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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of March: Wonder, Biotech Headline Big Month

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Wonder ’s big $700 million raise may have captured most people’s attention last month, but the story when it came for large deals was really biotech. Mirador Therapeutics , $400M, biotech: It was a huge month for big biotech raises and this was the biggest. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of October: OpenAI’s Massive Deal Dwarfs All Others

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The new round is bigger than the $6 billion round Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced in May, which up to this point was the largest round raised this year. Pacific Fusion , $900M, energy: Another huge AI-related round. Well, Crusoe has now turned its energy to AI — literally.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: X-energy And Lightmatter Lead The Way

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Energy and data centers seem to be on everyone’s mind right now — and this week’s list bears that out. Lightmatter , $400M, data centers: Lightmatter, a startup that uses light to link chips together and to do calculations for the deep learning necessary for AI, locked up a $400 million Series D led by new investor T.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Metsera And Rivos Headline A Slow Week

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Metsera , $290M, biotech: This week was a slower week than normal for biotech — as it was for most sectors — but that didn’t stop New York-based Metsera. Rivos , $250M, semiconductor: Semiconductor startups are seeing big money, in part thanks to the explosion in generative AI.

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The 10 Biggest Rounds Of April: Xaira And Pine Gate Lead Huge Month Of Megadeals

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April also saw a half-dozen rounds of a quarter-billion dollars or more, including a $1 billion round for an AI-enhanced biotech. Xaira Therapeutics , $1B, biotech: The biggest round in April was really big. The company develops power-optimized chips targeting the data analytics and generative AI markets.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Celestial AI Tops List Of Large Raises

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While there were no huge rounds like last week, money was again spread around from AI to biotech to marketing and more. Celestial AI , $175M, semiconductors: Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a massive $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull ’s US Innovative Technology Fund.

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The Biggest Of The Big: AI Startups Raised Huge — These Were The Largest Deals Of 2023

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As part of the deal, Anthropic will now use Amazon Web Services data centers, as well as AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to build, train and deploy its models. Founded in 2021, the generative AI platform is a competitor to other AI firms such as OpenAI and Google. The immediate investment is $1.25