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◆QUANTLOGIX STARTUP DAILY
THURSDAY · 10/08/2026 SILICON VALLEY
Displayed Rounds
12
Past 7 days
Disclosed Capital
$299M
Past 7 days
Tracked Startups
2,651
QL private book
Mega-Round Board
8
$100M+ recent
Markdown Watch
100
names flagged

◆ General Medicine Series B ($120M) leads the startup tape

12 disclosed deals, $299M total round sizes, on the 2026-10-06/07 tape. Largest: General Medicine $120M Series B (a16z, Healthcare); Stuut $53M Series B (Insight Partners, Fintech); Hadrian $40M Growth (Forgepoint Intl & SmartFin, Cybersecurity). Two undisclosed rounds incl. Desible.ai (Prime Venture Partners). Weekly tracked book: 25 rounds, 23 disclosed, $1.117B vs $10.46B prior week (-89.3%) — driven by AI collapsing from $8.58B to $72.4M (-99.2%) as last week's megadeals rolled off. Coverage thin: 2 rounds missing amounts, 22 missing valuations.

◆ Daily Startup News

Manus raised $500M — its first round since China blocked Meta's acquisition; announced, valuation not stated in evidence. Oratomic (quantum) reportedly worth $5.4B post Series B per WSJ. Isomorphic Labs is seeking funding at ≥$40B — a raise-in-progress, not a closed round. Countervailing signals: Burry publicly calls Anthropic's valuation a bubble and flags bear-market indicators; Danish pension LPs keep cutting alternatives exposure; Gravity Well laid off most staff after losing funding. Sector tape says cooling even as headline raises inflate.

◆ Valuations & Secondary Transactions

Reported post-money marks: Vinci $1.5B (Series B, $250M, Advent/Temasek/Xora); Valon $2.3B (Series D, $150M, Ribbit — no prior mark in data); RobCo $1.0B post secondary (partial employee liquidity + new investment) vs $500M on 2026-01-01 — a +100% step, but a secondary print is not a priced primary and partial liquidity terms can flatter marks. Outside the book: Oratomic $5.4B, Isomorphic Labs targeting ≥$40B. Burry's Anthropic-bubble call is the visible bear counterweight; treat seeking-at values as asks, not clears.

Company / Round DateReported Post-MoneyPrior Post-Money / DateMark ChangeEvidence
Vinci
2026-10-06
$1.5BUnavailableNot comparableTracked roster; source link unavailable
RobCo
2026-10-05
$1.0B$500M
2026-01-01
+100.0%Tracked roster; source link unavailable
Valon
2026-10-05
$2.3BUnavailableNot 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 · $154M disclosed in window$154MFintechFintech · $59M disclosed in window$59MCybersecurityCybersecurity · $50M disclosed in window$50MAIAI · $36M disclosed in window$36M

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

◆ The Funding Tape — Past 7 days

12 disclosed deals, $299M total round sizes, on the 2026-10-06/07 tape. Largest: General Medicine $120M Series B (a16z, Healthcare); Stuut $53M Series B (Insight Partners, Fintech); Hadrian $40M Growth (Forgepoint Intl & SmartFin, Cybersecurity). Two undisclosed rounds incl. Desible.ai (Prime Venture Partners). Weekly tracked book: 25 rounds, 23 disclosed, $1.117B vs $10.46B prior week (-89.3%) — driven by AI collapsing from $8.58B to $72.4M (-99.2%) as last week's megadeals rolled off. Coverage thin: 2 rounds missing amounts, 22 missing valuations.

DateCompanyRoundAmountReported Post-MoneyLeadSector
2026-10-07 Comparables.ai Seed $6M — Pragmatech Venture Capital Fintech
2026-10-07 Cori Clinical Seed $4M — Breega Healthcare
2026-10-07 Desible.ai Seed Plus — — Prime Venture Partners AI
2026-10-07 MintNeuro Venture $5M — Odyssey Ventures Healthcare
2026-10-07 Netsec Venture $10M — Partech Cybersecurity
2026-10-07 Siena Series A $17M — York IE AI
2026-10-07 Stuut Series B $53M — Insight Partners Fintech
2026-10-07 Wally Series A $25M — — Healthcare
2026-10-06 Antseed Token round $2M — Spark Capital AI
2026-10-06 Avarra Series A $17M — Duration Ventures AI
2026-10-06 General Medicine Series B $120M — Andreessen Horowitz Healthcare
2026-10-06 Hadrian (Offensive Security) Growth $40M — Forgepoint Capital International & SmartFin Cybersecurity

◆ 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: 3Series A: 3Series B: 2Late / Growth: 1Other: 3
Seed · 3 deals · $10MSeries A · 3 deals · $59MSeries B · 2 deals · $173MLate / Growth · 1 deal · $40MOther · 3 deals · $17M
SeedSeed: 3 deals3 dealsSeed: $10M$10MSeries ASeries A: 3 deals3 dealsSeries A: $59M$59MSeries BSeries B: 2 deals2 dealsSeries B: $173M$173MLate / GrowthLate / Growth: 1 deal1 dealLate / Growth: $40M$40MOtherOther: 3 deals3 dealsOther: $17M$17M
Seed
3 deals · $10M disclosed · 3% of window capital
Series A
3 deals · $59M disclosed · 20% of window capital
Series B
2 deals · $173M disclosed · 58% of window capital
Late / Growth
1 deal · $40M disclosed · 13% of window capital
Other
3 deals · $17M disclosed · 6% of window capital

◆ VC Activity & Lead Investors

Stage mix skews early-to-mid: 3 Seed/Seed Plus, 4 Venture, 3 Series A, 2 Series B, 1 Growth on the displayed tape. Fintech led with $298.5M across 4 rounds (+171.4% w/w); Enterprise Software $261.5M on a tiny base. Lead counts are single-deal snapshots — a16z's $120M is the total round, not its check. Fund ecosystem: Groq's backer reportedly targeting a $10B megafund (WSJ); Endeavor Catalyst raised $320M; PSV Tech closed a €56M second fund for Nordic pre-seed. Regional Q3 prints: Seattle record-high, Houston $780M+, Miami ~$900M — all megadeal-tilted.

Lead InvestorDisplayed DealsAssociated Round Sizes
Andreessen Horowitz1$120M
Insight Partners1$53M
Forgepoint Capital International & SmartFin1$40M
York IE1$17M
Duration Ventures1$17M
Partech1$10M
Pragmatech Venture Capital1$6M
Odyssey Ventures1$5M

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

◆ Private Equity & Growth Buyouts

ACG's Oct 2–8 M&A roundup is the week's wrap but excerpt is empty — details unverified. Fundraises: SEVA closed $160M sophomore growth fund, oversubscribed in under a month; Sheridan Capital nearly doubled its flagship with a $1.1B hard-cap close and added a $245M healthcare IT fund. ICG Enterprise reported a 3.3% half-year return from multiple PE investments. Thematic: wealth-management revenue optimization named PE's next growth lever. Fund size ≠ deployed startup capital; none of these closes imply startup-stage checks.

◆ Investment Funds & Capital Formation

Institutional closes last 24h: Conversant Capital $845M inaugural private investment fund (real-estate focused per source); Taurus Private Markets $301M oversubscribed PE fund; Sheridan's $1.1B flagship + $245M healthcare IT vehicle; SEVA $160M; PSV Tech €56M; Endeavor Catalyst $320M. LP-side caution persists: Danish pension firms continue cutting alternative allocations, and privatedebtinvestor signals a private-credit fundraising shift in Q3. LP appetite is concentrating in established managers — a mixed read for emerging GPs.

◆ M&A & Exits

All announcements unless stated closed. Musk received FTC clearance to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies (SpaceX-alumni startup) — clearance reported, not deal economics. Nvidia-Groq's 'not a merger' arrangement faces a Delaware fiduciary-duty suit — legal overhang on quasi-M&A structures. Closed deals: M-KOPA acquired KilpiTek Oy for $8M (device locking, Africa fintech adjacency); Automation Anywhere agreed to acquire Boost.ai (conversational AI); Duetto acquired Flyr as it exits hotel pricing. The Recursive flags a 'silent M&A wave' — sales beating next rounds for down-round candidates.

◆ 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
General Intuition 65 → 61 -4

◆ Private Markets Weekday Digest · 10/08/2026

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: 2026-10-08 · sources: private-companies.json, investors.json

New company formations

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Fund raises

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Top U.S. VC activity

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

◆ Private Market Desk — Evening Edition · 10/07/2026

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

  • Multiply Labs — $75M Funding. Robotics for pharmaceutical manufacturing Secured $75M to automate the manufacturing bottleneck in advanced medicine production.
  • Tab — undisclosed Stealth Launch at a $300M valuation (+ SV Angel, Valar Ventures, American Spirit). Personal AI assistant Emerging from stealth with a $300M valuation during SF Tech Week, focusing on personal AI assistant technology. (San Francisco, CA)

🔍 Reported, not yet verified

  • Nous Research — reported $90M Series C; details did not clear cross-source verification — held for manual review, excluded from the dataset.

📊 Valuation re-rates (roster marks that moved)

  • General Intuition — $6B (2026-Q3) → $6.2B (+3%) on Venture led by Valor Equity Partners.
  • 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).
  • Etched — $10.3B (2026-Q3) → $21B (+104%) on Series C extension / growth (unlabeled) led by Jane Street.
  • 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.

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

  • ↑ AI — $18.9B across 25 rounds / 24 companies (accelerating, 25 vs. 11 prior rounds). Top: Anthropic $5B (Strategic Investment).
  • ↑ Energy — $3.6B across 6 rounds / 6 companies (accelerating, 6 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 2026-10-07 (Polygon HTTP 401).
  • RVII — market snapshot unavailable as of 2026-10-07 (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 is characterized by a stark concentration of capital into AI infrastructure and specific vertical robotics, evidenced by large raises for Nous Research ($1.5B valuation) and Atomic Machines ($250M). There is significant uncertainty regarding enterprise AI adoption ROI, with firms like Microsoft reportedly cutting internal usage of third-party models, even as startups like Tab and Endeavor Catalyst continue to draw massive capital allocations.

🗂️ Dataset updated: added 1 company to the QuantLogix private-companies list — Multiply Labs — 2,650 → 2,651. Append-only.

🔗 Sources

  • [TechStartups](https://techstartups.com/2026/10/07/startup-funding-news-today-october-7-2026-nous-research-monid-multiply-labs-quanfluence-more/)
  • [SF Business Times](https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2026/10/07/sfbt-digest-wednesday-google-deal-apple-cantellus.html)
  • [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, 2525 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 +773% $1.3B 55 mo ago
2 Replit Data / Infra 86 High +255% $9.0B 42 mo ago
3 Kajabi SaaS 86 High +151% $2.0B 65 mo ago
4 Xendit Financial Services 80 High +1752% $2.7B 53 mo ago
5 Forter Fintech 80 High +900% $3.0B 65 mo ago
6 Greenlight Fintech 80 High +570% $2.3B 66 mo ago
7 Betterment Fintech 80 High +401% $1.1B 42 mo ago
8 Varo Fintech 80 High +292% $2.5B 61 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

Mega-round hangover is mechanical, not a freeze

The -89.3% weekly drop is mostly last week's AI megadeals rolling off the 7-day window; this week's 25 rounds at smaller checks still cleared. If you're raising $5–50M, the mid-market tape remains open — Fintech, Healthcare and Enterprise Software all printed this week. Don't read the headline number as a market close.

The ask-vs-clear gap is widening at the top

Isomorphic Labs is seeking ≥$40B — a target, not a closed round. Manus's $500M and Oratomic's $5.4B did clear. Burry's Anthropic-bubble thesis and Danish LP retrenchment raise the odds that late-stage asks get haircut. Late-stage founders: anchor to public comps, and note 86/100 markdown scores on Replit/Linktree-type premium marks.

Sale is re-entering the option set

The Recursive's 'silent M&A wave' plus closed prints this week (M-KOPA/KilpiTek $8M, Automation Anywhere/Boost.ai, Duetto/Flyr) show acquirers active at modest sizes. If your next round prices flat-or-down versus a strategic buyer, model the sale seriously before the fundraise.

◆ Outlook

Tracked weekly capital reset to $1.1B after a megadeal-heavy week — expect volatility in the headline number while round count stays stable (~25/wk). Watch whether Isomorphic's $40B ask clears and whether Burry-style bear theses gain institutional traction; LP retrenchment in Denmark and private-credit shifts suggest late-stage repricing pressure into year-end.

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.