AI Funding Tracker

MSIV Fund II raised over $11 million—with 98% from Marin and Sonoma residents and institutions—doubling AUM to $17.7 million and fueling investments...

Skalar's $125M commitment to fund startups, secured shortly after its January 2026 founding in New York, points to investor willingness to back new...

Naive AI raised $120 million at a $1.42 billion valuation as a secretive Beijing startup, yet offers no verified details on product traction, revenue, customers, or model performance.

Is AI compressing decacorn timelines so aggressively that durable value gets left behind?

• Record pace: 42 decacorns in 2026 already, beating 2021's...

AI capital flows fast, yet most diligence ignores what scaling actually requires. The BEACON heuristic redirects focus to physical and deployment...

Vesta's $30M Series B drew direct participation from mortgage firms including Pennymac, New American Funding, nbkc bank, and FirstKey Mortgage.

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Nuvacore seeks hundreds of millions at a roughly $2.5 billion valuation despite having no product and only six months since founding.

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$2B round for AI cloud and power systems directly ties expansion to rising energy and data center needs, yet the report provides no details on...

Startups now bring on their first Head of Security well before compliance crises hit, driven by buyer, AI, and investor pressures.

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AI leaders privately game out catastrophic incidents and congressional briefings to shape post-crisis rules, yet what visible safeguards or...

• Mecka AI raises $60 million for specialized human motion datasets to train robots
• Micro1 commits $1 billion to license enterprise operational data...

• Financing facts: TypeSafe raised $870M at $7.5B valuation in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with Sequoia and DCVC, less than a month after Jev...

ElevenLabs doubled its valuation to $22 billion via a $300 million tender offer, driven by enterprise demand for AI voice agents now handling 15...

AI financing is growing large enough to shape the broader price of capital beyond tech.

• Broadcom, Oracle and SpaceX are channeling tens of...

AI infrastructure is pumping real cash into rural towns, but the gains hinge on short-lived construction crews rather than steady operations.

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Antler maintains its high-volume approach, with stakes in around 2,000 companies, despite growing AI froth.

Aron, a San Francisco AI startup, has raised a $6 million seed round led by Storm Ventures to build an "AI Chief of Staff" that automates executive workflows.

• Explosive growth: AI startups raised $438 Mn in Q3, up 265% YoY across 35 deals, far outpacing the wider ecosystem's flat 5% funding rise.
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Cybersecurity investment reached a four-year high in Q3 2026, driven by AI agent protection.

• Global funding hit $5.26 billion, nearly double the...

Vocca's $20M Series A validates voice AI's focus on concrete admin pain points, automating patient calls, intake, and appointment scheduling for...