Monthly roundup · Big Data & Analytics · August 2026

Big Data & Analytics startup funding, August 2026: Firmus Technologies's $2.0B Growth leads 14 rounds

By Millionrounds ResearchPublished 1 September 2026Updated 12 October 2026

We read 14 equity rounds in Big Data & Analytics announced in August 2026, raising $2.6B between them: 6% of all the rounds we read that month and 11% of the money. The largest was Firmus Technologies's $2.0B Growth. The median seed round was $15M, against $7.5M over the last twelve months in Big Data & Analytics; at Series A it was $140M.

Equity rounds14in Big Data & Analytics, 12 with an amount
Raised$2.6Bacross those rounds
Lead named93%of rounds say who led
Share of the month6%of rounds; 11% of the money

The biggest rounds

  1. 1Firmus TechnologiesGrowth · Australia$2.0B
  2. 2StarcloudSeries A · United States · led by Manhattan West$250M
  3. 3Emerald AISeries A · United States · led by DCVC, Energize Capital$150M
  4. 4OxylabsSeries A · Lithuania · led by Warburg Pincus$130M
  5. 5Voya EnergySeries A · United States · led by Energy Impact Partners$35M
  6. 6Prevalent AIGrowth · United Kingdom · led by Integrity Growth Partners$22M
  7. 7Relativity NetworksSeed · led by Rhapsody Venture Partners$22M
  8. 8FFactbirdGrowth · Denmark · led by Verdane$16M
  9. 9AAlloy RoboticsSeed · Australia · led by Square Peg$8.1M
  10. 10SStrattumPre-seed · Brazil · led by MAYA Capital, ONEVC$3.2M

Day by day

Equity rounds in Big Data & Analytics announced each day of August. The busiest day was 4 August, with 2.

1 August31 August

By stage, against the year

Each stage's median this month beside its twelve-month median: the sector's own where we hold enough rounds for a benchmark, otherwise the one across all sectors.

Pre-seed3$597Kthis month$2.0M12 months, all sectors
Seed2$15Mthis month$7.5M12 months here
Series A4$140Mthis month$21M12 months here
Growth5$22Mthis month$113M12 months, all sectors

Where

United States had the most Big Data & Analytics rounds this month.

Against the month

  • Rounds, Big Data & Analytics14
  • Rounds, all sectors220
  • Raised, Big Data & Analytics$2.6B
  • Raised, all sectors$25B

The whole of August 2026

Other sectors in August

117 roundsAI→32 roundsFintech→24 roundsRobotics→21 roundsConstruction→18 roundsHealthcare→18 roundsSoftware→17 roundsEnergy→14 roundsLogistics→13 roundsDefence Tech→12 roundsEnterprise Software→12 roundsCloud→11 roundsCleantech→11 roundsBiotech→11 roundsCybersecurity→10 roundsClimate Tech→