Harmattan AI Raises $200 Million Series B Led by Dassault Aviation and Becomes a Defense Unicorn
TechCrunch's January report shows defense emerging as an AI unicorn category.
TechCrunch's January report shows defense emerging as an AI unicorn category.
Seattle's Hubble Network reached $1.6 billion; Open Cosmos and EnduroSat each reached about $1 billion.
Saudi payments company Barq reached $1.85 billion and Nevada's Ridgeline $1.43 billion in September.
Austin's Fab2 raised a $500 million Series A at $3.7 billion; Celero Communications is valued above $3 billion.
Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led by count; 21 are U.S.-based, six Chinese and three British.
Sarvam raised $234 million led by HCLTech; Emergent raised $300 million, both at $1.5 billion.
A U.S. model-training platform and a Chinese multimodal developer each reached $1 billion.
Crunchbase also counted ten frontier labs, led by DeepSeek, joining in June.
The privacy-focused AI platform raised its first outside round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Dragonfly.
TechCrunch's August 21 story describes how an AI accounting startup went from board meeting to a $1 billion valuation.