AI funding

Hone, a startup founded by former OpenAI and Cognition employees, is developing AI agents designed to handle business operations over extended periods, consulting humans when necessary. The company aims to automate tasks like evaluating sales leads and is building cybersecurity guardrails for its agents. Early customers include Cognition and Modal.

Arena is an AI evaluation platform that measures frontier AI models and agents for real-world alignment with human intent. They have raised $200 million in Series B funding at a $3.1 billion valuation to advance their mission. The company also launched the Arena Alignment Index to measure how AI deviates from human values.

DeepX is a South Korean fabless AI chip startup developing neural processing units (NPUs) for on-device and edge AI markets. They focus on low-power consumption and high efficiency, having previously raised $80.5 million in Series C funding. This investment will fund their push into low-power processors for edge computing.

Persona AI is developing an AI-powered wearable device. The company aims to create a personalized AI companion that can assist users in their daily lives. This funding round will likely support product development and market launch.

Persona is a new consumer AI assistant startup launched by the founder of Cal AI. The company has raised $10 million in funding to develop its AI assistant.

Gudea is an AI company that predicts which online narratives will go viral. The company has raised $7 million in funding to further develop its predictive capabilities.

Sonilo is a generative audio startup founded by former TikTok AI and music division veterans. They are building AI models that can generate music and sound effects to match on-screen action, aiming to become an essential part of the AI-native video stack. The company targets creators, developer platforms, and enterprise production teams, with early distribution partners including TapNow and ComfyUI.

TODAY is a Copenhagen-based startup that provides an AI sales operating system for financial and insurance advisors. Their platform assists advisors before, during, and after client meetings by transcribing, anonymizing, and generating compliant documentation, offering real-time assistance, and providing a chat-based query system. The company aims to reduce administrative burdens and enhance advisor-client interactions.

Finches is a German startup developing AI for agricultural procurement, providing early warnings for supply chain risks. They consolidate field, sourcing, and external data to proactively alert companies in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries. This €2 million pre-seed funding will accelerate product development and expand sales operations.

An AI lab founded by a former ByteDance intern is reportedly taking on Fei-Fei Li. The lab has secured $200 million in funding.

Preference Model, an AI data research company, has raised $16 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company is open-sourcing Karotte, a framework for building reinforcement learning environments that resist reward hacks, and has built RL environments for several frontier labs. This funding round, ranking in the 98th percentile for enterprise software seed rounds, highlights investor confidence in the data and training infrastructure for advanced AI systems.

Teddy AI is a legal services and compliance startup that has announced a $60 million seed funding round. The company, incubated by Tucker's Farm Corp., has not disclosed its specific focus or leadership but has reported passing $25 million in revenue to date. The funding round was described as having participation from traditional limited partners.

Cori Clinical is an AI-powered platform designed to streamline clinical trial design and planning. It provides a centralized workspace for clinical trial data, aiming to simplify study planning and regulatory submissions. The company was founded in 2026 by Jorn Jansen Schoonhoven and Patricio Fernández.

Stuut is an AI company focused on expanding AI agents across the order-to-cash process. This Series B funding will support their expansion efforts.

Desible.ai is an AI startup that provides an agentic workflow orchestration platform for banks, NBFCs, and insurance companies. The platform automates customer engagement, servicing, operations, and compliance workflows. This seed plus round will be used to expand its agentic AI capabilities, strengthen compliance infrastructure, and accelerate product development for the BFSI sector.

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.

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.

Vibrium.ai operates an enterprise-grade agentic AI platform designed to automate complex workflows in sectors like BFSI, E-commerce, and SaaS. The startup has secured $1 million in seed funding to enhance its goal-oriented AI agent framework and expand its global footprint. Vibrium.ai aims to bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world enterprise execution by solving compliance and ROI challenges.

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.

Myca is an Indian AI agribusiness startup that has raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding. The company aims to leverage artificial intelligence to improve agricultural practices and outcomes.

Flai is an AI-powered platform that helps dealerships book appointments. The company has announced it books 50,000 dealership appointments monthly. Flai has raised $27 million in funding.

Monid is a San Francisco-based startup building a platform that acts as a toll booth for AI agents, allowing them to discover, test, and pay for third-party APIs and tools on a per-call basis. The company aims to simplify the process for AI agents by providing a single checkout counter, eliminating the need for multiple vendor accounts and subscriptions. This round of funding will be used to scale the marketplace and its underlying infrastructure.

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.

Lambda is an AI company backed by Nvidia. The company is reportedly targeting a $4 billion raise ahead of a planned IPO.

Mogul, founded by ex-Goldman Sachs founders, is raising $15.5 million to leverage AI in real estate investing. The company aims to bring advanced artificial intelligence solutions to the real estate investment market.

This article is about a funding round for a company that teaches AI agents how companies work. The company raised $5.2 million from Gradient.

Zeroset is a startup building models that provide AI agents with a constantly updated understanding of a company's operations. Their first product, Nebula, connects to existing software to track information flow and activity, enabling AI agents to understand workflows and handle tasks autonomously. The company aims to solve the issue of AI agents lacking knowledge of internal business dynamics.

SimpL is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance B2B sales processes. The company has successfully raised €1.2 million to further develop its AI solutions for sales teams.

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.

Calliora is a Munich-based startup that uses Artificial Intelligence to improve hospital billing processes. The company aims to streamline financial operations for healthcare providers. This funding will help Calliora expand its AI solutions in the healthcare sector.

Silo is an AI company that provides solutions for the construction industry. They aim to streamline processes and improve efficiency through their AI-powered platform. This funding will support their international expansion efforts.

Rabbit is building a personal AI computer designed to streamline tasks and interactions. The company aims to provide a more intuitive and efficient way for users to engage with AI, with the device priced at $3,499.

hexafarms is an AgTech startup that provides a platform for monitoring professional fruit and vegetable farms using wireless sensors, autonomous robots, and AI software. They combine crop data into actionable decisions for growers, measuring climate, light, substrate, and more to generate harvest forecasts and identify early signs of disease or pests. This seed round will fund further technology development and expansion.

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.

Ghost AI is an artificial intelligence hardware startup building the first personal computer dedicated to running personal AI agents locally. Led by its 19-year-old founder, the company aims to provide users with a secure and private alternative to cloud-based AI agents, ensuring their personal data remains on a device they own. The 'Core' device features powerful hardware and local model execution, with a focus on user control and data encryption.

DayOne Data Centers, a Singapore-based operator, is preparing for a Nasdaq IPO targeting a $20 billion valuation. The company has experienced rapid revenue growth, nearly tripling in 2025 to $484 million, largely driven by a single major customer accounting for 69% of its revenue. Despite a net loss in 2025, adjusted EBITDA shows profitability, indicating significant investment in capacity expansion.

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.

Safeworld is an AI company focused on stress-testing robots in human environments. They have exited stealth mode with a $12 million seed funding round to further develop their technology.

Osavul is a Ukrainian AI startup developing a platform for hybrid threat detection. The company has raised €8.5 million to advance its technology, which aims to identify and counter complex, multi-faceted threats.

A 19-year-old individual has quit their IIT path to build an AI startup. The company has reportedly raised ₹28 Cr.

SiMa.ai develops a full-stack Physical AI platform combining purpose-built silicon with software, designed to move AI workloads away from general-purpose computing architectures towards hardware optimized for real-world autonomous systems. The company targets markets like humanoid robotics, automotive systems, and drones, where AI models must operate under tight power and performance constraints. This $150 million Series C funding will support the expansion of its Physical AI markets and the development of its next generation of hardware.

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.

Menos AI is an AI platform designed for institutional investors, helping asset managers build a private, traceable context layer for their proprietary research and portfolio data. The company has raised $5.1 million in a pre-Series A round to expand its AI infrastructure for institutional investment intelligence.

Google is in discussions for a $1.5 billion deal to license technology and acquire key engineering talent from AI startup Mechanize. The San Francisco-based company focuses on AI evaluation and model development capabilities, aiming to bolster Google's competitive stance in agentic software engineering.

Autoheal is an AI startup building a self-improving software factory for enterprises. They provide platform engineering teams with tools to build, deploy, and continuously improve AI agents across the software development lifecycle, addressing challenges like incident response and security vulnerabilities. This $7.9 million seed round will help scale their solution, which is already used by companies like Nomura Bank and AvidXchange.