Top Funding Rounds Week of August 3rd
Firmus Technologies and Hadrian lead a week of massive capital inflows into AI infrastructure, energy storage, and industrial automation.
Published August 10, 2026 by Jacob Klionsky
- 01Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•Tasmania$2BEquity
Firmus Technologies, an Australian artificial intelligence infrastructure company, raised $2 billion in new equity funding at a post-money valuation of more than $10.5 billion, with participation from existing investors Coatue and Nvidia and new investors including Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, additional Blackstone vehicles, and Jane Street.
- 02Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$1.4BSeries D
Hadrian, an advanced manufacturing company building highly automated factories, raised $1.37 billion in a Series D at a $7.87 billion valuation co-led by WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour Partners, Valor Equity Partners, 137 Ventures, and Baillie Gifford, with JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investment Group as an anchor co-lead and participation from 1789 Capital, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, funds managed by Apollo, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, CapitalG, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Altimeter, Construct Capital, and existing investors.
- 03Consumer Electronics • Energy•Windsor and Maidenhead$1BEquity
AVK, a European prime, standby and dispatchable power solutions provider, secured an initial investment of over USD 1 billion as a majority investment from Partners Group
- 04Energy • Natural Resources•California$1BEquity
Valar Atomics, a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) startup, raised $1 billion in equity in a round led by Sequoia (with partner Shaun Maguire joining the board) and secured a $200 million line of credit from Erebor and other banks, with participating investors including Apandion Capital, Atreides Management, Conviction, Dream Ventures, HOF Capital, Point72 Ventures, Riot Ventures, Snowpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners (Bloomberg reported a $6 billion valuation).
- 05Energy • Manufacturing•Texas$1BSeries D
Base Power, an energy storage startup deploying home batteries, raised $1B in a Series D at a $13B post-money valuation led by Ribbit, Addition, Valor Equity Partners, and JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group with participation from Altimeter, D1 Capital Partners, Sands Capital, Coatue, Layer Global, Energy Impact Partners, Thrive Capital, a16z, Lightspeed, Trust Ventures, CapitalG, and others.
- 06Energy • Manufacturing•Vermont$830MNon-Equity Assistance
BETA Technologies, electric aviation company, proposed up to $1 billion EXIM financing led by the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
- 07Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Design•California$700MSeries C
Lumilens, a provider of a connectivity platform for AI infrastructure, raised over $700M in Series C funding at a $5.51B valuation co-led by Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures, and Spark Capital.
- 08Apps • Commerce and Shopping•California$545MSeries G
Whatnot, a live commerce platform, raised $545 million in a Series G at a $20 billion valuation led by ICONIQ, Lightspeed and Avra with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Bond, DST Global, Greycroft, Y Combinator, Standard Capital and CapitalG.
- 09Financial Services • Lending and Investments•New York$500MEquity
Bridge, an AI-powered lending platform, secured a $500 million investment (investment) from LuminArx Capital Management.
- 10Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•England$312MSeries B
Olix, an AI chip startup, raised $312 million at a $3.3 billion valuation led by Fundomo with participation from Arm, Hudson River Trading, Reed Hastings, Hummingbird Ventures, Crane, Plural, Creandum, Phoenix Court, and Transition.
- 11Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•Texas$310MSeries B
Mariana Minerals, a software-first vertically integrated critical minerals company, raised $310 million in a Series B led by Khosla Ventures with continued support from Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy Ventures and participation from Greenoaks, Halo Fund, Pax Ventures, StepStone Group, BHP Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Greycroft, General Innovation Capital Partners, Mitsubishi Corporation, In-Q-Tel (IQT), and Earthshot Ventures.
- 12Information Technology • Internet Services•California$299.4MSeries A
Volta, a London-based AI cloud startup, raised €259.8 million ($300M) across Seed and Series A at a €2.07 billion ($2.4B) valuation led by Azora, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter and NVIDIA, with participation from the family office of Michael Dell and Matter Venture Partners.
- 13$263MEquity
Frontier Power USA, a battery storage developer, raised about $263 million in an equity capital raise from Cerberus ($100M), Eos Energy Enterprises (about $113M) and Hudson Bay Capital ($50M).
- 14Financial Services • Transportation•Lagos$250MSeries C
Moove, a vehicle-financing and ride-hailing fleet operator, raised $250M in a Series C at a $2.1B valuation led by Mubadala Investment Company with Woven Capital and Ion Pacific as co-leads and participation from investors including BlueCrest, Sona Asset Management, The Raptor Group, BlackRock, MUFG, Franklin Templeton, Uber, Left Lane and others.
- 15Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$250MSeries E
Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity startup, raised $250 million in an oversubscribed Series E at a valuation of more than $2 billion co-led by NightDragon and New Enterprise Associates with participation from Acrew Capital, Blue Cloud Ventures, Demeter Group, EDBI, PSG, SAIC, Sapphire Ventures, Craft Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Ridge Ventures and SignalFire
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Biotechnology • Health Care•Massachusetts$188MSeries ELifeMine Therapeutics, a transplantation and immunology biotech, raised $263 million in financing including an oversubscribed $188 million Series E led by Milky Way Investments with participation from Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, RA Capital Management, GV, LoLa Capital Partners, GlaxoSmithKline, Invus and ARCH Venture Partners
- 17Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$150MSeries C
HappyRobot, an enterprise AI platform, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo
- 18Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$150MEquity
Medallia, an AI-driven experience management company, secured $150 million in new capital as part of a recapitalization that transferred ownership to an investor group led by funds managed by Blackstone, along with Apollo and FS KKR Capital Corp.
- 19Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•Central Region$130MSeries B
Acrab, an agentic AI compute infrastructure company, raised US$130 million in a Series B with continued support from Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth and participation from institutional investors across Europe and Southeast Asia.
- 20Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•New York$125MSeries C
Zenity, an AI security and governance platform for AI agents, raised $125 million in a Series C led by Norwest with participation from Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP and Intel Capital.
