Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions

Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.

Nov 13, 2026

Zus Health raises $33 million to build the data layer for healthcare AI

Jonathan Bush's company says the Series B, led by Drive Capital, brings its total funding past $100 million.

Nov 12, 2026

Inveniam acquires Docugami, the document AI startup of XML pioneer Jean Paoli

The deal follows a summer partnership on DGML, an open format that makes business documents usable and checkable by AI agents.

Nov 12, 2026

Huang's exit puts extra pressure on Anthropic's IPO next week, investors tell Fortune

Nvidia has agreed to buy about $10 billion of Anthropic shares alongside the listing. Analysts expect the deal to go ahead but see tougher questions once Anthropic is public.

Nov 12, 2026

Mirendil raises $1 billion Series A to make frontier AI research cheaper and faster

The startup, whose CTO helped launch Anthropic's research automation, says one researcher working with AI agents pretrained a competitive coding model in 3.5 months for under $10 million in compute.

Nov 12, 2026

Dallas AI startup 4Minds raises $15 million at a $500 million valuation

The company, which came out of stealth in April, builds knowledge graphs from more than 40 business systems to train AI models inside a company's own environment.

Nov 12, 2026

Norwest raises $4 billion fund, its largest, to invest more in AI startups

The Wells Fargo-backed firm's 18th fund will back AI companies in physical AI, voice AI, agentic cybersecurity and domain-specific models across the US, India and Israel.

Nov 12, 2026

Mount Thor raises $45 million to rent Apple Macs in the cloud to AI agent developers

The San Francisco startup, founded this year, builds data centers of Apple hardware so agents can use macOS-only software and run open models on Apple silicon.

Nov 12, 2026

LangChain raises $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in round led by CapitalG

The valuation more than doubles the $1.25 billion LangChain was valued at in 2025, as it pitches its agent-development platform to large companies, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Nov 12, 2026

Luminal raises $25 million to run AI inference on chips beyond Nvidia's

Standard Capital led the round. The YC startup's compiler finds the fastest way to run a model on a given chip, and its cloud processes about 90 trillion tokens a month.

Nov 12, 2026

BlueMatrix completes acquisition of AI research platform Aiera

The Thoma Bravo-backed capital markets publishing company now combines research authoring and governance with Aiera's tools for delivering research into AI systems.

Nov 12, 2026

Delphina raises $7.5 million for AI agents that build the context behind company data

Radical Ventures and Costanoa co-led the round. Substack, LATAM Airlines and Coursera use its Context Factory for AI analytics.

Nov 12, 2026

Tristar AI raises $12.4 million for real-time AI quality inspection on factory lines

Isogon Ventures led the Series A. Tristar's AI vision runs on more than 500 production lines, including at suppliers to Toyota, Honda and Mercedes.

Nov 12, 2026

Qvyon launches with $8 million to test robots and self-driving systems in simulation

Its Mimic Core platform turns real camera, lidar and radar recordings into many simulated test scenarios before machines are deployed.

Nov 12, 2026

Kindo raises $30 million for a control center that governs and budgets enterprise AI agents

Kindo, which says revenue grew about 800% this year, tracks what agents access and spend and lets teams take over an agent when something goes wrong.

Nov 12, 2026

Griffin raises $20 million for its agentic banking platform as it adds cards and stablecoins

The UK-licensed bank, whose embedded banking customers include Uber, is valued at over $100 million after a Series B led by Octagon Partners.

Nov 12, 2026

Axle raises $9 million for AI that runs how banks connect investors with public companies

The New York startup's platform schedules meetings, targets investors and manages roadshows for more than a dozen sell-side firms, including three of North America's largest banks.

Nov 12, 2026

Backswing Ventures invests in Ukrainian counter-drone maker Vigilant Works

Vigilant Works builds autonomous interceptors; its Algiz-2, designed for over 600 km/h, is in battlefield testing. The amount was not disclosed.

Nov 12, 2026

Hatz AI raises $24 million to sell AI to small businesses through their IT providers

Hatz AI's Series A, led by Nadia Partners, funds its AI platform for managed service providers, whose partner base tripled in a year.

Nov 12, 2026

Opdo Raises $2.3 Million to Automate Optical Engineering With AI

Berlin and Los Angeles startup Opdo raised a $2.3 million pre-seed round led by Angular Ventures for AI that designs optical systems.

Nov 12, 2026

Orakl Oncology Raises $34 Million to Predict Cancer Drug Response With AI

Paris-based Orakl Oncology raised a $34 million Series A led by Norrsken VC and Singular for AI that tests cancer drugs on lab-grown virtual patients.

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