- Palo Alto Networks is quietly standing up new infrastructure 39 new TLS endpoints appeared in certificate-transparency logs over the last 90 days (0 in the 90 before) — including staging.telemetry.paloaltonetworks.com and staging.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com.
- Databricks is hiring like something is coming Engineering openings grew 418 → 436 in 15 days on the company's own job board — hiring velocity of this shape historically precedes announcements and rounds..
- Cohere is quietly standing up new infrastructure 31 new TLS endpoints appeared in certificate-transparency logs over the last 90 days (0 in the 90 before) — including staging.corgi.cohere.com and staging.checkpoint-tracker.cohere.com.
Venture intelligence before the round. 330 companies scored from SEC filings, certificate transparency, podcast transcripts, GitHub activity, and federal records — every number tracing back to the observation behind it.
237 days before Anthropic announced its round, secondary SPVs formed to buy its shares — from SEC Form D filings:
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Hiive Anthropic Series VII a Series of Hiive Anthropic LLC (CIK 0002065512)2025-04-25 · 237d early -
HII Anthropic-01, a Series of HII Anthropic, LLC (CIK 0002118444)2026-03-13 · 139d early -
HII Anthropic Series-02, a Series of HII Anthropic, LLC (CIK 0002134776)2026-05-15 · 76d early
Then the round became public: Growth · $300M announced 2025-11 · now VS 44.9
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Where capital is moving
- Largest recent raise: Socure at $156M.
- Andreessen Horowitz is most active — 5 deals, $736.4M deployed.
- Busiest in Aug — 38 rounds, 6.2× the 6.1/mo average.
Early — high signal, no round on record
Scored ≥70 with no disclosed round — names to look at before the money is public. Signal feed →
Top of the Index Three-Point View · VentureSignal
- 1 BerriAI (LiteLLM) 86.6
- 2 LangChain 85.9
- 3 Modal 83.7
- 4 Ollama 80.3
- 5 Qdrant 76
AI Venture Index (28 matching, ranked by VentureSignal)
Each score is a cross-signal composite. The strip under it shows the three families it’s built from — funding, package adoption, and developer momentum — lit when present, and how many of the three back the score. Fewer signals means a coverage-discounted score, not a missing one.
Market activity Full Deal Flow →
Latest rounds
newest firstLargest recent raise: Socure at $156M.
- Socure Unknown$156M 2026-08-27
- $21M 2026-08-27
- Capital F Unknown$17M 2026-08-26
- $43M 2026-08-26
- $2.7M 2026-08-25
- Emerald AI Unknown$150M 2026-08-25
- $26M 2026-08-25
Most active investors →
by deal countAndreessen Horowitz is most active — 5 deals, $736.4M deployed.
- 1 5 deals $736.4M
- 2 4 deals $111M
- 3 3 deals $214M
- 4 3 deals $106M
- 5 2 deals $650M
- 6 2 deals $630M
- 7 2 deals $530M
Deal flow
new funding rounds each monthBusiest in Aug — 38 rounds, 6.2× the 6.1/mo average.
Taller bar = a busier month for new deals; the dashed line is the monthly average.
Signal feed Full feed · 42 scored →
Top signals
promoted first, by score- 0.62
- 0.73
- Databricks: enterprise data, governance, model gateway, and agent control-plane positioning. Databricks0.49
- 0.40
- 0.59
- 0.50
- 0.61
- Crux AI, a Google- and Blackstone-backed TPU neocloud, has hired Meta's data center engineering head Alan Duong and is planning a hiring spree ahead of a 2GW/year capacity ramp. Crux AI · Google · Blackstone0.93
- 0.83
- 0.62
Convergence themes
≥2 source categories- agent 16 cats
- enterprise 15 cats
- defense 13 cats
- data-center 11 cats
- open-source 10 cats
- semiconductor 10 cats
- skills 9 cats
- verification 9 cats