Feb 2, 2026 Weekly Roundup

Weekly Funding Roundup:
Jan 26–Feb 1, 2026

January's final week closed strong with $2.2B across two headline deals, anchored by Nvidia's massive $2B strategic bet on CoreWeave and Synthesia's $200M Series E for AI video at a $4B valuation.

$2.2B
Total Raised
2
Rounds
~$55B
Jan Total

Key Themes

AI infrastructure scaling continues. Nvidia's $2B CoreWeave investment is the clearest signal yet: the chipmaker is vertically integrating into its own supply chain by backing hyperscale cloud operators. Compute remains the bottleneck for frontier AI, and capital is flowing to the companies building the infrastructure layer.

Generative AI maturing into enterprise tools. Synthesia's $200M raise reflects a shift from AI hype to AI utility. With 60,000+ enterprise customers, the company is monetizing generative AI for practical business use cases (training videos, internal communications, marketing content) rather than novelty demos.

January closes at ~$55B. The month set a high bar for 2026, driven by mega-rounds like xAI ($20B), Waymo ($16B), Databricks ($5B), and now Nvidia-CoreWeave ($2B). AI captured roughly 57% of total capital, with corporate VC participation hitting near-record levels across 444+ deals.

The Rounds

CoreWeave Strategic Investment
Jan 26
$2.0B

Nvidia made a $2B strategic investment in the AI cloud infrastructure provider, becoming its second-largest shareholder. The deal deepens the ties between the chipmaker and the GPU cloud operator, expanding U.S. data center capacity for large-scale AI model training and inference. CoreWeave shares rose ~9% in premarket trading. The investment underscores a growing pattern: compute is the bottleneck, and the companies building AI infrastructure are attracting capital at scale.

Nvidia (Lead)
Synthesia Series E
Jan 26
$200M
$4.0B valuation

The UK-based AI video generation platform closed a $200M Series E at a $4B valuation, nearly doubling from its $2.1B Series D just a year earlier. Synthesia is the market leader in enterprise AI video with 60,000+ customers using its text-to-video avatars for training, communications, and marketing. The round signals growing enterprise demand for AI-driven content creation tools.

NVentures (Lead) Accel Kleiner Perkins NEA PSP Growth Air Street Capital

Methodology

Data sourced from company announcements, press coverage, and social media posts via Grok analysis of X. All rounds include linked sources in our database. Source URLs are stored in each company's funding history. Visit individual company pages to see them.

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