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Stoke Space announces $1B Series E initial close, total funding $2.3B while still pre-flight
Stoke Space raised a $1 billion Series E — bringing its total funding to $2.3 billion — despite not having flown an orbital mission yet; Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round. The company says it has completed an initial closing of the round and plans to build a fully reusable Nova launch vehicle with first flight targeted for 2027.
Fortune: Ineffable Intelligence names six nonfounders as cofounders, including four ex-DeepMind hires and an InstaDeep executive
Ineffable Intelligence granted the title of cofounder to six people—four from Google DeepMind, one from InstaDeep, and one from a Seattle venture firm—despite none having founded the ten-month-old London startup, which has no product and a $5... valuation reported by Fortune.
Gradial Raises $65M Series C Led by Insight Partners to Scale AI Marketing Platform with $675M Valuation
Seattle-based startup Gradial raised $65 million in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, bringing total funds raised to over $110 million in 16 months. The company builds an AI orchestration platform for enterprise marketing that integrates with tools like Adobe and Salesforce, and plans to use the funds to scale engineering, sales, and cloud infrastructure.
Parloa announces partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9 and Epic after $350M Series D at $3B valuation
Berlin-founded Parloa, valued at $3 billion after a $350 million Series D in January 2026, announced partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic while reporting over $50 million ARR and 150% net revenue retention as it expands its enterprise AI agent platform.
Moment raises $78M led by Index Ventures to build AI operating system for Edward Jones, LPL and Hightower
Moment, founded by former Citadel quants, raised $78 million led by Index Ventures (with a16z and Avra participating) to build an AI operating system that lets wealth managers like Edward Jones, LPL Financial, and Hightower deploy regulated AI agents for trading.
Sequoia and Nvidia Back David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B Valuation
Sequoia Capital and Nvidia backed Ineffable Intelligence, the London AI startup founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, at a $5.1 billion valuation despite the company having no product, revenue, or public roadmap; Nvidia’s venture arm invested at least $250 million and Sequoia led the round. Silver left DeepMind in late 2025 after over a decade building landmark systems like AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaStar.
Starcloud raises $170M Series A at $1.1B valuation to fund two satellites for orbital data centres
Starcloud raised $170 million in a Series A led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures at a $1.1 billion valuation to fund its next two satellites and advance orbital data-centre development, bringing total funding to $200 million. The Redmond startup already operates an Nvidia H100 GPU in orbit, trained the first AI model in space, and is building Starship-class spacecraft to make orbital data centres cost-competitive with terrestrial facilities.
Mission Zero Technologies unveils modular DAC unit claiming 3–5× lower energy use and lower-cost plants
UK startup Mission Zero Technologies has developed a modular direct air capture device that uses a water-based solvent and electrodialysis to extract CO2, claiming 3–5× lower energy use and lower costs by using off‑the‑shelf components and compatibility with intermittent renewables.
