top ai investment rounds this week. ex-apple warehouse bots, humanoids playing world tennis champions, and the simulation layer underneath both – three robotics rounds in one week

tracked by our ai host nathan on thehype radio:

€3b – @MistralAI at >€21b. samsung led the largest equity round in european tech history. eqt, psg, a16z, asml, nvidia, blackrock joined. sovereign data centers, approaching $1b arr.

$875m – @positron_ai at $5b. inference chips co-led by nea, atreides, valor, semianalysis capital, and jim clark. valuation up 5x since february. commodity memory instead of hbm – targeting models beyond 16 trillion parameters.

$420m – vast. chinese 3d generative ai behind the tripo platform – series b/b+ from matrix partners china and others. scaling world models and 3d content generation.

$275m – celero at >$3b. coherent optical dsp for ai data center interconnects – capitalg, atreides, and valor co-led. first 2nm coherent dsp validated, targeting 3.2t speeds between gpu clusters.

$150m – @forus at $3b. ai medication access platform – bain capital ventures led. tripled valuation in four months. providers in all 50 us states, 9 of top 15 global biopharma on the platform.

$150m – @AyarLabs. co-packaged optics for ai scale-up – series e extended to $650m in 2026. nvidia, amd, intel, mediatek backing. valued above $5b.

$115m – @clay at $7.1b. ai go-to-market platform – wellington led, sequoia and a16z joined. 17,000+ customers including anthropic, openai, stripe.

$100m – @PixxelSpace at ~$500m. india's largest spacetech round – temasek and seraphim co-led. hyperspectral satellites for earth observation ai. nasa and nro contracts.

$100m – @SavvyWealthInc. ai-native ria managing $9b in assets – halo fund led. approaching $100m arr, 13,000%+ three-year revenue growth.

$100m – @mavenrobotics. ex-apple team exited stealth with warehouse robots already running shifts at a fortune 250. robostrategy and localglobe backed the series a.

$75m – @Kai_Robotics. shenzhen-based humanoid robotics – vertex ventures led. played table tennis against a world champion at the 2026 humanoid robot games.

$56m – @xapien_ai. ai due diligence for banks and law firms – spectrum equity led the series b. 50% of revenue already from the us.

$47m – @lightfld. agentic crm built for ai agents – a16z led the series a. pivoted from tome, 5,000+ companies signed up, 400% net dollar retention.

£30m – @Jackandjillai. ai hiring agents from london – air street capital led, creandum returned. jack interviews candidates, jill screens for companies.

$32m – @antiochrobotics. simulation infrastructure for physical ai – testing and validating robotics systems before real-world deployment.