AI Startup Funding

Track AI startup rounds from our curated database and scan live funding headlines. Stay informed on where the money flows.

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Total Raised

$42.6B

Deals Tracked

Avg Deal Size

$1.4B

Latest Round

Dec 2024

Live Funding Headlines

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Companies Are Making a Comeback. Here's the Exact SaaS Stock I Recommend Buying Right Now

Biztoc • Aug 2026

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Golden Dome money starting to reach contractors, but long-term funding still unclear

Space News • Aug 2026

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Down 75% in the Past Year, Has The Trade Desk Stock Become a Bargain Buy?

Biztoc • Aug 2026

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Auto Dealers Reward Lenders That Remove Friction, Not Just Offer Competitive Rates, Says JD Power

Financialcontent • Aug 2026

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EquiDefi Prometheus AI SPV, LLC To Offer Artificial Intelligence Company Valued at Over $41 Billion

Financialcontent • Aug 2026

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TE Connectivity CEO to participate in the Citi 2026 Global TMT Conference and Jefferies Global Industrial Conference

Pr Newswire • Aug 2026

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Egypt explores specialised fund to boost biotechnology, health technology investment

Daily News Egypt • Aug 2026

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India to be key player in AI and biotechnology-led industrial revolution: MoS

Thehawk • Aug 2026

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Live funding feed is active, but no high-confidence deal signals are currently verified.

Curated Funding Rounds

xAI

Elon Musk's AI company building Grok and competing with OpenAI

$6B

Series C

Foundation Models$50B valuationPalo Alto, CA

Investors:a16z, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Kingdom Holdings

Dec 2024

Databricks

Data and AI platform unifying analytics, data engineering, and ML

$10B

Series J

AI Infrastructure$62B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Thrive Capital, a16z, DST Global, GIC+1 more

Dec 2024

Perplexity

AI-powered answer engine and search platform

$500M

Series B

AI Applications$9B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:IVP, NEA, Databricks Ventures, NVIDIA

Dec 2024

Physical Intelligence

Building foundation models for robotics and physical AI

$400M

Series A

Robotics$2B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, OpenAI

Nov 2024

OpenAI

Creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4, leading AI research lab

$6.6B

Growth

Foundation Models$157B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Thrive Capital, Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank+1 more

Oct 2024

Waymo

Alphabet's autonomous vehicle and robotaxi company

$5.6B

Growth

Autonomous Vehicles$45B valuationMountain View, CA

Investors:Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Silver Lake

Oct 2024

Poolside

AI company building code generation models for software engineering

$500M

Series A

AI Applications$3B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Bain Capital Ventures, DST Global, Redpoint Ventures

Oct 2024

Glean

Enterprise AI search and knowledge management platform

$260M

Series E

Enterprise AI$4.6B valuationPalo Alto, CA

Investors:Altimeter, DST Global, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins

Sep 2024

Safe Superintelligence Inc.

AI safety company founded by Ilya Sutskever focusing on safe superintelligence

$1B

Seed

AI Safety$5B valuationPalo Alto, CA

Investors:a16z, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, SV Angel

Sep 2024

World Labs

Fei-Fei Li's startup building large world models for spatial intelligence

$230M

Seed

Foundation Models$1B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:a16z, NEA, Radical Ventures, NVIDIA

Sep 2024

Groq

AI inference chip company with LPU architecture for ultra-fast inference

$640M

Series D

AI Hardware$2.8B valuationMountain View, CA

Investors:BlackRock, Samsung, Cisco, Global Founders Capital

Aug 2024

Anduril

Defense AI company building autonomous systems

$1.5B

Series F

AI Applications$14B valuationCosta Mesa, CA

Investors:Founders Fund, a16z, General Catalyst, Valor Equity

Aug 2024

Anysphere (Cursor)

AI-native code editor built for pair programming with AI

$60M

Series B

AI Applications$400M valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:a16z, Thrive Capital, Spark Capital

Aug 2024

Ideogram

AI image generation with superior text rendering capabilities

$80M

Series A

AI Applications$580M valuationToronto, Canada

Investors:a16z, Index Ventures

Aug 2024

Cohere

Enterprise AI platform for natural language processing

$500M

Series D

Enterprise AI$5.5B valuationToronto, Canada

Investors:PSP Investments, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Oracle

Jul 2024

Harvey

AI platform for law firms and professional services

$100M

Series C

Enterprise AI$1.5B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins

Jul 2024

Mistral AI

European AI lab building open-weight foundation models

$640M

Series B

Foundation Models$6B valuationParis, France

Investors:General Catalyst, a16z, Lightspeed, BNP Paribas

Jun 2024

Runway

AI video generation and editing platform, creator of Gen-3

$141M

Series C

AI Applications$1.5B valuationNew York, NY

Investors:General Atlantic, Google, NVIDIA, Salesforce

Jun 2024

Scale AI

AI data platform providing training data and evaluation for AI models

$1B

Series F

AI Infrastructure$14B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Accel, Amazon, Meta, Intel Capital

May 2024

Cognition

Creator of Devin, the AI software engineer

$175M

Series A

AI Agents$2B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Founders Fund, a16z, Khosla Ventures

Apr 2024

Reka

Multimodal AI lab building state-of-the-art foundation models

$58M

Series A

Foundation Models$300M valuationLondon, UK

Investors:DST Global, Radical Ventures, Snowflake

Apr 2024

Pika

AI video generation platform for creators

$80M

Series B

AI Applications$470M valuationPalo Alto, CA

Investors:Spark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Elad Gil

Apr 2024

Anthropic

AI safety company building Claude, focused on interpretable AI

$4B

Series E+

Foundation Models$18B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Amazon, Google, Spark Capital, Salesforce Ventures

Mar 2024

Imbue

AI research company building agents that reason and code

$200M

Series B

AI Agents$1B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:NVIDIA, Astera Institute, a16z

Mar 2024

Hippocratic AI

Healthcare AI building safety-focused LLMs for medical applications

$53M

Series A

Healthcare AI$500M valuationPalo Alto, CA

Investors:General Catalyst, a16z, Premji Invest

Mar 2024

Figure

Humanoid robotics company building general-purpose robots

$675M

Series B

Robotics$2.6B valuationSunnyvale, CA

Investors:Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos+1 more

Feb 2024

Together AI

Open AI cloud platform for running and fine-tuning models

$106M

Series A

AI Infrastructure$1.25B valuationSan Francisco, CA

Investors:Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Emergence Capital

Feb 2024

Inflection AI

AI studio building personal AI assistants, creator of Pi

$1.3B

Series B

Foundation Models$4B valuationPalo Alto, CA

Investors:Microsoft, NVIDIA, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt

Jan 2024

1X Technologies

Norwegian robotics company building humanoid robots for labor

$100M

Series B

Robotics$500M valuationMoss, Norway

Investors:EQT Ventures, Samsung, OpenAI

Jan 2024

Sakana AI

Japanese AI lab building nature-inspired foundation models

$100M

Series A

Foundation Models$500M valuationTokyo, Japan

Investors:Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, NVIDIA

Jan 2024

Largest Rounds

DatabricksSeries J

$10B

OpenAIGrowth

$6.6B

xAISeries C

$6B

WaymoGrowth

$5.6B

AnthropicSeries E+

$4B

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