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California-based Oratomic raises $475 million, while UK-based Universal Quantum raises more than $100 million in Series A funding. Oratomic’s Series B, co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, General Catalyst and Bezos Expeditions, brings its total funding to $775 million and its valuation to $5.5 billion. Universal Quantum develops modular trapped-ion systems and plans to use its funding to advance commercialization and support expansion in Singapore, the United States and Japan.

Oct 2026SiliconANGLENews article

Quantum-computing startup Oratomic raises $475 million in a Series B, bringing its valuation to $5.4 billion. The financing brings the company's total funding to $775 million.

Oct 2026Wall Street JournalNews article

Robotics AI startup Generalist reportedly raises $200 million in a round led by 8VC and joined by unnamed existing investors. The funding follows the debut of Gen-1.5, a model that teaches robotic arms tasks through demonstrations and can learn from camera footage, hand sensors, or simulated-robot clips. Generalist reports an average 59% task completion rate from one example and 83% after a few additional examples across 10 tasks.

Aug 2026SiliconAngleNews article

Oratomic raises $300 million in a Series A to develop a utility-scale quantum computer using lasers to trap individual atoms. The round is co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Bezos Expeditions, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercarbon Capital, Bain Capital, and others. The company says its error-correction approach could enable a useful system with 10,000 to 20,000 qubits, and it reports experimentally demonstrating the core components at a smaller scale.

Jul 2026TechCrunchNews article