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| 13.09.2026 | Venture Capital Pivots: Funding Bottlenecks in AI, Infrastructure, and Defense | Venture capital shifts focus. Mega-rounds target critical bottlenecks. Investments pour into AI infrastructure, deep tech, and physical systems. Defense manufacturing sees significant capital. Specialized AI platforms secure funding. Invest... |
| 13.09.2026 | AI's Unprecedented Surge: Infrastructure, Chips, and Escalating Risks | AI reshapes global systems, demanding colossal infrastructure. Microsoft plans 38 GW data centers. Oracle's AI cloud revenue surges. The Pentagon views AI compute as strategic, eyeing a $5 billion Fluidstack loan. A $5 billion valuation for... |
| 12.09.2026 | Positron AI Raises $875M to Prove Commodity Memory Can Beat HBM in Inference | By Jackie Manning
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| 12.09.2026 | Positron AI raises $875M series C at $5B post-money | Oakseed portfolio company Positron AI raises $875 million series C at $5 billion post-money valuation. Positron AI makes hardware to run Large Language Models (LLMs) at a fraction of the electricity needs and cost compared to Nvidia.
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| 11.09.2026 | Top Tech News Today, September 11, 2026: Anthropic, Clearview, DeepSeek, Google, Oracle, Pentagon, Salesforce & More | It’s Friday, September 11, 2026, and the AI boom just stopped looking abstract. Overnight, Microsoft mapped a 38-gigawatt buildout, Oracle booked a $664 billion cloud backlog, and the Pentagon opened talks on a $5 billion loan to keep U.S. ... |
| 10.09.2026 | Positron AI Raises $875M to Scale AI Inference Hardware | Positron AI Raises $875M Series C Funding
Positron AI has raised $875 million in Series C financing at a $5 billion valuation. The company develops hardware designed to make AI inference cheaper and more energy efficient. The financing was ... |
| 10.09.2026 | AI chip startup Positron's valuation skyrockets in latest funding round | Synopsis
The rapidly growing AI inference market, focused on ârunning trained AI models, has become a key battleground as companies develop âspecialized processors to challenge Nvidia's dominance.
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| 10.09.2026 | Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 10, 2026: Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital & More | Venture capital did not spread evenly across the startup market today. It piled into a small number of companies near physical constraints: tunnels, weapons manufacturing, AI inference chips, and the optical links that connect compute. Acro... |
| 10.07.2026 | Positron AI to Raise $750 Million at a $5 Billion Valuation | Positron is an AI inference hardware company dedicated to developing energy-efficient, custom silicon chips designed to lower the cost and power consumption of running complex artificial intelligence models. Established with a focus on brea... |
| 03.07.2026 | Interview with Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron AI: Redefining AI Inference at $1B+ Valuation | Positron AI is a startup building purpose-built inference hardware designed to challenge existing market dominance by tackling the critical bottlenecks of memory bandwidth and capacity. By engineering a second-generation silicon architectur... |
| 10.02.2026 | Positron AI Achieves Unicorn Status, Fuels Energy-Efficient AI Inference Innovation | Positron AI secured $230 million in Series B funding, achieving a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion. This confirms unicorn status. The company champions energy-efficient AI inference hardware. Its flagship next-generation custom sil... |
| 10.02.2026 | Modveon Raises $10M in Funding | Modveon, a Palo Alto, CA-based company that develops a verified operating system for governments and citizens, raised $10M in funding.
Backers included Coinbase Ventures, Firebolt Ventures, Humla Ventures, Strategic Cyber Ventures along wit... |
| 10.02.2026 | Positron AI Raises $230M in Series B Funding | Positron AI, a Reno, NV-based technology company building energy-efficient AI inference hardware, raised $230M in Series B funding, at over $1 Billion valuation.
The round was led by ARENA Private Wealth alongside Jump Trading and Unless, w... |
| 04.02.2026 | Positron AI: $230 Million Series B At $1+ Billion Valuation Closed For Inference Hardware Platform | Positron AI said it raised an oversubscribed $230 million Series B at a post-money valuation exceeding $1 billion to scale what it describes as energy-efficient AI inference hardware and accelerate development of its next-generation custom ... |
| 04.02.2026 | Positron AI Raises $230M in Series B Funding | Positron AI, a Reno, NV-based energy-efficient AI inference hardware company, raised $230M in Series B funding, at $1 Billion valuation.
The round was led by ARENA Private Wealth, Jump Trading, and Unless, and included new and strategic inv... |
| 04.02.2026 | Positron AI becomes unicorn with $230M raise | Oakseed portfolio company Positron AI becomes a unicorn with an oversubscribed $230M series B. Positron AI makes hardware to run Large Language Models (LLMs) at a fraction of the electricity needs and cost compared to Nvidia. They will also... |
| 04.02.2026 | Positron AI raises $230M at over $1B valuation to build energy-efficient AI accelerator hardware
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Cookies | Positron AI, a builder of custom silicon and hardware for energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $230 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation.
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| 04.02.2026 | Positron AI Nets $230 Million Series B |
RENO, NV, Positron AI, the leader in energy-efficient AI inference hardware, announced an oversubscribed $230 million Series B financing.
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| 04.02.2026 | AI Chip Startup Positron Raises $230 Million From Arm, Qatar to Compete With Nvidia | - |
| 12.09.2025 | Positron AI featured on Inc Magazine | Oakseed’s portfolio company Positron AI was featured on Inc Magazine. Positron’s Atlas hardware delivers about 4.5 times the performance per watt compared to Nvidia’s top DGX H200 system by prioritizing memory capacity and bandwidth over ra... |
| 31.07.2025 | Positron Rises: A New Era for AI Inference Chips | Positron directly challenges Nvidia in AI inference chips. It offers energy-efficient, memory-optimized hardware. Atlas, its current chip, slashes power consumption and costs for enterprise AI. Titan, launching 2026, targets future superint... |
| 30.07.2025 | Positron AI: $51.6 Million Raised For Transforming GenAI With High-Performance Compute Systems | Positron AI, a leader in American-made semiconductors and inference hardware, announced the closing of a $51.6 million oversubscribed Series A round, raising over $75 million this year. Led by Valor Equity, Atreides Management, and DFJ Grow... |
| 29.07.2025 | Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
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| 28.07.2025 | Positron AI Secures $51.6 Million in Oversubscribed Series A | Positron AI, a company that Oakseed co-led the pre-seed round in 2023, has raised over $50M in an oversubscribed series A. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management and DFJ Growth. Additional investment came from Flume... |
| 28.07.2025 | Positron AI Inks $51.6 Million in Series A |
RENO, NV, Positron AI, the premier company for American-made semiconductors and inference hardware, announced the close of a $51.6 million oversubscribed Series A funding round.
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| 28.07.2025 | Positron AI Secures $51.6 Million in Oversubscribed Series A to Accelerate Inference-Optimized Hardware | - |
| 25.07.2025 | Positron AI featured on Wall Street Journal | Oakseed portfolio company Positron AI was featured on Wall Street Journal. Energy demands of AI are projected to increase by 50% annually through 2030, posing serious environmental and sustainability challenges. Positron AI is enabling AI w... |
| 13.02.2025 | Positron's $23.5M Funding: A New Dawn for American AI Hardware | In the bustling world of artificial intelligence, a new player is making waves. Positron, a Reno-based company, has just secured $23.5 million in funding. This investment comes from a group of notable backers, including Flume Ventures, Valo... |
| 12.02.2025 | Positron Secures $23.5M to Design And Manufacture Energy-Efficient, Made-In-America AI Chips | Positron, a rising force in AI inference technology for artificial intelligence computing, has raised $23.5 million in funding from a group of investors, including Flume Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, and Resilience R... |
| 11.02.2025 | Positron Raises $23.5M in Funding | Positron, a Reno, NV-based developer of AI inference technology for artificial intelligence computing, raised $23.5m in funding.
Backers included Flume Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, and Resilience Reserve.
The compan... |
| 24.10.2024 | Positron AI named one of 50 most promising startups for 2024 by The Information | Oakseed’s portfolio company Positron AI is named one of 50 most promising startups for 2024 by The Information.
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