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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.

Zurich-based Sparkli has raised 5 million USD in pre-seed funding led by Founderful to reinvent educ...
Jan 24, 2026Sparkli

Zurich-based Sparkli has raised 5 million USD in pre-seed funding led by Founderful to reinvent educ...

Zurich-based Sparkli has raised 5 million USD in pre-seed funding led by Founderful to reinvent education for children aged 5-12. 🚀 Founded by Google veterans, the startup uses a multimodal engine to...

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to accelerate Gemini's deployment across Japan. Followi...
Jan 24, 2026Sakana AI

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to accelerate Gemini's deployment across Japan. Followi...

Google has invested in Tokyo-based Sakana AI to accelerate Gemini's deployment across Japan. Following Sakana's 135 million USD Series B at a 2.65 billion USD valuation, this partnership uses unique m...

Yann LeCun officially launches AMI Labs with a 3.5 billion dollar valuation to pioneer world models...
Jan 24, 2026Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs)

Yann LeCun officially launches AMI Labs with a 3.5 billion dollar valuation to pioneer world models...

Yann LeCun officially launches AMI Labs with a 3.5 billion dollar valuation to pioneer world models beyond the limits of LLMs. The startup is raising 586 million dollars to build AI capable of reasoni...

Dassault Aviation led a 200 million dollar Series B round in Harmattan AI, reaching a 1.4 billion do...
Jan 24, 2026Harmattan AI

Dassault Aviation led a 200 million dollar Series B round in Harmattan AI, reaching a 1.4 billion do...

Dassault Aviation led a 200 million dollar Series B round in Harmattan AI, reaching a 1.4 billion dollar valuation. This partnership embeds sovereign AI into the Rafale F5 and future loyal wingman dro...

Finnish company Agileday has secured 6.4 million EUR in Series A funding led by Newion to scale its...
Jan 24, 2026

Finnish company Agileday has secured 6.4 million EUR in Series A funding led by Newion to scale its...

Finnish company Agileday has secured 6.4 million EUR in Series A funding led by Newion to scale its AI-driven operating platform. The system unifies talent, projects, and financials for 70+ global cli...

Statusphere raised 18 million dollars in Series A funding to scale its AI platform connecting brands...
Jan 24, 2026

Statusphere raised 18 million dollars in Series A funding to scale its AI platform connecting brands...

Statusphere raised 18 million dollars in Series A funding to scale its AI platform connecting brands with micro-influencers. The capital will fuel Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), ensuring produc...

Torq has reached unicorn status with a 140 million dollar Series D round, reaching a 1.2 billion dol...
Jan 24, 2026Torq

Torq has reached unicorn status with a 140 million dollar Series D round, reaching a 1.2 billion dol...

Torq has reached unicorn status with a 140 million dollar Series D round, reaching a 1.2 billion dollar valuation. This signals a systemic shift from legacy automation to autonomous Agentic AI in secu...

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs in Paris with a projected $3.5 billion valuation to develop world m...
Jan 24, 2026Alex

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs in Paris with a projected $3.5 billion valuation to develop world m...

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs in Paris with a projected $3.5 billion valuation to develop world models that understand physical reality. Led by CEO Alex LeBrun, the startup is raising funds from VC...

Jan 24, 2026AGI, Inc.

AI startup AGI is reportedly in talks to raise funding at a 500 million dollar valuation to scale it...

AI startup AGI is reportedly in talks to raise funding at a 500 million dollar valuation to scale its device-operating AI models. 🌐 This funding highlights a major pivot from conversational LLMs towa...

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs in Paris, seeking a 3.5 billion dollar valuation to build world mod...
Jan 24, 2026Alex

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs in Paris, seeking a 3.5 billion dollar valuation to build world mod...

Yann LeCun has launched AMI Labs in Paris, seeking a 3.5 billion dollar valuation to build world models that transcend large language model limitations. Led by CEO Alex LeBrun, the startup is targetin...

Renowned AI researcher Richard Socher is in talks to raise hundreds of millions for his new startup,...
Jan 24, 2026Recursive

Renowned AI researcher Richard Socher is in talks to raise hundreds of millions for his new startup,...

Renowned AI researcher Richard Socher is in talks to raise hundreds of millions for his new startup, Recursive, at a 4 billion dollar valuation. Supported by GV and Greycroft, the lab is focused on bu...

World Labs, led by Fei-Fei Li, is reportedly raising $500 million at a $5 billion valuation, a fourf...
Jan 24, 2026WorldLabs

World Labs, led by Fei-Fei Li, is reportedly raising $500 million at a $5 billion valuation, a fourf...

World Labs, led by Fei-Fei Li, is reportedly raising $500 million at a $5 billion valuation, a fourfold increase from 2024. This follows the launch of Marble, an API using 3D Gaussian Splatting to cre...

Santa Clara-based Upscale AI hit unicorn status following a $200 million Series A led by Tiger Globa...
Jan 23, 2026Upscale AI

Santa Clara-based Upscale AI hit unicorn status following a $200 million Series A led by Tiger Globa...

Santa Clara-based Upscale AI hit unicorn status following a $200 million Series A led by Tiger Global. This $300 million total funding targets the networking bottleneck where GPU speeds outpace data t...

AMI Labs, founded by AI pioneer Yann LeCun, is negotiating a funding round targeting a EUR 3 billion...
Jan 23, 2026Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs)

AMI Labs, founded by AI pioneer Yann LeCun, is negotiating a funding round targeting a EUR 3 billion...

AMI Labs, founded by AI pioneer Yann LeCun, is negotiating a funding round targeting a EUR 3 billion valuation to advance world models. The startup seeks EUR 500 million to scale Joint Embedding Predi...

Artie secured a 12M Series A led by Standard Capital to solve the data latency bottleneck for Agenti...
Jan 23, 2026

Artie secured a 12M Series A led by Standard Capital to solve the data latency bottleneck for Agenti...

Artie secured a 12M Series A led by Standard Capital to solve the data latency bottleneck for Agentic AI. By leveraging real-time Change Data Capture, Artie enables enterprises to sync production data...

Sierra has reached a 10 billion dollar valuation after securing 350 million dollars to scale its age...
Jan 23, 2026Sierra

Sierra has reached a 10 billion dollar valuation after securing 350 million dollars to scale its age...

Sierra has reached a 10 billion dollar valuation after securing 350 million dollars to scale its agentic AI for enterprises. The platform manages over 1 million monthly interactions for Rocket Mortgag...

Mendra Therapeutics launched with 82 million dollars in Series A funding to modernize rare disease d...
Jan 23, 2026

Mendra Therapeutics launched with 82 million dollars in Series A funding to modernize rare disease d...

Mendra Therapeutics launched with 82 million dollars in Series A funding to modernize rare disease drug development through AI. Led by BioMarin and Palantir veterans, the startup applies data science...

Optalysys secured 23 million pounds in funding to commercialize photonic AI chips that use light ins...
Jan 23, 2026Optalysys

Optalysys secured 23 million pounds in funding to commercialize photonic AI chips that use light ins...

Optalysys secured 23 million pounds in funding to commercialize photonic AI chips that use light instead of electricity. This technology drastically cuts energy consumption while enabling Fully Homomo...

Blockit officially launched with a 5 million dollar seed round led by Sequoia Capital to automate sc...
Jan 23, 2026Blockit

Blockit officially launched with a 5 million dollar seed round led by Sequoia Capital to automate sc...

Blockit officially launched with a 5 million dollar seed round led by Sequoia Capital to automate scheduling through autonomous AI agents. Founded by ex-Sequoia partner Kais Khimji and John Han, the p...

Mews secured 300 million dollars in Series D funding led by EQT Growth, reaching a 2.5 billion dolla...
Jan 23, 2026

Mews secured 300 million dollars in Series D funding led by EQT Growth, reaching a 2.5 billion dolla...

Mews secured 300 million dollars in Series D funding led by EQT Growth, reaching a 2.5 billion dollar valuation. This investment accelerates the deployment of agentic hospitality systems across 15,000...