AI Funding Pulse

• Spirit AI (China, embodied intelligence) achieves unicorn status with $290.5M round; China sector logs 6+ megadeals in Feb 2026.
• Profound (SF, AI...

Thrive Capital invests another $1B in OpenAI at $285B valuation, betting on its AI dominance and setting the stage for a $100B mega-round.

DACH funding after reviewing 15,000+ announcements shows capital concentration in key areas:

• Enterprise AI for operational workflows
• Industrial...

Seed and pre-Series A rounds are accelerating AI infrastructure innovations:

• optoML (Chennai/Singapore) bags $1.8M pre-Series A co-led by...

AI Chips & Infrastructure Surge

• 🔥 MatX: MatX raised $500M in Series B funding led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to accelerate AI...

High-profile finance investors bet on AI agent trust:

• t54 Labs (San Francisco) raises $5M seed for trust layer in agentic finance
• Ripple and Franklin Templeton join the round

Emerging challengers in AI chips and orchestration snag big funding:

• MatX ($500M Series B, led by Jane Street & Situational Awareness) builds AI...

Guidde, Tel Aviv-based AI digital adoption platform, secures oversubscribed $50M Series B led by PSG Equity, with Monday.com joining as a key backer. Strategic push in Israeli applied AI tooling.

Israeli AI cyber startup Gambit Security raises $61M from top VCs Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Cyberstarts to advance AI-powered defenses—valuation undisclosed.

Key details on Rowspace's launch:

• Founders Michael Manapat (Stripe/Notion tech lead) and Yibo Ling (Uber/Binance finance), MIT grads tackling...

Physical AI standout RLWRLD raised $26M Seed 2 (total $41M), prioritizing strategic investors to accelerate collaborative deployments in real...

• $47M Series B secured by Nimble
• Led by Norwest, with Databricks Ventures and others
• Fuels innovation in live, verifiable web data for AI infrastructure

Key boost for AI tooling reliability.

Key funding details for AI-native advertising:

• San Francisco's Koah raises $20.5M Series A to scale its platform
• Theory Ventures leads, joined by...

Inhouse, a legal AI startup, announced $5M in seed funding today to expand software automating contract lifecycle management, compliance workflows, and proactive risk management.

Massive late-stage boost for applied AI in consumer finance: Yendo lands $200M warehouse facility from i80 Group to scale asset-backed credit cards...

Serial founder Dakotah Rice's Harper secures $46.8M combined seed/Series A (total $54M in <2 months), led by Emergence Capital with YC and Peak XV.

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Fibr AI secures $5.7M seed funding to build Agentic Web, aiming to cut customer acquisition costs by up to 50% through innovative SaaS tools—while enhancing product capabilities and expanding operations.

Global AI hardware infrastructure heats up:

• Vervesemi (India) raises $10M for semiconductor and AI chip development
• Axelera AI (Europe) secures...

• Massive scale: $1.5B Series D for London-based autonomous driving expansion
• Valuation surge: Post-money at $8.6B; alt reports €7.2B after €1B...

China's AI2 Robotics secured CN¥1.2B ($145M) Series B to advance AlphaBot wheeled humanoids toward general-purpose use.

• $1.4B valuation; investors...