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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.
September 2 gap-fill: AfterQuery’s $3.2 billion mark is Forbes-reported (amount unknown, company silent). Frontier Computing disclosed a $10 million YC S26 pre-seed led by General Catalyst — Frogger is the demo, 500 million neurons is a plan. Clipto’s $15 million at $250 million (Aug 31) was missed on the August 31 tape. YC Summer Demo Day remains September 10.
Y Combinator Summer 2026 company Frontier Computing disclosed a $10 million pre-seed led by General Catalyst. The live evidence is a Frogger demo (92% peak cross rate after one hour). The 500-million-neuron cluster is a January 2027 target, not a product. YC lists London and a team of one.
