AI models startup funding 2026: 12 rounds
Frontier labs and model makers: foundation models, open-weight models, specialised models.
- Basecamp Research raises $140M Series C, . AI models. Led by S32. Basecamp Research uses AI to design and develop new therapeutics.
- F13 raises $5M Pre-seed, . AI models. Led by Credo Ventures, Point Nine Capital. Develops AI foundation models for generating vector graphics.
- Arcee AI raises $150M Series B, . AI models. Led by Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital, Emergence Capital. Develops open-weight AI models trained in the United States.
- Mistral AI raises $3.6B Series D, . AI models. Led by Samsung Electronics, Scaleup Europe Fund, PSG Equity. French AI lab that builds open and commercial large language models.
- Stability AI raises $76M Series B, . AI models. Develops generative image, audio and video models for media and entertainment.
- Moonshot AI raises $3.5B Growth, . AI models. Led by National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund. Chinese AI lab that develops the Kimi family of large language models.
- Safe Superintelligence raises $5B Strategic, . AI models. Led by Nvidia. AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever that is researching safe superintelligence.
- kausable raises $14M Seed, . AI models. Led by UVC Partners, Entourage. kausable builds causal, reasoning-first foundation models that forecast rare events without constant retraining.
- TwelveLabs raises $100M Series B, . AI models. Led by NEA, NAVER Ventures. Builds foundation models that understand and search video.
- General Intuition raises $320M Series A, . AI models. Led by Khosla Ventures. Frontier lab building action foundation models trained on gameplay clips from the Medal platform.
- Scaled Cognition raises $100M Series A, . AI models. Led by Khosla Ventures. Develops models and agents for enterprise customer experience designed to reduce hallucinations.
- Mirendil raises $200M Seed, . AI models. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins. Frontier AI lab training models specialised in AI research and development, with a product that runs research loops on its own GPUs.