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

It was a weird week. Two of the top four rounds were actually large down rounds and a third came with 鈥渞estructuring鈥� and layoff news. Not exactly what you expect when startups raise large rounds, but these are strange times indeed.

1. , $214M, batteries: Back in May, Woodinville, Washington-based Group14 Technologies announced a $400 million Series C led by . However, it apparently was far from done with the new round. This week, the manufacturer of advanced silicon battery technology, announced it had raised another $214 million from investors that included the as part of the round. Group14 is dedicated to the 鈥渆lectrification of everything,鈥� and has raised $650 million to date, per the company.

2. (tied) , $200M, AI: This was a week for down rounds. New York-based Dataiku, an AI/ML platform developer for enterprises, closed a $200 million Series F led by at a $3.7 billion valuation. While that鈥檚 a high valuation, it represents a 20% drop from August 2021, when the startup raised a $400 million Series E at a $4.6 billion valuation. It鈥檚 fair to think Dataiku never planned on a Series F, and instead once thought their next round of funding would be an IPO. The company about such an event just back in March. The startup has now raised $600 million in primary funding.

2. (tied) , $200M, health care: It was this week that health data startup Komodo Health raised a 鈥渟tructured equity infusion鈥� of $200 million led by . Along with the funding, it was also the company will be restructuring 鈥� laying off 9% of its workforce 鈥� and its CFO will be leaving for personal reasons at the end of the year. Similar to Dataiku鈥檚 hopes of an IPO, it was in March that Komodo was eyeing a summer listing. In March 2021, Komodo raised $220 million led by . The San Francisco-based startup has raised more than $500 million, per 附近上门 data.

4. , $196.5M, cybersecurity: As we said earlier, this was a week of downrounds. Boston-based application security developer Snyk raised a $196.5 million Series G led by at a $7.4 billion valuation. That鈥檚 a 13% drop from September 2021, when the company 鈥� which has now raised about $1 billion 鈥� closed a $530 million Series F co-led by and Tiger Global at an $8.5 billion valuation. The cyber startup 鈥� originally founded in Israel 鈥� also had long been rumored to be nearing an IPO before the public markets started falling. We will see if 2023 may be the year.

5. , $150M, software: After 30 years, welcome to the unicorn club, MasterControl. The biotech SaaS startup closed a $150 million round led by at a $1.3 billion valuation 鈥� its first round since being founded nearly three decades ago. The company creates software for the life sciences industry to help companies navigate various research and development issues including supply chain and logistics problems. The company has worked with over 1,000 pharmaceutical, food and medtech companies over the past 30 years, including , and .

6. , $117M, cloud computing: Chicago-based virtual desktop developer Nerdio raised a $117 million Series B from . Founded in 1998, the company has raised $125 million, according to 附近上门.

7. , $85M, medical devices: Plymouth, Minnesota-based HistoSonics closed an $85 million round led by for a device it says can destroy tumors in patients with liver cancer. Founded in 2009, the startup has raised nearly $227 million, according to 附近上门.

8. , $75M, medical device: New York-based endovascular brain-computer interface startup Synchron raised a $75 million Series C led by . Synchron says it has now raised a total of $145 million.

9. , $62M, marketing: Atlanta-based customer engagement platform MessageGears raised a $62 million growth round led by . Founded in 2011, MessageGears has now raised $80 million, according to the company.

10. , $60M, autonomous vehicles: San Diego-based Shield AI, a defense technology firm building AI pilots for aircraft, announced it raised an additional $40 million in equity from the as part of its now $225 million Series E first announced in June. The round included $150 million in equity and $75 million in debt. Founded in 2015, the startup has raised nearly $575 million, according to 附近上门.

Big global deals

The biggest round of the week came from a startup just north of the U.S.

• Canada-based , a developer of carbon capture technology, raised a $318 million Series E.

Methodology

We tracked the largest rounds in the 附近上门 database that were raised by U.S.-based companies for the seven-day period of Dec. 10 to 16. 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.

Illustration: Dom Guzman