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Latest AI startup funding news, investment rounds, Series A/B/C announcements, and venture capital activity in the artificial intelligence sector.
Naive AI raises $400 million in seven months for an agentic post-training strategy
Naive AI has raised $400 million across three financing rounds within seven months of its founding, reaching a reported post-money valuation of $1.42 billion, according to Leiphone. The Beijing-regist...
Manus raises more than $500M following return to independent operations
Manus parent Butterfly Effect announced on October 8 that it recently completed a funding round exceeding $500 million, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital. Existing investors Tencent, HongShan and Zh...
LingSheng Technology raises RMB 100 million-scale Series A for cross-robot infrastructure
LingSheng Technology has completed a Series A financing in the RMB 100 million range, according to a report from investment outlet PE Daily. Investors include Huafang Capital, Daohe Yuanqi under Daohe...
DeepSeek reportedly nears RMB 80 billion funding round with Tencent and CATL
DeepSeek is reportedly close to securing at least RMB 80 billion (approximately $11.93 billion) in a financing round that could reach RMB 100 billion. The Sina-hosted report, citing Bloomberg's unname...
Mecka AI raises $60M to build human-motion datasets for robot training
Mecka AI announced a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, Microsoft's venture fund M12, and other investors. Founded in 2024, the startup collects and analyzes human-mo...
Rivercell raises €22 million to develop an AI Virtual Cell for drug discovery
Paris-based Rivercell has emerged from stealth with a €22 million seed round. The company plans to use the funding to scale its data-generation platform, expand its wet lab and launch its AI Virtual C...
Stuut raises $52.5 million Series B for enterprise invoice collections
Stuut raised $52.5 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and M12. The company uses AI to collect unpaid invoices and handle other accounts-re...
Netsec raises over €8.93 million to expand its unified IT and cybersecurity services
France- and Italy-based Netsec has raised more than €8.93 million in equity funding in a round led by Partech, with participation from Primo Capital and View Different. The company operates clients’ I...
Lambda seeks up to $4 billion as Anthropic commitment lifts backlog
Lambda is seeking up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, TechCrunch reported, citing The Wall Street Journal. Coatue Management and Blackstone are leading...
Siena raises $17 million to expand its Agent of Record platform
Siena announced a $17 million Series A led by York IE, bringing total funding to $29.7 million. The company is expanding its customer service platform into an Agent of Record that combines purchase, s...
DeepSeek reportedly nears $12 billion round as investor demand lifts its target
DeepSeek is close to securing RMB 80 billion ($11.93 billion), with its latest funding round potentially approaching RMB 100 billion ($14.91 billion), according to Bloomberg reporting cited by CTech....
Photon raises $4.5 million to build messaging infrastructure for AI agents
Photon has raised $4.5 million in seed funding, co-led by Gradient and A*, with participation from Vercel, HongShan, Z Fellows, Llama Ventures, Karman and angel investors. The company provides a platf...
The Manta Story raises seed funding for long-form AI video production engine
The Manta Story announced seed funding from Series Ventures on October 6; the amount was not disclosed. The company develops The Road, an AI engine for commercial long-form video and visual effects pr...
Hadrian raises $40M to expand continuous exposure monitoring and agentic penetration testing
Hadrian raised $40 million in a round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and Smartfin, with participation from HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures. The financing bri...
Moonshot AI reportedly closes final private round ahead of planned Hong Kong IPO
Moonshot AI has completed its final private funding round at an approximately $50 billion valuation and is pursuing a Hong Kong IPO in the first quarter of 2027, according to unnamed sources cited by...
Pandektes raises €13.5 million to expand legal data access for AI research
Copenhagen-based Pandektes has raised a €13.5 million Series A led by Alstin Capital, with PROfounders, Scale Capital, and existing investors participating. The company structures legal information fr...
Ghost raises $11 million for Core, a $3,499 personal AI computer
Ghost emerged from stealth on October 5 with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, alongside Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel, and Nova. Its first product, Core, is a screenless...
SafeWorld raises $12.2M to develop robot safety simulation tools
SafeWorld, a Palo Alto, California-based provider of safety testing and simulation software for physical AI and robotics, raised $12.2 million in seed funding. Backers included Shine Capital, a16z Spe...
Etched weighs funding offers at $40B–$50B valuations after $700M round
Etched is reviewing investment offers at valuations ranging from $40 billion to $50 billion, TechCrunch reports, citing people familiar with the company. The talks are preliminary, terms could change,...
Aldagram raises 2 billion yen to build AI workflows into KANNA
Aldagram announced a 2 billion yen Series B on September 2, bringing cumulative funding to approximately 5.13 billion yen. JAFCO Group, MonotaRO, and Panasonic Electric Works participated. The company...