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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.

Brain-CA Technologies, a Sarasota-based AI chip startup, closed an oversubscribed $5 million seed ro...
May 8, 2026Brain-CA Technologies

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...

May 8, 2026Robot Era

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.
May 8, 2026Moonshot AI

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
May 8, 2026Pit

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...
May 7, 2026Moonshot AI

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
May 7, 2026AstralQ

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
May 7, 2026Travv

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...

May 7, 2026Moonshot AI

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...

May 7, 2026Moonshot AI

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.
May 7, 2026OpsMill

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....

May 7, 2026

Wuwen Xinqiong (无问芯穹) raises over 700M yuan, unveils AI productivity formula as token economy pivot

Wuwen Xinqiong, a Chinese AI infrastructure startup, has raised over 700 million yuan (~$100M) in a new funding round, co-led by Hangzhou Gaoxin Financial Investment Group and Huiyuan Capital, with pa...

May 7, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek seeks funding at reported $45B valuation

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab known for its cost-efficient large language models and open-weight releases, is seeking external funding at a reported $45 billion valuation, according to Tech in Asia. Th...

Moonshot AI is close to completing a $2 billion funding round at a valuation exceeding $20 billion,...
May 7, 2026Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is close to completing a $2 billion funding round at a valuation exceeding $20 billion,...

Moonshot AI is close to completing a $2 billion funding round at a valuation exceeding $20 billion, according to LatePost. The round is reportedly led by Meituan's Long-Z Fund, with China Mobile and C...

DeepSeek reportedly seeks first external funding round at $45 billion valuation with Big Fund.
May 7, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek reportedly seeks first external funding round at $45 billion valuation with Big Fund.

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab known for its open-weight foundation models, is in talks for its first external fundraising round, led by China's state-backed Big Fund (National Integrated Circuit Indust...

WILLOG raises Series B-2 investment to advance AI-based supply chain intelligence
May 6, 2026Willog

WILLOG raises Series B-2 investment to advance AI-based supply chain intelligence

South Korean AIoT supply chain intelligence company WILLOG has raised a Series B-2 investment round. The amount was not disclosed. The company provides solutions that combine self-developed IoT sensor...

SageOx Raises $15M Seed for AI-Native Team Context Infrastructure
May 6, 2026SageOx

SageOx Raises $15M Seed for AI-Native Team Context Infrastructure

Seattle-based SageOx has raised $15 million in seed funding to build shared context infrastructure for AI-native teams. The company aims to improve collaboration and data sharing in AI development wor...

District Raises $14.7M Seed Led by a16z for AI-Native Commerce Infrastructure
May 6, 2026District

District Raises $14.7M Seed Led by a16z for AI-Native Commerce Infrastructure

District, an AI commerce platform founded by former Snap product leaders, has raised $14.7 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kindred Ventures, with participation from Greylock, SV...

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round.
May 6, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round.

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab behind the cost-efficient open-weight LLM that shocked the industry in early 2025, is in talks to raise its first venture capital round at a valuation that has reportedly...

**Recursive raises $500M at $4B valuation with backing from Google and Nvidia**
May 6, 2026Recursive

**Recursive raises $500M at $4B valuation with backing from Google and Nvidia**

Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old AI startup founded by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, has raised a $500 million round at a $4 billion valuation. GV (Google Ventures) le...

Moonlight AI raises €2.8M for AI-powered genomic diagnostics from blood imaging
May 6, 2026Moonlight AI

Moonlight AI raises €2.8M for AI-powered genomic diagnostics from blood imaging

Swiss startup Moonlight AI has closed a €2.8 million Seed round co-led by Lotus One Investment, VP Venture Partners, and MEDIN Fund, with participation from N&V Capital and QAI Ventures. Founded in 20...