Capital Flows & Deals
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management Lead (News.Crunchbase)
Summary: Temporal Technologies, a developer of an open source platform for building and operating long-running AI agents and other enterprise systems, secured $550 million in Series E funding at a $12.55 billion valuation. Lightspeed, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and Tiger Global led the financing for the Bellevue, Washington-based company. Impulse Space, a developer of space vehicles for moving payloads across and between orbits, secured $308 million in Series D extension funding. Data center developer Crusoe made official its previously reported $3 billion-plus raise, co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Capital.
"After a week of multiple billion-dollar-plus rounds, startup investors have reduced the number of zeroes on their funding checks. This past week, the largest U.S. startup funding rounds were in the hundreds of millions, topped by a $550 million financing for AI infrastructure company Temporal Technologies and a $308 million investment in space vehicle developer Impulse Space." — NEWS.CRUNCHBASE
Date: September 18, 2026 02:29 PM ET
URL: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-funding-rounds-ai-space-fintech-temporal/
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Generated text and tone describe the analysis; the source registry score is not a factual truth rating.Bathla administrators given more time as funding talks continue — as it happened (Abc.Net.Au)
Summary: Bathla Group’s administrators have been given more time to work through the troubled property developer’s voluntary administration as they continue talks with lenders over further funding. Bathla’s administrators have been given up to another year to hold the developer’s second creditors’ meeting. Administrators have secured $4.7 million in initial funding, and remain in discussion with lenders over longer-term funding arrangements which has not yet been secured. The court extension gives administrators more time to work through Bathla’s affairs but it does not mean the Group has secured funding to keep operating for another year.
Date: September 17, 2026 05:29 PM ET
URL: https://abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/asx-markets-business-news-live-updates-wall-st-rebounds/107160122
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Generated text and tone describe the analysis; the source registry score is not a factual truth rating.Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion. (Techcrunch)
Summary: Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. Crusoe also announced three new board members, including Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert, Bill Stein, and Redwood Materials founder and CEO JB Straubel. The company makes money by leasing data center space to customers that bring their own GPUs, by renting out its own GPUs, and by selling compute power used to run AI models, known as inference.
Context: The fresh fundraise comes 10 months after Crusoe raised $1.38 billion at a $10 billion valuation last October. The company was founded in 2018 as a crypto mining operation powered by flared natural gas, but pivoted to AI infrastructure as demand for computing power skyrocketed.
"Data center developer Crusoe said Thursday it raised $3.9 billion in a Series F round that pushes its valuation to $30.9 billion." — TECHCRUNCH
Date: September 17, 2026 07:25 PM ET
URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small-modular-ai-factories/
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Generated text and tone describe the analysis; the source registry score is not a factual truth rating.Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) has raised a new $1.6 billion fund, which is 14% larger than its previous $1.4 billion fund the firm announced three years ago. (Techcrunch)
Summary: Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) has raised a new $1.6 billion fund, which is 14% larger than its previous $1.4 billion fund the firm announced three years ago. BCV says it will use the fresh funds to back startups primarily focused on AI. From the new fund, the firm’s 11th, BCV intends to invest in 30 to 40 companies, primarily at the seed through Series B stages.
Why it matters: BCV stands apart from other VC firms, according to partner Kevin Zhang, thanks to its affiliation with Bain Capital, which provides deep expertise and financial products across credit, real estate, insurance, and private equity.
Context: Some of the main themes that will be the most relevant in what the firm calls "the post-AGI era" include infrastructure, healthcare, physical AI, and security, said partner Kevin Zhang.
"Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture division of private equity firm Bain Capital, has raised a new $1.6 billion fund, which is 14% larger than its previous $1.4 billion fund the firm announced three years ago." — TECHCRUNCH
Date: September 17, 2026 08:57 AM ET
URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/how-bain-capital-ventures-plans-to-deploy-its-fresh-1-6b-fund/
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Generated text and tone describe the analysis; the source registry score is not a factual truth rating.Musk’s long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors (Techcrunch)
Summary: Valor Equity Partners, founded by Antonio Gracias, a long-time Elon Musk backer and current SpaceX board member, has opted to simply give away a chunk of its SpaceX stock to its limited partner investors, according to an SEC filing spotted by Bloomberg. Valor handed over 8.5% of its holdings to them, worth about $8.5 billion, Bloomberg estimates. Valor will still own more than 460 million shares after the giveaway, the SEC disclosure form says.
Why it matters: Transferring ownership of the shares could give those Valor limited partners a tax advantage. More importantly, it avoids dumping a giant tranche of shares into the open market.
Context: Valor made a killing on SpaceX after investing in it over decades, with entities controlled by Gracias owning more than 500 million shares at the time of the IPO. This was second only to Musk (who owned over 6 billion shares at the time). SpaceX is already down about 10% since its blockbuster IPO day.
"VC firm Valor Equity Partners, founded by Antonio Gracias, a long-time Elon Musk backer and current SpaceX board member, has opted to simply give away a chunk of its SpaceX stock to its limited partner investors, according to an SEC filing spotted by Bloomberg." — TECHCRUNCH
Date: September 16, 2026 07:50 PM ET
URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/musks-long-time-backer-is-giving-spacex-stock-to-its-investors/
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