Frontier VC Piles Into AI, Fusion and Defense Rails
Thursday, July 9, 2026 · 8 min
Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion AI-and-robotics fund as venture capital keeps rotating into technical-frontier bets, alongside Proxima Fusion’s €411 million Google-backed round and Arkenstone Defense’s $35 million seed for federal-market infrastructure.
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Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion AI-and-robotics fund as venture capital keeps rotating into technical-frontier bets, alongside Proxima Fusion’s €411 million Google-backed round and Arkenstone Defense’s $35 million seed for federal-market infrastructure.
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