AI meeting-note tool Otter.ai has closed $320 million in repayable growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund — no equity given up — to fund enterprise growth and international expansion.
Boston AI startup ASI raised $325 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Spark Capital, to expand its software that simulates and forecasts disruptions across power grids, air traffic and military operations.
Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former chief research officer, has raised $232 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for Arda, an AI startup building software that turns product designs into assembly lines — with Anduril already a customer.
Reliable Robotics, the Mountain View startup retrofitting conventional aircraft with autonomous flight systems, raised $115M to upsize its Series D to $275M at a valuation above $1B. The ex-SpaceX team is now pushing toward FAA certification.
Databuddy Analytics has raised more than $560,000 in pre-seed funding — including $500,000 from Y Combinator — as 20-year-old founder Issa Nassar becomes the youngest founder from the Middle East accepted into the accelerator. Its AI platform tells teams what's broken instead of making them dig through charts.
OpenAI is reportedly speeding up a $30 billion raise at a $1.4 trillion valuation to lock in investor money before rival Anthropic's expected November IPO drains the same pool of capital.
Former leaders of Nvidia's GR00T robot research program have raised $90 million to build Dream-1, a robot foundation model that can control gripper-equipped robots from any manufacturer, zero-shot.
Modal plans to add Nvidia's new Vera CPU to host AI agents after early tests showed double the throughput — the first time the Intel-and-AMD-only startup has adopted Nvidia's chip design.
The Basel biotech's $135 million Series D, co-led by M Ventures and Revelation Partners, will fund a global registration-enabling trial of NOUS-209 — an off-the-shelf immunotherapy designed to stop cancer before it starts in Lynch syndrome carriers.
Shillong-based Shamrock AI has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Endiya Partners to scale its agentic assurance platform, which helps large enterprises deploy AI agents safely across critical systems.
Town, the AI assistant startup behind "Townies," has raised a $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, co-led by Forerunner and Menlo Ventures, betting that the next leap for AI assistants is teamwork, not solo productivity.
AI chip startup Tenstorrent has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation — more than doubling its December 2024 value — choosing to stay independent just days after reports of acquisition bids as high as $10 billion from Intel and Qualcomm.
Abby Care has raised $82 million in Series C funding led by Transformation Capital, with Sequoia, Thrive Capital and CVS Health Ventures joining, to expand its AI-powered platform that trains and pays family members as caregivers.
Twenty-nine researcher-founded AI 'neolabs' have raised a combined $23 billion, per Radical Ventures' count — but fewer than 35% have released a commercial product, The Economist reports.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad claimed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that the coding startup has cut ties with Anthropic — but a person familiar with the partnership told TechCrunch it is still in place.
Oxford-based Salience Labs closed an oversubscribed $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital to scale its photonic chips, which use light instead of electricity to connect GPUs in AI data centers and cut their power draw.
AI cloud startup Modal raised a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion valuation led by Accel, after crossing $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate with usage tripling in five months.
Five startups — from scam-baiting AI agents to orbital computing software — will battle for the $100,000 Startup Battlefield Cup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 today.
Estonian energy storage firm Skeleton Technologies has become a unicorn after a nine-figure strategic investment from Siemens, which will fund US factory expansion and give the industrial giant exclusive rights to sell Skeleton's power systems to data centers.
Israeli startup Zenzap has emerged from stealth with $44 million in funding, led by Bessemer and Lightspeed, to build an AI-powered workplace chat app targeting the frontline workers that WhatsApp, Slack, and Teams underserve.
Clueso has raised a $10 million Series A led by Dharana Capital to build its agentic video platform for business, saying more than 1,000 companies — including Atlassian and Zendesk — use it to create and maintain videos.
Dapta has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Chingona Ventures to scale its Dapti AI sales agent across the US and Latin America, reporting more than 200,000 users and $4 million in annual revenue.
Shenzhen-based Astribot (Stardust Intelligence) has closed a new RMB 1 billion round at an RMB 15 billion valuation — its fourth financing in six months — as investors bet its cable-driven humanoids can move from demos to mass deployment.
German chip startup Ubitium has raised $14 million to commercialize a processor that handles sensing, AI inference and real-time control on a single reconfigurable chip — the three jobs physical AI machines need done at once.
IBM has partnered with India's MeitY Startup Hub to help deep-tech startups develop, test, and commercialise their technologies, offering access to its enterprise AI, hybrid cloud, and quantum computing platforms.
Blueprints AI unveiled Version 2 of its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, claiming it can turn a 2D sketch or PDF into permit-ready, code-compliant construction documents in minutes.
The U.S. Air Force will buy atmospheric data from WindBorne Systems' fleet of roughly 700 autonomous weather balloons under a sole-source contract worth up to $49 million - the largest deal in the Redwood City startup's history.
Former Plaud executive Peter Mo's startup Mistlabs has raised $26 million for Ambi, an AI app for iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch that listens throughout the day and offers real-time help while meetings are still happening.
Sarvam is in talks to raise $250–300 million at a $3 billion valuation, ETtech reports — doubling its value in four months and potentially making it India's most valuable AI startup.
DeepSeek has agreed to lead a seed round for Winverse AI, a stealth robotics startup founded by former Tencent scientist Hu Han, valuing it at about $400 million — the lab's biggest bet yet on giving robots a mind.
Paris AI software company Wiremind has raised €35 million in its first-ever external funding round after 12 profitable years of bootstrapping, with IronWave, Bpifrance and Seaya Andromeda joining to fuel international expansion and LLM development.
Seven-month-old quantum startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4 billion valuation — more than triple its July mark — as investors pour record sums into quantum computing. The Series B brings total funding to $775 million.
College dropouts Akshat Kannan and William Zhang have raised $5.2M in pre-seed funding for Zeroset, whose Nebula product builds a 'state layer' that teaches AI agents how companies actually work.
Taiwan-based AI compute operator KONST has raised a $30 million Series B led by ADATA Technology to expand its AI data center footprint across Asia and accelerate its Token Factory strategy for enterprises.
Sabi has raised $50 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to build a brain-AI interface that fits inside an ordinary baseball cap, reading neural signals through hair and turning imagined speech into AI commands.
East Africa Foods has raised roughly $40 million — a $26 million Series B led by PIDG's InfraCo plus debt financing — to scale its farm-to-retailer supply chain across Tanzania and into Kenya.
Six-month-old chip startup Nuvacore is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a roughly $2.5 billion valuation to build a new CPU for AI data centers, before it has even shipped a product, Reuters reports.
TypeSafe AI has closed an $870 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the maker of the non-text Jev model at $7.5 billion just weeks after its September 15 launch.
Zach Yadegari, the 19-year-old who sold Cal AI to MyFitnessPal after it hit $30M in annual revenue, has raised $10 million for Persona — an AI assistant on a $179 wristband that activates with a button, not a microphone.
GSK evaluated Chai Discovery's AI models across a panel of diverse drug targets and saw designs with strong binding affinities, landing the two-year-old startup its sixth pharma partnership in nine months.
Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard born at UC Berkeley, has raised a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation as AI labs pay up for independent evaluations. The round coincides with the launch of an alignment index ranking whether AI agents actually behave the way humans expect.
Hone, a five-month-old startup founded by ex-OpenAI and Cognition staffers, raised a $60M seed round at a $285M valuation from Benchmark and Index Ventures to build AI 'Engines' that own business outcomes.
Veir has closed an oversubscribed $110 million Series C round to scale manufacturing of its superconducting power delivery systems for AI data centers, taking total funding to $225 million. The round was co-led by Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners, with backing from LG Technology Ventures and Gates Frontier.
Tab, a new personal AI assistant founded by Brennan Erbz, Stafford Schlitt and Ammar Amdani, has emerged from stealth at a $300 million valuation. Users simply text it on iMessage or WhatsApp, and it carries out errands — groceries, bookings, calls — itself.
Paris-based Rivercell has raised a $25 million seed round led by HV Capital to build an AI virtual cell — a world model that predicts how human cells respond to drugs and genetic changes before wet-lab experiments are needed.
Universal Quantum has raised over $100M in Series A funding — the largest ever by a UK quantum firm. The trapped-ion startup, backed by DCVC, Firgun Ventures and Roblox founder Dave Baszucki, is expanding to Singapore, the US and Japan.
Nvidia-backed Upscale AI has launched Token Fabric, a networking platform that lets data centers connect AI chips from different suppliers; CEO Barun Kar expects tens of millions in revenue next year.
Mecka AI has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital to scale its human-motion data business, as Nvidia, Samsung and a former Tesla Optimus chief bet that real-world experience — not hardware — is robotics' biggest bottleneck.
Butterfly Effect, the parent company of AI startup Manus, has completed a funding round of more than $500 million as it resumes independent operations after Beijing ordered the unwinding of Meta's acquisition.
Melius, a New York startup founded by three former Ramp engineers, has raised $25 million to build AI agents for creative work — after scrapping its original product entirely and starting over.
Moonshot AI has closed its final private funding round at a valuation of about $50 billion and is preparing a Hong Kong IPO in the first quarter of 2027 that could raise up to $5 billion, Bloomberg reports.
Stuut has raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, with a16z, M12 and Activant, to put AI agents to work on enterprise order-to-cash and unlock cash trapped in unpaid invoices.
Nous Research has raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to push its open-source AI assistant Hermes into corporate users, betting businesses want open models they control rather than closed systems from Big Tech.
Granite Asia and Google's AI Futures Fund will co-invest up to $2 million in each Asian AI startup sourced through the Granite Asia Fellows Program, pairing capital with cloud credits and early access to Google's frontier AI models.
Reactor announced that Nvidia's NVentures and Sapphire Ventures have joined its Series A round, taking the San Francisco AI infrastructure startup's total funding to $74 million. The company provides the low-latency infrastructure for running generative video and world models in real time.
Disruptive, the Dallas firm behind the Groq bet that ended in Nvidia's $20 billion licensing deal, is raising up to $10 billion — with $7.5 billion already committed — to back about 10 late-stage companies.
The Nvidia-backed neocloud is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation in what would be its final private round before a planned 2027 IPO, with Blackstone and Coatue leading.
Vinci has raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to expand its AI-powered physics simulation software for chip and hardware design, with Advent, Temasek and Xora Innovation leading the round.
DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan ($12 billion) in a Tencent- and CATL-backed round, Bloomberg reports — nearly double its original target.
Carnegie Mellon spinout SafeWorld has raised $12.2 million in seed funding to stress-test generative-AI robots in simulation before they meet real humans, with Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun leading the round.
Just months after raising $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, AI chip startup Etched is reviewing funding offers that value it between $40 billion and $50 billion, as investors chase the Nvidia challenger.
Paris-based Fleuret AI has closed a €4 million pre-seed round led by RAISE Ventures to turn penetration testing into a continuous, AI-driven process powered by two autonomous agents.
RobCo sold $40 million in shares — mostly from employees — at a valuation above $1 billion, double its January mark. New backers include Cherry Ventures and the European Tech Collective.
MNT-Halan's parent will sell 320 million shares of its Egyptian arm on the Egyptian Exchange, a fully secondary offering that could become one of Egypt's largest listings in years.
Shanghai's Sudo AI has raised more than RMB 1 billion to train robots in vast virtual simulations before they ever touch a factory floor, with Xiaomi, Guotai Haitong and Futeng Capital backing the round.
Supabase has raised $150 million led by GIC and agreed to acquire Turso, betting that AI agents — which already create 70 percent of its new databases — will need vast numbers of tiny, on-demand databases.
CScale has exited stealth with a $145 million Series C backed by Nvidia and Intel Capital to build optical interconnect that keeps AI training running when lasers fail. The round brings the startup's total funding to $188 million.
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek's Neko Health has opened its first U.S. clinic in New York, offering a $499 one-hour preventive health scan that maps skin, heart, blood, and metabolic health.
The San Francisco startup's AI agents automate CAD, requirements and verification work for customers including Anduril, Rivian and Joby Aviation.
Robotics startup FieldAI has reportedly lined up $700 million in new funding at a $10 billion valuation, five times its worth last August, to scale its universal robot-brain software.
DeepSeek is reportedly raising about 50 billion yuan ($7.45 billion) at a valuation of around 500 billion yuan ($74 billion), with the round expected to close by the end of October — weeks after the Chinese AI lab's annualized revenue topped $1 billion.
Miami-based doxx.net has raised $38 million led by Andreessen Horowitz to launch its open beta of "Agentic Defined Networking," a private network designed for people and the AI agents acting on their behalf.
Israeli travel-tech firm HyperGuest has raised $25 million from Apax Partners' AMI arm to expand internationally and equip hoteliers for an AI-driven era of hotel booking.
Halluminate has closed a $30 million Series A led by Oak HC/FT, lifting its total funding to $38.5 million. The nine-person startup builds the simulated training grounds where AI agents practice financial work before touching real systems.
PaleBlueDot AI has closed a $200 million Series C led by ComputeCore at a $3.2 billion valuation, with the Palo Alto compute platform reporting over $5 billion in signed customer contracts as it races to expand AI infrastructure.
Satlyt has raised $8 million in seed funding to build software that lets AI models run across fleets of satellites, and its platform was due to fly Thursday on a SpaceX rocket alongside Google's Project Suncatcher prototype.
Ukrainian-founded startup Osavul has raised €8.5 million in Series A funding led by 33N Ventures to expand its AI platform that detects hybrid attacks for NATO, governments, and critical infrastructure operators.
San Francisco chip startup Volantis has raised $88 million to solve AI's biggest hardware bottleneck, replacing copper wiring with laser light so a single GPU can talk to as many as 220 memory chips.
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he fired adviser Chris Degnan for sharing confidential information with rival Cognition, while Degnan insists he resigned to become Cognition's chief revenue officer.
AI cybersecurity startup Armadin, founded by Mandiant's Kevin Mandia, has raised $255.5 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion to scale its swarms of AI agents that hack customer networks to find flaws before criminals do.
Efficient Computer, the Carnegie Mellon spinout building data-flow chips, has raised $100 million at a $650 million valuation, with its first Electron E1 processor already shipping for drones and small robots.
GMI Cloud has raised $668 million in a blend of Series B equity and debt led by ARCHIV and CTBC, with Nvidia joining the round. The AI-native cloud says its contracted revenue has topped $600 million as it expands GPU capacity across the US, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
British voice-AI startup ElevenLabs has more than doubled its valuation to $22 billion after a $300 million employee tender offer led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, as its voice agents now handle 15 million conversations a week.
AI agent security startup Reco has raised $55 million, bringing its total funding to $140 million, as enterprises discover tens of thousands of unmonitored AI agents operating inside their own networks.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a roughly $1.4 trillion valuation, a bridge round that would fund the ChatGPT maker as it delays its much-anticipated IPO over AI safety concerns.
EliseAI said on Tuesday it is valued at $4 billion after a $350-million round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, nearly doubling its valuation from a year ago.
Peak XV Partners has raised its Surge seed investment ceiling from $3 million to $5 million and unveiled the 18-startup Surge 12 cohort, committing more than $50 million as the bar for raising a Series A keeps rising.
AI startup Instinct has raised $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation — quadrupling its worth in a single month — as venture capitalists pile into agentic AI, the technology behind assistants that act on users' behalf rather than merely answering questions.
SiMa.ai has raised $150 million in oversubscribed Series C funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, co-led by Fidelity and Amplify, to scale its chips that let robots, drones, and cars run AI directly on the device.
UK smartphone maker Nothing has raised $200 million in a Tiger Global-led Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation, bringing total funding to $450 million. The company plans to launch multiple AI-powered devices next year.
Indian space startup TakeMe2Space will launch what it describes as India's first orbital computing satellite aboard a SpaceX rocket on October 1, processing data in orbit with Nvidia AI chips instead of beaming raw datasets back to Earth.
AI infrastructure provider Crusoe has closed a $3.9 billion Series F funding round at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners, as demand for AI compute capacity surges.
Miami-based OpenEvidence has closed a $250 million round at a $15 billion valuation, led by hospital systems and Andreessen Horowitz, as the AI clinical search engine used by over 40% of US physicians doubles down on specialist medical agents.
Feather Robotics has launched a $29,990 modular dual-arm robot for developers, backed by $7.6M from Gradient Ventures, pitching itself as the "Android for robotics."
AI video startup Higgsfield says its annualized revenue crossed $1 billion just 18 months after launch — a 20x jump since September 2025 — powered by 30 million users and surging enterprise demand.
Island and Cyera each raised $400 million this week, topping Crunchbase's startup funding rankings, as investors bet that AI agents have broken the old enterprise browser and data-security playbook.
Voxel has raised $44 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-powered site monitoring platform, which uses existing cameras to detect safety risks on construction sites in real time.
Flatkey has raised $18 million to build an AI-native keyboard layer that turns every keystroke into a shortcut for triggering AI agents and automations.
French startup Chamelio has raised €5.2 million in seed funding led by 468 Capital to build compliance infrastructure for AI agents operating in regulated industries.
Bengaluru-based Ultraviolette has raised $21 million from TVS Motor and Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu to scale its electric motorcycle lineup and expand into new markets.
Micro1 has raised $35 million in Series A funding led by 01 Advisors at a $574 million valuation, scaling from $2.3 million to $26 million in annual recurring revenue in just one year.
Dallas-based enterprise browser company Island has raised $400 million in Series F funding at a $6.4 billion valuation, led by Evolution Equity Partners, betting that the browser is where companies will secure employees and AI agents alike.
Ema has raised a $77M Series B led by Bengaluru-based Creaegis, with Accel, Section 32, and Prosus increasing their stakes. The Bay Area startup says its coordinated teams of AI agents can take over multi-step work in HR, IT, and finance — and eventually displace traditional enterprise software.
Heidi Health has raised a $340 million package to expand its clinical AI platform. The round includes equity and debt financing.
Seattle health-tech startup DexCare has acquired Mila Health, a fellow Seattle company building AI agents that call and text patients seeking medical appointments. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Australian energy startup Amber Electric has raised €49 million in Series E funding led by Morgan Stanley Investment Management's 1GT climate strategy, with E.ON participating, to expand its home battery platform across Australia and into Europe.
Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, to build marketing tools for an era when customers discover products through AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Stoke Space has closed the first $1 billion of a Series E round co-led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $2.3 billion. The Washington company is developing Nova, a rocket designed to reuse both stages, with a first orbital flight targeted for early 2027.
Pakistan-based Metal has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by a16z Speedrun and Y Combinator to build an AI-powered platform for private capital markets. The startup was founded by Airlift co-founder Usman Gul.
Factory, a startup building AI agents for enterprise engineering teams, raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation — more than triple its April valuation — as investors pile into AI-assisted coding.
Emerald AI has reached a $1.05 billion valuation after raising $150 million in Series A funding. The company develops software that helps AI data centers adjust electricity consumption when power grids face periods of high demand.
Reimagine Robotics has emerged from stealth with an AI-powered approach that allows factory workers to train and correct robots directly on the job, reducing the need for specialist programming.