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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Baseten's January 2026 round highlights enterprise demand for latency-optimized model serving as a dedicated infrastructure layer.
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.
NextView Ventures logged seed-stage exits as Browser Company was acquired by Atlassian for $610M and Hatch by Yelp for $300M.
Humans& raised one of the largest seed rounds in AI, highlighting investor concentration around elite teams from top labs.
Helsing's Prima Materia-led mega-round, Kongsberg space JV, and HX-2 production ramp together show Europe committing to defense-tech sovereignty.
Harlem Capital marked its 10-year "next chapter," deploying Fund III at $1-2.5M into pre-seed and seed across four AI-driven themes.