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Andreessen Horowitz posted a $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund on August 28, 2026. The mandate is chips, memory, networking, data centers, robotics, and home AI appliances — hardware as an official a16z motion, not a software sidecar.
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Aug 28–29, 2026: a16z posted a $1.1B Machine Age Fund, Owner closed $240M at $2.3B, and OpenAI proposed a November 12 wind-down of Cursor models after the SpaceX close. Lambda’s $1B chip debt is Bloomberg-reported. Retro’s $21M filing is a December close.
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Gap-fill investment explainers: Owner $240M @ $2.3B, a16z $1.1B Machine Age Fund, Retro $21M, Ajaib ~$270M SBI stake, Digs $25.3M, Lambda $1B debt, and Bevel $6M — who uses the products and why these capital sources fit.
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Owner announced a $240 million Series D on August 28, 2026, at $2.3 billion, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The company says it has surpassed $100 million ARR. Meritech, Redpoint, Headline, and Jack Altman participated. No Goldman or Meritech fund pages here.
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SBI Holdings took ~20% of Indonesia’s Ajaib for a reported $270M — equity-method affiliate status — extending the same Japan→EM digital-asset strategy that printed Fasset’s $1B Series C.
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Gap-fill investment explainers: Instinct $250M @ $2.5B, Alice $140M, Metriport $26M, RQD* $74M, Trajectory $40M @ $300M, and Smack $61M — who uses the products and why these syndicates fit.
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Aug 26–28, 2026: CivilGrid $26M Series A (Spark lead, no valuation), Deep Cogito $43M Series A (TQ lead, Benchmark in, not Cogito Corp), Atorie $9.5M seed (a16z Speedrun). YC Fall 2026 on-time decisions are due August 28; the apply page now dates the batch September–December.
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Lambda raised $1B in short-dated private debt arranged by JPMorgan to buy Nvidia GPUs for Microsoft — part of a 2026 AI debt wave as a $3B pre-IPO equity round is reportedly in talks.
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Goldman Sachs Alternatives led Owner’s $240M Series D at $2.3B — Redpoint and Headline returned — as the restaurant AI platform pushes past $100M ARR toward every local business.
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Lone Palm Labs (Retro) raised $21M+ Series A with Thrive Capital and Box Group on the cap table — SEC filing dated August 19; round closed in December — PitchBook estimates $100M+ valuation.
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Gap-fill investment explainers for Aug 26–27: Mara $7M, Runable $21M, Wrtn ~$72M, Breedr $27M, Onos Health $17M, Certain Energy £10M, and Agentrys $24.5M — who uses the products and why these syndicates fit.
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Bevel Advisors raised $6M seed after free AI inventory tools for LA fire survivors — pivoting into tech-led high-net-worth risk advisory; Bessemer/Resolute/Shakti named in secondary coverage.
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CivilGrid closed a $26M Series A on August 27, 2026, led by Spark Capital. Energy Impact Partners participated. PG&E is a named customer. Valuation and revenue were not disclosed. The $60M paving figure is a PG&E/company case study.
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Matrix’s TJ Parker led Metriport’s $26M raise (total $28.4M) with ARTIS and Y Combinator — point-of-care patient context for One Medical, Sollis, Color and the agents behind them.
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Bain Capital Tech Opportunities led a $74M minority growth investment in RQD* Clearing — proprietary clearing/custody for broker-dealers, RIAs and global firms accessing U.S. markets, including digital assets.
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Etna Labs led Agentrys’ $19.1M seed after MediaTek’s $5.4M pre-seed — $24.5M total for an open ADA platform that lets chip teams own agent workforces across EDA tools.
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Aug 25–27, 2026: Emerald AI $150M at $1.05B, Gatik $200M Series D (no valuation), Stability AI $76M Series B (not the 2022 dump). Accel-led Keenable $26M seed, Peak XV’s Ringg $10M extension, InspeCity ₹100 crore. Generalist $3B remains sources.
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British Business Bank led Certain Energy’s £10M Series A with Centrica, Ceres, and Temasek Trust C3H — Imperial spinout (ex-RFC Power) aiming at UK curtailment costs and an India MWh demo.
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ComfyUI raised $30 million at a $500 million valuation in April 2026, bringing company-reported total funding to $47 million. Here is the funding history, investors, open-source model, and revenue caveat.
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Deep Cogito closed a $43M Series A on August 26, 2026, led by TQ Ventures. Benchmark participated. Zscaler is a named customer and strategic investor. Total funding is more than $56M. Valuation was not disclosed. This is not Cogito Corp.
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Builders FirstSource led Digs’ $25.3M Series A and signed a five-year commercial integration — AI software for residential construction across pre-build through warranty.
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Index Ventures and Benchmark co-led Instinct’s $250M Series B at a $2.5B valuation — total funding ~$350M for a private-beta life-ops agent still weeks old as a viral product.
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Gap-fill deep dives for late-August 2026 deals not queued in open companion investment-news PRs — orbital infra, independent retail AI, enterprise digital twins, drone logistics, stablecoin neobanking, and rural/home health.
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Apax Digital led Alice’s (ex-ActiveFence) $140M round — total $280M — with CRV and Norwest returning as labs and enterprises buy model testing and guardrails.
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MIT spinoff Apollo Atomics raised $31M seed (FCVC lead; YC, Alumni Ventures) for compact PWRs built in factories and trucked to site — >20 GW LOI pipeline claimed.
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Aug 21–25, 2026: Starcloud $250M at $2.3B, Stripe confirmed OpenRouter (price still press), Fasset $68M at $1B, YC names Mundo/Apollo/Instant, Blackbird VC $1.05B (Australia — not our restaurant Blackbird). Hugging Face, Perplexity, and General Intuition remain talks.
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Emerald AI closed a $150M Series A on August 25, 2026, at $1.05B. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led. NVIDIA and General Catalyst’s scout fund participated. The 100 GW grid figure is the company’s estimate, not a measured capacity print.
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Greenoaks led Airbound’s $37M Series A (Aug 24, 2026) with DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed, and Humba. Bengaluru startup targeting truck-cost aerial logistics with 13,000+ autonomous flights.
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SBI Group led Fasset’s $68M Series C at a $1B valuation (Aug 24, 2026) — three months after a $51M Series B. $40B+ annualized volume, Own Network expansion, agentic corridor banking.
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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.
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ALSO, the Rivian micromobility spinout, closed a $150M Series D on August 19, 2026, led by Prysm Capital. Cumulative funding is about $455M. No valuation was disclosed. Launch-edition e-bikes are only now shipping.
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Castelion closed a $1B Series C on August 19, 2026: $800M equity plus a $250M revolver, at $13B. JPM, a16z, and Carlyle co-led. Google still ranks the $350M Series B. Revenue was not disclosed.
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Unitree (688836.SH) listed August 19, 2026, raising 6.1 billion yuan (~$904M). Day-one close was 845 yuan (+460%, BBC). By August 25 shares had given back about 45% of that debut pop (Straits Times / Reuters). Do not freeze the open as a live cap.
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QuantumLight announced $500M in Fund II. Here is what was disclosed, what the financing label means, and what investors should verify next.
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Aug 14–19, 2026: Etched $700M at $21B (Jane Street), Castelion $1B Series C at $13B, ALSO $150M, Unitree’s STAR Market IPO, Rillet $1B, SpaceX closed Cursor, Stripe–OpenRouter announced Aug 19 ($7.5B is press), plus Databricks $190B, Accel $3.5B, Higgsfield, Groq, Wispr, and Gravis.
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Through August 29: a16z posted a $1.1B Machine Age Fund, Owner printed $2.3B, OpenAI proposed a November 12 wind-down of Cursor models after the SpaceX close, Lambda borrowed $1B for GPUs (reported), SBI took ~20% of Ajaib (~$270M reported), plus CivilGrid $26M (no valuation), Deep Cogito $43M (not Cogito Corp), Emerald AI $1.05B, and Stripe confirmed OpenRouter ($7.5B is press, not closed). Anthropic’s IPO remains a June 1 confidential S-1 — not a ticker.
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Etched closed $700M at $21B on August 18, 2026, led by Jane Street after the trading firm tested and installed a rack. That doubles July’s $10.3B Series C in a month. Revenue was not disclosed.
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Costanoa and First In led Smack Technologies’ $61M Series B (total >$90M) to build Alpha hardware that pairs with Omega command planning already moving into U.S. military production.
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Groq’s current valuation is $3.5 billion as of the August 17, 2026 $350M Series A (Disruptive; planned NVIDIA). That sits on top of $650M in June — not instead of it. $3.5B is not a simple down round vs the old ~$6.9B chip-company mark.
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Higgsfield’s $400M Series B at $5.4B (Aug 17, 2026) is a compute-and-workflow bet on AI video. Company claims $700M ARR — treat as company-reported.
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Rillet closed a $100M Series C at $1B on August 17, 2026, led by ICONIQ, with Sequoia and a16z returning. Third round in 14 months. Named customers include Temporal. Revenue dollars were not disclosed.
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Sequoia led Trajectory’s $40M Series A at a $300M post with NVIDIA and Bessemer — infrastructure so product agents improve from real usage, not frozen offline models.
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Menlo led Wispr’s $280M Series B at $2B (Aug 17, 2026). 8VC, NEA, and Together Fund participated. Voice-as-OS vs meeting-notetaker crowded field.
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Cursor’s last widely cited valuation is $60 billion all-stock — press-reported (CNBC June; The Verge on close day), not in Cursor’s August 14, 2026 close post. That post does confirm SpaceX acquired the company.
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Gap-fill investment news for Aug 12–13: Form Energy, Lovable, Thrive Holdings, CodeRabbit, Blacksmith, and Skan AI — who uses the products and why these funds fit.
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Databricks’s current valuation is $190 billion as of the August 13, 2026 $5B close (Coatue). July’s $188B figure was a term sheet with no disclosed raise size. Snowflake is public — do not freeze a market cap next to this private mark.
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Vals AI announced a $40M Series A at $400M on August 13, 2026, led by a16z, with 8VC, Pear VC, and BloombergBeta returning. The product is independent benchmarks for real work — not another model lab.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lovable’s current valuation is $13.3 billion as of the August 12, 2026 $400M Series C led by Menlo Ventures. That supersedes the December $6.6B mark and earlier $12B–$13.2B “in talks” headlines.
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Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital co-led Skan AI’s $63M Series C — Citi and State Farm Ventures joined as customers-turned-investors — to map how work actually runs before agents automate it.
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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raised $2B at $12B from SoftBank, D1, and Altimeter — a PE-style AI deployment platform spun from Thrive Capital, not another chatbot startup.
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Accel announced $3.5B across US, Europe/Israel, India, and a global expansion vehicle on Aug 11, 2026. What founders should know — and which Accel-backed companies we already cover.
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Gap-fill deep-dives for deals not in PRs #69–#75: Cambridge Aerospace, Corma, Lumilens, Whatnot, Dwelly, and Aureka — who uses the products and why these funds fit.
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Base10 led Axle’s $17.5M Series A for an AI-native insurance clearinghouse used by Rocket Mortgage, Avis, and Experian — verification, monitoring, and policy updates without PDF fax hell.
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Torrance defense startup Neros raised $250M Series C at $2.5B post-money co-led by Sequoia and the American Strategic Technology Fund to ramp Archer AI strike and Bandit interceptor drones.
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Ex-Meta AI research director Kevin Carlberg raised $10.25M for Noosphere Labs — human-centered physical intelligence — led by Trilogy Equity Partners with major Madrona participation.
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