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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.

Hook has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $16M.
Feb 19, 2026

Hook has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $16M.

Hook has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing its total funding to $16M. With access to over 20M licensed songs and 250M+ social media views from UMG partnerships, this dem...

Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round just before SpaceX acquired the AI...
Feb 19, 2026

Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round just before SpaceX acquired the AI...

Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN invested $3 billion in xAI's Series E round just before SpaceX acquired the AI company for $1.25 trillion, converting Saudi holdings into SpaceX equity. This builds on their Nove...

Cogent Security raised $42M Series A (total $53M) to scale autonomous AI agents for vulnerability re...
Feb 19, 2026Cogent Security

Cogent Security raised $42M Series A (total $53M) to scale autonomous AI agents for vulnerability re...

Cogent Security raised $42M Series A (total $53M) to scale autonomous AI agents for vulnerability remediation. Just 6 months after launch, they're already serving dozens of Fortune 1000 companies by a...

Abu Dhabi-based Origen secured $50M from BlueFive Capital to scale production-ready AI systems acros...
Feb 19, 2026

Abu Dhabi-based Origen secured $50M from BlueFive Capital to scale production-ready AI systems acros...

Abu Dhabi-based Origen secured $50M from BlueFive Capital to scale production-ready AI systems across government services, smart homes, and advanced manufacturing. This investment marks a strategic sh...

Saudi AI startup Deep.SA extends its pre-seed round with Vision Ventures joining existing backers TA...
Feb 19, 2026Deep.SA

Saudi AI startup Deep.SA extends its pre-seed round with Vision Ventures joining existing backers TA...

Saudi AI startup Deep.SA extends its pre-seed round with Vision Ventures joining existing backers TAM and Raed Ventures, bringing total funding to SAR 4.5 million ($1.2 million). The company builds lo...

Stockholm-based Hybridity raised €2M (total €5M) to scale Hy5, its AI platform automating EU complia...
Feb 19, 2026

Stockholm-based Hybridity raised €2M (total €5M) to scale Hy5, its AI platform automating EU complia...

Stockholm-based Hybridity raised €2M (total €5M) to scale Hy5, its AI platform automating EU compliance across DORA, NIS2, and GDPR. The timing captures a critical moment: 2026 brings a 'Regulatory Co...

Avantos raised $25M Series A led by Bessemer with strategic backing from Vanguard, SEI, Guardian Lif...
Feb 19, 2026Avantos

Avantos raised $25M Series A led by Bessemer with strategic backing from Vanguard, SEI, Guardian Lif...

Avantos raised $25M Series A led by Bessemer with strategic backing from Vanguard, SEI, Guardian Life, and Mercer Advisors, bringing total funding to $35M for its AI-native operating system targeting...

Austin-based Circuit raised $30M to address manufacturing's knowledge drain crisis. With 1.9 million...
Feb 19, 2026Circuit

Austin-based Circuit raised $30M to address manufacturing's knowledge drain crisis. With 1.9 million...

Austin-based Circuit raised $30M to address manufacturing's knowledge drain crisis. With 1.9 million jobs projected unfilled by 2033 as experienced workers retire, the startup's AI captures technical...

Stanhope AI has raised $8M in seed funding to develop brain-inspired AI based on the Free Energy Pri...
Feb 19, 2026Principle

Stanhope AI has raised $8M in seed funding to develop brain-inspired AI based on the Free Energy Pri...

Stanhope AI has raised $8M in seed funding to develop brain-inspired AI based on the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, moving beyond traditional LLM approaches. Founded by leading neuroscien...

Kana raised $15M seed funding led by Mayfield to deploy flexible AI agents for marketing, founded by...
Feb 19, 2026Kana

Kana raised $15M seed funding led by Mayfield to deploy flexible AI agents for marketing, founded by...

Kana raised $15M seed funding led by Mayfield to deploy flexible AI agents for marketing, founded by serial entrepreneurs Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya who previously built Rapt (acquired by Microsoft)...

Venice Security just raised $33M to transform identity security for the AI era. With backing from Wi...
Feb 19, 2026

Venice Security just raised $33M to transform identity security for the AI era. With backing from Wi...

Venice Security just raised $33M to transform identity security for the AI era. With backing from Wiz founders and top-tier VCs, this Israeli startup challenges legacy PAM solutions by replacing stati...

Cogent Security just raised $42M Series A to tackle cybersecurity's biggest bottleneck - the gap bet...
Feb 19, 2026Cogent Security

Cogent Security just raised $42M Series A to tackle cybersecurity's biggest bottleneck - the gap bet...

Cogent Security just raised $42M Series A to tackle cybersecurity's biggest bottleneck - the gap between detecting and fixing vulnerabilities. With over 48,000 new vulnerabilities reported in 2025 (a...

Efficient Computer raised $60M Series A for the Electron E1 processor, a spatial dataflow architectu...
Feb 19, 2026Efficient Computer

Efficient Computer raised $60M Series A for the Electron E1 processor, a spatial dataflow architectu...

Efficient Computer raised $60M Series A for the Electron E1 processor, a spatial dataflow architecture enabling AI devices to run for months or years on single charge. Unlike traditional processors, t...

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billi...
Feb 19, 2026

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billi...

Ineffable Intelligence, founded by AlphaGo creator David Silver, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation in what would be Europe's largest seed round ever, led by Sequoia with participation fr...

China's Moonshot AI is targeting up to $12B valuation in a $700M funding round—179% jump from $2.5B...
Feb 19, 2026Moonshot AI

China's Moonshot AI is targeting up to $12B valuation in a $700M funding round—179% jump from $2.5B...

China's Moonshot AI is targeting up to $12B valuation in a $700M funding round—179% jump from $2.5B just one year ago—driven by Kimi K2.5's benchmark wins over GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5. The 1T-para...

World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, just secured $1 billion in funding with Autodesk inves...
Feb 19, 2026WorldLabs

World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, just secured $1 billion in funding with Autodesk inves...

World Labs, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, just secured $1 billion in funding with Autodesk investing $200 million to advance spatial intelligence. This signals a major shift beyond text-based AI t...

Legal AI startup Legora is in talks to raise $400 million at a $5B+ valuation, marking its third fun...
Feb 18, 2026Legora

Legal AI startup Legora is in talks to raise $400 million at a $5B+ valuation, marking its third fun...

Legal AI startup Legora is in talks to raise $400 million at a $5B+ valuation, marking its third funding round in just six months. The company has rocketed from a $675M valuation in September 2025 to...

Upside Robotics secured $7.5M in seed funding, bringing total investment to over $11M, to scale its...
Feb 18, 2026

Upside Robotics secured $7.5M in seed funding, bringing total investment to over $11M, to scale its...

Upside Robotics secured $7.5M in seed funding, bringing total investment to over $11M, to scale its autonomous fertilizer robots that have already logged 10,000+ kilometers and treated 1,300 acres acr...

Skygen.AI raised $7M seed funding to launch the world's first autonomous Execution Layer, founded by...
Feb 18, 2026

Skygen.AI raised $7M seed funding to launch the world's first autonomous Execution Layer, founded by...

Skygen.AI raised $7M seed funding to launch the world's first autonomous Execution Layer, founded by 19-year-old Mike Shperling. This represents a shift from chatbots to AI agents that execute tasks d...

Israeli AI drone company XTEND is going public on Nasdaq through a $1.5B merger with JFB Constructio...
Feb 18, 2026

Israeli AI drone company XTEND is going public on Nasdaq through a $1.5B merger with JFB Constructio...

Israeli AI drone company XTEND is going public on Nasdaq through a $1.5B merger with JFB Construction, backed by $152M from investors including Eric Trump and major venture firms. This deal signals a...