Venture Capital

Scopia Surgical Raises C$2.65 Million Pre-Seed Funding Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Scopia Surgical has successfully concluded an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, raising an impressive C$2.65 million. This funding round was co-led by prominent investment firms Linearis Ventures and Anges Québec, with additional support from Fonds Impulsion, HaloHealth, angel investor Richard Rubin, Suresh Madan, and other notable investors.

Sunthetics Selected For $19.5 Million NSF Autonomous Laboratory Initiative

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Sunthetics has been named Co-Principal Investigator on a major National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative, securing $19.5 million in funding. This initiative focuses on creating and deploying AI-enabled autonomous laboratories.

Tripo AI Raises 3 Billion Yuan In Series B And Series B+ Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Tripo AI has raised about 3 billion yuan through its Series B and Series B+ rounds, significantly bolstering its financial resources to expand its generative 3D technology. This funding will allow Tripo to enhance its foundation models, improve computing infrastructure, and accelerate its efforts toward commercialization.

Norbert Health Raises $14 Million Series A For Autonomous Robotic Nursing Assistants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Norbert Health has secured $14 million in a Series A funding round to further advance its innovative physical AI technology for autonomous robotic nursing assistants. Prominent investors backed the round, including William A. Marino of Cardinal Group, Exor Seeds, and CareIT. Several angel investors also joined the effort, including Alexis Le-Quoc and Olivier Pomel, co-founders of Datadog; Saeju Jeong, co-founder of Noom; and Thomas Clozel, co-founder of Owkin.

Senticell Raises Nearly $7 Million In Oversubscribed Seed Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Senticell has successfully closed an oversubscribed seed financing round, raising nearly $7 million to further develop its innovative liquid biopsy platform that utilizes red blood cells. Notable investors participated in this round, including The Venture City, Capital Factory, Scalpel Ventures, and Evoce Capital, along with several high-net-worth individuals who recognized the potential of this groundbreaking technology.

Visko Raises $10 Million Pre-Seed Round And Launches Orbis Live AI Model

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Visko, an innovative tech startup founded in 2025 by Qing "Will" Yin, a former Apple researcher with a Ph.D. from Stanford, has successfully secured $10 million in pre-seed funding to further develop its groundbreaking technology. Llama Ventures, a notable investment firm that supports early-stage companies with disruptive potential, spearheaded this initial financing round.

Gridsight Raises $26 Million Series B Led By Insight Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Gridsight, an innovative company specializing in AI-powered grid capacity management, has successfully secured $26 million in Series B funding. Insight Partners led the round, with additional participation from Galvanize and existing stakeholders, including Airtree, Energy Transition Ventures, and Aera VC.

SciFin Raises $44 Million Seed Funding Co-Led By Altimeter And Madrona

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

SciFin has officially launched from stealth mode, securing an impressive $44 million in seed funding co-led by prominent venture capital firms Altimeter Capital and Madrona Venture Group. The round also drew contributions from several other noteworthy investors, including Foundation Capital, S32, Zetta Ventures, and others who share a vision for innovative technological solutions.

N-Power Medicine Raises $32 Million Series B To Expand Community Oncology Research Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

N-Power Medicine has successfully secured $32 million in a Series B financing round, a significant milestone that will support the expansion of its community oncology network. This funding round will also strengthen pharmaceutical partnerships and support the continued development of innovative products to improve cancer care.

Oliver AI Raises Pre-Seed Funding From Menlo Ventures And Unusual Ventures For Agentic AI Data Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Oliver AI has raised pre-seed funding from Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures to scale OliverDB, its high-performance analytical data platform designed specifically for agentic AI workloads.

eComID Raises $17 Million Seed Round Led By Systemiq Capital For AI-Powered Shopping Passport

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

eComID has raised a $17 million seed round led by Systemiq Capital, with participation from Regeneration.VC, Course Corrected, Stadium, and returning investor CapitalT.

SBVA Appoints Former SoftBank Vision Fund Investors Kaz Yoshimaru And Chris Lee As Venture Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

SBVA has appointed former SoftBank Vision Fund investment professionals Kaz Yoshimaru and Chris Lee as Venture Partners, strengthening the firm's investment network across the U.S., Japan, and Southeast Asia.

Jetstream Venture Fund Invests In ImageAiD And Moonrise Medical To Expand AI Healthtech Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Jetstream Venture Fund has made new investments in ImageAiD and Moonrise Medical, expanding its healthtech portfolio with two companies developing AI-enabled vascular diagnostic technologies.

InspeCity Raises ₹100 Crore ($10.5 Million) To Build In-Space Servicing Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

InspeCity has raised ₹100 crore ($10.5 million) in a funding round led by Speciale Invest and Ashish Kacholia, with participation from Antler Elevate, Antler India, Manish Gandhi, Shastra VC, and other investors.

Nscale Secures $3 Billion For Texas And North Carolina AI Campuses Supporting Up To 315 MW Of Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Nscale has closed approximately $3 billion of financing commitments across two senior secured delayed draw term loan facilities supporting large-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure deployments in Texas and North Carolina.

EY US Invests $100 Million In Employee Rewards Focused On AI Adoption, Innovation And Future Skills

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

EY US is investing $100 million in a new employee recognition and rewards program designed to incentivize professionals who develop future-focused skills, adopt advanced technologies, contribute to innovation and deliver measurable business impact.

Ares Closes $4 Billion Japan Logistics Fund With $11 Billion Investment Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Ares Management has closed Japan Logistics Development Partners V at ¥612 billion, or about $4 billion, reaching the fund's hard cap and completing the largest closed-end institutional fundraise in Ares Real Estate's history.

Great Hill Invests In Aurenity To Expand E&S Insurance Programs And AI-Enabled Underwriting

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Great Hill Partners has made a strategic investment in Aurenity, backing the technology-enabled excess and surplus insurance managing general agent as it expands its underwriting organization, launches additional specialty programs and invests further in artificial intelligence.

Zedge Secures $7.5 Million Insider Investment As Morris Berger Becomes CEO To Scale DataSeeds.AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Zedge has announced an approximately $7.5 million direct insider investment and appointed Morris Berger as Chief Executive Officer as the company accelerates development of DataSeeds.AI into a larger artificial intelligence data business.

Searchlight Invests In Aderian As Nordic Managed IT Platform Reaches SEK 2.5 Billion Revenue And 30+ Acquisitions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Searchlight Capital Partners has made an investment in Aderian Group, backing the Nordic managed IT services provider as it expands organically and through acquisitions across Sweden, Norway and the broader region.

Cherubic Ventures Closes $68.88 Million Fund VI As AUM Tops $500 Million And Sudo AI Nears $2 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Cherubic Ventures has closed its sixth fund at $68.88 million, bringing total assets under management across the firm's six funds above $500 million as it continues concentrating on early-stage AI investments.

Physical Superintelligence Raises $58 Million Seed To Build AI Physics Lab And Virtual Physicist Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Physical Superintelligence has launched with $58 million in seed funding to build what it describes as an AI-native physics laboratory staffed by virtual physicists capable of running large-scale simulations, testing hypotheses and designing physical systems. Breakthrough Energy Ventures led the financing.

Odyssey Energy Solutions Raises $74 Million As Platform Facilitates $3.6 Billion In Distributed Energy Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Odyssey Energy Solutions has raised $74 million in new financing to expand its distributed renewable energy financing and procurement platform across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The financing consists of a $27 million equity round and $47 million of debt. New equity investors include Broadscale Group, FMO and Al Mada Ventures, while Union Square Ventures, Equal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Twelve Below, FJ Labs, MCJ and Transition Ventures participated again.

Anthropic Reportedly Signs $35 Billion Lambda Cloud Deal For 350 MW Texas AI Data Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing agreement with Nvidia-backed Lambda tied to a roughly 350 MW artificial intelligence data center in Texas, Reuters reported, citing a person familiar with the transaction.

Aligned Climate Capital Targets $500 Million For Solar And Storage Fund With 500+ MW Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 1, 2026

Aligned Climate Capital has held the first close of Aligned Solar Partners 7, its latest infrastructure fund focused on acquiring and building distributed solar and energy storage projects across the U.S.

Trump Venezuela Oil Deal Covers 65 Billion Barrels, But Analysts Say Gas Price Relief Could Take Years

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

President Donald Trump's newly announced oil agreement with Venezuela gives the U.S. majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of the country's proven reserves, but energy analysts say the transaction is unlikely to materially lower gasoline prices in the near term, according to a CNBC report. Trump has said the agreement will substantially lower gasoline prices for Americans over the longer term.

Polymarket Reportedly Raises $1 Billion At $21 Billion Valuation In 1789 Capital-Led Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Polymarket is raising $1 billion in a new funding round led by 1789 Capital that values the prediction-market platform at $21 billion on a post-money basis, according to a Bloomberg report.

PennantPark Resets $316.7 Million Securitization, Cutting Weighted Average Cost To SOFR + 1.82%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital announced that its unconsolidated joint venture, PennantPark Senior Secured Loan Fund I, has completed the reset of a $316.7 million debt securitization, substantially reducing its borrowing costs while extending the financing's maturity.

Corvex Secures $33 Million PIPE As AI Data Center Capacity Targets 5x Expansion To 8 MW

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

Corvex has announced a major expansion of its AI infrastructure footprint alongside a $33 million private placement, with critical IT power capacity expected to increase more than fivefold from approximately 1.5 MW to about 8 MW by the end of 2026.

HubX Raises $50 Million From Point72 At $1.2 Billion Pre-Money Valuation With Option For Another $25 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 31, 2026

HubX has raised $50 million from Point72 Private Investments in its first external financing, with Point72 receiving an option to invest another $25 million as the profitable consumer technology company expands its AI-powered product portfolio and acquisition strategy.