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K2 Space Hits $6.8B Valuation · Commonwealth Fusion Raises $1B to $4B Total · IG Group Buys Underdog for $1.3B · Procore Takes DroneDeploy for $845M · Whatnot Eyes $20B
A day built on hard infrastructure and hard bets: satellites, fusion, and construction robots pulled in the biggest checks, while prediction markets and AI-agent security drew the strategic buyers. Meta's record AI spending set the mood for everyone writing nine-figure rounds.
Amazon Completes $50B OpenAI Investment · ICE Buys MarketAxess for $6B · Antora Energy Raises $550M · Reformation Prices $211M NYSE IPO · Amazon Posts First $200B Quarter
Amazon closed its $50 billion bet on OpenAI and posted the first $200 billion quarter in its history on the same day. Thermal batteries, a fixed-income mega-merger, and a womenswear IPO filled out the rest of the window.
Brookfield And CPP Take LXP Private For $5.2B · Fireworks Hits A $17.5B Valuation · Tempus Buys Personalis For $1.5B · Wonder Raises $650M At $9B · CuspAI Raises $450M With Bezos And The UK Government · Neo Exits Stealth With $100M
Monday opened with $6.7 billion of announced M&A and a British startup that convinced Jeff Bezos and the UK government to fund a search for materials that do not exist yet. AI infrastructure kept setting the pace on both the funding and the valuation side.
Beckham's IM8 Lands $1B · Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M at $7B · Chai Discovery Hits $3.8B · Reflection Inks $1B Nebius Compute Deal · TerraFirma Raises $100M · Singularity Exits Stealth at $400M
Consumer health and celebrity brands ran the day, with Daniel Ek's Neko Health and David Beckham's IM8 pulling in a combined $1.7 billion. Defense, AI drug discovery, and construction robotics rounded out a heavy run of closed rounds.
Ecolab Closes $4.75B AI Cooling Deal · Kraken Hits $1B Defense Unicorn · Oxylabs Takes First Check At $3.6B · Gradium Banks $100M Seed · Meta Builds Its Own Chip
The AI buildout ran well past chips and models this weekend. A century-old water company closed a $4.75 billion bet on data center cooling, a British drone-boat maker crossed into unicorn territory, and Meta moved to build silicon of its own.
Anthropic Tops OpenAI At $1.2T · Micron's $250B US Chip Bet · Databento's $97M Series B · Nscale Lands $900M · OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6 Sol · Global VC Hits Record $510B
AI valuations and chip spending ran the day. Anthropic passed OpenAI at a $1.2 trillion secondary valuation, Micron committed $250 billion to US memory-chip plants, and OpenAI and Meta both shipped new frontier models.
Blue Origin Nears $10B at $130B Valuation · Apple Commits $30B to Broadcom · SambaNova Hits $11B Valuation · Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fund · Oratomic Banks $300M Series A · Prime Intellect Joins the Unicorns
Space and AI infrastructure ran the day. Jeff Bezos opened Blue Origin to outside capital for the first time at a reported $130 billion valuation, Apple put more than $30 billion behind US chipmaking, and roughly $1.4 billion more flowed into AI compute across SambaNova, Oratomic, and Prime Intellect.
Bending Spoons Prices $18.4B IPO · QXO Closes $17B TopBuild Buyout · Together AI Doubles To $8.3B · 8VC Closes $1.5B Fund · Lime Debuts On Nasdaq · Kroger Buys Giant Eagle For $1.65B
Public markets and AI infrastructure ran the day. Bending Spoons and Lime both debuted on Nasdaq, Together AI doubled its valuation to $8.3 billion, and QXO closed its $17 billion buyout of TopBuild.
SpaceX Raises $85B+ In History's Largest IPO · Musk Hits Trillionaire Status · Mistral Eyes €3B At A €20B Valuation · Theker Lands Europe's Biggest Robotics Series A · OpenAI Buys Ona
The biggest IPO in history landed today and minted a trillionaire. Europe kept pace with a rumored €3 billion Mistral round and a record robotics Series A out of Barcelona.
Anthropic Hits $965B Valuation · $17.6B Caesars Acquisition · Cognition Reaches $26B · $240M Focused Energy · $200M Capchase Round
Anthropic edges within reach of becoming the first $1 trillion private company. Capital floods AI infrastructure, fusion energy, and B2B fintech as enterprise demand rewrites the venture playbook.
SpaceX Files Record IPO at $1.75T · $66.8B NextEra · Dominion Merger · $700M Hark Series A · $300M AMCA Series B · $250M Exa Series C · $475M Playground Fund IV
The AI infrastructure trade went vertical this week as utilities, chip factories, and compute contracts swallowed historic capital. SpaceX dropped its prospectus, Hark unveiled a $6 billion AI hardware bet, and Anthropic signed a $40 billion compute lifeline with xAI.
Anduril Hits $61B Valuation · Isomorphic Labs $2.1B Series B · Fervo Energy IPO Pops 33% · $400M Mind Robotics · Forus Crosses $1B Valuation
AI defense and AI drug design pulled in the day's biggest checks, while Fervo Energy's blockbuster IPO marked geothermal's official break into the AI energy stack.