🧑‍🚀 Top Deals You Can’t Miss

1️⃣ Anthropic – $30B Series G at a $380B valuation, resetting the ceiling for private AI financing.

2️⃣ Logan Paul – $16.5M Pikachu Illustrator card sale, the highest trading card sale ever recorded.

3️⃣ Thrive Capital - Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital’s $10B Fund, Thrive X, marks the largest fundraise in the firm’s 15-year history and one of the biggest venture raises in recent years.

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🌳 Series B+ & Growth

• Anthropic, a San Francisco, CA-based generative AI company, raised $30 billion in Series G funding. Round led by GIC with participation from Coatue Management, D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer Investment Group, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, MGX, Microsoft, Nvidia, Blackstone, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter Capital.

• Axiom Space, a Houston, TX-based commercial space station and spacesuit developer, raised $350 million in funding. The round, co-led by Qatar Investment Authority and Type One Ventures.

• Talkiatry, a New York, NY-based in-network telepsychiatry provider, raised $210 million in Series D funding. Perceptive Advisors led the round and were joined by existing investors.

• Solace, a New York, NY-based enterprise connectivity platform, raised $130 million in Series C funding. Round led by IVP, with participation from Menlo Ventures, SignalFire, Torch Capital, Inspired Capital, and RiverPark Ventures.

• Loyal, a San Francisco, CA-based longevity biotech company developing lifespan-extension drugs for dogs, raised $100 million in Series C funding. age1 led the round and was joined by Baillie Gifford, The Longevity Fund, and existing investors.

• Anterior, a San Francisco, CA-based AI health plan platform, raised $40 million in funding. Sequoia Capital and NEA led the round and were joined by other investors.

• OPAQUE, a San Francisco, CA-based confidential AI security startup, raised $24 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Walden Catalyst with participation from Intel Capital, Race Capital, Storm Ventures, Thomvest, and Abu Dhabi’s ATRC.

• Terra Industries, an Abuja, Nigeria-based defense technology startup, raised $22 million in funding led by Lux Capital, just one month after securing $11.75 million in a round led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $34 million.

🚀 Series A

• Simile AI, a Stanford-roosted AI startup, secured $100 million in Series A funding. Round led by Index Ventures.

• Ever, a London, UK-based fintech company, raised $31 million in Series A funding. Round led by Eclipse, with participation from Lifeline Ventures, Ibex Investors, Maki VC, Joint Effects, and JIMCO.

• Didero, a Toronto, Canada-based retail operations platform, raised $30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Chemistry and Headline, with participation from M12 and Microsoft’s Venture Fund.

🌱 Seed & Early Rounds

• The Biological Computing Company, a Boston, MA-based startup building neuron-powered computing platforms, raised $25 million in Seed funding. Round led by Primary Venture Partners.

• Project Omega, a New York, NY-based startup, raised $12 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Starship Ventures with support from Mantis Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Decisive Point, and Slow Ventures.

• Upside Robotics, a Waterloo, Ontario-based autonomous agricultural robotics company, raised $7.5 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Plural, including participation from Garage Capital, and Moxxie Ventures.

🤝 Strategic, M&A & Undisclosed

• ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, a Haifa, Israel-based container shipping company, was acquired for $4.2 billion by Hapag-Lloyd, a Hamburg, Germany-based global shipping company. Hapag-Lloyd financed the transaction using cash reserves and up to $2.5 billion in external funding.

• University of Colorado System, a Colorado-based public university system, signed a $2 million agreement with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu access across campuses.

💸 Startups Raising

• Anduril Industries, defense tech startup, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of at least $60 billion.

• Legora is raising funding at a $6 billion valuation.

• Shield AI is reportedly seeking up to $1 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation.

• Stark Defence, German’s defense tech startup, reached a €1 billion valuation after securing fresh funding. Found led by by Sequoia Capital, including participation from Founders Fund.

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📚 Read of the Day

🤖 OpenAI Makes Its Agent Move

OpenAI hired OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to lead its personal AI agent initiatives. The move reinforces OpenAI’s push beyond chat interfaces and toward autonomous systems capable of executing multi-step workflows across applications.

The Backstory

OpenClaw gained momentum in developer circles as an open-source AI assistant framework focused on agent-based task execution and tool integrations.

The Strategy

By bringing Steinberger in-house, OpenAI accelerates its roadmap toward AI systems that act on behalf of users, not just respond to prompts.

Why It Matters

The AI race is shifting from models to agents. Talent concentration around execution layers could define the next platform winner.

👉 Read The Whole Story Here

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📰 Other News You Don’t Want To Miss

🎓 University of Colorado signs $2M deal with OpenAI for ChatGPT Edu — The three-year agreement brings ChatGPT access to students, faculty, and staff across four campuses.

🕶️ Meta plans facial recognition for Ray-Ban smart glasses — The company is exploring facial recognition features inside its AI-powered wearable devices.

🚁 Amazon to launch drone delivery in Chicago suburbs this summer — Prime Air expands into the Midwest as Amazon scales autonomous logistics.

🛡️ Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela raid — AI models are increasingly embedded in national security operations.