Crunchbase Funding Week: Cloaked and Frore Lead as Security + AI Chip Cooling Infrastructure Dominate Investment

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This week's 10 largest US funding rounds were dominated by cybersecurity, privacy, and AI infrastructure startups, with Cloaked (personal data privacy/identity) and Frore (active chip cooling for AI inference hardware) as the notable leaders. The pattern signals investors are now prioritizing the infrastructure layer enabling agent deployments — thermal management and identity compliance — over application-layer AI products. Deal sizes were smaller than recent weeks, suggesting selective capital deployment as the market digests the Q1 2026 SaaS selloff.