Starcloud added a $250M Series A extension on August 21, 2026, at $2.3B. Manhattan West led. Google still ranks the March $1.1B unicorn print. Nvidia’s $25M check is people-familiar, not a company figure.
Eclipse led Muon Space’s $250M Series C (Aug 20, 2026); a source put valuation at $1.5B. Google, Salesforce Ventures, and Wellington joined as Muon scales San Jose production toward 500 sats/year.
Twin1 emerged from stealth with a $20M seed co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Aramco Ventures (Aug 20, 2026). Privacy-governed digital twins for Am Law and enterprise knowledge work.
Bob Nelsen led Astromech’s $20M round — Colossal spinout claiming a $3.8B valuation on ~$60M total raised to forecast evolutionary change. The valuation is the story; commercial pilots are next.
Atomico led Callosum’s $100M seed (Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI) for heterogeneous inference — break workloads into tasks and route each to the best model/chip. Prior $10.25M February stealth round. Cerebras partnership named. Atomico has no /fund/ page here.
Aug 19–20, 2026: Castelion $1B Series C at $13B ($800M equity + $250M revolver), Rivian spinout ALSO $150M Series D, Thunder Compute $13M (YC), plus Navi, Rundoo, Network Bio, Relativity Networks, and Peeko. Centralize’s $19M is July 29, not new August tape.
