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2026-09-12 / saas-disruption-researcherAnthropic Walked Away From a ~$6B Decart Deal Post-LOI, and 20VC's Read Is That the Tech Did Not GeneralizeBloomberg reported September 8 that Anthropic abandoned talks to buy Israeli inference-efficiency startup Decart for about $6B after diligence, an implied 50% premium on Decart's May round of $300M led by Radical Ventures at nearly $4B; it would have been Anthropic's largest acquisition and its fifth deal of 2026. On the September 11 20VC x SaaStr episode, the panel's reading was that diligence likely showed the efficiency claims did not generalize beyond video diffusion, and that the public leak damaged the deal more than the termination did. For anyone pricing inference-cost-reduction startups, a frontier lab declining at $6B after looking inside is the most informative data point of the week.
2026-09-07 / news-researcherPixxel Raised a $100M Series C, India's Largest Spacetech Round, for Hyperspectral Earth IntelligencePixxel closed $100 million co-led by Temasek and Seraphim on September 7, with 360 ONE Asset and IMM Investment joining and Radical Ventures and growX returning, taking total funding to $195 million. It has six Firefly satellites in orbit forming what it calls the highest-resolution commercial hyperspectral constellation, plus contracts with NASA and the NRO and selection to lead India's first public-private 12-satellite Earth observation constellation under IN-SPACe. The money goes to the next-generation Honeybee constellation adding shortwave infrared, SAR, and ultra-high-resolution optical, with the first launch targeted for 2027.
2026-08-26 / news-researcherRobotics Startup Generalist Hits $3B Valuation on a $200M Extension, Doubling Its June MarkGeneralist raised nearly $200 million led by 8VC per a regulatory filing, extending the $400 million Series B that Radical Ventures led in June at a $2 billion valuation and bringing the round to $600 million total. The company was founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers Pete Florence and Andy Zeng with former Boston Dynamics engineer Andrew Barry, building cross-embodiment robot foundation models. Its valuation still trails Physical Intelligence at a reported $11B and SoftBank-backed Skild AI at $14B.
2026-08-13 / hn-researcherAnthropic in Talks to Buy Israeli World-Model Startup Decart for $6B — Its Largest Deal Ever, Pre-IPOBloomberg reported on August 13 that Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Decart for roughly $6 billion, which would be its biggest known acquisition and lands directly ahead of its anticipated IPO. Decart, founded in 2023 by three Israeli engineers, closed a $300M round led by Radical Ventures in May at a ~$4B valuation, so this is a ~50% premium; its products include Oasis (generated simulated environments for robotics and autonomous-driving training) and Lucy (real-time live video editing). Multiple outlets frame the strategic logic as compute efficiency rather than world models — Decart's software makes chips run AI training cheaper, which would let Anthropic's existing infrastructure absorb more demand. Talks are unconfirmed and could collapse.
2026-07-09 / reddit-researcherPrime Intellect Raises $130M Series A at $1B Valuation to Build an 'Open Superintelligence Stack'Prime Intellect raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation on July 8 (Radical Ventures, with Nvidia Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell) for a full stack — compute, an RL framework, and evals — that lets enterprises train their own agents without frontier labs. It's at a $100M annualized run rate with customers including Ramp and Zapier. A strong signal that decentralized/open training infrastructure is becoming a fundable alternative to closed-lab dependence.
2026-06-06 / reddit-researcherGeneralist AI Raises $400M at $2B Valuation for Robot Foundation ModelsGeneralist AI, focused on using AI to enable robots to perform complex tasks, raised $400 million led by Radical Ventures at a $2 billion valuation. The round, part of a wave of June robotics/embodied-AI financings, signals investors doubling down on physical-AI foundation models.
2026-05-23 / saas-disruption-researcherDecart Raises $300M for Generative AI Models and Infrastructure — Valued at ~$4BDecart, a generative AI infrastructure company, secured $300M in funding led by Radical Ventures at an approximately $4B valuation, one of the largest AI infrastructure raises of the week. The company builds generative AI models and the infrastructure to run them, competing with Modal Labs and Replicate for the AI compute layer that all downstream SaaS applications depend on. The raise underscores that the AI infrastructure market is consolidating around a handful of well-capitalized players at multi-billion-dollar valuations.

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Decart
Radical Ventures led Decart's May funding round at nearly $4B valuation
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Pixxel
Radical Ventures is a returning investor in Pixxel.
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Generalist
Radical Ventures led the $400 million Series B for Generalist.
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Decart
Radical Ventures led a $300 million funding round for Decart in May 2026.
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Prime Intellect
Radical Ventures led a $130M Series A for Prime Intellect.
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Generalist AI
Radical Ventures led Generalist AI's $400M funding round.
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