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Harvey announced $550 million at $15.5 billion (Bloomberg $15.6 billion; company blog omits ARR). Clay closed $115 million Series D at $7.1 billion (ARR last printed $100 million in December 2025). Covenant unveiled Anthem with $250 million lifetime capital — not a dated September round. YC Summer 2026 Demo Day is September 10.
Greylock led Antioch’s $32 million Series A. TrueBridge closed Secondaries II at $508 million. Blee’s Series A is $20 million ($27 million is lifetime). CloudNC’s $20 million is a B extension; $128 million lifetime does not add from 2022. PHYMI’s seed is almost $100 million. Herdr $6 million Bessemer. VideoGen $3.3 million is roundup-only. Mistral, Cognition, and Jet Zero sit on other September indexes.
Bessemer Venture Partners led a $6 million seed for Herdr on September 8, 2026, with Y Combinator and e2vc in the round. The company blog disclosed no valuation, revenue, or user count. Hiring is via SSH to herdr.dev.
Fin Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund co-led a $20 million Series A for New York marketing-compliance company Blee on September 8, 2026. $27 million is total funding after the round. Y Combinator returned. Valuation was not disclosed.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion (not closed; H1 2027). Also this window: Sirdab $10M Series A (YC, company says profitable), Elucid $55M Series D, Zeit AI €4.3M, Hivebotics $6M.
Forbes, citing two people with knowledge, said AfterQuery reached a $3.2 billion valuation on September 1, 2026 — more than 10× the $300 million Series A five months earlier. Round size, lead, and close were not disclosed. The company did not comment. YC partner Gustaf Alströmer called it the accelerator’s fastest launch-to-unicorn.
