The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder. 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 .
- Atreides Management , Index Ventures and TCV led the financing, which set a $17.5 billion valuation for the San Mateo, California-based company.
Wonder , $650M, meals and delivery: Wonder, an operator of kitchens and meal delivery services, closed on $650 million in Series D funding at a $9 billion pre-money valuation.
- Walden Robotics , $300M, robots: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Walden Robotics, a startup building general-purpose robots for work in manufacturing and logistics, launched out of stealth with $300 million in funding.
Toyota and Deviation Capital led the round, which values the company at $1.1 billion.
- The financing brings total capital raised by San Jose-based Spectro Cloud to $260 million.
Singularity , $80M, defense tech: Singularity, a startup focused on developing air defense technology, emerged from stealth with $80 million in Series A funding.
- (tied) State Affairs , $70M, AI and policy: State Affairs, an AI platform for policy and regulation, secured $70 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund .
Stats & Key Facts
- #The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
- #The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
- #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 .
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 . It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds.
The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder . The week also included some big financings for enterprise tech, food delivery, drones and construction automation. Fireworks AI , $1.5B, enterprise AI tools: Fireworks AI, a developer of tools for enterprises to turn "general-purpose models into specialized intelligence trained on their own data," raised $1.505 billion in Series D funding.
Atreides Management , Index Ventures and TCV led the financing, which set a $17.5 billion valuation for the San Mateo, California-based company. Wonder , $650M, meals and delivery: Wonder, an operator of kitchens and meal delivery services, closed on $650 million in Series D funding at a $9 billion pre-money valuation. Capital will go in part toward expanding operations for the New York-based company, which currently has 140 locations.
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