We tracked 11 startup funding rounds in August 2026, together worth $11.53bn in disclosed funding. The median disclosed round was $400m.
The largest was Databricks's $5bn Growth round, led by Coatue, at a $190bn valuation. 9 rounds reached $100m or more and accounted for 99% of the money.
Data & analytics led by sector with $5bn across 1 round, while AI startups raised $3.65bn. By region, North America took $8.62bn (75%).
6 companys raised at a valuation of $1bn or more: HappyRobot, Hadrian, Firmus, Cambridge Aerospace, Lovable, Databricks.
The biggest rounds
- 1DatabricksGrowth · Data & analytics · San Francisco$5bn
- 2FirmusGrowth · AI · Sydney$2bn
- 3HadrianSeries D+ · Defence & space · Torrance$1.37bn
- 4River AISeries A · AI · Palo Alto$1.1bn
- 5Valar AtomicsSeries B · Climate & energy · Hawthorne$1bn
- 6LovableSeries C · AI · Stockholm$400m
- 7Cambridge AerospaceSeries C · Defence & space · London$300m
- 8HappyRobotSeries C · AI · San Francisco$150m
- 9RiverSeries C · Mobility & logistics · Bengaluru$120m
- 10DecadeSeed · Fintech · Brazil$85m
Figures cover the rounds in our tracker, which records disclosed amounts converted to US dollars at announcement. See the methodology.