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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.
Cognition is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion at a $47 billion valuation.
Cognition, maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin, is said to be negotiating a new $1 billion funding round that would value the company at $47 billion, according to a report citing people familia...
XTEND, an Israeli maker of AI-powered autonomous drone and robotics systems, begins trading on the N...
XTEND, an Israeli maker of AI-powered autonomous drone and robotics systems, begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange this week under ticker XTND at a $1.5 billion valuation, following a reverse...
Empirik launches with $21M seed to catch infrastructure outages before they happen
Empirik, incubated inside Sequoia Capital since 2023 by former Rubrik and VMware infrastructure executive Avon Puri and fellow Sequoia IT leader Sudheer Dhurjati, is spinning out as an independent com...
Holifya raises €2 million to expand AI-supported obesity treatment in Italy
Holifya, described as Italy's first digital clinic focused on pharmacologic obesity treatment, raised €2 million — €1.6 million in equity plus €0.4 million in debt and grants. The round was led by Nex...
Violoop raises RMB100M+-scale funding round for HDMI/USB desktop AI agent, deepens Lenovo partnership
Violoop, a China-based startup building a desktop AI agent device, has closed a hundred-million-RMB-scale (RMB 100M+, roughly $14M+) angel and Pre-A financing round. Investors include Lenovo Capital,...
AIR exits stealth with $50M raised across two seed rounds
AIR, an AI security startup founded by Yair Saban (CEO) and Niv Hoffman (CTO), both veterans of Israel's Unit 8200 intelligence corps, has come out of stealth with $50 million raised in two rounds clo...
Guickly raises $4.2M seed for enterprise AI spend visibility tools
Guickly, founded by a former Google applied AI expert, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding. The startup is building software that gives enterprises visibility and control over how much they spend...
Wafer, a non-Nvidia inference provider, draws acquisition offers above a $200 million valuation.
Wafer, an AI inference provider whose stack runs on non-Nvidia chips, has reportedly fielded acquisition offers that value the company at more than $200 million. The report frames the interest as evid...
VAST (三启万物) raises roughly RMB 3 billion (~$420M) in combined Series B and B+ funding, led by Matrix Partners China.
VAST (三启万物), a China-based 3D-native generative AI and world-model startup founded in 2023, closed a combined Series B and B+ round of approximately RMB 3 billion (~$420M), led by Matrix Partners Chin...
Locus Robotics nears close of Series G funding round
Locus Robotics, a developer of AI-driven autonomous mobile robots and warehouse fulfillment orchestration software, is reportedly nearing the close of a Series G funding round, according to Axios Pro...
DataAgent emerges from stealth with $10M pre-seed to build self-healing Kubernetes infrastructure
Tel Aviv-based DataAgent has emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by MizMaa Ventures and Alicorn Venture Partners. Founded by CEO Ishay Yaari and CTO Nati Shalom, former colle...
VAST Raises $446 Million in Series B and B+ Rounds for Generative AI 3D
VAST, a China-based startup building generative AI models for 3D and spatial content, closed $446 million across its Series B and Series B+ rounds, led by Matrix Partners China. Perfect World, BlueFoc...
MediaTek Secures Nvidia Investment as AI Chipmakers Deepen Supply Chain Ties
Nvidia is taking a strategic equity stake in MediaTek, the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company known for its smartphone and automotive chip designs, according to The Information. The investment fo...
Turing raises KRW 7 billion (~$5.1M) Series B to broaden GPAI for university students.
Turing, a developer of reasoning-focused AI agents, raised KRW 7 billion in a Series B led by new investors Korea Development Bank, Kingo Investment Partners, and Company K Partners, with follow-on ba...
VAST raises approximately RMB 5 billion (~$700M) over six months, extending a China 3D/spatial AI funding run
VAST, a China-based 3D/spatial AI startup, has raised approximately RMB 5 billion (~$700M) in aggregate financing over the past six months, according to a report circulated via 36Kr's distribution cha...
Twin1 AI Raises $20M Seed for Digital Worker Twins
Aramco Ventures co-led a $20 million seed round in California-headquartered Twin1 AI with Bessemer Venture Partners and Tribeca Venture Partners. Founded in 2025, Twin1 builds digital twins of knowled...
Sharpa Raises $669M, Opens Fully Automated Dairy Queen Robot Restaurant
Sharpa, the AI robotics startup founded in 2024 by the three co-founders of LiDAR maker Hesai Technology, said it has raised more than RMB 4.5 billion (about $669 million) from investors including Ali...
FileAI Secures Strategic Backing From SMBC Asia Rising Fund and Singtel Innov8 for Japan Push
Singapore-based enterprise automation startup FileAI, maker of the fileForge business-process automation platform, has received a new strategic investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund — the corporate ve...
Sharpa raises $670M, opens fully automated humanoid robot restaurant with Dairy Queen in Shanghai
Sharpa, an AI robotics startup founded in 2024 by the three co-founders of Nasdaq- and Hong Kong-listed LiDAR maker Hesai Technology — CEO David Li, CTO Xiang Shaoqing, and chief scientist Sun Kai — h...
Supermom, a Singapore-based parenting network and consumer data platform, raised S$18 million (~$13.
Supermom, a Singapore-based parenting network and consumer data platform, raised S$18 million (~$13.3M) in Series B funding to expand its AI-driven capabilities across Southeast Asia. Proceeds will fu...