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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.
Furl raises $10M seed to automate security remediation with agentic AI
Los Angeles-based Furl has closed a $10 million seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Corey Thomas and Open Opportunity Fund. The company builds an agentic AI platform meant t...
Z.AI raises about $5 billion through Hong Kong shares and yuan convertible bonds
Beijing-based foundation-model company Z.AI Co Ltd filed with the Hong Kong Exchanges to place about 21.97 million new shares at HK$714 ($91.05) each — a 10 percent discount to Friday’s close of HK$79...
Celero raises $275M to push coherent optical DSP into AI data centers
Irvine, California-based Celero Communications closed a $275 million Series C on September 8, 2026, led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and CapitalG. The round lifts cumulative funding...
Z.AI closes $5B Hong Kong share-and-convertible dual raise
Beijing-based foundation-model company Z.AI, formerly Zhipu AI, raised about $5 billion through a Hong Kong share placement of roughly $2 billion and a concurrent convertible-bond sale of about $3 bil...
Xieyue Intelligence Raises Angel+ Funding for Embodied AI and Home Robotics
Beijing-based Xieyue Intelligence has raised an angel-plus round worth hundreds of millions of RMB from investors including Linear Capital, Junshan Capital, Hongyi Capital and Yinshan Capital. Founded...
Discovery Loop reportedly targets a ~$50B valuation for new fundraising, five times the $10B figure floated weeks earlier.
Business Insider, citing people familiar with the talks, reported that Discovery Loop is pursuing fresh capital at roughly $50 billion — about 67 trillion won. Terms can still change, and a close at t...
Positron AI closes $875M Series C at $5B to tape out LPDDR5X inference ASIC Asimov
Reno-based Positron AI closed an $875 million Series C at a $5 billion post-money valuation—about five times the $1 billion-plus mark after its $230 million Series B in February 2026. Proceeds fund ta...
Enflame Technology lists on Shanghai STAR Market at a ~RMB 170.9B (~$24B) close, capping China's Four GPU Dragons IPOs.
On September 11, 2026, Enflame Technology (燧原科技) debuted on the A-share STAR Market, opening at RMB 410 and closing at RMB 397 — roughly 2–3x its RMB 142.18 issue price — for a closing market capitali...
Vecna Robotics raises $31M to expand autonomous warehouse robotics
Massachusetts-based Vecna Robotics raised $31 million to grow its autonomous mobile robot business and develop new warehouse automation for moving cases and pallets. The round was led by Unless, with...
Pixeom raises seed from Lifetime Ventures for AI molecular structure analysis
Pixeom, an Oita University spinout building AI tools for molecular structure analysis, announced a seed round backed by Lifetime Ventures. The company’s core technology, PSM (Proximity Score Matrix),...
Antioch closes $32M Series A to scale calibrated simulation for physical AI
Antioch, which builds simulation infrastructure for physical AI, raised a $32 million Series A led by Greylock, with A*, Category Ventures, Box Group, and Icehouse Ventures participating. Combined wit...
Deep Cogito closes $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures for post-training research
Deep Cogito raised $43 million in Series A funding led by TQ Ventures, with Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons, and Zscaler participating. Cumulative funding no...
DeepSeek accelerates STAR Market IPO preparations with CITIC Securities as reported sponsor
Chinese foundation-model lab DeepSeek is reportedly preparing a Shanghai STAR Market listing, with CITIC Securities as sponsor, aiming to file IPO materials in 2026 and list in 2027. If completed, it...
Sequoia Capital leads a funding round valuing robotics AI startup Mecka AI at close to $500 million.
Sequoia Capital has led a new funding round for Mecka AI, pushing the robotics AI startup's valuation to nearly $500 million. Per the AI Market Watch index, Mecka AI was founded in 2024 and has raised...
Mecka AI is nearing a roughly $500 million valuation in a new round led by Sequoia Capital, just three months after a $60 million raise.
Mecka AI, founded in 2024 by four co-founders with no robotics background — Josh Gao, Mogen Cheng, Jason Chong, and Duy Nguyen — is in talks for a round led by Sequoia Capital that would value the com...
Graph AI raises $13.3M Series A led by Insight Partners for pharma AI development
Insight Partners led a $13.3 million Series A financing round for Graph AI, a startup building AI systems for pharmaceutical applications. The deal was reported by Tech in Asia; the underlying source...
Onix raises $5 million pre-seed to build expert-governed "Personal Intelligence" platform.
Onix closed a $5 million pre-seed round, its first institutional financing, led by Alpha Edison with participation from Garage Capital, Ride Home Fund, and strategic investors including UTA co-founder...
Magnar Raises $8M Series A to Fund Chilean Legal AI's Push Into Brazil and Mexico
Chilean legal-AI company Magnar closed an $8 million Series A disclosed September 7, led by 6 Degrees Capital and co-led by Hi Ventures, with FEN Ventures, Platanus Ventures, Nascent Ventures and law...
Archy raises $50M to automate dental-office scheduling and billing
Archy, a startup building AI-driven automation software for dental offices, raised $50 million in new funding, according to an Axios Pro exclusive. The company's software targets administrative and op...
Lyte closes $165M Series C led by Maverick Silicon at $1.6B valuation to scale its robot perception platform.
Lyte, a robotics sensing and AI startup, announced a $165 million Series C led by Maverick Silicon, pushing its post-money valuation to $1.6 billion and cumulative funding to $272 million. The company...