Who raised on Thursday 8 October 2026
12 rounds in the trade press, about $1.22B 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.
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.
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$500MTechCrunchChina’s Manus
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$500MSiliconANGLEManusThe creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agentAnnounced it on X. @ManusAI did 11M views.
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$100MTech.euUniversal Quantum
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€50MSiftedYazen
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$30MTechCrunchVestaAn AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages
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$10MTechCrunchCal AI’s 19-year-old
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$7MCrunchbase NewsGudea
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£5MTech.euKonsileo
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$6MTech.euVersoAn AI-poweredconsumer intelligence platform
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€4MTech.euGolbriak Space
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€2.8MTech.euTODAY
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€750KTech.euInnercrowd
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.