AI Funding This Week: $37B across 45 rounds (Nov 2 to Nov 8)

Last week, 45 AI venture rounds disclosed $37B between November 2 and November 8. Most of that sat with a few very large deals, as Oracle's $20B public offering and OpenAI's $11B growth round together account for about $31B of the total. For founders raising, selling or growing, I read this as a reminder to benchmark your plans against the rounds at your own stage, since the 14 Series A deals this week show where most of the activity really is.

• Oracle Corporation raised $20B (Public offering (equity and senior notes)), led by BofA Securities. AI cloud infrastructure, Austin, US.
• OpenAI raised $11B (Growth round (first close)), led by MGX and SoftBank, valued at $1.25T. Frontier AI models, San Francisco, US.
• Shield AI raised $2B (Series H), led by InnovationX and Blackstone, valued at $28.8B. AI, San Diego, US.
• Fal raised $1.3B (Series F), led by Bessemer Venture Partners, valued at $16B. AI inference infrastructure, San Francisco, US.
• Applied Compute raised $350M (Venture), led by Elad Gil, valued at $3.25B. AI, San Francisco, US.
• Sand.ai raised $200M (Venture), led by Wangsu Science & Technology and Co-Stone Venture Capital. AI, Singapore, Singapore.
• Laza Medical raised $160M (Series B), led by GE Healthcare. AI, Pfaffikon, Switzerland.
• Moffett AI raised $150M (CNY 1,000.0M) (Series C), led by Tianjin Renai Capital and Hangzhou Dongheng Petroleum. AI, Los Altos, US.
• Sentra raised $150M (Series C), led by Capital One Ventures. Agentic AI data security, Israel.
• Lingchuan Technology raised $138M (Series B), led by Yitang Shenghe Fund and Beijing E-town International Investment & Development. AI chips, China.
• Traversal raised $120M (Series B), led by John Doerr and Khosla Ventures, valued at $1B. AI site reliability engineering, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• GenRobot AI raised $100M (Series A+). Robot training data, Beijing, China.

• Series A: 14
• Growth: 10
• Series B: 6
• Series C: 5
• Seed: 4
• Other: 2
• Series H+: 1
• Pre-seed: 1

• Bessemer Venture Partners: 3 rounds, 1 led
• Nvidia: 3 rounds
• NBCUniversal: 2 rounds, 2 led
• Blackstone: 2 rounds, 1 led
• Co-Stone Venture Capital: 2 rounds, 1 led
• John Doerr: 2 rounds, 1 led

Every round, with investors and valuations: ai.lounge.ai/deals

• Ryan Allis at The AI Lounge Desk