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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.
ZeroDrift raises $10M seed for AI governance layer that rewrites non-compliant model outputs
ZeroDrift, a startup offering an AI compliance filtering service, announced a $10 million seed round led by a16z Speedrun, with participation from Reign Ventures, PitchDrive Ventures, and U&I Ventures...
Bayshore exits stealth with €6.9M seed to automate legal and compliance workflows using agentic AI
Munich-based Bayshore has exited stealth with €6.9 million ($8 million) in seed funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Lucid Capital, Booom, Heliad, and strategic angels. Fo...
Zhipu AI plans to raise RMB 15 billion (~$2.1B) in a Shanghai STAR Market IPO, according to a PingWe...
Zhipu AI plans to raise RMB 15 billion (~$2.1B) in a Shanghai STAR Market IPO, according to a PingWest report, accelerating a dual-listing strategy that already includes a Hong Kong filing. The Beijin...
Moment raises $78M Series C led by Index Ventures for AI trading platform
Moment, a developer of an AI operating system for investment management, announced a $78 million Series C round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Avra, and exi...
Ocean raises $20M Series A led by Lightspeed for AI agent email security
Ocean, a Tokyo-based email security startup, announced a $28M total raise including a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Picture Capital, Cerca Partners, and ang...
Sam Altman Backs Stealth Robot Software Startup Alfred
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is investing in Alfred, a stealth startup building a software platform to accelerate robotics and automotive engineering. Founded by former Tesla designer Ankit Ukil and ex-Meta...
Japanese humanoid robotics startup Atom has raised 3 billion yen (approximately $19 million) in seed...
Japanese humanoid robotics startup Atom has raised 3 billion yen (approximately $19 million) in seed funding to develop what it describes as a "new species" of AI-powered bipedal robots. The round was...
Ubifly raises strategic investment from Naver to scale physical AI drone operations
South Korean drone swarm and autonomous flight platform specialist Ubifly has secured a strategic investment from Naver (네이버), forming a partnership that combines Ubifly's drone control technology wit...
Sekai raises $26M seed and Series A for no-code AI software creation platform
Sekai, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised a combined $26 million in Seed and Series A funding to build a consumer creation platform that lets users generate software using AI. The company targe...
**Sekai raises $20M Series A for AI-powered mini app creation platform**
Sekai, a startup led by founder and CEO Lucky Zhang, has raised a $20 million Series A to scale its platform that lets users create mini applications through natural-language text prompts. The round r...
MASO raises $530K seed round for AI image analysis platform MitteFlow
MASO, a Japanese startup offering AI-powered image analysis technology, has raised 81.5 million yen (~$530K) in a seed round from undisclosed angel investors. The company's product, MitteFlow, is a pl...
VAST raises nearly $200M in A+ and A++ rounds, reveals world model roadmap
General AI company VAST has completed approximately $200 million in combined A+ and A++ funding rounds, led by undisclosed investors. The company also disclosed its world model development strategy, w...
Mecka AI raises $60M to train robots with human data from body sensors and iPhones
Mecka AI, a New York-based startup founded by four non-traditional AI founders with backgrounds in fintech, crypto, and sneaker reselling, has raised $60 million across two undisclosed rounds ($25M Se...
INDUSTRIAL-X raises 1.93 billion yen Series C for AI agent platform
INDUSTRIAL-X, a Japanese startup providing AI agent-based business transformation, announced a 1.93 billion yen (~$13.7M) Series C round on May 28. The round was led by Sugimoto Shoji with participati...
**UAE sovereign fund MGX increases pre-IPO stake in Anthropic’s $65B round**
Abu Dhabi’s MGX, a sovereign investment vehicle launched in 2024 by G42 and Mubadala and chaired by National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, has increased its stake in Anthropic as part of...
Vast raises $200M to develop production-grade 3D AI models for video games, becomes China's AI unicorn
Vast, a Gen-Z-founded startup, has raised $200 million to develop AI-powered 3D models for video games, propelling it to unicorn status. The company competes with Tencent's Hunyuan 3D and Silicon Vall...
Cognition AI valued at $26 billion, becomes highest-valued AI coding company
Cognition AI, the developer of the "AI software engineer" Devin, has closed over $1 billion in new funding at a $26 billion post-money valuation — up 2.5x from its $10.2 billion valuation just eight m...
VAST raises nearly $200 million in Series A rounds, unveils world model
VAST, a Chinese robotics and embodied AI startup, has raised close to $200 million in Series A funding rounds and simultaneously unveiled its own world model for robots. The company is developing AI s...
Webidoo raises $25M to bring AI operations platform to North American SMBs
Milan-based AI technology company Webidoo announced a $25 million funding round led by Fondo Imprese per la Crescita 3 (IXC3), an Azimut group fund, with existing investors 8a+ Investimenti and TIM Ve...
AVIATE Raises $640K Seed for AI Back-Office Automation Platform TASKBASE
Tokyo-based startup AVIATE has raised ¥7 million (~$640K) in seed funding from ANOBAKA, East Ventures, and MIXI founder Kenji Kasahara to build TASKBASE, a back-office workflow automation platform tha...