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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.
Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI inference chip
Etched, an AI chip startup founded in 2022, announced that TSMC has successfully manufactured its chip and that it has already booked $1 billion in contract orders for its full-stack inference systems...
Baz raises $9M seed extension to prevent software bugs with AI Planner
Israeli startup Baz has raised a $9 million seed extension led by Battery Ventures and boldstart ventures, bringing total funding to $17 million. Founded by Bridgecrew veterans Guy Eisenkot and CTO Ni...
1001 raises $30M Series A for sovereign AI infrastructure in GCC
GCC- and London-based AI startup 1001 has closed a $30 million Series A round led by Lux Capital, with participation from PIF-owned Sanabil Investments, Hanabi, 9Yards, General Catalyst, CIV, and Stan...
dodoAI raises ¥280M seed round for enterprise AI agent governance platform
Tokyo-based dodoAI has raised ¥280 million (~$1.9M) in a seed round led by Genesee Ventures, with participation from Quantum Leap Ventures, Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Capital, a...
8090 Labs raises $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; Chamath Palihapitiya takes CEO role
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya has raised $135 million in Series A funding for 8090 Labs, an AI coding startup founded in January 2024. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures with participa...
Higgsfield, an AI video generation startup, is reportedly in discussions to raise between $300 milli...
Higgsfield, an AI video generation startup, is reportedly in discussions to raise between $300 million and $500 million at a $5 billion pre-money valuation, more than quadrupling its prior valuation....
1001 raises $30M from Lux Capital and Sanabil to deploy applied AI across Gulf infrastructure
Dubai- and London-based startup 1001 has raised $30 million in a funding round led by US venture firm Lux Capital, with participation from Saudi sovereign wealth fund unit Sanabil, 9Yards, and Hanabi....
Kapture CX, a Bengaluru-based agentic AI startup focused on enterprise customer experience, has rais...
Kapture CX, a Bengaluru-based agentic AI startup focused on enterprise customer experience, has raised $10 million in a pre-Series B round led by Bajaj Finserv Ventures (BFSV), with participation from...
8090 Labs raises $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; Chamath Palihapitiya takes CEO role
8090 Labs, an AI coding startup founded by Chamath Palihapitiya in January 2024, has raised a $135 million Series A round led by Salesforce Ventures. Participants include WndrCo, Craft Ventures, and a...
Proception Raises $11M Seed, Launches Dexterous Robotic Hand ProHand 1.0
Proception, a Silicon Valley startup founded by former Tesla Optimus technical lead Jay Li, raised $11 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital with participation from Y Combinator and BoxGr...
World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1...
World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion at a $5 billion valuation, with participation from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk, accordi...
LUMIQ secures strategic funding from Bajaj Finserv to become the AI decision layer for financial services.
LUMIQ, an AI-native financial services company, has closed a strategic funding round led by Bajaj Finserv, one of India’s largest diversified financial groups, with participation from existing investo...
Straiker raises $64M Series A for enterprise AI agent security
Straiker, a company building security technology specifically for enterprise AI agents, has closed a $64 million Series A round, bringing its total known funding to $85 million. The round signals grow...
Omen AI raises $31M Series A for data center fluid monitoring
Omen AI, a startup founded in 2024 by then-18-year-old Zach Laberge, has raised a $31 million Series A led by Nava Ventures to bring real-time fluid monitoring to data centers. The company’s tiny spec...
Pocket raises $11M to compete in crowded AI note-taking device market
Pocket, a Y Combinator-backed startup selling a $129 credit card-shaped AI note-taking puck, has raised $11 million in funding from Accel, Y Combinator, and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski. The devic...
Arato raises $10M Seed for AI testing platform from TLV Partners
Arato, an Israeli startup founded in 2024 by former Fiverr acqui-hire founders, has raised a $10 million Seed round led by TLV Partners. Jibe Ventures, VMware former CEO Raghu Raghuram, and Intuit for...
Kuaishou is negotiating with General Atlantic to secure over $20 billion in first-round funding for...
Kuaishou is negotiating with General Atlantic to secure over $20 billion in first-round funding for its video generation model business Kling AI, at a post-money valuation of approximately $180 billio...
Sand.ai raises over $100 million in new funding for video generation model
Sand.ai, a Beijing-based video generation startup founded by Cao Yue (曹越) in January 2024, has completed two funding rounds totaling over $100 million. The investment comes from a consortium that incl...
Compri raises $3.6M seed for AI-native procurement platform
Italian startup Compri has raised approximately $3.6 million in seed funding to develop an AI-native autonomous enterprise procurement and supply chain platform, according to a company announcement. T...
Jarvie AI, a San Francisco-based startup building an AI assistant designed for group chats, has raised $8.3 million in seed funding.
This funding round places Jarvie AI in the increasingly crowded AI-agent vertical, specifically targeting the group-communication layer — an area where Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp ecosystems are seei...