The latest AI funding rounds, and <span id="highlight" class="highlight-text" style="color:#ff471b;" fs-test-element="highlight-element">how we would launch them</span>

Every AI and startup funding round we can find, every weekday. What the trade press reported, plus the SEC filings behind rounds nobody has written up yet. Then we take the three biggest and write what the launch actually did, because a round is the one week a company gets attention it did not have to buy and most of that week gets spent on a press release.

Latest edition Friday 16 October 2026 · 33 editions

Two sources. Rounds the trade press reported, which is most of what you will recognise, and Form D filings, which is the document a company files with the SEC within fifteen days of selling securities whether or not it says anything in public. The filings catch rounds weeks before anyone writes them up, and some of them nobody writes up at all.

The reason to publish both is the same. A funding round is the one week a company holds attention it did not have to buy, and there is enormous variance in what gets done with it. Some of these launches are studied afterwards. Most of them were a press release and a founder post at 9am.

So on each edition we take the three biggest and write the read. What the launch did, what it left on the table, and what we would run. A round that was announced well is as useful to pull apart as one that was not announced at all. Read how to announce a funding round for the full playbook, or what to do when there is nothing to announce for the weeks in between.

Who just took money, Friday 16 October 2026

Tech companies that sold securities in the last 45 days, taken from their SEC filings. Most of these have had no coverage anywhere. Where an offering still has money on it, the company is out raising right now.
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The full edition, including the 6 rounds that were announced.

Every edition

Edition
Press
Form D
Total
Names
16 Oct 2026
6
1
$157.7M
North.cloud, LearnUpon, RapidCanvas
15 Oct 2026
8
2
$1.94B
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
18 Sep 2026
3
1
$43.6M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
15 Oct 2026
14
1
$508.4M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
15 Sep 2026
10
0
$1.47B
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
14 Sep 2026
9
1
$605.7M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
11 Sep 2026
2
0
$6.5M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
14 Sep 2026
5
2
$374.1M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
9 Sep 2026
13
1
$374.1M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
14 Sep 2026
13
1
$374.1M
European, TypeSafe, Gallatin AI
In September, Wang's post opened a thread and Mark Zuckerberg posted the launch at the same moment from an account of 2.5 million. The two people did 21 million views between them. The company account did well under a million.

The Muse Wonder figures are hours old and will keep climbing, so the comparison with September's final totals is unfinished. What already holds is the gap between the person and the logo, which is the same in both launches.

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If you have raised and the announcement has not gone out, the window is still open. We run launches for AI companies on X, with creators who already hold the audience you want.