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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.
Octozi raises $3M seed to automate clinical trial data operations with agentic AI
Octozi, a New York-based AI company focused on clinical development workflows, announced a $3 million seed round led by Surface Ventures, with participation from Remarkable Ventures and Debiopharm's v...
Turing raises ¥27.89B Series A from AMD Ventures, Mitsubishi for autonomous driving AI
Turing (チューリング), a Tokyo-based autonomous driving startup, announced the close of its Series A extension round totaling ¥12.62 billion (~$87M), bringing the full Series A to ¥27.89 billion (~$192M). P...
Zhitui Shidai (智推时代), also operating as GenOptima, raises RMB tens of millions (~$4–7M) in angel-rou...
Zhitui Shidai (智推时代), also operating as GenOptima, raises RMB tens of millions (~$4–7M) in angel-round funding led by Shanghai Intellectual Property Fund and Tiantu Investment, with follow-on from exi...
Modpick Raises Seed Funding from Kakao Ventures for AI Cross-Border Commerce Platform
Modpick, an AI agent-based cross-border commerce startup, has raised an undisclosed seed round from Kakao Ventures and Ewha University Holdings. The company operates a platform that identifies oversea...
MODEPICK Raises Seed Funding to Scale AI-Driven Cross-Border Purchase Agency
South Korean cross-border purchase agency startup MODEPICK has secured seed funding from Kakao Ventures and Ewha Technology Holdings. The company operates an AI agent-based platform that sources premi...
Morphi (墨奇智能) raises over $140M angel round from Alibaba and Tencent, hits $1B valuation
Morphi, a Chinese embodied AI startup founded in late 2025, has completed an angel-round series financing of more than 10 billion yuan (~$140M) led by Alibaba and Tencent, with participation from doze...
Bespoke Labs Raises $40M to Build Practice Worlds for Enterprise AI Agent Training
Bespoke Labs, an AI agent training platform that creates simulated environments for agents to practice in, has raised $40 million across a seed round led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing. The company...
Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan, Tencent
Even Realities, a three-year-old Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup founded by ex-Apple engineers, has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round co-led by Meituan and returning investor Tencent, r...
Bridgepoint leads $229M round for French HR startup Skello
Bridgepoint, the London-based private equity firm, has led a $229 million funding round for Skello, a French human resources technology startup. The round represents one of the larger raises in the Eu...
Neusignal Therapeutics raises $34.5M Series B for Alzheimer's drug development
Neusignal Therapeutics, a Tohoku University spinout developing a disease-modifying small-molecule drug for Alzheimer's-type dementia, announced on June 30 it has raised approximately 5.32 billion yen...
Spike Studio raises 370 million yen seed round for AI agent development
Tokyo-based Spike Studio (スパイクスタジオ) has raised approximately ¥370 million (~$2.6M) in a seed round combining equity, debt, and venture debt financing. Investors include B Dash Ventures, Aozora Corpora...
Biren Technology (壁仞科技), a Shanghai-based AI chipmaker, has raised approximately $892.5 million thro...
Biren Technology (壁仞科技), a Shanghai-based AI chipmaker, has raised approximately $892.5 million through a new share sale to scale up GPU production capacity. The company's stock surged over 150% follo...
Etched challenges Nvidia with transformer-only ASIC chip, reaches $1T valuation
Harvard dropouts Gavin Uberti and Robert Wachen founded Etched, a startup building an ASIC chip called Sohu that exclusively runs transformer models—the architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and most g...
Nexus raises $4.3M seed round to push enterprise AI agents into business operations
Nexus, an enterprise AI agent startup founded in 2024, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst with participation from Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, Twenty Two Ventures, Ph...
Yotta raises $150 million at ₹37,000 crore valuation to fund AI infrastructure expansion
Indian AI data-center operator Yotta has raised $150 million in a funding round that values the company at approximately ₹37,000 crore (about $4.5 billion). The company plans to use the capital to exp...
K25 AI, a Singapore-based enterprise AI startup, has raised $2 million in funding from an undisclose...
K25 AI, a Singapore-based enterprise AI startup, has raised $2 million in funding from an undisclosed Nasdaq-listed firm. The company builds AI-driven products that help businesses automate workflows,...
Guangxiang Technology, an embodied AI startup incubated at Tsinghua University's Vehicle School, has...
Guangxiang Technology, an embodied AI startup incubated at Tsinghua University's Vehicle School, has raised hundreds of millions of yuan in angel funding for automotive applications. The raise, while...
Dan Lorenc, a former Google engineer and key figure in the open-source software supply chain securit...
Dan Lorenc, a former Google engineer and key figure in the open-source software supply chain security movement, has built Chainguard into a $3.5 billion startup. The company focuses on securing the so...
DeepSeek reportedly raises over 50 billion RMB ($7.4B) in first external funding round, re-pricing Chinese large models as strategic assets
DeepSeek has reportedly completed its first external funding round at over 500 billion RMB (~$74B valuation), raising more than 50 billion RMB ($7.4B) from a consortium of investors including the Nati...
Mistral AI takes on OpenAI with open source frontier models. French AI startup Mistral AI has raised...
Mistral AI takes on OpenAI with open source frontier models. French AI startup Mistral AI has raised significant funding, positioning itself as a formidable competitor to OpenAI by betting on open-sou...