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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.
Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers for universal inference software
Infinity, an AI infrastructure startup founded by former Google Brain researcher Jeremy Nixon, announced a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation from Touring Capital, Principal VC, and in...
Natural raises $30M Series A to build payment rails for autonomous AI agents, challenging Stripe
Natural, a payments infrastructure startup founded in 2025 by former Ivella co-founders Kahlil Lalji and Eric Wang alongside ex-Nextdoor engineer Walt Leung, has raised a $30 million Series A led by F...
CuspAI raises $450M to launch AI Materials Coalition with 48 industry partners
CuspAI closed a $450 million funding round and simultaneously launched a 48-company industry coalition focused on AI-driven materials discovery, as reported by Unite AI. The raise underscores strong i...
Sensesbit raises €1M to bring AI-powered sensory intelligence to food industry
Lugo-based FoodTech startup Sensesbit has closed a €1 million funding round to scale its AI-powered sensory intelligence platform. The round included Clave Capital, Eoniq Fund, WindOne Consultores, an...
Vorflux raises $15M seed for AI-native autonomous software engineering platform
Bengaluru-based Vorflux has raised $15 million in seed funding to build an AI-native autonomous software engineering platform. The company's product aims to automate software development workflows, ta...
Sonata, a New York City-based developer of an AI-driven preventive healthcare membership platform, h...
Sonata, a New York City-based developer of an AI-driven preventive healthcare membership platform, has emerged from stealth after raising $7 million in seed funding. The company plans to use the capit...
Runta Raises $20M Seed for AI Agent Runtime Infrastructure
San Francisco-based Runta has raised $20 million in seed funding to develop runtime execution layers and sandboxing infrastructure for AI agents. The company provides tooling that enables secure deplo...
**Red Bear AI completes hundreds of millions RMB Series A+ round, valuation approaches RMB 3 billion**
Red Bear AI (红熊AI), a Shanghai-based AI startup focused on 'memory science,' has closed a Series A+ round worth hundreds of millions of RMB (likely ~$40-70M), pushing its post-money valuation close to...
Nums AI raises $3M seed round for tabular foundation model as enterprise data AI heats up
Nums AI (넘즈에이아이), a Seoul-based startup building a Tabular Foundation Model (TFM), has raised 4 billion KRW (~$3M) in its first funding round. The round was led by Stonebridge Ventures with participat...
Nums AI secures $2.7M first investment to build tabular foundation model for structured data
South Korean startup Nums AI has raised $2.69 million (KRW 4 billion) in its first institutional funding round, led by Stonebridge Ventures with participation from SBVA, KT Investment, and Bass Ventur...
NVIDIA invests $50M in legal AI startup Legora, signals inference-era vertical push
NVIDIA, through its corporate venture arm NVentures, has made a $50 million strategic investment in Legora, a Swedish legal AI startup founded in 2023. The investment is part of Legora's $600 million...
ModelBest (面壁智能) Raises $7 Billion, Tops $28 Billion Valuation as China's Dominant Edge AI Unicorn
ModelBest, the Beijing-based edge AI company also known as 面壁智能, has raised over 50 billion RMB (~$7 billion) in total funding during the first half of 2026, achieving a post-money valuation exceeding...
Netflix invests $587M in Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive for post-production tools.
Streaming giant Netflix has invested $587 million in InterPositive, an AI startup founded by Ben Affleck that specializes in post-production tools for film and television. The investment signals Netfl...
OpenEvidence nears $30B valuation as healthcare AI platform proves vertical specialization can outrun general-purpose models.
What happened: OpenEvidence, a Boston-based startup building a clinical AI chatbot for physicians, has received a $200 million investment offer that would value the company at approximately $20 billio...
DeepSeek valued at ~$52B, begins external fundraising and IPO preparations
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI startup behind the low-cost V3 and R1 models, has disclosed a valuation of approximately 350.88 billion RMB (~$51.8 billion) via a public filing from luggage maker Anhu...
DeepPrinciple closes nearly $140M Series A, largest AI4M funding round in China
DeepPrinciple (深度原理), an AI for Materials (AI4M) startup co-founded by two MIT PhDs, has closed a Series A round totaling nearly 1 billion yuan (~$140M), marking the largest single fundraising in Chin...
Citadel Securities invests $400M in Crypto.com at $20B valuation
Citadel Securities has made a $400 million investment in Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, valuing the company at $20 billion. The deal, reported by Axios, marks a major crossover be...
Walden Robotics raises $300M at $1.1B valuation for robotics AI in energy-climate sector.
Cambridge, Mass.-based robotics startup Walden Robotics has raised a $300 million funding round led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, reaching a $1.1 billion valuation. The company applies AI-driven ro...
DeepSeek seeks $74B valuation in fresh funding round ahead of potential onshore IPO
Chinese AI foundation model lab DeepSeek is planning a new fundraising round at a valuation of roughly $74 billion, positioning it for a potential onshore IPO in China. The company, one of the country...
Valar Atomics, a startup developing small modular nuclear reactors tailored to power data centers, i...
Valar Atomics, a startup developing small modular nuclear reactors tailored to power data centers, is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion at a pre-money valuation of approximately $5 billion. The...