AI Funding Tracker

Late-Stage AI Chip Funding

• 🔥 SiFive Series G: SiFive raised $400M in an oversubscribed Series G round led by Atreides with NVIDIA and Apollo...

• $400M oversubscribed Series G reaches $3.65B valuation, NVIDIA-backed for AI chips
• Led by Atreides with NVIDIA and Apollo joining RISC-V leader
• IPO ambitions highlight custom silicon momentum in AI infrastructure

Emerging AI infra players fill critical DoD gaps amid Anthropic's ban:

• $2B market for secure AI on classified networks, per Ask Sage founder Nicolas...

Series B Rounds

• 🔥 Foxglove $40M: San Francisco-based Foxglove raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with...

Investor rush in specialized AI data platforms signals booming demand for training, geospatial, and physical AI infra:

• AfterQuery nabs $30M at...

Hyperscaler scale-up: Meta commits $21B multi-year to CoreWeave AI cloud through 2032, building on $14.2B deal and featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin.
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Series A Funding

• 🔥 AIM Intelligence: AIM Intelligence raised $7M (KRW 10B) Series A led by Samsung Venture Investment with Mirae Asset Capital,...

• Google commits to multiple generations of Intel chips for AI data centers, expanding long-term partnership.
• Xeon 6 CPUs to run AI...

China's top AI labs are pivoting to proprietary models amid cash shortages:

• Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus/Omni and Z.ai's GLM-5-Turbo launch as closed...

Key escalation in Anthropic-Pentagon clash:

• Federal appeals court refuses to block blacklist, keeping firm cut off from defense contracts.
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Latin America startups raised $1.03 billion in seed- and growth-stage deals through Q1, up year-over-year amid a late-stage boom driven by global investors. AI and fintech shine in the mix.

Investor appetite grows for specialized early-stage AI:

• Juno bags $12M seed for AI tax prep targeting SMB accounting firms
• SiMa.ai secures Micron...

AI Startup Funding Rounds

• Nava Raises $22M: AI startup Nava raised $22 million in a funding round led by Greenoaks Capital with participation...

Key insights on AWS's dual AI investments:

• Billions poured into Anthropic ($4B commitment, primary cloud) and OpenAI (multi-billion infra deal)...

Greenoaks leads $22M round for Nava (ex-Kluisz), with RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures joining; prior $9.6M from RTP.

• Funds expand GPU...

Latent, the SF-based AI platform for medication access, raised $80M in Series A funding led by Spark Capital—a clear sign of surging investor interest in AI-driven healthcare solutions.

In a record-setting Q1, investors backing the highest number of startup rounds were mostly not writing the biggest checks—and those funding the largest deals weren't the most prolific. Key focus: AI and seed funding.

Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto to accelerate its shift to an AI-first platform, powering the full work and marketing lifecycle.

Agentic AI Funding Rounds

• NeuBird AI: NeuBird AI raised $19.3 million in an oversubscribed round led by Xora Innovation with participation from...

NVIDIA-backed Australia-based Firmus Technologies raises a Coatue-led round at $5.5B valuation, building a network of AI factories across Australia to expand AI infrastructure.