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Massive Fundings

TerraPower, a 17-year-old Bellevue, Washington, United States startup that provides nuclear reactor technology, raised a $650.0 million financing led by NVentures with participation from Bill Gates and HD Hyundai. More here.

Applied Intuition, an 8-year-old Mountain View, CA startup that provides autonomous vehicle development software, raised a $600.0 million Series F led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins with participation from Qatar Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi Investment Council, Greycroft, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Elad Gil, and BOND. More here.

Watco Companies, LLC, a 42-year-old Pittsburg, Kansas startup that provides transportation services operating railroads, terminals, and ports, raised a $600.0 million financing led by Duration Capital Partners. More here.

Gecko Robotics, a 12-year-old Pittsburgh, PA startup that provides industrial robotics, raised a $125.0 million Series D led by Cox Enterprises with participation from USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator. More here.

Nominal, a 3-year-old Los Angeles, CA startup that provides a real-time test stack platform for physical systems, raised a $75.0 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund. More here.

AIM, a 4-year-old Redmond, WA startup that provides an AI platform for earthmoving machinery, raised a $50.0 million Series A from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Human Capital, Ironspring Ventures, Mantis, and DCVC. More here.

Pano AI, a 5-year-old San Francisco, CA startup that provides AI-powered wildfire detection, raised a $44.0 million Series B led by Giant Ventures with participation from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Tokio Marine Future Fund, Congruent Ventures, Initialized Capital, and Salesforce Ventures. More here.

Pelico, a 6-year-old Miami, FL startup that provides an AI-powered supply chain orchestration platform for manufacturers, raised a $40.0 million financing led by General Catalyst. More here.

Senra Systems, a 2-year-old Redondo Beach, CA startup that provides wire harness production, raised a $25.0 million Series A led by Dylan Field and CIV with participation from General Catalyst, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Pax. More here.

Mid-Size Fundings

Daybreak, a 9-year-old San Francisco, CA startup that provides an AI-native supply chain planning platform, raised a $15.0 million Series A led by TPG Growth and Dell Technologies Capital. More here.

Remarcable, a 7-year-old Cleveland, OH startup that provides a construction industry procurement platform, raised a $15.0 million Series A led by Insight Partners. More here.

Q5D, a 7-year-old Bristol, UK startup that provides a robotic wire harness manufacturing platform, raised a $13.5 million Series A led by Lockheed Martin Ventures, Chrysalix, and Maven SWIF with participation from SOSV, UKI2S, UntroD, and CPI Enterprises. More here.

Applied Computing, a 2-year-old London, UK startup that provides an intelligence platform for the oil & gas industry, raised a $12.1 million Seed led by Repeat VC and Stride.VC. More here.

PrismaX, a 2025-founded San Francisco, CA startup that provides a virtual dataset platform for robotics foundation models, raised an $11.0 million Seed led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Stanford Blockchain Builder Fund, Symbolic, Volt Capital, and Virtuals Protocol. More here.

Andrenam, a 1-year-old Hawthorne, CA startup that provides a maritime activity tracking platform using underwater sensors, raised a $10.0 million Seed led by First Round Capital with participation from Also Capital, Long Journey, 201 Ventures, Banter Capital, Homebrew, Wave Function Ventures, and Colorado School of Mines Venture Fund. More here.

ZeroRISC, a 2-year-old Boston, MA startup that provides silicon supply chain integrity solutions, raised a $10.0 million Seed led by Fontinalis Partners with participation from Fundomo, Ray Stata, Dylan Patel, SBXi, Chelpis, and Bond Street. More here.

Sunrise Robotics, a 2-year-old Ljubljana, Slovenia startup that provides intelligent robotics, raised a $8.4 million Seed led by Plural with participation from Tapestry, Seedcamp, Tiny.vc, and Prototype Capital. More here.

Future Fields, a 7-year-old Edmonton, Canada startup that provides protein biomanufacturing, raised a $8.0 million Series A led by Amplify Capital, BDC, and R7 Partners with participation from Toyota Ventures, BoxOne Ventures, Builders VC, TRAC VC, and University of Alberta Innovation Fund. More here.

Piston, a 1-year-old Cupertino, CA startup that provides a cardless fleet payments platform, raised a $7.5 million Seed led by Spark Capital with participation from Pear VC and BOND. More here.

Co-Power, a 1-year-old Munich, Germany startup that provides decentralized energy infrastructure platform for Europe's industrial sector, raised a $7.3 million Seed led by Cherry Ventures with participation from Abacon Capital, Aurum Impact, Dierk Paskert, Tobias Schütt, and Constantin Eis. More here.

Allume Energy, an 11-year-old Melbourne, Australia startup that provides a solar energy platform for multi-tenant buildings, raised a $5.4 million Financing led by E.ON. More here.

Smaller Fundings

BlueRedGold, a 4-year-old Mariefred, Sweden startup that provides indoor automated farming systems for saffron cultivation, raised a $3.1 million Seed led by PINC with participation from The Food Tech Lab and PolarVentures. More here.

Voltavate, a 2-year-old Melbourne, Australia startup that provides lithium-ion battery production, raised an $800K Pre-Seed led by Artesian with participation from Investible, Electrifi Ventures, John Wood, Christiaan Jordaan, Steven Vassiloudis, and Reza Behnam. More here.

MesoMat, a 7-year-old Ontario, Canada startup that provides a tire analytics platform, raised an undisclosed Seed led by Ridgeline with participation from RISC Capital, RPV Global, GTAN, Adrenaline, Starforge Funds, and Extra Innings Ventures. More here.

Exits

TTTech Auto, a 7-year-old Vienna, Austria startup that provides a vehicle safety platform, was acquired for an undisclosed amount by NXP Semiconductors. More here.

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