Doomers/Raises/4 Sep 2026

Who raised on Friday 4 September 2026

7 rounds in the trade press, about $16.14B 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.

Edition of Friday 4 September 2026 · All editions

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. $13B
    Nvidia
    Announced it on X. @nvidia did 805K views.
    SiliconANGLE
  2. $3B
    Crusoe
    TechCrunch
  3. €107.6M
    Spain’s
    Series B · led by Maverick Silicon
    EU-Startups
  4. €10M
    Profitable Belgian CleanTech Octave.energy
    A Mechelen-based CleanTech startup
    Series A · led by SPDG Growth
    EU-Startups
  5. $5.4M
    AI
    Seed
    Tech.eu
  6. €4.6M
    London’s AI
    A startup easing the adoption and management of gen- and agentic-AI
    Seed · led by Fuel Ventures
    EU-Startups
  7. €2M
    Creoir
    An Oulu-based DefenceTech company developing voice AI for defence and mission-critical systems
    Seed
    EU-Startups

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.