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Sunday August 30 added almost no new company-disclosed mega-tape. The gap-fill is AusperBio’s $120M Series C (unnamed lead), Warpify and fileAI checks with no published dollars, YZi Labs’ $500K De¹ residency check, and YC’s apply page rolling from Fall 2026 to Winter 2027.
Gap-fill investment explainers: Palona $20M, HubX up to $75M @ $1.2B pre, Yardstik $30M, Capital F $17M fund, Atorie $9.5M deep dive, and Keenable $26M deep dive — who uses the products and why these capital sources fit.
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.
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.
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 on June 1, 2026. That is company-confirmed. A public S-1, share count, and price are not out as of August 27. Bloomberg people-familiar: public filing as soon as end of August; size talk vs SpaceX is not a company figure.
The late-August funding tape: Socure’s $5.2B mark and Fravity acquisition, REGENT’s $240M equity/debt package, OpenAI’s filing-backed $400M fund, Transfyr’s $25M seed, Hike Medical’s $22.5M and Gestala’s $84M across two rounds.
