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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.

Synthetic Raises $10M Seed from Khosla Ventures for Fully Autonomous AI Accounting
May 31, 2026Synthetic

Synthetic Raises $10M Seed from Khosla Ventures for Fully Autonomous AI Accounting

Synthetic, a Tokyo-based developer of AI-powered accounting software, announced a $10 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Basis Set Ventures, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Ope...

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A to govern autonomous AI agents.
May 31, 2026Geordie

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A to govern autonomous AI agents.

Geordie AI, a security and governance platform for autonomous AI agents, announced a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst an...

AI shopping assistant Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised $35.5 million in a...
May 31, 2026Phia

AI shopping assistant Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised $35.5 million in a...

AI shopping assistant Phia, co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, raised $35.5 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Notable Capital, and Kleiner Perkins, with participation from...

Hexapro accelerates Korea’s nano-porous AAO to power ultra-high-capacity chips
May 31, 2026Hexapro

Hexapro accelerates Korea’s nano-porous AAO to power ultra-high-capacity chips

South Korean materials startup Hexapro has raised a Series A round to commercialize its nano-porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) technology, which enables ultra-high-density chip interconnects and diel...

Fireworks AI in talks for $15B valuation, riding inference token boom to unicorn status
May 31, 2026Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI in talks for $15B valuation, riding inference token boom to unicorn status

Fireworks AI, the inference platform founded by former Meta AI lead Lin Qiao (乔琳), is in discussions for a new funding round that would value the company at approximately $15 billion, according to Blo...

Fireworks AI reportedly raising new round at $15B valuation, riding inference token boom
May 30, 2026Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI reportedly raising new round at $15B valuation, riding inference token boom

Chinese-born, US-based inference platform Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of approximately $15 billion (roughly RMB 100 billion), according to Bloomberg. The four-...

XCENA raises $135M for CXL-based memory chips targeting AI bottleneck
May 30, 2026XCENA

XCENA raises $135M for CXL-based memory chips targeting AI bottleneck

South Korea-based AI memory chip startup XCENA has raised $135 million in fresh funding at a post-money valuation of $570 million, bringing total investment to approximately $185 million. Founded by f...

**Upstage Secures 560 Billion Won Ahead of Sovereign AI Model Selection**
May 30, 2026Upstage

**Upstage Secures 560 Billion Won Ahead of Sovereign AI Model Selection**

Upstage, a leading South Korean AI startup behind the Solar LLM, has raised approximately 560 billion won (~$420 million) through a combination of public and private capital ahead of the second-stage...

May 29, 2026XCENA

Xcena raises $135M Series B for in-memory AI chip targeting inference bottlenecks

Xcena, developer of the MX1 chip that performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, has closed a $135 million Series B round. The company states the funding will...

Anthropic pursues $36 billion debt financing to secure Google TPUs
May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic pursues $36 billion debt financing to secure Google TPUs

Anthropic is pursuing approximately $36 billion (54 trillion won) in debt financing to secure Google TPUs, in what would be one of the largest AI chip financing deals on record. The financing, structu...

May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI to claim the title of the world's most valuable AI company.

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in new funding at a $965 billion valuation, making it the highest-valued AI company globally. The round arrives amid explosive revenue growth: ARR surged from $9 billi...

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI
May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, surpassing OpenAI

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to approximately $965 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Ca...

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup at $900B, unveils Claude Opus 4.8
May 29, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI as world's most valuable AI startup at $900B, unveils Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round led by Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital, and others, valuing the company at $900 billion pre-money — surpassing OpenAI's $730 billi...

Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation as AI coding adoption scales.
May 28, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition raises $1B at $26B valuation as AI coding adoption scales.

Cognition, the developer of the AI coding agent Devin, has raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, marking one of the largest single rounds in the AI coding tools segment. The round signals surg...

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as most valuable AI startup with $965B valuation
May 28, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as most valuable AI startup with $965B valuation

Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H financing round at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Se...

May 28, 2026AgileSoDA

Nonghyup Bank makes direct investment in AgileSoda to accelerate agentic AI banking

South Korea’s Nonghyup Bank (NH농협은행) has signed a direct investment and business cooperation memorandum of understanding with AgileSoda (애자일소다), an AI solutions startup specializing in financial-secto...

Axiom Math raises $200M Series A after 5 AI-generated math papers accepted in journals
May 28, 2026Axiom Math

Axiom Math raises $200M Series A after 5 AI-generated math papers accepted in journals

Axiom Math, a startup founded by 2001-born MIT alum Hong Letong (洪乐潼), announced that five out of eight AI-generated or formalized mathematics papers submitted since February 2026 have passed peer rev...

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A for agent governance platform, valued at $180M
May 28, 2026Geordie

Geordie AI raises $30M Series A for agent governance platform, valued at $180M

London-based Geordie AI, which provides a security and governance platform for enterprise AI agents, has closed a $30 million Series A round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Crosspoin...

Triomics raises $22M Series B for oncology-specific AI platform
May 28, 2026Triomics

Triomics raises $22M Series B for oncology-specific AI platform

Triomics, a startup building an AI platform tailored to oncology workflows, has raised $22 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing backers Nexus Venture P...

May 27, 2026Pace

Pace raises $46M Series B for AI agents automating insurance back-office workflows

New York-based Pace has raised a $46 million Series B round led by Thrive Capital to deploy AI agents that automate back-office operations for insurance companies. The round signals continued venture...