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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.
Nava raises $22M to build enterprise AI infrastructure across Asia-Pacific
Nava, an enterprise AI infrastructure startup founded in 2024 by former Oyo COO Abhinav Sinha, ex-McKinsey partner Vamshidhar Reddy, and cloud infrastructure veteran Abhijeet Singh, has raised $22 mil...
OptoGuide Technology, a developer of silicon-based optoelectronic integrated chips, completed a 100...
OptoGuide Technology, a developer of silicon-based optoelectronic integrated chips, completed a 100 million yuan (~$14M) Pre-A funding round. Investors include Photon Strong Chain Fund, Shanda Investm...
Runway raises $315M Series E at $5.3B valuation for world model pretraining
AI video startup Runway raised a $315 million Series E round at a $5.3 billion valuation in February 2026, led by General Atlantic and joined by Nvidia, Fidelity, Adobe Ventures, and AMD Ventures amon...
geoSurge Raises $12 Million Seed Round to Help Brands Manage AI Visibility
geoSurge, a London-based startup founded just over a year ago, has raised $12 million in a seed round led by AlbionVC to help brands shape how they are represented within generative AI systems like Ch...
Age Care Labs secures ₹85 crore (~$9M) in Series B1, launches senior living platform Shremoha
Age Care Labs, parent company of elder care brands Emoha and Epoch Elder Care, has raised ₹85 crore ($9 million) in a Series B1 funding round from Rainmatter (Zerodha), Pegasus Finvest, Shrem Group, a...
Kuaishou's Kling AI video generation model raises nearly $3 billion at $18 billion valuation.
Kuaishou Technology has raised approximately $3 billion for its Kling AI video generation model division, valuing the unit at $18 billion, according to a report from PingWest. The funding round unders...
VAST completes over 1 billion RMB Series A3 with backing from Geely, gaming, and internet investors
Chinese AI company VAST has closed a Series A3 strategic round exceeding 1 billion RMB (~$138M), according to a report from PingWest. The round attracted investment from automotive giant Geely, multip...
Quantum Systems raises $1.2B to scale autonomous defense systems
German defense technology firm Quantum Systems has secured $1.2 billion in Series D financing to expand manufacturing of autonomous military systems and its MOSAIC UXS software ecosystem. The round wi...
OpenAI courts Trump administration as its latest investor
OpenAI is proposing that the Trump administration take an equity stake in the company, according to a report from Axios. The proposal comes as the U.S. government deliberates security clearance protoc...
ElevenLabs targets $22B valuation in early secondary share sale talks
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is reportedly in early-stage discussions for a secondary share sale that would value the company at approximately $22 billion, according to sources cited by Tech in Asia. T...
FaceMind, a Chinese startup founded by a 95后 (post-1995) PhD, has raised tens of millions of yuan in...
FaceMind, a Chinese startup founded by a 95后 (post-1995) PhD, has raised tens of millions of yuan in a Pre-A round led by Star Capital, with existing investor 360 Group super-proportionally participat...
Kuaishou’s Kling AI raises nearly $3 billion in funding, with Tencent reportedly joining the round
Kuaishou’s AI video generation business, Kling AI, has raised nearly $3 billion in external funding as of July 2, according to TechNode, with a post-money valuation expected to reach $18 billion. The...
WATT selected for Scale-up TIPS R&D, developing dual-arm humanoid robots beyond AI delivery robots
South Korean in-building autonomous delivery startup WATT (와트) has been selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' '2026 Scale-up TIPS R&D (Specialized)' program, securing up to 3 billion won (~$...
Rosota, a South Korean AI surgical robotics startup, has raised 1.5 billion KRW (~$1.1M) in seed fun...
Rosota, a South Korean AI surgical robotics startup, has raised 1.5 billion KRW (~$1.1M) in seed funding led by FuturePlay with participation from Schmidt and ZDVC. Why it matters: Rosota is building...
Moneyforward Private Bank raises ¥1B (~$6.5M) for AI wealth management platform
Moneyforward Private Bank, a subsidiary of Moneyforward, Inc. (マネーフォワード), has raised 1 billion yen (~$6.5 million) in a third-party allotment of shares to accelerate its AI-powered wealth management p...
WeDraft raises $640K seed round for personal information management platform Flows
Japanese startup WeDraft announced on June 30 that it raised 100 million yen (~$640,000) in a seed round led by DNX Ventures. The company provides Flows, a platform that centralizes management of pers...
Rosota Raises $965K Seed Round to Build AI-Native Surgical Robots from Seoul National University Hospital Spin-Off
South Korean startup Rosota, a spin-off from the MediSC Lab at Seoul National University Hospital's Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, has raised $965K (KRW 1.5 billion) in a seed round led by...
M2X Raises ¥1.14 Billion in Series A Extension for Equipment Maintenance Cloud
M2X, a Tokyo-based provider of the equipment maintenance cloud 'M2X,' announced on June 29 that it has completed a Series A extension, bringing the total Series A funding to ¥1.14 billion (~$7.6M). Pa...
ikura, a Tokyo-based startup, has raised 150 million yen (~$970K) in a third-party allotment of stoc...
ikura, a Tokyo-based startup, has raised 150 million yen (~$970K) in a third-party allotment of stock acquisition rights to fund its AI-powered multi-language inbound platform, 'AIインバウンド担当' (AI Inboun...
Bhavin Turakhia invests $30M to launch Neo, an AI-native alternative to Microsoft Office
Indian serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia has invested $30 million of his own capital to launch Neo, a bootstrapped enterprise work platform designed from the ground up for generative AI. Neo combine...