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October 13, 2025 - Deals
Bondu Secures $5.3M Seed Funding From Makers Fund Samsung Ventures Boost VC Founders Inc
bondu, a San Francisco-based AI toy company founded by Fateen Anam Rafid, raised $5.3M in Seed funding led by Makers Fund, with participation from Samsung Ventures, Boost VC, and Founders Inc. The company plans to use the funds to expand its operations and development efforts. bondu recently piloted Dino, an emotionally intelligent AI companion that grows with children through every stage of development. With a strong focus on safety, bondu’s technology is certified by the kidSAFE Seal Program to ensure secure, age-appropriate play and privacy in every interaction.
INVESTORS: Makers Fund, Samsung Ventures, Boost VC & Founders Inc.
ROUND: Seed
AMOUNT: $5,300,000
HQ: #SanFrancisco #California
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Anthropic Secures $10 Billion Contract With Volta Infra Holdings For AI Infrastructure ExpansionAnthropic is expanding its AI infrastructure footprint with a $10 billion, six-year contract with Nvidia-backed cloud startup Volta Infra Holdings, following a separate $200 billion five-year Google Cloud computing commitment. The deal will provide compute capacity from a renewable-powered data center in Norway using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, as Anthropic scales its broader infrastructure strategy involving hundreds of billions of dollars in commitments across cloud and data center partners.
FOUNDERS: Dario Amodei & Daniela Amodei
AMOUNT: $10,000,000,000
HQ: San Francisco, California
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