The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI

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This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal roundup here. It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder. The week also included some big financings for enterprise tech, food delivery, drones and construction automation. 1. Fireworks AI, $1.5B, enterprise AI tools: Fireworks AI, a developer of tools for enterprises to turn “general-purpose models into specialized intelligence trained on their own data,” raised $1.505 billion in Series D funding. Atreides Management, Index Ventures and TCV led the financing, which set a $17.5 billion valuation for the San Mateo, California-based company. 2. Wonder, $650M, meals and delivery: Wonder, an operator of kitchens and meal delivery services, closed on $650 million in Series D funding at a $9 billion pre-money valuation. Capital will go in part toward expanding operations for the New York-based company, which currently has 140 locations. 3. Chai Discovery, $400M, life sciences AI: AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery secured $400 million in Series C funding at a $3.8 billion valuation. Index Ventures led the financing, investing alongside Sequoia Capital, Dimension, Kleiner Perkins and others. 4.