🧠 Dopamine Dealflow

💰 Massive Rounds (€50M+ / $50M+)

• Anthropic (San Francisco, CA) – $3–5B equity raise in progress at a $150B valuation, aiming to scale Claude and maintain its lead in enterprise-safe AI. Existing backers include Amazon, Google, and Spark Capital.

• Ramp (New York, NY) – $350M equity raise in progress at a $21B valuation to scale its corporate finance automation suite. ICONIQ is leading, with existing backers expected to follow on.

• MapLight Therapeutics (Redwood City, CA) – $372.5M Series D to advance neuroscience treatments for disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. Backed by Omega Funds, Novo Holdings, and Deep Track Capital.

• OSL Group (Hong Kong) – $300M equity raise to fuel acquisitions, build out stablecoin and payments infrastructure, and expand globally—Asia’s largest disclosed digital asset equity raise to date.

• Buena (Los Angeles, CA) – $58M Series A to simplify real estate ownership through flexible, fractional investing. Led by GV, with participation from Fifth Wall and Clocktower.

• Swift Navigation (San Francisco, CA) – $50M Series E to provide centimeter-accurate positioning for autonomous vehicles and robotics. Led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from New Enterprise Associates.

🌱Seed & Series A ($10M–$30M)

• Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (San Francisco, CA) – $15M Seed to build a confidence infrastructure for AI agents operating autonomously. Led by NFDG, with support from undisclosed angel investors.

• Root Evidence (Boise, ID) – $12.5M Seed to transform vulnerability management through forensics-grade cybersecurity. Backed by Ballistic Ventures.

• Cambridge Terahertz (Cambridge, MA & Sunnyvale, CA) – $12M Seed to bring terahertz imaging to next-gen security cameras. Investors include Felicis and Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund.

• Memories.ai (San Francisco, CA) – $8M Seed to scale its AI visual learning platform for enterprise use cases. Backed by Susa Ventures and Samsung Next, signaling continued VC appetite for intelligent visual infrastructure.

🤝Strategic & Growth Investments

• MaaT Pharma (Lyon, France) – €37.5M structured debt financing from the European Investment Bank to advance late-stage microbiome therapies in hemato-oncology, including Xervyteg® and MaaT033.

• Two Prime (Asheville, NC) – $20M Equity investment to scale its SEC-registered institutional bitcoin advisory platform.

• Project Q (Munich, Germany) – €7.5M Seed led by Project A with Expeditions Fund and Superangel to build Europe’s interoperable “Internet of Defence” platform.

• Spaceflux (London, UK) – £5.4M Seed co-led by UKI2S, Foresight Group, and Blackfinch Ventures to expand its global AI-powered telescope network for space domain awareness.

• Spear AI (Washington, DC) – Undisclosed Seed from Scare the Bear Capital and Cortical Ventures for maritime acoustic AI tech.

• BetterRX (Salt Lake City, UT) – Strategic Growth round (amount undisclosed) to scale its hospice pharmacy tech. Backed by BVP Forge.

• Nurocor (Austin, TX) – $1M strategic investment from Simulations Plus to enhance pharma data platforms.

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• European PE firm IK Partners raised $2.2B for its fourth small-cap fund.

• Menlo Ventures – Raised $1.5B across two new funds: $650M for early-stage (Menlo XVII) and $850M for AI growth (Inflection IV).

• Evantic Capital – Closed $355M to back European AI and infra startups. Led by ex-Sequoia GP Matt Miller.

• America’s Frontier Fund – Raising $315M for U.S. frontier tech (AI, semiconductors, defense). Backers include Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel.

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🕶 Alibaba Debuts Smart Glasses to Rival Meta

📖 Read of the Day

Neuralink Wants to Give You Robo-Vision

• Elon’s Neuralink just joined a UC Santa Barbara-led study to develop a bionic eye.

• The goal? Help blind people see faces, read, and walk around using AI + brain chips.

• It’s early — no humans implanted yet, but they’ll use Neuralink patients “once available.”

• This tech could leapfrog glasses and even give sight to the blind… if it works.

• Neuralink’s “Blindsight” implant is already FDA fast-tracked. Launch targeted by 2030.

TLDR: Elon’s cooking up eyeballs 2.0. Still pre-launch, but the vision is (literally) wild.

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