Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, July 7, 2026

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It’s Tuesday, July 7, 2026, and today’s funding news reinforces a major shift: capital is flowing into real-world infrastructure and domain-specialized AI, not just headline-grabbing consumer apps. In energy and climate tech, record deals are targeting breakthroughs – Germany’s Proxima Fusion raised €411M (about $468M) to commercialize its stellarator fusion reactor, while Quaise Energy secured $134M to drill superhot