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Private investment rounds that fund startups and growth companies, often marked by steep valuations and record-setting claims.
Draper Associates led a $15.5 million Series A for Mogul at a $126 million valuation. Most of the demand evidence comes from Mogul's own release, so one round is thin support for a call on AI-driven real estate as a sector.
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Bloomberg reports Zipline is in early talks for about $1bn at roughly $20bn, with Paradigm, a shareholder since March, in line to lead. That is 2.6 times the $7.6bn its Series H set in January.
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CADDi raised $114 million from eight investors, among them Toyota's Woven Capital and Recruit's HR Tech Fund, at a valuation 2.55 times its March 2025 mark and set against sales its chief executive says are more than doubling each year.
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Ribbit, Infinite, Bedrock and Sequoia put $600m into Mach Industries at $3.7bn, three months after $300m at $1.8bn. On those marks the second cheque takes 16.2 per cent of the company and the first took 16.7.
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Spark Capital led a $120 million Series A at a $1 billion post-money valuation, putting TAR at $880 million before the cash arrived. The round discloses no contracted megawatts and no other investors.
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The floor on Figure's compute commitment is about twice all the equity it has disclosed raising, and the vendor writing that contract now owns a piece of the customer owing it. Whether the $3.5bn is take-or-pay is undisclosed.
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The company's adoption figures could not be verified and its two public customer counts use definitions that do not match, while a small controlled trial records what an AI moderator misses. Together they describe the evaluation buyers now have to run.
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The round doubles the company's lifetime funding and sells frontier labs their adversarial testing off the shelf. Bloomberg and the Israeli press named an investor the release did not.
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A reported $300M round at 68% over August's price values a tenant-texting workflow tool at more than half the property management software market it sells into.
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Gravis Robotics says its retrofit autonomy kit works on Caterpillar, Deere, JCB and Hitachi machines. The productivity number is still the company's own.
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