This Issue Highlights
According to the Financial Times, several Wall Street giants are partnering with NVIDIA (NVDA.O) to advance a $500 billion artificial intelligence financing plan.
This AI financing round continues to be led by infrastructure and developer tools. Databricks has completed a $5 billion strategic financing round, raising its post-money valuation to $190 billion; River AI completed $1.1 billion in financing, continuing to bet on open model training, fine-tuning and deployment infrastructure.
In the application layer, AI programming remains one of the most active directions, with Lovable, CodeRabbit, and Blacksmith completing financing of $400 million, $143 million, and $45 million, respectively, covering application generation, code review, and testing validation.
Meanwhile, financing for robotics and embodied intelligence remains hot. Deep Sea Intelligence completed over $50 million in Series A financing, while IO Intelligence, LatentVerse, and Daimon Robotics each completed financing in the hundreds of millions.
In terms of crypto financing, CoinDesk reports that crypto startups completed $11.2 billion in financing in the first half of 2026, with all disclosed funds flowing to regulated, licensed enterprises, with payment and stablecoin, prediction markets, exchanges, and trading platforms receiving the most funding.
According to incomplete statistics from PANews, last week (8.10-8.16) there were 4 fundraising events in the global blockchain space, with a total funding scale exceeding $18 million. The overview is as follows:
- The prediction market trading platform River Markets completed $8.5 million in seed round financing, led by Haun Ventures;
- The Malaysian digital asset infrastructure company BLOX completed $1 million in seed round financing;
- The crypto travel platform Entravel completed $7.5 million in financing, co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Finality Capital;
- The Solana ecosystem social application Memebook completed $1 million in seed round financing;
- The stablecoin payment company Rain announced the acquisition of the brand value payment platform Ansa.
Crypto Financing
Prediction Markets
The prediction market trading platform River Markets aimed at institutional investors announced the completion of $8.5 million in seed financing, led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures, Qube Research Technologies, and others, with financing completed in July, but specific valuation was not disclosed. River Markets provides professional traders with a unified trading interface across multiple prediction markets, as well as data connections, risk management, and large order execution tools. The company plans to use the new funds to hire engineers, enhance trading system speed and security, and expand the sales and operations team.
Decentralized Finance
The Malaysian digital asset infrastructure company BLOX completed $1 million in seed round financing, aimed at expanding the MYRC stablecoin pegged to the Malaysian ringgit, developing products for enterprises and institutions, strengthening compliance and regulatory communication, and regional expansion. The round was led by the technology investment platform Kivo Technology under Singapore's venture capital, with participation from old and new investors. BLOX stated that the cumulative transaction volume of MYRC has grown more than 33 times in the past 12 months, after previously demonstrating the application of MYRC in domestic blockchain payment proof-of-concept projects. Currently, BLOX operates in Malaysia without a clear regulatory framework and continues to communicate with regulatory authorities.
Web3 Applications
The crypto travel platform Entravel completed $7.5 million in financing, led by Ethereal Ventures
The crypto travel platform Entravel completed $7.5 million in financing, co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Finality Capital, with participation from GSR, Varrock, G1 Ventures, Seier Capital, Veris Ventures, Funfair Ventures, and WTG Ventures.
Entravel provides travel booking systems for more than 40 brands including Kraken and MetaMask, covering 300 million users, with an average booking conversion rate of over 10%. Founded in 2026, Entravel operates three interconnected businesses: MocatravelX collaborates directly with hotels for room sourcing and pricing; RateStellar integrates supplies from other channels, using AI to match hotels and room types from different providers, covering over 2.2 million hotels; on this basis, Entravel offers a white-label booking layer for partners, enabling them to provide hotel booking services to users without needing to build their own supplier network.
Solana ecosystem social application Memebook completes $1 million seed round financing
The Solana ecosystem social application Memebook completed $1 million in seed round financing, with TOF. Ventures as the investor. Memebook is a social application similar to Instagram built on Solana, allowing users to register with a Solana wallet and share photos, videos, and text posts. It includes a wallet-based identity verification system, as well as verification systems for Solana Mobile users and other Solana wallets.
Acquisitions
The stablecoin payment company Rain announced the acquisition of the payment platform Ansa, which is specially designed for brand value and closed-loop payments. After the integration of Ansa into Rain, partners will be able to extend the value to merchants beyond a single merchant, using it among merchants covered by Visa and Mastercard networks. Rain also stated that it is advancing in proxy payment directions, and has provided budget-limited card services for AI agents.
Highlights in AI & Robot Financing
AI Infrastructure
AI data infrastructure company Databricks completes $5 billion strategic financing, led by Coatue
The AI data infrastructure company Databricks announced the completion of $5 billion in strategic financing, with Coatue leading, and participation from Blackstone, MGX, and T. Rowe Price, with Sixth Street Growth joining as a new investor, raising the company's post-money valuation to $190 billion, above the previously disclosed valuation of $188 billion, with funds intended to further support the AI infrastructure layout, product R&D, and potential acquisitions.
Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi stated that the company’s current annual revenue run rate has surpassed $7 billion, with over 80% year-on-year growth. In terms of AI agent infrastructure, Databricks believes the future scale of AI-generated software will grow significantly, with every AI application requiring database support.
Founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, the full-stack AI company River AI announced the completion of $1.1 billion in financing, led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic investments from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, and participation from Y Combinator, Temasek, and others. The financing will be used to build an open AI technology stack and provide tools for developers and businesses to train, fine-tune, and deploy their own AI models. River AI claims that its API can complete complex reinforcement learning training in 15 to 20 minutes without requiring a dedicated infrastructure team, costing 2 to 4 times less than closed-source alternatives.
Defensive AI cybersecurity model Corma completes $60 million seed round financing
Founded in 2025, the cybersecurity startup Corma announced the completion of $60 million in seed financing, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue. Corma is headquartered in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, and six weeks ago deployed its first AI model to multiple Fortune 100 and 500 companies across various industries (covering healthcare, financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, and retail). Unlike current cybersecurity models that are mainly trained for “attack” by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Corma’s trained models focus on “defense,” concentrating on the analysis of logs and audit data, identifying threats among massive events, and maintaining consistent strategies through thousands of operations. According to the company, its models have helped clients reduce threat response time by 94%.
Founded by former Google and Apple researchers, the AI infrastructure startup Trajectory has completed $40 million in financing, with a post-money valuation of $300 million, with Sequoia Capital participating. This is the company’s second consecutive round of financing following a $15 million seed round completed in May, focusing mainly on enterprise open-source model customization and AI agent software toolchain optimization.
The AI computing power economic benchmark platform Silicon Data completed $30.5 million in Series A financing, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Group, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung, VanEck, Further, Jump, Tectonic, and Wintermute.
Silicon Data provides independent benchmarks and verification services for the computing power economy, with its pricing benchmarks planned to be used by CME Group for the reference price of upcoming cash-settled GPU futures contracts. Since completing a $4.7 million seed round in March 2025, Silicon Data has developed nine financial-grade indices covering GPUs and LLMs, accumulating over 1,000 registered users. Part of the funds will be used for SiliconMark performance benchmarking to help market participants hedge output risks arising from differences in GPU performance.
The AI architecture development company Pathway announced the completion of $30 million in seed financing, with participation from Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment under Wilson Sonsini, with Databricks chief AI scientist Jonathan Frankle also joining as an angel investor.
Pathway is developing a "Post-Transformer" architecture based on BDH (Biologically-inspired Dynamic Hierarchy) to solve the limitations of current transformer models, which rely increasingly on more data, GPUs, energy, and capital expansion. Unlike traditional large models that require periodic retraining, BDH can continuously learn using less data and achieve continual adaptation. The company has appointed former Google DeepMind Gemini product head Adam Kurzrok as Chief Product Officer, responsible for product direction based on the BDH model, including model packaging, evaluation systems, and commercial deployment.
The South Korean enterprise-level AI data infrastructure company GraphAI announced the completion of 17 billion won (approximately $12 million) in Series A financing, raising its total financing scale to 20.6 billion won (approximately $14.7 million). This round was led by K2 Investment Partners, with participation from new investors A-Ventures and Jiyu Investment. Previous investors in GraphAI's Pre-A financing, including Quad Ventures, Kiwoom Investment, and We Ventures, also continued to follow on.
GraphAI focuses on enterprise-level AI data infrastructure, with its Akasic platform providing integrated solutions covering enterprise data connectivity, collection, transformation, AI inference, and intelligent agent execution environments. The company is currently conducting business cooperation and proof of concepts (PoC) with large enterprises and institutions in finance, telecommunications, and other fields, with new funding intended to launch new product lines, expand into global markets, and enlarge its core R&D team.
Agents and Vertical Applications
Tencent, Zhenge Fund, etc. repurchase Manus shares from Meta for $2 billion
Insiders close to Manus revealed that Tencent, Zhenge Fund, and Sequoia China, previously major shareholders of Manus, repurchased shares from Meta for $2 billion, with this transaction price approaching the acquisition price announced by the American social media tech giant Meta in December 2025. Benchmark was the largest shareholder before its acquisition but will not participate in this repurchase; its previous shares will be acquired by Tencent, which will become the largest shareholder of Manus. Manus is currently operating normally.
Previously reported, Manus announced that it would resume independent operations, and some users need to back up their data by August 23.
The AI investment platform Thrive Holdings announced the completion of $2 billion in financing, with the company's valuation reaching $12 billion, and participation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital. Thrive Holdings was established by Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner in 2025. Unlike traditional investment companies, it does not directly invest in AI large model R&D firms, mainly through acquisitions of traditional service companies and integrating AI technology into business processes to enhance efficiency. Its goal is to build platforms and products to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence to millions of businesses and critical industries relied upon daily by individuals; the company previously raised about $1 billion in initial funding.
The AI evaluation company Vals AI completes $40 million Series A financing, led by a16z
The AI evaluation company Vals AI announced the completion of $40 million in Series A financing, with a post-money valuation of $400 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with follow-on investments from existing investors 8VC, Pear VC, and Bloomberg Beta, and new investors including HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures joining. Vals AI, founded by Rayan Krishnan and Langston Nashold, positions itself as a third-party evaluator and “referee” for large models, scoring model outputs in real business scenarios by collaborating with experts in law, finance, healthcare, coding, and other fields. Its private test set is run in limited batches to avoid being "question-trained" and leaderboard manipulation. Its evaluation results have been included in model cards by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and others, guiding enterprises in choosing production environment models. The company reports an eightfold year-on-year revenue increase in 2025, with customer numbers doubling and the team tripling in six months, also launching code evaluation tool Vals Smith, frontier risk evaluation, and scaling economic measurement tool Vals Index 2.0.
Moss completes €30 million financing, valued at €1 billion and upgraded to unicorn status
The corporate spending management platform Moss completed €30 million in financing, led by Portage, with existing investors Cherry Ventures participating, and a post-money valuation of €1 billion. Moss primarily provides corporate cards, payment, and financial automation services, now serving over 10,000 companies in Europe, with new funds focused on developing AI agents for automated corporate financial processes.
Silicon Data completes $30.5 million financing, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund
The GPU market data infrastructure company Silicon Data announced the completion of $30.5 million in Series A financing for its first disbursement, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Ventures, DRW, Samsung Next, VanEck, Jump Trading, Wintermute, and others. This round of funding will be used for GPU pricing and performance measurement, institutional and alternative data, as well as the infrastructure for derivatives, insurance, and credit market risks. Silicon Data currently collects data from about 100 GPU leasing platforms across more than 40 countries, processing over 150,000 verified price records daily. CME Group is planning to adopt Silicon Data benchmarks as the reference price for proposed cash-settled GPU futures, pending regulatory approval.
AI Programming and Developer Tools
The Swedish AI programming startup Lovable completed $400 million in Series C financing, with a valuation of $13.3 billion. This round of financing was led by Menlo Ventures and the EU's Scaleup Europe Fund, with multiple institutions including Tencent participating. Founded in 2023, Lovable mainly provides AI tools that can build websites and applications through natural language prompts, with enterprise clients including Adidas, Deutsche Telekom, and Hearst Group.
The NVIDIA-supported AI code review platform CodeRabbit announced the completion of $143 million in financing, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This round of financing was co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital, with participation from BMW i Ventures and Datadog, and CodeRabbit's cumulative financing has now exceeded $200 million.
CodeRabbit primarily utilizes AI to automatically review software code, helping developers identify code defects, security risks, and potential issues. Its product can automatically review both AI-generated and manually written code during the development process, providing feedback and improvement suggestions to developers.
The AI code testing startup Blacksmith completed $45 million in Series B financing, led by Peak XV Partners, with existing investors GV and Y Combinator participating. The company's valuation soared from $6 million in Series A less than a year ago to $550 million, with total financing reaching $58.5 million. The company plans to expand its suite of coding tools to help developers write, validate, and merge software faster.
Founded in 2024, Blacksmith assists enterprises in building, testing, and validating software code, growing its client base from over 700 a year ago to more than 5,000 today. The company’s annualized revenue has reached tens of millions of dollars, with its staff growing from 10 to about 30. Blacksmith initially provided cloud services for CI (continuous integration) workloads, later launching the AI coding agent Codesmith, which can automatically fix failing code checks.
Robotics
Deep Sea Robotics company Deep Sea Intelligence completes over $50 million Series A financing
Deep Sea Robotics company Deep Sea Intelligence announced it has completed over $50 million in Series A financing, with new shareholders including Guanghe Venture Capital, Dacheng Finance, Jiyuan Capital, Yida Capital, Zhongbao Investment, China Electronics Technology Investment, and the energy technology fund backed by Total Energy; meanwhile, several old shareholders, including Zhengxuan Investment, Yunze Capital, Yunshi Capital, Gaojie Capital, and Xingzhi Capital, significantly followed on.
GAC's humanoid robot company Huilon Technology completes over $10 million financing
The humanoid robot company Huilon Technology, incubated by GAC Group, announced it has completed over $10 million in financing, with joint investments from CRRC Guochuang Fund, CMB International, Sichuan Science and Technology Innovation, among others. The funds raised from this round will be used for ongoing optimization of vertical models, expansion of car production lines and comprehensive service scenarios, promoting the large-scale commercial use of humanoid robots and core components. GAC Group began laying out the humanoid robot track in early 2022, and in February 2026, it incubated Huilon Technology as an independent industrialization entity to fully take over GAC's humanoid robot R&D and market operations, successively launching products including GoMate and GoMate Mini.
The robotics and embodied intelligence data infrastructure company IO-AI Tech announced it has completed several hundred million in financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by Shunwei Capital, Songhe Capital, and Shenzhen Capital Group, and received strategic investment from leading robotics body companies. IO-AI Tech, founded in 2023, is a tech company focused on robotics and embodied intelligence data infrastructure, dedicated to building a bridge connecting data, robots, models, and real-world scenarios to support the continuous enhancement of robotic capabilities and large-scale applications. The founding team comes from top technology and robotics companies including Tencent, Xiaopeng Motors, ByteDance, Amazon, and Baidu.
Embodied base model company LatentVerse announces the completion of several hundred million in seed financing. Investors include Hillhouse Venture Capital, Qingliu Capital, Innovation Works, Zhiyuan, and Xingshu Era. It is understood that LatentVerse was founded in May 2026 by an embodied intelligence research team from Tsinghua University’s Institute of Interdisciplinary Information.
Daimon Robotics announces completion of several hundred million in financing, led by Ant Group
Daimon Robotics announced today the completion of several hundred million in strategic financing, led by Ant Group, with old shareholders significantly increasing their investment. Two months ago, Daimon completed Series A financing of over 100 million. Along with this round's Ant Group, Daimon has gathered a range of leading industrial capital including China Merchants Group Venture Capital, Lenovo Capital, Huichuan Industrial Investment, China Mobile, and China Telecom.
According to reports, Daimon recently officially launched the world's first tactile anchoring world model Daimon-TWM, integrating native tactile understanding, reasoning, prediction, and verification to construct a "tactile nervous system" from finger perception to brain reasoning, and back to action control, driving embodied intelligence from "seeing the world" to "understanding the world" and "interacting with the world." Based on the extensively deployed tactile perception devices and collection systems, Daimon has built the largest multi-modal tactile physical world dataset, Daimon-Infinity.
Investment Institutions
Accel raises $3.5 billion new fund for early global AI startup investments
The venture capital firm Accel has raised a new $3.5 billion fund for early global AI startup investments. This funding is split into four funds: a $1.35 billion global expansion fund (for larger early rounds and rapid follow-on investments), an $800 million US fund (mainly targeting Silicon Valley), an $800 million European and Israeli fund, and a $550 million Indian fund. Accel partners stated the company is raising funds earlier and faster than ever before, which brings great opportunities as well as risks. Accel has invested in AI companies such as Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity, as well as founding Thinking Machines Lab (created by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati) and Safe Superintelligence (founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever). Accel also participated in the $300 million seed round for Periodic Labs (valued at $1.3 billion). Its early investment focus remains on securing meaningful equity deals.
Early-stage investment firm Team8 has announced that it secured $365 million in new funding, of which $265 million will be used for Team8 Capital's third fund, with the remaining over $100 million allocated for follow-up investments in existing high-certainty portfolio companies. This new funding increases Team8's managed assets to nearly $2 billion, and since its establishment in 2014, it has managed a total of eight funds. Team8 focuses on supporting seed and Series A stage startups in cybersecurity, software infrastructure, fintech, and digital health, and helps founders refine problem definitions, validate solutions, and accelerate scaling through its internal multidisciplinary teams and network of corporate executives.
Storage chip giant Micron Technology’s Micron Ventures has announced the launch of the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, with a scale of $250 million, aimed at investing in startups that drive the next generation of artificial intelligence development. This is Micron Ventures’ largest third fund since its inception, bringing its total capital commitments to $550 million, and the fund will cover the complete AI technology stack, including AI model architecture, computing infrastructure, enterprise applications, and physical AI.
Micron stated that the Paradigm Fund aims to establish deeper collaborations with businesses driving these technological changes and proactively position itself to meet future AI infrastructure demands, focusing on four main areas: model architecture, computing infrastructure, enterprise AI applications, and physical AI.
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