AI funding tracker
Funding rounds, acquisitions and government grants extracted from the feed and checked by an editor; ASEAN and China-outbound first · 239 deals
| Date | Company | Country | Round | Amount | Investors | Coverage |
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| 2026-10-22 | DeepSeek深度求索DeepSeek reportedly raised about RMB 100 billion in its latest funding round, with CATL and Tencent as major investors, to fund AI data centers and open-source model development ahead of a potential IPO. | China | Other | $14B约 1000 亿元人民币 | 宁德时代 (CATL), 腾讯控股 (Tencent) | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-21 | Flapping AirplanesYear-old US AI lab Flapping Airplanes raised a $1 billion Series A at a $6 billion valuation to build AI models without ingesting large-scale internet data. | US | Series A | $1.0B$1 billion | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | BlacksmithBlacksmith, an AI code build-and-test platform, raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $1 billion valuation. | US | Series C | $66.0M$66 million | Sequoia | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | Genie HealthGenie Health, a Singapore startup founded by the ex-PropertyGuru CEO, raised US$3 million to aggregate and interpret users' scattered personal health data. | Singapore | Other | $3.0MUS$3 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | LegoraLegal AI company Legora raised a $550 million Series E at an $8.8B valuation, led by Atreides Management with new investors including Fidelity and JPMorgan, to accelerate US and global growth and investment in Legora aOS. | Europe | Series D+ | $550M$550 million | Atreides Management, Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity, Glade Brook Capital, JPMorgan | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-21 | Mach9Mach9, which pivoted from surveying hardware to AI CAD software, raised $34 million to advance its AI-powered CAD product line. | US | Other | $34.0M$34 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | PigmentFrench AI financial planning startup Pigment raised $250m in a funding round with participation from Nvidia. | Europe | Other | $250M$250 million | Nvidia | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | Otter.aiAI meeting-notes company Otter.ai raised $320 million in funding led by General Catalyst to fuel product and market expansion. | US | Other | $320M$320 million | General Catalyst | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | ASIAI aviation startup ASI raised a $325 million round led by Spark Capital to support deployment of AI in air traffic control systems. | US | Other | $325M$325 million | Spark Capital | Story → |
| 2026-10-21 | BrazeSalesforce announced the acquisition of AI marketing platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion in cash ($47.50 per share), expected to close in fiscal 2028. | US | M&A | $5.7B约56.6亿美元 | Salesforce | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-21 | AnthropicAnthropic is advancing toward an IPO with a draft S-1 showing H1 2026 revenue of about $16.3 billion, an $80.7 billion net loss, and a market-expected valuation of up to $2 trillion. | US | IPO | Undisclosed | — | 3 stories |
| 2026-10-20 | BabaUS healthcare navigation and applied AI company Baba raised a $40 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital with CVS Health Ventures and Valtruis participating, to expand its Medicare applied AI platform and debut the BabaBench benchmark. | US | Series A | $40.0M$40 million | FirstMark Capital, CVS Health Ventures, Valtruis, General Catalyst, Genius Ventures, Ground Up Ventures | Story → |
| 2026-10-20 | Orchestra BioOpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, whose agents coordinate drug development workflows, aiming to embed AI across both scientific research and the operational work of bringing medicines to patients. | Other | M&A | Undisclosed | OpenAI | 11 stories |
| 2026-10-20 | ArdaArda, an AI agent startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to build agents for manufacturing engineers, with Anduril already using the product. | US | Other | $230M$230 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-20 | QualitateMarket research startup Qualitate raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners for its AI product that interviews experts and turns conversations into structured, traceable market data. | US | Series A | $25.0M$25M | Insight Partners | Story → |
| 2026-10-20 | Neolix新石器Autonomous driving company Neolix announced a nearly $400 million Series E round led by Boyu Capital and the National AI Industry Investment Fund, to fund global service hubs and end-to-end large model training. | China | Series D+ | $400M近4亿美元（约26.77亿元人民币） | 博裕投资, 国家人工智能产业投资基金 | Story → |
| 2026-10-20 | BlackwallBlackwall raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic. | Other | Other | $100M$100M | — | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-19 | Sunlight AISunlight AI, a healthcare operations platform for independent physicians, launched with a $17.4M seed round led by Basis Set Ventures' Lan Xuezhao to scale operating infrastructure and collections services. | US | Seed | $17.4M$17.4 million | Basis Set Ventures, Sofeon Ventures, Social Leverage, Actions Capital, Overlook Ventures, Early Light Ventures | Story → |
| 2026-10-19 | GreptileAI code review startup Greptile announced a $50 million Series B round; the YC W24 company reviews over 1% of new GitHub pull requests daily, serving customers including Nvidia, Coinbase, Decagon, and Vanta. | US | Series B | $50.0M$50 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-19 | TenstorrentAI chipmaker Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation to scale its open-weight AI chips and remain independent. | US | Other | $1.5B$1.5 billion | — | 3 stories |
| 2026-10-19 | TolanAI companion app Tolan raised $30 million in new funding after surpassing 250,000 active users. | US | Other | $30.0M$30 million | — | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-19 | SamplabApple acquired Samplab, a Zurich-based AI audio editing startup, through a partial asset purchase with job offers to some employees, with the technology expected to be integrated into Logic Pro. | Europe | M&A | Undisclosed | Apple | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-18 | Gewu Tongzhi格物通智Hangzhou embodied-AI startup Gewu Tongzhi raised a nearly RMB 100 million (near nine-figure) angel round from state-backed investors including Hongfu Asset, Peak Investment, Hangzhou Capital and Hangzhou Talent Group, to fund world-model pretraining, hardware development and scenario PoCs. | China | Seed | $14.0M近亿元 | 鸿富资产, 匹克投资, 杭州资本, 杭州人才集团 | Story → |
| 2026-10-17 | AntithesisAntithesis, a software testing simulation company, raised $105 million at a $525 million valuation in late 2025, driven by growing demand for testing tools as companies write more code with AI. | US | Other | $105M$105 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-16 | InferactIn January, the core maintainers of vLLM founded Inferact and raised $150M (with a16z) to build a full-time team, hiring in San Francisco and Singapore. | US | Other | $150M$150M | a16z | Story → |
| 2026-10-16 | DayOne Data CentersData center company DayOne is seeking to raise up to $5 billion in a New York IPO, though its heavy reliance on ByteDance may complicate the offering. | Singapore | IPO | $5.0Bup to $5 billion | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-16 | ApateAustralian anti-scam AI startup Apate raised an $8.15 million seed round in August 2025 to fund international expansion, including a London office and growth in the US market. | Other | Seed | $8.2M815万美元 | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-16 | Machixin Technology上海马赫心科技有限公司Li Auto's chip subsidiary Shanghai Machixin Technology signed a RMB 1.625 billion first-round equity financing led by Hangzhou Jingtao, BlueRun Ventures and Huaye Tiansheng, with Li Auto investing RMB 1 billion, for its self-developed automotive-grade AI chip Mach M100. | China | Series A | $229M16.25亿元人民币 | 杭州经韬, 蓝驰创投, 华业天成, 奇绩创坛, 理想汽车 | Story → |
| 2026-10-15 | Sirona MedicalRadiology software company Sirona Medical raised $40 million in a Series D round led by Avidity Partners to fund its operating plan and scale its cloud-native radiology platform RadOS and Cortex AI. | US | Series D+ | $40.0M$40M | Avidity Partners, 8VC, GreatPoint Ventures, KLT Holdings | Story → |
| 2026-10-15 | InveneCarenet Health announced the acquisition of Invene, a healthcare-focused AI and data engineering consulting firm, to scale enterprise agentic AI across Fortune 100 payers; terms were not disclosed. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | Carenet Health | Story → |
| 2026-10-15 | Drylab AIVietnamese startup Drylab AI raised a $3 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India with participation from PatSnap to build AI tools for scientific research workflows. | Vietnam | Seed | $3.0M300万美元 | Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, PatSnap | Story → |
| 2026-10-15 | ModalModal announced its Series D at a $16B valuation with $1B ARR for its cloud sandbox AI infrastructure; the raise amount and investors are not disclosed in the source. | US | Other | Undisclosed | — | 3 stories |
| 2026-10-15 | Whale帷幄Singapore-based offline-scenario AI company Whale raised US$40 million, bringing its total Series C funding to US$100 million to expand its offline AI business. | Singapore | Series C | $40.0MUS$40 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-14 | MiraclyAI brand-monitoring startup Miracly raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Beenext and Lotus for its software that helps marketing teams track how brands appear on AI platforms. | Other | Pre-A | $2.0M$2 million | Beenext, Lotus | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-14 | Parallel LoopSingapore startup Parallel Loop raised US$6.6 million to provide enterprises with the context capabilities AI models lack. | Singapore | Seed | $6.6MUS$6.6 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-14 | ZenzapWorkplace chat app Zenzap raised $44 million in a round with participation from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and The Garage, while launching AI agents in its app. | Other | Other | $44.0M$44 million | Bessemer, Lightspeed, The Garage | Story → |
| 2026-10-14 | EmergentEmergentAI coding startup Emergent raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation, planning to expand AI's role from building software to running business operations. | US | Series C | $130M1.3亿美元 | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-14 | PlutoIsraeli AI security startup Pluto launches with $42m funding. | Other | Other | $42.0M$42m | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | ReadilyReadily secured $11M in Series A funding led by Define Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and the California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund, for its AI-native compliance and enterprise oversight platform for healthcare. | US | Series A | $11.0M$11M | Define Ventures, Y Combinator, California Health Care Foundation Innovation Fund | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | Zhiyuan Innovation智元创新Zhiyuan Innovation has initiated a new funding round with an amount of approximately 1-1.5 billion yuan and a valuation of about 50 billion yuan, which is nearing completion. | China | Other | $139M约10亿至15亿元 | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | ProsciaAgilent Technologies announced the acquisition of AI digital pathology company Proscia for up to $270 million. | US | M&A | $270M$270M | Agilent Technologies | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | CluesoAI video creation startup Clueso raised a $10M Series A to automate enterprise video production with agents, serving 1,000+ customers including Atlassian, GitLab, Samsara, Legrand, and Zendesk. | US | Series A | $10.0M$10M | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | SukiHealthcare voice AI company Suki raised $90 million in a Series E round to develop AI agents and deepen ties with its 30 health technology partners. | US | Series D+ | $90.0M$90 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | HarborHarbor, a US startup founded by four Stanford graduates, raised a $10M seed round to insure companies against AI agent failures including hallucinations, action errors, and data leakage. | US | Seed | $10.0M$10M | — | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | MoondreamPrime Intellect is acquiring Moondream, a startup with fewer than 10 employees, for its AI inference acceleration expertise, aiming to cut computing costs and attract robotics and AI agent customers. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | Prime Intellect | 2 stories |
| 2026-10-13 | Pluto SecurityPluto Security raised $42 million from Jump Capital, TLV Partners, and Ansa Capital to address enterprise security risks from AI tools and AI agents. | US | Other | $42.0M$42 million | Jump Capital, TLV Partners, Ansa Capital | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | Winverse AIDeepSeek announced it will lead the seed funding round for robotics startup Winverse AI, with the amount undisclosed. | China | Seed | Undisclosed | DeepSeek | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | LoopsSalesforce acquired Israeli AI startup Loops, founded in 2020, for US$30 million, with the Loops team and technology joining Salesforce's product line. | Other | M&A | $30.0MUS$30 million | Salesforce | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | Shita Robotics视塔机器人Shenzhen-based Shita Robotics (视塔机器人) completed an angel round with participation from Huawei's Hubble Investment, a Shenzhen High-tech Investment fund, and Gaoxuan Investment, to fund product development and commercialization of its photonic crystal tactile e-skin. | China | Other | Undisclosed | 华为哈勃投资, 深高新投旗下基金, 高轩投资 | Story → |
| 2026-10-13 | DrylabVietnamese-founded Drylab raised US$3 million to deploy autonomous AI scientist systems inside pharmaceutical labs to close the biology data-analysis gap. | Vietnam | Seed | $3.0MUS$3 million | — | Story → |
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