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The full archive of AI startup and funding news tracked by AI Market Watch. Page 14 of 41.

• Provally, a Seoul‑based AI security startup, closed a seed round backed by BluePoint Partners through its Geek’s School accelerator. 🚀 The funding will accelerate AutoProof, its AI‑driven vulnerabilitApr 11, 2026
• CertifID just closed a $63M Series C, bringing total funding to $63M and expanding its team to 146 staff. The platform now safeguards over $1.3B in real‑estate transactions annually, adding AI‑drivenApr 11, 2026
• CoreWeave sealed a multi‑year AI‑cloud pact with Anthropic, giving the Claude models dedicated GPU capacity across its data centers. The deal, worth several billions (est. $6‑7 B) and coming just afteApr 11, 2026
• Elorian secured a $55M seed round at a $300M valuation, backed by NVIDIA, Menlo Ventures and Jeff Dean. The startup is targeting visual reasoning AI for robotics, aerospace, medicine and manufacturingApr 11, 2026
• Sanas has launched the world’s first real‑time speech AI platform, delivering live accent translation, noise cancellation and speech‑to‑speech language conversion. The startup grew ARR from $16 M to $Apr 11, 2026
• Yutori launched Scouts, always‑on AI agents that monitor any web task via natural language prompts. A single Scout run fires an average of 76 agents, processes ~1 M tokens, and costs just $0.35, enablApr 11, 2026
• Halter just closed a $220 M Series E, lifting its valuation to $2 B. Its solar‑powered collars, backed by 7 billion hours of cattle behavior data, now monitor over 1 million cows, creating 11,000 mi oApr 11, 2026
• Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire Astrix Security for $250‑$350 M, aiming to embed AI‑agent protection into its portfolio. Astrix, valued at ~3× its last round, generates $25 M revenue and recentlApr 11, 2026
• Shield AI closed a $725M round, pushing its valuation to $8 billion. The infusion will accelerate Hivemind Enterprise and expand autonomous drone software for the Pentagon’s growing AI‑driven operatioApr 11, 2026
• IQVIA has launched IQVIA.ai, a unified agentic AI platform built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron and NeMo toolkits. The custom agents embed directly into clinical, commercial and real‑world workflows, promisingApr 11, 2026
• Serval has launched its Agent Deployment team, a new technical unit that owns end‑to‑end AI agent roll‑outs for enterprise pilots. The founding roles offer $200k‑$325k salaries plus equity, letting enApr 11, 2026
• RoshiAi secured ₹22 crore ($2.4 M) led by IAN Alpha Fund to accelerate its retrofit-autonomy platform for heavy industrial vehicles. The capital will boost product development, expand pilot deploymentApr 11, 2026
• ShengShu Technology secured a 2 billion yuan ($293 M) Series B led by Alibaba Cloud. The round will accelerate its "general world model"—a multimodal AI that perceives video, audio and text to simulatApr 11, 2026
• Seattle‑based Dropzone AI closed a $16.85M Series A led by Theory Ventures, targeting autonomous AI agents that trim SOC manual effort by 90% and shrink alert investigation time to ~3 minutes. 🚀 ThisApr 11, 2026
• Nebius, the Nvidia‑backed AI cloud provider, is in talks to acquire Israel’s AI21 Labs after Nvidia’s deal fell through. AI21, valued at $1.4 billion in 2023 with $50 M annual revenue and a 200‑personApr 11, 2026
• Trent AI raised $13M seed to secure autonomous AI agents across development and runtime. Backed by OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, AWS and Stripe, it builds continuous security agents for ever‑changing wApr 11, 2026
• RoshAi has secured ₹22 crore ($2.4 M) in a round led by IAN Group’s Alpha Fund. The capital will accelerate its AI‑powered retrofit kits for driverless industrial vehicles and fund deployments in theApr 11, 2026
• vApus AI has teamed up with Cloudian to bring its GenAI solutions onto Cloudian's HyperScale AI Data Platform, which supports exabyte‑scale, S3‑compatible storage and can be deployed in under 30 days.Apr 11, 2026
• SK Telecom, Arm and Rebellions will co‑develop a hybrid CPU‑NPU inference server, merging Arm's new 136‑core AGI CPU with Rebellions' RebelCard slated for Q3 release. This architecture promises higherApr 11, 2026
• Saudi edtech startup GAGA closed a $2.5M pre‑Series A round, bringing total capital to $4.2M. The funding will expand its 1,000+ live programs across 200 subjects, grow the Arabic‑language teacher netApr 11, 2026
• Adrenaline Interactive secured a $1 M grand prize at PitchMI, raising its total state‑backed funding to $1.375 M. The win validates its Brand Fusion AI platform, which automates native in‑game productApr 11, 2026
• RoshiAi announced new hubs in Kochi and Bengaluru, tapping the fast‑growing deep‑tech talent pools of both cities. The expansion adds 30 AI researchers and targets a $12 M market opportunity in AI‑driApr 11, 2026
• ZeroFOX secured $74 M in a Series D round led by Intel Capital, bringing its total funding above $160 M. The round funds its AI‑Builders partnership with Intel, accelerating cloud‑based threat detectiApr 11, 2026
• Luminai closed a $38M Series B, bringing total funding to $60M, led by Peak XV. The round supports scaling its AI‑native platform that automates end‑to‑end administrative workflows, a cost center thatApr 11, 2026
• If BTC slides below $63,666, Coinglass estimates CEX long liquidation intensity will hit $10.66 B, dwarfing typical daily volumes. Such a spike can strain margin systems, trigger auto‑liquidations, anApr 11, 2026
• DeepCyte announced a $1.5 M seed round to launch its AI-driven single‑cell toxicology platform, MetaCore, aimed at predicting drug safety at the cellular level. This early‑stage capital will acceleratApr 11, 2026
• AI Medicare Broker has reached a $3 billion valuation, secured by two U.S. vice presidents backing its capital raise. This signals massive institutional confidence in AI‑driven health insurance navigaApr 10, 2026
• In May 2025 Zain’s internal incubator ZAINIAC launched ACTLY, an AI‑driven startup built by Zain employees to deliver hyper‑personalized customer experiences via real‑time insights, behavioral analytiApr 10, 2026
• Plume AI closed a €3.3 M (≈$3.5 M) seed round led by AENU, Y Combinator and Kima Ventures. 🚀 Its AI‑driven geospatial platform now aggregates 150+ data sources to cut renewable site due‑diligence fromApr 10, 2026
• NeuBird AI secured $19.3M in an oversubscribed round led by Xora Innovation, with Mayfield, M12, StepStone and Prosperity7 joining. The capital will accelerate its agentic AI platform for production oApr 10, 2026
• SpaceX reported a $4.9B loss in 2025, with AI costs driving the shortfall. xAI alone burned $1.46B in Q3, while overall revenue rose to $18.5B, showing the gap between cash flow and AI investment. ThiApr 10, 2026
• Project44 has acquired LunaPath.ai, bringing AI agents that can act on live logistics data rather than just provide recommendations. By embedding LunaPath’s automation into the company's supply‑chainApr 10, 2026
• Edmund secured €2.5 million (lead FORWARD.one) to scale its AI‑driven industrial troubleshooting platform across Europe and the US. The funding will boost team growth and enhance the AI engine that cuApr 10, 2026
• Blocks, founded by Flink’s Oliver Merkel and Andreas Schroeter, closed a $6 M pre‑seed round led by Speedinvest, with participation from Caesar Ventures. The AI‑driven platform targets cloud spend visApr 10, 2026
• Coworker.ai secured $13M in a seed round led by Jeff Huber (Triatomic Capital) with backing from Abstract Ventures and Eniac. The funding fuels the launch of the first enterprise AI agent that can resApr 10, 2026
• Zest Search, the AI-native startup building enterprise workflow agents, just closed a $15 M seed round, scaling its team to ~20. The new Founding Product Manager role in Edinburgh will drive 0‑to‑1 AIApr 10, 2026
• GitButler announced a $17M Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to build an AI‑native version‑control system. 🚀 By adding parallel branches, stacked worktrees and agent‑specific commands, it tacklesApr 10, 2026
• Replit is in talks for a new funding round that could push its valuation to $3 billion, following a $250 M Series C that already set that mark. The influx of capital underscored investor confidence inApr 10, 2026
• Canva has bought Sydney AI firms Simtheory and Ortto, adding an agentic AI platform and a marketing automation suite to its stack. This is Canva’s 8th AI purchase, bringing total AI‑focused spend pastApr 10, 2026
• Paylocity has acquired Grayscale Labs, bringing AI‑driven recruiting automation to its HCM suite. The tool claims to cut time‑to‑hire for high‑volume roles by up to 30% while keeping final decisions wApr 10, 2026
• ThoughtSpot completed its acquisition of SeekWell, adding reverse‑ETL capabilities that let users pull data via natural‑language search, tweak it in tools like Google Sheets, and auto‑sync results toApr 10, 2026
• Oumi’s analysis for the NYT shows Google’s AI Overviews are 90% accurate, but with ~5 trillion queries a year that still means ~57 million wrong answers each hour (≈100 k per minute). The error rate dApr 10, 2026
• DeepSeek’s V4 model, slated for release in weeks, packs ~1 trillion parameters, multimodal capabilities and a $0.30 /MTok pricing. Reports confirm it will run on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR chips, marking aApr 10, 2026
• Gifr.ai launched an AI image‑to‑GIF platform that turns a static photo into a custom animated GIF in seconds via a simple text prompt. The tool promises up to 3× higher engagement on social posts andApr 10, 2026
• AIResQ, co‑founded by Northeastern PhD alum Udit Bhatia and Prof. Auroop Ganguly, now gives Indian cities real‑time flood forecasts down to 3 pm predictions and traffic impact by 6‑7 pm. The system, aApr 10, 2026
• Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Exostellar, the Cornell‑born AI infrastructure software startup, in March 2026. Exostellar’s AIM platform unifies heterogeneous GPU resources, cutting AI workApr 10, 2026
• Haast secured $12 M Series A, led by Peak XV Partners, to scale its AI‑driven compliance platform for enterprise marketing content. The funding backs its claim of cutting review time by up to 80% andApr 10, 2026
• Glean, the Microsoft Copilot rival, just signed a 62,000‑sq‑ft lease near downtown Mountain View, boosting its office footprint as it hits 1,000 employees and $765 M in funding. The new space supportsApr 10, 2026
• Formulary has closed a $4.6M seed round, led by Khosla Ventures and three‑times oversubscribed, to launch its AI‑native fund administration platform for private equity and VC firms. The software automApr 10, 2026
• AfterQuery closed a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, reaching $100M ARR in just 14 months. The round, led by Altos Ventures, backs its network of ~100k verified experts delivering domain‑specific dApr 10, 2026
• Chapter closed a $100M Series E led by Generation Investment Management, expanding its AI-native retirement OS beyond Medicare. The platform now scans all 24,000+ Medicare plans, eliminating broker biApr 10, 2026
• Alibaba Cloud led a 2 billion yuan ($293 M) round for ShengShu, the Beijing AI video generator behind Vidu and TurboDiffusion. The cash, joined by Baidu Ventures and Luminous, fuels real‑time, high‑quApr 10, 2026
• Shield AI secured $2 billion in a Series G round, pushing its valuation to $12.7 billion—more than double last year. $1.5 billion of equity led by Advent International and JPMorgan, plus $500 millionApr 10, 2026
• Keycard, an identity platform for AI agents, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, Boldstart Ventures and Acrew Capital. The capital will fuel R&D on task‑scoped, ephemeApr 9, 2026
• Modus raised $85 M in a combined seed & Series A round led by Lightspeed, with backing from Comma Capital and Garry Tan. The capital will accelerate its AI‑native audit platform and fuel its roll‑up sApr 9, 2026
• RoshAi secured INR 22 crore ($2.36 M) in a round led by IAN Group’s Alpha Fund, adding to its earlier $1.71 M seed. The capital will accelerate retrofit autonomy solutions for heavy vehicles in ports,Apr 9, 2026
• WorkOnGrid secured ₹22.5 cr (≈$2.7 M) in a round led by Transition VC with Indian Angel Network backing. The capital will accelerate AI/ML upgrades and global rollout of its utility data intelligenceApr 9, 2026
• Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launched Entire with a $60 M seed round at a $300 M valuation. The startup targets governance and collaboration for AI‑generated code, aiming to tame the flood of agentApr 9, 2026
• OpenAI will set aside a chunk of its IPO for retail investors after raising $3 billion from individuals in its latest $122 billion round, topping the usual 5‑10% allocation. This move signals a push tApr 9, 2026
• Lucky secured $23 M Series B, led by Disruptech Ventures and Suez Canal Bank, to scale its credit platform and launch in North Africa. The fintech, which posted 3× revenue growth and turned profitableApr 9, 2026
• Voxel closed a $1.7 M seed round led by CincyTech USA, backing its AI‑driven design platform that optimizes additive‑manufacturing workflows. The funding will fuel the new Cincinnati HQ and accelerateApr 9, 2026
• neuroClues closed a €10M Series A, bringing total capital to €25M, to commercialise its CE‑marked eye‑tracking device that delivers AI‑derived neurological biomarkers in a 10‑minute exam. With 30+ uniApr 9, 2026
• Meta acquired Singapore‑based Manus AI for over $2 billion, buying a startup that hit $125 M revenue run rate and $100 M ARR in just eight months. The deal signals a shift from pure LLM chatbots to auApr 9, 2026
• Pervaziv AI's Cortex 3.2 now embeds AWS services (IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.) into its AI‑driven coding and security platform, letting teams query and manage cloud resources conversationally. ThiApr 9, 2026
• Doroni Aerospace showcased its H1‑X personal eVTOL at the Soul of the Sky event, featuring a tandem‑wing design, 65 kWh battery, 97 km range and a top speed of 193 km/h. The onboard SOUL AI Digital CoApr 9, 2026
• 9fin just closed a $170M Series C, valuing the AI‑native debt market platform at $1.3B and earning unicorn status. The round, led by HarbourVest with CPP Investments and existing backers, will accelerApr 9, 2026
• Mistral AI met Samsung's device‑solutions head in Seoul, seeking high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) for its Europe‑scale AI models. The talks follow President Macron’s visit and aim to secure a stable chip sApr 9, 2026
• Rocket AI Platform launches Rocket 1.0, an AI-driven product strategy suite that auto‑generates consulting‑grade reports, pricing models and go‑to‑market plans from simple prompts. The platform taps oApr 9, 2026
• Trent AI secured $13 M seed funding led by LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with backing from OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks and AWS execs. Founded in 2025 by Eno Thereska, Neil Lawrence andApr 9, 2026
• Tsecond.ai secured $21.5 million (≈ Rs 190 cr) from MSN Holdings to scale its BRYCK edge‑AI platform for defence and aerospace. The system delivers up to 5 GB/s (≈ 1 PB/h) data capture and AI inferencApr 9, 2026
• Nava, formerly Kluisz, secured $21.7M in Series A led by Greenoaks Capital, with RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures participating. The startup pivots to GPU‑as‑a‑service, building a "neocloud" of AApr 9, 2026
• New Space Intelligence raised ¥430 million ($2.9 M) in Series A to expand its satellite data pipeline that automates calibration, integration and AI‑driven quality correction across heterogeneous sateApr 9, 2026
• Chalkie AI closed a £3 million seed round with Triple Point Ventures, scaling its AI lesson‑planning tool that already serves over 100 k teachers and has generated 500 k lessons. The raise, driven byApr 9, 2026
• Shield AI just closed a $2 billion Series G round, valuing the company at $12.7 billion – more than double its valuation a year ago and landing it at #5 in overall funding rankings. The cash will fuelApr 9, 2026
• Handhold closed a €3M seed round led by Entourage Capital, Inovia and e2vc to launch AI‑account managers that qualify leads, run demos and onboard users 24/7. The platform targets SMB SaaS firms, promApr 9, 2026
• Validus AI Partners' Q1 2026 blueprint details a shift from monolithic AI teams to a federated model with hybrid Centers of Excellence, embedding AI talent in business units. It stresses three pillarsApr 9, 2026
• d-Matrix has acquired GigaIO's SuperNODE rack‑scale platform and FabreX PCIe Gen 5 AI fabric, adding full data‑center infrastructure and engineering talent. This expands d‑Matrix's end‑to‑end inferencApr 9, 2026
• Pomo secured $4.5 M seed round, led by Kindred Ventures with backing from Databricks Ventures, SV Angel, and AI legends like Scott Belsky. The platform autonomously monitors Google, Meta & TikTok ads,Apr 9, 2026
• Eilla AI has closed Europe’s first AI-native M&A deal, guiding White Pearl Technology Group to acquire CreateX and Native Digital in just 15 days of outreach. Their AI platform cuts CIM preparation frApr 9, 2026
• Muun AI raised US$700K pre‑seed from Wavemaker Impact to scale its industrial intelligence platform that labels raw telemetry without historical data. In a Singapore pilot the system scored 96.6/100 oApr 9, 2026
• Cent, the AI‑led healthtech venture founded by Practo co‑founder Shashank ND, just closed a $5 M seed round backed by OneFlow Holdings and South Park Commons. The funding will fuel its direct‑to‑consuApr 9, 2026
• Tsecond.ai secured $21.5 million (≈₹190 cr) in a round led by MSN Holdings to boost its petabyte‑scale edge AI platform for defense. The financing will accelerate development of air‑gapped compute andApr 9, 2026
• WorkOnGrid secured Rs 22.5 crore (~$2.4 M) in a seed round led by Transition Venture Capital, with Indian Angel Network backing. The startup’s DiscomGPT layer converts fragmented utility data into a rApr 9, 2026
• UnityAI closed an $8.5M Series A, bringing total capital to $15M, to scale its autonomous AI workforce across US healthcare ops. The platform now handles 300k+ patient interactions monthly, deliveringApr 8, 2026
• NeuBird AI closed a $19.3M oversubscribed round led by Xora Innovation, with Mayfield, StepStone, Prosperity7 and Microsoft’s M12 on board. The fresh capital funds the rollout of Falcon, an autonomousApr 8, 2026
• Arcee has launched Trinity Large Thinking, a 400B-parameter sparse MoE LLM with only 13B active per token, built by a 26‑person team on a $20 M budget. The model is Apache 2.0 licensed, runs 2‑3× fastApr 8, 2026
• Anthropic’s Project Glasswing gives select partners – Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nvidia and security firms – early access to the Claude Mythos Preview model for defensive cyber work. The startuApr 8, 2026
• Temasek Trust’s C3H and Richardson Family have led a US$1.2 million round for Singapore AI health‑tech injewelme. The capital will scale its DeepHealthVision rPPG system, which now reads over 20 vitalApr 8, 2026
• ThreeD Capital boosted its stake in AI/ML Innovations to ~38% (partially diluted) by acquiring a $450K convertible debenture, granting rights to 9M shares and 9M warrants. This raises ThreeD’s influenApr 8, 2026
• CoChat has launched the first AI collaboration workspace, unifying chats, AI queries, and autonomous workflows in a single, secure hub. Early traction shows >14,000 sign‑ups and ~1,500 weekly active uApr 8, 2026
• AMBIR released AmbirScan BCS v2026 with AI‑assisted card reading, boosting extraction accuracy to over 95% and supporting five languages (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES). The AI runs locally, eliminating cloud laApr 8, 2026
• Gnani.ai announced a Series B raise of ₹68 crore (~$7.2 M) led by Aavishkaar Capital with participation from Info Edge Ventures. The funding will accelerate its sovereign AI voice agents and scale theApr 8, 2026
• Hermeus secured $350 M in Series C funding, valuing the startup at $1 B as it scales production of turbine‑based combined‑cycle hypersonic drones. The hybrid turbojet‑ramjet engine targets Mach 5 speeApr 8, 2026
• Singapore‑based Atlas has closed a $6 M round co‑led by Accel and Stellaris to fuel its AI‑native platform for independent accounting firms. With 20%+ talent decline in US accounting and $150 B industApr 8, 2026
• Secure AI (formerly Trent AI) raised a $13 M seed round backed by OpenAI and Spotify execs. The London startup offers a multi‑agent security platform to protect AI agents that can write to databases,Apr 8, 2026
• Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs closed a record €890 M ($1.03 B) seed round, valuing the startup at $3.5 B. Backed by investors like Cathay Innovation, NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, AMI will push Joint EmApr 8, 2026
• Wavemaker Impact leads a $700k pre‑seed round in Muun AI, enabling its real‑time sensor labeling engine to operate without historic data. In a Singapore factory proof‑of‑concept, the platform uncovereApr 8, 2026
• Xccelera just sealed ₹1.2 cr seed funding, backed by founders from Livspace, TestMu AI and Zipdial. The capital will turbo‑charge its multi‑agent orchestration platform, already driving $250K ARR in jApr 8, 2026
• Pony.ai announced a $112 million raise, boosting its Series A push to scale robotaxi operations. The funding will accelerate deployment of its geofenced fleet, aiming to grow from 1,200 to 3,000 autonApr 8, 2026
• DatologyAI secured $46M Series A (total $57.5M) to build an automated data‑curation platform that can handle petabytes of multimodal data. By letting enterprises select high‑quality training data, modApr 8, 2026