AI Funding Pulse

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Venture debt reached a record $68.8 billion in 2025, emerging as a core strategic tool rather than last-resort financing.

• AI accounted for 63.5% of...

The race to secure AI chip capacity is driving record investments from both new entrants and established players.

• Terafab megaproject: Tesla,...

Quanscient raised €10M in Series A funding led by 55 North and B&C Group to expand its cloud-based multiphysics simulation platform for engineering...

Didit raises $6M to build AI-native identity infrastructure, an early-stage bet on identity verification as foundational tooling for AI agents and services.

OpenRouter's $113M Series B at $1.3B valuation shows investors betting on routing as essential AI infrastructure, not just model labs.

• Multi-model...

Diverse players are pouring capital into AI infrastructure at unprecedented scale.

• Modal Labs raised $355M at $4.65B valuation for its serverless...

China's AI sector drew over 110 billion yuan in Q1 2026 across nearly 600 deals, with large models and embodied intelligence leading. Heavy spending...

ANSCER Robotics' Rs 45 Cr round highlights accelerating applied AI adoption in India's industrial sector, as the Bengaluru firm scales autonomous mobile robots and fleet software for warehouses and factories.

Core42 secured $550M via two HSBC trade finance facilities (Feb/May 2026) to expand AI cloud deployments in the US and Europe.

• Non-equity...

Voxmind closed a £546k pre-seed round to deliver on-device voice authentication and deepfake detection, directly targeting the gap created when...

Perceptic's $12M seed round underscores rising early-stage bets on platforms that connect disparate AI tools and proprietary pharma data across the...

Lucis's platform merges biomarker testing, longitudinal data, and physician-reviewed AI insights for preventive care.

• Analyzes 110+ blood...

Global AI infrastructure spending is accelerating across major markets, yet returns lag far behind.

• Indian VCs are pivoting from consumer apps to...

Flexprice's $1.5M seed round underscores surging demand for specialized billing tools tailored to AI's dynamic usage models.

• Platform focus:...

The AI chip billionaires control the foundation every model runs on, as Jensen Huang's $165 billion stake in Nvidia (80-81% AI accelerator share)...

Infrastructure Funding Highlights

• 🔥 Exa Series C: Exa raised $250 million in a Series C round for its AI-native search infrastructure aimed at...

Overwatch AI closed a $1.5M pre-seed round with backers including United Airlines Ventures and Pegasus Innovation Lab to expand its offline Wingman...

• NVIDIA commits $2B to Marvell for NVLink Fusion and silicon photonics integration, while AMD pledges over $10B in Taiwan for AI chip production and...