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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.
DeepSeek plans first external funding round up to 500 billion yuan (~$68B), valuation up to 3,500 billion yuan (~$483B)
DeepSeek, the Chinese foundation-model lab known for its earlier refusal of outside capital, is planning its first external fundraising round. The company is seeking up to 500 billion yuan (~$68 billi...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) completes ~$20B funding round, post-money valuation exceeds $20B
Moonshot AI (月之暗面) has closed a new funding round of approximately $20 billion, raising its post-money valuation above $20 billion, according to Chinese financial outlet Sina Finance. The round was le...
Helsing nears $18B valuation as defense AI startup surge accelerates
German defense AI startup Helsing is approaching an $18 billion valuation in a new $1.2 billion funding round led by Dragooner Investment Group, with Lightspeed Venture Partners co-investing, accordin...
Firestorm Labs raises $82M Series B for mobile drone manufacturing platform
Firestorm Labs, a San Diego-based defense tech startup, has raised an $82 million Series B round led by Washington Harbour Partners, with participation from NEA, Ondas, In-Q-Tel, Lockheed Martin Ventu...
Isomorphic Labs nears $2 billion funding round for AI drug discovery
Isomorphic Labs, the DeepMind spinout focused on AI-driven drug discovery, is nearing a $2 billion funding round, according to a report from Tech in Asia. The company, founded by Demis Hassabis and op...
Robotera raises over $200M for humanoid robotics, led by SF Group
Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera has raised over $200 million in a funding round led by SF Group. The round follows a ~$146 million raise in March at a ~$1.47 billion valuation. The co...
DeepSeek nears first external fundraising at $50B valuation, backed by China Big Fund III and Tencent
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based frontier AI lab that stunned the industry with its R1 reasoning model at training costs far below US peers, is close to closing its first external fundraising round at a v...
Medtrip raises pre-seed funding for AI-powered medical concierge platform
Indonesian medtech startup Medtrip has secured an undisclosed pre-seed investment led by Hasan.VC. The company plans to use the capital to build AI-based products for its medical concierge platform, w...
Moonshot raises $2B at $20B valuation, becomes China's most-funded AI lab
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the popular Kimi chatbot and open-source large language models, has raised approximately $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation, according to a statement fro...
ReFiBuy raises $13.6M seed for agentic commerce optimization platform
ReFiBuy, a Raleigh, NC-based startup building an Agentic Commerce Optimization (ACO) platform, has raised a $13.6 million oversubscribed seed round led by NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation...
Brain-CA Technologies, a Sarasota-based AI chip startup, closed an oversubscribed $5 million seed ro...
Brain-CA Technologies, a Sarasota-based AI chip startup, closed an oversubscribed $5 million seed round to develop energy-efficient chip technology inspired by cellular automata. The company aims to r...
Robotera raises over $200M for logistics robots in China
Chinese robotics startup Robotera has raised over $200 million in a funding round to scale its logistics robotics operations, according to a report from Tech in Asia. The round targets the growing dem...
Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B+ valuation from Meituan and others.
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has raised $2 billion in new funding led by Meituan's investment arm Long-Z Investment, at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. Participants include China Mobile, Tsinghua...
Pit Raises $16M Seed from a16z to Build AI-Native Enterprise Workflow Platform
Swedish AI startup Pit emerged from stealth on May 8, 2026, announcing a US$16 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The Stockholm-based company is building an enterprise AI platform d...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面), the Chinese foundation-model lab behind the Kimi assistant, has raised approxima...
Moonshot AI (月之暗面), the Chinese foundation-model lab behind the Kimi assistant, has raised approximately $2 billion in a new funding round led by Meituan Dragon Ball, with participation from Shuimu Ca...
AstralQ raises seed funding for AI-driven materials discovery platform with MLH models
AstralQ, a U.S.-incorporated startup building an AI-powered end-to-end materials development cloud lab, has closed a seed funding round backed by Korea Investment Accelerator, Bluepoint Partners, Schm...
Travv raises $1.6M seed for AI veterinary diagnostics platform
Travv, a Stillwater-based startup, announced a $1.6 million seed round led by Digitalis Ventures with participation from AniVC. The company is building an AI-native veterinary diagnostics platform ini...
Moonshot raises ~$2B at $20B+ valuation led by Meituan's venture arm
Moonshot, the Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot, has raised approximately $2 billion at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. The round was led by Meituan's venture arm, making it one of the lar...
Moonshot AI, a Chinese foundation model lab, has raised $2 billion in a funding round led by Meituan, valuing the company at $20 billion.
This capital injection underscores the intensifying compute arms race among China's top AI labs, where frontier model development requires billions in GPU spending. Moonshot AI's ascent to a $20B valu...
OpsMill raises €11.9M Series A to tackle infrastructure data readiness for AI agents.
Paris-based OpsMill, an infrastructure data management startup founded in 2023, has raised €11.9 million ($14 million) in Series A funding led by IRIS with participation from BGV, Serena, and Partech....