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The full archive of AI startup and funding news tracked by AI Market Watch. Page 16 of 41.

• NoTraffic raised $90M in Series C led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $165.5M, to scale its AI MobilityOS platform across North America. Already deployed in 400+ intersections across 40 US stMar 25, 2026
• London startup Isembard raised $50M Series A led by Union Square Ventures to scale from 6 to 25 AI-powered factories across the UK, US, Germany, France, and Ukraine by end of 2026. Their agentic OS MaMar 25, 2026
• Mirage (formerly Captions) raised $75M from General Catalyst's CVF, pushing total funding past $175M. The startup is evolving from a 10M+ user video editing app into a full-stack AI video lab buildingMar 25, 2026
• Dash0 reached $1B unicorn status with a $110M Series B led by Balderton Capital, bringing total funding to $155M. Its Agent0 AI copilot doesn't just detect production issues but autonomously resolvesMar 25, 2026
• Aaru, a teen-founded startup, reached a $1B valuation deploying AI agents that replace traditional focus groups in market research. EY validated the platform by replicating 6 months of wealth researchMar 24, 2026
• Fundable.ai launched a real-time AI intelligence platform covering 90,000 startups and 60,000 investors with data refreshed multiple times daily. Through a partnership with Orthogonal (YC W26), this dMar 24, 2026
• Cuttable, the AI ad platform from A Cloud Guru founder Sam Kroonenburg, hit $100M valuation after a $5.7M round led by Airtree and Glitch Capital, bringing total funding to ~$16M. The startup automateMar 24, 2026
• Munich-based Tytan Technologies raised a €30M Series A at ~€150M valuation, co-led by Armira and NATO Innovation Fund, bringing total funding to €46M. Its AI-powered METIS interceptors, battle-testedMar 24, 2026
• FYLD, a London-based AI frontline intelligence platform, raised $41M in Series B led by Energy Impact Partners with Partech participating. The platform achieved 82% YoY growth and cut infrastructure sMar 24, 2026
• QCraft raised $100M in Series D to push toward L4 autonomous driving and physical AI using world models and reinforcement learning. Its QPilot system already powers 1M+ vehicles across 30 models, withMar 24, 2026
• AnyInsight.ai unveiled an industry-first AI Firewall platform at RSAC 2026, integrating 20+ LLMs and 350+ AI agents via the Model Context Protocol under a Zero-Trust Architecture. As Shadow AI emergesMar 24, 2026
• Anthropic acquired Seattle-based Vercept, absorbing its 10-person team and desktop computer-use technology to advance Claude's ability to operate live applications like spreadsheets and web forms. TheMar 24, 2026
• Eudia rocketed from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months, fueled by a $105M Series A with $75M earmarked for acquisitions. By acquiring ALSP Out-House and launching the first AI-augmented law firm in Arizona,Mar 24, 2026
• Munich-based Interloom raised $16.5M to build a 'context graph' capturing the 70% of operational decisions never formally documented in enterprises. At Commerzbank it cut the documented-vs-actual knowMar 24, 2026
• Above Security emerged from stealth with $50M in funding led by Ballistic Ventures, Merlin Ventures and Norwest to tackle insider risk in the agentic AI era. With 45% of breaches caused by non-malicioMar 24, 2026
• Aisera secured $90M in Series D funding led by Goldman Sachs and Thoma Bravo to accelerate enterprise AI-native transformation through its AI-driven service experience platform. The platform uses a muMar 24, 2026
• Littlebird raised $11M led by Lotus Studio for an AI recall tool that reads screens as text-only, not screenshots - a privacy-first answer to Microsoft's troubled Recall. Founded by Sentieo alumni, itMar 24, 2026
• Athens-based Wikifarmer raised €7.1M led by Brighteye Ventures to build an AI-powered "operating system for agricultural trade," automating price discovery, logistics, and financing across 45 countrieMar 24, 2026
• London-based Augur has raised $15M in seed funding led by Plural to deploy AI that transforms existing camera and sensor networks into real-time threat detection systems for critical infrastructure anMar 24, 2026
• Gimlet Labs raised $80M Series A led by Menlo Ventures for its multi-silicon inference cloud that distributes AI workloads across GPUs, CPUs and SRAM-centric chips simultaneously. The platform claimsMar 24, 2026
• SharonAI Holdings detailed ~$770M in total capital at RedChip, including a $125M Nasdaq raise, to build Australia's sovereign neocloud for Asia-Pacific. The company won Canva after delivering 30x fastMar 23, 2026
• RAVEN.IO emerged from stealth with $20M seed funding led by Norwest Venture Partners to protect cloud-native applications at runtime. Using behavioral analysis instead of CVEs and signatures, the PaloMar 23, 2026
• Manifold raised $8M in seed funding led by Costanoa Ventures to build an AIDR platform that secures autonomous AI agents at runtime on enterprise endpoints. With 85% of developers already using AI assMar 23, 2026
• Charge Rigs launched Install Planner, the first end-to-end AI platform for EV charging contractors that cuts quoting time by 60% and adds real-time NEC compliance checking with a Design Quality Score.Mar 23, 2026
• Cascading AI, founded by Stanford and Y Combinator alumni, raised $3.9M in pre-seed funding led by Peterson Ventures to build Casca, the first AI-native Loan Origination System. Casca automates up toMar 23, 2026
• Charge Home Solutions was named a top home services startup to watch in 2026, leveraging a dynamic AI pricing engine that adjusts costs based on urgency, electrician availability, and time of day acroMar 23, 2026
• ServiceNow has invested in Israeli cybersecurity startup Clover Security, following its $7.75B Armis acquisition and three other Israeli deals in recent months. Clover, founded in 2023 and backed by $Mar 23, 2026
• Elysian raised $6M seed led by Portage to build the first AI-native third-party administrator for commercial insurance claims. Its proprietary AI Claim Conductor automates data entry, report writing,Mar 23, 2026
• Humand raised $66M Series A led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital to build an AI operating system for the world's 2.7 billion deskless workers who have been largely ignored by enterprise software despitMar 23, 2026
• Stylio by nove8 has launched an AI personal stylist app offering women personalized outfit formulas, body type scanning, and virtual try-on. The app enters an AI-in-fashion market projected at $3.99BMar 23, 2026
• Vibrium raised $1M in seed funding led by former Paytm COO Bhavesh Gupta to scale its outcome-driven agentic AI platform. The Gurugram-based startup targets BFSI, e-commerce, and SaaS sectors with goaMar 23, 2026
• Mutable Tactics raised €1.8M pre-seed led by Seraphim Space and the UK NSSIF to build an AI decision layer enabling drone swarms to coordinate autonomously in GPS-denied environments. 🤖🛡️ Breaking theMar 23, 2026
• Formulary Financial raised $4.6M in a 3x oversubscribed seed round led by Khosla Ventures, with Serena Ventures and Acrew Capital participating, to build an AI-native fund administration platform forMar 23, 2026
• Halter, the New Zealand AI cow collar startup, is raising at a $2B valuation led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, doubling its prior $1B mark. With 100,000+ collars deployed across half a million cattlMar 23, 2026
• Q-Lab, a Mokpo National University spin-off, raised $134K (KRW 200M) from Jeonnam CCEI to scale its microbiome-based aquaculture technology with AI-powered smart equipment. The deal signals how regionMar 22, 2026
• Semble AI, a YC-backed startup founded by Stanford CS graduates, is building AI agents that autonomously design building systems including fire protection, HVAC, plumbing, and security. The platform tMar 22, 2026
• Prosper, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is tackling healthcare's $450B annual administrative crisis with AI voice agents that automate scheduling, claims follow-ups, benefit verification, and prior auMar 22, 2026
• Fulcrum, an AI field management platform serving nearly 3,000 companies, acquired Wildnote to unify field data capture with environmental regulatory reporting. The deal integrates Wildnote's domain exMar 22, 2026
• Turkey's Doping Technology, trusted by millions with 70,000+ videos, launched two AI EdTech platforms at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit. Dopifuture (ages 10-18) features an AI startup lab and Socratic coach,Mar 22, 2026
• AdvocateIQ has launched an AI-powered platform that reviews IEP and 504 Plan documents for parents of special education students in Texas, delivering plain-language compliance reports for as low as $4Mar 22, 2026
• LuminosAI launched Lighthouse, the first fully automated AI governance platform for detecting legal risks in GenAI and Agentic AI systems. Backed by new funding led by M13 and recognized by Gartner inMar 22, 2026
• Amazon has acquired Rivr, an ETH Zurich spinout valued at $110M, known for stair-climbing four-legged delivery robots 🤖 Already backed by Amazon's $1B Industrial Innovation Fund, Rivr's "General PhysiMar 22, 2026
• Xscape Photonics secured $37M led by Addition with NVIDIA, bringing its Series A to $81M. It launched FalconX, the industry's first 8-wavelength laser module using CombX silicon photonics to solve theMar 22, 2026
• OpenAI has agreed to acquire Promptfoo, an 11-person AI security startup valued at $86M, to embed automated red-teaming and vulnerability testing into its enterprise platform OpenAI Frontier. PromptfoMar 22, 2026
• VibraPower, an NC State spinout, is seeking $1.5M seed funding to commercialize vibration energy harvesters that convert wasted machine vibrations into continuous power for AI-enabled industrial sensoMar 22, 2026
• Hamburg-based AI pathology startup Mindpeak raised $15.3M in Series A led by ZEISS Ventures and InnoVentureFund, with participation from AI.FUND and the European Innovation Council Fund. Founded in 20Mar 22, 2026
• Ringtime raised €1.8M seed funding led by Volta Ventures to tackle Europe's blue-collar labor shortage using voice AI agents that automate candidate screening, scheduling and outreach in 22+ languagesMar 22, 2026
• Allure Security, a Columbia University spin-off, closed a $17M Series B led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, bringing total funding to $43M 🛡️ The AI-native platform detects and neutralizes brand imMar 22, 2026
• Basecamp Research, backed by Anthropic and NVIDIA, launched the Trillion Gene Atlas to collect genomic data from 100M+ species and expand known genetic diversity 100x. With $85M in total funding, itsMar 22, 2026
• Wonderful raised $150M Series B at $2B valuation, reaching unicorn in just 8 months post-stealth with $284M total funding. Its AI agents achieve 80%+ containment rates and 60% lower handling times acrMar 22, 2026
• Runway raised $315M Series E at a $5.3B valuation led by General Atlantic with NVIDIA, Adobe, and AMD. The company is expanding beyond AI video into General World Models — systems that simulate physicMar 22, 2026
• Israeli cybersecurity startup Minimus released a hardened container image that reduces OpenClaw's 2,000+ CVEs by 99%, responding to a security crisis around the viral AI agent that went from 0 to 68KMar 21, 2026
• Permitio.ai launched an autonomous AI agent that lets HVAC contractors file mechanical, energy-code, and heat-pump permits nationwide in under 30 seconds, integrating directly with ServiceTitan, JobbeMar 21, 2026
• TableSprint has launched Fernor, a no-code AI GTM agent combining inbound chat, voice AI, and outbound calling into a single platform deployable within days without engineering support. 🤖 With the gloMar 21, 2026
• Ezra raised $3.2M seed to rebuild hiring around voice AI conversations, backed by a16z Speedrun, Penny Jar Capital and LMNT Ventures. The platform tackles a critical paradox: AI-generated resumes haveMar 21, 2026
• Permitio.ai, a San Francisco-based startup, launched an AI agent that lets HVAC contractors file mechanical, energy-code, and heat-pump permits instantly. The platform handles jurisdiction-specific reMar 21, 2026
• Ryla.ai launched its AI Influencer Generator, enabling one-click creation of hyper-realistic virtual personas with 100% character consistency across photos and videos. The platform automates LoRA modeMar 21, 2026
• Eclypsium raised $25M, bringing its total to $110M, to extend its device supply chain security platform to GPU-based AI servers and data centers. Led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital with a top US bank partMar 21, 2026
• Bengaluru-based Aerchain raised $13M in Series A led by Pavestone VC to scale its AI-native Spend Operating System 💰. Already serving 50+ enterprise customers across 30 countries and managing $45B inMar 21, 2026
• Edra, founded by ex-Palantir veterans Eugen Alpeza and Yannis Karamanlakis, emerged from stealth with a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to over $36M. The startup connectsMar 21, 2026
• Mistral AI launched Forge at Nvidia GTC 2026, a platform enabling enterprises to train fully custom AI models from scratch on proprietary data, covering the entire lifecycle from pre-training to alignMar 21, 2026
• Paris-based Parallel raised $20M Series A led by Index Ventures, just 11 months after a $3.5M seed. 🏥 Its AI agents automate medical coding by navigating hospital software like a human, deploying in ~Mar 21, 2026
• Apple acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai for ~$2B, its second-largest deal ever after Beats. Q.ai reads facial micro-movements to interpret silent speech and enhance audio in noisy settings, with ~100 eMar 21, 2026
• BiteSpeed raised $3.5M Pre-Series A led by Peak XV's Surge, bringing its total funding to $5.6M 🚀 The Bengaluru-based AI-native Customer OS serves 5,000+ e-commerce brands across 50+ countries, drivinMar 21, 2026
• Snowflake is acquiring AI observability startup Observe for ~$1B, its 19th acquisition to date. Observe raised over $460M in venture funding, and its native integration into Snowflake's AI Data CloudMar 21, 2026
• HEARTio raised $4.25M in seed funding to advance ECGio, an AI platform that analyzes standard 12-lead ECGs to detect coronary artery disease with results in seconds. With validation published in JACCMar 21, 2026
• Hamilton AI raised $7.5M seed led by fintech VC TTV Capital for its deterministic AI execution platform in private aviation. The startup scaled from $150K to $1.5M ARR by centralizing quoting, schedulMar 21, 2026
• Foresight raised $25M in Series A led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital to tackle a hidden bottleneck in the $690B AI infrastructure supercycle: project execution. With nearly 90% of large-scale inMar 20, 2026
• Clearco secured $60M in Series D and a $100M asset-backed financing facility from Pollen Street Capital after cutting 30% of its workforce, expected to support $850M in originations over two years. ThMar 20, 2026
• CometChat raised $6.5M from Run Ventures, bringing total funding to $21.1M as the Denver-based CPaaS provider pivots to become a full-stack AI agent platform. Built on 6 years of communication infrastMar 20, 2026
• Video Rebirth has closed an $80M funding round backed by AMD Ventures and Hyundai, adding $30M to its November $50M raise to commercialize its Bach series of physics-aware video generation models. FouMar 20, 2026
• Ringg AI raised $5.5M Series A led by Arkam Ventures with backing from Groww Founder Fund and Cred's Kunal Shah. Already powering 1.5M monthly conversations for 20+ clients like Flipkart and PharmEasyMar 20, 2026
• Ukrainian defense startup Buntar Aerospace raised $10.4M led by US-listed Axon Enterprise to scale its Buntar-3 reconnaissance drone and AI Copilot software. The Copilot system, battle-tested across 2Mar 20, 2026
• Netflix acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup, for up to $600M — one of its largest deals ever. InterPositive builds custom AI models trained on a production's own footage to hanMar 20, 2026
• OpenAI acquired Astral, creator of uv and Ruff — open-source Python tools with 300M+ combined monthly downloads powering millions of developer workflows. The team joins Codex, OpenAI's coding platformMar 20, 2026
• Uforce raised $50M seed at $1B+ valuation, becoming Ukraine's first defence tech unicorn by combining 9 battlefield-tested companies into one London-based platform. With 1,000 employees building autonMar 20, 2026
• Deeptune raised $43M Series A led by a16z to build "training gyms" — simulation environments mimicking tools like Slack and Salesforce where AI agents learn via reinforcement learning. a16z calls RL eMar 20, 2026
• Apple confirmed its $1.5B acquisition of Israeli AI startup Q.ai — its second-largest deal ever — for technology that reads facial micro-movements to interpret silent speech and whispers. Anthropic'sMar 20, 2026
• Riyadh-based Infobrim closed its first angel round at a $3.5M valuation to scale its AI-native BI lakehouse platform. Founded in 2024, it transforms enterprise data into real-time dashboards and prediMar 20, 2026
• Health Universe raised $6M in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total capital to $9.5M for its ONC-certified enterprise AI platform that deploys inspectable, auditable agents into regulateMar 20, 2026
• PADO AI raised $6M seed funding led by NovaWave Capital to scale its AI energy orchestration SaaS for data centers. The LG NOVA-backed platform maximizes Compute per Megawatt via intelligent workloadMar 20, 2026
• Reson8, an Amsterdam-based speech AI startup founded in 2023, raised a €5M pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital to build hyper-customised automatic speech recognition across 20+ European languages.Mar 20, 2026
• Coworker.ai raised $13M seed led by ex-Google SVP Jeff Huber's Triatomic Capital to build AI workplace agents with deep company context. The funding reflects a broader industry shift as autonomous ageMar 20, 2026
• Cologne-based Eternal.ag emerged from stealth with EUR 8M to deploy Harvester, an AI-powered autonomous robot that operates 22 hours a day in tomato greenhouses, targeting Europe's 30% greenhouse laboMar 20, 2026
• Hosted.ai, founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, raised a $19M seed round led by Creandum to solve GPU waste in the neocloud economy. The platform pools idle GPU capacity across neocloud providers, convertiMar 20, 2026
• Lawhive, the UK-based startup building the world's first AI-native consumer law firm, raised $60M in Series B led by Mitch Rales (Danaher co-founder) with backing from GV, TQ Ventures, and Balderton CMar 20, 2026
• Andromeda AI raised $60M from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, doubling its revenue run rate to $100M in 2025 while maintaining profitability since launch just two years ago. The startup aggregates GPUMar 20, 2026
• Cybersecurity startup Kai has emerged from stealth with $125 million in combined seed and Series A funding to build an agentic AI security platform that autonomously detects and responds to threats acMar 13, 2026
• Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful raised $150M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing total funding to $286M in just one year since launch. This rapid capital accumulation signals that enterprise AI aMar 13, 2026
• Axiom raised $200M at $1.6B valuation to pioneer 'Verified AI' - using Lean formal proofs to guarantee AI-generated code correctness. Unlike LLMs that produce statistically plausible outputs, Axiom'sMar 13, 2026
• BackOps AI raised $26M Series A to build an AI-native operating system for global supply chains, achieving 93% faster customer response times and automatically filing 100% of eligible carrier claims 📦Mar 13, 2026
• Qdrant just raised $50M Series B (total $87.8M) to advance composable vector search, with 250M+ downloads and enterprise clients including Tripadvisor, HubSpot, and Bosch. The funding signals a criticMar 13, 2026
• Stockholm-based Endform just raised €1.5M to solve one of AI development's biggest bottlenecks: CI pipeline testing. Their platform runs Playwright tests in parallel across distributed cloud machines,Mar 13, 2026
• FluidCloud launched the Large Infrastructure Model (LIM), an AI engine automating Terraform translation across multicloud environments. Backed by $8.1M seed funding, this addresses a critical gap: cloMar 13, 2026
• Barcelona-based Delfos Energy secured €3M in seed extension funding, bringing total capital to €10M, with its AI "virtual engineer" platform now monitoring 1,000+ energy sites across 10+ European counMar 13, 2026
• Gumloop just secured $50M Series B from Benchmark to enable non-technical employees to build AI agents without writing code. Major enterprises like Shopify, Ramp, and Instacart are already using it, wMar 13, 2026
• Qualified Health is raising approximately $100M in Series A funding from NEA and SignalFire, just 14 months after their $30M seed round. This 3.3x funding increase signals that the healthcare AI markeMar 13, 2026
• Vienna-based Another Earth secured €3.5M to scale synthetic satellite data for AI training, addressing Earth observation's critical data bottleneck. Using generative AI and 3D processing, the startupMar 13, 2026
• Elon Musk unveiled Macrohard, a joint Tesla-xAI project that combines Grok's reasoning with Tesla's AI agent to autonomously execute complex software tasks across computer screens. Running on Tesla'sMar 13, 2026
• Israeli cybersecurity startup Onyx Security launched with $40M funding to build an AI control plane for securing autonomous AI agents in enterprises. The company has already deployed to Fortune 500 clMar 13, 2026