🧑‍🚀 Top Deals You Can’t Miss

1️⃣ Anthropic – $50B data-center build with Fluidstack, redefining AI infrastructure.

2️⃣ Forterra – $238M Series C to advance autonomous defense systems.

3️⃣ Groww – $754M IPO as India’s retail-investing boom propels the brokerage into the public markets.

4️⃣ Skims – $225M growth round at a $5B valuation led by Goldman Sachs.

5️⃣ The Snow League – $15M raise to expand Shaun White’s global winter-sports property.

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🌳 Series B+ & Growth

• Forterra, a Clarksburg, MD-based autonomous defense systems platform, raised $238M in Series C funding. Moore Strategic Ventures led the round with participation from Franklin Templeton, Salesforce Ventures, and Balyasny.

• Skims, a Los Angeles, CA-based apparel and shapewear brand, raised $225M in growth funding. Goldman Sachs Alternatives led with BDT & MSD Partners joining.

• Teradar, a Boston, MA-based terahertz vision-sensor company for autonomy, raised $150M in Series B funding. VXI Capital led with Lockheed Martin Ventures, Capricorn Investment Group, The Engine Ventures, and IBEX Investors.

• Neros, an El Segundo, CA-based FPV drone supplier to the U.S. Army, raised $75M in Series B funding. Sequoia Capital led with Vy Capital US and Interlagos.

• Sweet Security, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based runtime CNAPP and AI security platform, raised $75M in Series B funding. Evolution Equity Partners led with Munich Re Ventures, Glilot Capital Partners, and Key1 Capital.

• CoLab, a St. John’s, Canada-based AI platform for engineering collaboration, raised $72M in Series C funding. Intrepid Growth Partners led with Insight Partners, Y Combinator, Pelorus, and Killick.

• GC AI, a San Francisco, CA-based legal AI workspace for in-house teams, raised $60M in Series B funding. Scale Venture Partners and Northzone led with Sound Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, News Corp, and The Council.

• AirOps, a New York, NY-based content-engineering platform for AI search, raised $40M in Series B funding. Greylock led with Unusual Ventures, Wing VC, Xfund, Village Global, and Frontline.

• Attentive.ai, a San Francisco, CA-based AI takeoff platform for construction, raised $30.5M in Series B funding. Insight Partners led with Vertex Ventures, Tenacity Ventures, and InfoEdge Venture Fund.

• Digitail, a Toronto, Canada-based AI-native veterinary platform, raised $23M in Series B funding. Five Elms Capital led.

🚀 Series A

• WisdomAI, a San Francisco, CA-based AI data analytics platform, raised $50M in Series A funding. Kleiner Perkins led with NVentures (NVIDIA) joining.

• Vend Park, a Boston, MA-based parking-operations platform for commercial real estate, raised $17.5M in Series A funding. Blue Heron Capital led with Nuveen Real Asset Ventures and Communitas Capital.

• NextSense, a Mountain View, CA-based wearable EEG company, raised $16M in Series A funding. Ascension Ventures led.

🌱 Seed & Early Rounds

• Tenzai, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based autonomous “hacker” AI for continuous pentesting, raised $75M in Seed funding. Battery Ventures, Greylock, and Lux Capital led.

• BoomPop, a San Francisco, CA-based AI event-planning platform, raised $25M in equity funding. Wing VC led with Atomic, ACME, and others.

• Uare.ai (formerly Eternos.life), a Palo Alto, CA-based “Individual AIs” startup, raised $10.3M in Seed funding. Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures led.

• Spectral Compute, a London, UK-based CUDA-compatibility platform, raised $6M in Seed funding. Costanoa Ventures led.

• BITE Data, a Leesburg, VA-based AI-native SaaS company, raised $2.5M in Seed funding. Las Olas Venture Capital led.

• EVE, a San Francisco, CA-based inbox-revenue engine for B2B SMBs, raised $2M in pre-seed funding. Firsthand.VC led with a16z Scout participation.

🤝 Strategic, M&A & Undisclosed

• Anthropic announced a $50B U.S. data-center partnership with Fluidstack to build custom AI facilities.

• Kaltura agreed to acquire eSelf.ai for $27M to integrate conversational avatar technology.

📈 IPOs / Direct Listings / Issuances

• Groww, a Bengaluru India-based online brokerage, raised $754M in an IPO led by institutional anchor investors.

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• J2 Ventures, a Boston MA-based dual-use tech investor, raised $250M for its Brookhaven Fund (III). New Mexico State Investment Council anchored.

• Luxus, a New York NY-based wealth-tech platform, raised $2M for a specialist fund focused on Hermès Birkin and Kelly handbags, with backing from Christie’s.

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📚 Read of the Day

⚽ Apollo Buys Atlético Madrid for $2.55 Billion

Private equity’s biggest play yet in European football.

What Happened: Apollo Global Management acquired a majority stake in Atlético Madrid for $2.55 billion, the second-highest control sale ever for a soccer team.

The Strategy: Apollo plans to grow the club’s digital reach, sponsorships, and global merchandising to bring U.S.-style scalability to European sports.

Why It Matters: Top-tier sports IP is becoming an institutional asset class. Expect more private equity plays across global football.

👉 Read The Whole Story Here

💹 SoftBank Sells Entire Nvidia Stake for $5.83 Billion

Vision Fund cashes out of the AI rally to reload for the next wave.

What Happened: SoftBank sold its entire $5.83 billion Nvidia position, capturing record gains and freeing up capital for new generative AI infrastructure bets.

Powered By: Nvidia’s 200 percent stock surge since 2024 gave SoftBank the liquidity to reallocate toward chip startups and private AI investments.

Why It Matters: Masayoshi Son continues to reposition SoftBank as a long-term AI powerhouse. The sale signals confidence in early-stage AI markets over public equity exposure.

👉 Read The Whole Story Here

📰 News You Don’t Want To Miss

🎩 Slow Ventures Holds a ‘Finishing School’ to Help Founders Learn to Be Fancy – The VC firm hosted an etiquette class for founders on topics like handshakes and public speaking.

⚡ Rivian Gives RJ Scaringe a New Pay Package Worth Up to $5 Billion – The EV maker replaced a 2021 award with a new performance-based compensation plan.

🛍️ Amazon Launches Low-Price Standalone App “Amazon Bazaar” in Dozen+ Markets – Amazon expands to emerging markets with a low-cost shopping platform.

🗺️ Google Maps Releases New AI Tools to Let You Create Interactive Projects – Generative AI now powers user-created guides and story-like visual maps.

💡 AI PowerPoint-Killer Gamma Hits $2.1B Valuation, $100M ARR – Gamma’s profitable growth cements it as a top AI-native productivity player.

🤝 Nebius and Meta Sign $3B AI Infrastructure Deal – The five-year capacity agreement marks Nebius’s second major hyperscale partnership.

💰 Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI – Internal data shows leaner costs and faster scaling at the rival AI lab.

📱 iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple Is Delaying the Next-Gen Version – Weak sales have pushed Apple to postpone the thin iPhone Air refresh.

🩺 OpenAI Is Weighing a Move Into Consumer Health Apps – The company may enter digital health with AI-driven personal records.