"The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 2/7/25 featuring funding details for EnFi, Midi Health, Derapi, and twenty-eight other deals representing $19.6B (not a typo) in new funding that you need to know about."
"Cerebras Systems - $1.0B Sunnyvale-based Cerebras Systems is an AI computing system company that provides deep learning applications, super computing, and cloud services. Founded by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Jean-Philippe Fricker, Michael James, and Sean Lie in 2015, Cerebras Systems has now raised a total of $2.8B in total equity funding and is backed by 1789 Capital, Alpha Wave Global, Altimeter Capital, AMD, Atreides Management, Benchmark, Coatue, Fidelity, and Tiger Global Management."
Thirty-one startups across US ecosystems raised a combined $19.6B during the week ending 2/7/25. Major financings included Cerebras Systems ($1.0B) and Positron ($230.0M). Cerebras provides AI computing systems for deep learning, supercomputing, and cloud services and has raised $2.8B to date. Positron supplies purpose-built hardware and software systems for transformer-based models and has raised $305.1M in total equity. Additional rounds included Arbor ($6.3M) for real-time DEI analytics and Avalanche Energy ($29.0M) for micro-fusion reactors. Investors include venture firms, strategic corporate backers, and sovereign capital across AI, energy, healthcare, and enterprise software sectors.
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