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This is a weekly feature that runs down the week鈥檚 top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest funding rounds of last week here.

Last week鈥檚 run of big rounds slowed down slightly this week, but overall still had a strong showing. Yet another huge public safety raise, as well as big rounds for semiconductor, life sciences and cybersecurity startups.

1. , $275M, public safety: Just a week after public safety startup locked up a $190 million funding round led by 鈥� minting the San Francisco-based firm as a new unicorn at a $2.5 billion valuation 鈥� another such startup raised even bigger. Atlanta-based Flock Safety raised a $275 million round led by that values the startup at $7.5 billion. The company鈥檚 integrated safety platform includes license plate readers, gunshot detection, AI-powered video cameras and drone-as-first-responder technology. The company also has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue. Founded in 2017, the company has raised nearly $656 million, .

2. , $250M, semiconductor: Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a $250 million Series C1 round led by at a $2.5 billion valuation. The fresh cash comes almost exactly a year after the company locked up a $175 million Series C led by 鈥檚 . The startup鈥檚 photonic fabric platform helps separate compute and memory, making processing extensive AI faster and providing more energy-efficient computing. Founded in 2020, Celestial AI has now raised more than $515 million, per the company.

3. , $200M, life science: The intersection of artificial intelligence and science is seeing a lot of money, and this week we saw another example. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lila Sciences raised a huge $200 million seed round from the likes of and others. The new company is looking to build the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and fully autonomous labs for life, chemical and materials sciences by using an advanced form of AI that can not only process vast amounts of data and make predictions, but also assist scientists in 鈥渄esigning and conducting new experiments, generating hypotheses and testing them in real-world environments.鈥�

4. , $120M, cybersecurity: Boston-based cybersecurity startup Cybereason announced a $120 million investment led by , 2 and , just a month after its outgoing CEO said the . The new cash also came with the announcement has been appointed as the new CEO. Last month, former CEO sued former U.S. Treasury Secretary and the , accusing them of putting the company at risk by rejecting multiple fundraising plans. The past few years have been an about-face for a company that was flying high during the free money days of 2020 and 2021. In July 2021, the startup announced it had raised $275 million in a financing led by Liberty Strategic Capital, the fund started by Mnuchin. No valuation was given by the company, but reports at the time in both the newspaper in Israel and said the round valued the company at about $3.1 billion. In 2022, the company confidentially filed for an initial public offering that would have valued it at more than $5 billion, at the time. However, in 2023 the company raised a $100 million investment led by SoftBank while announcing the CEO change to Gan just months after that the company hired to find a buyer for the company.

5. , $95M, robotics: Robotics startup Dexterity raised a $95 million round that values the company at $1.65 billion, . participated in the round. The Redwood City, California-based company develops robots for repetitive tasks like loading and unloading boxes from vehicles and sorting parcels. Founded in 2017, the company has raised $291 million, .

6. (tied) , $82M, information technology: San Francisco-based Ditto, which helps synchronize data on the edge, raised an $82 million Series B led by and at a post-money valuation of $462 million. Founded in 2018, the company has raised $136 million, .

6. (tied) , $82M, crypto: Crypto payments network Mesh closed a $82 million Series B led by . Founded in 2020, San Francisco-based Mesh says it has raised more than $120 million.

8. , $80M, insurance: San Francisco-based Nirvana Insurance, an AI-driven commercial trucking insurer, announced an $80 million Series C led by valuing the company at nearly $850 million. Founded in 2021, the company has raised $162 million, .

9. , $75M, manufacturing: Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Lumafield, a developer of industrial X-ray CT technology, closed a $75 million Series C led by . Founded in 2019, the company has raised nearly $143 million, .

10. , $65M, medical device: Austin, Texas-based MicroTransponder, a medical device maker to help treat neurological diseases, raised a $65 million Series F financing round led by . Founded in 2007, the company has raised $180 million, .

Big global deals

A big crypto company saw the largest deal of the week.

• Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange received a massive $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi-based investment firm .

Methodology

We tracked the largest announced rounds in the 附近上门 database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the seven-day period of March 8 to March 14. Although most announced rounds are represented in the database, there could be a small time lag as some rounds are reported late in the week.

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