
Etched Raises $700M at $21B; Jane Street Buys In
AI inference chip startup Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street, which became its first customer by deploying Etched racks in its own datacenter.
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AI inference chip startup Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street, which became its first customer by deploying Etched racks in its own datacenter.

Autonomy testing startup Agon emerges from stealth with $30M across pre-seed and seed rounds to build validation software for self-driving and autonomous systems.

Canadian biotech Biossil exits stealth with $70M to repurpose previously failed drug compounds for new therapeutic indications.

Construction robotics startup Gritt exits stealth with $32M to deploy autonomous robots that build utility-scale solar farms.

Chip interconnect startup Eliyan raises $145M Series C at a $1B valuation for its high-bandwidth die-to-die connectivity technology targeting AI chips.

Alternative investment platform CAIS raises $170M Series D to expand technology and fund access for independent financial advisors.

Preventive health startup Function Health raises $450M in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to scale its lab testing and imaging services nationwide.

Zurich-based Gravis Robotics raises $200M Series A from SoftBank at a $1B valuation to retrofit excavators and heavy construction equipment with autonomous AI systems.

Optical interconnect startup Lumilens emerges from stealth with $700M+ in Series C funding at a $5.51B valuation to solve GPU networking bottlenecks inside AI data centers.

Israeli fintech startup Viewz exits stealth with a $7M seed round to rebuild core finance infrastructure from the ground up.

AI inference startup Baseten raises a $1.5B Series F at up to a $13B valuation after achieving 20x revenue growth and processing over one billion inference requests per day.

Open-source AI inference firm Together AI raises $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation, led by Aramco Ventures, with 500 MW of compute capacity commitments secured separately.