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This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal roundup
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This week’s largest U.S. funding rounds once again featured an AI-heavy cohort, along with sizable financings around fintech and energy tech. By far the largest deal was a $1 billion financing for
World Labs
, developer of AI models that interact with the 3D world, followed by a $385 million round for savings platform
Vestwell
.
1.
World Labs
, $1B, spatial AI:
San Francisco-based World Labs, a startup founded by AI pioneer
Fei-Fei Li
that develops foundational models to generate and interact with the 3D world, raised $1 billion in fresh funding. Investors in the round include
AMD
,
Autodesk
,
Emerson Collective
,
Fidelity
,
Nvidia
and
Sea
.
2.
Vestwell
, $385M, fintech:
Vestwell, an online provider of multiple types of savings accounts and tools,
raised $385 million in Series E funding
at a reported $2 billion valuation.
Blue Owl Capital
and
Sixth Street Growth
led the financing for the 10-year-old, New York-based company.
3.
Temporal Technologies
, $300M, workflow management and fault tolerance:
Bellevue, Washington-based Temporal Technologies, a provider of tools that allow developers to make workflows more reliable and fault-tolerant, closed on $300 million in Series D funding.
Andreessen Horowitz
led the financing, which set a $5 billion valuation for the 7-year-old company.
4.
Heron Power
, $140M, energy tech:
Heron Power, a developer of hardware designed to move electricity from renewable sources into the grid and data centers, picked up $140 million in a funding round backed by
Andreessen Horowitz
and
Breakthrough Energy Ventures
. The Scotts Valley, California-based company is founded by former
Tesla
SVP
Drew Baglino
.
5.
Code Metal
, $125M, AI coding:
Code Metal, a provider of verifiable code translation tools, raised $125 million in Series B financing led by
Salesforce Ventures
1
. The round comes just three months after the Boston-based startup secured its Series A.
6. (tied)
Render
, $100M, cloud for developers:
Render, a cloud provider for application development teams, secured $100 million in Series C extension funding.
Georgian
led the financing for the San Francisco-based company, which said it now has over 4.5 million developers on its platform.
6. (tied)
Utility Global
, $100M, clean energy:
Houston-based Utility Global, developer of a technology to produce hydrogen and capturable carbon from industrial gases, raised $100 million in Series D funding.
Ara Partners
and
APG Asset Management
led the financing for the 8-year-old company.
6. (tied)
ZaiNar
, $100M, location tracking:
ZaiNar, developer of a technology for wireless networks to sense the location of things without satellites, cameras or heavy compute power, emerged from stealth and disclosed that it has drawn over $100 million in investment to date and a valuation of over $1 billion. Backers in the Belmont, California-based company include
Steve Jurvetson
,
Jerry Yang
,
Tom Gruber
and
Jaan Tallinn
.
9.
Jump
, $80M, fintech:
Salt Lake City-based Jump, developer of an AI agent for financial advisers and financial services providers, raised $80 million in a Series B round led by
Insight Partners
.
10.
Braintrust
, $80M, AI observability:
San Francisco-based Braintrust, a developer of AI observability software for development teams, raised $80 million in a Series B round led by
Iconiq Capital
.
Methodology
We tracked the largest announced rounds in the Crunchbase database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the period of Feb. 14-20. 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.
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