
New York startup Auctor
has raised $20 million in
Series A funding, led by
Sequoia Capital, to
enhance its AI platform
designed for software
implementation. The
platform addresses the
issue of lost project
context when consultants
leave, which often
leads...
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Investors: Sequoia Capital
Agriodor
🇫🇷
$16.2M
French agritech company
Agriodor has raised €15
million in a Series A
funding round to support
its international
expansion and scale its
olfactory biocontrol
technology. The funding
was led by the
Environmental and
Solidarity Revolution
Fund, with additional
investors including...
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Investors: Environmental
and Solidarity Revolution
Fund, Région Sud
Investissement, Crédit
Agricole Alpes-Provence
🚀 Smaller Deals
Gitar
🇺🇸
$9M
Gitar has secured $9
million in funding to
tackle bottlenecks in
software development by
automating code validation
and continuous integration
workflows, particularly as
AI-generated code becomes
more prevalent. The
funding round was led by
Venrock, with
participation from Sierra
Ventures.
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Investors: Venrock, Sierra
Ventures
Gravity
🇺🇸
$7M
Gravity announced $7
million in seed funding
led by Next Frontier
Capital, with support from
Foundry Group, K5 Global,
and Denver Ventures. This
funding brings the
company's total to over
$10 million, addressing
key challenges in its
sector.
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Investors: Next Frontier
Capital, Foundry Group, K5
Global, Denver Ventures
Stendr
🇳🇴
$5.4M
Norwegian defense
technology startup Stendr
has secured $5.4 million
in pre-seed funding to
develop advanced
artificial intelligence
capabilities for modern
weapons systems. This
funding round is one of
the largest early-stage
investments in Nordic
defense history, led by
Rainfall, Acme,...
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Investors: Rainfall, Acme,
Skyfall, Startup Lab,
Antler
Modern Relay
🇺🇸
$3M
Modern Relay has secured a
$3 million funding round
led by Point Nine, Emerge,
Amino Collective, and
Common Magic, with notable
investors including
Charlie Songhurst and
Michael Boehler. The
company addresses the
challenge of fragmented
organizational context by
providing a...
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Investors: Point Nine,
Emerge, Amino Collective,
Common Magic, Charlie
Songhurst, Michael Boehler
Graftcode
🇵🇱
$2.268M
Graftcode, a Warsaw-based
developer platform, has
raised €2.1 million in
funding led by Hard2Beat,
with participation from
DigitalOcean Ventures and
others. This investment
brings total funding to
€6.5 million and coincides
with the beta launch of
its platform, which
simplifies...
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Investors: Hard2Beat,
DigitalOcean Ventures
$2.16M
Sapient Perception has
secured €2 million in
pre-seed funding to
enhance its
software-defined cameras
and AI framework aimed at
improving mission-critical
UAV operations. This
funding will help
accelerate the development
of their innovative
technology.
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Otel AI
🇮🇪
$2.16M
Dublin-based start-up Otel
AI has raised €2 million
to enhance its AI platform
for hotel managers,
bringing its total funding
to €2.8 million. The
funding, led by
London-based VC firm
Playfair and supported by
angel investors, aims to
solve the...
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Investors: Playfair
Smartwage
🇮🇹
$2.16M
Italian fintech startup
Smartwage has raised €2
million in a pre-seed
funding round led by Step
Fund to modernize
corporate welfare and
enhance employee benefit
accessibility. The
investment includes an
initial €1 million, with
an additional €1 million
contingent on...
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Investors: Step Fund
Traza
🇺🇸
$2.1M
Traza, a New York-based
startup, has secured a
$2.1 million pre-seed
funding round led by
Base10 Partners, with
participation from several
investors including a16z
Scouts and Clara Ventures.
The company aims to
revolutionize procurement
by deploying AI agents
that autonomously...
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Investors: Base10
Partners, a16z Scouts,
Clara Ventures
Vox Talk AI
🇮🇪
$1.458M
Vox Talk AI, a
Dublin-based startup, has
raised €1.35 million in a
pre-seed funding round to
enhance product
development and accelerate
commercial adoption of its
AI operators for alarm
monitoring and CCTV.
Co-led by Delta Partners
and Act Venture
Capital,...
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Investors: Delta Partners,
Act Venture Capital
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