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Startups, stories 241 to 270

241Impulse Space Lands $28M Space Force Deal After $308M RaiseThe contract to fly a tracking payload built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory is Tom Mueller's company's third Space Force award since July, six days after it closed a $308 million funding extension.Sep 23
242Arcee AI Raises Over $150 Million at a $1 Billion ValuationVista Equity Partners led the round for the open-weight model maker, though Fortune's account of whether the $1 billion figure is pre- or post-money differs from the company's own statement.Sep 23
243Snorkel AI Triples Its Valuation to $3.5 BillionThe Series E values Snorkel at roughly nine times the $375 million annualized revenue run rate it disclosed alongside the round.Sep 23
244Factory's $5 Billion Valuation Has No Revenue Number Behind ItCognition's and Temporal's new valuations this month came with a specific revenue figure attached, and Factory's $200 million round did not.Sep 23
245Cyera Raises $400 Million at the Same Valuation It Had in JuneThe Series G extension adds capital from Goldman Sachs Alternatives without moving the $12 billion figure Cyera has held since its last round.Sep 23
246Chamelio Raises $26 Million to Replace In-House Legal SoftwareThe Series A follows a $10 million seed round eight months earlier, and the company says revenue has grown fourfold since then without giving a dollar figure.Sep 23
247TypeSafe Raises $40 Million for Jev, a Model That Won't TalkDCVC led the seed round at a Forbes-reported $200 million valuation TypeSafe has not confirmed, while an outside reviewer says nobody has reproduced its 445-times cost claim.Sep 22
248S&P Global Doubles Kaiko's Series B to $110 MillionThe extension folds in Coinbase Ventures, Nasdaq Ventures and Royal Bank of Canada on top of Kaiko's 2022 backers, but neither side disclosed what the crypto-data firm is now worth.Sep 22
249Impulse Space's $308 Million Extension Comes With Two ValuationsThe round brings Impulse Space's Series D to $808 million, but Payload Space and a Reuters wire disagree on whether the new post-money figure is $5.4 billion or $5.6 billion.Sep 22
250Verda Raises $189M Series B, Crosses $1 Billion ValuationThe Helsinki AI cloud company, renamed from DataCrunch last November, says it is cash-flow positive and is now taking pricing aim at AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.Sep 22
251Oura's IPO Sends $6.2 Million to the Company, Not $2.2 BillionOf the 50 million shares in Oura's Nasdaq offering, 36.5 million belong to existing shareholders, and the filing shows almost all of the company's own share of the proceeds is earmarked for a tax bill, not growth.Sep 22
252Morphotonics Raises Over €40M, a Quarter of It as DebtThe Dutch waveguide maker's Series B includes a €20 million convertible loan from the European Investment Bank, a structure that leaves the company owing money if its equity investors don't convert first.Sep 22
253Crusoe's $3.9B Round Is an Initial Close, Not a Final OneThe AI data center builder's own announcement says the Series F, which triples its valuation from October, has only had its first tranche close, and its investor list now includes Fidelity and Robinhood's venture fund.Sep 22
254Swish Raises $24 Million to Extend Its India Food-Delivery RoundBertelsmann India Investments led the round less than six months after Swish's $38 million Series B, and Inc42 put the startup's total funding at $78 million.Sep 21
255Quantum Motion Extends Its $160 Million Series C, AgainThe Sept. 3 close added imec.ventures, Sony Innovation Fund and three other investors to a round DCVC and Kembara led in May, without naming how much fresh capital came in.Sep 21
256QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Crore With India's Quantum Mission as Co-LeadThe Series A1 round, announced Sept. 9, ties the Bengaluru startup to a government fund that requires it to match a ₹150 crore research contract with its own capital.Sep 21
257XDOF Nears $1.2 Billion, More Than Double Mecka AI's $500 MillionBoth robot-data startups are back at the table within three months of their last checks, at valuations that imply very different bets on how fast their revenue is really growing.Sep 21
258Profound Hits Unicorn Status With $180M Series D at $1.8BThe startup that tracks how brands show up in AI search answers tripled its revenue in six months and raised again less than seven months after its last round.Sep 21
259Factory Triples to $5 Billion, Five Months After Its Last RoundThe AI coding-agent startup raised $200 million from a syndicate that includes Blackstone and Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff as an angel, its third large check in under a year.Sep 21
260MIND Raises $72M Series B, Sources Peg It at $300MCrosspoint Capital led the round for the two-year-old data-loss-prevention startup, whose own announcement carries no valuation at all.Sep 20
261Gimlet Labs Raises $300M Series B at $3B ValuationAndreessen Horowitz led the round for a chip-agnostic inference cloud that says it has landed billions in contracted revenue since March, without saying how many.Sep 20
262Félix Raises $200M, Won't Confirm Unicorn StatusThe WhatsApp remittance startup split its Series C between $87 million of equity and $113 million of debt, and let the word 'unicorn' do work its own numbers do not.Sep 20
263Unitree's IPO Pop Puts It Above Figure AI's $39BChina's robot makers pulled in $2.44 billion of August's $4.87 billion global robotics-funding total, and a one-day stock surge did more for Unitree's valuation than any 2026 funding round.Sep 20
264Raindrop Raises Series A to Catch AI Agents FailingThe round, led by CRV, brings Raindrop's total funding to $50 million as the company opens early access to a tool that tests agent changes against real production traffic before they ship.Sep 20
265Maven Robotics Raises $100M Series A for Warehouse RobotsThe two-year-old startup has deployed eight robots at one customer and is pricing its round against a market-size estimate rather than disclosed revenue.Sep 20
266XDOF and Mecka Chase the Same Robot-Data PrizeWithin a week of each other, the two startups that pay people to generate training data for robots landed in valuation talks of $1.2 billion and $500 million.Sep 19
267Temporal Raises $550M Series E at $12.55B ValuationThe company that keeps AI agents from failing mid-task more than doubled its valuation in seven months, with OpenAI's own infrastructure lead citing its software as a requirement.Sep 19
268EigenQ Raises $45M Ahead of Its Nasdaq SPAC MergerThe quantum-security startup gets half the convertible notes now and the rest only if its merger with Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. closes on schedule.Sep 19
269Ridgeline Raises $250M at $1.425B, Led by Its Own FounderThe invitation-only round is led by Dave Duffield, who has now put more than $400 million of his own money into the investment-management platform he co-founded in 2017.Sep 19
270Profound Raises $180M at $1.8B, Up From $1B in FebruaryThe AI-marketing startup's own blog post claims 2,500 brand customers, more than double the 1,000-plus figure it gave the press the same week.Sep 19