Funding & Investments News
Startup funding rounds, venture capital investments, and corporate funding in robotics and AI.
- Qingxing Raises 100M Yuan Series A+ For Quantum-Inspired AI On Regular GPUs — — Shanghai's Qingxing Heterogeneous Computing has raised ~100M yuan ($14.9M) across two rounds in three months to scale RiverONE, a quantum-inspired vis...
- Feather Robotics Bags $7.6M Pre-Seed To Sell A $30K Developer Humanoid — — Feather Robotics raises $7.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Gradient Ventures to sell a $30,000 modular humanoid that developers can customize and...
- Cognition Says Devin Has Doubled To $1B ARR In Four Months — — AI coding startup Cognition told Bloomberg on 25 September that Devin's annualized revenue has crossed $1 billion, up from $492M in May — roughly a 20...
- Noxtua Raises €100M Series C As C.H. Beck Takes Majority Stake In Sovereign Legal AI — — Berlin-based sovereign legal AI startup Noxtua closed a €100M+ Series C on September 23, 2026 with German legal publisher C.H. Beck taking a majority...
- Eight Knot Closes First Tranche of ¥450M Series A for Autonomous Ships — — Osaka's Eight Knot has closed the first close of a ¥450M Series A led by ITOCHU Technology Ventures and Nissei Capital to scale its AI CAPTAIN autonom...
- Redefine Surgery Closes $10M Pre-Seed, Names Catalyst OrthoScience Partner — — Redefine Surgery has closed an oversubscribed $10M pre-seed and named Catalyst OrthoScience as its founding partner in shoulder replacement.
- ASI, SoftBank Form JV and Take $225M Bet on Autonomous Construction — — SoftBank Group has invested $225M in Autonomous Solutions Inc and formed a joint venture to develop fully autonomous construction equipment at scale.
- Cloud-Seeding Startup Rainmaker Raises $100M Series B To Scale Drone Fleets — — Rainmaker has raised $100M Series B led by NOA VC to scale its drone-based glaciogenic cloud-seeding platform after producing 145M gallons of precipit...
- Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...
- BigHat Biosciences Closes $75M Series C, Pushes AI-Designed ADC Into Phase 1 — — DFJ Growth and Premji Invest co-lead BigHat's $75M Series C as its first Milner-designed antibody, BHB810, doses first patient in gastric cancer trial...
- Nexstrom Raises $12M Seed To Bring First 12-Inch 2D Semiconductors To Foundries — — Singapore startup Nexstrom raised $12M seed led by Xora Innovation to industrialise transition-metal dichalcogenide 2D chip materials on standard 300...
- UAE's Stone Venture Leads GENISOM AI Series B As Robot Output Passes 15,000 — — Beijing quadruped-robot maker GENISOM AI closed a Series B "in the tens of millions of dollars" led by Abu Dhabi's Stone Venture and Hongshan Capital...
- Precision Neuroscience Closes $250M Series D Led By Pershing Square — — Precision Neuroscience, the brain-computer interface company founded by ex-Neuralink co-founder Benjamin Rapoport, raised an oversubscribed $250M Seri...
- OpenEvidence Reportedly Raises $250M At $15B Valuation, Led By a16z — — OpenEvidence has reportedly closed a fresh $250 million round at a $15 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz - roughly 25% above where it was...
- O-ID Raises $1.2M Pre-Seed to Move Modular Humanoid Robots Into Japanese Factories — — TAWANI Ventures led a $1.2M pre-seed round in Tokyo-based O-ID, whose hot-swappable modular humanoid targets Japanese factories facing an 11-million-w...
- Anaconda Biomed Bags $56M To Finish US Stroke Catheter Pivotal Trial — — Omega Funds led a $56M raise into Barcelona's Anaconda Biomed to finish the 327-patient ATHENA trial for its ANA Funnel Catheter stroke thrombectomy p...
- AlphaGo Co-Architect Thore Graepel Launches AI Reasoning Startup Metis — — Ex-DeepMind principal scientist Thore Graepel, credited with AlphaGo, is raising tens of millions for Metis Reasoning to bring structured search back...
- DeepSeek closes in on $6.88B round at $68.8B valuation — — DeepSeek chief executive Liang Wenfeng told investors on Sunday that the Chinese AI lab has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue and is finalizing...
- Tower Semiconductor commits $4B to Japan silicon-photonics hub — — Tower Semiconductor detailed a $4 billion Japan expansion — backed by a $1 billion METI subsidy — that will convert its Arai fab into a 300mm silicon-...
- PicoJool raises $27.5M Series A to scale VCSEL optics for AI clusters — — Pat Gelsinger-backed PicoJool raised a $27.5 million Series A led by Socratic Partners to ship its 200G VCSELs and MicroVCSELs into hyperscale AI clus...