The first major institutional venture capital funding round, typically following seed funding.
Series A is the first significant round of venture capital financing, typically raised after a startup has demonstrated product-market fit, meaningful traction, and a clear path to scaling. Series A rounds are led by institutional VC firms and mark the transition from early experimentation to growth execution.
Series A rounds typically range from $5 million to $20 million, with pre-money valuations between $15 million and $60 million. Investors receive preferred stock with liquidation preferences, anti-dilution protections, and often a board seat.
Full Series A guide · the Series A rounds we track are listed below.
$16.0B raised across 378 disclosed Series A deals.
Latest round · Sep 30, 2026 · RSS
| Date | Company | Amount | Round | Sector | Country | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 08, 26 | Universal Quantum Universal Quantum is a UK-based hardware developer specializing in modular trapped-ion quantum computers. Their unique approach uses patented micro-electric field links (UQConnect) to shuttle qubits between chiplets, operating at a milder cryogenic temperature than traditional systems. This Series A funding will accelerate scaling, support international expansion, and fund deployment against contracts with entities like the German Aerospace Center. | $100.0M | Series A | DeepTech | United Kingdom | DCVC, Firgun Ventures, EDBI+5 |
| Oct 08, 26 | finmid finmid is a Berlin-headquartered embedded lending firm that powers financing for platforms like Wolt and Delivery Hero. They have secured €17m in a Series A extension to grow their asset-finance offering, infrastructure for multiple funding sources, and underwriting capabilities, while expanding into new platform types like mobility and e-commerce. | $18.4M | Series A | Fintech | Germany | Big Pi Ventures, Mainset, Earlybird |
| Oct 08, 26 | Rein Security Rein Security is a cybersecurity startup focused on protecting applications at runtime and providing real-time context within production environments. Their AI-native security platform offers visibility, guardrails, and governance for AI agents, addressing the gap between rapid AI adoption and security. This $25 million Series A funding will accelerate product innovation and global expansion. | $25.0M | Series A | Cybersecurity | Israel | Glilot Capital, Sienna Venture Capital, Corner Ventures+2 |
| Oct 07, 26 | SuperMush SuperMush is a functional wellness brand founded in 2022, developing products with research-backed ingredients like nootropics and adaptogens. The brand has established an omnichannel retail strategy, selling through physical stores, direct-to-consumer channels, and marketplaces, including over 2,000 US retail locations. This Series A funding will support product expansion, advanced formulations, and strengthening operational infrastructure. | $3.0M | Series A | ConsumerTech | United States | NDude Labs |
| Oct 07, 26 | Siena AI Siena AI builds AI agents that act as the 'Agent of Record' for consumer brands, creating a shared intelligence layer connecting customer-facing agents, internal agents, and human teams. The platform automates customer interactions and uses pooled customer data to improve support, shopping, and social engagement. This $17 million Series A funding will be used to develop more autonomous agents and expand the infrastructure brands use to serve customers and grow revenue. | $17.0M | Series A | AI | United States | York IE, Joyance Ventures, Aglaé Ventures+1 |
| Oct 07, 26 | Siena Siena is an AI startup that has raised $17 million in Series A funding. The round was led by York IE. The company operates in the artificial intelligence sector. | $17.0M | Series A | AI | Undisclosed | York IE |
| Oct 07, 26 | Pandektes Pandektes is a Danish startup developing AI infrastructure for legal technology. Their platform collects, structures, and connects legal information, aiming to make it easier for legal professionals to trust and inspect AI-generated research. This funding will support their expansion into Europe and North America. | $14.8M | Series A | AI | Denmark | Alstin Capital, PROfounders Capital, Scale Capital+1 |
| Oct 06, 26 | pubX PubX builds agent-to-agent infrastructure for advertising, enabling direct transactions between buyer and seller agents. The company recently raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Chicago Ventures and acquired Compliant, a media quality and governance company. This acquisition aims to integrate media quality and governance signals into every advertising decision, enhancing trust and transparency. | $5.0M | Series A | SaaS | United States | Chicago Ventures |
| Oct 06, 26 | UpSmith UpSmith is a Dallas-based AI platform that builds AI agents for trades businesses like electricians, plumbers, and HVAC technicians. It aims to convert idle contractor databases into booked jobs by targeting open estimates, missed calls, and inactive customers. This funding will expand its software and AI voice agent capabilities for essential-services contractors. | $10.0M | Series A | AI | United States | SemperVirens, Hannah Grey Ventures, Asymmetric Capital Partners+3 |
| Oct 06, 26 | Zymofix Zymofix is a Belgian industrial biotechnology company developing a manufacturing platform called Zyft for microbial products in agriculture. Their technology uses solid-state fermentation to overcome scaling challenges for biostimulants, biofertilizers, and biocontrol products. This funding will establish Belgium's first industrial-scale microbial plant for crop biologicals. | $7.0M | Series A | ClimateTech | Belgium | First Imagine!, VP Capital, HTGF+1 |
| Oct 06, 26 | Procuros Procuros is building AI-native infrastructure for autonomous B2B trade. The company aims to streamline and automate business-to-business transactions through its technology. This funding will support the development and expansion of their AI-driven platform. | $20.0M | Series A | AI | Germany | Undisclosed |
| Oct 06, 26 | Reactor Reactor is a San Francisco-based startup building infrastructure for real-time generative video and world models. They offer a developer platform with an SDK and API that allows other companies to run world models within their own products, boasting high frame rates and low latency. The company targets media and entertainment, as well as physical AI and robotics sectors. | $74.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Nvidia, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
| Oct 05, 26 | Axya Axya is an AI-powered procurement automation platform for manufacturers, targeting large and mid-market companies. It integrates with existing ERP systems to streamline procurement processes and connect with suppliers. This Series A funding will accelerate AI capabilities, expand sales and engineering teams, and support U.S. market expansion. | $12.6M | Series A | AI | Canada | McRock Capital, Yamaha Motor Ventures, Real Ventures+2 |
| Oct 05, 26 | Laki Power | $6.0M | Series A | ClimateTech | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Oct 04, 26 | Volantis Volantis is developing photonic inference systems and custom memory interconnects for AI accelerators. Their technology aims to significantly increase memory bandwidth, enabling faster AI model performance. The company plans to ship its A-1 data center inference appliance next year. | $88.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Lachy Groom, Abstract Ventures, John Doerr+1 |
| Oct 03, 26 | Arivihan Arivihan is an AI-powered edtech startup that provides personalized learning and exam preparation for school students. The company focuses on students in smaller cities and rural areas, offering AI-based solutions for state board, CBSE, and NEET examinations. This funding will be used to expand its geographical reach, enhance offerings for CBSE students, strengthen AI and vernacular capabilities, and scale marketing and distribution. | $10.2M | Series A | Edtech | India | Accel, Prosus Ventures, GSF |
| Oct 01, 26 | Volantis Inc. Volantis Inc. is developing photonic inference systems for AI accelerators, aiming to significantly increase memory bandwidth. Their technology uses an optical design with VCSELs to transmit data as light, offering over 30 times the memory bandwidth of current solutions. The company plans to ship its A-1 inference appliance next year, targeting real-time frontier inference applications. | $88.0M | Series A | DeepTech | United States | Lachy Groom, Abstract Ventures, Kleiner Perkins+2 |
| Oct 01, 26 | Halluminate Halluminate, founded in 2024, has raised $30 million in Series A funding to provide AI training infrastructure for financial institutions. The company's technology aims to improve AI models' performance on complex tasks like private-equity due diligence, addressing a current ceiling of 51% accuracy. Their approach involves creating reinforcement-learning environments based on real-world financial transactions. | $30.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Oak HC/FT, Y Combinator, Orange Collective+5 |
| Sep 30, 26 | Ascerta Ascerta has raised an $18 million Series A to help enterprises measure the business value of their AI investments. The company, previously known as Pay-i, focuses on Enterprise AI Management, connecting AI costs to measurable ROI. This funding will support their expansion beyond AI cost management to demonstrating the actual business outcomes of AI initiatives. | $18.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Dell Technologies Capital, Hitachi Ventures, BGV+1 |
| Sep 30, 26 | Restate Restate provides durable workflow infrastructure designed to make multistep workflows resilient to crashes and network interruptions. The company's offering is particularly suited for managing AI agent processes, which require robust tracking and reproducibility. This $20 million Series A funding will help Restate compete with established players like Temporal and expand its go-to-market team and engineering resources. | $20.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Singular, Redpoint Ventures, Capital One Ventures |
| Sep 30, 26 | Novele Novele develops 2-inch-thick, fire-safe lithium-ion batteries designed for wall-mounting in commercial buildings. Their AI-powered system predicts and manages power demand spikes to help commercial tenants reduce electricity costs and ease grid strain. This funding will support the scaling of their battery system. | $17.0M | Series A | ClimateTech | Undisclosed | Boisei Labs |
| Sep 30, 26 | IPercept Technology | $16.5M | Series A | AI | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 30, 26 | Ai3Bio Ai3Bio has launched with a $48 million Series A funding round. The company aims to reset the immune system, suggesting a focus on novel therapeutic approaches for immune-related diseases. | $48.0M | Series A | Health | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 25, 26 | HIFI HIFI is building tokenized-money infrastructure, connecting money movement, compliance, and settlement across bank rails and digital assets. The company aims to expand its services into cards and capital markets, requiring additional regulatory licenses and international hiring. This Series A funding will support its next stage of expansion across regulated financial infrastructure. | $37.0M | Series A | Fintech | Undisclosed | Left Lane Capital |
| Sep 23, 26 | Flatkey Flatkey is a SaaS company that provides solutions for the real estate industry. The company has reached 10,000 developers and has raised $10 million in Series A funding to further its growth and development. | $10.0M | Series A | SaaS | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 23, 26 | Baselayer Baselayer provides identity and risk infrastructure for financial institutions, now extending its network to AI agents. The company has raised $35 million in Series A funding to launch its Agentic Identity Suite, addressing the growing need for trust and verification in agentic commerce. This new suite offers an interoperable trust layer and fraud consortium for autonomous software acting on behalf of businesses. | $35.0M | Series A | Fintech | United States | M13, Torch Capital, Picus Ventures+2 |
| Sep 23, 26 | ViferaXS ViferaXS is a German biotech company developing peptide-based cancer immunotherapies. They are advancing a treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) into a Phase 2 trial. This funding will support testing the therapy's efficacy in a randomized study. | $12.0M | Series A | Health | Germany | SPRIND, Huma |
| Sep 23, 26 | 3cat 3cat is a company based in Malaysia that has raised $4 million in Series A funding. The funds will be used to support the company's expansion into the Philippines. | $4.0M | Series A | Other | Malaysia | Undisclosed |
| Sep 21, 26 | Treble Technologies Treble Technologies is a leader in sound simulation and synthetic acoustic data generation, helping companies develop better audio-enabled systems for physical AI applications. They have raised $18M in Series A-2 funding to expand their platform, which aids in training and testing AI models for devices like wearables, robots, and autonomous vehicles. The investment will support growth in the US market and further penetration into consumer and enterprise applications. | $18.0M | Series A | AI | Iceland | Paladin Capital Group, KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventures+1 |
| Sep 21, 26 | ARK ARK is an R&D-driven startup developing modular recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for land-based aquaculture. The company aims to enable anyone to practice aquaculture anywhere, with a focus on the Global South. This Series A funding will support international expansion into markets like the UAE and Indonesia, as well as further technology development. | $8.5M | Series A | ClimateTech | Japan | UntroD Capital Japan, Beyond Next Ventures, BP Capital+3 |
| Sep 21, 26 | Sprive Sprive is a mortgage overpayment app designed to help homeowners reduce their debt faster. The company has secured $10 million in Series A funding to further its mission of making homeownership more affordable and accessible. | $10.0M | Series A | Fintech | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 19, 26 | Vals Vals is a startup developing evaluation systems for artificial intelligence models. Founded in 2024, the company aims to improve industry-specific systems for assessing AI model capabilities, moving beyond academic benchmarks to verify practical performance. They focus on complex tasks in fields like law, finance, and programming, and also test for negative consequences. | $40.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Bloomberg Beta |
| Sep 19, 26 | Disha Disha is a vernacular AI health coaching platform offering personalized diet, fitness, and chronic-care support across 15 conditions. The platform operates in Hindi, English, and Hinglish, providing automated coaching. This Series A funding will be used for working capital, proprietary AI model development, and business expansion. | $6.0M | Series A | Health | India | General Catalyst, Elevation Capital, Flamel Performing Creatives Private Limited |
| Sep 18, 26 | Raindrop Raindrop is an AI startup focused on enhancing AI anomaly detection. The company aims to build its anomaly detection research, expand its product to more enterprises, and develop Simulations, a new product that tests proposed changes to AI agent systems. This funding will help them bring advanced testing processes to teams building AI agents. | $50.0M | Series A | AI | United States | CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator+3 |
| Sep 18, 26 | TUSK IC TUSK IC is an Antwerp-based fabless semiconductor company specializing in Ka-band satellite chips. They develop highly integrated mmWave ICs and antenna modules using standard CMOS technology, offering a lower-cost, lower-power alternative to traditional materials for satellite user terminals. This €15 million Series A funding will accelerate their transition from prototype chips to high-volume production. | $15.0M | Series A | DeepTech | Belgium | Matterwave Ventures, FORWARD.one, Flanders Future Tech Fund+2 |
| Sep 17, 26 | Kastle Kastle is a company developing AI solutions for the banking sector. This funding round aims to support their growth and product development in the financial technology space. | $24.0M | Series A | Fintech | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 17, 26 | Gaoyu Gaoyu, a flying car startup backed by GAC, has raised approximately $120 million in a Series A funding round. This funding will likely support the company's development and production of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. | $120.0M | Series A | Other | Undisclosed | GAC |
| Sep 17, 26 | Rune Rune has launched a solar-sited modular compute system. The company has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round to support its operations and expansion. | $40.0M | Series A | ClimateTech | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 17, 26 | Integral Integral is an AI-native accounting and tax services company. They aim to scale their services using artificial intelligence. This funding will support their growth and expansion. | $19.3M | Series A | AI | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 17, 26 | Treble Treble is a company focused on voice AI simulation. The company has successfully raised $18 million in a Series A extension round. This funding will likely be used to further develop their AI technology and expand their market reach. | $18.0M | Series A | AI | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Sep 16, 26 | Velocity Velocity has raised USD 10 million in an extension of its Series A round, bringing the total to USD 48 million. The funding, which includes participation from Visa Ventures and Circle Ventures, will support its stablecoin settlement, treasury, and liquidity infrastructure for global institutions. The company builds systems for banks, acquirers, merchants, and payment providers to facilitate payment-related money movement using stablecoins. | $10.0M | Series A | Fintech | United States | Visa Ventures, Circle Ventures, Ripple+5 |
| Sep 16, 26 | Veridion Veridion is a Romanian-founded AI startup that provides business intelligence data. They build an AI-powered digital replica of global businesses by analyzing billions of digital signals. The company has raised $20 million in Series A funding to accelerate international expansion and grow its workforce. | $20.0M | Series A | AI | Romania | Hoxton Ventures, Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures+3 |
| Sep 15, 26 | Starway Technology Starway Technology operates a comprehensive B2B wealth technology platform for financial institutions. It offers a wide range of products including cash management, funds, structured notes, bonds, insurance, and virtual assets, alongside services like robo-advisory and discretionary account management. The company aims to empower financial institutions and corporate clients with advanced wealth management and capital operation technologies. | $10.0M | Series A | Fintech | Hong Kong | HSBC, People's Capital |
| Sep 15, 26 | AIUC AIUC provides a framework called AIUC-1, which acts as a SOC 2 certification for AI systems, auditing them for safety, reliability, and compliance. They then offer insurance coverage tied directly to these audit results, with limits up to $50 million per policy. This service aims to provide financial protection for enterprises deploying autonomous AI agents. | $40.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Ribbit Capital, First Harmonic |
| Sep 15, 26 | Isometric Isometric is a UK-based ClimateTech startup that helps companies measure and manage their carbon emissions. The company is expanding its services beyond carbon removal to offer broader climate management solutions. This funding round will support their growth and product development. | $46.1M | Series A | ClimateTech | United Kingdom | Undisclosed |
| Sep 15, 26 | Jack & Jill Jack & Jill is a London-based company that develops AI agents for jobseekers and employers. They have raised €34.68 million in Series A funding to scale their operations. The company aims to improve the hiring process through its AI solutions. | $37.3M | Series A | AI | United Kingdom | Undisclosed |
| Sep 15, 26 | Veriqus Group Veriqus Group is a wealthtech startup that focuses on providing digital wealth management solutions. It targets individual investors looking for alternative investment opportunities and fixed income products. The company raised around $40 million in a funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. | $40.0M | Series A | Fintech | India | Norwest Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners, Accel+4 |
| Sep 14, 26 | Nuance Labs Nuance Labs is an AI research lab focused on developing a foundation model for human conversation and expression. Founded by former Apple researchers, the company aims to create a real-time audiovisual model that integrates speech, language, and animation seamlessly. The recent funding will help accelerate model development and expand their research team. | $50.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, South Park Commons+2 |
| Sep 14, 26 | Pave Finance Pave Finance is an AI-backed trading and portfolio management platform designed for financial advisors. The company aims to reduce the operational burden and costs associated with portfolio construction and management, offering personalized client strategies. With a valuation of $100 million, Pave has raised over $15 million in a Series A funding round to expand its market-facing and engineering teams. | $15.0M | Series A | Fintech | United States | Undisclosed |
| Sep 14, 26 | Nuance Nuance is a startup focused on developing AI models that enhance emotional intelligence in conversations. Targeting businesses, it aims to create AI avatars capable of holding natural, face-to-face conversations without the typical delays and awkwardness of existing chatbots. The company has raised $50 million to further its research and development efforts. | $50.0M | Series A | AI | United States | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel, Nvidia's NVentures+2 |
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