Funding & Investments News
Startup funding rounds, venture capital investments, and corporate funding in robotics and AI.
- Cymphony Emerges With $30M Series A To Police Enterprise AI Agents — — Sequoia and SMBC lead a $30M Series A for Cymphony, a stealth-exit startup building an identity layer that gives enterprise security teams control ove...
- AIDIN Robotics Lands KRW16B From HD Hyundai, Samsung To Give Humanoids A Sense Of Touch — — South Korea's AIDIN Robotics closed a KRW16 billion strategic round from HD Hyundai Robotics and Samsung Venture Investment to scale force-torque and...
- Kinetix AI Bags $75M Angel Round From Vertex Ventures To Scale Ultra-Human KAIBot — — Shenzhen-based embodied AI startup Kinetix AI raises $75M Angel+ round led by Temasek's Vertex Ventures to scale its 115-DoF KAIBot humanoid and close...
- Pentagon in Talks to Lend Fluidstack $5B for AI Data-Center Supply Chain — — The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is in talks to lend roughly $5 billion to AI cloud startup Fluidstack to secure US data-center supply chain...
- Boring Company Raises $3B Series D at $23B Valuation, UAE Leads — — The Boring Company closed a $3 billion Series D at a $23 billion valuation led by the UAE, with Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Temasek, Valor Equity Pa...
- Mach Industries Doubles Valuation to $3.7B on $600M Series C Extension — — Mach Industries raised a fresh $600 million in a Series C extension co-participated by Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital and Sequoia —...
- Maven Robotics Exits Stealth With $100M To Ship 250 Warehouse Bots — — Maven Robotics, founded by an ex-Apple special-projects engineer, exits stealth with a $100M Series A led by Nasdaq-listed BOT fund RoboStrategy to bu...
- Ayar Labs Adds $150M To Series E, Pushes Photonic Chiplet Round To $650M — — Ayar Labs extended its Series E to $650M with a fresh $150M cheque, and a $225M secondary lifts the co-packaged-optics startup past $5B as Nvidia, AMD...
- Positron Raises $875M Series C At $5B To Chase Nvidia On Inference — — NEA leads an $875M Series C for Positron at $5B, with Atreides, Valor Equity, Andra, SemiAnalysis Capital and Jim Clark backing the memory-first Asimo...
- SinapisAI Raises ~$14.9M To Orchestrate A Multi-Model AI Future — — Nanjing-based SinapisAI closed a first-round financing of nearly RMB 100 million (about $14.9M) to build the 'learnware' orchestration layer for many-...
- Australia's Metacognition AI Bags A$10M Pre-Seed To Give Models Long-Term Memory — — Adelaide's Metacognition AI raised A$10 million from Main Sequence to build a memory-and-control layer that sits under frontier models — roughly 10× t...
- Wyre AI Raises $5M To Auto-Read Construction Docs Before They Cost Money — — Pype veteran Sunil Dorairajan's new startup Wyre AI raised $5M led by Ironspring Ventures to turn construction drawings into structured scopes and fla...
- Suniva Closes $835M Raise to Quadruple U.S. Solar Cell Capacity in South Carolina — — Goldman Sachs Alternatives and I Squared Capital lead an $835 million debt-and-equity package that will fund Suniva’s 4.5 GW Laurens County solar-cell...
- CloudNC Bags $20M Series B Extension As AI Programming Reaches 1,000 Machine Shops — — Nimble Ventures leads a $20M extension for London's CloudNC, whose CAM Assist AI now runs at more than 1,000 machine shops from Chelmsford to Lockheed...
- Harvey Locks In $550M At $15.5B Valuation As Legal AI's Runaway Leader — — Diffusion and Lightspeed co-lead a fresh $550M round that pushes Harvey's valuation to $15.5B just months after it hit $11B, with ARR already north of...
- Mistral Locks In €3B Samsung-Led Series D at €21B, Europe's Biggest-Ever Tech Round — — Paris-based Mistral AI closed a €3 billion (~$3.5B) Series D at a €21B post-money valuation on September 8, 2026 — the largest equity fundraising ever...
- Physical Superintelligence Launches With $58M Seed To Industrialize Physics Discovery — — Cambridge lab Physical Superintelligence exits stealth with $58M led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, deploying its Emmy platform of virtual physicist...
- QNu Labs Raises ₹200 Crore Series A1 To Scale India's Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity Stack — — Bengaluru's QNu Labs has closed a ₹200 crore (~$21M) Series A1 led by India's National Quantum Mission and Speciale Invest, with Sony Innovation Fund,...
- DMM.com Backs Algomatic Dynamics With ¥5B To Launch Japan's Physical AI Hand Platform — — Tokyo-based Algomatic Dynamics kicks off physical AI operations with a ¥5 billion (~$34M) first check from DMM.com, targeting a domestic release of it...
- TEC Bags Europe's Largest-Ever Space Series C: $450M For Nyx And Storm — — Munich-based The Exploration Company raised $450M co-led by Bessemer, Atomico and the EQT Scaleup Europe Fund, betting Europe needs its own reusable r...