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◆QUANTLOGIX STARTUP DAILY
MONDAY · 10/05/2026 SILICON VALLEY
Displayed Rounds
12
Past 7 days
Disclosed Capital
$143B
Past 7 days
Tracked Startups
2,624
QL private book
Mega-Round Board
8
$100M+ recent
Markdown Watch
100
names flagged

◆ OpenAI Late-stage primary ($142B) leads the startup tape

The displayed tape shows 12 tracked rounds across the past 7 days, $143B in disclosed capital. Front of the tape: Armada (Series B); Armadin (Series B, $256M, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel (co-leads)); Doxx.net (Series A, $38M, led by Andreessen Horowitz). AI 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

1 recent reported post-money marks shown; 17 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
Flow Engineering
2026-09-30
$750MUnavailableNot 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

AIAI · $142B disclosed in window$142BCybersecurityCybersecurity · $294M disclosed in window$294MFintechFintech · $110M disclosed in window$110MSemiconductorsSemiconductors · $88M disclosed in window$88MEnterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software · $15M disclosed in window$15MSpaceSpace · $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, $143B in disclosed capital. Front of the tape: Armada (Series B); Armadin (Series B, $256M, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel (co-leads)); Doxx.net (Series A, $38M, led by Andreessen Horowitz). AI absorbed the most displayed capital.

DateCompanyRoundAmountReported Post-MoneyLeadSector
2026-10-01 Armada Series B — — — Defense
2026-10-01 Armadin Series B $256M — Andreessen Horowitz and Accel (co-leads) Cybersecurity
2026-10-01 Doxx.net Series A $38M — Andreessen Horowitz Cybersecurity
2026-10-01 enso Series A $15M — MoreTech Ventures Enterprise Software
2026-10-01 Halluminate Series A $30M — Oak HC/FT AI
2026-10-01 Jeeves Series C-1 $110M — CoinFund Fintech
2026-10-01 OpenAI Late-stage primary $142B — Nvidia, SoftBank AI
2026-10-01 Osavul Series A — — 33N Ventures Cybersecurity
2026-10-01 Photon Seed $5M — Gradient and A* (co-leads) AI
2026-10-01 Prime Intellect Series A $50M — Founders Fund AI
2026-10-01 Satlyt Seed $8M — Non Sibi Ventures Space
2026-10-01 Volantis Series A $88M — Lachy Groom / Abstract Ventures (co-led) Semiconductors

◆ 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: 2Series A: 6Series B: 2Series C–D: 1Late / Growth: 1
Seed · 2 deals · $13MSeries A · 6 deals · $221MSeries B · 2 deals · $256MSeries C–D · 1 deal · $110MLate / Growth · 1 deal · $142B
SeedSeed: 2 deals2 dealsSeed: $13M$13MSeries ASeries A: 6 deals6 dealsSeries A: $221M$221MSeries BSeries B: 2 deals2 dealsSeries B: $256M$256MSeries C–DSeries C–D: 1 deal1 dealSeries C–D: $110M$110MLate / GrowthLate / Growth: 1 deal1 dealLate / Growth: $142B$142B
Seed
2 deals · $13M disclosed · 0% of window capital
Series A
6 deals · $221M disclosed · 0% of window capital
Series B
2 deals · $256M disclosed · 0% of window capital
Series C–D
1 deal · $110M disclosed · 0% of window capital
Late / Growth
1 deal · $142B disclosed · 100% of window capital

◆ VC Activity & Lead Investors

Most active leads in the window: Nvidia, SoftBank (1 deal), Andreessen Horowitz and Accel (co-leads) (1 deal), CoinFund (1 deal).

Lead InvestorDisplayed DealsAssociated Round Sizes
Nvidia, SoftBank1$142B
Andreessen Horowitz and Accel (co-leads)1$256M
CoinFund1$110M
Lachy Groom / Abstract Ventures (co-led)1$88M
Founders Fund1$50M
Andreessen Horowitz1$38M
Oak HC/FT1$30M
MoreTech Ventures1$15M

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 — 2282 ranked. Full board: quantlogix.ai/mega-rounds.

OpenAIOpenAI · $142B · Late-stage primary142000WaymoWaymo · $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
SOURCE 59 → 41 -18
Token Security 58 → 47 -11
Exa 67 → 62 -5
EliseAI 57 → 62 +5
Paid 53 → 49 -4
Vercel 61 → 58 -3
Wonderful 62 → 65 +3
Humanoid 54 → 57 +3

◆ Private Markets Weekday Digest · 10/05/2026

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: 2026-10-05 · sources: private-companies.json, investors.json

New company formations

No rows in the report window.

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.

No in-tree private-market events matched the report window; amounts and valuations were not inferred.

◆ Private Market Desk — Evening Edition · 10/04/2026

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

  • Hadrian — $1.4B at a $7.9B valuation. Defense-tech startup scaling AI-powered factories The company quadrupled its valuation in 2026 to nearly $8 billion to aggressively scale its AI-enabled industrial footprint.

🔍 Reported, not yet verified

  • Listen Labs — reported $69M Series B; details did not clear cross-source verification — held for manual review, excluded from the dataset.

📊 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.
  • 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.

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

  • ↑ AI — $18.8B across 24 rounds / 24 companies (accelerating, 24 vs. 9 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 — $1.9B across 4 rounds / 4 companies (new, new vs. a quiet prior window). Top: Stoke Space $1B (Series E).
  • ↑ Cybersecurity — $1.4B across 5 rounds / 5 companies (accelerating, 5 vs. 4 prior rounds). Top: Cyera $400M (Series G extension).

🚀 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 — market snapshot unavailable as of 2026-10-04 (Polygon HTTP 401).
  • RVII — market snapshot unavailable as of 2026-10-04 (Polygon HTTP 401).

🏛️ 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 landscape is characterized by heavy concentration in AI-sector mega-deals (Anthropic, OpenAI, Hadrian, Listen Labs) and increasing uncertainty surrounding M&A paths vs. IPO liquidity. Financing dynamics are shifting toward creative structures, including GPU-backed loans and internal circular financing, reflecting a cooling but high-valuation environment where tech leaders struggle to bridge the gap between private valuations and public market reality.

🗂️ Dataset updated: no new closed rounds to add; list holds at 2,604.

🔗 Sources

  • [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/ai-research-startup-listen-labs-scrubbed-a-1-5b-funding-round-for-salesforce-talks/)
  • [TechStartups](https://techstartups.com/2026/08/06/defense-tech-startup-hadrian-raises-1-37b-at-nearly-8b-valuation-to-scale-ai-powered-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, 2465 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 +736% $1.3B 54 mo ago
2 Replit Data / Infra 86 High +247% $9.0B 41 mo ago
3 Kajabi SaaS 83 High +140% $2.0B 65 mo ago
4 Xendit Financial Services 80 High +1829% $2.7B 53 mo ago
5 Forter Fintech 80 High +942% $3.0B 65 mo ago
6 Greenlight Fintech 80 High +598% $2.3B 66 mo ago
7 Betterment Fintech 80 High +422% $1.1B 42 mo ago
8 Cross River Bank fintech 80 High +209% $3.0B 54 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.

75 markdowns detected all-time · 16 flagged beforehand · 59 missed · hit rate 21.3%

CompanyDetectedEventMarkCalled?
Unacademy 2026-10-05 Mark cut −5.5% $218M → $206M ✗ Missed
Abridge 2026-10-05 Mark cut −6.8% $5.7B → $5.3B ✓ Flagged #38 · Elevated
Kling AI 2026-10-05 Mark cut −10.0% $20B → $18B ✓ Flagged #16 · Elevated
Guild Education 2026-10-05 Mark cut −14.8% $4.4B → $3.8B ✗ Missed
Harness 2026-10-05 Mark cut −14.8% $5.5B → $4.7B ✓ Flagged #60 · Elevated
OfBusiness 2026-10-05 Mark cut −20.0% $5.0B → $4.0B ✗ Missed
o9 Solutions 2026-10-05 Mark cut −27.0% $3.7B → $2.7B ✗ Missed
Houzz 2026-10-05 Mark cut −54.3% $4.0B → $1.8B ✗ 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

OpenAI reported a Late-stage primary raising $142B in AI. Compare stage, date and financing terms before treating this as a comparable round; the amount raised is not the company valuation.

AI is where the capital went

$142B 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.