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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.
**Sekai raises $20M Series A for AI-powered mini app creation platform**
Sekai, a startup led by founder and CEO Lucky Zhang, has raised a $20 million Series A to scale its platform that lets users create mini applications through natural-language text prompts. The round r...
MASO raises $530K seed round for AI image analysis platform MitteFlow
MASO, a Japanese startup offering AI-powered image analysis technology, has raised 81.5 million yen (~$530K) in a seed round from undisclosed angel investors. The company's product, MitteFlow, is a pl...
VAST raises nearly $200M in A+ and A++ rounds, reveals world model roadmap
General AI company VAST has completed approximately $200 million in combined A+ and A++ funding rounds, led by undisclosed investors. The company also disclosed its world model development strategy, w...
Mecka AI raises $60M to train robots with human data from body sensors and iPhones
Mecka AI, a New York-based startup founded by four non-traditional AI founders with backgrounds in fintech, crypto, and sneaker reselling, has raised $60 million across two undisclosed rounds ($25M Se...
INDUSTRIAL-X raises 1.93 billion yen Series C for AI agent platform
INDUSTRIAL-X, a Japanese startup providing AI agent-based business transformation, announced a 1.93 billion yen (~$13.7M) Series C round on May 28. The round was led by Sugimoto Shoji with participati...
**UAE sovereign fund MGX increases pre-IPO stake in Anthropic’s $65B round**
Abu Dhabi’s MGX, a sovereign investment vehicle launched in 2024 by G42 and Mubadala and chaired by National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, has increased its stake in Anthropic as part of...
Vast raises $200M to develop production-grade 3D AI models for video games, becomes China's AI unicorn
Vast, a Gen-Z-founded startup, has raised $200 million to develop AI-powered 3D models for video games, propelling it to unicorn status. The company competes with Tencent's Hunyuan 3D and Silicon Vall...
Cognition AI valued at $26 billion, becomes highest-valued AI coding company
Cognition AI, the developer of the "AI software engineer" Devin, has closed over $1 billion in new funding at a $26 billion post-money valuation — up 2.5x from its $10.2 billion valuation just eight m...
VAST raises nearly $200 million in Series A rounds, unveils world model
VAST, a Chinese robotics and embodied AI startup, has raised close to $200 million in Series A funding rounds and simultaneously unveiled its own world model for robots. The company is developing AI s...
Webidoo raises $25M to bring AI operations platform to North American SMBs
Milan-based AI technology company Webidoo announced a $25 million funding round led by Fondo Imprese per la Crescita 3 (IXC3), an Azimut group fund, with existing investors 8a+ Investimenti and TIM Ve...
AVIATE Raises $640K Seed for AI Back-Office Automation Platform TASKBASE
Tokyo-based startup AVIATE has raised ¥7 million (~$640K) in seed funding from ANOBAKA, East Ventures, and MIXI founder Kenji Kasahara to build TASKBASE, a back-office workflow automation platform tha...
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.
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...
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
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
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
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
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**
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...
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...