AI Funding

Manus has raised at least $500 million after its reported Meta deal collapsed, giving the AI startup fresh capital while questions remain over China’s role.

Nous Research reportedly raised $90 million for Hermes, an open-source AI agent that could expand competition in assistants and enterprise AI.

Zuckerberg-backed Biohub is coordinating $1.8 billion in funding and data to train AI models that could make drug research faster and more predictive.

Reports say DeepSeek is weighing a funding round of up to $15 billion, signaling rising investor appetite for Chinese AI despite disclosure gaps.

DeepSeek is reportedly seeking at least $12 billion from Tencent, CATL and other backers, a potential funding test for China’s AI infrastructure race.

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira will discuss how AI founders can finance infrastructure, talent and growth at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026—and build lasting companies.

Flow Engineering raised $50 million at a $750 million valuation to expand AI agents for hardware design, backed by Valar, Atreides, and Sequoia.

Restate raises $20 million to scale durable execution for AI agents, challenging Temporal as longer, failure-prone workflows drive infrastructure demand.

EliseAI has reached a $4 billion valuation in a funding round led by a16z and Bessemer, raising the stakes for AI in property management.

British neocloud Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in pre-IPO convertible notes from Third Point, Nvidia and others to build AI data centers.

Lightspeed is targeting a $250 million India fund for early AI startups, aligning regional fundraising with its global cycle and shortening deployment.

Ema raised $77 million in Series B funding to expand AI-agent automation across enterprise workflows and challenge software and IT services spending.

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised $40 million to build confidential, task-based AI benchmarking for companies and federal agencies as older tests s…

Profound raised $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation, accelerating the race to help brands rank in AI-generated search results as enterprise demand grows.

Dutch AI chip startup Euclyd has raised $231 million in a Samsung co-led round, signaling stronger competition around Nvidia in AI infrastructure.

Temporal reportedly raised $550 million in a Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, underscoring demand for infrastructure behind AI agents.

The Pentagon is reportedly discussing a $5 billion loan for AI cloud startup Fluidstack, a potential test of public financing for compute infrastructure.

Listen Labs reportedly abandoned a signed $125 million round as Salesforce weighs a roughly $2 billion acquisition, reshaping its AI market research path.

Mistral AI has raised €3 billion at a valuation above €21 billion, giving Europe’s leading AI startup more capital to compete with larger rivals.

Reports say Samsung is leading new Mistral funding, but conflicting figures and missing primary documents leave the round’s size and terms unverified.