AI Funding Tracker

Robotics investing is surging after years of hardware skepticism.

• Record $16.3 billion raised across 492 deals in Q1 2026, fueled by lower hardware...

Higgsfield's valuation soared fourfold to $5.4 billion in six months as AI-generated content demand accelerates.

• CEO view: Alex Mashrabov discussed...

Bulgarian founder Vince Gaydarzhiev raised $10M to expand Self Inspection's smartphone-based AI platform that combines computer vision and expert...

Trillions poured into AI infrastructure may collapse under their own weight by end-2026 as valuations ignore whether returns can ever justify the...

Stripe's $7B OpenRouter acquisition completes its AI infrastructure stack by adding model routing to existing metering and payments capabilities....

Wispr's $280M Series B at $2B valuation funds its shift from dictation into meetings.

• New note-taker competes with Fireflies and Granola on...

Massive AI spending has supercharged semiconductor earnings and valuations, prompting record startup investments.

• Semiconductor firms joined rounds...

Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round alongside Claude Opus 5's benchmark leadership, signaling deep investor confidence in its AI...

SpaceX's $60B acquisition of Cursor now delivers direct AI coding integration for Falcon 9, Starship flight software, and Starlink network routing....

River AI's $1.1B round leads AI infrastructure deals this week.

• Blacksmith raised $45M for cloud CI tools backed by Google Ventures.
• Trajectory...

• Rapid rise: AI visibility tools raised over $270 million in under two years, with Profound reaching a $1 billion valuation.
• Monitor vs fix split:...

Early reports valued Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition at close to $10 billion, while later updates cited more than $7 billion.

This price evolution...

China Telecom led a several-hundred-million-yuan round for Mifeng Technology, a China-based embodied AI data services startup.

Recent rounds show broad capital flow across AI segments.

• River AI secured $1.1B Series A for Palo Alto research
• Lovable raised $400M Series C as...

As the AI boom matures, experts urge investors to move beyond momentum plays toward infrastructure-anchored positions for sustainable returns.

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• Hadrian closed a $1.37 billion raise to build AI-powered precision factories, marking one of 2026's largest industrial construction events.
• AI...

Traditional finance backers are signaling strong confidence in AI for regulated banking workflows. UBS Investment Bank and FactSet joined Finster AI's...

Two narratives clash on Anthropic's IPO:

• Conservative view: 2028 revenue pegged at $190-200B, with multiples applied to future forecasts amid heavy...

Stripe's move pairs payments infrastructure with AI model orchestration for sector expansion.

• OpenRouter's valuation exploded from $1.3B to over $7B...

Strong earnings fueled sharp rallies in CoreWeave and Microsoft, yet heavy risks cloud sustainability.

• CoreWeave revenue surged 112% to $2.6B with...