This week in startup funding, layoffs, IPOs, executive changes and 5%+ stakes

From Monday 2026-08-17 to Sunday 2026-08-23, as recorded in the filings and notices of that week. Each figure is set beside the week before, and every company links to its record.

Startup funding

208 operating companies filed a Form D reporting $3.71B sold, against 219 and $1.99B the week before.

The 10 largest raises

Layoffs

56 WARN notices and 1 SEC 8-K filing under Item 2.05 named 2,776 employees in all, against 3,553 the week before. An 8-K that gives no headcount counts as a filing and adds no employees.

The 10 largest

IPOs

6 companies filed a first registration statement stating an initial public offering, 7 filed a final prospectus and 1 asked to withdraw a registration, against 14 such filings the week before. The week in the IPO pipeline.

Executive departures

114 listed companies filed an 8-K under Item 5.02 whose text reports a director or officer leaving, against 133 the week before. All of this week's executive changes.

New 5%+ stakes

35 new Schedule 13D filings reported a holder at 5% or more of a listed company's shares, against 19 the week before; 0 state in Item 4 what the holder intends. All of this week's stakes.

Where this comes from

Every figure here is counted from filings and notices made in the week named, Monday to Sunday (UTC). Funding is read from Form D, the notice a company files with the SEC after selling securities in a private offering; the amount is the amount sold that the form states. Only operating companies are counted: investment funds, insurance accounts, trusts, real estate and financial vehicles are left out, by the industry the form declares and by a fund-shaped name. Layoffs are the employees named in WARN notices, which several states publish when an employer gives notice of a mass layoff or a site closure, and the SEC 8-K filings in which listed companies report an exit or restructuring plan under Item 2.05. IPO filings are first registration statements that state an initial public offering, final prospectuses and requests to withdraw. Executive changes are 8-K filings under Item 5.02 by listed companies whose text reports a departure. Stakes are new Schedule 13D filings, made by anyone who comes to own more than 5% of a listed company's shares and may seek to influence it.

Each row links to the filing or notice it came from, and to the MentionFox page about that company where one is live. A section with nothing to report is left out rather than filled. Nothing here is investment advice.

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