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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.

Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5M Seed to Expand Industrial Humanoid Deployments and Cut Remote Operator Reliance.
Aug 6, 2026Avatar Robotics

Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5M Seed to Expand Industrial Humanoid Deployments and Cut Remote Operator Reliance.

Avatar Robotics has secured $6.5 million in seed funding, led by AlleyCorp, with participation from Defy.vc, Headline, Henry Ford III, Refashiond, and others. The San Francisco-based startup, launched...

Kaiwang Data (恺望数据), a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a stra...
Aug 6, 2026Kaiwang Data

Kaiwang Data (恺望数据), a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a stra...

Kaiwang Data (恺望数据), a Chinese provider of data infrastructure for embodied AI, has completed a strategic funding round of more than RMB100 million (~$14M). The round was jointly led by the Beijing E-...

Sequoia Capital doubles down on AI startups, backing Etched's specialized AI chips.
Aug 6, 2026Etched

Sequoia Capital doubles down on AI startups, backing Etched's specialized AI chips.

Venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is intensifying its focus on artificial intelligence under new leadership, with a portfolio that now includes Etched, an AI chip startup founded by Harvard dropou...

Decade has raised $85 million in what it describes as Latin America's largest seed round, funds earm...
Aug 6, 2026Decade

Decade has raised $85 million in what it describes as Latin America's largest seed round, funds earm...

Decade has raised $85 million in what it describes as Latin America's largest seed round, funds earmarked to launch an AI-native wealth advisory platform. The round marks a significant capital event f...

Limpid Selected for Deep Tech TIPS Program, Secures 1.5 Billion Won for Animal Behavior AI Advancement
Aug 5, 2026Limpid

Limpid Selected for Deep Tech TIPS Program, Secures 1.5 Billion Won for Animal Behavior AI Advancement

South Korean AI pet healthcare startup Limpid has been selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' Deep Tech TIPS program, securing 1.5 billion won (~$1.1 million) in R&D funding over 36 months. T...

DeepSeek reportedly reopens talks on a RMB50 billion second funding round at a ~RMB500 billion valuation
Aug 5, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek reportedly reopens talks on a RMB50 billion second funding round at a ~RMB500 billion valuation

DeepSeek has reportedly reopened discussions for a second funding round targeting RMB50 billion, which could value the Chinese AI company at approximately RMB500 billion before financing. The talks ma...

Aug 5, 2026Pinegap

Pinegap, an AI-driven equity research platform, has raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Ste...

Pinegap, an AI-driven equity research platform, has raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Stellaris Venture Partners. The funding will support go-to-market activities, sales expansion, and grow...

Shelfmark Raises $3.5 Million to Bring Autonomous Production Intelligence to Continuous-Flow Manufacturing
Aug 5, 2026Shelfmark

Shelfmark Raises $3.5 Million to Bring Autonomous Production Intelligence to Continuous-Flow Manufacturing

Shelfmark, a Pittsburgh-based Physical AI startup, has closed a $3.5 million seed round led by Armory Square Ventures to bring larger autonomy to continuous-flow manufacturing lines—the fast-moving pr...

InRisk Labs raises $27M Series A to scale AI-driven insurance risk analytics
Aug 5, 2026InRisk Labs

InRisk Labs raises $27M Series A to scale AI-driven insurance risk analytics

Ahmedabad-based insurtech startup InRisk Labs has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Northpoint. The company will use the funds to scale its AI-driv...

LiblibAI hits $2B valuation with 'middleman' model
Aug 5, 2026Evoken

LiblibAI hits $2B valuation with 'middleman' model

Chinese AI application company LiblibAI (演语科技) has raised nearly $300 million in a Series B+ round, valuing the company at over $2 billion, one of the largest single rounds in China's AI application l...

Foundational Industries Raises $25M in Seed Funding to Build AI-Native Factories for Data Center Equipment
Aug 5, 2026Foundational Industries

Foundational Industries Raises $25M in Seed Funding to Build AI-Native Factories for Data Center Equipment

Foundational Industries has secured $25 million in seed funding to develop a network of U.S. factories designed around physical AI, with an initial focus on manufacturing equipment for AI data centers...

AI advertising startup Addit & Ark has secured seed investment from Mashup Ventures, Kakao Ventures,...
Aug 5, 2026Adit & Arc

AI advertising startup Addit & Ark has secured seed investment from Mashup Ventures, Kakao Ventures,...

AI advertising startup Addit & Ark has secured seed investment from Mashup Ventures, Kakao Ventures, and others, as reported by Venturesquare. The company operates 'Addit,' an AI-based advertising pla...

Isabella Raises Seed Funding from CNT Tech for AI-Driven Women's Health
Aug 5, 2026Isabella

Isabella Raises Seed Funding from CNT Tech for AI-Driven Women's Health

South Korean startup Isabella, a data-driven women's healthcare company, has secured seed funding from CNT Tech, a local investor. The investment amount was not disclosed. Isabella combines clinical e...

Aug 5, 2026Oligo Security

Oligo Security Secures $60M in Funding Led by Lightspeed

Israeli application security startup Oligo Security has raised $60 million in a funding round joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to Tech in Asia. The company focuses on AI-powered securi...

conmeet raises €6M seed to bring AI-native OS to construction SMEs
Aug 5, 2026conmeet

conmeet raises €6M seed to bring AI-native OS to construction SMEs

Berlin-based construction-tech startup conmeet has raised €6 million in an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Reimann Investors Venture Capital and Smedvig Ventures, with participation from existing...

Morgenrot completes $0.7M (100 million yen) extension from Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Series B total reaches ~$9.4M
Aug 4, 2026Morgenrot

Morgenrot completes $0.7M (100 million yen) extension from Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Series B total reaches ~$9.4M

Morgenrot (モルゲンロット), a Tokyo-based startup providing GPU resource management and AI compute infrastructure software, has closed a 100 million yen (~$0.7M) extension round from Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Ba...

Aug 4, 2026Advocate Technologies

Advocate Technologies raises $18M seed for AI commercial insurance data platform

Advocate Technologies, a startup focused on commercial insurance, has raised $18 million in seed funding. The company uses AI to help insurance professionals compare policy prices and coverage by stre...

Intelligence, the parent company of AI feedback platform Design Arena, has raised a $7.9 million see...
Aug 4, 2026Intelligence

Intelligence, the parent company of AI feedback platform Design Arena, has raised a $7.9 million see...

Intelligence, the parent company of AI feedback platform Design Arena, has raised a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, and Valkyrie. The company was...

Aug 4, 2026Convex

Convex raises $57M Series B led by Insight Partners for AI-optimized backend

Convex, a developer platform providing an AI-optimized application backend, has raised a $57 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. The company focuses on simplifying backend infrastructure s...

Aug 4, 2026Superleap

Superleap raises $3.8M seed for AI-native CRM from Peak XV's Surge fund

Indian AI startup Superleap has raised $3.8 million in seed funding led by Peak XV's Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India's early-stage program). The company is building an AI-native customer relatio...