Heaviside’s $60M Series B (Felicis, Aug 12) prints $600M three months after a $28M stealth A. Nammo will supply warheads. Revenue and contract values were not disclosed. Here is what the round actually tells you.
T. Rowe Price led Form Energy’s $750M Series G (> $2B total equity). Sequoia joined; Coatue and Energy Impact Partners returned — who buys 100-hour iron-air storage and why this capital fits.
Atomico and Smash Capital co-led CodeRabbit’s $143M Series C — CRV and Scale return — as AI code review expands into triage, explainability, and post-merge security.
Peak XV led Blacksmith’s $45M Series B (closed March, announced Aug 12) with YC and GV tripling down — purpose-built CI compute as AI codegen floods test queues.
Gap-fill investment explainers for Aug 11–12: River AI $1.1B, Neros $250M, Flagler $50M, Obsidian $85M, Noosphere $10.25M, and Axle $17.5M — who uses the products and why these funds fit.
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin’s River AI raised $1.1B across Seed and Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC — LoRA/RL fine-tuning for open-weight models enterprises can own.
