AI Funding Tracker

• Major funding: Chad Rigetti's Sygaldry secured $139M total, including $105M Series A led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (March) and $34M seed by...

• 21 NYC startups raised $50M+ each in Q1 2026, affirming NY as a top global VC market
• AI standouts: Normal Computing $50M Venture for AI...

Key highlights from Europe's Q1 2026 VC:

• AI dominance: $9.2B invested, over 50% of total funding—highest on record.
• Mega AI rounds: Nscale, Wayve,...

Crypto funding heats up with AI focus: Latest roundup reveals strong investor interest in AI projects.

• Oh closed $7.5M Series A led by Maven11...

Japan's tech heavyweights unite for physical AI breakthrough:

• SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda launch JV for trillion-parameter model targeting robots,...

• Aggressive early raise: Engramme, founded 2025 by Harvard's Gabriel Kreiman, eyes $100M at up to $1B valuation post-$3M pre-seed from Mayfield.
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Strategic M&A alert: OpenAI quietly acquires AI fintech startup Hiro to embed financial planning directly into ChatGPT.

• Core tech: Hiro's AI...

CoreWeave's landmark week for its capital structure reveals the aggressive financing strategies powering the AI infrastructure race.

Synera raises $40M Series B to scale its agentic AI platform that orchestrates the full engineering value chain across 80+ hardware tools, operating securely on-premise.

PeakMetrics, an AI-driven narrative intelligence platform for enterprises and government, closed a $6M Series A led by Moneta Ventures. Total funding now hits $16.3M, with participation from Techstars and others.

Early-Stage AI Fundings

• 🔥 Round's $6M Seed: London-based AI-powered finance automation platform Round raised $6 million in seed funding led by...

• Pharos Network completes $44M Series A for RWA Layer 1 blockchain; investors include Sumitomo CVC, SNZ, Chainlink, Flow Traders
• AI+Web3: Oh raises...

Massive AI chip funding boom: 18 private semiconductor firms scored mega-rounds over $100M, with Rapidus and Cerebras hitting $1B each.

• Focus on AI...

London AI fintech Round raises $6M seed to automate payments, payroll, and cash management, shifting teams from 'human middleware'.

• Investors: Led...

• $6M Series A closed by LA-based PeakMetrics, totaling $16.3M raised; led by Moneta Ventures with Techstars, Parameter Ventures, VITALIZE, Gurtin
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Massive funding fuels AI infrastructure loop:

• Bezos raising $100B fund for AI-driven industrial buys (chipmaking, aerospace) as testbeds.
• Pairs...

Alibaba Cloud leads $293M (2B yuan) round for Shenzhen's ShengShu, totaling ~$380M raised in 2026.

• Positions Alibaba as key infrastructure/capital...

Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI cybersecurity startup Astrix Security for up to $350M, targeting protection for non-human identities...

Y Combinator S24 startup Plume has closed a $3.9M funding round for its AI platform targeting energy infrastructure development. A key early-stage bet on AI optimizing energy systems.

SiFive Series G Funding

• 🔥 SiFive raises $400M led by Atreides: SiFive raised $400 million in an oversubscribed Series G funding round led by...