AI Funding
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Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion Series F as AI Infrastructure Drives Weekly Megadeals
AI inference provider Baseten secured $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, leading a week where eight of ten largest US funding rounds went to AI companies.
General Compute secures $400 million inference chip-backed loan from Upper90
General Compute landed a $400 million loan using inference-specific chips as collateral, marking a shift from GPU financing to specialized AI inference hardware.
PromptQL Raises Funding to Build AI-Native Slack Alternative
PromptQL, the multiplayer AI workspace from Hasura founders, secured funding to replace traditional team chat with shared AI threads that capture tribal knowledge.
Dessn raises $6M to build AI design tools for production codebases
Dessn secured $6 million in Series A funding to develop AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases, eliminating handoff friction between designers and developers.
Anthropic secures $25 billion Amazon investment for 5 gigawatts of AI compute
Anthropic signed a massive infrastructure deal with Amazon, securing up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity and $25 billion in total investment to train and deploy Claude models through 2036.
Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation in Tiger Global-Led Round
AI customer service startup Sierra secured $950 million from Tiger Global and Google Ventures, reaching a $15 billion valuation after three years.
OpenAI Raises $4 Billion from 19 Private Equity Firms for AI Consulting Venture
OpenAI secured $4 billion from TPG, Brookfield, Bain Capital and 16 other private equity firms to launch a specialized consulting company helping portfolio companies integrate AI.
Anthropic seeks $50B at $900B valuation with 48-hour investor deadline
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations within 48 hours for a $50 billion round at roughly $900 billion valuation, with the round expected to close within two weeks.
Legora raises $50M extension at $5.6B valuation as legal AI rivalry with Harvey intensifies
Swedish legal AI startup Legora secured $50 million from Nvidia's NVentures and Atlassian, reaching $5.6 billion valuation and $100 million ARR as competition with $11 billion rival Harvey heats up.
Legora Raises $50M Extension From Nvidia, Bringing Series D to $600M
Swedish AI legal platform Legora secured a $50 million Series D extension led by Nvidia's venture arm, bringing the round total to $600 million at a $5.5 billion valuation.
Legora Extends Series D to $600m With Nvidia and Atlassian Backing
Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora added $50m to its Series D, bringing the round to $600m at a $5.6bn valuation, with Nvidia's NVentures and Atlassian joining.
Dreambase Raises $3.7M as Supabase Executives Back AI Analytics Startup
Dreambase secured $3.7 million in funding led by Felicis, with three Supabase executives participating as the AI analytics platform targets Postgres-native companies.