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Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI (7/15/26)
By Christopher Robbins · Jul 16, 2026 Views: 4
This week we continue our series on the top 5 VC-funded deals in AI.
This week our overall AI venture capital activity lost some of its momentum from prior weeks, with all five of our listed announcements coming in over $130 million and six announcements total coming in over $100 million.
The biggest announcement, per FinSMEs, came from San Jose, Calif.-based AI infrastructure provider SambaNova, which raised $1 billion as part of its Series F round to "expand capacity, accelerate product innovation, and scale deployments for enterprises, neo-clouds, sovereign AI customers, and service providers worldwide. It will grow customer programs and continue investing across chips, systems, software, and full-stack AI infrastructure," according to its announcement. Our second-place announcement was also from the AI infrastructure space, where London-based Nscale raised a $900 million debt financing round to "accelerate its AI data center build-out and capital deployment across the US, Europe, and APAC," according to its announcement. Rounding out the top 5 are announcements from the biotechnology/molecular discovery, maritime defense and data infrastructure spaces.
Smaller funding raises that did not quite make our top 5 this week included announcements from the pharmacy, AI training and publishing sectors.
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...