Highlights of This Issue
Last week, the financing market continued to be dominated by AI, robotics, and computing power-related industries.
The capital race around leading model companies is still accelerating: Amazon has disclosed that it has completed a total investment of $50 billion in OpenAI, and in the second quarter invested $13.7 billion and $11.3 billion in OpenAI and Anthropic, respectively; Moonshot AI raised an unexpectedly large $3.5 billion in its latest financing round, achieving a valuation of $35 billion.
In the primary market, AI user simulation company Simile completed a $200 million Series B financing at a valuation of $2 billion, while AI voice company Fish Audio secured $50 million in seed funding. In the field of robotics, funds continue to flow into general robotics platforms, training data, and real-world deployments. RoboStrategy led a $200 million Series C financing for robotics company Standard Bots, Enigma completed a $71 million seed round, and Quantum Dynamics raised over $10 million in financing.
Additionally, AI expansion is also driving a rise in supporting industries such as energy and security. Nuclear energy company Antares Nuclear completed $470 million in financing led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital; Bot detection company Spur Intelligence raised $200 million, led by Insight Partners.
The scale of financing in the crypto industry continues to shrink, with funds concentrating on security, trading execution, and AI-integrated infrastructure. According to incomplete statistics from PANews, last week (7.27-8.2), there were 6 investment events in the global blockchain, with a total funding scale of $41.5 million, summarized as follows:
- Infrastructure & Tools sector announced 3 investment events, including AI agency security tool V12 announcing the completion of $10 million in seed round financing, led by Electric Capital;
- Web3+AI domain announced 3 investment events, including decentralized AI data network Perceptron Network completing $6.5 million in strategic financing, with Sigma Capital among the participants;
- In terms of mergers and acquisitions, Metaplanet acquired Siiibo Securities, planning to establish a Bitcoin fixed income market based in Japan.
Crypto Financing
Infrastructure & Tools
AI agency security tool V12 announces $10 million seed round financing, led by Electric Capital
AI agency security tool V12 has announced the completion of $10 million in seed round financing, led by Electric Capital, with participation from ZachXBT, samczsun, Walden Yan, and others. Previously, V12 independently discovered a major vulnerability in a major blockchain, which posed a risk to over $100 million in funds, resulting in the team receiving a $2.5 million bug bounty, the largest single bounty received for an AI agency.
The team stated its goal is to build a “network weapon” — an AI system capable of finding all vulnerabilities in a system, focusing on white-box code audits rather than black-box penetration tests, believing that the bug bounty system will disappear in the AI era, and the only solution is to eliminate vulnerabilities before code goes live. V12 noted that the crypto industry is one of its key application scenarios; the team previously founded blockchain security company Zellic, completing over 1,500 security reviews and participating in multiple vulnerability research projects.
Web3 integrated consumer platform Beezie completes $4 million financing, with Psalion participating
Web3 integrated consumer platform Beezie announced the completion of $4 million in financing, with Psalion participating through its early-stage fund Psalion VC Fund III. The platform allows for physical goods to generate on-chain digital twins, enabling programmability, tradability, and cross-scenario combination capabilities, transforming physical asset transactions into interactive consumer experiences through gamification mechanisms; the new funds will be used for global market expansion.
On-chain execution infrastructure company Birdai Labs announced the completion of $4 million in seed round financing, led by Castle Island Ventures, with Metalayer Ventures and The Venture Dept following. Birdai Labs focuses on providing measurement, validation, and optimization infrastructure for transaction execution quality for high-performance public chains, aiming to reduce value loss between order and execution caused by sorting and propagation, and to return more value to traders and market makers. The company's team comes from traditional financial institutions such as Franklin Templeton and Citadel, and is expanding its senior engineering and quantitative research team to adapt to on-chain execution competition under multi-proposer architecture, and to provide verifiable fairness and transparency execution standards for future institutional participation in the digital asset market.
Web3+AI
Physical AI data engine company Axis Robotics completed $12 million in seed round financing, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and others. Axis plans to build a large-scale “human-in-the-loop” global data engine to address the issues of scarcity of training data for robots, challenges in generalization, and adaptation to different hardware. Its platform covers task generation, simulation remote control, mobile Ego data collection, and automated cleaning and labeling pipelines; currently, it has over 100,000 active data contributors, generating approximately 1,200 hours of simulated data and 20,000 hours of real scene data each month, and has reached commercial collaboration with several hardware and industrial customers such as Booster Robotics and Geely Auto.
Decentralized AI data network Perceptron Network completes $6.5 million in strategic financing
Decentralized AI data network Perceptron Network completed $6.5 million in strategic financing, with participation from Sigma Capital, Selini Capital, QCP Capital, P2 Ventures, CoinDCX Ventures, Momentum6, DeFi Capital, Walrus Foundation, Aethir, Colosseum, GuruDev Capital, Tempo Finance, NewTribe Capital, Digital Consensus Fund, and CodeCraft Capital. The funds will be used to support the launch of a data exploration platform. In the long term, Perceptron’s goal is to build a fully integrated network with 5 million nodes, concentrating everything needed by AI companies on one platform to achieve supply and demand balance.
ALPHEA raises $5 million to accelerate distributed AI infrastructure development
ALPHEA announced the completion of $5 million in financing to accelerate the construction of its next-generation distributed AI infrastructure. The project team stated that the funds were contributed by institutions including MH Ventures, IBC Group, Titans Ventures, Becker Ventures, and Yellow Labs, and will be used to expand the distributed AI computing network, launch new products aimed at developers and enterprises, and to expand the core team in engineering, research, and ecosystem building.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Metaplanet acquires Siiibo Securities, plans to base a Bitcoin fixed income market in Japan
Publicly listed company Metaplanet acquired Siiibo Securities, which holds a license for first-class financial products, and is authorized to design and sell securities in Japan. Research institution Benchmark noted that the market generally views this acquisition, valued at about 2.1 billion yen (approximately $13 million), as a small-scale expansion; however, Metaplanet actually plans to use this as a basis to issue Bitcoin collateral bonds “Bitbonds” with an annualized interest rate of about 4%-6%, and subsequently migrate it on-chain and settle via stablecoins, gradually forming a secondary market. Metaplanet's goal is to allow enterprises wishing to adopt Bitcoin balance sheet strategies to issue bonds and purchase BTC on its platform, and to create a new type of financial institution centered on Bitcoin under the “Project Nova” roadmap. Currently, the company holds approximately 43,000 BTC, making it the world's third-largest publicly listed Bitcoin treasury.
Fanatics acquires regulated exchange, betting on event contracts and sports prediction markets
American sports company Fanatics announced it will acquire Water Street Labs and CX Clearinghouse from BGC Group, obtaining licenses for federally regulated exchanges and clearinghouses to manage the listing and settlement of prediction market contracts independently. Through this acquisition, Fanatics can accelerate the launch of new event contracts and compete directly with platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. The two parties also plan to jointly develop new data products that combine prediction market trading data with traditional financial market data. Fanatics' Markets platform has launched by the end of 2024, covering 23 states in the U.S. and 4 overseas territories.
AI & Robotics Financing Highlights
AI
Amazon completes a total investment of $50 billion in OpenAI
According to Caixin, Amazon disclosed in its 10-Q quarterly report that it has completed a total investment of $50 billion in OpenAI. In the first quarter of this year, Amazon invested $15 billion in Series C preferred shares of OpenAI and pledged to purchase an additional $35 billion. In the second quarter, the company invested $13.7 billion of the committed amount to purchase OpenAI's Series C preferred shares. After the reporting period, the company invested the remaining $21.3 billion of the commitment amount in OpenAI's Series C preferred shares.
Amazon disclosed that in the second quarter it invested $10 billion in non-voting preferred shares of Anthropic and $1.3 billion in convertible bonds, and based on the financing agreement could provide up to $20 billion, which will expire 30 months after Anthropic's IPO. Additionally, in the six months ending June 30, Amazon invested $28.7 billion in OpenAI's Series C preferred shares, of which $13.7 billion was invested in the second quarter.
Moonshot reportedly completed $3.5 billion financing, valued at $35 billion
According to Jinshi News, Moonshot AI has just completed a financing round raising an unexpectedly large $3.5 billion, with a valuation of $35 billion.
AI startup Simile completes $200 million Series B financing at a valuation of $2 billion
AI startup Simile completed a $200 million Series B financing at a valuation of $2 billion just five months after completing a $100 million Series A financing, led by Greenoaks and with participation from Index Ventures, Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory, Definition, and CVS Health Ventures, with CVS being a key customer of Simile. Simile was founded by Stanford PhD Joon Sung Park, whose doctoral project “Smallville” allows AI agents to simulate human life. The company claims its goal is to “accurately and honestly simulate all 8 billion people on Earth,” simulating users for marketing and product research.
Located in Palo Alto, California, AI voice startup Fish Audio announced it has completed $50 million in seed round financing, led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, Alphalist Partners, Bayhouse Ventures, Carya Venture Partners, and HF0. Since its launch last year, the company has attracted over 8 million users to use its open-source or hosted voice models, achieving an annual recurring revenue of $21 million. It currently has launched 4 voice generation models and 1 speech-to-text model, with the latest S2.1 Pro only available through a paid API and has served enterprise clients such as HeyGen, Sanas, and Plaud. Fish Audio plans to release audio comprehension models and speech-to-speech models in the future to compete in the crowded AI voice sector with ElevenLabs, Speechify, and others.
Enterprise AI infrastructure company Modus completes $10 million seed round financing
Enterprise AI infrastructure company Modus has completed $10 million in seed round financing, with investors including Insight Partners, Soma Capital, Bullet Ventures, and executives from Eyal Kishon, Wix, and Dazl's Nadav Avrami, as well as co-founders of Cyera and the founding team of Epsagon. Modus has launched “Context Warehouse,” which learns the real usage and permission relationships of enterprises across data warehouses, BI, code repositories, and collaboration systems, orchestrating only the most relevant context for each AI interaction, claiming to reduce retrieval and token costs by up to 10 times, with built-in security and governance to support large-scale AI agent deployment.
New York AI detection company Pangram completes $9 million financing, led by Menlo Ventures
New York AI detection startup Pangram has completed $9 million in financing, led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza. Pangram has simultaneously released the next generation text detection model Pangram 4 and the image detection model Pangram Image, stating that the former can achieve over 99% accuracy in detecting pure AI or human-machine mixed writing, and can identify “AI polishing” and tools that evade detection. Its system is trained on tens of millions of human documents and corresponding “synthetic mirrors,” judging whether content is AI-generated based on style and wording differences without relying on watermarks. Pangram has provided services via web subscriptions, Chrome extensions, and API to Substack, Quora, universities, and publishing institutions.
Robotics
RoboStrategy revealed on the X platform that it led a $200 million Series C financing for robotics company Standard Bots, bringing the post-investment valuation to $1 billion. RoboStrategy stated that industrial robotic arms were invented in the U.S., but the U.S. has lost leadership in the industry, with existing product architectures frozen since the 1980s, making them difficult to adapt to AI real-time control and variant scenarios. Standard Bots has redesigned robotic arms from scratch, optimizing every component for AI, achieving joint-level torque sensing, 2kHz real-time feedback closed-loop, and ease of teaching for workers, all while employing a domestic U.S. supply chain. Their product line includes Spark, Core, Thor, and Bolt dual-arm robots (in testing phase), where Thor has a payload capacity of 30 kg and a working radius of 2 meters. Compared to FANUC CRX and UR10e, Core achieves a higher payload and tighter repetition accuracy at a lower price. The company's goal is to capture 10% of new industrial robot deployments in the U.S. within a year and to achieve a full-process American manufacturing from metal raw materials to robots by 2027.
Physical AI platform company Quantum Dynamics completes over $10 million seed round financing
Physical AI platform company Quantum Dynamics recently completed over $10 million in seed round financing, with investments from Yunqi Capital and SenseTime. The company's founder was previously the CTO of Cainiao Group and also led the technology for Alibaba’s international digital business sector. Funds will mainly be used for the R&D of Physical AI core technology, talent team building, and global market expansion, accelerating the construction of intelligent systems that deeply integrate AI and the physical world from foundational models to scenario-based implementation. Quantum Dynamics was established in the first half of 2026, focusing on the deep integration of AI and the real physical world, self-researching a Physical AI base platform for all industries.
AI robotics company Enigma completes $71 million seed round financing, led by Index Ventures
AI robotics company Enigma has completed $71 million in seed round financing, co-led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners and individual investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, Cognition, Wiz, and others in the AI field.
The company was founded 11 months ago, and this round is one of the largest seed rounds in the field of Physical AI. Funds will be used to expand research and engineering teams, enhance computing power infrastructure, and increase real-world deployments. Enigma has developed over 100 self-researched robotic systems operating in California and Israel and has opened remote interaction to collect training data. The company believes the biggest obstacle to robot proliferation is the human-robot interaction method, and its platform employs a hardware-agnostic strategy to adapt to different manufacturers' robotic devices.
Other Related Industries
Nuclear energy startup Antares Nuclear completes $470 million C round financing, led by Paradigm
Nuclear energy startup Antares Nuclear has completed $470 million in C round financing, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with the participation of Industrious Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Shine Capital, including $370 million in equity and $100 million in debt.
Antares is developing small modular reactors (SMR) with power capacities ranging from 100 kW to 1 MW, using TRISO fuel. The company is one of three finalists in the U.S. Department of Defense’s advanced nuclear power devices project, planning to launch its first power generation reactor next year, and deploy to U.S. military bases by 2028. Previously, Antares completed $96 million in financing in December last year, raising a total of $604 million. The first batch of SMRs is expected to be operational in the early 2030s, with costs around $214 per megawatt-hour, which is higher than most newly built power plants, excluding the most expensive gas turbines.
Bot detection startup Spur Intelligence completes $200 million financing, led by Insight Partners
Bot detection startup Spur Intelligence has completed $200 million in financing, led by Insight Partners. The company was founded in 2017, and its technology helps businesses differentiate between real users and hidden robotic traffic, identifying fake users and threats. Cloudflare reported last month that by mid-2026, internet bot activity has for the first time surpassed human activity. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince noted that the growth of proxy traffic exceeds expectations. Spur pointed out that with the surge of anonymization infrastructures such as criminal VPNs and residential proxy networks, businesses face the blind spot of “seeing activities but not the underlying infrastructure.”
Investment Institutions
Jump Capital has raised $350 million fund for AI investments
Jump Capital has raised a $350 million fund for AI investments. The company split its cryptocurrency team into Jump Crypto in 2021, which is the digital asset department of Jump Trading.
Korean KB Financial Group plans to establish the “KB National Growth Unicorn Scale-up Fund” with a scale of 150 billion Korean Won (approximately $10.2 million), focusing on investing in unicorn enterprises in industries such as AI, semiconductors, and robotics. The fund will be entirely funded by KB Financial's subsidiaries and managed by the private equity growth investment department of KB Securities. At the same time, KB Financial also plans to increase financial support for physical AI, AI data centers, electricity infrastructure, and semiconductor companies.
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