Project Prometheus $10B
Unknown · AI · United States · Apr 24
Project Prometheus, Jeff Bezos's physical AI lab, closed a $10B round at a $38B valuation with JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock among the investors.
A quick read on the week, 64 deals and $18.5B raised. The highlights, not the whole list.
Biggest rounds
Anthropic $5B
Unknown · AI · United States · Apr 21
Amazon invested another $5B in Anthropic at a $350B valuation, as part of a $100B cloud commitment tying Claude models to AWS Trainium chips.
VAST Data $1B
Series D+ · DevTools · United States · Apr 23
VAST Data closed a $1B Series F (primary and secondary) led by Drive Capital and Access Industries at a $30B valuation, tripling its 2023 valuation.
Recursive Superintelligence $500M
Unknown · AI · United States · Apr 20
Recursive Superintelligence, a lab founded four months ago by Richard Socher and others, raised at least $500M led by GV with NVIDIA at a $4B pre-money valuation.
Blue Energy $380M
Unknown · Energy · United States · Apr 22
Blue Energy raised $380M led by VXI Capital to bring factory-built modular nuclear power plants to market.
Notable M&A
Talon.One $870M
acquired by Adyen · Apr 24
Adyen acquires Berlin-based Talon.One for 750 million euros, one of the largest German exits of the year.
Sleap.io $15M
acquired by Staynex · Apr 25
Singapore's Staynex acquires Swiss hoteltech Sleap.io; terms not disclosed.
Qura
acquired by Legora · Apr 23
Legora acquires compatriot Qura to strengthen its AI legal research; terms not disclosed.
aurio
acquired by Personio · Apr 23
Personio acquires AI recruiting startup aurio to avoid losing ground on AI; terms not disclosed.
Did you also notice
- The week's biggest raise: Project Prometheus at $10B.
- AI was the busiest sector with 7 rounds.
- Germany led on deal count with 17.