Daily edition

Monday 8 September 2025

21 rounds and $1.6B raised. The biggest: Databricks, $1B.

vs Mon 1 Sept

The day in charts

AI took 90% of the capital on this day, up from 70% on Mon 1 Sept. Databricks alone raised $1B, 62% of it.

The 5 biggest rounds raised $1.5B, 95% of the total.

2 of 21 rounds made 87% of the capital.

Rounds of $100M or more, Monday 8 September 2025
	Rounds	Capital
$100M or more	2	$1.4B
The rest	19	$208M

AI raised $1.4B, 90% of the capital. Choose a sector to filter the rounds below.

Capital by sector, Monday 8 September 2025
Sector	Capital	Share	Rounds
AI	$1.4B	90%	6
Health	$83.6M	5%	3
Fintech	$56.2M	3%	4
Web3	$11.3M	<1%	2
Climate & Energy	$5.3M	<1%	2
Enterprise software	$2.4M	<1%	2
Robotics & Hardware	$1.5M	<1%	1
Consumer	$535K	<1%	1

United States raised $1.5B, 92% of the capital. Rounds in 11 countries.

Seed was the most common stage: 5 rounds, median $2.3M. The median round size is under each column.

San Francisco raised $1.4B, more than all of Europe ($109M). Rounds from 9 cities.

This day against the 13 days before it. The biggest: Tue 2 Sept, $13.6B.

Capital raised per day, Monday 8 September 2025
Day	Rounds	Capital	Biggest round
Tue 26 Aug	24	$344M	Aerospacelab, $65.3M
Wed 27 Aug	20	$185M	Leal Therapeutics, $30M
Thu 28 Aug	13	$1.1B	Commonwealth Fusion Systems, $863M
Fri 29 Aug	7	$52M	Deftpower, $14.6M
Sat 30 Aug	0	$0K
Sun 31 Aug	0	$0K
Mon 1 Sept	11	$152M	LayerX, $100M
Tue 2 Sept	28	$13.6B	Anthropic, $13B
Wed 3 Sept	24	$1.1B	IQM Quantum Computers, $300M
Thu 4 Sept	44	$1.3B	Sierra, $350M
Fri 5 Sept	11	$284M	Baseten, $150M
Sat 6 Sept	1	$453K	Dectrocel, $453K
Sun 7 Sept	2	$10.4M	Indrajaal, $5.4M
Mon 8 Sept	21	$1.6B	Databricks, $1B