Cambridge Aerospace’s $300M Series C at $3.4B: Cheap Interceptors vs Expensive Missiles
DFJ Growth led Cambridge Aerospace’s $300M Series C as Lux, Accel, and Lakestar returned — Skyhammer sells low-cost air defence against Shahed-class drones.
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DFJ Growth led Cambridge Aerospace’s $300M Series C as Lux, Accel, and Lakestar returned — Skyhammer sells low-cost air defence against Shahed-class drones.
Granite Asia backed Aureka Biotechnologies’ $100M Series B (~$200M cumulative) to scale AuraIDE — closed-loop AI + wet lab for antibody discovery.
Gap-fill deep dives for Aug 9–10: Source Foundry’s $400M Sequoia-adjacent chip-tool bet, Firmus’s $2B AI factories, Expedition’s $115M COPD Series B, Prime Intellect’s $130M agent stack, and Noen’s ¥500M home robots.
Situational Awareness put another $400M into Sequoia-backed Source Foundry (~$5B valuation) — a stealth ASML-challenger attack on the AI chip manufacturing wall.
Gap-fill investment news for Aug 9: Index→Intelligence, BCV→Straiker, Omilia, Encore, Smallest.ai, QuantHealth, and Acrab — who uses the products and why these funds fit.
Gap-fill coverage for late-July / early-August 2026 deals not already in earlier roundups — specialized AI inference, food-tech growth, real-economy fintech, and Bessemer’s agentic security stack.