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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.
Alice Raises $140M to Expand AI Model Testing, Defense, and Monitoring
Alice, formerly ActiveFence, has raised $140 million in a financing round led by Apax Digital. Samsung and SentinelOne participated. The Israeli company sells AI trust, safety, and security capabiliti...
XPeng Robotics raises over $900M at $6.3B for Iron humanoid mass production
XPeng's robotics business raised more than $900 million in its first external funding round, valuing the humanoid unit above $6.3 billion post-money. Proceeds will fund physical-AI model training, har...
Primero Raises $12M to Deploy AI Agents Across Latin American Enterprises
Mexican startup Primero has emerged publicly with a $12 million seed round co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst. The company’s Primia product is designed to connect fragmented legacy systems, capture...
Higgsfield raises $400 million Series B led by DST Global at roughly $5.4 billion valuation
San Francisco-based AI video and image platform Higgsfield closed a $400 million Series B led by DST Global, with strategic backing from South Korea's Mirae Asset Capital and Japan's NTT Docomo Ventur...
Volve raises $3M seed to scale its construction-tendering AI platform across Europe
Norwegian construction-tech startup Volve, founded in 2024 by Herman Smith, Abyl Ikshanov and Alf Jørgen Dovland, has raised $3 million (NOK 30 million) in a seed round led by Skyfall Ventures, with p...
Liner Raises 50 Billion Won ($36M) Series C Led by LB Investment
Korean AI agent and search startup Liner has closed a Series C round of 50 billion won (roughly $36M), led by LB Investment, about one year and ten months after its previous round. Existing backers At...
General Intuition targets $6B valuation for robotics-focused model expansion
New York-based General Intuition is in talks to raise a new round at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, with Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six among prospective new investors...
Alibaba prices HK$80 billion share placement to fund AI infrastructure buildout
Alibaba has priced a placement of 710 million new Hong Kong-listed shares at HK$112.70 each, raising HK$80 billion (approximately US$10.2 billion), with the transaction expected to close August 26, 20...
Atomo, a functional materials startup, has secured seed investment from LG Electronics and deep-tech...
Atomo, a functional materials startup, has secured seed investment from LG Electronics and deep-tech accelerator Bluepoint Partners. The investment amount and company valuation were not disclosed. Ato...
Nvidia is discussing an investment in Perplexity as part of an equity round that values the AI searc...
Nvidia is discussing an investment in Perplexity as part of an equity round that values the AI search startup at more than $30 billion, and the talks also include a potential technology licensing deal...
Unitree's Shanghai debut pops 460%, one of several blockbuster Chinese tech listings this year
Humanoid robot maker Unitree saw its shares jump 460% on their first day of trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, according to The Information, joining a string of outsized first-day pops among rece...
Alibaba to Raise US$10.2 Billion in New Shares to Fund Full-Stack AI Push
Alibaba Group Holding said Sunday it will issue HK$80 billion (about US$10.2 billion) in new shares, with every dollar of proceeds directed to AI investment. The Chinese tech giant framed the raise as...
Hush Security raises $30M Series A for just-in-time AI agent access control, with Akamai as strategic backer
Tel Aviv-based Hush Security closed a $30 million Series A on July 28, with Akamai Technologies joining as a new strategic investor alongside existing backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. The rou...
Anthropic reportedly plans an October IPO at up to a $2 trillion valuation, even as ARR growth shows signs of deceleration.
Anthropic confidentially filed for a US IPO in June and is reportedly targeting a listing as early as October at up to a $2 trillion valuation, per the Financial Times. The report follows Bloomberg's...
Veeda AI raises $90M seed to build world models for robot training
Toronto-based Veeda AI has raised more than $90 million in a seed round backed by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, according to The Logic. The company was founded by Sanja Fidler, Zan Gojcic and...
Mirendil raises $200M seed at ~$1B valuation to automate AI research
Mirendil, a new AI research lab founded by researchers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and xAI, has raised $200 million in seed funding at approximately $1 billion valuation. The round, one o...
Starcloud raises $250M Series A extension at $2.3B valuation as launch capacity tightens
Starcloud has added a $250 million extension to its March Series A, bringing the round to $420 million total and valuing the orbital-data-center startup at $2.3 billion. Manhattan West Ventures led th...
HexSeed raises over €700k to develop diamond-coated GaN cooling for AI data centers
UK-based HexSeed Technology, founded in late 2025, has raised over €700k (£600k) in early-stage funding led by Carbon13, with participation from Net Zero Technology Centre and Vento Ventures. The roun...
Boom raises $15M Series A, launches BoomCRM leasing agent for single-family rental operators
Austin-based Boom, founded by Rob Whiting and Kirill Moizik, closed a $15 million Series A led by S3 Ventures, joined by Mischief VC, Starting Line VC, Gilgamesh Ventures and Company Ventures. The cap...
Corma closes $60M Sequoia-led seed to build defensive cyber foundation models
Corma, a cybersecurity AI model developer based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, announced a $60 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with Khosla Ventures and Coatue also participating. No valuati...