Monthly roundup · Cloud · August 2026

Cloud startup funding, August 2026: Firmus Technologies's $2.0B Growth leads 12 rounds

By Millionrounds ResearchPublished 1 September 2026Updated 10 October 2026

We read 12 equity rounds in Cloud announced in August 2026, raising $4.1B between them: 5% of all the rounds we read that month and 17% of the money. The largest was Firmus Technologies's $2.0B Growth. The median seed round was $22M, against $5.5M over the last twelve months across all sectors; at Series A it was $250M.

Equity rounds12in Cloud, 11 with an amount
Raised$4.1Bacross those rounds
Lead named92%of rounds say who led
Share of the month5%of rounds; 17% of the money

The biggest rounds

  1. 1Firmus TechnologiesGrowth · Australia$2.0B
  2. 2LumilensSeries C · United States · led by Bain Capital Ventures, Spark Capital$700M
  3. 3GroqSeries A · United States · led by Disruptive$350M
  4. 4VVoltaSeries A · led by Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter$300M
  5. 5StarcloudSeries A · United States · led by Manhattan West$250M
  6. 6PanthalassaGrowth · United States · led by Hanwha Asset Management, 8090 Industries$225M
  7. 7Emerald AISeries A · United States · led by DCVC, Energize Capital$150M
  8. 8BlacksmithSeries B · United States · led by Surge$45M
  9. 9Voya EnergySeries A · United States · led by Energy Impact Partners$35M
  10. 10Relativity NetworksSeed · led by Rhapsody Venture Partners$22M

Day by day

Equity rounds in Cloud announced each day of August. The busiest day was 7 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-seed1$2.4Mthis month$2.0M12 months, all sectors
Seed1$22Mthis month$5.5M12 months, all sectors
Series A5$250Mthis month$20M12 months, all sectors
Series B1$45Mthis month$50M12 months, all sectors
Series C1$700Mthis month$100M12 months, all sectors
Growth3$1.1Bthis month$113M12 months, all sectors

Where

United States had the most Cloud rounds this month.

Against the month

  • Rounds, Cloud12
  • Rounds, all sectors220
  • Raised, Cloud$4.1B
  • 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→14 roundsBig Data & Analytics→13 roundsDefence Tech→12 roundsEnterprise Software→11 roundsCleantech→11 roundsBiotech→11 roundsCybersecurity→10 roundsClimate Tech→