AI Seed Funding Tracker

Seed Round Closings

• 🔥 Mandel AI €3.6M Seed: Sofia-based Mandel AI closed a €3.6M seed round backed by Y Combinator, Category Ventures, Ritual...

Capydotai is ditching Series A for a 'sapling round' in its next funding, extending creative seed-phase branding trends in early-stage AI.

Japan's corporate AI push accelerates:

• Sakana AI announces strategic partnership and investment from Mitsubishi Electric
• Combines Mitsubishi's...

EU startup Mandel AI (Sofia-based) raises €3.6M seed backed by Y Combinator, Category Ventures, Ritual Capital, e2vc, and SV angels.

• Automates...

AI Biotech Seed Funding

• 🔥 RyboDyn $10M Seed: RyboDyn, Inc., a San Diego, CA-based biotechnology company providing an AI-powered sequencing and...

Barcelona-based Galtea raises $3.2M seed to tackle enterprise AI's testing bottleneck:

• Round led by 42CAP, with Mozilla Ventures backing via...

Corporate bet on Japan AI: Mitsubishi Electric invests in Sakana AI, a startup building next-gen foundation models.

• Serendie boost: Combines...

Key highlights from RyboDyn's seed round:

• $10M seed funding for AI-powered sequencing platform decoding 'junk' DNA (98% of genome).
• RyboCypher™ +...

AI Infrastructure Seed Rounds

• 🔥 Octen: AI startup Octen raises $10M seed to build low-latency search infrastructure for AI models.
• 🔥 ai&:...

Early-stage AI infra heats up with two big seed rounds amid compute crunches and search latency demands:

• Japan's ai& launches on $50M seed + $2B...

Parallel raises $20M Series A led by Index Ventures for AI hospital admin, slashing burden by 30%.

• Health Universe secures $6M Seed from Kleiner Perkins for transparent, auditable AI in healthcare.
• Mixed roundup: GVC's €70M infra fund; Zepz $165M.

Enterprise AI Seed Rounds

• 🔥 Interloom: Munich-based Interloom raised $16.5 million in a seed round led by DN Capital with participation from...

Munich's Interloom raises $16.5M seed – an outlier round post-$3M debut – to map tacit knowledge via context graphs from real cases.

• Core friction:...

Fintech dominates NYC deals, but AI startups shine:

• Deeptune (AI training gyms): $43M Series A led by a16z, total $48.3M since '22
• Edra...

Sports AI breakthrough: NurivaTech raises $8M seed backed by MLB veterans like Joe Girardi, Jason Kipnis.

• SportFX app delivers smartphone...

Exclusive scoop: Ex-Palantir leaders Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah secure $20M for Thread AI, an AI infrastructure startup.

Key highlights:
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A quieter European VC week spotlights thesis-driven bets on AI agents for physical industries and agritech automation. Cologne's eternal.ag raised €8M seed for simulation-led robots trained via NVIDIA Isaac Sim to tackle greenhouse harvesting.

AI startups are defining the largest rounds, setting new valuation benchmarks, and determining the investment agenda for global funds.

AMI Labs lands a record billion-seed round from Yann LeCun's new AI startup, highlighting extreme Power-Law dynamics in the AI market and booming...

New Seed Rounds

• 🔥 Hosted.ai $19M Seed: San Jose-based Hosted.ai raised $19M seed led by Creadum with support from People Ventures and Repeat...