Funding, Mergers & Acquisitions

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

Jul 31, 2026

SiEngine Raises US$200 Million for Automotive AI Chips

SiEngine Technology secured US$200 million in equity financing in H1 2026 to support research, production expansion, globalization, and customer growth for its automotive chip business.

Jul 31, 2026

ShipSigma Receives Majority Investment from Inverness Graham

ShipSigma has received a majority investment from Inverness Graham. The AI powered parcel platform uses shipping data and analytics to help businesses review costs, contracts, invoices, packaging, and distribution networks.

Jul 31, 2026

Cantina Launches Agentic Security Platform With $8 Million Funding

Cantina has launched from stealth with $8 million in new funding led by Framework Ventures, bringing its total raised to $16.5 million.

Jul 31, 2026

Discern Security Raises $13 Million for Agentic Security Platform

Discern Security raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Forgepoint Capital and launched Discern Security Loop, an agentic platform for finding and fixing security control gaps.

Jul 31, 2026

Smallest.ai Raises $13 Million Series A for Enterprise Voice AI

Smallest.ai raised a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, bringing its total funding to more than $21 million. The company is building enterprise voice AI systems under its Voice 4.0 platform.

Jul 31, 2026

Xsight Labs Raises Over $300 Million at $2.8 Billion Valuation

Xsight Labs has raised more than $300 million in a funding round that values the semiconductor company at $2.8 billion. The company plans to use the capital for its switch and DPU roadmap, hiring, manufacturing, supply chain, and customer deliveries.

Jul 31, 2026

Extropic Signs $75 Million Commerce Letter for Thermodynamic AI Chips

Extropic has signed a letter of intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for up to $75 million in planned CHIPS research funding to develop Thermodynamic Sampling Units and qualify a domestic manufacturing path.

Jul 30, 2026

Simile Raises $200 Million Series B at $2 Billion Valuation

Simile raised a $200 million Series B led by Greenoaks Capital at a $2 billion valuation to expand its human behavior simulation platform.

Jul 30, 2026

S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Farsight AI Workflows to Capital IQ Pro

S&P Global Market Intelligence will add Farsight's AI powered financial workflow capability to Capital IQ Pro later this year. The tool will help bankers and investors create pitch decks, confidential information memoranda, and valuation materials using firm templates and past work.

Jul 30, 2026

heytruffle Raises Funding for Restaurant AI Phone Concierge

heytruffle, formerly RestoHost, raised funding from Preface Ventures to expand its managed AI phone concierge for restaurant groups in the United States.

Jul 30, 2026

ADA Acquires Algonomy for Retail AI Decisioning

ADA has completed its acquisition of Algonomy, adding retail AI decisioning technology to its platform and expanding the combined business to 34 markets.

Jul 30, 2026

Cloud Capital Closes $520 Million Data Center ABS Issuance

Cloud Capital closed a $520 million data center asset backed securities issuance through its new ABS Master Trust, secured by an 80 MW hyperscale data center in Northern Virginia.

Jul 30, 2026

Agon Launches Virtual Battlefield Platform With $30 Million

Agon has launched with $30 million in funding to build virtual battlefields for training AI powered autonomous weapons systems.

Jul 30, 2026

Freehand Raises $75 Million for Supply Chain AI Agents

Freehand raised a $75 million Series B to expand autonomous AI agents for supply chain spend and back office operations. Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners co led the round, bringing total funding to $100 million.

Jul 30, 2026

Legora Acquires Legal AI Startup Wexler

Legora has acquired London legal AI startup Wexler, adding fact intelligence tools for litigation and investigations to its platform. The deal terms were not disclosed.

Jul 29, 2026

Bloomberg to Acquire Canoe Intelligence for Private Markets Data

Bloomberg has agreed to acquire Canoe Intelligence, an AI powered data management platform that automates private markets data collection and delivery.

Jul 29, 2026

CopySight Raises $3 Million and Adds Video Checks to CopyScore

CopySight raised a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital and launched CopyScore V2, which expands its copyright and likeness risk checks into video.

Jul 29, 2026

UNIT AI Raises $12 Million for Ecommerce Fulfillment Automation

UNIT AI raised $12 million to expand deployments of its AI powered ecommerce fulfillment and returns platform across North America.

Jul 29, 2026

Encore AI Raises $30 Million for Customer Interaction Platform

Encore AI raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage. The company will use the funding to expand global deployment of its enterprise AI platform for customer interactions.

Jul 29, 2026

ThreatLocker Raises $190 Million for Zero Trust Security Platform

ThreatLocker raised $190 million in Series F funding led by Elephant to expand its Zero Trust platform, AI security controls, and international operations.

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