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AI infrastructure startup funding 2026: 133 rounds

What models run on: inference platforms, GPU clouds, AI chips, training data, evaluation and MLOps.

  1. Vensum Power raises $11M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Finnish deeptech companyVensum Power has raised €9 million in a Series A funding round co-led byLifeline Ventures, Larsen & Toubro Group and Eviny Ventures.
  2. Uranium Digital raises $17M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Blockchain Capital. As Big Tech bets on nuclear power, startup Uranium Digital raises $16.5 million to modernize uranium trading
  3. Potential Sciences raises an undisclosed round, . AI infrastructure. Potential Sciences builds AI infrastructure for scientific drug discovery.
  4. Applied Compute raises $350M, . AI infrastructure. Applied Compute Inc., a fast-growing provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.25 billion valuation.
  5. Phaze raises $8.8M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Phaze turns expensive, underused workstations into computing power on demand for people and AI agents.
  6. Fractile raises $700M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Fractile designs high-performance computing hardware and chips optimized for AI model inference.
  7. FuriosaAI raises $620M Growth, . AI infrastructure. FuriosaAI develops energy-efficient inference chips for artificial intelligence.
  8. NexGen Cloud raises $106M Debt, . AI infrastructure. Led by USD.AI. NexGen Cloud is a specialized cloud platform provider financing and hosting GPU infrastructure for AI applications.
  9. Circuit Mind raises $25M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Circuit Mind uses AI agents to automate and verify circuit board schematics.
  10. Plato raises $16M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Plato builds simulated workplaces where AI can learn to perform real jobs.
  11. General Compute raises $100M Series A, . AI infrastructure. General Compute builds specialized cloud computing infrastructure and chips for AI inference.
  12. Luxor Technology raises $16M Strategic, . AI infrastructure. Led by CMT Digital. Luxor Technology operates a platform for trading compute capacity and hardware for AI and Bitcoin mining.
  13. Edge Sound Research raises $2M Strategic, . AI infrastructure. Led by Stormbreaker Ventures. Edge Sound Research builds audio perception infrastructure to help physical AI and robotic systems interpret real-time audio data.
  14. Sonexos raises $6.3M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Valquest Partners. Sonexos, a Lausanne-based DeepTech company, has raised approximately €5.4 million (CHF 5 million/USD 6.1 million) in new equity financing to take its solid-state noise control from working prototypes to industrial production.
  15. IRIS AI Technologies raises $5M, . AI infrastructure. Known from its SEC Form D filing, not from an announcement.
  16. BioStack raises $9.5M Seed, . AI infrastructure. BioStack transforms patient records into multimodal training datasets and reinforcement learning environments for medical AI agents.
  17. Reduck raises $3M Pre-seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Daphni. Reduck develops technology to accelerate web automation for AI agents.
  18. Photon Bridge raises $12M, . AI infrastructure. Exclusive: Photon Bridge raises €10m to build laser devices that connect AI chips
  19. Daytona raises $60M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by FirstMark. Daytona is building an agentic cloud platform specifically for AI agents.
  20. Tenstorrent raises $1.5B Series E, . AI infrastructure. Led by Trace Capital, Innovation X. Tenstorrent develops open-weight AI chips and hardware platforms for high-performance AI compute.
  21. Mueon raises $65M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Maverick Silicon. Mueon is a data center hardware startup developing 3D computing modules for exponential computing.
  22. Modal raises $750M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Modal Labs Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, today announced that it has raised $750 million in late-stage funding.
  23. Salience Labs raises $125M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Bullhound Capital. A startup called Salience Labs Inc.
  24. Oxide Computer raises $445M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Data center hardware startup Oxide Computer Inc.
  25. Oxide raises $445M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Eclipse leads financing as Oxide reaches profitability and AMD Ventures invests in its systems-based approach to enterprise computing EMERYVILLE, Calif., Oct.
  26. KONST raises $30M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Funds will also advance KONST's Token Factory strategy as the company serves large enterprises through a three-layer model of compute supply, cloud delivery and AI governance TAIPEI, Oct.
  27. Oratomic raises $475M, . AI infrastructure. Oratomic develops neutral-atom quantum computing systems using reconfigurable arrays.
  28. Arena raises $200M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lightspeed, Khosla. Arena operates an AI model evaluation and alignment leaderboard.
  29. Universal Quantum raises $100M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Universal Quantum builds large-scale, modular quantum computing systems.
  30. MintNeuro raises $5M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Odyssey Ventures. MintNeuro builds specialized semiconductor chips for neural devices and brain-computer interfaces.
  31. Ampersand raises $15M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Ampersand develops software that connects agentic AI applications with legacy enterprise systems of record.
  32. Clockwork.io raises $31M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Seligman Ventures, Wing Ventures, Premji Invest. Clockwork.io provides resilience software to optimize AI inference and training workloads in data centers.
  33. Ghost raises $11M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ghost is a hardware startup building a personal computer dedicated to running AI agents.
  34. PaleBlueDot AI raises $200M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by ComputeCore. PaleBlueDot AI is a super intelligence infrastructure platform.
  35. Volantis raises $88M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lachy Groom, Abstract Ventures. Volantis develops photonic inference systems for AI.
  36. Halluminate raises $30M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Oak HC/FT. Halluminate builds AI training environments for financial work and benchmarks models on financial tasks.
  37. Restate raises $20M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Restate develops technology that underpins real-time data use and infrastructure for AI agents.
  38. Instinct raises $1B Series C, . AI infrastructure. Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
  39. Nscale raises $3.4B Growth, . AI infrastructure. Nscale builds and operates AI data centers and a GPU cloud across Europe and North America.
  40. PicoJool raises $28M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Socratic Partners. A startup called PicoJool that’s backed by former Intel Corp.
  41. Prime Minute raises $15M Pre-seed, . AI infrastructure. Prime Minute integrates AI, software, hardware, and operations into mission-critical systems for natural disaster response.
  42. Mozilla Data Collective raises $5M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Mozilla. Mozilla Data Collective is a data-sharing platform focused on creating an equitable ecosystem for AI training data.
  43. Realset AI raises $10M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Realset AI builds real-world training data and RL environments for frontier models and embodied agents.
  44. Flatkey raises $10M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Flatkey is an AI infrastructure platform that consolidates model access and billing into a single interface.
  45. Ekai raises $1.7M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Ekai provides software that builds the business context and semantic models required for enterprise AI agents.
  46. Verda raises $189M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Emergence Capital. European GPU cloud offering managed AI inference infrastructure.
  47. Nexstrom raises $12M Seed, . AI infrastructure. The funding enables the next generation of AI and high-performance computing chips beyond the limit of silicon, while accelerating the industry's first 12-inch single-crystal 2D semiconductor platform SINGAPORE, Sept.
  48. Lightspring raises $4.1M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Atlantic. French company Lightspring today announced the close of a €3.1 million seed round led by Atlantic and OVNI Capital, with participation from Concept Ventures, Ixcore, Plug and Play Ventures, and indust...
  49. SiliconFlow raises a Series C round, . AI infrastructure. SiliconFlow operates SiliconCloud, a platform that serves and optimizes inference for open source AI models.
  50. Crusoe raises $3.9B, . AI infrastructure. The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
  51. EUCLYD raises $231M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, Scaleup Europe Fund, Innovation Industries. Designs low-power chip and memory systems for AI inference.
  52. Cornelis Networks raises $205M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by IAG Capital Partners. Builds scale-up and scale-out networking fabrics for AI and HPC clusters.
  53. Positron raises $875M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by NEA, Andra Capital, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, SemiAnalysis Capital, Jim Clark. Designs purpose-built inference hardware for running AI models.
  54. nanoSkunkWorkX raises $2M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Tin Men Capital. Develops graphene-copper thin-film interfaces that improve heat and current handling in AI chip packaging.
  55. Lambda raises $1B Debt, . AI infrastructure. Led by JPMorgan Chase. GPU cloud that rents Nvidia-based compute for AI training and inference.
  56. Emerald AI raises $150M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Energize Capital, DCVC. Software that lets AI data centers adjust power use in response to grid conditions.
  57. Callosum raises $100M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Atomico. Software that splits AI workloads into tasks and routes each to the best-suited model and chip.
  58. Etched raises $700M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by Jane Street. Designs inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.
  59. Vals AI raises $40M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. Independent benchmarks that evaluate AI models on real professional tasks.
  60. OLIX raises $312M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Fundomo, Arm, Hudson River Trading. Builds photonic inference processors and rack systems for serving large AI models.
  61. Eliyan raises $145M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Seligman Ventures. Develops chiplet and electro-optical interconnects for AI chips and systems.
  62. Etched raises $300M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Sequoia Capital. Designs inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.
  63. SkyPilot raises $20M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lux Capital. Open-source platform for running and managing AI workloads across clouds and on-premises clusters.
  64. Infinity raises $15M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Touring Capital. Uses an AI agent to write and tune low-level inference code for non-Nvidia chips.
  65. Fireworks AI raises $1.5B Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, TCV. Inference platform for running and customising open models on enterprise data.
  66. Spectro Cloud raises $100M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Software for deploying and managing GPU clusters and AI infrastructure across environments.
  67. SambaNova raises $1B Series F, . AI infrastructure. Led by General Atlantic. Designs AI chips and systems for training and inference and runs an inference cloud.
  68. Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Radical Ventures. Provides compute, reinforcement learning and evaluation tools so enterprises can build their own AI agents.
  69. Together AI raises $800M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Aramco Ventures. Cloud platform for training, fine-tuning and serving open-source AI models.
  70. Sail Research raises $80M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia. Provides an inference stack and stateful sandboxes for running long-lived AI agents.
  71. Patronus AI raises $50M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Greenfield Partners. Builds evaluation and simulation environments for testing and training AI agents.
  72. Runpod raises $100M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by Summit Partners. GPU cloud where developers train, fine-tune and run inference on AI models.
  73. SiliconFlow raises $294M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Trip.com Group, SenseTime. SiliconFlow operates SiliconCloud, a platform that serves and optimizes inference for open source AI models.
  74. OpenRouter raises $113M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by CapitalG. OpenRouter offers a single API that routes requests across hundreds of large language models from many providers.
  75. Modal raises $355M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst. Modal offers a serverless cloud platform for running AI inference, training and batch jobs on GPUs from Python code.
  76. n8n raises a Strategic round, . AI infrastructure. Led by SAP. n8n builds a workflow automation and AI agent orchestration platform with a visual builder and fair-code licensing.
  77. Lambda raises $1B Debt, . AI infrastructure. Led by J.P. Morgan. Lambda runs a GPU cloud and builds AI data centers for training and serving AI models.
  78. DeepInfra raises $107M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by 500 Global, Georges Harik. DeepInfra runs a dedicated inference cloud that serves open-source AI models through a simple API.
  79. Mechanize raises $9.1M, . AI infrastructure. Mechanize builds reinforcement learning environments and evaluations for frontier coding agents.
  80. Parasail raises $32M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Touring Capital, Kindred Ventures. Parasail runs a pay-per-token inference cloud that aggregates GPU supply and optimizes model endpoints for cost and speed.
  81. Dify raises $30M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by HSG. Dify is an open source platform for building, deploying and operating LLM apps and agentic workflows with a visual builder.
  82. Nscale raises $2B Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Aker ASA, 8090 Industries. Nscale builds and operates AI data centers and a GPU cloud across Europe and North America.
  83. SambaNova raises $350M Series E, . AI infrastructure. Led by Vista Equity Partners. SambaNova designs dataflow AI chips and systems and runs a cloud for fast AI model inference.
  84. Baseten raises $300M, . AI infrastructure. Led by IVP, CapitalG. Baseten provides infrastructure for deploying and serving AI models in production with fast, reliable inference.
  85. Etched raises $500M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Stripes. Etched builds application-specific AI chips and server racks optimized for running transformer model inference.
  86. fal raises $140M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA. fal is a cloud platform that hosts and serves generative image, video and audio models for developers through one API.
  87. Lambda raises $1.5B Series E, . AI infrastructure. Led by TWG Global. Lambda runs a GPU cloud and builds AI data centers for training and serving AI models.
  88. Classiq raises $30M, . AI infrastructure. Classiq raises $30M from AMD, Qualcomm, and IonQ as quantum software race accelerates
  89. Fireworks AI raises $250M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Evantic. Fireworks AI offers an inference cloud for running, fine-tuning and scaling open-source generative AI models.
  90. Mem0 raises $20M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Basis Set Ventures. Mem0 builds a memory layer that lets AI apps and agents remember users and context across sessions.
  91. Mem0 raises $3.9M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Kindred Ventures. Mem0 builds a memory layer that lets AI apps and agents remember users and context across sessions.
  92. Crusoe raises $1.4B Series E, . AI infrastructure. Led by Valor Equity Partners, Mubadala Capital. Crusoe builds and operates energy-first AI data centers and a GPU cloud for training and inference.
  93. Natural raises $9.8M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Natural builds payments infrastructure that lets AI agents send, receive and manage money.
  94. n8n raises $180M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Accel. n8n builds a workflow automation and AI agent orchestration platform with a visual builder and fair-code licensing.
  95. Modal raises $87M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lux Capital. Modal offers a serverless cloud platform for running AI inference, training and batch jobs on GPUs from Python code.
  96. Nscale raises $1.1B Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Aker ASA. Nscale builds and operates AI data centers and a GPU cloud across Europe and North America.
  97. Modular raises $250M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by US Innovative Technology Fund. Modular builds a software platform and the Mojo language for running AI workloads across different chips without rewriting code.
  98. Groq raises $750M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by Disruptive. Groq designs LPU inference chips and runs the GroqCloud service for fast AI model inference.
  99. Verda raises $64M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by byFounders, Skaala, Varma, Tesi. Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a European GPU cloud that provides AI compute and managed inference.
  100. Baseten raises $150M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by BOND. Baseten provides infrastructure for deploying and serving AI models in production with fast, reliable inference.
  101. Friendli raises $20M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Capstone Partners. FriendliAI provides an inference engine and cloud service that serves generative AI models faster and at lower cost.
  102. Firecrawl raises $15M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Nexus Venture Partners. Firecrawl offers an API and open source tool that crawls, scrapes and converts websites into clean data for AI applications.
  103. fal raises $125M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Meritech Capital Partners. fal is a cloud platform that hosts and serves generative image, video and audio models for developers through one API.
  104. OpenRouter raises $40M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures. OpenRouter offers a single API that routes requests across hundreds of large language models from many providers.
  105. Applied Intuition raises $600M Series F, . AI infrastructure. Led by BlackRock, Kleiner Perkins. Applied Intuition makes simulation, autonomy and vehicle software for automakers, trucking, defense and other machine makers.
  106. LlamaIndex raises a Strategic round, . AI infrastructure. LlamaIndex provides a framework and cloud platform, including LlamaParse, for building AI agents over enterprise documents and data.
  107. Parasail raises $10M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Parasail runs a pay-per-token inference cloud that aggregates GPU supply and optimizes model endpoints for cost and speed.
  108. n8n raises a Series B round, . AI infrastructure. Led by Highland Europe. n8n builds a workflow automation and AI agent orchestration platform with a visual builder and fair-code licensing.
  109. LlamaIndex raises $19M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Norwest Venture Partners. LlamaIndex provides a framework and cloud platform, including LlamaParse, for building AI agents over enterprise documents and data.
  110. Prime Intellect raises $15M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Founders Fund. Provides compute, reinforcement learning environments and tooling for training open AI models and agents.
  111. Together AI raises $305M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by General Catalyst, Prosperity7. Together AI runs a cloud platform for training, fine-tuning and serving open-source AI models on GPU clusters.
  112. Lambda raises $480M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by Andra Capital, SGW. Lambda runs a GPU cloud and builds AI data centers for training and serving AI models.
  113. Baseten raises $75M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by IVP, Spark Capital. Baseten provides infrastructure for deploying and serving AI models in production with fast, reliable inference.
  114. fal raises $49M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Notable Capital, Andreessen Horowitz. fal is a cloud platform that hosts and serves generative image, video and audio models for developers through one API.
  115. TrueFoundry raises $19M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Intel Capital. TrueFoundry offers a platform and AI gateway for deploying and managing AI models and agents.
  116. Nscale raises $155M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Sandton Capital Partners. Nscale builds and operates AI data centers and a GPU cloud across Europe and North America.
  117. Spectro Cloud raises $75M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by Goldman Sachs. Spectro Cloud makes Palette, a platform for managing Kubernetes and AI infrastructure across cloud, data center and edge.
  118. CrewAI raises $18M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Insight Partners, boldstart ventures. CrewAI offers an open source framework and enterprise platform for building and running teams of AI agents.
  119. Verda raises $13M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a European GPU cloud that provides AI compute and managed inference.
  120. fal raises $14M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Kindred Ventures. fal is a cloud platform that hosts and serves generative image, video and audio models for developers through one API.
  121. fal raises $9M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. fal is a cloud platform that hosts and serves generative image, video and audio models for developers through one API.
  122. Groq raises $640M Series D, . AI infrastructure. Led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners. Groq designs LPU inference chips and runs the GroqCloud service for fast AI model inference.
  123. Fireworks AI raises $52M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Sequoia Capital. Fireworks AI offers an inference cloud for running, fine-tuning and scaling open-source generative AI models.
  124. Etched raises $120M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Primary Venture Partners. Etched builds application-specific AI chips and server racks optimized for running transformer model inference.
  125. Patronus AI raises $17M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Notable Capital. Patronus AI builds evaluation tools and simulated environments for testing and training AI models and agents.
  126. Runpod raises $20M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital. Runpod is a GPU cloud where developers rent compute and run serverless AI inference and training jobs.
  127. Rivos raises $250M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Rivos designed RISC-V based server chips and AI accelerators for data centers.
  128. Unstructured raises $40M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by Menlo Ventures. Unstructured turns documents and other unstructured enterprise data into formats large language models can use.
  129. Together AI raises $106M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Salesforce Ventures. Together AI runs a cloud platform for training, fine-tuning and serving open-source AI models on GPU clusters.
  130. Applied Intuition raises $250M Series E, . AI infrastructure. Led by Lux Capital, Elad Gil, Porsche Investments Management. Applied Intuition makes simulation, autonomy and vehicle software for automakers, trucking, defense and other machine makers.
  131. Baseten raises $40M Series B, . AI infrastructure. Led by IVP, Spark Capital. Baseten provides infrastructure for deploying and serving AI models in production with fast, reliable inference.
  132. Lambda raises $320M Series C, . AI infrastructure. Led by US Innovative Technology Fund. Lambda runs a GPU cloud and builds AI data centers for training and serving AI models.
  133. Guardrails AI raises $7.5M Seed, . AI infrastructure. Led by Zetta Venture Partners. Guardrails AI makes an open source framework and hub of validators that check and constrain the outputs of generative AI models.