AI Startup Funding Atlas

Pre-Seed Rounds

• 🔥 Mirai Robotics: Advanced robotics laboratory powered by artificial intelligence closes €3.5m pre-seed funding round.
• Noru:...

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs closed a $1.03 billion seed round—one of the largest in AI startup history—before joining Presight-Shorooq's $100M AI fund as LP. Prime signal for idea-stage founders eyeing alternative early capital pools.

Mirai Robotics, an AI-powered robotics laboratory, just closed a €3.5M pre-seed round ($4.2M) – spotlighting ripe opportunities for idea/prototype founders in AI robotics early funding.

Hot trend: Backers fueling early-stage agent infra startups tackling key pain points.

• Compliance play: Stockholm's Noru lands €560K pre-seed for...

New Programs for Idea/Prototype Founders

• 🔥 FutureX AI Launch: Campus Fund launches second edition of FutureX AI in Bangalore, described as...

Search OS, a Korean startup developing automated Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) for large-scale platforms, has secured seed funding from Futureplay – spotlighting early-stage AI opportunities in Korea.

NYC startups raised fresh capital yesterday, benchmarking robust early/Series A activity:

• Conduit Health (Healthtech, founded 2023): $17M Series A...

PerturbAI exits stealth in San Francisco with an oversubscribed pre-seed round, unveiling a CRISPR atlas of 8M brain cells – a blueprint for low-dilution early funding in deep tech AI-biotech prototypes.

• Peak XV leads $6.6M seed for BambooBox's AI-powered ABM operating system
• Marks shift to execution focus in enterprise AI funding
• Funds deeper AI...

CRV's seed investment in Standard Template Labs' $49M round spotlights oversized early funding in AI. Prototype founders: This validates chasing ambitious ideas with top VCs like CRV GP Murat Bicer.

Trend for idea-stage AI founders: Ace investor outreach amid $250B+ 2025 funding with this playbook.

• Self-audit via LLM prompts: Triage pitch deck...

Laminar raises $3M seed for agent debugging tools, led by Atlantic.vc with Y Combinator, AAL.vc, and angels including Ben Sigelman. Clear early-stage path for AI infra founders via YC backing.

Trend alert: Specialized vehicles are launching to supercharge idea/prototype AI builders with seed capital and team formation.

• Gradient's $220M...

Video Rebirth, Singapore's AI video generation startup backed by AMD Ventures, just raised $30M more—pure follow-on momentum for scaling prototypes in AI media. Founders: SG's path from idea to growth is heating up.

• Service-as-Software model: Why AI companies should adopt this GTM approach
• Niv-AI funding: $12M raised to tame GPU power surges in data centers
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Pre-seed to Series A surge across verticals shows accessible capital for prototype AI founders:

• $1M pre-seed for First Concepts' creative AI...

Gradient, an early-stage VC focused on AI startups, closed its fifth flagship seed fund at $220M – a massive boost for idea/prototype founders seeking specialized seed capital.

YC-backed Mandel AI, a Sofia-based startup, raises €3.6M seed for its AI supply chain coordination platform – key opportunity for prototype teams in supply verticals.

Key advice for idea-stage AI founders:

• Investors ignore most brilliant ideas without traction like users, revenue, or growth.
• Elite backgrounds...

South Korea AI Funding Initiatives

• 🔥 Hana Financial $340M Fund: Hana Financial Group will set up a 500 billion won ($340 million)...