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Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
US AI biology startup Outer Biosciences exits stealth after raising ~$23M; the company keeps living human skin alive outside the body for over a month to train AI models that discover new cosmetic and pharmaceutical ingredients.
US-Spanish enterprise AI startup HappyRobot raises $150M Series C at a $1.2B unicorn valuation, led by Prysm Capital and Eurazeo, to deploy AI agents that automate complex enterprise workflows for clients like DHL and Uber.
British-Nigerian autonomous vehicle fleet company Moove raises $250M Series C at a $2.1B valuation led by Mubadala to own and operate vehicle fleets, charging depots, and city operations for the robotaxi industry.
US critical minerals startup Mariana Minerals raises $310M Series B led by Khosla Ventures and a16z to expand its AI-powered autonomous mining operations for copper and other strategic materials.
AI video and image generation startup Higgsfield raises $400M Series B at a $5.4B valuation led by DST Global, having reached $700M in annualized revenue in under eight months, with 390 Fortune 500 customers.
US defense startup Castelion raises $1B Series C at a $13B valuation, co-led by JPMorgan, a16z, and Carlyle, to mass-produce its Blackbeard low-cost hypersonic strike missile for the US military.
US orbital infrastructure startup Starcloud raises a $250M extension to its Series A to build and operate data centers in space as terrestrial launch capacity tightens.
Toronto AI biotech Biossil exits stealth with $70M co-led by Founders Fund and OpenAI to acquire and rescue failed drug candidates using large language models, with several molecules already in clinical trials.
US autonomous pentesting startup Horizon3 raises $250M Series E at a $2B+ valuation, co-led by NightDragon and NEA, to lead the emerging "AI vs. AI" era of cybersecurity.
AI model-routing startup OpenRouter acquired by Stripe for over $7B — more than 5x its $1.3B valuation from just three months earlier.
British defense-tech startup Agon exits stealth with $30M led by Lux Capital and Northzone to build synthetic virtual battlefields where autonomous weapons and counter-drone systems train against adaptive AI adversaries.
UK cybersecurity startup Prevalent AI, originally spun out of GCHQ, raises £16M in its first primary capital in nine years to map fragmented enterprise data into security knowledge graphs.
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