Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI (5/13/26)

By Christopher Robbins · May 14, 2026 Views: 2

Our Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in AI featured funding announcements from NScale, Lambda, Forus, Exaforce, and Isomorphic Labs

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

This week our overall AI venture capital activity accelerated yet again from prior weeks, including multiple raises over the $1 billion mark.

The biggest announcement, per FinSMEs, came from London-based Isomorphic Labs, which is building an AI drug design and development platform. The company raised a $2.1 billion Series B, which it will use to "accelerate the development and deployment of its AI drug design engine (IsoDDE), expand its pipeline of therapeutic programs toward clinical trials, and scale its global workforce across AI, engineering, and clinical disciplines," according to its announcement. Our second-place announcement was from San Francisco-based AI infrastructure provider Lambda, raising $160 million in a syndicated senior secured credit facility, which it will use in part "to deploy new NVIDIA AI accelerator infrastructure and expand its data center capacity, delivering additional revenue-generating assets while lowering its cost of capital" according to its announcement. The top five also included companies in the healthcare, AI infrastructure and security spaces.

Smaller funding raises that did not quite make our top 5 this week included announcements from the autonomous vehicle, lawtech and agentic AI 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...

Top 5 Venture Capital Deals from May 7 - May 13

1. Isomorphic Labs

Location: London, United Kingdom
Description: Developer of an AI-first drug design and development platform focused on accelerating pharmaceutical research and therapeutic discovery using advanced AI models.
Funding Amount: $2.1 billion
Funding Round: Series B

2. Lambda

Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: AI cloud infrastructure company providing high-performance compute resources and cloud services optimized for AI training and inference workloads.
Funding Amount: $1 billion
Funding Round: Syndicated senior secured credit facility

3. Nscale

Location: London, UK
Description: AI infrastructure company building the physical and digital foundation required to train, deploy, and scale advanced AI systems globally.
Funding Amount: $790 million
Funding Round: Debt financing
Investors/Lenders: ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin, Nordea, and SEB

4. Forus (fka Tandem)

Location: New York City, NY
Description: Provider of an AI-powered healthcare network connecting doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma organizations to streamline care coordination and data exchange.
Funding Amount: Over $160 million
Funding Round: Venture funding

5. Exaforce

Location: San Jose, CA
Description: Developer of an agentic security operations and modern SIEM platform designed to automate cybersecurity monitoring, detection, and response workflows.
Funding Amount: $125 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