# Flapping Airplanes completed about USD 1 billion A round of financing, and the post-investment valuation is about USD 6 billion

On 2026-10-21, according to  TechCrunch , San Francisco AI Research Laboratory Flapping Airplanes (neolab established at the end of 2025) completed about USD 1 billion Series A, with a post-investment valuation of about USD 6 billion; led by Index Ventures and Lux Capital, with the participation of Sequoia, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Nvidia and others. The company bets on using less data and computing power to train models, and develops its own GPU software to improve chip utilization.



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## Connected profiles

- [GV](/institutions/gv)
- [Index Ventures](/institutions/index-ventures)
- [Kleiner Perkins](/institutions/kleiner-perkins)
- [Lux Capital](/institutions/lux-capital)
- [NVIDIA](/institutions/nvidia)
- [Sequoia](/institutions/sequoia)

## Sources

- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/year-old-ai-lab-flapping-airplanes-raises-1b-at-a-6b-valuation/