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Where private money and open-source building are moving right now, read from the filings and the commits rather than the headlines.

may 10may 25jun 9jun 24jul 9jul 24aug 8 capital — dollars raised building — stars per day

Hover or tab a mark to read it. Placed on the day it became public: above the line, a funding filing sized by dollars; below, a new project sized by stars per day.

Updated Aug 8, 2026 Last 90 days 16 rounds worth $3.02B, across 13 firms 75 new fund vehicles 105 projects tracked

Source · SEC EDGAR Form D

What just got funded

A private company selling stock must file a Form D within 15 days of the first sale. It lands in EDGAR whether or not anyone writes it up, which is why these numbers usually arrive weeks before the headline does. Every row below carries a Forbes Midas 100 investor as a named person on the filing.

Baseten Labs, Inc. Sells cloud infrastructure for deploying and running machine learning model inference. CA $1.10B73% of $1.50B Sarah Guo Conviction Capital Jun 30
Ramp Business Corp Sells corporate cards with expense management, bill payment, and accounting automation software. NY $782M90% of $868M Keith Rabois Khosla Ventures Jun 17
Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc. Makes silicon-based anode powder that replaces graphite in lithium-ion batteries for cars and electronics. CA $310M55% of $561M Byron Deeter Bessemer Venture Partners Jul 31
Apex Technology, Inc. Manufactures standardized satellite buses and related integration, testing, and mission services for defense and commercial customers. CA · round opened Apr 10 $157Mfull round Ross Fubini XYZ Venture Capital Jul 22
Quaise Energy, Inc. Develops millimeter-wave drilling equipment that vaporizes rock to reach deep, hot geothermal energy. MA $134M93% of $144M Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures Jul 14
Send Cut Send, Inc. Makes custom laser-cut and machined sheet metal parts to order from files uploaded online. Manufacturing · NV $110Mfull round Andrew Reed Sequoia Capital May 20
FOMO Labs Inc. Makes fomo, a mobile app for buying and trading crypto tokens alongside a social feed. NY $67M91% of $74M Chetan Puttagunta Benchmark Capital Jun 3
FinCo Services, Inc. Operates Current, a mobile banking app offering spending accounts, debit cards, and paycheck advances. NY $67M69% of $97M David George A16z Growth Jun 25
Stord, Inc. Provides warehousing, order fulfillment, and shipping services plus supply chain software for consumer brands. GA $62M21% of $300M Ilya Fushman Kleiner Perkins May 26
Glydways, Inc. Builds on-demand transit systems of small driverless electric vehicles running on narrow dedicated guideways. CA · round opened Feb 25 $60Mfull round Vinod Khosla Khosla Ventures Jul 9
Poaster Technologies Inc. Operates Warp, a payroll, HR, benefits, and tax compliance platform for startups. NY $55M91% of $60M Michael Brown Battery Ventures Jul 7
AMP Robotics Corp Makes AI-guided robotic systems that sort recyclable materials in waste processing facilities. CO $52M70% of $75M Shaun Maguire Sequoia Capital Jun 17
Fly.io, Inc. Sells cloud hosting that runs developers' containerized apps, databases, and GPU workloads in many global regions. Computers · CA $25Mfull round Martin Casado Andreessen Horowitz Jul 29
Rapalogix Health, Inc. Develops rapamycin-analog skincare products and prescription therapeutics targeting the mTOR aging pathway. Biotechnology · CA $19M76% of $25M Rahul Mehta DST Global Jun 26

Every round ever recorded, by month, in the archive

Source · SEC EDGAR Form D

Who is doubling down

The number is how many single-company vehicles that firm has filed in the last 90 days. Separate from their main funds, firms set up a one-off vehicle to put more money into a single company they already own, so a firm opening them repeatedly is concentrating rather than spreading out. Regular numbered funds are counted separately and noted after the vehicle count, because a fund family closing is business as usual, not conviction.

What they are buying is usually not disclosed. A Form D names the vehicle and never its target. A few names carry something recognisable through to the filing; most are opaque by design, which is itself worth knowing. The vehicle names sit under each firm below, so you can read whatever the filing gives up and search the ones that look like they mean something.

Cumulative vehicle counts per firm, month by month, in the archive

Source · GitHub

What is getting built

Ranked by stars per day, not stars. A project sitting at 20,000 stars is already on your timeline and you are late to it. One at 800 adding 200 a day is the earlier read.

firecrawl/anydoc Convert Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB, CSV, and PDF to clean Markdown. Built 2,389stars/day Other 5d old
DietrichGebert/ponytail Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code yo 1,731stars/day AI agents 57d old
yc-software/qm Multiplayer agent harness for work 1,387stars/day AI agents 9d old
odysseus-dev/odysseus Self-hosted AI workspace. 1,232stars/day Other 69d old
trycompai/crm Comp AI CRM is an open source, CRM designed for AI agents. Agentic-first CRM. 1,098stars/day AI agents 7d old
xai-org/grok-build SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. 1,019stars/day AI agents 24d old
MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3 Open Frontier Intelligence 686stars/day Other 12d old
KKKKhazix/human-writing 让 AI 写的中文读起来像一个具体的人在说话。通用创作与改稿 Skill,开箱即用。 658stars/day AI agents 3d old
JustVugg/colibri Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from 613stars/day Other 38d old
Fei-Away/Codex-Dream-Skin Codex Dream Skin 559stars/day Other 24d old
Binaryify/open-kimi-ppt-skill 非官方 Kimi Slides Skill:让 AI Agent 生成可编辑 PPTD + PPTX,并附带本地浏览器编辑器 Unofficial Kimi Slides skill for 529stars/day AI agents 3d old
FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c A 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 running inference on a single CPU in 8.24 GB of RAM. Portable 519stars/day LLM infra 7d old
baidu/Unlimited-OCR Unlimited OCR Works: Welcome the Era of One-shot Long-horizon Parsing. 442stars/day Other 51d old
img2threejs/img2threejs Rebuild the object in a reference image as a code-only, procedural, quality-gated, animation-re 426stars/day AI agents 24d old

Derived · GitHub

Where the building is concentrated

Total star velocity by category, with the number of projects behind it. A category carried by one project is a story; a category carried by eight is a shift.

The Forbes Midas 100 — everyone this page watches
  • 1Vinod KhoslaKhosla VenturesOpenAI
  • 2Neil ShenHSGByteDance
  • 3Eric VishriaBenchmark CapitalCerebras
  • 4Gili RaananCyberstartsWiz
  • 5Peter ThielFounders FundSpaceX
  • 6Elad GilGil CapitalOpenAI
  • 7Trae StephensFounders FundAnduril
  • 8Douglas LeoneSequoia CapitalWiz
  • 9Martin MignotIndex VenturesRevolut
  • 10Shardul ShahIndex VenturesWiz
  • 11Alfred LinSequoia CapitalOpenAI
  • 12Mamoon HamidKleiner PerkinsFigma
  • 13Yasmin RazaviSpark CapitalAnthropic
  • 14Micky MalkaRibbit CapitalCoinbase
  • 15Saurabh GuptaDST GlobalChime
  • 16Ravi MhatreLightspeed Venture PartnersAnthropic
  • 17Steve VassalloFoundation CapitalCerebras
  • 18Luke NosekGigafundSpaceX
  • 19Hemant TanejaGeneral CatalystStripe
  • 20Lior SusanEclipseCerebras
  • 21Brad GerstnerAltimeter CapitalCerebras
  • 22Shaun MaguireSequoia CapitalSpaceX
  • 23Randy GleinDFJ GrowthSpaceX
  • 24Scott RaneyRedpoint VenturesStripe
  • 25Pat GradySequoia CapitalOpenAI
  • 26Danny RimerIndex VenturesFigma
  • 27Ben HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzDatabricks
  • 28Fred WilsonUnion Square VenturesCoinbase
  • 29Tom StaffordDST GlobalRevolut
  • 30David GeorgeA16z GrowthxAI
  • 31Ronny ConwayA.CapitalOpenAI
  • 32Antonio GraciasValor Equity PartnersSpaceX
  • 33Josh KushnerThrive CapitalOpenAI
  • 34Topher ConwaySV AngelStripe
  • 35Pawel ChudzinskiPoint Nine CapitalRevolut
  • 36Chris Dixona16z CryptoCoinbase
  • 37Daniel LevineAccelScale AI
  • 38Xi CaoMonolithMetaX Tech
  • 39Neil MehtaGreenoaksStripe
  • 40Matt MurphyMenlo VenturesAnthropic
  • 41Anna FangZhenFundXiaoHongShu
  • 42Marc StadDragoneer Investment GroupOpenAI
  • 43Avi EyalEntrée CapitalMonday.com
  • 44Peter FentonBenchmark CapitalClickHouse
  • 45Sam FortDFJ GrowthOpenAI
  • 46Luciana LixandruSequoia CapitalMiro
  • 47Aydin SenkutFelicis VenturesNotion Labs
  • 48Tuck Lye KohShunwei CapitalSHEIN
  • 49Byron DeeterBessemer Venture PartnersServiceTitan
  • 50Ashvin BachireddySV AngelOpenAI
  • 51Navin ChaddhaMayfield FundxAI
  • 52Sven StrohbandKhosla VenturesOpenAI
  • 53Steve JangKindred VenturesCoinbase
  • 54Wesley ChanFPVCanva
  • 55Mike VolpiHanabiScale AI
  • 56Sarah GuoConviction CapitalSierra
  • 57Kirsten GreenForerunner VenturesChime
  • 58David SacksCraft VenturesSpaceX
  • 59Mary MeekerBond CapitalOpenAI
  • 60Lucas SwisherCoatue ManagementSpaceX
  • 61Martin CasadoAndreessen HorowitzCursor
  • 62Stephen JurvetsonFuture VenturesSpaceX
  • 63David TischBoxGroupRamp
  • 64Ilya FushmanKleiner PerkinsRippling
  • 65Kui ZhouHSGPony.AI
  • 66Keith RaboisKhosla VenturesStripe
  • 67Ali PartoviNeoCursor
  • 68Ramtin NaimiAbstract VenturesxAI
  • 69David FrankelFounder CollectiveCoupang
  • 70Nicolas SzekasyKaszekNubank
  • 71Jeannette zu FürstenbergGeneral Catalyst PartnersGroq
  • 72Meng LianIDG Capital PartnersSHEIN
  • 73Asheem ChandnaGreylock PartnersRubrik
  • 74Harry NelisAccelCelonis
  • 75Arif JanmohamedLightspeed Venture PartnersNavan
  • 76Matt WitheilerWellingtonAnthropic
  • 77Andrew ReedSequoia CapitalFigma
  • 78Ross FubiniXYZ Venture CapitalAnduril
  • 79Jan HammerIndex VenturesRobinhood
  • 80Alex ZhouQiming Venture PartnersShanghai Biren Technology
  • 81Max GazorStriker Venture PartnersReflection AI
  • 82Thomas LaffontCoatue ManagementCerebras
  • 83Michael RobinsonCraft VenturesxAI
  • 84Philippe BotteriAccelCyera
  • 85Dharmesh ThakkerBattery VenturesDatabricks
  • 86Annie LamontOak HC/FTDevoted Health
  • 87Hurst LinDCMKuaishou
  • 88Lee FixelAdditionStripe
  • 89Chetan PuttaguntaBenchmark CapitalCursor
  • 90Hans TungNotable CapitalAnthropic
  • 91Pete SonsiniLaudeDatabricks
  • 92Reid ChristianCRVSkild AI
  • 93Zhen ZhangGaorong VenturesGeek+
  • 94Aneel RanadiveSoma CapitalDeel
  • 95Christian LawlessConversion CapitalRamp
  • 96Wang HuadongMatrix Partners ChinaMETAX Tech
  • 97Michael BrownBattery VenturesServiceTitan
  • 98Semil ShahHaystack VenturesFigma
  • 99Rahul MehtaDST GlobalRobinhood
  • 100Salil DeshpandeUncorrelatedCrusoe Energy