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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-16 | SwordAI健康公司SwordAI health company Sword acquires digital meditation and mental health platform Headspace in an all-cash deal worth up to $300 million, with closing expected by the beginning of Q4 2026. | US | M&A | $300M$300 million | Headspace | Story → |
| 2026-09-16 | Altera艾睿电子Intel-backed chipmaker Altera is confidentially filing for a US IPO, with its programmable chips used in data centers, telecom networks, industrial gear, and AI systems. | US | IPO | Undisclosed | Intel | Story → |
| 2026-09-16 | Profound普方达AI marketing startup Profound raises $180m in a Series A round led by Sequoia. | US | Series A | $180M$180m | Sequoia | Story → |
| 2026-09-16 | PlaudSingapore AI company Plaud announces opening a regional headquarters in Singapore, doubling its investment to $20 million. | Singapore | Growth | $20.0M$20 million | — | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-16 | RobotPlusPlusRobotPlusPlusChinese robotics startup RobotPlusPlus announces it has closed a series C funding round to support its technology development and market expansion. | China | Series C | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-16 | NewwaveCanadia Impact Fund invested in Cambodian AI startup Newwave, which was founded in 2024. | Other | Grant | Undisclosed | Canadia Impact Fund | Story → |
| 2026-09-16 | Atome FinancialAtome FinancialSoutheast Asia's largest ride-hailing platform Grab announces the acquisition of Indonesian consumer finance company Atome Financial for US$1.49 billion to gain access to its Rp 26 trillion loan business. | Indonesia | M&A | $15BUS$1,49 miliar | Grab | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-16 | Anew LabsAnew LabsAI drug discovery company Anew Labs raises $29 million in a Series A round led by HSG, IDG Capital, and Highness Capital. | China | Series A | $29.0M2.9 亿美元 | HSG, IDG Capital, Highness Capital, Five Sources Capital, Gao Rong Venture Capital, Chunhua Venture Capital | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-16 | Newwave Tech FoundryNewwaveCambodia's Newwave Tech Foundry, a Phnom Penh-based AI and software development company, has received backing from CIFC to develop AI tools for regional businesses. | Other | Grant | Undisclosed | CIFC | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | RecursiveUS company Recursive announces a $5B funding round to advance open-ended, self-improving AI research. | US | Series D+ | $5.0B$5亿 | — | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-15 | MedallionMedallionMedical AI platform Medallion announces the acquisition of Andros to unify one million providers onto an AI-native credentialing platform. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | Hello PatientHello PatientHello Patient announces the acquisition of Converse Health to unify outpatient front-office voice with back-office EHR automation. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | ThatchA16Z announces its investment of $108M in healthcare platform Thatch. | US | Other | $108M$108M | The GP, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, a16z | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-15 | InspirenInspirenSenior living physical AI company Inspiren announces a $70M Series C funding round to scale its physical AI applications in senior living. | US | Series C | $70.0M$70M | NewView Capital, Insight Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Vintage Investment Partners, Lightbank | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | TabbyUAE fintech firm Tabby raises $233m at $6.5b valuation. | Other | Series D+ | $233M$233m | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | BuildotsBuildotsIntel-backed Buildots announces a $130m funding round for its construction industry software solutions. | US | Series D+ | $130M$130m | Intel | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | FlamGlobal AI startup Flam announces it has raised $40m in a series B funding round for its platform for interactive video, 3D content, and AI avatars. | US | Series B | $40.0M$40m | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | EuclydSamsung invests $231m in Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd. | US | Series A | $231M$231m | Samsung | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | Cornelis NetworksUS AI networking firm Cornelis Networks raises $205m. | US | Series D+ | $205M$205m | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | ExeinItalian startup Exein announces raising $270 million in funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation, focusing on physical AI. | Europe | Series D+ | $270M$270 million | Headline | Story → |
| 2026-09-15 | AtomeAtomeSoutheast Asian ride-hailing platform Grab announces the acquisition of a 60% stake in BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) platform Atome for $1.49 billion to expand its financial ecosystem. | Singapore | M&A | $1.5B1.49 พันล้านดอลลาร์ | Grab | 3 stories |
| 2026-09-14 | Glass ImagingGlass ImagingOpenAI acquires Glass Imaging, a startup focused on AI-powered mobile imaging technology, whose tech has been used in Honor phones. | US | M&A | $300M超过 3 亿美元（现汇率约合 20.15 亿元人民币） | OpenAI, GV (Alphabet), Insight Partners | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-14 | ArtisightArtisightSmart hospital and clinical AI platform provider Artisight has acquired TMG Global, a specialized technology services firm focused on healthcare infrastructure readiness, physical site surveys, and large-scale hardware implementations, to address a major failure point in hospital digital health rollouts: the operational bottleneck of managing fragmented third-party subcontractors. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-14 | Nara HealthKhosla Ventures leads Nara Health's $14M seed funding round to rebuild self-insured health plans via agentic AI. | US | Seed | $14.0M$14M | Khosla Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Superior Studios, strategic angel investors | Story → |
| 2026-09-14 | SuperhumanSuperhumanSuperhuman announces the acquisition of YC-backed Fathom, a professional note-taking and task management tool, to integrate its intelligent workflow capabilities and enhance its competitiveness in the agentic work space. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | Y Combinator | Story → |
| 2026-09-14 | SG LinkSingapore-based Amilo announces the acquisition of SG Link to expand cross-border shipping services for Southeast Asian sellers. | Singapore | M&A | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-14 | CornelisAI infrastructure company Cornelis announces a $205M Series A funding round to help AI chips communicate more effectively and challenge Nvidia's market dominance. | US | Series A | $205M$205M | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-14 | 讯兔科技讯兔科技A financial AI company completed a B-round funding of over 300 million yuan. | China | Series B | $300M超3亿 | 启明创投, 琥珀资本, 嘉程资本, 信宸资本, 钟鼎资本 | Story → |
| 2026-09-13 | MiroItalian company Bending Spoons announces the acquisition of collaborative software Miro for $13.55 billion. | US | M&A | $1.4B13.55 亿美元 | Bending Spoons | Story → |
| 2026-09-13 | Zhipu AI智谱Zhipu AI announced completing approximately $5 billion in funding, which will be used for the research and development of next-generation GLM foundational models. | China | Series D+ | $5.0B约 50 亿美元 | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-12 | MechanizeMechanizeGoogle completed the acquisition of San Francisco AI programming startup Mechanize for $1.5 billion to address the shortcomings of its own AI models in programming tasks. | US | M&A | $1.5B15亿美元 | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-11 | Mecka AI美卡AIMecka AI, a two-year-old startup, completes a new funding round with a near $500M valuation in a Sequoia-led deal amid the rush for robot training data, following its Series A announced last year. | US | Series D+ | $500M$500 million | Sequoia | 4 stories |
| 2026-09-11 | Test 13Replit acquires Test 13, a software service company entirely built on the Replit platform. | US | M&A | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-11 | ZankoreZankoreIndonesian company Zankore receives $3.1 billion investment to build 1 GW of AI infrastructure with Nvidia's support for local AI application development. | Indonesia | Growth | $3.1B3.1亿美元 | Nvidia | Story → |
| 2026-09-11 | 蚂蚁灵波蚂蚁灵波Ant Financial Wave initiates its first independent funding round, not due to a lack of money or computing power, but for talent incentives and corporate governance. | China | Seed | Undisclosed | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-11 | LightsageSingaporean company Lightsage raises US$4M to research how AI agents choose software. | Singapore | Series A | $4.0MUS$4M | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-11 | Siyuan Technology燧原科技Siyuan Technology listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market today, raising an estimated $611.9 million for the development and industrialization of AI chip products. | China | IPO | $612MS$61.19 billion | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-10 | Alif SemiconductorAlifAnalog Devices plans to acquire Alif Semiconductor, a smart MCU enterprise, for $1.35 billion to expand its physical AI portfolio. | US | M&A | $1.4B13.5 亿美元 | Analog Devices | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-10 | HighstockHighstock, an AI-powered B2B marketplace connecting brands with global wholesale buyers, raised $30M in Series A funding led by a16z. | US | Series A | $30.0M$30M | a16z, GreylockVC, AbstractVC, Daybreak Fund, angels | Story → |
| 2026-09-10 | UniPatUniPatAlibaba is reportedly leading a $300 million A-round funding for AI training and benchmarking company UniPat, founded by former Alibaba intern Li Kuan, which focuses on designing test scenarios for AI models that mimic real-world usage environments. | China | Series A | $300M3亿美元 | Alibaba, Tencent, Sequoia Capital, Lishis Capital, Jinqiu Fund | Story → |
| 2026-09-09 | ARPA-HARPA-HARPA-H plans to invest $62.7 million to develop AI bots that direct treatment of heart failure, which will be authorized by the FDA as a significant innovation in the medical field. | US | Grant | $62.7M$62.7 million | — | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-09 | LightfieldLightfield secures $47 million Series A funding led by a16z to launch a CRM solution for the agentic era. | US | Series A | $47.0MS$47 million | a16z | 2 stories |
| 2026-09-09 | Google谷歌Google plans to invest at least 13 billion euros in Finland to build AI infrastructure. | Europe | Other | $15B130亿欧元 | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-09 | OpenAISoftBank will prepay a $25.9 billion bridge loan for its investment in OpenAI and plans to refinance it through the issuance of junk bonds. | US | Debt | $26B259 亿美元 | 软银 | 5 stories |
| 2026-09-08 | nanoSkunkWorkXnanoSkunkWorkXMalaysian deep-tech startup nanoSkunkWorkX has raised US$2 million in a seed round led by Tin Men Capital to advance its graphene-copper interface technology. | Malaysia | Seed | $2.0MUS$2 million | Tin Men Capital | Story → |
| 2026-09-08 | CentralizeCentralize has completed a $15M Series A round, which turns emails, calls, and CRM data into automatic org charts for sales teams to understand customer relationships. | US | Series A | $15.0MS$15 million | — | Story → |
| 2026-09-08 | Forus福瑞斯Forus raises $150M in Series C financing, valuing the company at $3 billion. | US | Series C | $150M$150M | Bain Capital | Story → |
| 2026-09-08 | Cognition认知科技Cognition has completed a funding round of over $2 billion at a valuation of $48 billion, led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. | US | Other | $200M$2B | a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Avenir | Story → |
| 2026-09-08 | MistralMistralMistral AI has raised 3 billion euros to expand its training and inference computing capabilities and promote the development of open and sovereign AI technology. | Europe | Growth | $3.4B30亿欧元 | — | 3 stories |
| 2026-09-08 | TevoTevoSoutheast Asian AI app company Tevo secures US$10M from PvX to scale its consumer AI apps. | Singapore | Pre-A | $1.0MUS$10M | PvX | Story → |
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