| 28 Oct 2026 | BUZZ Alpha Cloud Inc. | $129M | Debt | | an institutional lender | Nvidia invests $3 billion in Meta to support AI infrastructure |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Avante | $30M | Series A | | Frist Cressey Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Hearst Ventures, Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund +1 | Avante raises $30M Series A to expand AI benefits platform |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Infisical | $40M | Series B | $600M | Elad Gil, Gradient, Y Combinator | Infisical raises $40M Series B at $600M valuation to secure AI agent access |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Machenta | $40M | Seed | | Creandum, Union Square Ventures | Machenta raises $40M seed to cut robot training time with one demonstration |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Disruptive | $10B | | | | Disruptive raises $10B to back 10 AI, defense, and software firms |
| 27 Oct 2026 | General Compute | $100M | Series A | $800M | Blackbird Ventures, Abstract Ventures | General Compute raises $100M Series A to supply inference chips for AI cloud |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Hyphenate | $45M | Series A | | Nexus Venture Partners, B Capital, Foundation Capital, BoldCap +1 | Hyphenate raises $45M Series A for AI agents in corporate finance |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Every | $2M | Seed | | Reid Hoffman | Axios and Every restructure content for AI agents as primary audience |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Simplismart | $14M | Series B | $100M | Dallas Venture Capital, NVIDIA, Accel, Shastra VC +1 | Simplismart raises $14M Series B to optimize AI model deployment |
| 27 Oct 2026 | Meta | $3.0B | | | Nvidia, AMD | Nvidia invests $3 billion in Meta to support AI infrastructure |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Bedrock Robotics | $600M | Series C | $4.1B | CapitalG, Emergence Capital, US Innovative Technology Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners +6 | Bedrock Robotics raises $600M Series C at $4.1B valuation to scale autonomous construction equipment |
| 26 Oct 2026 | OpenAI | $5M | | | Simons Foundation | OpenAI and Anthropic claim their AI models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Microsoft | $175B | | | | Microsoft reports Q1 2027 revenue near $90.75B amid buyouts and $50B capital spending |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Nevis | $70M | Series B | | EQT Ventures, Charles Schwab, Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ +2 | Nevis raises $70M Series B led by EQT Ventures, valued at $500M, a source says |
| 26 Oct 2026 | LSEG | $3.5B | Acquisition | | | LSEG to buy Octus for $3.5 billion as AI finance market grows |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Anthropic PBC | $100B | IPO | $1.5T | | Anthropic files IPO with $1.5T–$2T valuation amid market jitters |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Anthropic | $141B | IPO | | Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley | Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO targeting up to $100 billion in proceeds at a $2 trillion valuation |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Cathedral | $160M | | $1.4B | Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital | Cathedral says it breached Anthropic systems in under 12 hours |
| 26 Oct 2026 | Zenlytic | undisclosed | Acquisition | | Square | Square acquires Zenlytic to power Managerbot for sellers |
| 26 Oct 2026 | UK government | $130M | | | | UK commits £100m to AI Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind |
| 25 Oct 2026 | Anthropic | $100B | IPO | $2.0T | Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley | Anthropic files IPO with $1.5T–$2T valuation amid market jitters |
| 25 Oct 2026 | CoreWeave Inc. | $2.3B | Debt | | Blackstone Inc. | Blackstone-led $2.3B loan to CoreWeave in 2023 became blueprint for chip-backed debt market |
| 24 Oct 2026 | Marvell Technology | $2.0B | | | Nvidia | Nvidia invests $2B in Marvell via NVLink Fusion |
| 23 Oct 2026 | Utopai | $60M | | $1.0B | | Utopai raises $60M at $1B valuation for AI film projects |
| 23 Oct 2026 | AI Biosecurity Lab | $401M | | | UK Government, OpenAI, Anthropic | UK commits £100m to AI Biosecurity Lab with OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Higgsfield | $400M | Series B | $5.4B | TCV, NVIDIA, DST Global, Goldman Sachs Alternatives +5 | Higgsfield extends Series B with TCV and NVIDIA investment after $1B annualized revenue |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Formic | $50M | Series B | | | Formic raises $50 million, including $40 million Series B and $10 million financing |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Tractian | $130M | Series D+ | $1.4B | Sapphire Ventures | Tractian raises $130 million Series D at $1.4 billion valuation |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Warp Sciences | $215M | Series A | $865M | Lightspeed, IVP, Mayfield, Lux +2 | Former OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil launches AI science startup Warp Sciences with $215 million |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Opply | $8M | Series A | | Chalfen Ventures, Index Ventures, Anthemis, Entrepreneurs First +2 | Opply raises $7.5M to deploy agentic AI in consumer goods operations |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Warp | $60M | Series B | | | Warp raises $60M to automate HR workflows with AI agents |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Mave | $28M | Series A | | Red Dot Capital Partners, Lumir Growth Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Emerge Ventures | Mave raises $28 million Series A, total $34 million for AI security platform |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Maxinsights | $30M | Seed | | Peak XV | Dream Labs raises $90 million seed and launches Dream-1 robot AI API |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Slingshot Insurance | $27M | Seed | | Rally Ventures, Skyward Group, Jim Hays | Slingshot Insurance raises $27M seed to launch AI‑powered embedded insurance |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Enact Intelligence | $30M | Seed | | redalpine, Notion Capital, firstminute capital, Arthur Mensch +2 | Eka Robotics raises $150M Series A for vision-force-action model |
| 21 Oct 2026 | AuxoAI | $21M | Series A | | NTTVC, George Still Jr., Amit Zavery, Giacomo Sonnino | AuxoAI raises $20.7 million in Series A funding led by NTTVC |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Flapping Airplanes | $1.0B | | $6.0B | | Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at $6B valuation |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Baba | $40M | Series A | | FirstMark Capital, CVS Health Ventures, Valtruis, General Catalyst +2 | Baba raises $40M Series A led by FirstMark for Medicare AI tools |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Watchtower Labs | $35M | Seed | | Shield Capital, Conviction, Founders Fund, In-Q-Tel | Watchtower Labs raises $35M seed to build AI-driven logistics simulation for US defense |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Photon Bridge | undisclosed | | | Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, 360 Capital, Innovation Industries, Faber +1 | Photon Bridge raises €10 million to develop laser sources for AI data centers |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Whop | $205M | | $5.1B | Sequoia Capital | Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Mach9 | $34M | Series A | | First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Prudence, Quiet Capital | Mach9 raises $34 million Series A to expand AI-powered CAD software |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Legora | $550M | | $8.8B | | Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B post-money valuation |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Blacksmith | $66M | Series C | $1.0B | Sequoia Capital | Blacksmith raises $66M Series C at $1B valuation |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Coherence | $45M | Seed | | OpenAI Startup Fund | OpenAI invests in Coherence as part of $45 million seed round for brain‑implant cancer detection |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Nokia | $1.0B | | | Nvidia | Nokia and Nvidia target 50% spectrum efficiency by 2027 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Azoma | $11M | Series A | | Puma Growth Partners, Dunnhumby Ventures, Twinpath, Mars IAF +2 | Azoma raises $11.2M to help brands optimize for AI shopping agents |
| 20 Oct 2026 | OpenAI | $3.0B | | | Nvidia | OpenAI quietly withdraws from pushing for chip export restrictions to China, report says |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Pigment | $250M | | $2.3B | Scaleup Europe Fund, World Innovation Lab, Greenoaks, ICONIQ +3 | Pigment raises $250 million at $2.3 billion valuation |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Electric Plant | $11M | Seed | | Onto Ventures, Climactic, Ponderosa, Endeavor Catalyst +5 | Electric Plant raises $11.2 million seed round to launch Bombadil plant‑signal model |
| 20 Oct 2026 | ASI | $325M | Series C | $3.0B | | ASI raises $325 million Series C at $3 billion valuation after $875 million FAA contract |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Daytona | $60M | Series B | $1.0B | FirstMark, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, Okta Ventures +5 | Daytona raises $60 million Series B at $1 billion valuation |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Firefly | $20M | Series A | | Definition Capital | Firefly raises $20 million Series A led by Definition Capital |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Arda | $230M | | $1.5B | Altimeter Capital, Accel, Khosla Ventures | Arda raises $230 million at $1.5 billion valuation |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Asymptote Labs | $6M | Seed | | Tower Research Ventures, Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventures, South Park Commons | Asymptote Labs raises $5.5 million seed to monitor enterprise AI agents |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Eka Robotics | $150M | Series A | $1.4B | Andreessen Horowitz, F-Prime, Obvious Ventures, E14 Fund +4 | Eka Robotics valued at $1.45 billion after $150 million Series A |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Braze | $5.7B | Acquisition | | Salesforce | Salesforce to acquire Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Vectorial | $3M | Seed | | Smilegate, SenseAI Ventures, Dent Capital | Vectorial raises $3 million seed to test products with simulated audiences |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Otter.ai | $320M | | | General Catalyst | Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Orchestra Bio | undisclosed | Acquisition | | OpenAI | OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to expand Rosalind life sciences tools |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Fireworks AI | undisclosed | | | | Infrastructure startup Fireworks AI is in early talks for new funding at a valuation between $30 billion and $40 billion |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Dream Labs | $90M | Seed | | B Capital, Kindred Ventures, A.Capital, Unusual Ventures +4 | Dream Labs raises $90 million seed and launches Dream-1 robot AI API |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Tenstorrent | $1.5B | Series D+ | $6.2B | Trace Capital, Innovation X, Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest +6 | Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion Series E at $6.2 billion valuation |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Town | $108M | Series B | $1.0B | Forerunner Ventures, Menlo Ventures, a16z, First Round Capital +6 | Town raises $108 million Series B at $1 billion valuation |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Tolan | $30M | | | Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Homebrew | Tolan raises $30 million from USV, Khosla Ventures and Homebrew |
| 19 Oct 2026 | doubleAI | $220M | | | Lightspeed, Bessemer, Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. | Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases debut code execution model Maxwell and raises $200M-$220M |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Opaque Systems | $24M | Series B | $300M | | Anthropic acquires Opaque Systems, a confidential AI startup |
| 18 Oct 2026 | Holyvolt | $45M | | $245M | Zone II, CC.VC, angel investors | Holyvolt raises $45 million to develop AI-driven battery materials |
| 17 Oct 2026 | Anthropic | $65B | Series D+ | $965B | Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital | Replit switches default AI model to OpenAI's ChatGPT while maintaining Anthropic partnership options |
| 17 Oct 2026 | Bending Spoons | $900M | | $30B | Berkshire Hathaway | Berkshire Hathaway invests over $900 million in Bending Spoons |
| 17 Oct 2026 | Reach Security | $50M | Series B | | Top Tier Capital Partners, Ballistic Ventures, In-Q-Tel, M12 +1 | Reach Security raises $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners |
| 17 Oct 2026 | Duvo | $32M | Series A | | Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Northzone, Credo Ventures | Duvo raises $32 million Series A led by Balderton |
| 16 Oct 2026 | EverWind Fuels | $10B | | | | Anthropic signs 20-year lease for first Canadian data centre in Nova Scotia with EverWind |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. | $200M | Acquisition | | | FF EAI Robotics acquires Faraday Future’s robotics unit for $200M in all-stock deal |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Nvidia-backed UK startups (five unnamed) | $1.2B | | | Nvidia | Nvidia invests $30B in OpenAI and guarantees $105B for its Ohio data center |
| 16 Oct 2026 | RapidCanvas | $29M | | | Vertex Ventures SEA & India, Hitachi Ventures, Accel, Peak XV Partners +2 | RapidCanvas raises nearly $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Opsin | $21M | | | SYN Ventures, Race Capital | Opsin raises $21M to track enterprise AI agents and flag risky behavior |
| 15 Oct 2026 | MediaMeta.Ai | undisclosed | | | GMEX Robotics | GMEX Robotics invests 30% in MediaMeta.Ai for socially intelligent robots |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Australian National University (ANU) | $2M | | | Google.org | Google.org funds ANU-led chemotherapy resistance research with $2.2 million |
| 15 Oct 2026 | CarbonAI | $12M | | | Cowboy Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures, Bling Capital, Max Ventures | CarbonAI raises $12M to automate commercial real estate underwriting with AI agents |
| 15 Oct 2026 | North.cloud | $60M | Series B | | peakspan capital, litquidity, companyon ventures, alpaca +3 | North.cloud raises $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Abby Care | $82M | Series C | | Transformation Capital, CVS Health Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Pivotal Ventures +3 | Abby Care raises $82M Series C to train and pay family caregivers |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 120ft | $610K | | | Ted Persson, Sophia Bendz, Matthias Dantone, Sam Baker | 120ft raises €576,000 to develop humanoid robot microfactories |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Colt DCS and RMZ joint venture | $1.7B | | | | Colt DCS and RMZ begin 64MW AI-ready Mumbai 3 data center construction |
| 15 Oct 2026 | OpenAI | $1.0B | | | | MIT study finds AI solved 35% of theory problems by mid-2026 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Gudea | $7M | Seed | | Mudita Venture Partners, Silicon Road Ventures | Gudea raises $7M to detect social media brand crises across 500 platforms |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Labelbox | $100M | | $1.3B | Infinitum Partners, Wipro Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital +2 | Labelbox raises $100M+ Series E at $1.25B valuation to expand AI agents and RL tools |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Listen Labs | undisclosed | Acquisition | | Salesforce | Salesforce buys Listen Labs for AI-powered customer feedback tools |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Zenzap | $44M | | | Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, The Garage | Zenzap raises $44M to build AI-powered workplace messenger |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Vayo | $100M | | | Booking Holdings | Booking Holdings invests $100M in Vayo, an AI travel agent for bookings and price tracking |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Salience Labs | $125M | Series B | | Bullhound Capital, Intel Capital, AMD Ventures, SBI Group +5 | Salience Labs raises $125M Series B to develop optical switches for AI datacenters |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Harmonic Security Inc. | $50M | Series B | | Crosspoint Capital Partners LP | Harmonic Security raises $50M Series B to grow AI governance platform |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Evos | $9M | | | Uncork Capital, Field Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Utopia Capital Management +1 | Evos raises $9M pre-seed to build AI agents for industrial tasks |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Forgepoint | $10M | Seed | | Primary Venture Partners, a16z speedrun, OpenAI-associated angel investors, Brex-associated angel investors +2 | Forgepoint raises $9.8M seed to automate manufacturing quotes with AI assistant Frank |
| 14 Oct 2026 | CodeWall | $4M | | | Osney Capital, InReach Ventures, Antler | London startup CodeWall raises $4M pre-seed to test enterprise security with autonomous agents |
| 14 Oct 2026 | FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem Inc. | $200M | Acquisition | $60M | Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc., FF Global Partners LLC, Yueting Jia, Jiawei Wang | FF EAI Robotics acquires Faraday Future’s robotics unit for $200M in all-stock deal |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Scimplify | $25M | | $250M | Hitachi Ventures, Henkel, Teknor Apex, Accel India +3 | Scimplify raises $25M to cut China’s materials supply chain lead time with AI |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Causa Prima | $20M | Seed | | Base10 Partners, QED Investors, FJ Labs, Creandum +2 | Causa Prima raises $20M seed for agent-to-agent payment platform |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Albert Invent | $55M | Series B | $340M | | Albert Invent raised a $55M Series B at a $340M valuation, a source says |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Agility Robotics | $2.5B | Acquisition | $2.5B | Foxconn, DCVC, NVIDIA, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 +3 | Churchill Capital XI merges with Agility Robotics at $2.5B valuation |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Flox Intelligence | $10M | Series A | | Unconventional Ventures, Tilia Impact Ventures, GENIUS NY, Norrsken +1 | Flox Intelligence builds AI to deter wildlife from infrastructure with edge devices |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Decagon | undisclosed | Acquisition | $4.5B | | Decagon in acquisition talks with ServiceNow after hiring bank |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Pluto Security | $42M | Series A | | Jump Capital, Skinos, Ansa Capital, TLV Partners +1 | Pluto Security raises $42M to secure enterprise AI tool usage |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Character.ai | $2.7B | | | Google | Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Disney offers $20 million for assets |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Scuba | $34M | | | Accel, IVP | Scuba raises $34M to build a shared context engine for AI teams |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Loops | undisclosed | Acquisition | | | Salesforce acquires AI analytics startup Loops for Tableau integration |
| 13 Oct 2026 | C1.ai | undisclosed | Acquisition | | | Workday acquires C1.ai for agent identity governance |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Clueso | $10M | Series A | | Dharana Capital, Future, Neotribe Ventures, Y Combinator +1 | Clueso raises $10 million Series A to automate business video creation |
| 13 Oct 2026 | OpenAI | $30B | Series D+ | $1.3T | Coatue Management, BlackRock Inc, UAE investment funds | Nvidia invests $30B in OpenAI and guarantees $105B for its Ohio data center |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Nvidia | $250M | | | | Nvidia invests $30B in OpenAI and guarantees $105B for its Ohio data center |
| 13 Oct 2026 | DATA Network | $30M | Acquisition | | Sui Foundation | Sui Foundation buys DATA Network for $30M to add AI data registry |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Broadcom | $92B | | | | Broadcom commits up to $92B to fund Anthropic and OpenAI’s chip purchases |
| 13 Oct 2026 | OnLogic, Inc. | $675M | Acquisition | | | Omron buys OnLogic for $675M to expand physical AI hardware |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Mistlabs | $26M | Series A | | Luminous Ventures, Huaqin Technology | Mistlabs raises $26M to launch Ambi ambient AI on Apple devices |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Ambi | $26M | | | Luminous Ventures, Huaqin | Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raises $26M for Ambi AI app that listens continuously |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Scarlet | $50M | Series B | | Headline, Notion Capital, Atomico, Creandum +2 | Scarlet raises $50 million series b to expand AI medical device certification |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Atomic Machines | $250M | Series D+ | | | Atomic Machines raises $250M to build tiny machines from code with AI |
| 12 Oct 2026 | DeepSeek | $7.4B | | $59B | CATL, Tencent | DeepSeek leads $400 million funding round for Chinese robot AI startup |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Winverse AI | undisclosed | Seed | $400M | DeepSeek, Long-Z Investments | DeepSeek backs Winverse AI in $400 million-valued robot startup seed round |
| 10 Oct 2026 | Standard Bots | $200M | Series C | $1.0B | General Catalyst, RoboStrategy | Standard Bots raises $200M at $1B for industrial AI robot arms |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Helm.ai | $70M | | | | Helm.ai secures $70M in commercial contracts for physical AI models |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Minerva Humanoids | $10M | | | General Catalyst, Hugging Face | Minerva unveils VR-controlled humanoid Roger for bomb disposal with $10M funding |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Serval | $75M | Series B | $1.0B | Sequoia Capital | Serval acquires Ensignia and names Sam Stewart head of security |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Hadrian | $40M | Series D+ | | Forgepoint Capital International, SmartFin, HV Capital, Motive Partners +2 | Hadrian raises $40M to build AI-powered offensive security platform |
| 6 Oct 2026 | SignSplit | $400M | | $1.0B | W Group | SignSplit raises $400M from W Group at $1B valuation |
| 6 Oct 2026 | DeepSeek | $15B | | | Tencent, CATL | DeepSeek raises about 100 billion yuan in funding round |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Moonshot AI | undisclosed | Series D+ | $50B | | Moonshot AI closes final private round at $50 billion valuation, plans $5 billion Hong Kong IPO |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Uruguay AI for Good Lab | $400K | | | Microsoft | Uruguay-Microsoft lab completes 3 AI projects for state agencies in six months |
| 5 Oct 2026 | SpaceX | $40B | Debt | | Apollo Global Management, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, KKR | SpaceX stock surges 8% to $171.09, restoring Musk’s trillionaire status |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Ghost | $11M | Seed | | Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract, Audacious Ventures, SV Angel +1 | Ghost launches $3,499 AI agent computer with $11M seed |
| 5 Oct 2026 | D.E. Shaw | $1.0B | | | | D.E. Shaw targets $1B for second Voltaic fund, sources say |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Reflection AI | $2.5B | | $25B | | Reflection AI debuts Beam, a 501B open-weight model rivaling GLM 5.2 with 3-4x less compute |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Safeworld | $12M | Seed | | Shine Capital, a16z Speedrun, Box Group, Carnegie Mellon University Endowment +2 | Safeworld raises $12M seed to test gen AI robot safety |
| 5 Oct 2026 | RobCo | $40M | | $1.0B | Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital +4 | RobCo sells $40M of shares at a $1B valuation |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Global X LLM ETF (LLMA) | undisclosed | | $11B | | Global X’s LLM ETF tops with SK Hynix, not NVIDIA |
| 3 Oct 2026 | Relay Inc. | $36M | Series B | | International Paper Co., Cerity Partners Ventures, G2 Ventures | Relay raises $36M to add AI to smart radios for frontline workers |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Stability AI | $76M | | | Sony, Warner, Universal | Stability AI raises $76M from music labels to build audio tools |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Hestus | $7M | Seed | | Insight Partners, Chalfen Ventures, Rock Yard Ventures, Garage Capital | Hestus raises $7.4M seed to build AI for mechanical engineering |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Broadcom’s Wall Street syndicate | $60B | | | | Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for AI chip leases, IPO prospectus shows |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Clay | $115M | Series D+ | $7.1B | | Clay’s Kareem Amin discusses GTM engineer role at Disrupt 2026 |
| 2 Oct 2026 | NVIDIA | $5M | | | Sega | NVIDIA’s early support from Sega saved its GPU tech for AI |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Halluminate | $30M | Series A | | Oak HC/FT, Y Combinator, Orange Collective, Heavybit +3 | Halluminate raises $30 million Series A to build AI training environments for finance |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Anthropic | $100M | | | | Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers by end of 2027 |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Amazon | $8.0B | | | | Amazon explores $8B deal to shift Nvidia chips off its balance sheet |
| 1 Oct 2026 | PaleBlueDot AI | $200M | Series C | $3.2B | ComputeCore, B Capital | PaleBlueDot AI raises $200M Series C at $3.2B valuation for compute expansion |
| 1 Oct 2026 | OpenAI Group PBC | $30B | | $730B | SoftBank Group Corp. | SoftBank completes $30B OpenAI investment via senior notes |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Broadcom | $60B | Debt | | Blackstone | Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for AI chip leases, IPO prospectus shows |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Canoe Intelligence | undisclosed | Acquisition | | | Bloomberg buys Canoe for private markets AI data automation |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Doxx.net | $38M | Series A | | | Doxx.net raises $38M Series A for agentic P2P platform |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Photon | $5M | Seed | | Gradient, A, Vercel, HongShan +3 | Photon raises $4.5 M seed to replace mobile apps with messaging agents |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Satlyt | $8M | Seed | | Non Sibi Ventures | Satlyt raises $8M to run AI on satellites with Google’s Gemma model |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Armadin | $256M | Series B | $2.5B | Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint +6 | Armadin raised $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Volantis | $88M | Series A | | Lachy Groom, Abstract Ventures, John Doerr, VXI Capital +5 | Volantis raises $88M Series A to build photonic AI inference system |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Oracle | $40B | | | | Oracle reports $5.4B free cash flow loss amid $40B AI funding push |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Nebius | undisclosed | Acquisition | | Nvidia | Nvidia-backed Nebius buys Inferize to cut AI inference GPU costs |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Tencent | $7.0B | | | Oracle | Tencent signs ~$7B deal with Oracle for ~100K AI chips |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Anthropic | $42B | | $2.0T | RBC Capital Markets, BMO Capital Markets, TD Securities | Anthropic receives BB+ credit rating from KBRA, one notch below investment grade |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Factory AI | $200M | | $5.0B | Khosla Ventures | Factory CEO accuses Cognition’s new CRO of sharing confidential info with rival |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Flow Engineering | $50M | Series B | $750M | Valar Equity Partners, Atreides Management, Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha | Flow Engineering raises $50M Series B at $750M valuation with Valar, Atreides, Sequoia |
| 30 Sept 2026 | ElevenLabs | $300M | | $22B | Wellington, T. Rowe Price | ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B on $300M employee tender |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Nvidia | $150B | | | | Nvidia authorizes $150 billion in stock buybacks, but AI hardware focus remains |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Destro | $8M | Seed | | Base10 Partners, Bonfire Ventures, CoFound Partners | Destro raises $8M seed to link robots and humans in logistics |
| 30 Sept 2026 | MIT Transit Lab | $2M | | | Google.org | MIT Transit Lab gets $2.1M to build AI transit platform with Google.org funding |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Restate | $20M | Series A | | Singular, Redpoint Ventures, Capital One Ventures | Restate raises $20M Series A led by Singular |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Miter | $40M | Series B | | Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue | Miter raises $40M Series B to build AI-native construction OS |
| 30 Sept 2026 | CScale | $145M | Series C | | Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Premji Invest, Sutter Hill Ventures +3 | CScale raises $145M Series C for optical interconnects in AI data centers |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Metaview | $60M | Series C | | Insight Partners, GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp +3 | Metaview raises $60M to expand AI-powered recruiting platform |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Ives Ultra AI Opportunities Inc. | $200M | IPO | | | Ives Ultra AI Opportunities raises $200M in NYSE IPO at $10 a share |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Flipkart | $350M | | | Google, Walmart | Google tests Flipkart AI shopping via Gemini in India |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Accelevation Holdings Corp. | $540M | IPO | | Olympus Partners | Accelevation raises $540 million in US IPO, sells 30 million shares at $18 each |
| 29 Sept 2026 | General Intuition | $220M | | $6.2B | Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, 776, Point72 +2 | General Intuition raises $220M at $6.2B valuation for AI agents trained on gameplay footage |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Dazzle | $8M | Seed | | | Marissa Mayer’s Dazzle turns camera rolls into personalized AI suggestions |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Reco | $55M | Series C | $300M | AT&T Ventures, Forestay, Quadrille Capital | Reco raises $55M to secure AI agents across enterprise networks |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Alphabet | undisclosed | | | | Alphabet's Q2 2026 AI spending exceeded business cash flow, with capital expenditures at $44.9 billion and free cash flow negative $5.9 billion |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Augmentt | $18M | Series A | | | Augmentt CEO urges MSPs to monetize Microsoft security, compliance and AI |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Dodge AI | $3M | Seed | | Accel, Google Ventures, New Build Venture Capital, Antler +1 | Dodge AI raises $2.65M to automate enterprise software maintenance |
| 29 Sept 2026 | EliseAI | $350M | Series D+ | $4.0B | Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures +1 | EliseAI raised $350M at a $4B valuation, up from $2.2B after August 2025 round |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Anthropic (via new services firm) | undisclosed | | | Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs | Anthropic launches AI services firm with Blackstone to handle enterprise implementation |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Surge 12 cohort | $50M | Seed | | Peak XV Partners | Peak XV raises Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M per startup |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Helix Digital Infrastructure | $1.0B | | | Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI +2 | Samsung invests $1 billion in AI infrastructure startup Helix |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Helix | $1.0B | | | Samsung | Samsung invests $1 billion in AI infrastructure startup Helix |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Modal | $750M | Series D+ | $16B | Accel | Modal Labs closes in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Outmarket | $35M | Series B | $355M | SignalFire, Fika Ventures, Permanent Capital Ventures, TTV Capital +1 | Outmarket raises $34.5M Series B at $355M valuation four months after Series A |
| 28 Sept 2026 | World Labs | $8.2B | Acquisition | | AMD | AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion in an all-stock deal |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Modulate | $25M | Series D+ | $170M | Future Ventures, Hyperplane, Lakestar | Modulate raises $25M to analyze voice tone and intent beyond transcripts |
| 28 Sept 2026 | SiMa.ai | $150M | Series C | $1.4B | Fidelity Management & Research Company, Amplify Partners, Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital +6 | SiMa.ai raises $150M Series C at $1.45B valuation to compete with Nvidia’s CUDA hardware |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Instinct | $1.0B | Series C | $10B | Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Coatue | Instinct raises $1B Series C at $10B valuation from Sequoia, Benchmark, Coatue |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Red Queen Bio | $36M | | | OpenAI | OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio raises $36M for AI antibody drugs |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Nvidia | $10B | | | Microsoft | Nvidia discloses contracted value with Anthropic exceeds $180B |
| 28 Sept 2026 | Ramona Optics | $25M | Series A | | | Ramona Optics raises $25M Series A for AI microscopes |
| 27 Sept 2026 | Numeral | $100M | Series C | | Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark +4 | Numeral raises $100M Series C led by Insight Partners |
| 25 Sept 2026 | OpenRouter | undisclosed | Acquisition | | Stripe | OpenRouter reaches 10 trillion tokens daily as Stripe acquisition completes |
| 25 Sept 2026 | NextEra Energy | $1.9B | | | U.S. Department of Energy | NextEra Energy secures $1.9B DOE loan to restart nuclear plant for AI power |
| 25 Sept 2026 | Anthropic | $12B | | $965B | Akamai Technologies | OpenAI halts training after 20 DNS escapes; Anthropic signs $11.6 billion Akamai deal |
| 25 Sept 2026 | AI neolabs | $24B | | | | AI neolabs raised $24B in two quarters, FT reports |
| 25 Sept 2026 | Lightspeed | $250M | | | | Lightspeed targets $250M for new India AI fund |
| 24 Sept 2026 | TypeSafe AI | $40M | Seed | | DCVC | TypeSafe AI launches Jev, a decision model claimed up to 193.6x faster and 444.6x cheaper |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Shield AI | $1.5B | | $13B | | Shield AI, Waabi, and GM discuss deploying AI where failure isn’t an option |
| 24 Sept 2026 | PicoJool | $28M | Series A | | Socratic Partners, Hudson River Trading | PicoJool raises $27.5M Series A to scale optical VCSEL links for AI data centers |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Akamai Technologies | $12B | | | Anthropic | Cramer picks Akamai as AI traffic stock to buy now |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Brahma AI | $150M | | $2.0B | Multiples Alternate Asset Management | Brahma AI raises $150 million, valuing firm at $2 billion |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Island | $400M | | $6.4B | Evolution Equity Partners | Island raises $400 million at $6.4 billion valuation |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Trebellar | $18M | Series A | | Blossom Capital, Haystack, Alt Capital, 1Flourish +1 | Trebellar raises $18M Series A to add AI agents to corporate real estate |
| 24 Sept 2026 | Accenture | $1.0B | | | | Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai and secures warrant for up to 5% stake |
| 24 Sept 2026 | OpenAI | $10B | | | SoftBank | SoftBank raises over $11 billion in bonds to fund OpenAI investment |
| 23 Sept 2026 | OpenEvidence | $250M | | $15B | Andreessen Horowitz | OpenEvidence valued at $15 billion in new funding round |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Enveda | $311M | Series D+ | $2.0B | Catalio Capital Management, Iconiq | Enveda raises $311 million Series E to advance nature-derived AI drugs |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Lenfest Institute for Journalism | $5M | | | OpenAI | The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Basecamp Research | $140M | Series C | | S32, Nvidia, Anthropic, Catalio +6 | Basecamp Research raises $140M Series C led by S32 |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Ema | $77M | Series B | | Creaegis, Accel, Section 32, Prosus | Ema raises $77 million Series B to expand AI employee platform |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Microsoft | $10B | | | | Microsoft pledges more than $10 billion in cloud and AI investment across Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE by 2030 |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Noxtua | $108M | Series C | | C.H.BECK, MANZ, Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund +3 | C.H.BECK takes majority stake in Noxtua after €100 million Series C |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Go.AI | $85M | Series A | | Updata Partners | Go.AI raises $85 million Series A led by Updata Partners |
| 23 Sept 2026 | Confido | $55M | Series B | | Insight Partners, Trenches Capital, Watchfire, Barrel Ventures +2 | Confido raises $55M Series B led by Insight Partners |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Firecrawl | $75M | Series B | | Smash Ventures, Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners +2 | Firecrawl raises $75 million Series B to expand web‑scraping platform |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Cyera | $400M | Series D+ | | Goldman Sachs | Cyera raises $400 million in Series G extension from Goldman Sachs |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Ande | $52M | Seed | | | Ande raises $52 million in seed and Series A funding |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Palma.ai | $2M | | | D11Z, Plug and Play Ventures, Deel, Scale Now Ventures +1 | Palma.ai raises $1.8 million pre‑seed to build governance layer for enterprise AI agents |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Snorkel AI | $350M | | $3.5B | | Snorkel AI raises $350 million at $3.5 billion valuation |
| 22 Sept 2026 | The Biological Computing Co. | $25M | | | | Aws preview TBC rat‑Brain video model for select customers |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Heidi | $340M | Series C | $900M | Blackbird | Heidi raises $340 million in Series C led by Blackbird at $900 million valuation |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Baselayer | $35M | Series A | | M13, Picus Capital, Torch Capital, Afore Capital +1 | Baselayer raises $35 million Series A and launches Agentic Identity Suite |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Nscale | $3.0B | IPO | $35B | | Nscale plans $3 billion IPO valuing company at $35 billion |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Chamelio | $26M | Series A | | Entrée Capital, Work‑Bench, Emerge Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital | Chamelio raises $26 million Series A |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Ligent Technologies Inc. | $727M | IPO | $4.6B | | Ligent Technologies jumps 19% in Hong Kong debut, reaching $4.6B market cap |
| 22 Sept 2026 | Anthropic | $2.0B | IPO | $1.5T | TomorrowVentures, Innovation Endeavors, Hillspire | Anthropic reports $80.7 billion loss in first half of 2026 amid rising infrastructure costs and upcoming IPO |
| 21 Sept 2026 | Spott | $21M | Series A | | Balderton Capital, Base10, YC, Fortino | Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton |
| 21 Sept 2026 | SoftBank Group Corp. | $11B | Debt | | | SoftBank raises over $11 billion in bonds to fund OpenAI investment |
| 20 Sept 2026 | Scaleout Systems | $109K | | | NATO DIANA accelerator | NATO-backed Scaleout Systems adapts AI for autonomous drone recon and attack |
| 18 Sept 2026 | Vantora | $100M | | | Silversmith Capital Partners | Vantora raises $100M and shifts focus to proprietary physical AI startups |
| 18 Sept 2026 | Lovable | $400M | Series C | $13B | Menlo Ventures, Scaleup Europe Fund, Accel, CapitalG +1 | Lovable acquires Sutro, maker of the SLang programming language |
| 17 Sept 2026 | PrismML | $22M | Seed | | Khosla Ventures, Cerberus Capital, Caltech | PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Magentic | $18M | Series A | | Felicis, Sequoia Capital, The Westly Group | Magentic raises $18M Series A to build AI workforce for industrial procurement |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Crusoe | $3.9B | | $31B | Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund +5 | Crusoe raises $3.9B Series F; IREN lands $9.7B Microsoft cloud deal |
| 17 Sept 2026 | MIND | $72M | | | Crosspoint Capital Partners, YL Ventures, Paladin Capital Group | MIND Raises $72M to Scale AI-Native DLP |
| 17 Sept 2026 | CleanSpark | $2.2B | Debt | | | CleanSpark raises $2.2 B via junk bonds to fund Meta‑linked AI data center |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Hugging Face | $13B | Acquisition | $13B | NVIDIA | Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Crux AI | $22B | Debt | | Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Barclays, BNP Paribas +1 | Alphabet shares rise as Crux AI secures $22B debt financing for TPU expansion |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Treble | $18M | Series A | | Paladin Capital Group, KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventures, EIC +1 | Treble raises $18M to expand voice simulation platform for AI and hardware |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Endra | $50M | Series A | | Andreessen Horowitz, Notion Capital, Norrsken VC | Endra Launches AI Electrical Design Tool, Acquires Swiss Lab Planlabs |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Chemify | $70M | Series B | | Wing Venture Capital, Insight Partners, 8VC, Triatomic Capital +3 | Chemify raises £22M in grants to expand AI-driven robotic chemistry infrastructure |
| 16 Sept 2026 | AIUC | $40M | Series A | | Ribbit Capital, First Harmonic | AI Safety Startup Launches Third-Party Audit for Agents |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Rune | $40M | Series A | | Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Activate Capital +3 | Rune Secures $40M Series A to Convert Solar Power into AI Compute |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Cohere | $600M | | | Schwarz Group | Cohere Signs Definitive Agreement to Combine with Aleph Alpha |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Hang Ten Systems | $53M | Seed | | Temasek Xora, Mayfield, Aramco Ventures, Lip-Bu Tan +2 | Hang Ten Systems raises additional $53M seed round, total $85M |
| 16 Sept 2026 | HIVE Digital Technologies | $115M | Debt | | | Buzzhpc integrates Nvidia hardware, secures $220M Bell Canada GPU cloud deal |
| 16 Sept 2026 | Mechanize | $1.5B | Acquisition | $1.5B | Google | Google acquires Mechanize team for $1.5B to boost autonomous AI agents |
| 15 Sept 2026 | METR | $71M | | | Dustin Moskovitz, Jaan Tallinn | METR’s $71M Funding Raises Questions About Its Independence From Anthropic |
| 15 Sept 2026 | G5 Labs | $14M | Seed | | | G5 Labs Raises $14M to Turn Natural Language into Source Code |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Superpose | $2M | Seed | | Khosla Ventures, Meitu, OVTR Ventures | Superpose, an AI pose-coaching app by ex-TikTok staff, raises $2.2M |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Profound | $180M | | $1.8B | Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures +3 | Profound valued at $1.8B after $180M Series D as brands chase AI search visibility |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Glass Imaging | $300M | Acquisition | $300M | OpenAI | OpenAI acquires AI camera software startup Glass Imaging for over $300 million |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Euclyd | $231M | Series A | | Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, EQT Scaleup Europe Fund, Innovation Industries +4 | Samsung Co-Leads $231M Series A for Dutch AI Chip Startup Euclyd |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Buildots | $130M | Series C | | O.G. Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mohari Ventures +5 | Buildots secures $130M to expand AI-driven construction monitoring for data centers |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Zankore | $3.1B | | | Citi, ING, Natixis CIB, Qatar National Bank +1 | Zankore Secures $3.1B Loan to Build 100 MW NVIDIA AI Cloud in Indonesia |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Temporal | $550M | Series D+ | $13B | Lightspeed, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Tiger Global +6 | Temporal secures $550M Series E, valuing the workflow platform at $12.55B |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Groq | $1.0B | | $3.5B | | Groq pivots to AI cloud after Nvidia licenses its chip tech and staff |
| 14 Sept 2026 | Z.ai | $5.0B | | | | Z.ai shares drop over 10% after announcing $5 billion fundraising round |
| 14 Sept 2026 | CoreWeave | $2.0B | | | Nvidia | Nvidia CEO Endorses CoreWeave and Nebius, Investing $2B Each |
| 13 Sept 2026 | Anthropic | $100B | IPO | $2.0T | Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia | Anthropic and OpenAI diverge on IPO timing amid calls to slow AI development |
| 13 Sept 2026 | Tandem Health | $100M | Series B | | Scaleup Europe Fund, EQT, Kinnevik, Northzone +2 | Tandem Health raises €86.5M Series B for AI healthcare OS |
| 13 Sept 2026 | Nuance | $50M | Series A | | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Nvidia, South Park Commons +1 | Nuance raises $50M to build unified audiovisual AI for natural conversation |
| 13 Sept 2026 | Nvidia | $500M | | | six of the world's largest asset managers | Nvidia CEO Endorses CoreWeave and Nebius, Investing $2B Each |
| 12 Sept 2026 | OpenAI | $110B | Series D+ | $730B | SoftBank | SoftBank secures $12B loan to fund massive OpenAI investment |
| 8 Sept 2026 | Mistral AI | $3.5B | | $21B | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT AB), PSG Equity L.L.C., Advent International +2 | Mistral AI Raises €3bn, Valuing Company at Over €21bn |