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

This past week was a busy period for mega-sized funding rounds, with all 10 of the largest U.S. financings exceeding the $100 million mark. Topping the list were billion-dollar financings for AI data platform Databricks and quantum computing startup PsiQuantum. Overall, we saw robust investor interest across AI, healthcare, spacetech and fintech.

1. (tied) Databricks, $1B, AI data platform: Databricks said it raised $1 billion in Series K funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, MGX, Thrive Capital and WCM Investment Management. The financing sets a valuation of over $100 billion for the San Francisco-based company, which says it has surpassed a $4 billion revenue run-rate and is growing over 50% year over year.

1. (tied) PsiQuantum, $1B, quantum computing: Palo Alto, California-based PsiQuantum, which is hoping to build the “world’s first commercially useful, fault-tolerant quantum computers,” announced that it secured $1 billion in Series E funding. BlackRock, Temasek and Baillie Gifford led the round, which set a $7 billion valuation for the company.

3. Cognition, $400M, AI: AI coding startup Cognition locked up over $400 million at a $10.2 billion post-money valuation. Founders Fund led the financing for the 2-year-old, San Francisco-based company.

4. Strive Health, $300M, kidney care: Denver-based Strive Health, a care provider for patients with kidney disease, closed on $300 million in Series D equity funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Strive also raised $250 million in debt financing led by Hercules Capital.

5. Odyssey Therapeutics, $213M, biopharma: Odyssey Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical startup focused on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, picked up $213 million in Series D funding from a long list of new and existing investors. Boston-based Odyssey filed to go public in January but withdrew the planned offering in June.

6. (tied) Perplexity, $200M, GenAI: GenAI startup Perplexity reportedly secured $200 million in fresh capital at a $20 billion valuation. To date, San Francisco-based Perplexity has raised $1.5 billion in known funding, per Crunchbase data.

6. (tied) Torus, $200M, modular power plants: Utah-based Torus, a provider of modular power plants for utilities, data centers and other customers, announced a $200 million investment by Magnetar Capital. The company is also now preparing to open GigaOne, a 540,000-square-foot manufacturing campus in Salt Lake City.

6. (tied) Apex, $200M, spacetech: Los Angeles-based Apex, a manufacturer of satellite products, landed $200 million in Series D funding led by Interlagos Capital. The round reportedly brings Apex’s valuation to $1 billion.

9. Harbour Health, $130M, health care and insurance: Harbour Health, a provider of primary care services and coverage, picked up $130 million in new funding co-led by General Catalyst, 8VC 1 and Alta Partners. To date, the 4-year-old, Austin, Texas-based company has raised over $255 million in known funding.

10. Speedchain, $111M, fintech: Atlanta-based Speedchain, a provider of credit cards and expense management tools for businesses, secured $111 million in equity and debt funding. Community Investment Management extended the debt financing, while GTMfund, Village Global, TTV Capital, K5 Global, Tandem Ventures and Emigrant Bank provided the equity.

Methodology

We tracked the largest announced rounds in the Crunchbase database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the period of Sept. 6-12. 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.

Illustration: Dom Guzman