Funding rounds, and who backs them.

General Compute

$100millionSeries A

“General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.” (TechCrunch)

Tolan

$30M

“the AI companion designed to help people manage their daily lives, navigate relationships and emotions” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Union Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Homebrew

Tenstorrent

$1.5B

“a chip startup focused on inference” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Trace Capital (co-lead), Innovation X (co-lead), Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity, SanDisk, T. Rowe Price

Holyvolt

$45MEquity

“Holyvolt’s Discovery Engine connects proprietary AI models to automated labs that build and test real battery cells” (Holyvolt, company-reported)

Zenzap

$44M

“a private messenger with AI that wants to help companies communicate with their staff” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Bessemer, Lightspeed, The Garage, Nir Zohar, Yoram Tietz

Scimplify

$25MAll-equity strategic round

“AI-powered approach to producing specialty chemicals and critical materials” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Hitachi Ventures (lead), Henkel, Teknor Apex, Accel India, Bertelsmann India Investments, Omnivore, 3one4 Capital

Pluto Security

$42MSeed and Series A

“which helps companies gain context, risk analysis, visibility, and control over how their employees use AI tools” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: TLV Partners (seed lead), Armis founders, Jump Capital (Series A lead), Skinos, Ansa Capital

Ambi

$26MMultiple rounds (not named)

“The app aims to provide real-time intelligence and insights to people by listening to them all the time.” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Luminous Ventures (lead)

Ultra

$62MSeed and Series A

“a startup that leases its devices to warehouses under a monthly “robots as a service” model” (Fortune)

Manus

Over $500M

“Manus makes AI products and agents similar to what companies like Cursor, Lovable, and Replit offer.” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Boyu Capital (co-lead), IDG Capital (co-lead), Tencent, HSG, ZhenFund

Vesta

$30M

“an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Conversion Capital (lead), Pennymac, New American Funding, Citi Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz

Arena

$200MSeries B

“People enter prompts or request vibe-coded projects and then rate which model does it better.” (TechCrunch)

Mecka AI

$60MSeries B

“a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Sequoia (lead), Nvidia, M12

Nous Research

$90MSeries B ($1.5B valuation)

“the startup developing the open source Hermes Agent” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Robot Ventures (lead), Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Samsung, 1789 Capital

Healthleap

$38MSeed and Series A

“a startup building an AI platform that reads patient records to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses” (TechCrunch)

Armadin

$255.5MSeries B ($2.5B valuation)

“Armadin is offering enterprises a new kind of always-on security by reimagining defense testing for the AI era.” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Andreessen Horowitz (co-lead), Accel (co-lead), Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint, 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures

Reco

$55MSeries B extension

“AI security startup” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: AT&T (venture arm), Forestay, Quadrille Capital

EliseAI

$350M

“EliseAI, founded in 2017, automates administrative and operational work for housing and healthcare companies.” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Andreessen Horowitz (co-lead), Bessemer Venture Partners (co-lead)

Instinct

$1BSeries C ($10B valuation)

“When asked to perform a task, Instinct uses its own phone number and computer.” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Coatue

Modulate

$25M

“uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Future Ventures (lead), Hyperplane, Lakestar

Nscale

$3.36BConvertible note

“British AI neocloud” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Third Point (lead), Nvidia ($1B)

Snorkel AI

$350MSeries E ($3.5B valuation)

“a startup that helps AI labs and corporations build training datasets and simulated environments” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Insight Partners (co-lead), S32 (co-lead), Addition, Lightspeed, Greylock, GV, Wells Fargo

Exein

$270M

“providing a cybersecurity layer for physical AI — an evolution of its initial focus on IoT” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Headline (lead)

Harvey

$550M

“the legal AI startup that VCs can’t get enough of” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Diffusion (co-lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners (co-lead)

Mistral AI

€3B (about $3.58B)Series D

“its go-to-market strategy is more focused on helping governments and corporations leverage AI” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Samsung Electronics (lead), Scaleup Europe Fund (EQT-managed, co-lead), PSG Equity (co-lead), a16z, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, Advent, BlackRock, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

HiddenLayer

$100MSeries B

“makes tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and malicious code” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Delta-v Capital (lead), Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12, Booz Allen Hamilton

Wonderful

$550MSeries C ($5B valuation)

“Wonderful now offers a platform, dubbed “Wonderful AI OS,” which it says can coordinate and connect agents” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: Insight Partners (lead), Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards, Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce

Blue Voice

$6M

“a Boston-based AI startup that provides real-time policy guidance to officers in the field” (TechCrunch)

Investors named: SignalFire (co-lead), Las Olas VC (co-lead)