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AI Startup Funding Deals – February 9, 2026
Gather AI
- Funding: $40 million
- Round: Series B
- Valuation: Not disclosed
- Total Funding: $74 million
- Investors: Smith Point Capital (lead, led by former Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block), Bain Capital Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Dundee VC, XRC Ventures, and The Hillman Company
The Pittsburgh-based startup uses autonomous drones and computer vision to monitor inventory and operations in large logistics facilities, bridging the gap between digital records and on-ground reality. Gather AI’s “Physical AI” platform has seen rapid adoption, doubling its footprint and growing bookings 250% last year. Drones are now standard at major operators like GEODIS and NFI.
Forerunner
- Funding: $39 million total (across two rounds)
- Rounds: Series A ($12.7 million) and Series B ($26.3 million)
- Valuation: Not disclosed
- Investors: Series A led by Union Square Ventures; Series B led by Wellington Management, with participation from Union Square Ventures (doubled down), Gutter Capital, Bright Ventures, SE Ventures, and Citi Impact Fund
The San Francisco-based startup provides an AI-powered geospatial software platform for local government resilience. The platform helps governments centralize critical data, automate workflows, and improve communication in areas such as floodplain management and infrastructure planning. The company quietly raised the Series A and recently closed the Series B with all existing investors doubling down.
Turnstile
- Funding: $29 million
- Round: Seed/Early stage
- Valuation: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not specified
The company emerged from stealth to automate B2B quote-to-cash and revenue operations, streamlining the entire sales-to-payment workflow for enterprise customers.
Galux
- Funding: $29 million
- Round: Not specified
- Valuation: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not specified
The synthetic biology startup is accelerating de novo protein design, enabling the creation of novel proteins from scratch for therapeutic and industrial applications.
Synthpop
- Funding: $15 million
- Round: Series A
- Valuation: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not specified
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based healthcare AI company is building agentic automation to eliminate administrative bottlenecks in payer, provider, and patient operations, addressing one of healthcare’s most persistent pain points.
AI Startup Funding Deals – February 5, 2026
Fundamental
- Funding: $255 million
- Round: Series A
- Valuation: $1.2 billion
- Investors: Oak HC/FT (lead), Valor Equity Partners, Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Hetz Ventures, plus angel investors (Aravind Srinivas, Henrique Dubugras, Olivier Pomel)
The AI startup builds infrastructure for analyzing massive amounts of structured tabular data using a deterministic architecture optimized for enterprise-scale data processing, differentiating itself from traditional LLMs that struggle with structured data analysis.
Goodfire
- Funding: $150 million
- Round: Series B
- Valuation: $1.25 billion (unicorn status)
- Total Funding: $209 million+
- Investors: B Capital (lead), Juniper Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, South Park Commons, Wing Venture Capital, DFJ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, Eric Schmidt
The San Francisco-based AI interpretability research lab develops tools to reverse-engineer and understand how AI foundation models make decisions internally. Goodfire’s platform enables organizations to inspect, debug, and intentionally design model behavior by analyzing and modifying neural network mechanisms, helping fix issues like bias and hallucinations. The company recently identified a novel class of Alzheimer’s biomarkers by applying interpretability techniques to foundation models in collaboration with Mayo Clinic and Arc Institute.
Angitia Biopharmaceuticals
- Funding: $130 million
- Round: Series D
- Total Funding: $250 million approximately
- Investors: Frazier Life Sciences (co-lead), Venrock (co-lead), Ascenta, BVF Partners, Logos Capital, RA Capital, Wellington Management, Bain Capital Life Sciences
The California-based biotech company develops bispecific antibodies designed to promote bone growth and target diseases such as osteogenesis imperfecta and osteoporosis. The funding will advance three bone-building drug candidates into clinical trials.
Tomorrow.io
- Funding: $175 million
- Round: Not specified
- Investors: Not fully disclosed (includes state-linked funds)
The company operates an AI-driven weather satellite constellation providing real-time climate and weather intelligence systems, using artificial intelligence to improve weather forecasting accuracy and speed.
Accrual
- Funding: $75 million
- Round: Series A (emerging from stealth)
- Investors: General Catalyst (lead with $65 million), Go Global Ventures, Pruven Capital, Edward Jones Ventures
The fintech startup builds AI-native software to automate manual accounting workflows, unifying tax preparation, invoices, and regulatory filings for banks and lenders. Backed by the incubator General Catalyst, Accrual aims to replace spreadsheet-based accounting systems with cloud-native AI infrastructure.
Lawhive
- Funding: $60 million
- Round: Series B
- Total Funding: $100 million
- Investors: Mitch Rales/co-founder of Danaher (lead), TQ Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), Balderton Capital, Jigsaw
The UK-based legaltech startup combines human lawyers with AI-powered workflows to provide affordable general-practice legal services including family law, landlord-tenant disputes, and consumer rights. The platform employs attorneys and uses automation for document drafting and case management, planning to expand into the US market.
Varaha
- Funding: $20 million
- Round: Not specified
- Investors: Not disclosed
The climate tech company operates a nature-based carbon removal platform expanding across Asia, focusing on carbon credits and environmental sustainability projects.
Loop AI
- Funding: $14 million
- Round: Not specified
- Investors: Not disclosed
The AI logistics company automates food supply chain management for restaurant and retail chains, streamlining ordering, inventory management, and distribution workflows.
AI Startup Funding Deals – February 4, 2026
Bedrock Robotics
- Funding: $270 million
- Round: Series B
- Valuation: $1.75 billion
- Total Funding: $350 million+
- Investors: CapitalG/Google (co-lead), Valor Atreides AI Fund (co-lead), Xora, 8VC, Eclipse, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Tishman Speyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgian, Incharge Capital, C4 Ventures
The San Francisco-based autonomous construction technology company develops retrofit kits that transform heavy construction equipment like excavators, bulldozers, and loaders into autonomous machines capable of operating as coordinated fleets. Founded by former Waymo engineers in 2024, Bedrock targets the construction industry’s severe labor shortages and completed a major supervised autonomy deployment on a 130-acre manufacturing site, with plans for fully operator-less excavator deployments in 2026.
Positron AI
- Funding: $230 million
- Round: Series B
- Valuation: Over $1 billion (unicorn status)
- Total Funding: $300 million+
- Investors: ARENA Private Wealth (co-lead), Jump Trading (co-lead), Unless (co-lead), Qatar Investment Authority, Arm, Helena, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, DFJ Growth, Resilience Reserve, Flume Ventures, 1517
The Reno, Nevada-based semiconductor startup builds energy-efficient AI inference hardware designed to challenge Nvidia’s dominance. Positron’s current product Atlas claims to match Nvidia H100 GPU performance while consuming less than one-third of the power, with manufacturing in Arizona. The company is developing next-generation Asimov silicon targeting tape-out in late 2026 and production in early 2027, focusing on memory-first architecture to address AI inference bottlenecks.
SynthBee
- Funding: $100 million (including $80 million in latest round)
- Round: Not specified
- Total Funding: $100 million
- Investors: Crosspoint Capital Partners (lead latest round)
The Fort Lauderdale-based startup founded by Rony Abovitz develops a “Collaborative Intelligence” AI platform to accelerate product and manufacturing innovation across industries including medtech, aerospace, and automotive. The platform helps businesses solve complex design and engineering challenges with human-compatible AI systems.
TRM Labs
- Funding: $70 million
- Round: Not specified
- Investors: Not disclosed
The blockchain intelligence and cryptocurrency compliance company enhances crypto crime-fighting capabilities, providing tools for tracking and investigating illicit cryptocurrency transactions and helping financial institutions maintain compliance.
Adaption Labs
- Funding: $50 million
- Round: Launch/Seed
- Investors: Not disclosed
The AI research company launched with funding to build continuously learning AI models that adapt and improve over time, representing a new approach to AI architecture focused on dynamic learning rather than static training.
EnFi
- Funding: $15 million
- Round: Current round
- Total Funding: $22.5 million
- Investors: Fintop (lead), Patriot Financial Partners, Commerce Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Boston Seed Capital
The fintech company brings virtual AI credit analysts to regional banks, automating credit analysis and underwriting processes to help smaller financial institutions compete with larger banks through AI-powered lending capabilities.
beHuman
- Funding: $4 million
- Round: Seed
- Investors: Santé Ventures (lead), DHVP.io
The Miami-based healthcare AI company builds an AI-driven platform for earlier cancer detection, focusing on underserved and rural patient populations. The platform integrates AI, virtual care, and diagnostics to automate workflows and improve cancer screening rates, with plans to expand into additional states and enhance diagnostic pipelines.
AI Startup Funding Deals – February 3, 2026
Waymo
- Funding: $16 billion
- Round: Late-stage
- Valuation: $126 billion
- Investors: Dragoneer Investment Group (lead), DST Global (lead), Sequoia Capital (lead), Alphabet (majority investor), Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, Mubadala Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake, Tiger Global, T. Rowe Price, BDT & MSD Partners, CapitalG, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Perry Creek Capital, Temasek
The Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company operates fully driverless robotaxi services across six US cities and plans to expand to over twenty additional markets globally, including London and Tokyo. Waymo has completed over fifteen million rides in 2025 while providing more than 400,000 weekly trips, making it the only operator running fully autonomous taxis at scale.
Skyryse
- Funding: $300 million
- Round: Series C
- Valuation: $1.15 billion (unicorn status)
- Investors: Autopilot Ventures (lead), Fidelity Management & Research Company, ArrowMark Partners, Atreides Management LP, BAM Elevate, Baron Capital Group, Durable Capital Partners, Positive Sum, Qatar Investment Authority, RCM Private Markets Fund (managed by Rokos Capital), Woodline Partners, Bill Ford (Ford Motor Company Executive Chair)
The El Segundo-based aviation automation startup has developed SkyOS, a universal flight operating system that simplifies aircraft piloting through fly-by-wire technology, replacing traditional mechanical controls with a single control stick and touchscreen interface. The platform is deployed on Black Hawk helicopters and has contracts across military, emergency medical services, firefighting, law enforcement, and commercial aviation sectors.
Neo Financial
- Funding: $68.5 million
- Round: Series D2
- Investors: Syndicate of 100+ Canadian investors including Alberta Investment Management Corp (AIMCo) (lead), Northleaf Capital, Plaza Ventures, and prominent Canadian entrepreneurs
The Calgary-based digital banking platform offers credit card products and AI-powered credit modeling, planning to launch an inaugural securitization program to scale its loan book by packaging credit assets for investors similar to traditional banks.
Kindred
- Funding: $125 million
- Round: Series B + Series C combined
- Investors: NEA (Series B co-lead), Dylan Field/Figma founder (Series B co-lead), Index Ventures (Series C lead), existing backers
The peer-to-peer home exchange platform enables trusted home-swapping for travel and has grown to nearly 300,000 members across over 150 cities, doubling its membership base over the past year as demand for affordable vacation accommodation surges.
Ares Interactive
- Funding: $70 million
- Round: Series A
- Investors: Not disclosed
The San Francisco-based game development studio is building an AI-native, cross-platform game publisher focused on developing free-to-play gaming franchises using next-generation development approaches.
Alaffia Health
- Funding: $55 million
- Round: Series B
- Investors: Not disclosed
The healthcare technology company provides an AI-powered claims processing platform that automates health insurance claims workflows, reducing processing times and administrative burdens for insurers and healthcare providers.
Gruve
- Funding: $50 million
- Round: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not disclosed
The data center technology company develops energy efficiency solutions addressing power consumption challenges created by intensive AI model training and inference workloads in modern data centers.
Automata
- Funding: $45 million
- Round: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not disclosed
The laboratory automation company modernizes biotech research facilities by automating repetitive lab tasks, enabling scientists to focus on research while improving consistency and throughput in drug discovery and life sciences.
Artificial Labs
- Funding: $45 million
- Round: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not disclosed
The insurance technology startup applies artificial intelligence to risk assessment and policy pricing, helping insurers make faster and more accurate underwriting decisions while reducing manual workload.
RapidFort
- Funding: $42 million
- Round: Not disclosed
- Investors: Not disclosed
The cybersecurity company provides real-time software supply chain hardening and continuous vulnerability detection for enterprise software stacks, protecting organizations against emerging threats.
AI Startup Funding Deals – February 2, 2026
1. Biorce – $52.5M Series A
- Lead Investor: DST Global Partners
- Other Investors: Norrsken VC, YZR Capital, Mustard Seed Maze, Endeavor Catalyst
- Angel Investors: Nik Storonsky (Revolut CEO), Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI CEO), Paulo Rosado (OutSystems founder), Albert Nieto (Seedtag founder)
- Location: Barcelona, Spain (expanding to Austin, Texas)
2. Day AI – $20M
- What They Do: AI-powered CRM reinvention with intelligent agents
- Focused on conversational interfaces for customer relationship management
3. Checkbox – $23M Series A
- Lead Investor: Touring Capital
- AI “front door” for corporate legal teams. No-code platform integrating with email, Slack, Microsoft Teams to automate legal workflows
4. Linq – $20M
- What They Do: API enabling AI assistants to operate within messaging apps (iMessage, RCS, SMS)
- Embeds AI directly into everyday messaging threads
5. Rain – $250M Series C
- Valuation: $1.95B
- Total Funding: ~$338M
- Lead Investor: Iconiq Capital
- Location: New York
6. Aerofugia – ¥1B (~$136M)
- Lead Investor: CSCI
- Location: Chengdu, China
- What They Do: eVTOL aircraft for urban air mobility
Top Story (February 1, 2026)
Nvidia Announces “Largest Ever Investment” in OpenAI
Funding Amount: Undisclosed (described as “huge”)
Investor: Nvidia
Location: San Francisco, CA
Focus Area: Generative AI, Foundation Models
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced on February 1st that the company will participate in OpenAI’s current funding round, calling it potentially “the largest investment we’ve ever made.” Speaking to reporters in Taipei, Huang stated, “We will invest a great deal of money. I believe in OpenAI. The work that they do is incredible. They’re one of the most consequential companies of our time.”
While the exact investment amount was not disclosed, Huang clarified it would be substantially different from the $100 billion figure mentioned in September’s strategic partnership agreement. This represents Nvidia’s deepening commitment to AI infrastructure and its strategic bet on OpenAI’s continued dominance in the generative AI space.
Recent AI Funding Deals (January 28-31, 2026)
Factify Raises $73M Seed Round to Replace PDFs
Funding Amount: $73 million
Round: Seed
Location: Israel
Focus Area: Document Management, Enterprise AI
Israeli startup Factify secured one of the largest seed rounds outside AI/cybersecurity, raising $73 million to revolutionize document workflows by replacing traditional PDFs with digital, AI-powered documents. The company targets compliance-heavy sectors where document management is mission-critical.
Waabi Raises $1 Billion for Autonomous Trucking & Robotaxis
Funding Amount: $1 billion (Series C + Milestone Investment)
Lead Investor: Undisclosed
Location: Toronto, Canada
Focus Area: Autonomous Driving, AI Robotaxis
Canadian autonomous driving startup Waabi announced a combined $750 million Series C and $250 million milestone investment to bring AI-powered robotaxis to Uber and advance its commercial trucking technology. The partnership with Uber Technologies reduces market risk and provides immediate deployment opportunities.
Waabi’s billion-dollar raise signals continued investor confidence in autonomous transportation, particularly in commercial applications where labor shortages create strong economic incentives for automation.
PaleBlueDot AI Secures $150M Series B at $1B+ Valuation
Funding Amount: $150 million
Lead Investor: B Capital
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Focus Area: AI Cloud Infrastructure
PaleBlueDot AI raised $150 million to expand its “neocloud” for AI workloads across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company provides high-performance GPU compute platforms that let enterprises spin up dedicated AI clusters in multiple data centers at lower costs than traditional cloud providers.
As AI compute demand explodes, alternative cloud providers are challenging hyperscalers by offering elastic, geographically distributed GPU access at competitive pricing points.
Decagon Triples Valuation to $4.5B with $250M Series D
Funding Amount: $250 million
Lead Investors: Coatue Management, Index Ventures
Location: San Francisco, CA
Focus Area: AI Customer Support Agents
Decagon raised $250 million just six months after its previous round, tripling its valuation to $4.5 billion. The AI startup builds conversational support agents that automate customer service workflows across chat, email, and voice channels. The company signed over 100 new enterprise customers in 2025 across travel, hospitality, finance, and retail.
Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI-powered customer service automation, with Decagon leading the emerging “AI concierge” category and demonstrating that AI agents can deliver measurable ROI in customer-facing operations.
Genspark Lands $300M Series B for AI Workspace
Funding Amount: $300 million
Round: Series B
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Focus Area: AI Productivity Tools
Genspark secured $300 million to launch AI Workspace 2.0, its next-generation all-in-one AI workspace targeting enterprise productivity and collaboration workflows.
RobCo Raises $100M for Physical AI Robotics
Funding Amount: $100 million
Investors: Undisclosed
Location: United States
Focus Area: Physical AI, Robotics
Physical AI-driven robotics company RobCo raised $100 million to advance its Physical AI roadmap, expand enterprise deployments, and deepen its U.S. market presence.
Cellares Raises $257M Series C for Cell Therapy Automation
Funding Amount: $257 million
Round: Series C
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Focus Area: AI-Powered Biotech Manufacturing
Cellares raised $257 million to scale its automated cell therapy fabrication platform, using AI to streamline biomanufacturing processes.
Earlier This Month
xAI Raises $20 Billion Series E
Elon Musk’s xAI secured a whopping $20 billion Series E round from investors including Nvidia, Cisco Investments, Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, and Qatar Investment Authority, valuing the company at approximately $230 billion.
Skild AI Triples Valuation to $14B with $1.4B Raise
Pittsburgh-based robotics startup Skild AI raised $1.4 billion led by SoftBank, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion just seven months after its previous round.
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