Along with the usual heavy dose of AI, this week’s list also includes large deals for aerospace and defense, fintech, and retail technology.
Defense tech
Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on applications in the physical...
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month are working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a...
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation — double its previous valuation — as defense-tech startups...
A total of 28 companies joined The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the...
Today, Japan’s unique fusion of obsessive individual creativity and precision engineering underpins both its global cultural dominance and...
A total of 37 companies joined The ½ûÂþÌìÌà Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, ½ûÂþÌìÌà data shows. The...
While no billion-dollar rounds led this week’s list, we nonetheless saw a variety of startups in industries ranging from semiconductors to aerospace...
Startup investors kept up the busy dealmaking pace this week with a number of big rounds. Top among them was a $1.75 billion Series D for Austin...
A total of 47 seed- and early stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per ½ûÂþÌìÌà data. Barring a major...
The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ...


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