Boston VC in 2026: $16.7B Raised in 2025, and Biotech Still Drives the Market
Boston startups raised $16.7B in 2025 and a record $1B in January 2026 alone — here's who's writing the checks and where the capital is flowing.
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Cerebras' $1B Round: The Inference Economy Needs Its Own Silicon
Cerebras' billion-dollar round underlines that wafer-scale and specialty AI accelerators are an investable asset class separate from GPU supply chains.
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Waymo's $16B Series E at $126B Valuation: Why Robotaxi Capital Is Concentrating
Waymo's $16B round led by Dragoneer, DST Global, and Sequoia reframes autonomous mobility as a platform-scale infrastructure bet, not a moonshot.
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Baseten's $300M Round at $5B: Why AI Inference Platforms Are the New CDN
Baseten's January 2026 round highlights enterprise demand for latency-optimized model serving as a dedicated infrastructure layer.
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Notation Capital Portfolio: Talos Extends Series B, Alluvial Exits
Notation Capital’s technical pre-seed bets advanced as Talos extended its Series B and Alluvial was acquired, underscoring the Brooklyn firm’s infrastructure focus.
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NextView Ventures Exits: Browser Company and Hatch Acquired
NextView Ventures logged seed-stage exits as Browser Company was acquired by Atlassian for $610M and Hatch by Yelp for $300M.