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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.
SimpleAI secures US$10M debt facility and $5M seed funding to acquire accounting firms across APAC
Singapore-based accounting automation startup SimpleAI raised $5 million in seed funding and secured a separate $10 million debt facility to acquire accounting firms across Asia-Pacific, pairing AI so...
ESGAgent.ai closes seed round led by DNX Ventures as compliance demands mount for heavy industry
Brisbane-based ESGAgent.ai has closed a seed round led by DNX Ventures, bringing total capital raised to $1.7 million. The company offers an AI platform designed to help heavy industry companies manag...
Hyades Raises $910K Seed for AI Platform That Fuses Satellite, Drone, and Radar Data
Auckland-based startup Hyades has raised a NZ$1.1 million (~AU$990,000) pre-seed round led by Icehouse Ventures, with participation from K1W1 and angel investors Tony Falkenstein and Tim Brown, to bui...
Birdsview Raises €2.5 Million Seed To Scale Avys AI Retention Agent For Retailers
Birdsview, a German startup founded by Ozan Brochwitz-Tuerker and Tim Kuesters, has raised a €2.5 million seed round from Fortino Ventures and Newion to scale its AI retention agent Avys. The product...
Naver D2SF invests in 10 startups in H1 2026, surpassing 2025 total, with focus on AI and robotics.
Naver's startup investment arm, D2SF (directed by Yang Sang-hwan), deployed 10 investments in the first half of 2026, already surpassing the 9 investments made in all of 2025. The portfolio spans AI,...
NanoFrontier selected for Japan's 2026 Regional Revitalization subsidy
NanoFrontier, a Japanese AI startup, has been selected for Japan's 2026 Regional Revitalization Practical Development Subsidy, as reported by ASCII.jp. The subsidy supports regional economic developme...
Vendelux, a New York City-based B2B event intelligence platform, has raised a $50M Series B funding...
Vendelux, a New York City-based B2B event intelligence platform, has raised a $50M Series B funding round. The company uses AI to aggregate and analyze live event data, targeting CMOs and marketing te...
Yunbao Intelligent files for ChiNext IPO in Shenzhen, backed by Tencent as largest shareholder.
Shenzhen-based DPU startup Yunbao Intelligent (云豹智能) has filed a ChiNext IPO application with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, aiming to become China's first publicly traded DPU company. Founded in 2020 b...
SiliconFlow files for Hong Kong IPO as 'AI Token Factory First Stock' with $1.07B valuation
SiliconFlow (硅基流动), a Chinese AI inference infrastructure provider, has filed for a Hong Kong IPO under Chapter 18C special-tech listing rules, seeking to become the city's first publicly listed 'AI T...
Tessera Labs raises $60M to bring AI-native ERP modernization to enterprise systems
Tessera Labs, an AI-native ERP modernization startup, has raised $60 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Foundation Capital, Myriad Venture Partners, and Osage Unive...
AIsa Raises $6.5M to Build Agent-to-Resource Payment Infrastructure
AIsa, a San Francisco-based startup building a transaction network for AI agents, has raised $6.5 million in total funding, including a seed round co-led by Alibaba and Tribe Capital, with participati...
World Labs, the AI startup founded by renowned computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion...
World Labs, the AI startup founded by renowned computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion in a fresh funding round to advance what it calls 'spatial intelligence' — AI systems that perceive,...
Aukera raises ₹90 crore as lab-grown diamond jeweller expands to 35 stores
Aukera, a Bengaluru-based lab-grown diamond jewellery brand backed by Peak XV Partners, has raised approximately ₹90 crore (~$10 million) in a round led by Alteria Capital, with participation from Inn...
Sherpa Raises $2.2M Pre-Seed to Build AI OS for External Workforce Orchestration
Sherpa, an early-stage enterprise software company, has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding from Seedcamp, DN Capital, Activant, and Brighteye to develop what it calls an AI operating system for e...
Prosper AI raises $30M Series A for healthcare voice AI agents
Prosper AI has secured $30 million in Series A funding to expand its healthcare-focused voice AI agents, which automate administrative tasks across patient care workflows. The round signals growing in...
Studio Kiko (스튜디오키코) has raised a pre-Series A round from Smilegate Investment, Strong Ventures, and...
Studio Kiko (스튜디오키코) has raised a pre-Series A round from Smilegate Investment, Strong Ventures, and Korea Investment Accelerator for its ambient AI scribe Neardoc (니어닥), which generates completed SOA...
Tencent to Lead $2B Manus Buyback as Beijing Treats Agentic AI as Sovereign Asset
Tencent is in advanced talks to become the largest single shareholder in Manus, the agentic AI startup that Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of in April. A consortium of Manus'...
Sarvam AI Nears $300M Round Led by HCLTech at $1.5B Valuation
Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI is in advanced talks to raise approximately $300 million in a funding round led by HCLTech, which is expected to contribute roughly $150 million. Bessemer Venture Partners is...
Zetwerk co-founder Rahul Sharma exits executive role to launch an AI robotics startup, with Zetwerk...
Zetwerk co-founder Rahul Sharma exits executive role to launch an AI robotics startup, with Zetwerk providing initial backing. The new venture, currently unnamed, will raise additional capital indepen...
Savi Security Raises $7M Seed for AI-Native Consumer Scam Protection App
Savi Security, a Los Angeles-based consumer technology startup, has launched an AI-native iOS and Android app called Savi to screen calls, messages, and digital communications for scam patterns in rea...