Funding — Page 10
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- MGX's $49 Billion AI Fund Turns Abu Dhabi Into a Whole-Stack AI Backer
The two-year-old state-backed investor beat its $45 billion target, but it has not named the limited partners behind Fund I.
- Wayve opens $85 million employee tender as Alex Kendall turns autonomy hype into a talent fight
The secondary sale gives staff liquidity at an $8.5 billion valuation while Wayve pushes toward Uber pilots and Nissan integrations.
- Omnea founder Ben Freeman wants to turn employee churn into a $250K seed check
The London procurement AI company will let five-year employees pitch for $250,000, even though no one is eligible yet.
- Sazabi raises $8M seed to make observability self-healing
Sherwood Callaway is turning his Brex infrastructure scars into an AI-native reliability layer for teams shipping agent-written code.
- Apptronik's $520M extension puts Apollo's factory bet on the clock
The Austin humanoid robotics company has raised nearly $1B, but Mercedes-Benz remains a pilot proof point, not a scaled deployment.
- General Intuition raises $320M for Pim de Witte's gamer-data bet on real-world AI agents
The $2.3B figure is valuation, not cash, as the Medal spinout tries to turn action-labeled gameplay into robotics and simulation agents.
- Probook raises $40 million by putting AI at the dispatch board
George Eliadis started with missed pressure-washing calls. Sequoia and a16z are betting that dispatch is the control point in home services.
- Coval raises $28M to test voice AI like Waymo tested cars
Norwest led Brooke Hopkins' Series A as enterprises push voice agents from demos into production calls.
- Seltz Lands $12.5 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
Antonio Mallia, an Amazon and Pinecone veteran, is betting agents need their own crawler, index, retrieval models, and ranking stack.
- Bloomberg: Dutch chip startup Euclyd is seeking about 200 million euros for a Series A, not yet closed
Bloomberg reports Euclyd has several term sheets, but no named lead investor or valuation, and the amount could change.
- Yinka Ogunbiyi's HaloBraid raises $7M to bring robotics into the braid salon
Seven Seven Six led the seed round for a salon assistant that starts with the stylist instead of trying to replace her.
- Fika Jobs raises $4M for AI video interviews that try to get past the resume
The Stockholm company is betting that candidates should keep live video profiles that employers can browse before a role opens.
- Firefly Aerospace's $110M EXIM loan would put Jason Kim's moon factory inside U.S. industrial policy
The expected loan would fund Texas spacecraft production after Firefly turned Blue Ghost into a credible lunar manufacturing story.
- Groq raises $650M for life after Ross and Nvidia
Adam Winter is taking Groq deeper into AI inference cloud after Nvidia licensed its LPU technology and hired away its founding CEO.
- Spiro adds $55 million from NewTrails as it pushes Africa EV network toward unicorn scale
The follow-on check lifts Spiro's June equity round to $270 million, but the valuation behind the unicorn claim remains undisclosed.
- Dino Mavrookas's Saronic leads an $18.8B robotics funding rush
Crunchbase says robotics startups have already topped 2025 funding, with maritime autonomy, humanoids and industrial robots pulling the biggest checks.
- Humble Robotics' $24M seed puts Eyal Cohen's cabless freight bet on the road
The San Francisco startup is aiming at short-haul, dock-to-dock freight instead of retrofitting a human truck for autonomy.
- Biwei Huang's Aether AI raises $20M to make robots reason through cause and effect
The UC San Diego causal AI researcher is turning a decade of academic work into a physical AI company with a still-unproven commercial path.
- CuspAI's Chad Edwards lines up $400M at a $2.6B valuation
The Cambridge materials AI company has signed term sheets, but the round is not closed - a key caveat for a 5x markup in nine months.
- Sebastian Kurz's DREAM raises $260M at a $3B valuation for sovereign AI cyber defense
The former Austrian chancellor and ex-NSO cofounder Shalev Hulio are pitching governments on cyber systems they control themselves.
- Prem AI seeks $100M Series A for private enterprise AI
Founder Simone Giacomelli is targeting at least a $500 million valuation for a round expected to close in Q3 2026.
- Bryant Chou's Ploy raises $27M to make websites operate themselves
The former Webflow CTO is launching Ploy with a $27M seed; YC lists the startup with a 14-person team.
- Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed to make AI prove its work
Ranjan Rajagopalan's new AI lab is betting regulated industries need deterministic checks more than another fluent chatbot.
- Radical Numerics raises $50M seed to build AI for biology and biodefense
Eric Nguyen and the Evo research team are turning generative genomics into a company with Omnii, a model aimed at DNA, RNA and proteins.