Which startups raised the most this week? (2026-08-24 to 2026-08-30)

The 25 biggest raises

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By sector

• AI and software: 75 companies, $7.90B sold
• Biotech: 18 companies, $209.12M sold
• Health care: 11 companies, $51.46M sold
• Retail and restaurants: 10 companies, $27.03M sold
• Business services: 7 companies, $11.10M sold
• Computers and hardware: 6 companies, $12.25M sold
• Energy and climate: 6 companies, $86.53M sold
• Manufacturing: 5 companies, $5.89M sold
• Pharmaceuticals: 2 companies, $10.43M sold
• Agriculture: 2 companies, $25K sold
• Telecom: 1 company, $1.14M sold

By metro

• San Francisco Bay Area: 17 companies, $5.70B sold
• New York: 9 companies, $1.12B sold
• Los Angeles: 7 companies, $691.93M sold
• Austin: 6 companies, $120.30M sold
• Seattle: 5 companies, $37.33M sold
• Chicago: 4 companies, $27.04M sold
• Houston: 4 companies, $10.78M sold
• Philadelphia: 4 companies, $58.85M sold
• Denver and Boulder: 4 companies, $7.07M sold
• Pittsburgh: 4 companies, $100.38M sold
• Miami: 4 companies, $9.78M sold
• Boston: 4 companies, $9.83M sold
• Phoenix: 3 companies, $1.29M sold
• Washington, DC: 3 companies, $75.56M sold
• Dallas-Fort Worth: 3 companies, $77.71M sold
• Orlando and Tampa: 3 companies, $10.25M sold
• Detroit: 2 companies, $7.64M sold
• San Diego: 2 companies, $3.02M sold
• Nashville: 2 companies, $2.58M sold
• Portland: 2 companies, $1.08M sold
• Salt Lake City: 1 company, $1.60M sold
• Las Vegas: 1 company, $5M sold
• Minneapolis-St. Paul: 1 company, $450K sold
• Northern New Jersey: 1 company, $5K sold
• Baltimore: 1 company, $775K sold
• Raleigh-Durham: 1 company, $3M sold

IPO filings this week

• Valion Bio, Inc. withdrew its registration, 2026-08-24 (RW)
• Essential Minerals Acquisition Corp (blank check company) filed to go public, 2026-08-24 (S-1)
• pan-Africa Corp withdrew its registration, 2026-08-24 (RW)
• Living Homeopathy International Ltd. withdrew its registration, 2026-08-24 (RW)
• Aggreko Inc. filed to go public, 2026-08-24 (F-1)
• Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. priced its offering, 2026-08-24 (424B4)
• Live Oak Acquisition Corp. VI (blank check company) filed to go public, 2026-08-24 (S-1)
• Buttonwood First Access Fund Ltd. withdrew its registration, 2026-08-25 (RW)
• Haymaker Acquisition Corp V (blank check company) filed to go public, 2026-08-25 (S-1)
• Bergstrom Financial Group Trust withdrew its registration, 2026-08-26 (RW)
• Southern Cross Acquisition II Corp. (blank check company) priced its offering, 2026-08-26 (424B4)
• ALLSPRING FUNDS TRUST withdrew its registration, 2026-08-26 (RW)
• Rainier Acquisition Corp (blank check company) priced its offering, 2026-08-27 (424B4)
• COLONY BANKCORP INC priced its offering, 2026-08-27 (424B4)
• Spinnova Plc filed to go public, 2026-08-27 (F-1)
• Timber Road Acquisition Corp withdrew its registration, 2026-08-27 (RW)
• Skubbs Holdings Ltd filed to go public, 2026-08-28 (F-1)
• Bamboo Insurance Services, Inc. filed to go public, 2026-08-28 (S-1)
• SeeQC, Inc. withdrew its registration, 2026-08-28 (RW)
• Graf Industrial Corp. II (blank check company) filed to go public, 2026-08-28 (S-1)

And 3 more on the IPO pipeline.

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How this list is built

Every company here filed a Form D with the SEC in the week 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-30. A Form D is the notice a company files when it sells shares or other securities without a public offering, so it catches seed rounds, small rounds and rounds that were never announced, alongside the large ones that make the news. Only new offerings by operating companies count: amendments, pooled investment funds, real estate vehicles and special purpose vehicles are left out, so each row is a company raising money for itself.

The amount shown is the total the filing reports as sold so far. Some filings report nothing sold yet; those rows show a dash and add nothing to the totals. "First filing" marks a company whose first Form D on record this is. Each company links to our page for the filing, or to the SEC's own copy, and the list can be copied as CSV for a spreadsheet.