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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.
Rebellions becomes first unlisted direct equity investment from Korea's National Growth Fund
Korea's National Growth Fund has selected AI semiconductor fabless company Rebellions as its first direct equity investment in an unlisted firm, signaling strong state-backed support for domestic AI c...
Kling AI spins out from Kuaishou, raises $3B at $15B pre-money valuation in record multimodal funding round
Beijing Kling (北京可灵), the video-generation AI subsidiary of Chinese tech giant Kuaishou, completed a $3 billion (RMB 20.4 billion) external fundraising round at a $15 billion pre-money valuation, mark...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面), operator of the Kimi assistant, has launched a new funding round at a $31.5 bill...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面), operator of the Kimi assistant, has launched a new funding round at a $31.5 billion pre-money valuation, a 57% increase over its previous $20 billion valuation, according to a repo...
Lawyered raises $2.5M pre-Series A to expand AI-led legal infrastructure in India
Indian legal-tech startup Lawyered has raised $2.5 million in a pre-Series A round co-led by Rainmatter and Turbostart, with participation from existing investor Finvolve. The company, founded in 2018...
dConstruct Robotics Raises Funding for Spatial Tech Enabling Autonomous Robots in GPS-Denied Environments
Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics has secured funding to advance its spatial technology platform, which enables autonomous robots to navigate reliably in complex, GPS-denied environments. The compan...
Kuaishou's video generation service Kling AI has raised $2.8 billion from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, C...
Kuaishou's video generation service Kling AI has raised $2.8 billion from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, CPE, Guofang Investment, Zhongxin Securities, and Abu Dhabi's BlueFive Capital, reaching a post-money...
FASSTO Robotics Secures Pre-IPO Funding, Plans H2 2026 Listing Review
FASSTO Robotics, a South Korean physical AI and robotics solutions company, has secured the first tranche of its pre-IPO funding round, led by a robotics technology fund jointly formed by Ion Asset Ma...
Stathera, a Montreal-based fabless semiconductor company, has closed a $55 million Series B round le...
Stathera, a Montreal-based fabless semiconductor company, has closed a $55 million Series B round led by Maverick Ventures. The funding will accelerate production of its MEMS-based silicon timing comp...
EquiLibre, a Prague-based startup founded by three former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised a...
EquiLibre, a Prague-based startup founded by three former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised a new funding round to provide AI solutions for quantitative hedge funds. The amount and lead investor...
Nava raises $22M to build enterprise AI infrastructure across Asia-Pacific
Nava, an enterprise AI infrastructure startup founded in 2024 by former Oyo COO Abhinav Sinha, ex-McKinsey partner Vamshidhar Reddy, and cloud infrastructure veteran Abhijeet Singh, has raised $22 mil...
OptoGuide Technology, a developer of silicon-based optoelectronic integrated chips, completed a 100...
OptoGuide Technology, a developer of silicon-based optoelectronic integrated chips, completed a 100 million yuan (~$14M) Pre-A funding round. Investors include Photon Strong Chain Fund, Shanda Investm...
Runway raises $315M Series E at $5.3B valuation for world model pretraining
AI video startup Runway raised a $315 million Series E round at a $5.3 billion valuation in February 2026, led by General Atlantic and joined by Nvidia, Fidelity, Adobe Ventures, and AMD Ventures amon...
geoSurge Raises $12 Million Seed Round to Help Brands Manage AI Visibility
geoSurge, a London-based startup founded just over a year ago, has raised $12 million in a seed round led by AlbionVC to help brands shape how they are represented within generative AI systems like Ch...
Age Care Labs secures ₹85 crore (~$9M) in Series B1, launches senior living platform Shremoha
Age Care Labs, parent company of elder care brands Emoha and Epoch Elder Care, has raised ₹85 crore ($9 million) in a Series B1 funding round from Rainmatter (Zerodha), Pegasus Finvest, Shrem Group, a...
Kuaishou's Kling AI video generation model raises nearly $3 billion at $18 billion valuation.
Kuaishou Technology has raised approximately $3 billion for its Kling AI video generation model division, valuing the unit at $18 billion, according to a report from PingWest. The funding round unders...
VAST completes over 1 billion RMB Series A3 with backing from Geely, gaming, and internet investors
Chinese AI company VAST has closed a Series A3 strategic round exceeding 1 billion RMB (~$138M), according to a report from PingWest. The round attracted investment from automotive giant Geely, multip...
Quantum Systems raises $1.2B to scale autonomous defense systems
German defense technology firm Quantum Systems has secured $1.2 billion in Series D financing to expand manufacturing of autonomous military systems and its MOSAIC UXS software ecosystem. The round wi...
OpenAI courts Trump administration as its latest investor
OpenAI is proposing that the Trump administration take an equity stake in the company, according to a report from Axios. The proposal comes as the U.S. government deliberates security clearance protoc...
ElevenLabs targets $22B valuation in early secondary share sale talks
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is reportedly in early-stage discussions for a secondary share sale that would value the company at approximately $22 billion, according to sources cited by Tech in Asia. T...
FaceMind, a Chinese startup founded by a 95后 (post-1995) PhD, has raised tens of millions of yuan in...
FaceMind, a Chinese startup founded by a 95后 (post-1995) PhD, has raised tens of millions of yuan in a Pre-A round led by Star Capital, with existing investor 360 Group super-proportionally participat...