Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek is in talks to raise at least $300 million in its first external funding round, which could value the firm at around $10 billion, according to Reuters. The move comes as the company faces rising infrastructure and compute costs for its advanced AI models.
Outcraft AI has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from Practica Capital to expand its autonomous AI platform for sales and revenue execution. The platform uses AI agents to engage customers in real time across multiple communication channels.
Spektr has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by NEA to expand its AI platform that automates KYC and KYB compliance tasks for financial institutions.
AI startup Factory has raised $150 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures, reaching a $1.5 billion valuation. The company develops autonomous coding agents that can switch between models like OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and DeepSeek to support enterprise engineering teams.
Solidroad has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Hedosophia to expand its AI-driven platform that evaluates and coaches both human and AI customer support agents in real time.
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.
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.
Wayve has raised $60 million from AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm, extending its Series D funding to accelerate deployment of its mapless autonomous driving AI across multiple vehicle platforms.
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.
