Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI (8/29/25)

By Christopher Robbins · Aug 28, 2025 Views: 4

Our Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI featured funding announcements from Attio, KnowledgeLake, Nuro, Lambda and FieldAI

This week we continue our series on the top 5 VC-funded deals in AI.

This week's top-heavy venture capital funding is led by three announcements exceeding the $200 million threshold.

The top reported deal, per FinSMEs, came from Irvine, CA-based robotics developer FieldAI, which raised a total of $400 million across two rounds in part to "accelerate its global growth, support continued product development across locomotion and manipulation, and enable strategic hiring to scale its team as it plans to double headcount by the end of the year," according to its announcement. Our second-place announcement came from the cloud computing space, where San Francisco-based Lambda brought in its own $275 million round. The top five also included companies in the autonomous driving, workflow automation and CRM sectors.

Smaller funding raises that did not quite make our top 5 this week included announcements from the dentistry, medical coding, autonomous ships spaces.

Below, we highlight the top five venture capital deals, ranked from the highest to the lowest funding amounts, showcasing the companies at the forefront of the AI revolution...

Top 5 Venture Capital Deals from Aug. 21-Aug. 27

1. FieldAI

Location: Irvine, CA
Description: A physical AI and robotic autonomy company developing advanced systems for autonomous field operations.
Funding Amount: Over $400 million
Funding Round: Two consecutive rounds (unspecified)

2. Lambda

Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: Lambda is a Superintelligence Cloud company delivering high-performance compute infrastructure for training large-scale AI models.
Funding Amount: $275 million
Funding Round: Syndicated senior secured credit facility

3. Nuro

Location: Mountain View, CA
Description: An autonomous driving technology company focused on building small, self-driving vehicles for last-mile delivery.
Funding Amount: $203 million
Funding Round: Series E
Valuation: $6 billion

4. KnowledgeLake

Location: St. Louis, MO
Description: Provides an AI-powered enterprise workflow automation platform designed to streamline document processing and business operations.
Funding Amount: $65 million
Funding Round: Growth investment from Edison Partners

5. Attio

- - Location: London, UK
  - Description: An AI-native CRM platform built for real-time collaboration and modern sales operations.
  - Funding Amount: $52 million
  - Funding Round: Series B

Make sure to check out our Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI right here!

Written & Researched by DWN Staff

VC Deals Synopsized by ChatGPT Research Source: FinSMEs