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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.

Lithosquare raises $25M seed to apply foundational AI models to critical metals exploration Paris-based Lithosquare has raised a $25M equity seed round co-led by World Fund and Kindred Capital, with p...

Elastics raises €1.7M pre-seed for AI agents targeting prediction-market traders Warsaw-based Elastics has raised €1.7 million in oversubscribed pre-seed funding to build an AI-native operating system...
Singapore AI startup ReN3 raises $5M seed from Vertex Ventures for enterprise AI platform Singapore-based AI startup ReN3 has raised $5 million in seed funding from Vertex Ventures. The company is dev...

ReN3, an enterprise agentic AI work productivity platform based in Singapore, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. The company focuses on accuracy and f...

Sierra raises $950M Series E at $15.8B valuation, led by Tiger Global and GV Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup co-founded by OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor, announced a $950 million Series E...

Sierra raises $950M at $15.8B valuation for agentic AI platform Sierra, a developer of agentic AI systems for enterprise customer service, has raised $950 million in a funding round led by Tiger Globa...

Cerebras Systems is on track for a blockbuster IPO, offering 28 million shares at $115–$125 per share to raise up to $3.5 billion, giving it a $26.6 billion market cap at the high end. The AI chipmake...

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...
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 spe...

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 Tab...

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...

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 clo...

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 Sc...

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 $1...

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-sou...
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 alternat...

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...