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Sarvam AI launched Indus, India's first sovereign AI chat app supporting all 22 Indian languages and running on a domestically-trained 105B parameter model. The app features offline capabilities via SFeb 22, 2026
Dataro secured $14.28M Series A led by Blueprint Equity to expand its AI-native fundraising platform, already serving 300+ nonprofits including Save the Children, World Central Kitchen, and Amnesty InFeb 22, 2026
Snowcap Compute launched with $23M seed funding led by Playground Global to develop superconducting AI chips that promise 25x better performance-per-watt than current systems. Former Intel CEO Pat GelFeb 22, 2026
Lawhive raised $60M Series B to scale its AI-native consumer law firm model, targeting the $200B US consumer legal market plus a staggering $1T in unmet legal needs. With 7x revenue growth to $35M+ anFeb 22, 2026
Bengaluru startup BLUE launched Semantic Video Data Lake, achieving 90% compression on CCTV feeds by extracting structured meaning instead of raw pixels. This targets the $14B+ video surveillance storFeb 22, 2026
Anthropic's $30B Series G at $380B valuation (doubling in 5 months) marks a turning point for enterprise AI. With $14B run-rate revenue and Claude Code at $2.5B, we're seeing the fastest-growing softwFeb 22, 2026
Sarvam AI has launched Indus, India's homegrown AI chatbot powered by a 105B parameter model trained on 22 Indian languages, directly challenging ChatGPT's 100M weekly active users in India. Backed byFeb 22, 2026
Eon raised $300M Series D at a $4B valuation to transform dormant cloud backups into AI-ready data lakes. Founded by the team behind AWS Disaster Recovery, their Cloud Backup Posture Management platfoFeb 22, 2026
India's Sarvam AI has launched Indus, a 105B-parameter chat app trained on 22 Indian languages, directly challenging ChatGPT's 100M weekly users in India. With $41M from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and KhoslFeb 22, 2026
Amari AI just secured $4.5M in seed funding co-led by Pear VC and First Round Capital to build autonomous AI agents for customs brokerage, a $20B+ industry still running on manual workflows. The startFeb 22, 2026
Sphinx raised $7.1M in seed funding to deploy browser-native AI agents for financial compliance workflows. Their agents deliver 87% fewer false positives and 98% same-day resolution for AML, KYC, andFeb 22, 2026
Phia, the AI shopping assistant co-founded by Phoebe Gates, just raised $35M at a $185M valuation, reaching 1M+ users and 11x revenue growth in under 10 months. This exemplifies the explosive agenticFeb 22, 2026
Zeko AI won global recognition at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 through the AI by HER Global Impact Challenge, selected from 4,600 applications across 136 nations and receiving a ₹25 lakh grant. TheFeb 22, 2026
Unicity Labs raised $3M in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures to build peer-to-peer cryptographic infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. The Unicity Protocol replaces traditional blockchain shFeb 22, 2026
Simple AI has raised $14M in seed funding led by First Harmonic to scale voice AI agents for B2C sales, with their AI already outperforming trained human reps by 30% on conversion and upsell. This sigFeb 22, 2026
Skygen.AI raised $7M in seed funding to launch an autonomous Execution Layer that does real work instead of generating text responses. The 19-year-old founder's platform uses Computer Use mode to visuFeb 21, 2026
Sarvam AI just unveiled two indigenous LLMs at India AI Impact Summit 2026—a 30B parameter model for real-time conversations and a 105B model for complex reasoning, both built from scratch for India'sFeb 21, 2026
Code Metal just secured $125M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, marking a 5x increase from their November Series A in just 3 months. This Boston startup uses neuro-symbolic AI to mathematically verify cFeb 21, 2026
Nvidia is negotiating a $30 billion direct equity investment in OpenAI at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, marking a strategic pivot from its earlier $100 billion milestone-based infrastructure fraFeb 21, 2026
Fractal's Vaidya 2.0 becomes the first AI to score 50.1 on OpenAI's HealthBench (hard), outperforming GPT-5 and Gemini Pro 3. 🏥 This specialized healthcare model proves domain-specific AI can now surpFeb 21, 2026
Dublin-based AI proptech MARC raised $1M from 23 angel investors, with zero VC participation - a notable departure from traditional funding patterns in 2026. This deal signals a strategic shift whereFeb 21, 2026
Munich-based Sitegeist Robotics secured €4M pre-seed funding to commercialize AI-powered modular robots for concrete renovation, tackling Europe's infrastructure crisis. With Germany's repair backlogFeb 21, 2026
Google is in talks to invest $100M in AI cloud operator Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation, marking a strategic push to expand TPU adoption beyond NVIDIA-dominated GPU markets. Fluidstack enables rapid GFeb 21, 2026
MeltPlan, an AI-powered preconstruction platform founded just months ago by ex-Innovaccer unicorn co-founder Kanav Hasija, is in talks to raise $10-12 million led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This reFeb 21, 2026
Mirai Tech has secured $10 million in seed funding led by Uncork Capital to simplify on-device AI deployment, enabling developers to tap smartphone and laptop NPUs with just a few lines of code. FoundFeb 21, 2026
Qumis raised $4.3M in an oversubscribed seed round led by MTech Capital, bringing total funding to $6.75M for their attorney-trained AI platform delivering coverage intelligence to commercial insurancFeb 21, 2026
Inscope secured $14.5M Series A to automate financial reporting, achieving 30x ARR growth and 5x customer expansion in 12 months. The AI platform automates over 60% of preparation work while serving bFeb 21, 2026
Berlin-based Cognee raised €7.5M to build structured memory layers for AI agents, addressing a critical gap: AI systems fail not from insufficient power but from inadequate memory capabilities. This sFeb 21, 2026
CoRover.ai has launched the BharatGPT DeskAI Appliance, an offline AI device powered by NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell architecture, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. The company's multilingual AI platforFeb 21, 2026
Pepper raised $50M Series C (total $100M) to bring AI automation to the $1.4T food distribution market. 🚀 With 500+ distributors and $30B GMV already, this empowers independent operators to compete agFeb 21, 2026
Bharat1.ai is building a $650M AI Superpark in Bengaluru to generate real-world data for training World Models, addressing the fundamental limitation of LLMs lacking physical grounding. The 70-acre caFeb 21, 2026
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round just before SpaceX acquired the company in the largest M&A deal ever, valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion. This strategic moFeb 21, 2026
Zurich-based Rapidata.ai secured $8.5M in seed funding co-led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures to scale its global human feedback network for AI model training. The startup addresses a critical bottFeb 21, 2026
Guardant Health acquired Israeli cancer detection startup MetaSight for up to $150M, establishing its first R&D center outside the US. This move signals rapid consolidation in the $14B liquid biopsy sFeb 21, 2026
HCLTech completed its $5.2 million acquisition of Belgian AI startup Wobby on February 20, 2026, securing 100% stake through its Actian subsidiary. This strategic move integrates Wobby's agentic AI daFeb 21, 2026
InScope raised $14.5M Series A to automate financial reporting, entering a $5.8B market at 12% CAGR. Founded by Flexport and Miro accountants, their AI platform compresses weeks of reconciliation intoFeb 21, 2026
🇮🇳 At India AI Impact Summit 2026, India unveiled sovereign AI models—Sarvam's 30B and 105B LLMs plus BharatGen's Param2 17B supporting 22 Indian languages. Sarvam's 105B uses MoE with 9B active paramFeb 21, 2026
Roopya, a fintech SaaS startup, secured ₹4 crore in seed funding led by Inflection Point Ventures to scale its AI-powered, no-code lending platform across India. The platform enables financial instituFeb 21, 2026
ASM Technologies is investing ₹48 Cr ($5.3 Mn) for a 20% stake in Myelin Foundry to integrate edge-first AI into manufacturing. This strategic move signals how traditional manufacturers are acquiringFeb 21, 2026
Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI has unveiled two indigenous large language models at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Sarvam-30B, with its 32,000-token context window optimized for real-time conversations,Feb 21, 2026
US-based AI chip startup Quadric is raising fresh funding to expand its India R&D facility in Pune, following its $30M Series C in January 2026 that brought total funding to $72M. This move signals thFeb 21, 2026
Zurich-based Rapidata just raised $8.5M to solve AI's emerging bottleneck: human feedback. Their platform compresses feedback cycles from months to days by distributing micro-tasks through digital adsFeb 21, 2026
Inscope secured $14.5M Series A to transform financial reporting with AI, bringing total funding to $18.8M after 30x ARR growth in 12 months. This signals a major shift: 87% of CFOs now prioritize GenFeb 21, 2026
Nvidia-backed Emerald AI raised $25M in seed extension funding, bringing total proceeds to $67.5M to scale its AI data center orchestration software. The Emerald Conductor platform dynamically adjustsFeb 21, 2026
Daytona raised $24M Series A to build agent-native cloud infrastructure, reaching $2M ARR in just 9 weeks by solving a critical gap: existing cloud was designed for humans, not AI agents. Their prograFeb 20, 2026
Emanate has emerged from stealth with backing from a16z's $1.1B American Dynamism fund to bring autonomous AI revenue agents to the $5 trillion industrial materials sector. Led by Gen Z founder and ThFeb 20, 2026
Freeform just secured $67M Series B to scale AI-powered laser manufacturing with on-site Nvidia H200 GPU clusters, making it the first manufacturer to embed data center-grade computing directly on theFeb 20, 2026
Seattle-based Adronite secured $5M Series A led by Gatemore Capital Management to scale its AI-powered codebase intelligence platform that helps enterprises understand sprawling software systems. FounFeb 20, 2026
CoRover.ai has deployed its multilingual conversational AI platform serving 800,000+ concurrent users across India while unveiling BharatGPT DeskAI, an offline AI appliance powered by NVIDIA's Grace BFeb 20, 2026
Korean AI startup TrillionLabs has entered the global top 30 on Artificial Analysis leaderboard with Tri 21B Think, a 21-billion-parameter model that uses reinforcement learning and Test-time ScalingFeb 20, 2026
Saudi Arabia's national AI company Humain invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round, with the stake converting to SpaceX equity following the $1.25 trillion merger. This builds on their November 500Feb 20, 2026
London-based Mirai just secured $10M seed funding led by Uncork Capital to accelerate on-device AI optimization amid surging cloud costs. Their Rust-based inference engine delivers up to 37% faster peFeb 20, 2026
Nvidia-backed Emerald AI is raising $25M at a $250M valuation to address AI's growing energy crisis. Their software transforms data centers into flexible grid assets, with Nvidia already deploying theFeb 20, 2026
Reload just raised $2.275M to build infrastructure for managing AI employees, launching Epic - a platform that gives AI agents persistent shared memory across teams. The core innovation addresses a crFeb 20, 2026
Boston-based Code Metal just secured $125M Series B at a $1.25B valuation to tackle one of defense's most critical bottlenecks: translating millions of lines of legacy COBOL, Ada, and Fortran into modFeb 20, 2026
AuraML just launched AuraSim, India's first multimodal world simulation model built on NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos infrastructure, unveiled at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026. The platform transformsFeb 20, 2026
Singapore-based Level3AI has raised $16.6m in seed funding led by Lightspeed to scale its enterprise AI agents across Asia-Pacific. The company, founded in 2024, has already handled 10M+ customer inteFeb 20, 2026
Sarvam AI launched two indigenous LLMs—30B and 105B parameter models—with the larger model reportedly outperforming DeepSeek R1 (600B parameters) and Google's Gemini Flash on key benchmarks while exceFeb 20, 2026
Mirai, founded by the creators of Reface (200M+ downloads) and Prisma, just secured $10M in seed funding to solve one of AI's biggest bottlenecks: on-device model inference. The edge AI market is projFeb 20, 2026
Bengaluru-based Peptris raised Rs 70 crore (USD 7.7M) Series A to advance AI-generated drugs to clinical stage within 24 months, targeting oncology, rare diseases, and women's health. This signals IndFeb 20, 2026
Compa raised $35M Series B funding to scale AI-driven compensation intelligence, building on a network of 9 million real-time market observations already trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises. This signaFeb 20, 2026
Stacks Technologies B.V. raised $23M Series A led by Lightspeed to bring agentic AI to enterprise finance operations, targeting the $100B+ office of the CFO software market. With 30+ enterprise customFeb 20, 2026
Cognee secured €7.5M to build persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents using knowledge graphs. With 70+ companies in production, this addresses a critical gap: AI systems fail not from insufficiFeb 20, 2026
Sarvam AI has launched two open-source mixture-of-experts models at India AI Impact Summit 2026: a 30B parameter model activating only 1B parameters per token with 32K context window, and a 105B modelFeb 20, 2026
Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based Koyeb in its first-ever acquisition, integrating the serverless platform's 16-person team and technology into Mistral Compute. The $13.8B-valued French AI leader isFeb 20, 2026
Saudi Arabia's Humain invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round just before SpaceX's acquisition, creating a strategic foothold in the $1.25 trillion combined entity. This builds on their November pFeb 20, 2026
Stockholm-based Agaton secured €8.4M to transform customer conversations into revenue intelligence using agentic AI. Already analyzing 4M+ calls with 7x YoY growth, the platform doubles sales conversiFeb 20, 2026
Mirai raised $10M seed funding to build an on-device AI inference engine for Apple Silicon, claiming 37% faster generation speeds through platform-specific optimizations in Rust. Founded by Reface andFeb 20, 2026
Stacks, an AI platform for enterprise accounting teams, has raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $35 million since its seed round 12 months ago. ThisFeb 20, 2026
AI chip design startup Recursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation just 4 months after founding, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel joining the round. Founded by AlphaChip creators from Google DeeFeb 20, 2026
German startup happyhotel raised €6.5M Series A to develop AI agents that automate hotel revenue management tasks, currently optimizing 50,000+ rooms across 12 countries with 15% average revenue increFeb 20, 2026
QuadSci raised $8M Series A for its AI platform that predicts B2B SaaS churn and expansion 12-18 months ahead with up to 94% accuracy by analyzing trillions of product telemetry events. This funding aFeb 20, 2026
Archimetis raised $11.5M to bring AI-powered operational reasoning to energy and industrial plants, achieving $34-45M in demonstrated impact at a 120,000 barrel-per-day refinery. Founded by former GooFeb 20, 2026
Berlin-based Plato raised $14.5M seed funding led by Atomico to embed AI into wholesale distribution, a €2.5T industry managing 20% of global production flows yet still running on aging ERP systems. TFeb 20, 2026
Portkey raised $15M Series A to help enterprises manage AI spending, now processing 500B+ LLM tokens daily across 24,000 organizations and governing $180M+ in annualized LLM spend. The LLMOps platformFeb 20, 2026
Jump raised $80M Series B led by Insight Partners, reaching 27,000 advisors and 10% US market penetration in under 2 years. The funding signals a critical shift from AI meeting assistants to comprehenFeb 20, 2026
Code Metal raised $125M Series B at $1.25B valuation, just months after their $36M Series A. The Boston startup uses AI to translate legacy defense code (COBOL, Ada, Fortran) into modern languages whiFeb 20, 2026
Toronto-based chip startup Taalas raised $169 million to develop model-specific AI chips that hardwire neural network weights directly into silicon, challenging Nvidia's GPU dominance. Their approachFeb 20, 2026
Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI has launched two foundational models, Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B, at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, marking the first time an Indian startup has created large-scale AI modeFeb 19, 2026
Solid Data just raised $20M to solve AI's biggest hidden problem: understanding what business data actually means. Their semantic models boost AI agent accuracy from 20-30% to 85%+ while slashing deplFeb 19, 2026
Sarvam AI launched two indigenous large language models with 30B and 105B parameters, both using mixture-of-experts architecture to dramatically reduce inference costs while maintaining competitive peFeb 19, 2026
Kana Intelligence just raised $15M in seed funding led by Mayfield to build flexible AI agents for marketing automation. Founded by serial entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya—who previously soldFeb 19, 2026
CoRover unveiled the BharatGPT DeskAI Appliance powered by NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell architecture at India AI Impact Summit 2026. This offline AI device supports 800,000+ concurrent users and enables oFeb 19, 2026
Onshore secured $31M Series B to expand its AI tax platform, bringing total funding to $46M. The company tackles a critical inefficiency: $200B in tax incentives go unclaimed annually due to outdatedFeb 19, 2026
Sarvam AI has launched two indigenous large language models with 30B and 105B parameters at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, directly challenging Google, OpenAI and Anthropic in one of the world's fasFeb 19, 2026
Network observability startup Selector just secured $32M at a $375M valuation, doubling their worth in just 14 months. Their 130% ARR growth in 2025 with 80% Fortune 1000 adoption signals a fundamentaFeb 19, 2026
Hook has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $16M. With access to over 20M licensed songs and 250M+ social media views from UMG partnerships, this demFeb 19, 2026
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round just before SpaceX acquired the AI company for $1.25 trillion, converting Saudi holdings into SpaceX equity. This builds on their NoveFeb 19, 2026
Palo Alto Networks acquired Israeli startup Koi Security for $400 million to pioneer agentic endpoint protection—securing AI agents that operate as "insider threats" outside traditional security contrFeb 19, 2026
Cogent Security raised $42M Series A (total $53M) to scale autonomous AI agents for vulnerability remediation. Just 6 months after launch, they're already serving dozens of Fortune 1000 companies by aFeb 19, 2026
Abu Dhabi-based Origen secured $50M from BlueFive Capital to scale production-ready AI systems across government services, smart homes, and advanced manufacturing. This investment marks a strategic shFeb 19, 2026
Epic Games acquires Meshcapade, the Tübingen-based Max Planck spin-off, bringing its SMPL body model technology to Unreal Engine and MetaHuman. Founded in 2018 with only $6M in funding, Meshcapade's 1Feb 19, 2026
French AI unicorn Mistral AI, valued at $13.8 billion, has acquired Paris-based cloud infrastructure startup Koyeb in its first-ever acquisition. The deal integrates Koyeb's serverless platform into MFeb 19, 2026
Sarvam AI just launched two mixture-of-experts models in India - 30B and 105B parameters - with the 105B model claiming to outperform DeepSeek R1 (600B parameters) and Google's Gemini Flash on key benFeb 19, 2026
Saudi AI startup Deep.SA extends its pre-seed round with Vision Ventures joining existing backers TAM and Raed Ventures, bringing total funding to SAR 4.5 million ($1.2 million). The company builds loFeb 19, 2026
Stockholm-based Hybridity raised €2M (total €5M) to scale Hy5, its AI platform automating EU compliance across DORA, NIS2, and GDPR. The timing captures a critical moment: 2026 brings a 'Regulatory CoFeb 19, 2026
Avantos raised $25M Series A led by Bessemer with strategic backing from Vanguard, SEI, Guardian Life, and Mercer Advisors, bringing total funding to $35M for its AI-native operating system targetingFeb 19, 2026
Austin-based Circuit raised $30M to address manufacturing's knowledge drain crisis. With 1.9 million jobs projected unfilled by 2033 as experienced workers retire, the startup's AI captures technicalFeb 19, 2026
Stanhope AI has raised $8M in seed funding to develop brain-inspired AI based on the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, moving beyond traditional LLM approaches. Founded by leading neuroscienFeb 19, 2026
Kana raised $15M seed funding led by Mayfield to deploy flexible AI agents for marketing, founded by serial entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya who previously built Rapt (acquired by Microsoft)Feb 19, 2026