Startup funding this week: the startups that raised, Oct 12–Oct 19, 2026
Startup funding rounds announced from Oct 12 to Oct 19, 2026: the largest with the amount linked to its announcement, by industry and stage, the startups flagged in stealth before they announced, and the founders behind them.
In the seven days to October 19, 2026, 197 startups announced a funding round with a sourced amount (271 announced a round in all). The largest were ZeroCarbon ($800M), Modal ($750M) and ID Finance ($609.75M).
The largest rounds this week
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Amount | Announced | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | other | series-b+ | $800M | enterpriseam.com | ||
| 2 | ai | series-b+ | $750M | DatacenterDynamics | ||
| 3 | fintech | unknown | $609.75M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 4 | ai | series-b+ | $445M | mingtiandi.com | ||
| 5 | bio-health | series-b+ | $400M | stryker.com | ||
| 6 | ai | series-b+ | $343.64M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 7 | bio-health | series-b+ | $310M | biotechtv.com | ||
| 8 | robotics-hardware | series-b+ | $298.82M | eet-china.com | ||
| 9 | ai | series-b+ | $224M | ventureburn.com | ||
| 10 | data-analytics | series-b+ | $180M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 11 | robotics-hardware | series-b+ | $149.56M | 36kr.com | ||
| 12 | robotics-hardware | series-b+ | $149.41M | news.pedaily.cn | ||
| 13 | ai | series-b+ | $149.39M | guandian.cn | ||
| 14 | bio-health | series-b+ | $135.04M | manilatimes.net | ||
| 15 | bio-health | series-b+ | $135M | endpoints.news | ||
| 16 | robotics-hardware | series-b+ | $125M | tech.eu | ||
| 17 | bio-health | series-a | $103M | estuarybio.com | ||
| 18 | ai | series-b+ | $100M | thesaasnews.com | ||
| 19 | bio-health | series-b+ | $82M | fortune.com | ||
| 20 | energy-climate | series-b+ | $78M | mercomcapital.com | ||
| 21 | robotics-hardware | series-b+ | $75M | equitypandit.com | ||
| 22 | insurtech | series-b+ | $70M | finance.yahoo.com | ||
| 23 | infra-devtools | series-a | $65M | vcnewsdaily.com | ||
| 24 | fintech | seed | $61M | ascendants.in | ||
| 25 | data-analytics | series-b+ | $60M | vcnewsdaily.com |
Every amount links to its announcement. The rest of the week's rounds, and every round since, are on recently funded startups.
By industry
| Industry | Companies |
|---|---|
| ai | 48 |
| bio-health | 31 |
| robotics-hardware | 23 |
| energy-climate | 11 |
| logistics-mobility | 11 |
| fintech | 9 |
| ai-agents | 7 |
| security-privacy | 7 |
| other | 6 |
| ecommerce-retail | 5 |
| enterprise-software | 5 |
| data-analytics | 4 |
| edtech | 4 |
| food-agriculture | 4 |
| payments-stablecoins | 4 |
| defi | 3 |
| infra-devtools | 3 |
| media-marketing | 3 |
| insurtech | 2 |
| legal-gov | 2 |
| proptech | 2 |
| trading-markets | 1 |
By stage
| Stage | Companies |
|---|---|
| seed | 66 |
| series-b+ | 43 |
| unknown | 30 |
| pre-seed | 29 |
| series-a | 29 |
Flagged in stealth before they announced
The last column is the days between the stealth flag and this week's announcement.
| # | Company | Industry | Stage | Flagged | Latest round | Announced | Days from flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Phinity Labs | — | unknown | $5.2M | 122 |
All flagged companies are on stealth startups.
The founders behind this week's rounds
| Founder | Role | Company | Flagged | Latest round | Announced | Listed at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Willers | Founder | — | $645.6K | 120ft.com | ||
| Jannik Schall | Founder | — | $78M | — | ||
| Micha Grueber | Founder | — | $78M | — | ||
| Michael Hinderer | Founder | — | $78M | — | ||
| Ole Michaelis | Head of Engineering | — | $78M | — | ||
| Philip Liesenfeld | Founder | — | $78M | — | ||
| Philipp Schröder | Founder | — | $78M | — | ||
| Sara Kola | Lead Software Engineer | — | $78M | — | ||
| Jérémy Benhaim | Founder | — | undisclosed | — | ||
| Anupam Sengupta | Founder | — | $8M | — | ||
| Mikhail Zhavoronkov | Founder | — | $8M | — | ||
| Nirmal Chudgar | Chief Product Officer | — | $8M | — | ||
| Praveer Kumar | President, Product, Technology & Technical Operations | — | $8M | — | ||
| Saikat Dey | Founder | — | $8M | — | ||
| Havi Nguyen | Founder | — | $82M | — | ||
| Rudolph E. Tanzi | Scientific Founder | — | $24M | actapharmaceuticals.com | ||
| Ashish Verma | Founder | — | $315.3K | adgraam.com | ||
| Saad Mohammad | Founder | — | $315.3K | adgraam.com | ||
| Sahil Bhatnagar | Founder | — | $315.3K | adgraam.com | ||
| Gaston Reeder | Founder | — | undisclosed | — |
More founders are on founders.
Get this data
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $RF_KEY" "https://recentfunding.com/api/v1/rounds?since=2026-10-12"Every parameter is in the API docs. Last week's roundup: week of Sep 29.
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