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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 AI valued at $26 billion, becomes highest-valued AI coding company
Jun 1, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition AI valued at $26 billion, becomes highest-valued AI coding company

Cognition AI valued at $26 billion, becomes highest-valued AI coding company Cognition AI, the developer of the "AI software engineer" Devin, has closed over $1 billion in new funding at a $26 billion...

Jun 1, 2026VAST

VAST raises nearly $200 million in Series A rounds, unveils world model

VAST raises nearly $200 million in Series A rounds, unveils world model VAST, a Chinese robotics and embodied AI startup, has raised close to $200 million in Series A funding rounds and simultaneously...

Webidoo raises $25M to bring AI operations platform to North American SMBs
May 31, 2026Webidoo

Webidoo raises $25M to bring AI operations platform to North American SMBs

Webidoo raises $25M to bring AI operations platform to North American SMBs Milan-based AI technology company Webidoo announced a $25 million funding round led by Fondo Imprese per la Crescita 3 (IXC3)...

AVIATE Raises $640K Seed for AI Back-Office Automation Platform TASKBASE
May 31, 2026AVIATE Inc.

AVIATE Raises $640K Seed for AI Back-Office Automation Platform TASKBASE

AVIATE Raises $640K Seed for AI Back-Office Automation Platform TASKBASE Tokyo-based startup AVIATE has raised ¥7 million (~$640K) in seed funding from ANOBAKA, East Ventures, and MIXI founder Kenji K...

Synthetic Raises $10M Seed from Khosla Ventures for Fully Autonomous AI Accounting
May 31, 2026Synthetic

Synthetic Raises $10M Seed from Khosla Ventures for Fully Autonomous AI Accounting

Synthetic Raises $10M Seed from Khosla Ventures for Fully Autonomous AI Accounting Synthetic, a Tokyo-based developer of AI-powered accounting software, announced a $10 million seed round led by Khosl...

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A to govern autonomous AI agents.
May 31, 2026Geordie

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A to govern autonomous AI agents.

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A to govern autonomous AI agents. Geordie AI, a security and governance platform for autonomous AI agents, announced a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital...

AI shopping assistant Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised $35.5 million in a...
May 31, 2026Phia

AI shopping assistant Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised $35.5 million in a...

AI shopping assistant Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised $35.5 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Notable Capital, and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from...

Hexapro accelerates Korea’s nano-porous AAO to power ultra-high-capacity chips
May 31, 2026Hexapro

Hexapro accelerates Korea’s nano-porous AAO to power ultra-high-capacity chips

Hexapro accelerates Korea’s nano-porous AAO to power ultra-high-capacity chips South Korean materials startup Hexapro has raised a Series A round to commercialize its nano-porous anodic aluminum oxide...

Fireworks AI in talks for $15B valuation, riding inference token boom to unicorn status
May 31, 2026Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI in talks for $15B valuation, riding inference token boom to unicorn status

Fireworks AI in talks for $15B valuation, riding inference token boom to unicorn status Fireworks AI, the inference platform founded by former Meta AI lead Lin Qiao (乔琳), is in discussions for a new f...

Fireworks AI reportedly raising new round at $15B valuation, riding inference token boom
May 30, 2026Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI reportedly raising new round at $15B valuation, riding inference token boom

Fireworks AI reportedly raising new round at $15B valuation, riding inference token boom Chinese-born, US-based inference platform Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation...

XCENA raises $135M for CXL-based memory chips targeting AI bottleneck
May 30, 2026XCENA

XCENA raises $135M for CXL-based memory chips targeting AI bottleneck

XCENA raises $135M for CXL-based memory chips targeting AI bottleneck South Korea-based AI memory chip startup XCENA has raised $135 million in fresh funding at a post-money valuation of $570 million,...

**Upstage Secures 560 Billion Won Ahead of Sovereign AI Model Selection**
May 30, 2026Upstage

**Upstage Secures 560 Billion Won Ahead of Sovereign AI Model Selection**

**Upstage Secures 560 Billion Won Ahead of Sovereign AI Model Selection** Upstage, a leading South Korean AI startup behind the Solar LLM, has raised approximately 560 billion won (~$420 million) thro...

May 29, 2026XCENA

Xcena raises $135M Series B for in-memory AI chip targeting inference bottlenecks

Xcena raises $135M Series B for in-memory AI chip targeting inference bottlenecks Xcena, developer of the MX1 chip that performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modul...

Anthropic pursues $36 billion debt financing to secure Google TPUs
May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic pursues $36 billion debt financing to secure Google TPUs

Anthropic pursues $36 billion debt financing to secure Google TPUs Anthropic is pursuing approximately $36 billion (54 trillion won) in debt financing to secure Google TPUs, in what would be one of th...

May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI to claim the title of the world's most valuable AI company.

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI to claim the title of the world's most valuable AI company. Anthropic has raised $65 billion in new funding at a $965 billion valuation, mak...

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI
May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to approximately $965 billion. The round was le...

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup at $900B, unveils Claude Opus 4.8
May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup at $900B, unveils Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup at $900B, unveils Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round led by Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Ca...

Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation as AI coding adoption scales.
May 28, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation as AI coding adoption scales.

Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation as AI coding adoption scales. Cognition, the developer of the AI coding agent Devin, has raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, marking one of the largest...

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as most valuable AI startup with $965B valuation
May 28, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as most valuable AI startup with $965B valuation

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as most valuable AI startup with $965B valuation Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H financing round at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion val...

May 28, 2026AgileSoDA

Nonghyup Bank makes direct investment in AgileSoda to accelerate agentic AI banking

Nonghyup Bank makes direct investment in AgileSoda to accelerate agentic AI banking South Korea’s Nonghyup Bank (NH농협은행) has signed a direct investment and business cooperation memorandum of understan...