July 2026 Raises
Norm | raised $120 million at a $1.2 billion valuation, achieving unicorn status. AI-native law firm that uses AI agents supervised by human attorneys to deliver legal services with outcome-based pricing instead of billable hours.
Gradium | raised $100 million in Seed funding backed by Nvidia. Paris-based voice AI startup developing ultra-low-latency audio models for real-time AI agents and conversational applications.
Ollama | raised $65 million in Series B funding and has grown to nearly 9 million monthly users. Open-source platform that enables developers to run large language models locally on their own computers.
Baseten | raised $1.5 billion in Series F funding at a $13 billion valuation. AI inference platform that powers production AI applications, processing more than 1 billion API calls daily across 18 cloud providers.
Together AI | raised $800 million in Series C funding at an $8.3 billion valuation. AI cloud platform offering hosted open-weight large language models with fast, cost-efficient infrastructure built for AI workloads.
Natural | raised $30 million in Series A funding at a valuation of Undisclosed, led by Forerunner (Kirsten Green), with participation from existing investors and angels from Increase, HappyRobot, Browserbase, Notion, Brex, and Y Combinator; bringing total funding to $40 million. Payments infrastructure platform built specifically for AI agents to transact autonomously without human involvement.
Neo AI | emerged from stealth with $100 million in combined Seed and Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures also participating; valuation Undisclosed. AI-native security platform that gives enterprise SecOps teams real-time control and policy enforcement over AI agents, AI-enabled apps, and traditional software.
Databricks | announced a strategic funding round at a $188 billion valuation, led by Coatue, with additional new and existing investors to be named; the round has signed a term sheet and is expected to close later this summer; amount Undisclosed. Data and AI platform providing unified analytics, lakehouse architecture, and AI tools for enterprises at scale.
Fireworks AI | raised $1.505 billion in Series D funding at a $17.5 billion valuation, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, with participation from Nvidia, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners, Evantic, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Enterprise AI model platform that lets companies fine-tune and serve specialized open-source AI models on their own data.
Emergent | raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Creaegis, with MNI Ventures-Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator participating; total funding reaches $230 million. AI coding platform for entrepreneurs and SMBs that functions as an autonomous engineering team in a box.
Oak | emerged from stealth with $60 million in Seed funding, co-led by Accel, Greylock Partners, and CRV, with Hetz Ventures and AlphaDrive Ventures also participating; valuation Undisclosed. AI-native identity operating system that replaces fragmented legacy identity tools with a unified control plane governing human, machine, and AI agent identities.
Thira | raised $21 million in Seed funding, led by Madrona, with FUSE participating; valuation Undisclosed. Self-learning enterprise AI execution system that automates complex back-office IT workflows, founded by the Apptio co-founders.
Lyzr | raised $100 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation; investors not fully disclosed; Accenture is a known backer. Enterprise AI agent platform that deploys sovereign, on-premise AI agents to handle mission-critical workflows like billing and compliance — notably ran its own fundraise using its AI agent.
Lovable | entered talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion post-money valuation, with Menlo Ventures expected to lead; round not yet closed and terms subject to change. Swedish vibe-coding platform that lets users build full web apps and software products through natural language prompts, with $500M ARR run rate as of June 2026.
Prime Intellect | raised $130 million in Series A funding at a $1 billion valuation, led by Radical Ventures, with Nvidia Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq, and angels including Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity) and Aaron Levie (Box) participating. Platform providing software tools and compute to help enterprises train and deploy their own custom AI agents without relying on frontier labs.
Monogram | raised $40 million in Seed funding, led by DST Global and Lux Capital, with other investors not fully disclosed; valuation Undisclosed. AI interface app that generates dynamic, interactive visual UIs in real time in response to user queries — replacing static text outputs with generated apps and maps.
Bespoke Labs | raised $40 million across Seed and Series A rounds, with the Series A led by Wing VC (Mayfield, The House Fund participating) and Seed led by 8VC (Jeff Dean, Dheeraj Pandey, Spiros Xanthos participating); valuation Undisclosed. AI agent training platform building realistic environments that help AI agents practice, learn, and improve reliability before production deployment.
TwelveLabs | raised $100 million in Series B funding, co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with Amazon, Radical Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, Index Ventures, Quadrille Capital, and Red Bull Ventures participating; total funding reaches $207 million. Full-stack video intelligence platform that combines AI perception, knowledge, and reasoning to make vast video archives searchable, analyzable, and operational at scale.
