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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.
Crusoe Closes $3B Series F at $30B Valuation as Jane Street's AI Compute Bets Top $21.5B
Crusoe has closed a $3 billion Series F at an approximate $30 billion post-money valuation, with pre-IPO structuring that typically signals a public listing within 12 to 24 months. Atreides Management...
Fluidstack Valuation Doubles to $18B After $1.5B Round Led by Jane Street
Fluidstack, the AI infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Jamie Cox, Gary Wu, and Cesar Maklary, closed a previously unreported $1.5 billion funding round led by quantitative trading firm Jane Stre...
Creoir raises €2M seed round to scale voice AI for defense systems
Creoir, a startup based in Oulu, Finland, has closed a €2 million seed round to scale its voice AI technology for use in defense systems. The funding is earmarked for scaling the product rather than a...
Moonshot AI moves toward Hong Kong listing with expanded bank syndicate and fresh valuation targets.
Moonshot AI, the Chinese foundation-model startup behind Kimi K3, has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO seeking to raise $3 billion to $5 billion, according to South China Morning Post and Bloo...
Gimlet Labs raises $300 million led by Andreessen Horowitz for software that splits AI workloads across chip architectures.
Gimlet Labs, an AI Infrastructure company, announced a $300 million funding round led by a16z. The company builds software designed to distribute AI compute workloads across different chip architectur...
Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $2.5 billion investment in Thinking Machines Lab that would value the startup at roughly $40 billion.
Thinking Machines Lab was founded in 2025 by Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, and has already drawn significant capital: the company carries roughly $2.0 billion in tracked funding per the AI Market...
Nscale in talks for $3.5B pre-IPO round after $45B Anthropic compute deal
Nscale, the two-year-old British AI infrastructure company, is reportedly in talks for $3.5 billion in pre-IPO financing ahead of a possible public listing as soon as this month. Bloomberg reported th...
Wafer closes $40 million Series A to scale its AI inference optimization platform.
Wafer, a startup building technology to continually optimize AI inference performance, has completed a $40 million Series A round. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Wafer on the transaction. Pe...
Ultrahuman raises $70M with Qualcomm Ventures and Labcorp backing to boost on-device AI compute in its smart ring
Indian wearable startup Ultrahuman closed a $70 million funding round on September 3, 2026, with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, US diagnostics firm Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume Ventures, and Nexu...
Thinking Machines is negotiating a $1 billion funding round at a valuation above $40 billion, with e...
Thinking Machines is negotiating a $1 billion funding round at a valuation above $40 billion, with existing investor Accel reportedly positioned to lead. Mira Murati's AI research lab, founded in earl...
Moonshot AI Confidentially Files A1 Form for Hong Kong IPO, Targets $50B Valuation
Moonshot AI has confidentially filed an A1 form with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the formal first step in a Hong Kong IPO process, according to the report. The Kimi K3 developer is targeting a $50 b...
Wonderful AI lands $550M Series C at $5B valuation for its enterprise agent-orchestration platform.
Amsterdam-based Wonderful AI raised $550 million in a Series C led by Insight Partners, which also led the company's previous round in March. Salesforce joined as a new backer alongside existing inves...
Sharpa Raises $668M as Its Robot Runs Dairy Queen's 55-Step Workflow
Sharpa said it has raised more than RMB 4.5 billion ($668 million) at a RMB 22 billion ($3.3 billion) post-money valuation, backed by Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, JD.com, Transsion, and venture firms. A...
Hiasynth raises angel funding to build a queryable synthetic model of Europe's population
Hiasynth has closed an angel round led by Further Than Capital, joined by three additional angel investors including Stefan Lindeberg, a Further Than Capital backer and co-founder of Creandum. The Mun...
Catch raises $5M seed to automate executive administrative work with AI agents
Tel Aviv-based Catch emerged from stealth with a $5 million seed round co-led by Entrée Capital and Pitango, with participation from Seedcamp and Factorial Capital. Founded by CEO Nir Sabato and CTO Y...
HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B to Expand AI Runtime Security
Austin-based AI security startup HiddenLayer has raised a $100 million Series B led by Delta-v Capital, with Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, and Booz Allen Hamilton among the par...
VAST, developer of 3D generative AI platform Tripo AI, closes $446 million Series B and B+ rounds led by MPCi
VAST, the Hong Kong-headquartered, Beijing-founded developer of Tripo AI, raised approximately 3 billion yuan ($446.4 million) in Series B and B+ rounds led by China-focused venture firm MPCi. Investo...
IPronics raises $125M Series B for photonic AI chips, backed by Nvidia
IPronics, a Spanish photonic chip startup, has closed a $125 million Series B financing round with Nvidia participating as a backer. The company builds photonic computing infrastructure, and the round...
nSWX raises $2 million to advance AI chip packaging technology
nSWX, founded by engineers with NASA and MIT backgrounds, raised $2 million in a seed round to develop advanced packaging technology for AI accelerators. The company is targeting thermal management an...
Aslan raises funding to deploy agentic AI as undercover investigators for federal law enforcement
Aslan, a startup building agentic AI systems, has raised new funding to expand deployments with the FBI and other national security agencies. The company's technology applies autonomous AI agents to i...