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QUANTLOGIX STARTUP DAILY
WEDNESDAY · 09/09/2026 SILICON VALLEY
Priced Rounds
1
Past 7 days
Disclosed Capital
$300M
Past 7 days
Tracked Startups
2,367
QL private book
Mega-Round Board
8
$100M+ recent
Markdown Watch
100
names flagged

Gimlet Labs Series B ($300M) leads the startup tape

The tape shows 1 priced round across the past 7 days, $300M in disclosed capital. Front of the tape: Gimlet Labs (Series B, $300M, led by Andreessen Horowitz). AI absorbed the most capital.

Capital by Sector

AIAI · $300M disclosed in window$300M

Disclosed round capital in the window. Undisclosed amounts count as zero.

Round Sizes

Gimlet LabsGimlet Labs · Series B · $300M — open the live company page$300M

Disclosed rounds in the window · every bar opens the company's live page.

The Funding Tape — Past 7 days

The tape shows 1 priced round across the past 7 days, $300M in disclosed capital. Front of the tape: Gimlet Labs (Series B, $300M, led by Andreessen Horowitz). AI absorbed the most capital.

DateCompanyRoundAmountValuationLeadSector
2026-09-04 Gimlet Labs Series B $300M $3.0B Andreessen Horowitz AI

Stage Mix — Deals & Capital by Stage

Where the window's activity sits on the funding ladder: deal count (solid) against disclosed capital (faded) per stage, with the companies behind each cluster. Stages come from the reported round labels; undisclosed amounts count as zero capital.

Series B: 1
Series B · 1 deal · $300M
Series BSeries B: 1 deal1 dealSeries B: $300M$300M
Series B
1 deal · $300M disclosed · 100% of window capital

VC Activity

Most active leads in the window: Andreessen Horowitz (1 deal).

Lead InvestorDealsDisclosed Capital
Andreessen Horowitz1$300M

M&A & Exits

6 acquisition headlines crossed the wire — sourced links below.

Off-Book Wire

Funding headlines from outside the tracked book — sourced links, not QL data.

Mega-Round Board

The largest recent private rounds ($100M+) across the tracked book — 2030 ranked. Full board: quantlogix.ai/mega-rounds.

OpenAIOpenAI · $122B · Late-stage primary122000WaymoWaymo · $16B · 2026 mega-round16000Scale AIScale AI · $14B · Series F + Meta investment14300PrometheusPrometheus · $12B · Funding12000SwitchSwitch · $11B · Buyout/LBO11000Blue OriginBlue Origin · $10B · Private (Bezos-funded)10000

🎯 QL Score Movers

Biggest overnight changes in the graded company score — scores only move when disclosed data moves, and every repricing grades the score that was standing.

CompanyScoreΔ
Polymarket 73 → 66 -7

Private Market Desk — Evening Edition · 09/08/2026

The Silicon Valley Private Market Daily — the 8pm PT desk close: qualified raises, roster re-rates and sector velocity from the QL private-market pipeline.

💰 Notable Raises

  • No newly closed rounds cleared verification in this window.

🔍 Reported, not yet verified

  • Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy — reported $50M Seed; details did not clear cross-source verification — held for manual review, excluded from the dataset.
  • Mistral AI — reported $3.5B Series D; details did not clear cross-source verification — held for manual review, excluded from the dataset.
  • Bluecore Energy — reported $50M Seed; details did not clear cross-source verification — held for manual review, excluded from the dataset.

📈 Valuation Watch (in-progress, not yet closed)

  • Cognition — raising ~$2B. A $2B injection at a $48B valuation confirms massive capital inflow into AI coding tools despite market skepticism regarding winner-take-all dynamics. _(in talks / not closed)_

📊 Valuation re-rates (roster marks that moved)

  • Instinct — $500M (2026-Q3) → $2.5B (+400%) on Series B led by Index Ventures / Benchmark (co-led).
  • Firmus Technologies — $5.5B (2026-Q1) → $10.5B (+91%) on Growth Equity led by Nvidia & Coatue.
  • Hadrian — $1.6B (2025-Q3) → $7.9B (+392%) on Series D led by JPMorgan Strategic Investment Group.
  • HappyRobot — $500M (2025-Q3) → $1.2B (+140%) on Series C led by Prysm Capital.
  • Owner — $1B (2025-Q2) → $2.3B (+130%) on Series D led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
  • K2 Space — $3B (2025-Q4) → $6.8B (+127%) on Series D led by Kleiner Perkins / ICONIQ Capital.
  • Anthropic — $965B (2026-Q2) → $1000B (+4%) on Strategic Investment led by AMD.
  • Wonder — $7B (2025-Q2) → $9.7B (+38%) on Series D.
  • Baseten — $5B (2026-Q1) → $13B (+160%) on Series F led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, Spark Capital.
  • Prometheus — $38B (2026-Q2) → $41B (+8%) on Funding led by Jeff Bezos.
  • Anduril Industries — $30.5B (2025-Q2) → $61B (+100%) on Series H led by Thrive Capital & Andreessen Horowitz.
  • Vapi — $130M (2024-Q4) → $500M (+285%) on Series B led by Peak XV Partners.

⚡ Mega-round momentum (sector velocity, closed rounds)

  • AI — $15.3B across 17 rounds / 17 companies (accelerating, 17 vs. 2 prior rounds). Top: Anthropic $5B (Strategic Investment).
  • Artificial Intelligence — $12.4B across 3 rounds / 3 companies (accelerating, 3 vs. 1 prior round). Top: Prometheus $12B (Funding).
  • Defense — $3.1B across 4 rounds / 4 companies (accelerating, 4 vs. 1 prior round). Top: Helsing $1.8B (Late Stage).
  • Energy — $2.6B across 4 rounds / 4 companies (accelerating, 4 vs. 1 prior round). Top: Valar Atomics $1B (Series B).
  • Technology — $1.4B across 6 rounds / 6 companies (new, new vs. a quiet prior window). Top: Battery Storage Startup Antora $550M (Series C).
  • Defense / Industrials — $1.4B across 1 round / 1 company (new, new vs. a quiet prior window). Top: Hadrian $1.4B (Series D).

🚀 New / Stealth Companies

  • No fresh stealth intake surfaced this window.

🏦 Private-Market Fund Watch

  • No new fund registrations, launches, or portfolio changes cleared primary-source verification in this window.

📊 Robinhood Ventures Performance

  • RVI — $29.7 close (2026-09-08) · day +8.51% · since first available close (2026-03-06) +41.43% · NAV/premium-discount not published in today's qualified inputs.
  • RVII — $25 close (2026-09-08) · day 0% · since first available close (2026-08-13) +8.93% · NAV/premium-discount not published in today's qualified inputs.

🏛️ Institutional Ownership (13F)

  • RVI: no holders currently indexed in the curated top-manager 13F universe. The quarter-over-quarter read is BEARISH: 0 new, 0 increased, 0 decreased, and 1 exited (2026-03-31 → 2026-06-30). Coverage is filing-based and can lag quarter-end by up to 45 days.
  • RVII: no holders currently indexed in the curated top-manager 13F universe. Coverage is filing-based and can lag quarter-end by up to 45 days.

🧭 Macro read

The private market remains heavily concentrated in AI and clean energy, with multibillion-dollar rounds for infrastructure-focused players like Mistral AI ($3.5B) and Cognition ($2B) illustrating that capital remains abundant for established AI leaders. However, there is significant uncertainty regarding the sustainability of these record-breaking valuations, particularly as sector-specific support shows signs of fragility in ancillary areas like AI data center development.

🗂️ Dataset updated: no new closed rounds to add; list holds at 2,367.

🔗 Sources

  • [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/nuclear-startup-bluecore-energy-raises-50m-seed-round-just-two-months-after-launch/)
  • [TechStartups](https://techstartups.com/)
  • [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/cognition-hits-48b-valuation-signaling-investors-believe-ai-coding-is-far-from-a-winner-take-all-market/)
  • [RVI market performance](https://polygon.io/)
  • [SEC Form 13F methodology](https://www.sec.gov/divisions/investment/13ffaq.htm)

Markdown Watch

100 tracked names flagged for markdown risk — 122 scored nightly, 2245 left unscored (no comp bridge). Down rounds are recorded in the open ledger — receipts only work in public. Live boards: markdown-watch · down-round-ledger.

Click a column to sort · third click restores rank order
#CompanySectorRisk ScoreBandVs CompsLast MarkLast Round
1 Linktree SaaS 86 High +456% $1.3B 54 mo ago
2 Replit Data / Infra 86 High +256% $9.0B 41 mo ago
3 Xendit Financial Services 80 High +1928% $2.7B 52 mo ago
4 Forter Fintech 80 High +995% $3.0B 64 mo ago
5 Greenlight Fintech 80 High +633% $2.3B 65 mo ago
6 Betterment Fintech 80 High +449% $1.1B 41 mo ago
7 Cross River Bank fintech 80 High +224% $3.0B 53 mo ago
8 Pump SaaS 75 High +1479% $1.5B 27 mo ago

Nightly score: comp-bridge premium (45%) · round staleness (30%) · IPO-readiness drag (15%) · funding deceleration (10%). Companies without a computable public-comp bridge stay unscored — never guessed.

52 markdowns detected all-time · 10 flagged beforehand · 42 missed · hit rate 19.2%

CompanyDetectedEventMarkCalled?
ChargeBee 2026-09-07 Mark cut −6.7% $3.8B → $3.5B ✗ Missed
Increase 2026-09-07 Mark cut −7.4% $5.4B → $5.0B ✗ Missed
Aurora Solar 2026-09-07 Mark cut −9.1% $4.4B → $4.0B ✗ Missed
Razorpay 2026-09-07 Mark cut −25.3% $7.5B → $5.6B ✗ Missed
Immutable 2026-09-07 Mark cut −28.6% $3.5B → $2.5B ✗ Missed
Zepto 2026-09-07 Mark cut −35.7% $7.0B → $4.5B ✗ Missed
Neuralink 2026-09-07 Mark cut −39.5% $15B → $9.0B ✗ Missed
Gong 2026-09-07 Mark cut −40.0% $7.5B → $4.5B ✗ Missed

Down-round & valuation headlines scraped at publication from Google News, Hacker News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance and the wider tech press.

IPO Runway — Latest Deep Dives

Founder & Investor Take

Benchmark against the front of the tape

Gimlet Labs priced a Series B at $300M in AI. If you are raising in the same lane, that round is the live comp your next term sheet gets measured against.

AI is where the capital went

$300M of the window's disclosed capital landed in AI. Investor attention clusters — pitch where the momentum already is, or explain clearly why you sit outside it.

Watch the markdown ledger

100 tracked names sit on Markdown Watch — Linktree tops the board at 86/100 (High risk). Secondary pricing leads primary pricing — stale marks eventually clear, in one direction or the other.

Outlook

Tomorrow’s edition re-reads the tape at 6:30am PT. Rounds land unevenly — judge the week, not the day.

QuantLogix briefings are educational market commentary generated from live data, not investment advice. Private-market figures come from public reporting and the QuantLogix private-company dataset; amounts and valuations are as-reported, not audited. Markets carry risk of loss.