Rounds spanned seed to Series F: Satlyt ($8M), Helix ($6.2M), General Translation ($27M), Nidus ($30M), Medici Brands ($250M) and Agile Robots ($500m). Valuations were disclosed for only some of them.
November 13, 2026 edition: Funding sector, 9 storiesFunding: latest VC & Startups analysis
Funding on AT Pulse covers rounds, leads & terms. The desk has published 21 stories tagged Funding across 2 daily editions, from November 12, 2026 to November 13, 2026, citing 225 linked references. The most frequent original sources are Crunchbase News, e27, and Sifted. Stories here most often overlap with Valuations, Founders, and Ecosystems.
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Smaller rounds back specific bets: Palomma's rent-based lending in Colombia and Anorak's generative video games. In the Philippines, Series A capital has largely dried up.
November 12, 2026 edition: Funding sector, 3 storiesLATEST
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Satlyt runs Google's Gemma on orbiting satellites to diagnose faults and shrink downlinked data after $8M seed
Satlyt, a software-only startup that recently raised an $8M seed, runs a quantized Google Gemma model on satellites already in orbit to diagnose onboard faults and shrink downlinked data, a first step toward pooling many operators' spacecraft into orbital compute.
Ecosystems
Kerala launches scale-up mission targeting 100+ startups earning ₹100 crore a year as IvyCap's Vikram Gupta urges growth-stage support
Kerala has moved its startup policy from counting new ventures to scaling them.
Valuations
Bessemer and Newcomer Publish the AI 100, Ranking Anthropic and OpenAI First Among 100 Private AI Companies
Bessemer Venture Partners and Newcomer ranked 100 private AI companies, valued together at roughly $3.5–3.6 trillion, with Anthropic first and OpenAI second.
Funding
Crunchbase News Taste-Tests Venture-Backed Protein Snacks and Finds Most Middling, With Brami Pasta the Standout
As venture money shifts from meat substitutes to protein-fortified packaged foods, including a $250 million round valuing David Protein's parent at $2.25 billion, an informal taste test of seven Target products found most were merely acceptable.
Funding
SoftBank leads $500m Series F in Agile Robots at $8.5bn valuation
Munich-based Agile Robots raised a $500m Series F led by SoftBank at an $8.5bn valuation, with Nvidia, Hitachi and T.Capital joining.
Funding
General Translation raises $27M in seed and Series A funding led by Upfront Ventures and a16z
General Translation, a San Francisco startup that builds localization into application code, announced $27M in combined seed and Series A funding, with Upfront Ventures leading the seed and Andreessen Horowitz the Series A.
Funding
Nidus Raises $30M Pre-Seed and Seed, Led by Costanoa and Kleiner Perkins, for Defense Factory Robotics AI
Founded in March 2026 by former Vannevar hardware engineers, Nidus fine-tunes existing AI models on private, teleoperated factory data and runs them on robots defense manufacturers already own.
Funding
Helix raises $6.2M pre-seed led by Chicago Ventures, with Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus as adviser
Voice-verification startup Helix raised a $6.2 million pre-seed round led by Chicago Ventures for an on-device spoken challenge that checks a user is human and estimates age, arriving ahead of New York's SAFE for Kids age-assurance rules taking effect January 2027.
Venture funds
RedBlue Capital's Olaf Sakkers holds first close on Fund II, targeting at least $50M amid emerging-manager squeeze
RedBlue's Olaf Sakkers has held a first close on a second fund he expects to reach at least $50 million, citing a $5 million debut fund whose strong returns rest largely on paper markups, as first-time managers face their toughest fundraising market in years.
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12 moreEarlier Funding stories.
- Philippine Series A funding falls 98% in 2026 as Series B jumps 795%, while GCash parent Mynt completes record ₱60.9B IPOe27
- WeRoad acquires Swiss group-travel startup TravelTribe in first deal of €70M M&A planTech.eu
- Uforce raises $700M Series A at $6B valuation, co-led by Valor Equity Partners and UK National Wealth FundSifted
- Mercor raises $750M Series D at a $20B valuation and pitches evals to enterprisesSourcery
- Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that AI investors are repeating Theranos-era diligence failuresY Combinator
- Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO Amid Megaspeed Spy Scandal as Anthropic Launches IPO RoadshowTBPN
- Sequoia to Invest Hundreds of Millions in Sequence Holdings, the AI Holding Company Taking Baldwin Group PrivateThe Information
- Anorak, founded by former Hutch executives, raises $5M pre-seed from Play Ventures, Backed VC, Supercell and MTG for interactive generative video gamesTech.eu
- Imprint Raises $130 Million at $1.88 Billion Valuation as It Adds Big Retail Card Programs and Targets AI Shopping AgentsUpstarts Media
- Anthropic sets $70–$78 IPO range and adds a $26B placement from chip and cloud suppliers, for a combined raise of up to $88.5BCrunchbase News
- Colombian Rent-Payments Startup Palomma Raises $10M Series A Led by Cometa, Bringing Total Funding to $14MCrunchbase News
- Nominal raises $240M Series C at $3B valuation, triple its March 2026 valuationTechCrunch · Fundraising
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