The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Big Week For Big Checks

Crunchbase News reports that venture capital had a particularly robust week, with three companies securing billion-dollar funding rounds. Hadrian, a developer of highly automated factories, raised one point three seven billion dollars in Series D at a seven point eight seven billion dollar valuation. Base Power, which makes residential battery energy storage systems, closed on one billion dollars in Series D at a thirteen billion dollar post-money valuation—and simultaneously launched its Base Core home battery. Valar Atomics, developing nuclear energy technology and infrastructure, raised one billion dollars in Series B funding plus a two hundred million dollar credit facility. Beyond these headline-making rounds, the week saw substantial capital flowing into AI infrastructure, live shopping, critical minerals, cybersecurity, and biotech, showing a venture ecosystem still actively backing innovation across multiple emerging sectors.

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