Financial movements in the AI ecosystem, including venture capital investments, strategic acquisitions, IPO's and funding rounds for AI companies.
Socratix AI has raised $4.1 million in seed funding led by Pear VC, with participation from Y Combinator and others, to expand its team and develop autonomous AI agents designed to assist fraud and risk departments at financial institutions.
EQ Europe has received innovation funding for EQ BEAM, an AI model designed to quantify human capital and improve success in mergers, integrations, and organizational change.
Model ML has raised $75 million in a Series A round led by FT Partners to accelerate global expansion and advance its AI workflow automation platform for financial institutions.
Norm Ai has received a $50 million investment from Blackstone and launched a new AI-native law firm, Norm Law, focused on financial services clients and AI-integrated legal workflows.
Function announced the launch of its Medical Intelligence Lab, a new initiative combining AI with clinical expertise to unify health data from multiple sources. The company also reduced its annual membership price to $365 and confirmed a $2.5 billion valuation following a $298 million Series B funding round.
California-based robotics startup Sunday has launched from stealth with $35 million in funding to develop Memo, a household robot designed to handle chores such as dishes, laundry, and tidying. The robot is trained on 10 million household activity recordings collected using the company’s Skill Capture Glove and will begin beta testing in 50 homes in late 2026.
Physical Intelligence, a robotics AI startup supported by Jeff Bezos, has raised $600 million in a funding round led by CapitalG, valuing the company at $5.6 billion. The company is developing general-purpose AI systems to power robots for diverse tasks such as folding clothes and assembling boxes.
Luma AI has raised $900 million in a Series C round led by Humain to develop multimodal artificial general intelligence and will collaborate on a 2-gigawatt AI supercluster in Saudi Arabia.
Accenture and WndrCo have invested in Alembic, an AI-powered marketing analytics startup, as part of a $145 million Series B funding round that values the company at $645 million. The partnership will integrate Alembic’s causal AI technology into Accenture’s client services to enhance marketing measurement and attribution.
Adobe has announced an agreement to acquire Semrush for $1.9 billion in cash, offering $12 per share for the SEO and brand visibility platform. The deal, approved by both companies' boards, is expected to close in the first half of 2026 pending regulatory and shareholder approval.
TAHO, founded by former Meta, Google, and Snap engineers, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to develop a distributed compute platform designed to deliver up to 10x performance improvements for AI workloads at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud infrastructure.
Workday has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, an integration platform with over 3,000 connectors to common business applications. The acquisition will enable Workday’s AI agents to connect and execute tasks across third-party systems and applications.
Microsoft and Nvidia are set to invest up to $15 billion in Anthropic, with the AI company agreeing to purchase $30 billion in computing capacity from Microsoft Azure. The deal deepens ties among major AI players as Anthropic expands its infrastructure and partnerships.
Tel Aviv-based Milestone has secured $10 million in seed funding to expand its platform that measures how AI coding tools affect developer productivity, code quality, and ROI. The round was led by Heavybit and Hanaco Ventures, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and several notable angel investors.
Jeff Bezos has taken on an operational role for the first time since leaving Amazon in 2021, becoming co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus alongside Vik Bajaj. The company has raised $6.2 billion to develop artificial intelligence systems for engineering and manufacturing.
Tokyo-based Sakana AI has secured $135 million in a Series B funding round, valuing the company at $2.65 billion. The round includes investments from major Japanese and global firms and will support R&D, workforce expansion, and new initiatives in finance, defense, and manufacturing.
Hexaware Technologies has acquired CyberSolve, a global identity and access management specialist, to expand its AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities and enhance enterprise identity operations.
XTEND Reality Inc. has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by the U.S. Department of War to develop and deliver AI-enabled one-way attack drone kits designed for close-quarter missions. The company will produce and train operators from its Tampa, Florida headquarters.
AI coding startup Cursor has acquired recruiting strategy firm Growth by Design, which previously supported companies like OpenAI, to expand its in-house hiring operations and meet rising demand for its coding software.
Tether is reportedly in discussions to lead a €1 billion funding round in German startup Neura Robotics, valuing the company between €8 billion and €10 billion, according to the Financial Times.
