Factory Expansion Secures $260m Series C, Expands Capabilities

US Innovative Technology Fund just led Stoke Space's $510M Series D—the largest spacetech round in Q4 2025. What caught my attention: Thomas Tull's USIT focuses explicitly on national security technology. This isn't just about reusable rockets—it's about defense infrastructure. The deal validates what we're seeing across our network: fully reusable launch systems are attracting serious institutional capital. Stoke's Nova vehicle promises 100% reusability, addressing the economics that have held back commercial space for decades. For #spacetech #founders in our network: investors are writing large checks for capital-intensive deep tech when three elements align: • Technical breakthrough with clear commercialization path • Experienced founding teams with aerospace credibility • Dual-use applications spanning commercial and defense markets The $510M round includes participation from Breakthrough Energy, Glade Brook Capital, and Toyota Ventures—showing both strategic and financial investors see the opportunity. This is the kind of active capital deployment we track daily to connect the right startups with investors who are open for business right now. What's your take on defense-tech driving the next wave of spacetech #investment?

US Innovative Technology Fund just led Stoke Space's $510M Series D—the largest spacetech round in Q4 2025. What caught our attention: Thomas Tull's USIT focuses explicitly on national security technology. This isn't just about reusable rockets—it's about defense infrastructure. The deal validates what we're seeing across our network: fully reusable launch systems are attracting serious institutional capital. Stoke's Nova vehicle promises 100% reusability, addressing the economics that have held back commercial space for decades. For #spacetech #founders: #investors are writing large checks for capital-intensive deep tech when three elements align: • Technical breakthrough with clear commercialization path • Experienced founding teams with aerospace credibility • Dual-use applications spanning commercial and defense markets The $510M round includes participation from Breakthrough Energy, Glade Brook Capital, and Toyota Ventures—showing both strategic and financial investors see the opportunity. This is the kind of active capital deployment we track daily to connect the right startups with investors who are open for business right now. What's your take on defense-tech driving the next wave of spacetech investment?

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We have advised several investors in connection with the Series C funding round of Berlin-based n8n, including existing investor firstminute capital. Only six months after closing the Series B financing round in March 2025, n8n has just raised another USD 180 million in a spectacular Series C round; the round was led by Accel, with participation, among others, from Meritech, Redpoint, Evantic, Visionaries Club, as well as corporate investors NVentures (NVIDIA) and T.Capital (Deutsche Telekom). Also, some of the existing investors, like Sequoia, participated again. Osborne Clarke has advised in the seed round, the Series A and the Series B already. “The meteoric rise of n8n shows the important role that AI-based solutions have long played in the everyday work of numerous companies, including medium-sized and smaller ones, and the significance this will have in the future. Our clients recognised this years ago and we are delighted to have been able to accompany them through this milestone,” said Rouven Siegemund, Partner at Osborne Clarke. Read the full news here: https://lnkd.in/efKPQDrS The Osborne Clarke team was led by Rouven Siegemund and included Paul Rhode and Robert Marx (all Corporate / VC).

Chicago-based Origin Ventures announced a $140M FVI, investing in companies leading humanity into the fifth economic era—the Artificial Intelligence Economy—transforming how we live, work and play: https://lnkd.in/gpmCgPMc

A Tale of Three Launch Startups Firefly’s surprise weekend announcement that it is buying software specialist SciTec shows how aggressively the company is moving to become a full-fledged space and defense company not defined solely, or even predominantly, by launch. The $855 million deal, comprised of $300 million in cash and $555 million in stock, is nearly as much as what Firefly raised in its IPO ($868 million) just two months ago. SciTec adds 475 employees to Firefly’s ~800, growing headcount by roughly 60% and reshaping Firefly into a bigger contender for Golden Dome work. Compared with the other U.S. launch companies that went public this decade – Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit – Firefly’s evolution is the most rapid from a financial standpoint. In its first few months as a public entity, Firefly is outpacing what Rocket Lab spent in four years on M&A. Why the urgency? ➡️ Read the full QuickTake here: https://lnkd.in/eAS8QWsv

#AmTech Weekly Roundup: Base Power Company raised $1 billion in Series C funding at a $4 billion valuation from Addition, Trust Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Thrive Capital, Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, StepStone Group, 137 Ventures, Terrain, Waybury, Ribbit Capital, CapitalG, Spark Capital, BOND, Lowercarbon Capital, Avenir, Glade Brook, Positive Sum, and 1789 Capital. Base leases out large battery systems to homeowners that can be used as a backup during power disruptions and sells stored power to utility networks during peak demand. Co-founders: Zach Dell Justin Lopas   Heidi Health raised $65 million in Series B funding at a $465 million valuation from Point72 Ventures, Blackbird, Headline, and Latitude, the growth fund of Phoenix Court. Heidi is building an AI care partner to handle administrative tasks, freeing America's doctors to focus on patient care. Co-founders: Yu Liu Dr. Thomas Kelly Waleed Mussa   EvenUp raised $150 million in Series E funding at a $2 billion+ valuation from Bessemer Venture Partners, REV, B Capital, SignalFire, Adams Street Partners, Premji Invest, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), HarbourVest Partners, Lightspeed, and BroadLight Capital. EvenUp helps America’s plaintiff law firms automate administrative tasks and streamline workflows, leveling the playing field for their clients. Co-founders: Rami Karabibar Raymond Mieszaniec Saam Mashhad #Law #Health #Energy #AI #VC

𝗦𝗣𝗩𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹, 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 When most people hear “SPV,” they think money. A vehicle to pool capital. A faster way to close. But here’s the truth: SPVs aren’t just about raising dollars they’re about orchestrating alignment. Think about what happens inside an SPV: Dozens of investors brought under one entity. A single line on the cap table instead of chaos. Lead and backers moving in sync on diligence, terms, and timing. That’s not just financial engineering, it’s coordination at scale. Without an SPV, founders manage 10–20 separate investors, each with their own documents, signatures, and questions. With an SPV, it’s one unit, one vote, one relationship. The capital matters. But the coordination is what actually unlocks speed, clarity, and founder focus. This is why I tell new leads: if you only see SPVs as money pipes, you’re missing half the picture. 👉 Great capital raises are not just funded. They’re orchestrated. #startupinvesting #foundermindset #ashishsaboo #capital #spv

Private Equity, Venture Capital & Holding companies: this is the moment. At Fjord Qudra we show how to turn AI’s vectors—direction, speed, impact—into capacity and new capabilities across your portfolio. Think dynamic budgeting you can actually steer: dials on SG&A, COGS, revenue mix, working capital, reducing external funding—all moving in sync. That Health-tech asset using 1% of AI across a couple of workflows? Take it to 30% in 90 days. Institutionalise the learning. Compound it across the business. Then ride the 5–10× capability jumps coming over the next year. Now roll the cadence up and across the portfolio/funds—and into new acquisitions. You don’t get a “program.” You get an AI-powered operating framework that keeps moving the numbers north. That’s when Investor returns start to sing. Think like chess. Move like checkers. Two games. One P&L. #privateequity #holdingcompanies #CFO #CEO #leadership Clint Sookermany #investor #venturecapital #VC