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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.
Neusignal Therapeutics raises $34.5M Series B for Alzheimer's drug development
Neusignal Therapeutics, a Tohoku University spinout developing a disease-modifying small-molecule drug for Alzheimer's-type dementia, announced on June 30 it has raised approximately 5.32 billion yen...
Spike Studio raises 370 million yen seed round for AI agent development
Tokyo-based Spike Studio (スパイクスタジオ) has raised approximately ¥370 million (~$2.6M) in a seed round combining equity, debt, and venture debt financing. Investors include B Dash Ventures, Aozora Corpora...
Biren Technology (壁仞科技), a Shanghai-based AI chipmaker, has raised approximately $892.5 million thro...
Biren Technology (壁仞科技), a Shanghai-based AI chipmaker, has raised approximately $892.5 million through a new share sale to scale up GPU production capacity. The company's stock surged over 150% follo...
Etched challenges Nvidia with transformer-only ASIC chip, reaches $1T valuation
Harvard dropouts Gavin Uberti and Robert Wachen founded Etched, a startup building an ASIC chip called Sohu that exclusively runs transformer models—the architecture behind ChatGPT, Gemini, and most g...
Nexus raises $4.3M seed round to push enterprise AI agents into business operations
Nexus, an enterprise AI agent startup founded in 2024, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst with participation from Y Combinator, Transpose Platform, Twenty Two Ventures, Ph...
Yotta raises $150 million at ₹37,000 crore valuation to fund AI infrastructure expansion
Indian AI data-center operator Yotta has raised $150 million in a funding round that values the company at approximately ₹37,000 crore (about $4.5 billion). The company plans to use the capital to exp...
K25 AI, a Singapore-based enterprise AI startup, has raised $2 million in funding from an undisclose...
K25 AI, a Singapore-based enterprise AI startup, has raised $2 million in funding from an undisclosed Nasdaq-listed firm. The company builds AI-driven products that help businesses automate workflows,...
Guangxiang Technology, an embodied AI startup incubated at Tsinghua University's Vehicle School, has...
Guangxiang Technology, an embodied AI startup incubated at Tsinghua University's Vehicle School, has raised hundreds of millions of yuan in angel funding for automotive applications. The raise, while...
Dan Lorenc, a former Google engineer and key figure in the open-source software supply chain securit...
Dan Lorenc, a former Google engineer and key figure in the open-source software supply chain security movement, has built Chainguard into a $3.5 billion startup. The company focuses on securing the so...
DeepSeek reportedly raises over 50 billion RMB ($7.4B) in first external funding round, re-pricing Chinese large models as strategic assets
DeepSeek has reportedly completed its first external funding round at over 500 billion RMB (~$74B valuation), raising more than 50 billion RMB ($7.4B) from a consortium of investors including the Nati...
Mistral AI takes on OpenAI with open source frontier models. French AI startup Mistral AI has raised...
Mistral AI takes on OpenAI with open source frontier models. French AI startup Mistral AI has raised significant funding, positioning itself as a formidable competitor to OpenAI by betting on open-sou...
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...