The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 8/1/26 featuring funding details for COR, Simile, Epitel and twenty-five other deals representing $2.2B in new funding that you need to know about.
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New York City's venture market produced $8.88 billion across 233 deals in Q2 2026 — the strongest second quarter in the city's history. This analysis identifies the investors who showed up most consistently across the full stack of that market, from seed rounds to $750M late-stage financings, ranked by number of investments in NYC-headquartered startups. Deal count, not dollars deployed, is the measure — because presence across the ecosystem tells a different story than the ability to write one transformational check.
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DeepSeek raised ¥50B. NEURA Robotics pulled in $1.4B. Ramp closed $750M. July 2026's largest global startup funding rounds were a masterclass in where the world's capital is flowing — AI, robotics, and infrastructure, at a scale that rewrites what "big round" means. Here are the 24 largest deals of the month.