Funding

Twin1 AI raised a USD 20m seed co-led by Bessemer, Tribeca and Aramco Ventures for privacy-first digital twins of professional knowledge workers.

Groq Closes $350 million Series A, Building the World's Leading AI Inference Cloud, the company said on 17 August 2026.

Mindgard raised a US$30m Series A led by Album VC to expand its AI security platform.

Anyscale and Nscale announced an acquisition agreement targeting close in the second half of 2026, subject to customary conditions.

Encore AI (formerly Insait IO) raised US$30m Series A led by Team8, Planven and The Garage.

Curant.ai raised a US$3.1m seed led by Diagram, with Humania Insurance investing and deploying the AI in disability claims.

Fireworks AI announced a US$1.505 billion Series D at a US$17.5 billion valuation and said it had passed US$1 billion ARR.

SambaNova announced the first close of a US$1 billion Series F at an US$11 billion post-money valuation led by General Atlantic.

Norm Ai raised US$120 million Series C at a US$1.2 billion valuation led by Khosla Ventures for full-stack legal AI.

LinqAlpha closed a USD 22m Series A led by AVP, Atinum and GFT Ventures for multi-agent public-market research infrastructure.

Keyfactor announced a strategic growth investment of more than USD 1bn led by Summit Partners to scale certificate and machine-identity trust.

Wultra closed a EUR 6.8m Series A led by Seventure Partners to scale post-quantum mobile authentication for banks.

GenerativeX raised US$4m Series A led by Nissay Capital, with Salesforce Ventures among participants.

Quantifind took a US$200m growth investment led by Summit Partners to expand Graphyte risk intelligence.

Patronus AI announced a US$50 million Series B led by Greenfield Partners and previewed Digital World Models for agent evaluation.