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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.

HiddenLayer closes $100M Series B to harden AI agent and model security across the enterprise stack.
HiddenLayer, a US-based AI security startup founded in 2022, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, and Booz Alle...

Cognition Raises Over $2 Billion at $48 Billion Valuation as Devin's Revenue Nears $900 Million
Cognition, maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin, closed a Series E of more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. New investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the round, joined by existi...

Robutler Raises $400K for Agent Discovery and Collaborative Software
Robutler has raised $400,000 from ZAS Ventures, its first institutional investment, to build a public platform for publishing, remixing and monetizing software applications. The company describes its...

Wonderful Raises $550M Series C at $5B Valuation for Enterprise AI Operations
Wonderful has raised a $550 million Series C led by Insight Partners at a $5 billion valuation, with Salesforce joining existing backers including Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards, and Besse...

Rillet Confirms $100M Series C at $1B Valuation as AI-Native Ledger Startup Scales to 600+ Customers
Rillet, developer of an AI-native general ledger and ERP platform for finance teams, has detailed its $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1 billion. Existing backers Sequoia C...

Harvey Raises $550M at $15.5B Valuation, Nearly Doubling in Nine Months
Legal AI startup Harvey has closed a $550 million round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $15.5 billion valuation, the company confirmed Wednesday. The raise follows a $200 mill...

CloudNC raises €17.2M to scale AI-powered CNC machining software, pursues FedRAMP
CloudNC, a London-based AI software company for precision machining, raised €17.2 million ($20 million) in a round led by US investor Nimble Ventures, with Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First...
PHYMI (费莫一科技) raises near-$100 million seed round led by IDG Capital
Embodied AI startup PHYMI, founded in March 2026, closed a seed round of nearly $100 million led by IDG Capital, joined by Yunqi Capital, DiDi Chuxing, Fosun RZ Capital, Yaotu Capital, and lidar maker...

Cognition raises $2 billion at $48 billion valuation, nearly doubling in four months
Cognition, developer of the Devin coding agent, raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir — its second mark...

PeopleX Raises ¥545M (~$3.6M) Series A to Build HR-Specialized LLM and Athena AI Agent Platform
Japanese HR AI company PeopleX raised ¥545 million (~$3.6M) in a Series A round combining equity and debt, backed by En, Angel Bridge, Openup Group, WiL, and One Capital, bringing its total funding to...

Mistral Confirms €3 Billion Series D at €21 Billion Valuation
Paris-based foundation model lab Mistral has officially confirmed a €3 billion Series D round at a €21 billion valuation. Sifted and Tech.eu both reported the confirmation on September 8, 2026, with M...

Mistral raises $3.5 billion at $24 billion valuation in Europe's largest-ever private tech funding round
Mistral, the three-year-old French foundation-model developer, closed a €3 billion (~$3.5B) round at a valuation of roughly €21 billion (~$24B), the largest private-equity raise ever for a European te...

Discovered Materials details AI-agent pipeline behind $9M seed for chip cooling materials
Discovered Materials, a startup applying AI agents to semiconductor materials discovery, disclosed further detail on the $9 million seed round it closed on August 10, led by Lightspeed India Partners...

Mistral Raises €3B Series D at €21B+ Valuation, Led by Samsung Electronics
Mistral announced on September 8 a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion, which it calls the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company. Samsung Electronics...

Navana.ai Raises $4.2M Series A to Expand Voice AI Across India's BFSI Sector
Bengaluru-based Navana.ai has closed a ₹40 crore (~$4.2 million) Series A round led by Ronnie Screwvala, the upGrad co-founder and an existing investor in the company. Founded in 2018 by Raoul Nanavat...

Fluencify raises $4.3M pre-seed to scale AI agent-driven creator marketing platform
Stockholm-based Fluencify, founded in 2025 by Erik Romdhane, Isaac Norin and Sam Stones Hälleberg, closed an oversubscribed $4.3 million pre-seed round led by byFounders, with byFounders partner Magnu...

Jaipur Robotics raises €4.3M seed to automate waste-to-energy plants with computer vision
Swiss industrial AI startup Jaipur Robotics has raised €4.3 million in seed funding led by EquityPitcher Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Manno near Lug...

Abwab.ai raises $4M seed to build AI-powered lending infrastructure for Saudi financial institutions
Riyadh-based Abwab.ai closed a $4 million seed round led by Middle East Venture Partners and Speedinvest, disclosed around September 3 at the LEAP conference in Riyadh. The company does not lend direc...

Resect emerges from stealth with $25 million and a claim to intercept AI hallucinations before they reach the user.
Resect AI, headquartered in Washougal, Washington with staff also based in the Seattle area, California, New York, and Texas, disclosed $25 million from unnamed private equity investors as it exited s...

Mistral raises €3 billion from Samsung, Nvidia and Scaleup Fund
Paris-based Mistral AI has closed a €3 billion (~$3.2B) funding round backed by Samsung, Nvidia, and Scaleup Fund, the company confirmed. Mistral said the capital will go toward developing new machine...