Funding
Artificial intelligence funding encompasses the venture capital, corporate investments and financial transactions that sustain the development of AI companies and infrastructure. Truncated covers capital raises, investment rounds, venture activity and financing trends across the sector.
A former Apple and Uber engineer raised $51 million to rethink the self-driving truck
Business Insider — Humble Robotics raised $51 million to build electric, cabless self-driving trucks. Founder Eyal Cohen previously worked at Apple, Uber, and Waabi.
Firmly Lands $15 Million as Investors Back the Merchant Side of Agentic Commerce
PYMNTS.com — Artificial intelligence agents are becoming a new place to shop faster than merchants can plug into them. Analysts expect AI-driven traffic to retail
Five years after its Series A, insurance AI startup Kalepa raises $75M at $470M valuation — TFN
Tech Funding News — Kalepa raised $75 million in a Series B at a $470 million valuation, led by Updata Partners. The New York-based insurance AI start-up previously closed a
How the midterms could fuel the K-shaped AI trade
CNBC — U.S. midterm results could slow data center development, raising the value of existing AI capacity while increasing pressure on debt-funded neoclouds.
Kabilio zips €10M from Picus Capital and Visionaries to put an AI agent inside accounting firms — TFN
Tech Funding News — Barcelona startup Kabilio raises €10M led by Picus Capital and Visionaries to develop AI accounting agents, reporting growth to over 500 accounting firms.
SFC Capital backs Nayara's AI platform for patient care
Tech.eu — UK-based healthtech company develops AI-powered companions designed to support patients between clinical appointments and help healthcare teams manage routine enquiries and workloads.
Memrise co-founder's Mindmax raises $3.3M. Can AI tutoring help with 'cognitive surrender'? — TFN
Tech Funding News — Memrise co-founder Ed Cooke’s Mindmax raises $3.3M led by Concept Ventures to build an AI tutor for professional exams, upskilling and knowledge retention.
Meet the AI company retiring your CPA so he can still see you face to face this tax season
Fortune — Numica has bought seven small accounting firms from owners ready to retire. Software does the books, and the old CPA can stay on to see clients.
India's EloElo raises $80M for AI microdramas
GamesBeat — India's EloElo has raised $80 million in a round of funding for its serialized microdramas.
Ai2 gets $5M from Google to turn AI weather model into a tool for projecting climate change
GeekWire — Google is giving the Allen Institute for AI about $5 million, plus $1.8 million in cloud credits, to turn NeuralGCM, a Google AI weather model, into an open-source tool for projecting climate change over the next five to 50 years. Ai2 plans to add the ocean to the model, work on making it reliable in a warmer world and release the code for training it.
Finpilot raises $10M for AI agents that handle the grunt work for institutional investors
GeekWire — Finpilot co-founder and CEO Lakshay Chauhan. (Finpilot Photo) Seattle startup Finpilot, which uses AI agents to take the paperwork off the plates of
Quantum, Nuclear, And More: America Is Working On Next-Level Tech
Most Venture Capital Is Going To Companies That Are Founded Or Led By Billionaires
Crunchbase News — More than half of all seed- through growth-stage venture capital raised in the U.S. so far in 2026 went to seven companies founded or led by men who are already billionaires. Together, these companies raised more than $260 billion in equity funding in the first 10 months of the year.
Dario Amodei wants 'a country of geniuses in a data center.' Realizing that vision requires risky financial mechanics, Anthropic's IPO filing shows
Fortune — Anthropic has used convertible notes and a Broadcom deal to finance its compute. Analysts say it won't be able to tap investment-grade funding for long.
Journify Raises $12M Series A Amid 5x Growth
AI cloud startup Applied Compute raises $350M after reaching key revenue milestone
SiliconANGLE — AI cloud startup Applied Compute raises $350M after reaching key revenue milestone - SiliconANGLE
Apollo’s Record AI Lending Begins to Rival Banking Giants
PYMNTS.com — Apollo Global’s lending reportedly hit a record $114 billion during the quarter thanks to its AI funding efforts. That figure marked a 50% increase over
Finance Minister calls Cohere the “poster child” for government investment
BetaKit — François-Philippe Champagne says he foresees the state playing a larger role in creating domestic “champions.”
AI Inference Startup Fal Raises Capital at $16 Billion Valuation
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