Investors continue to place large bets on companies building the infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum computing and clean energy.
Keyfactor, SambaNova, Oratomic, Quaise Energy, and Prime Intellect announced funding transactions totalling at least $2.56 billion. The two largest deals crossed the $1 billion mark, while Oratomic secured an unusually large Series A round to pursue commercially viable quantum computing. These investments indicate that capital is increasingly concentrating around companies developing foundational technologies rather than conventional software applications.
Based on data curated from the Intellizence Startup Funding Dataset, here are the five top startup funding deals announced during the week ending July 13th, 2026.
Funding Deals for the Week – Highlights
| Keyfactor | Technology | $1B | Private Equity |
|---|---|---|---|
| SambaNova | Technology | $1B | Series F |
| Oratomic | Technology | $300M | Series A |
| Quaise Energy | Energy | $134M | Series B |
| Prime Intellect | Technology | $130M | Series A |
Funding Deals of the Week
Keyfactor Secures More Than $1 Billion in Strategic Growth Investment
Keyfactor – $1.5 Billion
Industry: Technology
Round: Private Equity
Keyfactor, a provider of machine identity management and cryptographic security software, announced a $1 billion-plus strategic growth investment from Summit Partners.
The company provides trust infrastructure that helps organisations manage digital certificates, machine identities, cryptographic assets and public key infrastructure. Its technology is becoming increasingly important as enterprises deploy AI agents, connected devices and cloud
The investment was led by Summit Partners, along with existing investors, including Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth,
Keyfactor plans to use the investment to:
- Accelerate product innovation.
- Expand into additional geographic markets.
- Strengthen its global team.
- Scale its machine identity and cryptographic security platform.
- Pursue strategic acquisitions.
SambaNova Raises $1 Billion at an $11 Billion Valuation
SambaNova- $1Billion
Industry: Technology
Round: Series F
California-based AI infrastructure company SambaNova completed the first close of $1 billion in Series F financing, giving the company a post-money valuation of $11 billion. SambaNova develops custom AI chips, systems, software and cloud infrastructure designed for enterprise AI inference. Inference is the process through which trained AI models generate answers, predictions and other outputs.
The Series F round was led by General Atlantic, with significant investments from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates and Capital Group. New and existing investors included A&E Investment, Assam Ventures, Battery Ventures, BlackRock-managed funds and accounts, Cambium Capital, Intel Capital, Kabila Capital, QFO Capital, Qatar Investment Authority, Vista Equity Partners and Volantis.
SambaNova will use the capital to:
- Expand production and infrastructure capacity.
- Accelerate product development.
- Secure the supply chain required to fulfil customer demand.
- Scale deployments for enterprises and AI service providers.
- Support sovereign AI and neo-cloud customers.
- Continue investing in chips, systems, software and full-stack AI infrastructure.
Oratomic Raises $300 Million Series A for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Oratomic – $300 Million
Industry: Technology
Round: Series A
Pasadena-based Oratomic raised $300 million in Series A funding to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer using reconfigurable neutral atoms.
Fault tolerance is one of the biggest challenges facing the quantum computing industry. Quantum bits are highly sensitive to errors, requiring sophisticated error-correction systems before quantum computers can reliably perform commercially useful calculations.
Oratomic’s approach uses atomic arrays held and rearranged with focused laser beams. Research connected to the company suggests that certain useful quantum computations could eventually be performed using approximately 10,000 to 20,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits—considerably fewer than required under many earlier error-correction estimates.
The Series A was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.
Other investors included Bezos Expeditions, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercarbon Capital, Bain Capital, Formation, Nebular, David Aaronson and Scott Aaronson.
Oratomic will use the funding to pursue its primary objective of building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The company plans to recruit scientists, engineers and technicians across areas including:
- Atomic physics
- Advanced optical systems
- Electronics
- Quantum error correction
- Mathematical algorithms
- Hardware engineering
- Artificial intelligence
Quaise Energy Raises $134 Million in First Close of Series B
Quaise Energy- $134 Million
Industry: Energy
Round: Series B
Quaise Energy raised $134 million in the first close of its Series B financing to advance superhot geothermal energy and construct what it describes as the world’s first commercial superhot geothermal power plant.
The company is developing a millimetre-wave drilling system designed to vaporise or ablate hard rock. The technology could allow drilling to reach heat resources located much deeper underground than conventional geothermal projects.
The Series B round was led by Prelude Ventures, JERA and Idemitsu Kosan.
The financing will primarily support Project Obsidian, Quaise Energy’s planned commercial superhot geothermal power plant in Central Oregon.
The company will also use the funding to:
- Develop and commercialise its millimetre-wave drilling system.
- Increase drilling depths beyond five kilometres.
- Advance field testing in Central Texas.
- Move from technology demonstration towards commercial revenues.
- Support the deployment of additional geothermal projects.
Prime Intellect Raises $130 Million Series A
Prime Intellect – $130 Million
Industry: Technology
Round: Series A
AI infrastructure company Prime Intellect raised $130 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to more than $150 million. The company provides a technology stack for training, deploying, and continuously improving AI models.
The company’s objective is to make advanced AI development infrastructure available to enterprises, startups, and research teams outside a small number of major AI laboratories.
The Series A was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and existing Prime Intellect investors.
Prime Intellect plans to use the capital to scale every layer of its open AI infrastructure stack, including:
- Building larger computing clusters.
- Running larger reinforcement-learning training programmes.
- Expanding agentic AI training and inference infrastructure.
- Developing systems for continual model learning.
- Supporting long-running AI agents.
- Automating parts of AI research and scientific discovery.
- Helping companies train models using their proprietary data and workflows.
Why Use the Intellizence Startup Funding Dataset for Venture Capital Tracking?
Tracking startup funding manually is difficult because funding announcements are spread across company press releases, investor announcements, news articles, blogs, regulatory sources, and private market coverage. Startup funding announcements can provide early evidence that a company is preparing to hire, enter new markets, launch products, purchase technology, or increase its operational capacity.
Intellizence combines AI-supported curation with human review to convert public funding announcements into structured and searchable records. The information can be accessed through the Intellizence platform or integrated into applications, AI agents, and internal workflows through the REST API.
FAQ: Intellizence Funding Signals
1. What is a startup funding dataset?
A startup funding dataset is a structured database of venture capital, private equity, and other investment rounds involving private companies. It typically includes fields such as company name, funding amount, funding round, valuation, investors, industry, location, announcement date, and source information.
2. What is the Intellizence Startup Funding Dataset?
The Intellizence Startup Funding Dataset provides structured information on startup funding, venture capital, private equity, and corporate investment transactions. It helps users monitor newly funded companies, investors, valuations, and market trends.
2. What information is included in an Intellizence funding record?
Depending on the information disclosed in the original announcement, a record may include the company, funding amount, currency, funding round, valuation, lead investors, participating investors, announced date, company location, industry, domain, and source link.
3. How does Intellizence collect and verify startup funding data?
Intellizence sources funding information from public news reports, company announcements, press releases, regulatory filings and other publicly available sources. AI-assisted curation is complemented by human review to improve the accuracy and consistency of the structured data.
4. Can Intellizence funding data be accessed through an API?
Yes. The Intellizence Startup Funding API allows developers and data teams to retrieve funding records and integrate them into internal applications, sales intelligence products, dashboards, workflows, and AI agents.
5. How can sales and marketing teams use startup funding signals?
Funding is an important growth signal because recently funded companies may invest in recruitment, software, infrastructure, professional services, and geographic expansion. Sales and marketing teams can use funding data to prioritise accounts and initiate timely outreach based on the size, type, and timing of a company’s funding round.
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