Doomers/Raises/29 Sep 2026

Who raised on Tuesday 29 September 2026

13 rounds in the trade press, about $61.39B 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 Tuesday 29 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. $30B
    OpenAI
    Announced it on X. @OpenAIDevs did 1.8M views.
    TechCrunch
  2. $30B
    Tesla
    TechCrunch
  3. $750M
    Checkout.com
    Tech.eu
  4. $350M
    EliseAI
    $350M valuation
    TechCrunch
  5. €154.2M
    Germany’s Reverion
    Series B · led by Kembara
    EU-Startups
  6. $55M
    Reco
    TechCrunch
  7. $33M
    Tiny Health
    Series B · led by B Capital
    Crunchbase News
  8. $16.5M
    IPercept
    Series A · led by IsogonVentures
    Tech.eu
  9. €10M
    Rayon
    A browser-based drawingsoftware platform for interior designers
    Series A
    Tech.eu
  10. €4M
    Spotable
    Seed
    Tech.eu
  11. $3M
    Cotierra
    Tech.eu
  12. €535K
    Sovera Security
    Tech.eu
  13. €500K
    Romania’s Kyndred
    A Romanian startup developing AI companions designedto support users with everyday tasks
    Pre-seed
    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.