Global AI Startup Tracker

Deeptech Funding Rounds

• 🔥 Ayar Labs Raises $500M: Silicon Valley-based Ayar Labs raised US$500 million for optical-interconnect solutions.
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Hyperscaler talent grab reshaping AI collab tools:

• Microsoft hires full team from Sequoia-backed AI collaboration startup Cove
• Cove shuts down, service ends April 1
• Customer data set for deletion post-shutdown

• Local AI shift: Manus's new desktop app with 'My Computer' feature deploys its AI agent directly on users' computers
• From cloud-only: Previously...

Founded in 2024, Rox AI has rocketed to a $1.2 billion unicorn valuation, accelerating the AI race in sales automation just two years in.

Massive capital concentration in frontier AI: $220B+ into startups over two months.

• Feb dominators: OpenAI ($110B), Anthropic ($30B), Waymo ($16B)...

Trend alert: Agentic AI disrupts hardcoded dev tools like code review, validating the Bitter Lesson in products.

• Google engineers launch Sashiko...

Sequen secures $16M Series A to expand its TikTok-style personalization tech—proprietary AI ranking—to large consumer businesses, bridging consumer AI to enterprise scale.

Key Saudi bet on AI safety:

• Wa’ed Ventures (Aramco's arm) invests in California’s Resemble AI, focused on AI voice generation and synthetic...

Durable debuts as the first AI business builder replacing your 9-5 income. Reposted by @Scobleizer from @jamesclift—RT + comment “Durable” for a free business build. Game-changer in agentic AI workflows.

Trevor Milton, the pardoned Nikola founder, is raising $1B for AI-powered planes in aviation and autonomous vehicles. He calls it "10 times harder than Nikola ever was".

Zurich-based Rivia secures €13M to build agentic AI agents managing complex clinical trial operations—building on prior €3M for unifying fragmented data. A breakthrough targeting biotech's ops chaos.

Strategic partnership formed to digitize international trade contracts on XDC Network.

Key features:

• AI-assisted legal document generation
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Silicon Valley's Ayar Labs raises $500M to power its optics push:

• Co-packaged optics technology
• Optical-interconnect solutions
  Big funding signals heating deeptech infra plays.

Deeptech navigation boost: Advanced Navigation raised AU$158M (~US$110M) in Series C led by Airtree with NRFC support to scale systems.

• Tech focus:...

xAI is mass recruiting Wall Street bankers and credit experts to train Grok, after posting multiple positions on its site. Musk admits their programming has fallen behind competitors, signaling a pivot to specialized hires.

Rivia secures $15M Series A for an agentic-driven platform tackling clinical trials' reliance on spreadsheets and manual reviews. CEO Erik Scalfaro bets on AI to slash costs and accelerate this complex sector.

Skild AI, robotics unicorn post-$1.4B raise, scales generalized robot intelligence via key partnerships:

• Nvidia & Foxconn: AI software on GPU...

Alphabet spinout Gradient launches $220M seed fund, hitting $1.2B AUM across five funds.

• Proven track record: Backed 500+ startups, led seeds in...

Devs can now launch sandboxed autonomous AI agents in just 2 lines of code – massive simplification for agentic AI deployment. Already 48 points on Hacker News, signaling dev buzz.

Massive seed win for Yann LeCun's AMI Labs: $1.03B round closed, one of the largest in AI startup history.

• Now joins Presight–Shorooq's $100M AI...