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The week in Startups and VC

AI infrastructure funding reaches extraordinary scale

September 2026
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Sep 1 - Sep 4across 2 daysImpact

AI infrastructure financing accelerates

AI infrastructure companies pursued increasingly large financings and valuations, with Crusoe's contract-backed raise showing how secured demand can unlock exceptional capital. AfterQuery, Thinking Machines, and Nscale added evidence that investors are still pricing aggressive growth across the compute and model-training stack, while increasing pressure on execution.

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