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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.

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, 2026Synthetic

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...

May 14, 2026ElevenLabs

Indian venture capital firm Activate has acquired a strategic stake in ElevenLabs, the voice AI star...

Indian venture capital firm Activate has acquired a strategic stake in ElevenLabs, the voice AI startup known for its synthetic voice generation technology. The deal, reported by Tech in Asia, positio...

Champ AI Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M Seed to Automate Enterprise Operations
May 14, 2026Champ AI

Champ AI Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M Seed to Automate Enterprise Operations

Champ AI came out of stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding, led by Redpoint Ventures. The startup is building an AI-powered platform aimed at redefining how enterprises automate their operations w...

Fractile raises $220M Series B for novel inference chip architecture targeting token latency
May 14, 2026Fractile

Fractile raises $220M Series B for novel inference chip architecture targeting token latency

Oxford University-trained chip engineer Walter Goodwin's Fractile has closed a $220 million Series B round co-led by Accel, Factorial Funds and Founders Fund, with participation from Conviction, Gigas...

Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in $30B Funding Talks Ahead of Potential IPO
May 14, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic Eyes $900B Valuation in $30B Funding Talks Ahead of Potential IPO

Anthropic, the AI safety and research company behind the Claude model family, is reportedly in early-stage discussions with investors to raise approximately $30 billion at a valuation exceeding $900 b...

Monaco Raises $50M Series B to Expand AI Sales Platform
May 14, 2026Monaco

Monaco Raises $50M Series B to Expand AI Sales Platform

Monaco, an AI-native sales platform operating in public beta, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Benchmark. The company serves hundreds of customers and is preparing for general...

DeepSeek and Moonshot AI compete in $10B+ Chinese large model funding race
May 13, 2026Moonshot AI

DeepSeek and Moonshot AI compete in $10B+ Chinese large model funding race

In a 48-hour window in early May 2026, China's large-model sector unleashed over $10 billion in funding signals. Moonshot AI (月之暗面) closed roughly $2 billion in a Series D round at a $20 billion post-...

DeepSeek seeking $7.4B round at $52B valuation as founder commits $2.9B personally
May 13, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek seeking $7.4B round at $52B valuation as founder commits $2.9B personally

DeepSeek is pursuing a financing round of approximately RMB 50 billion (~$7.4 billion), which would establish a new single-round record for a Chinese AI company. Founder Liang Wenfeng plans to persona...

May 13, 2026Config Intelligence Inc.

Config raises $27M seed at $200M+ valuation for robotics data layer

Config, a startup building a data layer for robotics foundation models, has raised a $27 million seed round at a valuation exceeding $200 million. The round was led by Samsung, signaling strategic int...

May 13, 2026HavocAI

Havoc raises $100M Series A for autonomous boat fleet software

Havoc, a developer of autonomous vessel software that can control thousands of boats simultaneously, has raised a $100 million Series A led by undisclosed investors, as reported by Techmeme. Why it ma...

May 13, 2026Exaforce

Exaforce, an AI-native cybersecurity startup, has raised a $125 million Series B round at a $725 mil...

Exaforce, an AI-native cybersecurity startup, has raised a $125 million Series B round at a $725 million valuation. The round was led by a growth-stage investor, with participation from existing backe...