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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anthropic Leads In A Big Week For Giant Rounds

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This week featured a lot of funding deals with a lot of zeroes on the end. Generative AI powerhouse Anthropic, of course, boasted the most zeroes with its $30 billion Series G, the second-largest venture funding round of all time. Other big fundraisers included robotics, fusion and a space tech unicorn.

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This week featured a lot of funding deals with a lot of zeroes on the end. Generative AI powerhouse

Anthropic

, of course, boasted the most zeroes with its $30 billion Series G, the second-largest venture funding round of all time. Other big fundraisers included robotics startup

Apptronik

, fusion innovator

Inertia Enterprises

, and space tech unicorn

Axiom Space

.

1.

Anthropic

, $30B, Generative AI:

Anthropic

raised $30 billion

in a massive Series G funding round that values the San Francisco-based generative AI company at $380 billion post-money. The financing marks

the largest venture funding deal of 2026

so far and the second-largest of all time, per Crunchbase data.

GIC

and

Coatue

led the raise, which was also “co-led” by

D.E. Shaw & Co. Ventures

,

Dragoneer Investment Group

,

Founders Fund

,

Iconiq Capital

and

MGX

, according to the company.

2.

Apptronik

, $520M, humanoid robots:

AI-powered robotics company Apptronik added $520 million in new financing in an extension of its $415 million Series A raise in February 2025, The investment brings the total round to over $935 million for the Austin-based company.

3.

Inertia Enterprises

, $450M, fusion energy:

Livermore, California-based fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises announced that it secured

$450 million in Series A funding

.

Bessemer Venture Partners

led the round for the 2-year-old company, joined by

Google Ventures

,

Threshold

and other backers.

4.

Axiom Space

, $350M, space tech:

Axiom Space, a startup that is building a successor to the International Space Station and developing spacesuits for a moon mission, closed on $350 million in new financing.

Type One Ventures

and

Qatar Investment Authority

led the round for the Houston-based company.

5.

Runway

, $315M, AI:

Runway, an AI research and technology startup, picked up

$315 million in a Series E

round.

General Atlantic

led the financing, which set a $5.3 billion valuation for the New York-based company, up from $3.3 billion last April.

6.

Talkiatry

, $210M, mental health:

Talkiatry, a provider of in-network psychiatry services to health systems and employers, picked up $210 million in Series D funding, led by

Perceptive Advisors

. The round brings total funding to date for the New York-based company to more than $400 million.

7.

Solace Health

, $130M, healthcare:

Redwood City, California-based Solace Health, a digital platform that connects patients with expert healthcare advocates, raised $130 million in Series C funding.

IVP

led the financing, which set a valuation of over $1 billion for the 4-year-old company.

8.

Garner Health

, $118M, healthcare:

Garner Health, a digital platform that helps patients find healthcare providers, raised $118 million in Series D financing.

Kleiner Perkins

led the round for the New York-based company.

9. (tied)

Simile

, $100M, AI simulation:

Palo Alto, California-based Simile, a startup focused on applying AI to create simulated environments and simulation tools with AI agents, raised $100 million in Series A funding led by

Index Ventures

.

9. (tied)

Loyal

, $100M, dog longevity:

Loyal, a startup focused on drugs to extend healthy lifespans in senior dogs, raised $100 million in Series C funding that it says will provide the capital required to move from late-stage development to market readiness. Venture fund

Age1

led the financing for the 7-year-old, San Francisco-based company.

Methodology

We tracked the largest announced rounds in the Crunchbase database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the period of Feb. 7-13. Although most announced rounds are represented in the database, there could be a small time lag as some rounds are reported late in the week.

Illustration:

Dom Guzman

— Source: Crunchbase News (https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-funding-rounds-anthropic-leads-ai-robotics/)

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