July saw its fair share of big rounds ' and then some. Startups needed to raise $200 million or more to make this list. While we saw a lot of the regular sectors like biotech and financial services represented, we also saw some big deals involving supply chain and automotive startups. 1. Skild AI, $300M, robotics: The good year for robotics startups continued. Skild AI became the latest such startup to raise big, locking in a $300 million Series A led by Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SoftBank Group and Jeff Bezos, through his Bezos Expeditions. The funding brings the company to a valuation of $1.5 billion. The Pittsburgh-based startup isn't building robots, however, it's building robot brains. The theory is that those brain models can then be used in a variety of robots and for different tasks ' instead of just having one application. It seems a lot of big-name investors agree with that strategy. 2. Element Biosciences, $277M, biotech: Every month there seems to be big...
learn more
