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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.

Saudi Startups Dominate MENA Funding Week as a16z Makes First GCC Bet.
May 16, 2026

Saudi Startups Dominate MENA Funding Week as a16z Makes First GCC Bet.

Saudi Arabia-based fintech Stitch raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), marking the US venture firm's first investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council region. The r...

May 15, 2026Arkeus

Arkeus, a software developer for autonomous defense platforms, has raised an $18 million Series A ro...

Arkeus, a software developer for autonomous defense platforms, has raised an $18 million Series A round to advance its AI-powered autonomous systems for defense applications. The funding will support...

May 15, 2026载合卡车 (Zaihe Truck)

Zaihe Truck (载合卡车) closes RMB 1B strategic funding, pioneers 'cloud-vehicle integrated' AI heavy truck category

Zaihe Truck (载合卡车), a China-based AI heavy truck startup, announced it has completed cumulative strategic financing of RMB 1 billion (approximately $140 million). The round was supported by BV Baidu V...

Flick Raises $6M Seed for AI-Native Filmmaking Platform Targeting Cinematic Control
May 15, 2026Flick

Flick Raises $6M Seed for AI-Native Filmmaking Platform Targeting Cinematic Control

San Francisco-based Flick, an AI-native filmmaking platform designed for creators who prioritize aesthetics and creative control, has raised $6 million in seed funding. The round includes True Venture...

Chromie Health Raises $2M Pre-Seed for AI Hospital Workforce Automation
May 15, 2026Chromie Health

Chromie Health Raises $2M Pre-Seed for AI Hospital Workforce Automation

Chromie Health, a New York-based AI-native hospital workforce management platform, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by AIX Ventures, an early-stage firm specializing in AI-first startups....

Anthropic nears $900B valuation on $30B funding round, surpassing OpenAI
May 15, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic nears $900B valuation on $30B funding round, surpassing OpenAI

Anthropic has finalized terms for a $30 billion funding round, according to Chinese outlet 36Kr, led by Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter Capital, with participation from existing a...

Origin Lab Announces $8M to Turn Video Game Assets into AI World Model Training Data
May 15, 2026Origin Lab

Origin Lab Announces $8M to Turn Video Game Assets into AI World Model Training Data

Origin Lab, a startup building a licensed data marketplace connecting video game studios with AI labs developing world models, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, with pa...

Elephant Company, a Berlin-based startup, has raised over €5 million in a funding round led by EnBW...
May 15, 2026Elephant Company

Elephant Company, a Berlin-based startup, has raised over €5 million in a funding round led by EnBW...

Elephant Company, a Berlin-based startup, has raised over €5 million in a funding round led by EnBW New Ventures and Wepa, with participation from business angels from Flix, home24 SE, SB21, Ventic Ve...

All3 raises $25M seed to deploy AI-powered legged robots in European construction
May 15, 2026All3

All3 raises $25M seed to deploy AI-powered legged robots in European construction

All3, a European construction-robotics startup, has raised a $25 million seed round led by RTP Global with participation from SuperSeed, Begin Capital, s16vc, and VNV Global. The company has developed...

Anduril Industries raises $5B at $61B valuation for AI-driven defense modernization
May 14, 2026Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries raises $5B at $61B valuation for AI-driven defense modernization

Anduril Industries, the AI defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey (creator of Oculus VR), announced on May 13, 2026 that it has raised $5 billion in a Series H funding round led by Thrive...

Vapi raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation, wins Amazon Ring customer service deal
May 14, 2026Vapi

Vapi raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation, wins Amazon Ring customer service deal

AI voice startup Vapi has closed a $50 million Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Microsoft's M12 and Kleiner Perkins, at a post-money valuation of approximately $500 mill...

GovWell raises $25M Series A led by Insight Partners for AI permitting platform
May 14, 2026

GovWell raises $25M Series A led by Insight Partners for AI permitting platform

GovWell, an AI operating system for local government permitting and licensing, announced a $25 million Series A round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital,...

Synthetic raises $10M from Khosla Ventures for autonomous AI bookkeeping.
May 14, 2026Synthetic

Synthetic raises $10M from Khosla Ventures for autonomous AI bookkeeping.

Ian Crosby, co-founder of the collapsed Bench Accounting, is launching Synthetic with a $10 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures. The San Francisco startup aims to deliver fully autonomous bookke...

Ranger AI raises $8.4M in seed funding for agentic revenue operations platform
May 14, 2026Ranger AI

Ranger AI raises $8.4M in seed funding for agentic revenue operations platform

San Francisco-based Ranger AI has raised $8.4 million in seed funding to develop an agentic revenue operations platform focused on industrial tendering. The company aims to automate complex bidding pr...

Zerops raises €1.7M seed to redesign cloud infrastructure for AI-driven development
May 14, 2026

Zerops raises €1.7M seed to redesign cloud infrastructure for AI-driven development

Prague-based Zerops, a spin-off of hosting company vshosting.eu, has raised a €1.7 million ($2 million) Seed round led by Gi21 Capital. The company is building a unified platform-as-a-service that eli...

Recursive Superintelligence Launches at $4.65B Valuation with Top-Tier Founders and GV-Led Round
May 14, 2026Recursive Superintelligence

Recursive Superintelligence Launches at $4.65B Valuation with Top-Tier Founders and GV-Led Round

Recursive Superintelligence (RSI), a stealth AI startup founded by eight prominent researchers including Yundong Tian (田渊栋) and Richard Socher, has emerged with a $650 million early-stage funding roun...

ElevenLabs raises Series D at $11B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, with Andreessen Horowitz and I...
May 14, 2026ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs raises Series D at $11B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, with Andreessen Horowitz and I...

ElevenLabs raises Series D at $11B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, with Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ significantly increasing their stakes. New investors Lightspeed, Evantic Capital, BOND, and gr...

Mumbai-based AI venture capital firm Activate has acquired a stake in ElevenLabs, the $11 billion va...
May 14, 2026ElevenLabs

Mumbai-based AI venture capital firm Activate has acquired a stake in ElevenLabs, the $11 billion va...

Mumbai-based AI venture capital firm Activate has acquired a stake in ElevenLabs, the $11 billion valued voice AI company, marking Activate's first global growth-stage investment. The deal, structured...

Synthetic raises $10M seed for autonomous bookkeeping AI, replacing human accountants
May 14, 2026

Synthetic raises $10M seed for autonomous bookkeeping AI, replacing human accountants

Synthetic, an AI startup founded by former Bench Accounting co-founder Ian Crosby, has raised a $10 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Basis Set Ventures, Shopify CEO To...

A.cure (에이닷큐어) wins South Korea TIPS and Didimdol grants for voice AI heart failure monitoring
May 14, 2026A.CURE (에이닷큐어)

A.cure (에이닷큐어) wins South Korea TIPS and Didimdol grants for voice AI heart failure monitoring

South Korean digital health startup A.cure has been simultaneously selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups' TIPS (Tech Incubator Program for Startups) and Didimdol Startup Growth Technology Dev...