FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Shinkei Systems raises $22M Series A to resore American seafood with fish-killing robots
• Nominal raises $75M Series B led by Sequoia to accelerate systems testing for defense and enterprise
• Meter raises $170M to deliver networking infrastructure as a service — no capex for customers
• Anti Metal raises $20M Series A to automate cloud infrastructure as AI makes deployment the new bottleneck

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