Alice’s $140M Raise: AI Trust & Safety Gets a PE-Led Growth Check
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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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.
Manhattan West led a $250M extension to Starcloud’s Series A at $2.3B (Aug 21, 2026). Benchmark, Nvidia (~$25M), and Cisco joined — capital for Starcloud-2/3 and launch bookings as Falcon 9 winds down.
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.
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.