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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.

NUJP raises approximately 100 million yen (~$666,000) for Japanese brand global expansion
Jul 26, 2026NUJP

NUJP raises approximately 100 million yen (~$666,000) for Japanese brand global expansion

NUJP, a Tokyo-based platform operator that combines investment, management support, and overseas expansion for Japanese brands, announced on July 14 it raised approximately 100 million yen (roughly $6...

KAERU raises funding from Akigin NEXT Fund for welfare cashless service expansion in Japan
Jul 26, 2026KAERU

KAERU raises funding from Akigin NEXT Fund for welfare cashless service expansion in Japan

KAERU, a Tokyo-based startup providing welfare cashless payment services for elderly and disabled individuals, announced it has raised a third-party allotment of shares from the Akigin NEXT Fund (akig...

Naver secures $10 billion from Brookfield and Nvidia for AI factory expansion
Jul 26, 2026

Naver secures $10 billion from Brookfield and Nvidia for AI factory expansion

South Korean internet giant Naver has secured $10 billion in investment commitments from Canada-based alternative asset manager Brookfield and Nvidia to fund a major expansion of its AI factory infras...

Flexprice Raises $1.5M Seed to Build Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies
Jul 26, 2026Flexprice

Flexprice Raises $1.5M Seed to Build Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies

Flexprice, an open-source billing infrastructure startup founded in 2024, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Shastra VC, with participation from Sandeep Mittal and TDV Partners. The compan...

AIsa Raises $6.5M from Alibaba and Tribe Capital to Build Agent Payment Infrastructure
Jul 26, 2026AIsa

AIsa Raises $6.5M from Alibaba and Tribe Capital to Build Agent Payment Infrastructure

AIsa, a San Francisco-based startup building a transaction network for AI agents, announced a $6.5 million seed round co-led by Alibaba and Tribe Capital, with participation from Draper Associates, Su...

Satark AI raises pre-seed round at $4M valuation, targets enterprise cyber risk pilots
Jul 26, 2026Satark AI

Satark AI raises pre-seed round at $4M valuation, targets enterprise cyber risk pilots

Mumbai-based cybersecurity startup Satark AI has raised an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed funding round at a valuation cap of $4 million through convertible notes from angel investors. The company,...

Innefu Labs, a New Delhi-headquartered AI and national security technology firm, has raised $30 mill...
Jul 26, 2026Innefu Labs

Innefu Labs, a New Delhi-headquartered AI and national security technology firm, has raised $30 mill...

Innefu Labs, a New Delhi-headquartered AI and national security technology firm, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Singapore-based Panthera Growth Partners. The company, founde...

Jul 26, 2026Elio

Elio, a company developing a new type of image sensor optimized for AI perception rather than human...

Elio, a company developing a new type of image sensor optimized for AI perception rather than human vision, has raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation... The round signals growing investor appetite...

Ant International raises $1.2B to build AI payment agents, targets global settlement layer
Jul 26, 2026Ant International

Ant International raises $1.2B to build AI payment agents, targets global settlement layer

Ant International, the Singapore-headquartered global arm of Jack Ma's fintech ecosystem, closed a $1.2 billion Series A on July 21, 2026, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba along with unnamed internatio...

DeepSeek has paused its second fundraising round, a deal that would have valued the Chinese AI lab a...
Jul 25, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek has paused its second fundraising round, a deal that would have valued the Chinese AI lab a...

DeepSeek has paused its second fundraising round, a deal that would have valued the Chinese AI lab at approximately $71 billion, after founder Liang Wenfeng's frustrations over leaked comments from a...

Jul 25, 2026Atoms

Atoms, a robotics startup founded by former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, raises $1.7 billion in a fundi...

Atoms, a robotics startup founded by former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, raises $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Bain Capital and Fifth Wall. Why it mat...

TidalSense, a respiratory intelligence company, has raised $19 million to accelerate commercializati...
Jul 25, 2026TidalSense

TidalSense, a respiratory intelligence company, has raised $19 million to accelerate commercializati...

TidalSense, a respiratory intelligence company, has raised $19 million to accelerate commercialization of its N-Tidal Diagnose device, an AI-powered handheld that detects COPD from a 75-second normal-...

bestat raises ¥310M Series A for industrial 3D data platform 3D.Core
Jul 25, 2026bestat

bestat raises ¥310M Series A for industrial 3D data platform 3D.Core

Japanese startup bestat has closed a ¥310 million ($2.0M) Series A round for its industrial 3D data platform 3D.Core. The round included investors such as Suho Investment Works, Darwin Venture Managem...

**Naver secures $14.6B from NVIDIA and Brookfield for global AI factory buildout.**
Jul 25, 2026

**Naver secures $14.6B from NVIDIA and Brookfield for global AI factory buildout.**

Naver Chairman Lee Hae-jin announced at the San Francisco AI Summit that the South Korean internet giant has secured a $14.6 billion (₩14.6 trillion) investment from NVIDIA and alternative asset manag...

Scope AI raises $20M Series A to automate industrial inspection paperwork
Jul 25, 2026Scope

Scope AI raises $20M Series A to automate industrial inspection paperwork

London-based Scope AI has raised a €17.2 million ($20M) Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Susa Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, and Syndicate 1, as well as angel investors in...

Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Mar...
Jul 25, 2026Prentis

Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Mar...

Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch. Laun...

Jul 25, 2026Fluidstack

Fluidstack, a neocloud provider specializing in AI workloads, has raised an $830 million Series A fu...

Fluidstack, a neocloud provider specializing in AI workloads, has raised an $830 million Series A funding round led by Situational, with Anthropic as a partner. The company offers cloud infrastructure...

Jul 24, 2026Vynix

Vynix raises funding for AI-native visual website feedback platform targeting developer workflows

Vynix, an AI-powered visual website feedback platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding. The company helps development teams collect feedback on websites through screenshots, annotations, b...

NeuralKart, an AI-insurtech startup building the decisioning layer for risk, has raised INR 2.35 Cr...
Jul 24, 2026NeuralKart

NeuralKart, an AI-insurtech startup building the decisioning layer for risk, has raised INR 2.35 Cr...

NeuralKart, an AI-insurtech startup building the decisioning layer for risk, has raised INR 2.35 Cr (~$280K) in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures. The company operates two AI platforms: In...

Thira raises $21M seed round led by Madrona for enterprise AI agents targeting back-office automation
Jul 24, 2026Thira

Thira raises $21M seed round led by Madrona for enterprise AI agents targeting back-office automation

Thira, an enterprise AI agent startup founded by Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer, announced a $21 million seed round led by Madrona with participation from FUSE and a global advisor...