Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Upscale AI is reportedly negotiating a new funding round that could value the company at about $2 billion, marking its third raise in seven months. The startup is developing specialized chips and networking technology for AI data centers.
InsightFinder has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Yu Galaxy to enhance its AI agent observability platform, which helps enterprises detect, diagnose, and prevent issues across AI models and infrastructure.
Venture capital firm Accel has raised $5 billion in new funds to invest in artificial intelligence startups, including $4 billion for its fifth Leaders Fund and $650 million for a sidecar fund to expand its largest bets.
San Francisco-based voice AI startup Phonely has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and others. The company builds AI voice agents that handle business phone calls and tasks such as lead qualification and appointment booking.
South Korean AI chip startup DEEPX is expanding its partnership with Hyundai Motor Group to create a computing platform for generative AI-powered robots using its second-generation low-power chips, while preparing for a major funding round and potential IPO.
Coupang announced $84 million in investments in AI-focused startups and a collaboration with Texas-based Contoro Robotics to bring autonomous robots to its logistics operations in Korea and beyond.
Mintlify has secured $45 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total funding to $67 million and valuing the company at $500 million.
Sygaldry has secured $139 million in Series A and seed funding to build quantum-accelerated AI servers designed to reduce the cost and energy consumption of large-scale AI workloads.
Auctor has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital to develop an AI-native system for enterprise software implementation.
Artemis, a cybersecurity startup focused on autonomous threat detection and response, has launched publicly after raising $70 million across seed and Series A rounds led by Felicis, with participation from First Round Capital, Brightmind, and others.
Wafer has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Fifty Years, with participation from Liquid2, Y Combinator, and several notable angel investors, to develop AI systems that improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure.
Gravity has raised $10 million in funding, including a $7 million round led by Next Frontier Capital, to accelerate development of its AI-powered analytics platform Orion, which delivers proactive insights to business users.
Footwear company Allbirds has sold its brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group and will rebrand as NewBird AI, using a $50 million convertible financing facility to enter the AI infrastructure market.
Toulouse-based Donecle has raised €10 million to accelerate the international expansion of its AI-powered drone inspection technology for aircraft maintenance, according to ePlane AI. The funding round was co-led by IRDI Capital Investissement and SWEN Capital Partners.
Tel Aviv-based Capsule Security has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding led by Lama Partners and Forgepoint Capital International to secure AI agents operating inside business systems.
London-based Qalzy has secured pre-seed funding from Jenson Ventures following €204,000 in Kickstarter pre-orders for its AI-powered nutrition scale. The company plans to expand its AI food recognition technology and prepare for global launch.
Anthropic has received multiple investor offers for a potential new funding round valuing the AI company at around $800 billion, more than double its previous $380 billion valuation from February. The company has not yet accepted any offers and may consider raising funds later this year.
Gitar, a startup founded by former Intel, Google, and Uber engineer Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, has emerged from stealth with $9 million in funding led by Venrock and Sierra Ventures to enhance code security using AI agents.
Parasail has raised $32 million in Series A funding to scale its cloud computing platform for AI inference, focusing on cost-efficient token processing across a global network of data centers.
Indian startup Emergent has launched Wingman, an autonomous AI agent that operates through messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, allowing users to assign and monitor tasks via chat.
