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This is a weekly feature that runs down the week鈥檚 top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here.

Artificial intelligence and defense were the key buzz words of the week in the venture world. Three startups in those sectors raised massive rounds, however, there were big rounds elsewhere too 鈥� including biotech, healthcare and robotics.

1. , $3.5B, artificial intelligence: Anthropic, a rival with its AI assistant Claude, raised a $3.5 billion funding round led by , valuing it at $61.5 billion. Anthropic was last valued at $18.5 billion in February 2024. The round values Anthropic at more than 鈥檚 , which was valued at $50 million in November after its $6 billion Series C. However, the new round values Anthropic well behind , which is closing in on its own new $40 billion funding from that will value it at a mind-blowing $260 billion.

2. , $250M, defense: Startup Epirus raised a $250 million Series D led by 1听补苍诲 in the latest example of a defense tech raising big. The Los Angeles-based company has developed a high-energy, high-power microwave technology to counter drones, drone swarms and other electronics. The new round included a strategic investment from . Epirus 鈥� founded in 2018 鈥� did not release a valuation after the new round but has raised more than $550 million, per the company. Epirus plans to use the new funds to expand into international and commercial markets, and grow its workforce.

3. , $240M, defense: The direct hits just keep coming for the defense tech sector as defense and aerospace startup Shield AI locked up a $240 million F-1 strategic funding round at a $5.3 billion valuation. The new valuation is nearly double the company鈥檚 previous $2.7 billion valuation after it raised a $200 million Series F in October 2023 (it later added another $300 million in debt and equity to the round). San Diego-based Shield AI creates an array of intelligent, autonomous systems for the defense sector. Its software, for instance 鈥� Hivemind Mind 鈥� enables aircraft to operate autonomously in high-threat environments. The new funding received what the company called 鈥渕ajor participation from strategic investors鈥� and , as well as participation from existing investors including , and . Founded in 2015, Shield AI has raised $1.3 billion, .

4. , $190M, law enforcement: Law enforcement startup Peregrine Technologies locked up a $190 million funding round led by , minting the San Francisco-based firm as a new unicorn at a $2.5 billion valuation. The 7-year-old startup develops data analytics software that allows state and local law enforcement agencies to put together unstructured and disconnected data in order to help understand it better and make decisions. The company鈥檚 platform was used last month in New Orleans at Super Bowl LIX by safety officials. While defense tech funding has exploded among VCs, law enforcement tech specifically has inched along slightly slower 鈥� with investors likely drawn to the big federal contract potential of startups developing military tech moreso than selling to police departments. Peregrine鈥檚 raise is the largest by a law enforcement/public safety startup since , an artificial intelligence platform designed for real-time event and risk detection, raised a $475 million Series F in 2021, per SA国际传媒 . Founded in 2018, the company has raised $250 million, .

5. , $187M, biotech: Cancer therapy drug developer Callio Therapeutics raised a massive $187 million Series A led by . The biotech company 鈥� based in Seattle and Singapore 鈥� is creating multipayload ADC鈥檚, or antibody-drug conjugates, that deliver multiple agents to tumor cells. The newly formed company intends to use the proceeds to achieve clinical proof of concept for its first ADC and a second undisclosed ADC program.

6. , $175M, healthcare: Minneapolis-based 4C Medical Technologies, a medical device company developing minimally invasive therapies for structural heart disease, closed a $175 million Series D led by . Founded in 2015, the company has raised $258 million, .

7. , $111M, artificial intelligence: Palo Alto, California-based Turing, which contributes code to AI projects, secured an $111 million Series E financing at a valuation of $2.2 billion led by . Founded in 2018, Turing says it has raised $225 million.

8. , $96M, business development: New York-based Odeko, a software platform for local coffee shops, cafes and other food and beverage businesses, raised a $126 million Series E聽 鈥� comprised of $96 million in equity led by and a $30 million credit facility. Founded in 2019, Odeko has raised more than $280 million in equity, per the company.

9. , $83M, robotics: Aescape, an AI robotics startup for massages, raised $83 million in a round led by . Founded in 2017, New York-based Aescape has raised $128 million, per the company.

1o. , $80M, pets: Mooresville, North Carolina-based PetScreening, a pet policy management software developer, took in an $80 million Series B led by and . Founded in 2017, the company has raised nearly $85 million, .

Big global deals

Sweden saw the largest deal of the week outside the U.S.

• Sweden-based , a property development and management company, raised a venture round worth approximately $488 million.

Methodology

We tracked the largest announced rounds in the SA国际传媒 database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the seven-day period of March 1 to March 7. Although most announced rounds are represented in the database, there could be a small time lag as some rounds are reported late in the week.

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