Venture Capital

Venture Capital (VC) News

• Stablecoin giant Tether reduced funding plans from $15-$20B to ~$5B after investor pushback on its $500B valuation target Reuters

• AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1B Series H at a tripled $23B valuation led by Tiger Global Bloomberg

• AI voice generation startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation led by Sequoia  TechCrunch

• Autonomous construction startup Bedrock Robotics raised a $270M Series B at a $1.75B valuation co-led by CapitalG New York Times

• Home battery and VPP startup Lunar Energy raised a $130M Series C led by Activate Capital and a $102M Series D led by B Capital and Prelude Ventures Finesmes

• AI semiconductor startup Positron raised a $230M Series B at a $1B valuation from Arena Private Wealth, Jump Trading, Unless, and SWF QIA Yahoo.Finance

• Machina Labs, an AI-enabled metal manufacturing startup, raised a $124M Series C round from Woven Capital,Lockheed Martin Ventures, and others StartupResearcher

• Digital scent design startup Osmo raised a $70M Series B led by Two Sigma Ventures Finsmes

• TRM Labs, an AI-driven blockchain intelligence startup, raised a $70M Series C led by Blockchain Capital StartupResearcher

• Blockchain prediction-market startup Opinion raised a $20M pre-Series A led by Hack VC and Jump Crypto Ventureburn 

• Apeiron Labs, an autonomous underwater vehicle startup, raised a $9.5M Series A from Dyne Ventures, S2G Investments, and others Yahoo.Finance 

• Agentic web startup Fibr AI raised a $7.5M seed round led by Accel TechinAsia