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SambaNova funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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SambaNova funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

SambaNova nearly sold itself to Intel for less than a third of its 2021 valuation, then raised $1 billion at $11 billion seven months later.

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Reducto funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Reducto funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Reducto burned about $1 million before its Series B. Investors have since put more than $100 million behind the bet that AI cannot read a company's documents without it.

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Rogo funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Rogo funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Rogo raised about $340 million to build AI agents for investment bankers, and nine of the banks that hire those bankers now own part of it.

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LiveKit funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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LiveKit funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

LiveKit raised $183 million to carry the voice behind ChatGPT, and most of its growth came from an open-source project it gives away for free.

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Distyl AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Distyl AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Distyl AI sends engineers into large companies to build their AI systems, the way Palantir once did with data software. Investors have put $202 million behind the bet that the model scales.

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Snorkel AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Snorkel AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Snorkel AI spent four years as a labeling software company worth about $1 billion, then nearly tripled its value in 16 months by selling finished training data to frontier labs.

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Liquid AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Liquid AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Liquid AI raised $287.5 million to build AI that runs on phones, laptops, and cars instead of data centers, and its biggest check came from a chipmaker.

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Black Forest Labs funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Black Forest Labs funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

The team behind Stable Diffusion raised about $450 million in Germany, and many of its investors are the design platforms that run its models.

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Lila Sciences funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Lila Sciences funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Lila Sciences raised $550 million to build labs where AI designs the experiments and robots run them, and investors are now pricing it like a frontier AI company.

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Verkada funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Verkada funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Verkada raised about $764 million to put security cameras in the cloud, and its newest backers are the AI giants that want to teach machines to see.

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Abridge funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Abridge funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Abridge raised $757.5 million to turn doctor visits into finished notes, and many of its backers are the health systems that use it.

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OpenEvidence funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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OpenEvidence funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

OpenEvidence gives its AI away to doctors for free, lets drugmakers pay for the screen, and has raised about $1 billion on the bet that the model scales.

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Tenstorrent funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Tenstorrent funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Tenstorrent has raised about $2.3 billion to build AI chips on open designs, and its biggest backers are the carmakers and electronics giants that license them.

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AlphaSense funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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AlphaSense funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

AlphaSense sells AI research tools to Wall Street, and much of Wall Street has paid to own a piece of it.

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Thinking Machines Lab funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Thinking Machines Lab funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Mira Murati raised $2 billion before she had a product, and her chip supplier is now one of her biggest backers.

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EliseAI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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EliseAI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

EliseAI raised $742 million in equity to answer the phones at apartment buildings and doctors' offices, and its first backers were the landlords using the product.

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Exa funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Exa funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Exa raised $357 million to build a search engine for machines, betting that AI agents will soon search the web far more often than people do.

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Deepgram funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Deepgram funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Deepgram spent a decade building speech recognition on modest checks, then raised most of its money in one round once voice agents took off.

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Periodic Labs funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Periodic Labs funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Periodic Labs raised a $300 million seed to build an AI scientist that runs its own experiments, and investors were reported to value it at $7.5 billion before it had published a discovery.

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Suno funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 4, 2026

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Suno funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Suno raised more than $775 million to let anyone make a song from a text prompt, and the record labels suing it are slowly becoming its partners.

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Hippocratic AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 2, 2026

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Hippocratic AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Hippocratic AI raised $444 million to put AI agents on the phone with patients, and several of its investors are the hospitals that use them.

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Shield AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 2, 2026

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Shield AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Shield AI started with a building-clearing quadcopter and a $10.5 million Series A. Its investors now fund an AI-piloted fighter jet.

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Cyera funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 2, 2026

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Cyera funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Cyera went from a $5 million seed to a $12 billion valuation in five years by selling one idea: before a company can trust AI, it has to know where its data lives.

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Groq funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 2, 2026

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Groq funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Groq raised about $2.75 billion to build a faster AI chip than Nvidia's, then licensed that chip to Nvidia and started over as a cloud company.

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LMArena funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

Oct 2, 2026

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LMArena funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)

LMArena raised $250 million to turn a free leaderboard run by Berkeley PhD students into a business that the AI labs it ranks now pay to use.

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