Major AI and fintech funding rounds accelerate global capital deployment across compute and infrastructure scale-ups

Capital flows into AI and infrastructure-linked startups remained aggressive with Poolside securing up to $1 billion funding from Nvidia to strengthen next-generation AI infrastructure systems. Fireworks AI raised $250 million in its Series C round focused on model serving infrastructure and inference services scalability. Synthesia secured $200 million at a $4 billion valuation to expand AI video production capabilities for enterprise applications. Fintech-infrastructure player Crusoe raised $1.37 billion at a $10 billion valuation supported by growing compute demand requirements. Collectively, these large rounds reinforce sustained conviction in enterprise AI enablement, data center scale acceleration and infrastructure-led commercial value capture heading into year-end capital cycles.