Weekly Funding Carousel — Run #5 (May 26–June 1, 2026)
Priyanka8 of the biggest funding rounds this week. One thing stands out: capital is concentrating fast at the frontier.
🟡 ANTHROPIC raised $65B (Series H) -- Frontier AI lab behind Claude, now the world's most valuable startup at a $965B valuation.
🟡 COGNITION raised $1B (Late Stage) -- Makers of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer built to write, debug and deploy code end-to-end.
🟡 STORD raised $250M (Series F) -- AI-powered fulfillment network helping brands compete with Amazon on warehouse speed and delivery.
🟡 CAPCHASE raised $200M (Growth) -- B2B buy-now-pay-later platform letting enterprise tech vendors offer flexible payment terms while getting paid upfront.
🟡 XCENA raised $135M (Series B) -- Memory-centric chip startup moving compute closer to DRAM to slash AI inference bottlenecks and costs.
🟡 OPENROUTER raised $113M (Series B) -- AI gateway and model marketplace routing developer requests across hundreds of models -- now valued at $1.3B.
🟡 FONOA raised €94.4M (Series C) -- AI tax operating system for global businesses covering compliance, e-invoicing, and returns -- also acquired PwC's tax platform.
🟡 CORGI raised $106M (Series B1) -- AI-native business insurance for startups covering tech, cyber and AI risk -- doubled its valuation to $2.6B in just 3 weeks.
📊 Total raised this week: ~$66.8B across 8 deals
📅 May 26 - June 1, 2026
AI continues to dominate -- 6 of 8 deals are AI-native or AI-adjacent. The Anthropic round alone dwarfs everything else combined. Infrastructure and AI tooling (chips, gateways, dev tools) are seeing serious conviction. TaxTech and InsurTech are both quietly having a moment.
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