AI startup funding: the AI startups that raised this week and the largest AI rounds this month
The AI startups that announced a funding round in the last seven days, the largest AI rounds of the last 30 days, AI funding by stage, and AI agent startups, with every amount linked to its announcement. Updated every week.
On October 26, 2026, 72 AI startups on Recent Funding had announced a round in the previous seven days (since October 19, 2026), 303 in the last 30 days and 1038 in the last 90, out of 1144 startups in all industries in the last 30 days. The largest AI rounds of the week went to Flapping Airplanes ($1B), Neolix ($400M) and Pathos ($237M).
Each company appears once, with its latest round by announcement date; amounts are as announced, in US dollars, each linked to its source, and rounds without a sourced amount are counted but not listed (methodology). This page is rebuilt every Monday.
AI startups that raised this week
47 of the 72 AI startups that announced a round since October 19, 2026 have a sourced amount. Newest first:
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Amount | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai | series-a | $7.4M | finsmes.com | ||
| 2 | ai | seed | $4M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 3 | ai | series-b+ | $237M | axios.com | ||
| 4 | ai | series-b+ | $30.62M | prtimes.jp | ||
| 5 | ai | seed | $30M | theaiinsider.tech | ||
| 6 | ai | series-b+ | $130M | prnewswire.com | ||
| 7 | ai | series-b+ | $74.92M | iyiou.com | ||
| 8 | ai | unknown | $18.3M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 9 | ai | seed | $13.45M | tech.eu | ||
| 10 | ai | seed | $10M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 11 | ai | seed | $9.5M | finance.yahoo.com | ||
| 12 | ai | unknown | $7.84M | tech.eu | ||
| 13 | ai | seed | $5M | commercialobserver.com | ||
| 14 | ai | seed | $3M | bwdisrupt.com | ||
| 15 | ai | pre-seed | $2.5M | startupresearcher.com | ||
| 16 | ai | series-a | $1B | indexventures.com | ||
| 17 | ai | series-a | $34M | prnewswire.com | ||
| 18 | ai | unknown | $17.2M | lnkd.in | ||
| 19 | ai | unknown | $11.23M | tech.eu | ||
| 20 | ai | series-a | $6.38M | wowtale.net | ||
| 21 | ai | unknown | $2.02M | tech.eu | ||
| 22 | ai | series-b+ | $400M | tradingview.com | ||
| 23 | ai | seed | $230M | tradersunion.com | ||
| 24 | ai | series-a | $150M | theaiinsider.tech | ||
| 25 | ai | series-b+ | $115M | reliable.co |
Every new round, in all industries, is on recently funded startups.
The largest AI funding rounds of the last 30 days
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Amount | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai | series-a | $1B | indexventures.com | ||
| 2 | ai | series-b+ | $750M | DatacenterDynamics | ||
| 3 | ai | unknown | $500M | techcrunch.com | ||
| 4 | ai | series-b+ | $475M | siliconangle.com | ||
| 5 | ai | series-b+ | $445M | mingtiandi.com | ||
| 6 | ai | series-b+ | $400M | tradingview.com | ||
| 7 | ai | series-b+ | $350M | startupitalia.eu | ||
| 8 | ai | series-b+ | $343.64M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 9 | ai | series-b+ | $237M | axios.com | ||
| 10 | ai | seed | $230M | tradersunion.com | ||
| 11 | ai | series-b+ | $224M | ventureburn.com | ||
| 12 | ai | series-a | $150M | theaiinsider.tech | ||
| 13 | ai | series-b+ | $149.39M | guandian.cn | ||
| 14 | ai | series-b+ | $145M | economictimes.indiatimes.com | ||
| 15 | ai | series-b+ | $130M | prnewswire.com | ||
| 16 | ai | series-b+ | $115M | reliable.co | ||
| 17 | ai | series-b+ | $100M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 18 | ai | series-b+ | $100M | news.pedaily.cn | ||
| 19 | ai | series-b+ | $90M | wsj.com | ||
| 20 | ai | series-b+ | $90M | linkedin.com |
AI funding by stage
AI startups with a round announced in the last 30 days, by the stage of that round (unknown: the announcement named none):
| Stage | Companies |
|---|---|
| seed | 141 |
| pre-seed | 74 |
| series-a | 37 |
| series-b+ | 35 |
| unknown | 16 |
The largest pre-seed and seed AI rounds of the last 30 days:
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Amount | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai | seed | $230M | tradersunion.com | ||
| 2 | ai | seed | $60M | finsmes.com | ||
| 3 | ai | seed | $30M | theaiinsider.tech | ||
| 4 | ai | seed | $26M | unite.ai | ||
| 5 | ai | seed | $16M | tech.eu | ||
| 6 | ai | seed | $16M | app.dealroom.co | ||
| 7 | ai | seed | $15M | theinformation.com | ||
| 8 | ai | seed | $14.96M | hkcd.com.hk | ||
| 9 | ai | seed | $13.45M | tech.eu | ||
| 10 | ai | seed | $12.2M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 11 | ai | seed | $12M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 12 | ai | seed | $12M | biometricupdate.com | ||
| 13 | ai | seed | $11.2M | tradersunion.com | ||
| 14 | ai | seed | $11M | autopoiesis.science | ||
| 15 |  Ghost AI | ai | seed | $11M | techcrunch.com |
More by stage: pre-seed, seed, Series A and Series B.
AI agent startups
Companies whose main product is an AI agent are their own industry, ai-agents, so they are not in the lists above. 31 announced a round in the last 30 days. The largest:
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Amount | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai-agents | series-b+ | $50M | x.com | ||
| 2 | ai-agents | pre-seed | $34M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 3 | ai-agents | series-a | $33M | calcalistech.com | ||
| 4 | ai-agents | series-a | $32M | pulse2.com | ||
| 5 | ai-agents | series-b+ | $30M | techcrunch.com | ||
| 6 | ai-agents | series-b+ | $29M | entrepreneur.economictimes.indiatimes.com | ||
| 7 | ai-agents | series-a | $20M | app.dealroom.co | ||
| 8 | ai-agents | series-a | $18M | pulse2.com | ||
| 9 | ai-agents | series-a | $17M | siena.cx | ||
| 10 | ai-agents | series-a | $15M | finsmes.com |
AI companies filed under other industries (developer tools, security, robotics, drug discovery) are grouped more finely in the categories directory, for example AI agents and AI infrastructure.
The founders behind recent AI rounds
| Founder | Title | Company | Founding team | Latest round | Announced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founder | Three founders | $1B | |||
| Founder | Two founders | $750M | |||
X · LinkedIn | Founder | Solo founder | $500M | ||
| YEYu Enyuan | Founder | Solo founder | $400M | ||
| Co-founder and CEO | Three founders | $350M | |||
| Founder | Two founders | $343.64M |
More in recently funded startup founders.
AI startups flagged in stealth before they raised
46 of the AI startups that announced a round in the last 90 days had been flagged as a stealth startup before the announcement:
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Flagged | Latest round | Announced | Days from flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ai | seed | $41M | 26 | |||
| 2 | ai | seed | $60M | 57 | |||
| 3 | ai | seed | $9M | 4 | |||
| 4 | ai | unknown | $1.3M | 27 | |||
| 5 | ai | series-a | $50M | 27 | |||
| 6 | ai | seed | $40M | 72 | |||
| 7 | ai | seed | $26M | 106 | |||
| 8 | ai | seed | $6.5M | 63 | |||
| 9 | ai | series-b+ | $5M | 94 | |||
| 10 | ai | series-b+ | $100M | 66 |
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