January 2026 Raises
Humans& | $480M Seed Round In one of the largest seed rounds in history, alumni from Anthropic, xAI, and Google have secured nearly half a billion dollars. Their mission: building "human-centric" AI systems designed for seamless collaboration between humans and machines.
Parloa | $350M Raise ($3B Valuation) The voice automation powerhouse has tripled its valuation in just eight months. Parloa is now the definitive unicorn for enterprise-scale AI customer service, proving that voice-based AI is the next frontier for CX.
Inferact | $150M Seed ($800M Valuation) The team behind the open-source inference engine vLLM is officially commercializing. As enterprises scramble to run LLMs faster and cheaper, Inferact is positioned as the essential plumbing for production AI.
Claroty | $150M Series F ($3B Valuation) The surge in AI-driven cyber threats has made industrial and healthcare security a top priority. Claroty’s latest round cements its lead in protecting critical cyber-physical infrastructure.
Deepgram | $130M Raise ($1.3B Valuation) Beyond just speech-to-text, Deepgram is building the full stack for real-time conversational AI. The round coincided with their acquisition of a YC AI startup to accelerate product development.
Emergent | $70M Raise ($300M Valuation) The "vibe-coding" trend is real. This Indian startup is leveraging natural language to let anyone ship software at lightning speed, backed by SoftBank and Khosla Ventures.
Articul8 | $35M Secured ($70M Planned) Spun out of Intel, Articul8 is halfway through its latest round at a $500M valuation. They remain the go-to for large organizations needing "full-stack" generative AI that actually works in production.
Another | $2.5M Seed Proving that specialized SaaS still has a seat at the table, Another is tackling retail inefficiency. Their platform helps brands monetize excess inventory, solving a massive pain point in the supply chain.
Anthropic | $3.5B Series E. The latest round confirms Anthropic’s seat at the table alongside OpenAI and Google. With a post-money valuation north of $60 billion, the focus remains on Claude’s "Constitutional AI" framework. For founders, this is the safest bet for enterprise-grade applications where reliability and safety guardrails are non-negotiable requirements.
CoreWeave | $2B Secured investment from Nvidia. Nvidia has doubled down on its preferred infrastructure partner with a $2 billion injection. As the race for compute shifts from "access" to "at scale reliability," CoreWeave is positioning itself as the primary alternative to the hyperscalers. If you are training frontier models or running massive inference workloads, this ensures their capacity roadmap stays ahead of your demand.
Upwind Security | $250 Million Secures In Series B Funding. Upwind focuses on real-time protection by looking at the runtime environment rather than just static snapshots. Use this if your infrastructure is scaling faster than your security team’s ability to manually audit configurations.
FLORA | $42M Series A With a total of $52M raised. Redpoint is backing this node-based design tool that aims to move beyond the static canvas. Flora treats design like code, allowing for more modular and scalable creative workflows. It is worth a look for product teams tired of the "Figma sprawl" and looking for a more structured, logical way to build design systems.
Phia | $35M round rounds out a week of high-conviction bets. Phia is attempting to re-engineer the social shopping experience. While many have tried to solve "discovery" in e-commerce, Phia focuses on curation and the social graph. This is a space to watch for brands looking to diversify their customer acquisition channels beyond traditional search and meta ads
Ricursive Intelligence | $300M Series A ($4B Valuation) Just two months after launching, the AlphaChip co-founders have secured a massive round to close the "recursive loop." They are using AI to design and automatically improve the very chips that power AI. In 2026, the bottleneck isn't just software; it's the silicon itself.
VoiceRun | $5.5M Seed VoiceRun is building the "Model T assembly line" for voice agents. Instead of rigid no-code builders, they offer a developer-first platform that gives technical teams full ownership of the application code while managing the messy telephony and latency orchestration.
Cyera | $400M Series F ($9B Valuation) The data security giant has added $3B to its valuation in just six months. As enterprises move toward Agentic AI, the risk surface is exploding. Cyera’s "AI Guardian" is becoming the essential control plane for organizations that can't afford a catastrophic breach of proprietary data.
February 2026 Raises
Fundamental AI | $255M Series A Founded by DeepMind alumni, Fundamental is tackling the "Large Tabular Model" problem. While LLMs handle text, Fundamental’s Nexus model is built for the structured, non-linear data that runs Fortune 100 decision-making (think demand forecasting and price prediction).
Databricks | $5B Late-Stage ($134B Valuation) Databricks has officially signaled its IPO readiness with a massive $7B capital injection ($5B equity + $2B debt). With a **$5.4B revenue run-rate** (up 65% YoY), they are doubling down on Lakebase, a serverless database purpose-built for AI agents. This round positions them as the primary data OS for the Fortune 500, directly challenging hyperscalers.
Goodfire | $150M Series B ($1.25B Valuation) As AI becomes more complex, "interpretability" is the new safety standard. Goodfire acts as a microscope for neural networks, allowing researchers to see how a model thinks. This is the essential toolkit for life sciences and regulated industries that can't afford "black box" decisions.
Connect Music | ($80M): Modernizing music rights and royalty tech for the streaming era.
Accrual | ($75M): Building the AI-native accounting layer to automate the most manual parts of the CFO’s office.
Urban SDK | ($65M): Geospatial AI helping city planners and governments manage smart infrastructure.
Forerunner | ($39M): An AI platform for the "built environment," helping governments manage planning and resiliency.
Turnstile | ($29M): Solving the complex "quote-to-cash" workflow for high-growth, sales-led startups.
Daytona | $24M Series A Led by FirstMark Capital, Daytona is solving a critical hardware bottleneck: AI agents need a place to work. While current cloud infra is built for static production code, agents need "sandboxes"—programmatic, composable computers they can spin up in milliseconds to execute code, run experiments, and branch parallel decision paths. Daytona is providing the "physical" workstations for the millions of agents expected to enter the workforce this year.
Duna | €30M Series A Founded by Stripe alumni and led by CapitalG (Alphabet’s growth fund), Duna is building the "digital passport" for the automated enterprise. As businesses deal with more AI-driven counterparties, verifying identity becomes a fraud minefield. Duna’s AI-native platform automates KYB (Know Your Business) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering), reported to onboard customers 10.6x faster than legacy systems.
Nixtla | $16M Series A Led by Energize Capital, Nixtla is bringing the "GPT moment" to time-series data. Their foundation model, TimeGPT, is designed specifically for forecasting and anomaly detection—areas where traditional LLMs often hallucinate. With over 45M downloads of their open-source library, they are becoming the industry standard for supply chain and energy demand prediction.
Capalo AI | €11M Series A Led by Heartcore Capital, this Helsinki-based startup is building a virtual power plant powered by AI. As Europe shifts toward volatile renewable energy, Capalo optimizes large-scale battery storage and trading in real-time. In 2025, they increased their contracted capacity fivefold to 1 GW, proving that "intelligence" is the only way to stabilize a modern green grid.
Adaption Labs | $50M Seed Led by Emergence Capital, this is one of the largest seed rounds in history. Founded by former Cohere and Google researchers Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, Adaption Labs is challenging the "bigger is better" model. They are building AI systems that can adapt and learn in real time through "gradient-free" methods, effectively ending the era of frozen, static models.
Nullify | $12.5M Seed Nullify isn't a security tool; it’s a security workforce. Their autonomous AI agents act as full-time security engineers—ingesting code, validating exploits, and delivering merge-ready fixes. Early adopters have reportedly saved 48,000+ hours of manual security work.
Linkup | $10M Seed Led by Gradient, Linkup is solving the "Airplane Mode" problem of modern AI. Traditional search is for humans; Linkup is the "Google for Agents." Their /fast API allows AI products to retrieve verified, structured data from the web in sub-second speeds.
Cadastral | $9.5M Funding Led by Navitas Capital, Cadastral is the "AI analyst in a box" for Commercial Real Estate. They automate the grueling T-12 analysis and lease abstraction processes that used to take days, now delivering institutional-grade underwriting in seconds.
Advance | raised $8.55 million in seed funding. Lead investors led the round and were joined by existing investors., A financial platform designed specifically for the unique cash-flow needs of insurance providers.
Uptool | raised $6M Backed by Khosla Ventures, Uptool is digitizing "Small and Midsize Manufacturers" by automating the quoting process directly from CAD files and engineering drawings.
Uber x Getir | Getir raised $435M. Uber eats up Getir’s delivery operations to eliminate competition in the high-speed "rapid commerce" sector across Europe.
Layer Global | $1 Billion Raising (Target) Anton Levy, the legendary former Co-President of General Atlantic, is back with a massive $1B standalone fund. Levy, who led blockbuster investments in Alibaba, CrowdStrike, and Facebook, is targeting "hypergrowth" AI and software companies globally. The fund's mandate is specific: find the outliers capable of 300% annual growth. This marks a significant move of late-stage expertise into a more agile, AI-dedicated vehicle.
2048 Ventures | $82M Fund III (Closed) The New York and Boston-based firm just closed an oversubscribed third fund to continue its "first-check" mission. Led by Alex Iskold, 2048 is doubling down on its "Systems of Record" thesis—backing Vertical AI, Deep Tech, and Biotech where proprietary data creates a defensive moat. They are famous for their "Pre-Seed Fast Track," moving from first meeting to term sheet in as little as 10 days.
Metavallon VC | €5M "Brain Gain" Fund (Launched) In a strategic bid to turn Greece into a global R&D hub, Metavallon has launched the Brain Gain fund. Backed by the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments, they are offering €200K–€400K checks to deep-tech and life sciences founders who commit to building their engineering teams in Greece. It’s a move to capture high-tier talent without the overhead costs of London or Berlin.
Simile | Raised $100M Series A Round which builds AI systems designed to mimic human decision-making, secured $100 million led by Index Ventures to accelerate development of human-like reasoning models.
Runway | Raised $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation to expand its AI video and creative tooling ecosystem.
Anthropic | $20B Funding Round (In Progress). Anthropic is finalizing a massive $20 billion raise at a $350 billion valuation, positioning itself as one of the most valuable AI companies focused on safe and aligned AI.
Swap | A fast-growing competitor to Shopify, raised $100 million just six months after a $40 million round, signaling rapid momentum in ecommerce infrastructure.
Harvey | An AI platform for legal professionals, is reportedly raising new funding at an $11billion valuation, reflecting surging demand for AI in legal workflows.