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Mountain View startup Sunday has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to bring its Memo household robot from demos to real-world deployment, with beta units heading to 50 homes by late 2026.

February 2026 shattered all venture capital records with $189 billion deployed globally, but 83 percent of that capital flowed to just three AI companies, deepening a K-shaped market where mega-rounds surge while seed funding contracts.

Founder Jay Graber becomes chief innovation officer as Bluesky discloses a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, but daily active users have fallen 40 percent year-over-year.

Sunday raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to deploy its household robot Memo to homes by Thanksgiving 2026, using a novel low-cost data capture approach.

UK-based AI infrastructure hyperscaler Nscale closes a $2 billion Series C at $14.6 billion valuation, adding Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board.

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup raises the largest seed round in European history to develop world models, an alternative AI architecture that learns from physical reality rather than text prediction.

Nominal, an Austin-based hardware data platform, reached a $1 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series B extension led by Founders Fund, bringing total funding to $155 million in under ten months.

German startup Neura Robotics raises €1 billion led by Tether Holdings, becoming Europe's most valuable humanoid robotics company as cryptocurrency profits flow into physical AI.

Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank pour $110 billion into OpenAI at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, reshaping the AI capital landscape and ending Microsoft's exclusive cloud partnership.

Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy has shut down new investments from its Catalyst project-finance fund, compounding pressure on climate startups already losing federal support under the Trump administration.

The Austin startup closes a $520M Series A extension backed by Google, Mercedes-Benz, and John Deere, bringing its war chest to $935M as it races to commercialize Apollo humanoid robots while China commands 90 percent of global shipments.

Ex-Waymo engineers secure major Series B to deploy operator-less construction equipment amid an industry labor crisis.