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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.
Sierra raises $950M at $15B+ valuation, claims 40% of Fortune 50 as customers
Sierra, the AI customer experience startup led by Bret Taylor, announced a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, pushing its post-money valuation above $15 billion. The company claims...
Zapdos Labs raises $500K pre-seed for AI software in Austin
Zapdos Labs, an Austin, TX-based AI software company, has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding. The company develops AI solutions, though specific product details were not disclosed. Why it matters: Th...
Ridge AI raises $2.6M pre-seed with open source Mosaic at its core
Ridge AI has raised a $2.6 million pre-seed round led by Madrona, with participation from The Founder VC and angel investors from Tableau, Trifacta, and Streamlit. The startup is commercializing the o...
FORMAS.AI raises $3.98M pre-seed for AI-native AEC design workspace.
Singapore-based FORMAS.AI has raised $3.98M in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, with participation from UntroD Capital, Hustle Fund, Big Sky Capital, Orv...
Featherless AI, a startup focused on making open-source large language models viable for enterprise...
Featherless AI, a startup focused on making open-source large language models viable for enterprise deployment, has received backing from Kickstart Ventures, a venture capital firm based in the Philip...
LakeFusion raises $7.5M seed to build Databricks-native master data management platform
LakeFusion, a startup offering an AI-powered master data management (MDM) platform native to Databricks, has closed a $7.5 million seed round led by Silverton Partners with participation from Carbide...
Upstage, a South Korean foundation model company, has secured 560 billion won (~$450M) in direct inv...
Upstage, a South Korean foundation model company, has secured 560 billion won (~$450M) in direct investment from the National Growth Fund (국민성장펀드) to develop sovereign AI capabilities. The investment,...
Tsavorite raises $5M from Pavestone for full-stack AI compute platform
Hyderabad-based venture capital firm Pavestone VC has invested $5 million (about Rs 46.6 crore) in deep-tech startup Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence. Founded in 2023, Tsavorite is building a full-stac...
Parallel Web Systems raises $100M Series B at $2B valuation for AI agent research APIs
Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent research platform founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Sequoia, with participation from...
Featherless.ai raises $20M Series A for serverless open-source inference platform
Featherless.ai, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure company providing a serverless inference platform for open-source models, has raised $20 million in a Series A round co-led by AMD Ventures and...
Yuanli Semiconductor (原粒半导体) raises over 500M yuan (~$69M) in Pre-A round, led by CEO Fang Shaoxia, former AMD chip director.
The funding signals strong investor appetite for domestic AI chip alternatives in China, especially at the edge and inference segments where Yuanli focuses. The sizable Pre-A round—exceeding typical S...
Upstage (업스테이지) has been selected as the first direct investment target in the AI model segment of K...
Upstage (업스테이지) has been selected as the first direct investment target in the AI model segment of Korea's National Growth Fund (KGF), securing 560 billion won (~$409 million). The deal includes 100 b...
Antioch raises $8.5M to accelerate simulation-based autonomy development
Antioch, a cloud simulation platform for robotics and autonomous systems, has raised $8.5 million in seed funding led by A* and Category Ventures, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, Abstract...
IOVOX takes investment from VC Octopus to scale up in Europe.
UK-based AI voice technology company IOVOX has secured an investment from VC firm Octopus to fund its European expansion, as reported by TechCrunch in October 2012. The amount was not disclosed, and t...
South Korea approves $381M state investment in AI startup Upstage
South Korea's Financial Services Commission approved a 560 billion-won ($380.6 million) investment in Upstage, a domestic AI unicorn valued at over 1 trillion won, through the Korea National Growth Fu...
Sarvam AI nears unicorn status with $250M round from NVIDIA, Accel, HCLTech
India’s Sarvam AI is nearing unicorn status with a $250 million funding round backed by NVIDIA, Accel, and HCLTech, according to the report. The Bangalore-based startup, which builds large language mo...
Upstage secures 560 billion won investment to accelerate Korean-language AI models
South Korean AI foundation model developer Upstage (업스테이지) has secured approximately 560 billion won (~$425 million) in funding approved by the National Growth Fund's Fund Management Committee on Apri...
C2i Semiconductors raises $15M from Peak XV in largest round for an Indian chip startup
Indian chip design startup C2i Semiconductors has raised $15 million from Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India), marking the largest funding round for an Indian semiconductor startup. The...
NVIDIA invests $50M in legal AI startup Legora, signals push into inference-as-infrastructure
NVIDIA's venture arm NVentures has invested $50 million in Legora, a Swedish legal AI startup, as part of a $600 million Series D round that values Legora at $5.6 billion. Legora builds autonomous AI...
Nvidia invests $50M in legal AI startup Legora via NVentures, betting on inference workloads
Nvidia's venture arm NVentures has invested $50 million in Legora, a Swedish legal AI startup, as part of its $600 million Series D round that values the company at $5.6 billion. Legora, founded in 20...