AI infrastructure led with $350M; Reach closed $265M Fund V

The current-week stack is led by Groq's $350M Series A and Reach Capital's $265M Fund V. Groq's round was led by Disruptive, with planned NVIDIA participation, and values the AI inference cloud at $3.5B; Reach's fund will write $1M–$10M checks across learning, health, and work. 12

Among company rounds, Velaura AI raised $110M at a valuation above $1B for low-power AI compute, while Sonic Fire Tech raised $15M for acoustic fire suppression and testing. 34

Europe added a different mix: Germany's Computomics raised €6.3M in Series B to scale climate-smart plant breeding, while Lithuania's LITILIT received an €8M development-bank loan and is adding €2M of its own capital to a €10M project. 56

The useful read is structural, not predictive: large checks are funding AI capacity and power efficiency, while applied-tech businesses still use equity, debt, and project capital differently. The selected company rounds total $475M in USD plus €14.3M in European financings; Reach's fund close is kept outside that subtotal. This is a six-disclosure sample, not a market total.