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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.
StrainX Bioworks raises $13M for alternative protein manufacturing in India
India-based synthetic biology startup StrainX Bioworks has emerged from stealth with a $13 million funding round led by Prime Venture Partners and Leo Capital, with participation from Good Startup, Sp...
OpenHeart raises ~$1.5M pre-Series A for AI 3D scene platform TAVIO
Tokyo-based startup OpenHeart announced it has raised approximately 217 million yen (~$1.5 million) in a pre-Series A round for TAVIO, a platform that automatically generates photorealistic 3D and 4D...
Gabit, the AI-powered wellness and wearable startup co-founded by former Zomato co-founder Gaurav Gu...
Gabit, the AI-powered wellness and wearable startup co-founded by former Zomato co-founder Gaurav Gupta and entrepreneur Arpana Shahi, has raised approximately ₹36.2 crore (~$3.7 million) in fresh fun...
MENA startups see diversified funding across fintech, HR tech and AI sectors
Startups across the Middle East and North Africa raised a series of financings in late May 2026, spanning fintech, HR tech, proptech, mobility and AI-driven sports and insurance technology. Notable ro...
AEON, a startup building a settlement layer for AI agents, raised $8 million in a pre-seed round led...
AEON, a startup building a settlement layer for AI agents, raised $8 million in a pre-seed round led by YZi Labs, an affiliate of Binance. IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fu...
Clouted, an AI-powered distribution platform for short-form content, has raised $7 million in seed f...
Clouted, an AI-powered distribution platform for short-form content, has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, LINE-Yahoo's...
Moonshot AI and Stepfun Secure Over 30 Billion Yuan (~$4.2B) in Combined Funding in May
Chinese AI startups Moonshot AI (月之暗面) and Stepfun (阶跃星辰) have collectively raised over 30 billion Chinese yuan (~$4.2 billion) in funding during May 2026, according to a report from 36Kr. This fundin...
Parthus (维泛智能), a spin-off from Peking University's PAICORE Lab, has raised hundreds of millions of...
Parthus (维泛智能), a spin-off from Peking University's PAICORE Lab, has raised hundreds of millions of yuan in seed funding for a native robot "brain chip" that fuses neuromorphic computing with GPU arch...
Hardline AI, a voice-first construction technology startup, has raised $2 million in pre-seed fundin...
Hardline AI, a voice-first construction technology startup, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Mucker Capital. The company plans to build its VoiceOps infrastructure to convert jobsite p...
Shatterdome Energy exits stealth with $3.5M pre-seed for AI-driven energy trading
Shatterdome Energy has emerged from stealth with $3.5 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-powered platform that aggregates renewable generation, battery storage, and flexible industrial demand...
Qianyi AI, a Jinan-based AI translation and tour guide agent startup, has completed its first equity...
Qianyi AI, a Jinan-based AI translation and tour guide agent startup, has completed its first equity financing round after joining the QPioneer OPC community in Jinan Start-up Area. The company, found...
Kuaishou invests 8 billion yuan ($1.1B) to boost Kling AI video ecosystem, with Kling AI reportedly planning IPO spin-off.
Kuaishou (快手) is committing 8 billion yuan in resources — comprising 2 billion yuan in cash and 10 billion in traffic allocation — to scale its Kling AI (可灵) video generation platform. The investment...
DeepSeek seeks $10B funding to pursue AGI, rivaling OpenAI with research-first strategy.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising approximately $10 billion (~RMB 70 billion) in a funding round that could value the company at $45 billion pre-money, according to Bloomberg sources. The round i...
Anthropic nears US$30 billion funding round, surpassing OpenAI as most valuable AI startup
Anthropic is set to close a funding round exceeding US$30 billion at a valuation above US$900 billion, vaulting ahead of rival OpenAI (valued at US$852 billion) as the world's most valuable AI startup...
Mythik, an Indian digital media startup, has raised $5 million in a funding round backed by Dream11...
Mythik, an Indian digital media startup, has raised $5 million in a funding round backed by Dream11 co-founder Harsh Jain, Blume Founder’s Fund, ex-McKinsey partner Rajat Gupta, Zubin Bharti Mittal’s...
France pledges $1.5B for quantum, microchips; quantum startup Alice & Bob to receive part of funding and Nvidia support
The French government has announced a $1.5 billion commitment to quantum computing and microchip research, with Paris-based quantum startup Alice & Bob named as a beneficiary. The company will also re...
Rabbitpre Tech (兔展智能) raises Series F, launches SkillsUI to bridge legacy enterprise systems with AI agents
Shenzhen-based Rabbitpre Tech (兔展智能), a visual AI company serving over 41 million users, has closed an undisclosed Series F round and released SkillsUI, a product that acts as an AI orchestration laye...
AtomBite.AI raises seed funding for embodied intelligence in restaurants, founded by former Meituan delivery head
Embodied intelligence startup AtomBite.AI has completed a multi-million yuan seed round led by Inno Capital and a Tsinghua alumni seed fund. The company was founded by a former head of Meituan's food...
DeepSeek has raised RMB 70 billion (~$9.8 billion) in total funding, according to reporting by QbitA...
DeepSeek has raised RMB 70 billion (~$9.8 billion) in total funding, according to reporting by QbitAI, and is signaling a major push into AI coding tools. The company's senior researcher Deli Chen pub...
Nourish raises $100M for AI nutrition platform pairing agents with dietitians
Nourish, a New York City-based startup, announced a $100M funding round for its platform that pairs AI agents with registered dietitians to streamline patient care. The company operates at the interse...