The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Drives Another Spree Of Megadeals
This week, most of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds centered around the sector one would suspect: artificial intelligence. Beyond that, the next-biggest area for startup funding was biotech. Joanna Glasner jglasner Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies?
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This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week's biggest funding deal roundup here .
- Baseten , $1.5B, AI inference technology: Baseten, a provider of systems software to run AI applications workloads, raised $1.5 billion in Series F funding, its fourth fundraise in 18 months.
Backers reportedly include Unity , Meta , Moloco and Google .
- Ollin Biosciences , $330M, ophthalmic therapies: Ollin Biosciences, a developer of therapies for vision-threatening diseases, picked up $330 million in Series B funding.
General Intuition , $320M, foundational AI: General Intuition, developer of a foundational AI model based on gameplay, secured $320 million in Series A funding at a $2.3 billion valuation.
- (tied) Quantifind , $200M, risk intelligence: Palo Alto, California-based Quantifind, developer of a risk intelligence platform for financial crime detection and national security operations, closed on $200 million in growth financing led by Summit Partners .
- Premji Invest led the round, which set a $2 billion valuation for the Santa Clara, California-based company.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Joanna Glasner jglasner Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies?
- #This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week's biggest funding deal roundup here .
- #This was true for the week's largest venture financing, a $1.5 billion Series F for AI inference technology provider Baseten , as well as a majority of rounds in the Top 10.
- #Baseten , $1.5B, AI inference technology: Baseten, a provider of systems software to run AI applications workloads, raised $1.5 billion in Series F funding, its fourth fundraise in 18 months.
Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board . This is a weekly feature that runs down the week's top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week's biggest funding deal roundup here . This week, most of the largest U.S. startup funding rounds centered around the sector one would suspect: artificial intelligence.
This was true for the week's largest venture financing, a $1.5 billion Series F for AI inference technology provider Baseten , as well as a majority of rounds in the Top 10. Beyond that, the next-biggest area for startup funding was biotech. Baseten , $1.5B, AI inference technology: Baseten, a provider of systems software to run AI applications workloads, raised $1.5 billion in Series F funding, its fourth fundraise in 18 months.
Altimeter Capital , Conviction Partners , Spark Capital , Sands Capital and Wellington Management co-led the round, which set a $13 billion valuation for the San Francisco-based company. AppsFlyer , $1B, digital marketing: AppsFlyer, a San Francisco-based provider of data analytics with digital marketing as a core use case, reportedly secured more than $1 billion in a Series E funding round at a post-money valuation of $2.7 billion. Backers reportedly include Unity , Meta , Moloco and Google .
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