Who raised on Thursday 3 September 2026

7 rounds in the trade press, about $12.93B between them. The first list comes from the trade press. The second comes from Form D, the filing a company makes with the SEC within fifteen days of selling securities, whether or not it says a word in public.

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Announced in the press

Rounds that made it into the trade press in the last day. Amounts are shown in the currency they were reported in. Where the company posted about the round itself, the reach of that post is shown with it.

  1. $12.9B
    AI
    The Decoder
  2. $17.5M
    Atira
    Seed · led by Accel
    Tech.eu
  3. €5M
    Zeit AI
    Tech.eu
  4. €4.3M
    YC-backed Zeit AI
    Seed
    EU-Startups
  5. €4M
    Backbone
    Pre-seed
    Tech.eu
  6. $1.6M
    Souk
    Pre-seed · led by Sure Valley Ventures
    Tech.eu
  7. £500K
    Rightcharge
    Tech.eu

Raised, and no launch behind it?

A funding round is the one moment a company gets attention it did not have to buy. Most of it is spent on a press release nobody reads. We run the other version.