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September 9–10 VC News: Harvey $15.5B, Clay $7.1B, Covenant $250M Lifetime
Gap-fill through September 10: Harvey announced $550 million at $15.5 billion (Bloomberg $15.6 billion; company blog omits ARR). Clay closed $115 million Series D at $7.1 billion (ARR last printed $100 million in December 2025). Covenant unveiled Anthem with $250 million lifetime capital — not a dated September round. YC Summer 2026 Demo Day is September 10. Does not duplicate open PRs #140 and #142–#144. Mistral €3B is on main (#141).
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Funding event facts
Source-backed financing and transaction details. Unknown terms remain undisclosed rather than estimated.
Harvey raises $550M at $15.5B
Company. Diffusion + Lightspeed co-led. Bloomberg $15.6B. Company blog omits ARR.
- Event type
- Funding Round
- Event date
- Sep 9, 2026
- Stage / label
- Growth
- Amount
- $550M
- Valuation
- $15.5B (company)
- Confidence
- Company Disclosed
Company / target: Harvey
Lead: Diffusion , Lightspeed Venture Partners
Sources: harvey.ai
Clay raises $115M Series D at $7.1B
Business Wire. Wellington led. ARR not in the announcement.
- Event type
- Funding Round
- Event date
- Sep 9, 2026
- Stage / label
- Series D
- Amount
- $115M
- Valuation
- $7.1B
- Confidence
- Company Disclosed
Company / target: Clay
Lead: Wellington Management
Sources: financialpost.com
Covenant discloses $250M lifetime capital
Founder post. Not a dated September close. No valuation.
- Event type
- Other
- Event date
- Sep 9, 2026
- Amount
- $250M lifetime
- Confidence
- Company Disclosed
Company / target: Covenant
Participants: Andreessen Horowitz
Sources: a16z.news
September 9–10 adds two priced growth prints and one stealth-exit lifetime raise on top of the September 8 Mistral close and the September 7 Nua tape. Harvey announced $550 million at $15.5 billion ($15.6 billion is Bloomberg; company blog omits ARR). Clay closed $115 million Series D at $7.1 billion (ARR last printed $100 million in December 2025). Covenant unveiled Anthem with $250 million lifetime capital — not a dated September round. Y Combinator Summer 2026 Demo Day is September 10. Last verified September 10, 2026. This index does not duplicate open PR #140, #142, #143, or #144. Mistral is on main (merged #141).
Month hub: September 2026 VC news.
Deep dives on this tape
| Date | Entity | Amount | Type | What is actually known | Follow-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9 | Harvey | $550M at $15.5B | Unnamed growth | Diffusion + Lightspeed co-led. $15.6B is Bloomberg. Company blog omits ARR. Guardrails acquired, no price. | Harvey memo |
| Sep 9 | Clay | $115M at $7.1B | Series D | Wellington led. No current ARR. Last stock: $100M ARR, Dec 2025. $5B Jan tender is secondary. | Clay memo |
| Sep 9 | Covenant | $250M lifetime | Stealth unveil | Not a Sep 9 close. No valuation. ~$150M orders is Reuters. | Covenant memo |
Roundup only
YC Summer 2026 Demo Day — today, not a financing
YC’s Demo Day page and the 2026 dates post put Summer 2026 Demo Day on Thursday, September 10. Invite-only; about 1,500 investors and media (YC). Batch-size figures of 234–235 circulating in directories are not a YC official count used here. The live apply window remains Winter 2027 (on-time November 2). See the YC guide. No batch-wide round sizes in this index.
Limetax — €6M equity, €30M credit, not €36M equity
Sesame, September 9: Berlin tax-firm roll-up. €6 million pre-seed led by Motive Partners plus a €30 million German-bank credit facility. Headline €36 million is mixed. No /startup/limetax. Too small and too structured for a standalone on this tape.
UniPat AI — $300M / $2.5B talks, not a close
Bloomberg, September 10: Alibaba slated to lead about $300 million at $2.5 billion; Tencent and HSG named; talks remain in progress. Not a close. No entity this pass.
FRYTE Mobility — €3.5M seed
Munich eTruck charging software; €3.5 million seed (Tech.eu / company). Below the standalone bar here.
Explicitly not this index
- Jet Zero, Navana, Cato, Jaipur, Fundly, Molten, W Health — open PR #140.
- Mistral €3 billion Series D — merged PR #141. See the memo.
- Cognition $2 billion / $48 billion, Stoke, TEC, Forus, Sapien — open PR #142.
- Antioch, TrueBridge, Blee, CloudNC, PHYMI, Herdr — open PR #143.
- Lightfield, Cymphony, Euno, Buildcheck, Bulwark — open PR #144.
- Nua $50 million mixed Series C — already on September 6–7.
Related: Harvey · Clay · Covenant · September hub.
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