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◆QUANTLOGIX STARTUP DAILY
MONDAY · 09/28/2026 SILICON VALLEY
Displayed Rounds
12
Past 7 days
Disclosed Capital
$449M
Past 7 days
Tracked Startups
2,587
QL private book
Mega-Round Board
8
$100M+ recent
Markdown Watch
100
names flagged

◆ OpenEvidence Unlabeled (reported) ($250M) leads the startup tape

The displayed tape shows 12 tracked rounds across the past 7 days, $449M in disclosed capital. Front of the tape: Sanyark Space (Pre-Seed, $2M, led by Avaana Capital; AUM Ventures); Arivihan (Series A, $10M, led by Accel; Prosus); Ando (Pre-seed + Seed (combined), $20M, led by Index Ventures; Emergence Capital (seed); Accel (pre-seed)). Healthcare absorbed the most displayed capital.

◆ Daily Startup News

6 startup operating-news stories captured; funding, investor activity and valuations have separate desks below. Dated items distinguish the last 24 hours from recent context; undated sources are not treated as today's news.

◆ Valuations & Secondary Transactions

10 recent reported post-money marks shown; 34 weekly rounds have no reported post-money valuation. Changes compare dated post-money marks, not investor returns or enterprise values.

Company / Round DateReported Post-MoneyPrior Post-Money / DateMark ChangeEvidence
Sanyark Space
2026-09-26
$8MUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable
Arivihan
2026-09-25
$60MUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable
OpenEvidence
2026-09-24
$15B$12B
2026-01-21
+25.0%Tracked roster; source link unavailable
Rightway
2026-09-24
$1.8B$1.1B
2021-03-30
+59.1%Tracked roster; source link unavailable
Basecamp Research
2026-09-23
$800MUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable
Brahma AI
2026-09-23
$2.0B$1.4B
2025-02-18
+39.9%Tracked roster; source link unavailable
Hubble Network
2026-09-23
$1.6BUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable
Pilgrim
2026-09-23
$150MUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable
Cyera
2026-09-22
$12B$12B
2026-06-10
0.0%Tracked roster; source link unavailable
Verda
2026-09-22
$1.0BUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable

Historical round marks are not replaced with today's company valuation. Mark changes compare disclosed post-money levels, not investor returns; dilution and financing terms may differ. Secondary indications, fund marks and enterprise values in linked reporting are separate evidence, not interchangeable round valuations.

◆ Capital by Sector

HealthcareHealthcare · $270M disclosed in window$270MDrug DiscoveryDrug Discovery · $75M disclosed in window$75MFintechFintech · $53M disclosed in window$53MBusiness/Productivity SoftwareBusiness/Productivity Software · $20M disclosed in window$20MEducationEducation · $10M disclosed in window$10MRoboticsRobotics · $8M disclosed in window$8M

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

◆ The Funding Tape — Past 7 days

The displayed tape shows 12 tracked rounds across the past 7 days, $449M in disclosed capital. Front of the tape: Sanyark Space (Pre-Seed, $2M, led by Avaana Capital; AUM Ventures); Arivihan (Series A, $10M, led by Accel; Prosus); Ando (Pre-seed + Seed (combined), $20M, led by Index Ventures; Emergence Capital (seed); Accel (pre-seed)). Healthcare absorbed the most displayed capital.

DateCompanyRoundAmountReported Post-MoneyLeadSector
2026-09-26 Sanyark Space Pre-Seed $2M $8M Avaana Capital; AUM Ventures Space
2026-09-25 Arivihan Series A $10M $60M Accel; Prosus Education
2026-09-24 Ando Pre-seed + Seed (combined) $20M — Index Ventures; Emergence Capital (seed); Accel (pre-seed) Business/Productivity Software
2026-09-24 Basalt Health Series A $20M — NEA Healthcare
2026-09-24 BigHat Biosciences Series C $75M — DFJ Growth; Premji Invest (co-leads) Drug Discovery
2026-09-24 ByteAsk Pre-seed $1M — Y Combinator; Entrepreneur First Software Development Applications
2026-09-24 Dextr AI Seed $7M — Elevation Capital AI
2026-09-24 Feather Pre-Seed $8M — Gradient Ventures Robotics
2026-09-24 HIFI Series A $37M — Left Lane Capital Fintech
2026-09-24 iPiD Series A $16M — Foundation Capital Fintech
2026-09-24 Kontext Seed (unlabeled) $4M — 42CAP Cybersecurity
2026-09-24 OpenEvidence Unlabeled (reported) $250M $15B — Healthcare

◆ 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.

Seed: 6Series A: 4Series C–D: 1Other: 1
Seed · 6 deals · $41MSeries A · 4 deals · $83MSeries C–D · 1 deal · $75MOther · 1 deal · $250M
SeedSeed: 6 deals6 dealsSeed: $41M$41MSeries ASeries A: 4 deals4 dealsSeries A: $83M$83MSeries C–DSeries C–D: 1 deal1 dealSeries C–D: $75M$75MOtherOther: 1 deal1 dealOther: $250M$250M
Seed
6 deals · $41M disclosed · 9% of window capital
Series A
4 deals · $83M disclosed · 18% of window capital
Series C–D
1 deal · $75M disclosed · 17% of window capital
Other
1 deal · $250M disclosed · 56% of window capital

◆ VC Activity & Lead Investors

Most active leads in the window: DFJ Growth; Premji Invest (co-leads) (1 deal), Left Lane Capital (1 deal), Index Ventures; Emergence Capital (seed); Accel (pre-seed) (1 deal).

Lead InvestorDisplayed DealsAssociated Round Sizes
DFJ Growth; Premji Invest (co-leads)1$75M
Left Lane Capital1$37M
Index Ventures; Emergence Capital (seed); Accel (pre-seed)1$20M
NEA1$20M
Foundation Capital1$16M
Accel; Prosus1$10M
Gradient Ventures1$8M
Elevation Capital1$7M

Total sizes of associated rounds, not the lead investor's check sizes. Investor types are not inferred from their names.

◆ Private Equity & Growth Buyouts

6 private-equity and growth-buyout stories captured. Announced transactions are not assumed closed; debt financing and enterprise value are not equity investment amounts.

◆ Investment Funds & Capital Formation

6 investment-fund and capital-formation stories captured, covering institutional allocations, new vehicles and fund closes. Fund targets, commitments and assets under management are not investments into a startup.

◆ 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 — 2247 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
HIFI 46 → 69 +23
Firecrawl 62 → 70 +8
Tempo 43 → 46 +3

◆ Private Markets Weekday Digest · 09/28/2026

Display-only private-markets tape from the tracked roster — formations, priced fundraises, valuation marks, and U.S. VC lead activity. No inferred amounts; empty sections stay empty.

Window: 2026-09-28 · sources: private-companies.json, investors.json

New company formations

NameRound / detailAmount / markDate
Warp formation — 2026-09-28

Fund raises

No rows in the report window.

Valuation marks

No rows in the report window.

Top U.S. VC activity

No rows in the report window.

◆ Private Market Desk — Evening Edition · 09/27/2026

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

  • ByteAsk — $1M. Coding agents for C and C++ systems Focuses on niche system-level AI coding tasks often ignored by broader LLM tools.
  • Crusoe — $3.9B Series F at a $30.9B valuation led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, Valor Equity Partners (+ Founders Fund, GIC, Nvidia, Qatar Investment Authority, Radical Ventures, TPG). Data center developer and AI factory builder Mega-round underscores significant capital requirements for specialized AI compute infrastructure.

🔍 Reported, not yet verified

  • Pilgrim — reported $25M; details did not clear cross-source verification — held for manual review, excluded from the dataset.

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

  • Panthalassa — raising ~$225M. Reported fundraising signals continued investor appetite for alternative energy-powered AI infrastructure. _(in talks / not closed)_

📊 Valuation re-rates (roster marks that moved)

  • Rightway — $1.1B (2021-Q1) → $1.8B (+59%) on Series E led by Francisco Partners.
  • OpenEvidence — $12B (2026-Q1) → $15B (+25%) on Unlabeled (reported).
  • Brahma AI — $1.4B (2025-Q1) → $2B (+40%) on Preferred equity round (unlabeled) led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management.
  • Impulse Space — $4.3B (2026-Q2) → $5.6B (+31%) on Series D extension.
  • Factory — $1.5B (2026-Q2) → $5B (+233%) on Growth round (series undisclosed).
  • Profound — $1B (2026-Q1) → $1.8B (+80%) on Series D led by Sequoia Capital / Kleiner Perkins (co-led).
  • Temporal — $5B (2026-Q1) → $12.6B (+151%) on Series E led by Lightspeed.
  • The Boring Company — $5.7B (2022-Q2) → $23B (+305%) on Series D led by United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities.
  • Harvey — $11B (2026-Q1) → $15.5B (+41%) on Later Stage VC led by Diffusion / Lightspeed Venture Partners (co-led).
  • Cognition — $26B (2026-Q2) → $48B (+85%) on Later Stage VC led by Andreessen Horowitz / Accel / Founders Fund / General Catalyst / Avenir (co-led).
  • Upwind — $1.5B (2026-Q1) → $3.8B (+153%) on Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners, TCV.
  • AfterQuery — $300M (2026-Q2) → $3.2B (+967%) on Growth round (reported).
  • Fluidstack — $7.5B (2026-Q1) → $18B (+140%) on Growth round (series undisclosed) led by Jane Street.
  • 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.
  • Ramp — $32B (2025-Q3) → $44B (+38%) on Series F led by ICONIQ / GIC / Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.

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

  • ↑ AI — $19.3B across 26 rounds / 26 companies (accelerating, 26 vs. 8 prior rounds). Top: Anthropic $5B (Strategic Investment).
  • ↑ Energy — $3.4B across 5 rounds / 5 companies (accelerating, 5 vs. 2 prior rounds). Top: Valar Atomics $1B (Series B).
  • ↑ Defense — $3.4B across 5 rounds / 5 companies (accelerating, 5 vs. 1 prior round). Top: Helsing $1.8B (Late Stage).
  • → Transportation — $3B across 1 round / 1 company (steady, 1 vs. 1 prior round). Top: The Boring Company $3B (Series D).
  • ✦ Space / Defense — $1.7B across 3 rounds / 3 companies (new, new vs. a quiet prior window). Top: Stoke Space $1B (Series E).
  • ✦ 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 — $27.92 close (2026-09-25) · day -2.55% · since first available close (2026-03-06) +32.95% · NAV/premium-discount not published in today's qualified inputs.
  • RVII — $22.11 close (2026-09-25) · day -1.29% · since first available close (2026-08-13) -3.66% · 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 displays high concentration in AI-related infrastructure and data center projects, evidenced by the $3.9B Crusoe round and ongoing activity in ocean-powered and modular data center startups. While large-scale capital continues to flow into AI, there is evident uncertainty as companies navigate scaling compute capacity and specific technological niches, such as biosecurity or system-level coding. High valuation multiples persist, but recent events reflect a bifurcated landscape where well-capitalized leaders dominate large infrastructure plays while niche startups secure smaller seed rounds.

🗂️ Dataset updated: no new closed rounds to add; list holds at 2,568.

🔗 Sources

  • [TechStartups](https://techstartups.com/2026/08/06/ocean-powered-ai-data-center-startup-panthalassa-is-reportedly-raising-225m-at-nearly-2-billion-valuation/)
  • [TechStartups](https://techstartups.com/2026/09/24/startup-funding-news-today-september-24-2026-50skills-byteask-pilgrim-kasvu-therapeutics-puxi-optoelectronics-more/)
  • [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small-modular-ai-factories/)
  • [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 — 125 scored nightly, 2433 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 +492% $1.3B 54 mo ago
2 Replit Data / Infra 86 High +179% $9.0B 41 mo ago
3 Xendit Financial Services 80 High +1856% $2.7B 53 mo ago
4 Forter Fintech 80 High +956% $3.0B 65 mo ago
5 Greenlight Fintech 80 High +607% $2.3B 66 mo ago
6 Betterment Fintech 80 High +429% $1.1B 42 mo ago
7 Cross River Bank fintech 80 High +213% $3.0B 54 mo ago
8 Pump SaaS 75 High +1581% $1.5B 28 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.

63 markdowns detected all-time · 12 flagged beforehand · 51 missed · hit rate 19%

CompanyDetectedEventMarkCalled?
Databricks 2026-09-28 Mark cut −29.5% $190B → $134B ✓ Flagged #92 · Moderate
Apex 2026-09-28 Mark cut −56.5% $2.3B → $1.0B ✗ Missed
Firework 2026-09-28 Mark cut −95.7% $18B → $750M ✗ Missed
Anchorage Digital 2026-09-21 Mark cut −28.6% $4.2B → $3.0B ✗ Missed
Etched 2026-09-21 Mark cut −51.5% $10B → $5.0B ✗ Missed
Found 2026-09-21 Mark cut −70.0% $2.0B → $600M ✗ Missed
Public 2026-09-21 Mark cut −99.4% $190B → $1.2B ✗ Missed
Upgrade 2026-09-14 Mark cut −30.8% $7.3B → $5.0B ✓ Flagged #64 · Moderate

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

OpenEvidence reported a Unlabeled (reported) raising $250M in Healthcare. Compare stage, date and financing terms before treating this as a comparable round; the amount raised is not the company valuation.

Healthcare is where the capital went

$270M of the window's disclosed capital landed in Healthcare. 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.