US Venture Funding Smashes Records at $267B
U.S. venture capital hit an unprecedented $267.2 billion in Q1 2026, more than doubling the previous quarterly record, driven by massive AI deals. OpenAI led wi...
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U.S. venture capital hit an unprecedented $267.2 billion in Q1 2026, more than doubling the previous quarterly record, driven by massive AI deals. OpenAI led wi...
Paris-based startup Omniscient SASU has secured $4.1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its AI-driven decision intelligence platform. The round was led by See...
Realbotix Corp. has closed the sale of its Tokens.com domain portfolio to Bed Bath & Beyond for US$2.245 million. The assets carried no prior book value, making...
Paris-based biotech Generare Bioscience has raised €20 million ($23.3M) in a Series A round co-led by Alven and Daphni to build the world's largest dataset of u...
Anthropic, maker of the Claude AI assistant, is fielding investor interest that could value the company at $800 billion or more, more than double its February v...
German startup Synera has secured $40 million in Series B funding to scale its agentic AI platform for industrial engineering teams. The round was led by Revaia...
AI training data startup AfterQuery has secured $30 million in funding at a $300 million valuation, led by Altos Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, ...
Compliance automation startup Haast has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Peak XV, with participation from DST, Airtree, Aura Ventures and Black She...
AI startup Refiant has secured $5 million in seed funding from VoLo Earth Ventures to develop nature-inspired compression algorithms that reduce AI model energy...
Alibaba's cloud division led a $293m funding round into ShengShu Technology, the Beijing-based start-up behind AI video tool Vidu, with Baidu Ventures and Lumin...
Dublin-based SaaS company Apex B2B has officially launched with €1.5m in investment and R&D backing from Enterprise Ireland. Incubated within Monsoon Consulting...
Sigma Automate has officially launched with $2.75 million in funding to simplify enterprise IT operations through an AI-native, no-code automation platform. The...
Singapore-based AI data center builder Firmus raised $505 million led by Coatue, reaching a $5.5 billion valuation. The company has now raised $1.35 billion in ...
Aria Networks, a startup building switches for AI clusters, has raised $125 million from Sutter Hill Ventures, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Ec...
AI-native audit startup Modus Audit Inc. has raised $85 million to accelerate product development and expand partnerships with accounting firms. Founded in 2025...
Conversation intelligence startup Natter has raised $23 million, led by Renegade Partners, to scale its AI-powered employee interview platform. The funding will...
Dublin e-commerce start-up Zellor has secured €850,000 in its first external funding round, backed by Enterprise Ireland and Irish investors. The 2022-founded c...
The AI boom is driving family offices and private wealth managers to bypass traditional venture capital funds and invest directly into AI startups. Firms like A...
NeuBird has closed a $19.3 million funding round led by Xora Innovation, with participation from Mayfield, Microsoft M12, StepStone Group and Prosperity7 Ventur...
Mappedin, an AI-powered indoor mapping platform, has secured $24.5 million in growth equity financing led by Edison Partners. The Waterloo-based company has alr...