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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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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.**
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...