CesiumAstro Raises $730M Series D, plus Harbinger, Future Secure AI, Humble Robotics and Anaheim Bio
Thursday's money went to things that move, fly and close the books. Five rounds of $40 million or more announced Nov 5 that we hadn't covered, now in scope under our new all-sector funding rule. Figures are from Axios Pro Rata unless noted.
CesiumAstro, Austin, builds communications payloads and satellites for space and defense. It raised a $730 million Series D at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Janus Henderson, with Insight Partners, Sands Capital, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, Toyota's Woven Capital, Magnetar and NewSpace Capital. It also secured $100 million in debt from EXIM and JPMorgan. Bloomberg's headline says the money is to launch a new network.
Harbinger, Garden Grove, California, makes electric trucks. Its $240 million Series D was led by Tiger Global, Capricorn and Ridgeline, with FedEx, Fidelity, Squarepoint and others. Bloomberg ties the money to power and defense work.
Future Secure AI, Australia, is the most on-thesis of the bunch. It raised US$82 million from Square Peg, Yarra Capital Management, Firetrail and existing investor Macquarie Asset Management. It builds "AI Co-Workers" for what it calls Red Zone work: month-end close, tax calculations, reconciliations, inside decades-old systems with strict data rules. Each co-worker has a name, a face and a spot on the org chart, the agents underneath are model-agnostic, and deterministic logic handles steps where a language model is the wrong tool. It sells to CEOs and boards and sends former consultants to build and run the deployments. Co-CEOs Mehrdad Baghai, ex-McKinsey, and Michael Hunter, ex-Macquarie. Agents plus forward-deployed services is becoming the enterprise default, and this round is another vote for it.
Humble Robotics, San Francisco, raised a $51 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures with Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners, bringing total funding to $75 million, per FreightWaves. It makes a cabless electric autonomous truck for short runs like port drayage and plant-to-warehouse shuttles, with 200 miles of range. The bet: short, repeatable routes are where autonomy becomes something an operator can depend on.
Anaheim Bio, Netherlands, launched with a β¬40 million Series A from Droia Ventures, Frazier Life Sciences, RTW, Novartis Venture Fund, RV Invest and Thuja Capital, to take ANA-1 into the clinic for calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, a form of arthritis.
Sources:
Axios Pro Rata: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata
Future Secure AI: https://www.unite.ai/square-peg-backs-enterprise-ai-co-worker-developer-future-secure-ai/
Humble Robotics: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/humble-robotics-51m-series-a-cabless-hauler
Anaheim Bio: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anaheim-bio-launches-with-40-million-series-a-financing-to-advance-ana-1-for-calcium-pyrophosphate-deposition-disease-into-the-clinic-302929917.html
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CesiumAstro, Austin, builds communications payloads and satellites for space and defense. It raised a $730 million Series D at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Janus Henderson, with Insight Partners, Sands Capital, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, Toyota's Woven Capital, Magnetar and NewSpace Capital. It also secured $100 million in debt from EXIM and JPMorgan. Bloomberg's headline says the money is to launch a new network.
Harbinger, Garden Grove, California, makes electric trucks. Its $240 million Series D was led by Tiger Global, Capricorn and Ridgeline, with FedEx, Fidelity, Squarepoint and others. Bloomberg ties the money to power and defense work.
Future Secure AI, Australia, is the most on-thesis of the bunch. It raised US$82 million from Square Peg, Yarra Capital Management, Firetrail and existing investor Macquarie Asset Management. It builds "AI Co-Workers" for what it calls Red Zone work: month-end close, tax calculations, reconciliations, inside decades-old systems with strict data rules. Each co-worker has a name, a face and a spot on the org chart, the agents underneath are model-agnostic, and deterministic logic handles steps where a language model is the wrong tool. It sells to CEOs and boards and sends former consultants to build and run the deployments. Co-CEOs Mehrdad Baghai, ex-McKinsey, and Michael Hunter, ex-Macquarie. Agents plus forward-deployed services is becoming the enterprise default, and this round is another vote for it.
Humble Robotics, San Francisco, raised a $51 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures with Eclipse and Energy Impact Partners, bringing total funding to $75 million, per FreightWaves. It makes a cabless electric autonomous truck for short runs like port drayage and plant-to-warehouse shuttles, with 200 miles of range. The bet: short, repeatable routes are where autonomy becomes something an operator can depend on.
Anaheim Bio, Netherlands, launched with a β¬40 million Series A from Droia Ventures, Frazier Life Sciences, RTW, Novartis Venture Fund, RV Invest and Thuja Capital, to take ANA-1 into the clinic for calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease, a form of arthritis.
Sources:
Axios Pro Rata: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pro-rata
Future Secure AI: https://www.unite.ai/square-peg-backs-enterprise-ai-co-worker-developer-future-secure-ai/
Humble Robotics: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/humble-robotics-51m-series-a-cabless-hauler
Anaheim Bio: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/anaheim-bio-launches-with-40-million-series-a-financing-to-advance-ana-1-for-calcium-pyrophosphate-deposition-disease-into-the-clinic-302929917.html
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