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AI funding and deals

The table lists recent AI funding rounds, acquisitions, and valuations reported over the last two days. Notable entries include Cohere's $600M Series E, Agility Robotics' $620M acquisition, and Radical Ventures' $10B first close. Other significant deals feature LawZero's $222M round and Profound's $180M Series D.

Rounds, acquisitions and valuations as reported, newest first. Amounts are as stated by the sources; each row links to the story. 145 deals, $803B in total.

DateCompanyAmountRoundValuationInvestorsStory
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 $12B Tencent, CATL Deepseek raises at least $12B with CATL, Tencent backing V4-Flash model
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 undisclosed 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 Broadcom Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for AI chip leases, IPO prospectus shows
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 Labs $750M $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 Accenture Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai and secures warrant for up to 5% stake
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
11 Sept 2026 Mecka AI undisclosed Series B $500M Sequoia Capital Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led round for robot data
10 Sept 2026 Listen Labs $2.0B Acquisition $2.0B Salesforce Listen Labs scraps $1.5B round amid reported $2B Salesforce acquisition talks
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