AI News Archive

The full archive of AI startup and funding news tracked by AI Market Watch. Page 15 of 41.

• Xoople closed a $130M Series B, pushing its total to $225M and targeting a unicorn valuation. The round funds a proprietary satellite constellation and AI‑ready geospatial platform – the "Earth's SystApr 8, 2026
• Tennibot unveiled the Partner V2, a lighter AI-driven tennis ball machine that fires up to 70 mph, holds 140 balls and offers a wider vertical shot range. Its custom‑drill engine auto‑adjusts speed, sApr 8, 2026
• Bryson DeChambeau’s investor group has acquired Sportsbox AI in an eight‑figure deal, integrating its phone‑based 3D swing capture with Google Cloud‑powered SAMI, an agentic AI coaching assistant. TheApr 8, 2026
• OnSite secured S$1.7 M seed round led by Tin Men Capital and Alter Global to tackle Singapore’s S$53 B construction market. Its AI‑powered messaging platform timestamps every message, photo and voiceApr 8, 2026
• Kimia secured $7 million seed capital led by Airtree Ventures with Blackbird and Skip Capital backing. The AI platform targets the $100 billion chemicals knowledge gap, enabling enterprises like BostiApr 8, 2026
• Verbaflo AI secured $7 M seed funding, bringing total capital to $9 M as it scales its AI‑native communications platform for student housing and multifamily operators. The round led by Pi Labs and bacApr 8, 2026
• Aria Networks closed a $125 million Series A, backed by Sutter Hill, Atreides, Valor and Eclipse, to build the world’s first AI‑native network that works with any AI chip—including Nvidia and Google.Apr 8, 2026
• Firmus secured a $505 million strategic round led by Coatue, with Nvidia participation, valuing the AI‑data‑center builder at $8 billion. The capital will fast‑track its "AI Factory" rollout across APApr 8, 2026
• Mistral AI secured $830 million in debt financing to power a new AI data center near Paris with 13,800 Nvidia GPUs, targeting Q2 2026 launch. This massive GPU haul will boost Europe's AI training capaApr 8, 2026
• OpenAI faces mounting headwinds in 2026 with projected losses of $14B and cumulative losses through 2028 reaching $44B. The company shut down Sora after just 6 months, twice redrew its roadmap amid prApr 6, 2026
• Mistral AI secured $830M in debt from 7 banks for a 44MW Paris data center with 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs — the largest AI-focused debt raise by a European tech company. Owning compute is now as criticApr 6, 2026
• Stockholm-based Endform raised EUR1.5M in seed funding led by Alliance VC to tackle a critical AI-era bottleneck: slow CI pipelines. The platform slashes Playwright end-to-end test execution from 30 mApr 1, 2026
• Scala Biodesign raised $16M Series A led by Grove Ventures for ScalaOS, an AI protein design platform used by 9 of the top 20 pharma companies. 🧬 The platform combines LLMs, physics-based modeling andApr 1, 2026
• Neuron Factory raised a strategic round from Trimble, Suffolk Technologies, and Imad Ventures to scale its AI preconstruction platform. Built on the first enterprise knowledge graph for construction,Apr 1, 2026
• PromptQL, the Hasura spin-off, raised $63M to build an AI-native workspace that turns team conversations into persistent memory for agentic workflows. Already a $1B+ unicorn with ~141 employees, it leApr 1, 2026
• Linx Security raised $50M in Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total to $83M. Backed by the same early investors as Wiz, the startup aims to do for identity what Wiz did for cloud securitApr 1, 2026
• ScaleOps raised $130M in Series C at an $800M+ valuation, bringing total funding to $210M. The autonomous cloud and AI infrastructure platform tackles a critical bottleneck: enterprise Kubernetes clusApr 1, 2026
• Gnani.ai raised $10M Series B led by Aavishkaar Capital, processing 30M daily voice interactions across 12+ languages for 200+ enterprises 🎙️ Selected as one of 4 startups under India's sovereign AI MApr 1, 2026
• Zurich-based AI startup Lobby has raised $2.2M from Founderful, with GetYourGuide co-founder Pascal Mathis joining its board. 🏨 Its platform automates complex group booking workflows, slashing responsApr 1, 2026
• Copenhagen-based Financial News Systems (FNS), an AI-only financial newsroom founded by ex-Reuters journalists, has raised €1.5M in pre-seed funding led by Nordic VC Ugly Duckling Ventures. FNS trainsApr 1, 2026
• Danish startup Cernel raised €4M seed funding led by Seed Capital to build AI infrastructure for agentic commerce. Their platform automates product data structuring between supplier inputs and sales cApr 1, 2026
• Pascal AI Labs, a Bengaluru-based fintech AI SaaS startup, raised $3.1M in seed funding led by Kalaari Capital with Norwest, InfoEdge Ventures, and Antler also participating. 🤖 The startup builds agenApr 1, 2026
• Littlebird raised $11M in seed funding led by Lotus Studio to launch a full-context AI assistant for macOS that reads screen activity and transcribes meetings without storing screenshots. Founded by tApr 1, 2026
• Gnani.ai has raised $10M in Series B led by impact investor Aavishkaar Capital to scale its sovereign voice AI platform under the IndiaAI Mission. The Bengaluru startup already processes 30M daily voiApr 1, 2026
• Mistral AI secured $830M in debt from 7 banks for 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to power a Paris-area data center, its first-ever debt raise. Months after a $2B equity round at $13.8B valuation, Europe's tApr 1, 2026
• Saronic closed a $1.75B Series D at $9.25B valuation, more than doubling from $4B in under a year. The startup targets 20+ autonomous vessels annually by 2027, backed by a $392M Navy contract and itsApr 1, 2026
• Qualified Health raised $125M in Series B led by NEA, bringing total funding to $155M — one of the largest healthcare AI-specific rounds on record. 🏥 The platform helps health systems safely deploy, gMar 31, 2026
• Starcloud raised $170M in Series A at a $1.1B valuation, becoming YC's fastest unicorn just 17 months after demo day. The Redmond-based startup already deployed an Nvidia H100 GPU in orbit and trainedMar 31, 2026
• Mistral AI secured €722M ($830M) in debt financing from 7 banks for its first data center near Paris, powered by 13,800 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs delivering 44 MW by Q2 2026. The French AI unicorn is evolvingMar 31, 2026
• Rise Up CEO Arnaud Blachon has spun out Forge Learning as a standalone AI startup after internal AI integration stalled for months at the LMS company. Forge delivers real-time, in-workflow coaching inMar 30, 2026
• Lightly AG, the YC-backed ETH Zurich spin-off with $3M seed funding, is hiring freelance experts across law, finance, energy and audit to replicate end-to-end professional workflows for AI training. TMar 30, 2026
• IndustrialMind.ai, founded by ex-Tesla Gigafactory leaders, raised USD 1.2M in pre-seed funding to build an AI Engineer for manufacturing. The platform auto-generates BOMs, routings, and cost quotes fMar 30, 2026
• Theia Insights, founded by ex-Amazon AI researchers, raised $8M in Series A led by MiddleGame Ventures for a total of $14.5M. Its platform replaces decades-old static industry classification with a dyMar 30, 2026
• Lovable has reached $400M ARR in just 14 months, adding $100M in a single month. With only 146 employees generating $2.7M ARR per person — nearly 7x the SaaS industry benchmark — the Swedish vibe-codiMar 30, 2026
• Mecara CEO Hiromi Kawamata has been named to the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Asia-Pacific Class of 2026, recognizing her work in AI-driven digital pupillometry that measures autonomic nervous sysMar 30, 2026
• Galdera, founded by Klarna veterans, raised €1.5M pre-seed to build an AI-native financial modeling platform replacing static spreadsheets with context-aware, evolving models. Their engine previouslyMar 30, 2026
• IndustrialMind.ai, founded by former Tesla Gigafactory AI leaders, raised $1.2M in pre-seed funding led by Antler with participation from TSVC and Plug and Play to scale its AI Engineer platform for mMar 30, 2026
• Vista AI raised $29.5M in Series B funding backed by 5 major health systems including Cedars-Sinai and Intermountain Health, alongside Khosla Ventures. Its FDA-cleared cardiac MRI platform has alreadyMar 30, 2026
• Zelos Technology secured over $300 million in new funding, pushing its valuation past RMB 10 billion after merging with Alibaba Cainiao's autonomous driving unit to form a $2 billion robovan entity. TMar 30, 2026
• Grace AI Lab, a Lagos-based startup, is deploying autonomous AI agents that handle end-to-end tasks like loan assessments, fraud detection, and compliance for Nigerian banks and SMEs. Supporting 5 locMar 29, 2026
• Dimer Health raised $13.5M Series A led by Team8 and Bill Ackman's Table Management to scale its AI post-discharge care platform. Its AiME system combined with licensed Transitionists has cut unnecessMar 29, 2026
• Wichita-based construction SaaS startup PLOT raised $2M, bringing total funding to $3M with backing from KCRise Fund and Koch Industries. PLOT's platform solves jobsite coordination chaos across multiMar 29, 2026
• Recovery.com has acquired Madison-based AI startup RedFox AI to accelerate AI-powered tools for mental health and addiction care. RedFox AI's core product Navigator is a voice-guided conversational asMar 29, 2026
• Audos.com acquired No Cap, Forbes' 'world's first autonomous AI investor,' absorbing its 9,000-member solopreneur community and an AI startup-scoring engine trained on 100K+ founder data points from 6Mar 29, 2026
• Sierra ($10B valuation, ~$150M ARR) has acquired Opera Tech, a Tokyo-based AI contact center startup founded by ex-McKinsey consultants, just 4 months after opening its Japan office with SoftBank VisiMar 29, 2026
• TrustModel.ai, a seed-stage startup backed by StartX, is building an enterprise platform to validate, secure, and continuously monitor AI models for regulated industries like healthcare and finance. TMar 29, 2026
• Granola raised $125M in Series C at $1.5B, surging 6x from $250M in under a year. Led by Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, the London-based AI notetaker pivots to enterprise with context APIs, bringMar 29, 2026
• Physical Intelligence, a 2-year-old startup with just 80 employees, is in talks to raise $1B at over $11B — nearly doubling its $5.6B valuation in just four months. Backed by Founders Fund and LightspMar 29, 2026
• Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is planning a Hong Kong IPO while raising $1B at an $18B valuation, a 4x surge from $4.3B just 3 months ago. 🚀 Its K2.5 model generated more revenue in 20 daysMar 29, 2026
• Spin.AI captured 5 Global InfoSec Awards at RSAC 2026 from Cyber Defense Magazine, spanning DSPM, Browser Security, SaaS/Cloud Security, Data Recovery and Secure SaaS Backups. 🏆 With 1,500+ customersMar 28, 2026
• Surf AI, a crypto-native AI intelligence platform founded by former UC Berkeley researcher Ryan Li, raised $15M led by Pantera Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures and DCG. 🌊 Surf buildsMar 28, 2026
• Keith raised £2M led by Backed VC to build the UK's first AI-native regulated law firm, launching Q3 2026 targeting the £54B legal market via conveyancing. The firm aims to automate 80% of legal workMar 28, 2026
• 🇩🇪 Neura Robotics has closed a $1.2 billion round led by Tether, with Amazon and Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim joining at a $4.62 billion valuation — marking one of the largest robotics fundraises eMar 28, 2026
• Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation — a 140% jump — to scale its Hivemind autonomous pilot from combat prototype to the default OS for airpower. Already proven in 200+ missions over Ukraine thrMar 28, 2026
• Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, its first open-weight text-to-speech model packing 4B parameters, 9-language support, and zero-shot voice cloning from just 3 seconds of audio. With 70-90ms latencMar 28, 2026
• LuminosAI launched Lighthouse, the industry's first fully automated AI governance platform for GenAI and Agentic AI, cutting legal review from weeks to minutes for beta customers. 🏛️ Backed by new funMar 28, 2026
• Amazon confirmed acquiring Fauna Robotics and its 42-inch Sprout humanoid — the second robotics deal in 5 days after Zurich-based Rivr. With ~50 engineers and $16.6M raised, Sprout's open developer plMar 28, 2026
• JetStream Security launched with a $34M oversubscribed seed round led by Redpoint Ventures and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund to build real-time AI governance infrastructure for enterprises. Founded by securMar 28, 2026
• Origin, a London-based AI-native benefits platform, raised $30M in Series A+ led by Notion Capital, bringing total funding to over $50M in just 12 months. Its proprietary AI engine Cuido transforms frMar 28, 2026
• 🤖 Viven raised $35M seed from Khosla Ventures to build AI digital twins that replicate each employee's institutional knowledge for enterprise use. Already deployed across firms with tens of thousandsMar 28, 2026
• Signal AI raised $50M in Series D funding led by Highland Europe to expand its decision augmentation platform that processes 5M documents daily across 200+ markets and 75 languages. By transforming puMar 28, 2026
• Tripo AI raised $50M from Alibaba and Baidu Ventures, launching native 3D models H3.1 and P1.0 that generate production meshes in 2 seconds — 100x faster than sequential methods. By modeling geometryMar 28, 2026
• Shield AI has raised $2B total, including a $1.5B Series G led by Advent International and JPMorganChase, reaching a $12.7B valuation, up 140% from $5.3B a year ago. The catalyst is the U.S. Air ForceMar 28, 2026
• South Korea approved 250B won ($166M) direct investment in AI chip startup Rebellions via its National Growth Fund - the first deal under the K-Nvidia initiative targeting 1T+ won total. This bet on aMar 27, 2026
• London-based Eunice has raised $8M in seed and pre-seed funding led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest to deploy AI agents for audit-ready due diligence across digital assets and private markets. ThMar 27, 2026
• Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up 140% from $5.3B just last year. The round led by Advent International and Blackstone funds the acquisition of Aechelon Technology to build a Hivemind FouMar 27, 2026
• Bonsai Robotics has acquired farm-ng, merging its GPS-free vision-based AI autonomy with modular electric farm robots to create integrated AI-first machines. The deal brought in heavy talent includingMar 27, 2026
• China barred Manus AI co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as regulators review Meta's $2B acquisition for export control violations. The agentic AI startup, valued at just $50Mar 27, 2026
• OpenAI-backed Isara raised $94M at a $650M valuation to build software coordinating thousands of AI agents in tandem. Founded by former OpenAI safety researcher Eddie Zhang, the startup demonstrated ~Mar 27, 2026
• Stockholm-based Noru raised €554K pre-seed from Ampli Ventures and a16z Seed Fund to build an AI-native agentic compliance platform, landing 20 paying customers in just 6 months. With EU AI Act high-rMar 27, 2026
• Mitsubishi Electric invested in Sakana AI, Japan's $2.6B AI unicorn founded in 2023, to embed foundation models into its Serendie digital platform for manufacturing and infrastructure. Sakana now nameMar 27, 2026
• Amsterdam-based SOUS raised €4M in seed funding led by Seed + Speed Ventures to build an AI growth platform for independent restaurants, automating digital visibility and customer engagement across seMar 27, 2026
• Limbic raised $14M led by Khosla Ventures, backed by a Nature Medicine study showing its AI therapy agents outperformed human therapists in CBT delivery across 20,000 conversations with 227 participanMar 27, 2026
• Israeli AI startup Conntour raised $7M seed in just 72 hours from General Catalyst and YC to build a natural language search engine for live surveillance video. The platform processes 50 camera feedsMar 27, 2026
• Deccan AI, a post-training data startup serving Google DeepMind and Snowflake, raised $25M Series A led by A91 Partners with SIG and Prosus Ventures. The round signals that human-in-the-loop quality rMar 27, 2026
• Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up 140% YoY, in a Series G led by Advent International and JPMorgan. The round funds the acquisition of simulation maker Aechelon to accelerate Hivemind AIMar 27, 2026
• London-based Coda One just launched a free AI humanizer and detector on one platform, reducing AI detection scores from 56% to 12% in a single click while passing GPTZero and Turnitin. The fastest-groMar 26, 2026
• DOSS raised $55M in Series B (total $73M) for its AI Operations Cloud that sits alongside existing ERP systems like QuickBooks to unify inventory, procurement, and financial data. Co-led by Madrona anMar 26, 2026
• Databricks deployed its $5B war chest weeks after closing at a $134B valuation, acquiring Antimatter and SiftD.ai to launch Lakewatch — its first agentic SIEM platform entering the cybersecurity markeMar 26, 2026
• China has barred Manus AI co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as regulators scrutinize Meta's $2B acquisition for potential violations of investment and national security ruleMar 26, 2026
• Harvey raised $200M at an $11B valuation led by Sequoia and GIC, reaching $190M ARR with 25,000+ AI agents deployed across 1,300 legal organizations. 📈 This 14-month vault from $3B to $11B signals a dMar 26, 2026
• Mavvrik launched Full Stack AI Cost Governance to tackle AI bill shock, unifying cost tracking across GenAI APIs, autonomous agents, GPUs, and SaaS data platforms. With 85% of companies missing AI cosMar 26, 2026
• AETHEON raised $1.24M in seed funding for a skills operating system that maps real-world experience into verified skill profiles. 🧩 The Seattle startup ingests 100+ occupational sources into a 300+ skMar 26, 2026
• London-based Vuelo raised €64M in seed funding (£6M equity from Backed VC and Play Ventures, £50M debt from Viola Credit) to build an AI-native travel platform merging booking, discovery, and interestMar 26, 2026
• Notch, an Israeli-founded AI startup now based in NYC, raised $30M in Series A led by Headline, bringing total funding to $45M on 12x ARR growth. Originally built as a specialty insurer in 2021, NotchMar 26, 2026
• 📈 Amity raised $100M in a Series D led by EDBI, the largest GenAI round in Southeast Asia to date. Revenue surpassed $100M in 2025, growing 10x since 2022, with 75% of EBITDA from Europe. Targeting $2Mar 26, 2026
• Periodic Labs is in talks to raise at a ~$7B valuation — 5x its $1.3B seed from just 6 months ago. Founded by ex-OpenAI's Liam Fedus and ex-DeepMind's Ekin Dogus Cubuk, the ~40-person startup alreadyMar 26, 2026
• Zalos (YC F25) raised $3.6M led by 14Peaks Capital to build Computer Agents that operate ERP systems like humans -- no API integration required. The startup turns screen recordings into autonomous ageMar 25, 2026
• Kandou AI raised $225M Series A at a $400M valuation, backed by SoftBank, Synopsys, and Cadence. The oversubscribed round signals a shift in AI infrastructure investment from compute to interconnect,Mar 25, 2026
• Ekinops acquires 100% of Chimere, a French ZTNA startup born from Thales in 2019, with closure set by March 31, 2026. Following its May 2025 Olfeo deal, Ekinops now becomes the only European single-veMar 25, 2026
• Meta acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-style social network where 37,000+ AI agents post and collaborate autonomously while humans can only observe. Moltbook's founders join Meta Superintelligence Labs, eMar 25, 2026
• Gumloop raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing total funding to at least $67M. The no-code platform lets non-technical employees build autonomous AI agents across Slack, Teams, and SalesforMar 25, 2026
• Novaworks.ai emerged from stealth with an $8M seed round led by Stalwart Ventures, with strategic backing from ServiceNow Ventures, launching an AI-native HCM operating system built natively on the SeMar 25, 2026
• Hamilton AI raised $7.5M in seed funding led by fintech VC TTV Capital, bringing total disclosed funding to $9.8M. The startup applies deterministic AI to automate workflows in the $60B private aviatiMar 25, 2026
• Highlight AI raised $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures with General Catalyst and 359 Capital, naming former Discord VP Sergei Sorokin as CEO. Its AI desktop app serves 500K+ users at firms like GoogMar 25, 2026
• Sydney-based Trippr Travel has launched an AI-powered travel platform integrating destination discovery, itinerary planning, and booking for 300,000+ experiences in a single conversational interface.Mar 25, 2026
• Compliance startup Delve, valued at $300M after a $32M Series A from Insight Partners, halted demos after a whistleblower alleged it fabricated HIPAA, GDPR and SOC 2 audit evidence for hundreds of cliMar 25, 2026
• Raanro Interior Technology raised Rs 4.12 crore in a pre-seed round at a Rs 60 crore pre-money valuation, backed by CRED founder Kunal Shah and Curefoods co-founder Ankit Nagori. The Bengaluru-based sMar 25, 2026
• Novelty Wealth, a SEBI-RIA licensed AI wealthtech startup, has raised $1.4M in seed funding led by IndiaQuotient after hitting 30,000+ app downloads. Its purpose-trained AI assistant NovaAI delivers zMar 25, 2026
• BackChannel raised $4.75M in seed funding led by Sunna Ventures to tackle Brazil's 170K tons of annual textile waste through an AI-powered B2B surplus marketplace. Its proprietary AI automates pricingMar 25, 2026