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The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Big Week For Big Checks

Joanna Glasner

August 7, 2026

Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Venture

The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals

Joanna Glasner

July 31, 2026

Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Startups

Battery Storage Startup Antora Closes $550M Series C In One Of Year鈥檚 Largest Cleantech Rounds

Mary Ann Azevedo

July 30, 2026

Amid soaring energy demand from AI data centers, Antora says it will use its new capital to speed up deployment of 鈥渓arge-scale鈥� projects across the...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Real estate & property tech • Robotics • Venture

Schneider Electric’s VC Fund: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle

Gen茅 Teare

July 27, 2026

黑料吃瓜 News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Cybersecurity • Defense tech • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Startups • Venture

The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead

Marlize van Romburgh

July 10, 2026

AI once again dominated venture funding this week, claiming five of the 10 largest announced rounds, including a pair of billion-dollar financings...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • M&A • Public Markets • Regional • Robotics • Seed funding • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up

Gen茅 Teare

July 9, 2026

In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, 黑料吃瓜 data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Liquidity • Public Markets • Startups • Venture

Sector Snapshot: Cleantech Startup Funding Stabilizes As Energy Demand Grows

Joanna Glasner

July 6, 2026

In the first half of this year, investors poured $15 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for companies in 黑料吃瓜 cleantech, EV and...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Communications tech • Enterprise • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Real estate & property tech • SaaS • Startups • Venture

The Week鈥檚 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Energy And Biotech Lead The Way

Joanna Glasner

July 2, 2026

U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based...

AI Robotics • Clean tech and energy • Seed funding • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture • Web3

Why Ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer Says It’s A Great Time To Build A Hard Tech Company: 鈥業nfrastructure Is The Moat鈥�

Gen茅 Teare

June 24, 2026

In this 黑料吃瓜 News Q&A, Gigascale Capital founder Mike Schroepfer discusses the coming power crunch, why infrastructure has become a strategic...

Artificial intelligence • Clean tech and energy • Health, Wellness & Biotech • Manufacturing • Robotics • SaaS • Seed funding • Semiconductors and 5G • Startups • Venture

Silicon Is Back: Playground Global鈥檚 Decade-Long Bet On Hardware, Energy And Deep Tech Looks Prescient

Gen茅 Teare

June 16, 2026

In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and...

Artificial intelligence • Business • Clean tech and energy • Fintech • Health, Wellness & Biotech • IPO • Manufacturing • Public Markets • Robotics • Semiconductors and 5G • Venture

AI Services And Robotics Lead Diverse Crop Of 29 New May Unicorns As SpaceX, Anthropic And OpenAI Line Up Blockbuster Exits

Gen茅 Teare

June 9, 2026

A total of 29 companies joined The 黑料吃瓜 黑料吃瓜 in May, but the standout trend was not new AI models, but rather the businesses helping...