Satellite component production expands with funding

Monumental raises funds to expand construction robots in the US

TerraFirma raises funds to build robotic construction infrastructure

Fora raises $60M to expand AI travel services

Applied Computing raises funds to enhance oil and gas operations with AI

Swissto12 raises funds to boost small satellite production

Slingshot raises $69M for AI training tech

Novara Robotics raises capital

QOSMIC raises capital to expand orbital data economy infrastructure

Walden Robotics emerges with $1.1B valuation

Flexell Space raises capital to advance space solar solutions

PixVerse raises capital to expand AI video generation globally

Nous Research raises funds to expand AI agent development

SK Hynix raises capital to expand AI chip production

Ai2 Robotics raises capital to advance humanoid robots

Greenpower Motor raises funds to advance robotics

Pixis Drones raises capital to expand drone operations

Pulse Space raises funds to enhance laser power tech for spacecraft

Venus Aerospace closed a $91M Series B led by Mercury Fund to scale its rotating detonation rocket engine from flight-tested prototype toward production — propulsion for the next generation of hypersonic and orbital access.

Prime Intellect raised $130M in a Series A led by Radical Ventures, valuing the AI infrastructure startup at $1B — a bet that enterprises will train and own their models rather than rent them from frontier labs.

SambaNova raised $1B in a Series F first close led by General Atlantic, valuing the AI chip maker at $11B - nearly 5x its valuation from a $350M round just five months ago. JPMorgan Chase also named SambaNova its inference infrastructure partner, deploying its chips for on-prem enterprise AI.

EdVisorly raised a $13.3M Series A led by Breachway Capital to scale EddyAI, its tool for automating transcript review and credit evaluation in university admissions.

Norm's $120M Series C, led by Khosla Ventures, puts regulatory-compliance agents at a unicorn valuation — AI agents taking over the reading of law before they take over anything else.

Orbit Fab raised $25M+ in interim funding from lead investor Stride Capital and named a new CEO, Peter Shaper, as it moves from technology development toward commercializing its satellite refueling business ahead of a planned $30–50M Series B.

Orbit Beyond files a Form D for an undisclosed raise to expand satellite infrastructure — caught in SEC filings before any press coverage; terms not yet public.

Savi raises a $7M seed to shield consumers from AI-generated scams — a small bet on the defensive layer an agent-filled web forces everyone to buy.

Munich's Quantum Systems closes a $1.2B Series D at an $8B mark, co-led by Blackstone, Airbus, Advent and Noteus - combat-proven drones plus MOSAIC software for machines that operate as a network, now funded at platform scale.

Cyera raises at a $12B mark to be the layer that decides what enterprise AI agents are allowed to see and touch — the 'trust layer' framing puts agent-access governance in the rails business, at an aggressive ~80x ARR multiple.

The inference layer out-raises model building: Baseten's split-tranche Series F (at $13B and $11B marks) is a wager that running agents at scale, not training them, is where the compute margin lives.

Beijing's Shihang Intelligent raises a $1B Series A for water robots and unmanned marine systems — a reminder that China's robotics surge is putting autonomous nodes on parts of the physical network the West isn't watching.

Three-year-old autonomous defense hardware maker hits a $1.8B valuation, extending the pattern of national-security robotics graduating to first-tier venture status alongside Anduril-class incumbents.

German cognitive-robotics maker lands the largest round ever for a full-stack robotics company, pulling chipmakers, industrials and the EIB onto one cap table to push humanoid production toward millions of units by 2030.

San Mateo embodied-AI lab takes $400M in unlabeled new funding to build models that let robots generalize across physical tasks — capital flowing to the software brain, not the metal body.

NYC startup banks $60M across two quiet rounds to harvest human motion data — gestures, gaits, hand work — via body sensors and iPhones, selling the raw material embodied-AI models are starved for.

Star Catcher raises $65M to build an orbital power grid — beaming electricity to satellites on demand — a bet that the constellation era's binding constraint is watts, not bandwidth.

Data centers in orbit stop being a slide: after training an LLM in space on its first satellite, Starcloud takes $170M from Benchmark and becomes the fastest unicorn in YC history, 17 months out of demo day.

Oasis Security lands $120M for non-human identity and agentic access governance during RSAC week — the largest single check yet written against the 'who authorized this agent' problem.

Xona banks $170M to scale its Pulsar constellation — authenticated, high-power satellite navigation built as a commercial alternative to GPS, effectively a private timing-and-position layer for machines.

Manufact raises $6.3M for MCP infrastructure with a fifth of US 500 companies already experimenting on the platform — small check, but a data point that the agent-protocol layer is being adopted top-down.

Runlayer takes an $11M seed for MCP security and signs eight unicorn customers in four months — early evidence that securing the agent-to-tool protocol layer is a product, not a feature.

Nexthop AI raises $500M for open-source-based switching built for AI and cloud networking — half a billion dollars into the unglamorous plumbing that agent traffic will actually ride on.

Saronic's $1.75B Series D at a $9.25B valuation — more than double its 2025 mark — makes autonomous sea vessels the largest robotics raise of the year and puts unmanned fleets on the water at platform scale.

GitGuardian raises $50M on the argument that the identity problem of the agent era is non-human: companies that managed hundreds of service accounts will soon manage thousands of autonomous agents, each holding credentials.

Fireworks AI raises capital to advance AI systems

Blue Origin raises capital to expand launch services and satellite constellations

Gradium's raise expands AI voice tech

Lyzr raises $100M to further AI agent development