Anthropic, Hark & JPYC Spark $30B AI, Stablecoin & Crypto Investment Surge | Deal Corner | 3.0 TV

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Welcome to Deal Corner on 3.TV, your rapidfire weekly update on the biggest moves in web3, crypto, and AI. From fresh fundraisers to strategic partnership and market shifting investments, we break down the deals that matter. Let's jump straight into the first big deal. Anthropic is set to complete a $30 billion funding round, boosting its valuation to over $900 billion with significant participation from Google. This marks a dramatic increase from its $380 billion valuation in February. This investment underscores Google's strategic interest in anthropics capabilities, particularly its mythos model, which is touted as highly advanced yet not publicly released. Reports suggest the White House is nearing agreements with Anthropic for the use of its advanced models, highlighting the model's potential in national security applications. This government interest coupled with Anthropic's rapid revenue growth has bolstered its market valuation and investor confidence.

[00:01:05]Moving on to the next deal of the week.

[00:01:07]Hark, a hardware company for personal AI agents, founded by American tech entrepreneur Brett Atcock, has raised $700 million in series A funding, achieving a post money valuation of $6 billion. The funding round was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from major industry players such as Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Hark aims to develop a universal human machine interaction interface through proprietary models and dedicated hardware. The company plans to launch its first multimodal models in summer 2026, followed by personal EI hardware terminals. The $700 million will be used to expand GPU computing infrastructure and accelerate model development. Moving on to the next deal of the week. Open router has successfully closed a $13 million series B funding round led by Capital G Alphabet's independent growth fund. The round was participation from N ventures, Service Now Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and Datab Bricks Ventures and continued support from existing investors like A16Z and Melo Ventures. Open router and AI model marketplace and routing platform facilitates enterprise access to over 400 models from providers like Anthropic, Google and OpenAI via a single API. The company reports significant growth now processing 25 trillion tokens weekly, a five-fold increase from 6 months ago while serving 8 million users globally. The new funding will enhance its routing governance and optimization capabilities, positioning open router at the forefront of enterprise AI procurement and model distribution.

[00:02:58]Moving on to the next deal of the week, Japanese stable coin issuer JPYC has successfully raised approximately $32 million in series B funding round, attracting new investors, including Life Design Fund and three other institutions. Since its launch in October 2025, JPYC has experienced significant growth with the user accounts reaching 18,000 and total transaction volume exceeding $220 million within 7 months. The stable coin currently operates on four blockchains and has been integrated into the line web3 wallet Unifi. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate system development and enhance JPYC's applications in AIdriven automated payments and crossber financial infrastructure. Moving on to the next deal of the week, POPDEX, a trader focused perpetual decentralized exchange, has successfully closed a $30 million strategic seed round led by Foresight Ventures. This funding comes at a time when crypto venture capital is experiencing a significant downturn with April marking the weakest month since early 2025 as funding fell 74% month over month to 616 million across 62 deals. POPDEX plans to use the capital to seed liquidity, conduct security audits, and expand its team ahead of a broader product rollout. The funding round highlights continued interest in the perpetual deex sector with other platforms like variational and liquid also securing significant investments in 2026. Well, that's all in this episode of the deal corner. This is Ma Sharma signing off. Keep watching TV.