AI funding rounds in January 2026: 16 rounds
- Upwind raises $250M Series B, . Security. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Upwind offers a runtime-first cloud security platform that detects and prioritizes exploitable risks in cloud workloads.
- Decagon raises $250M Series D, . AI apps. Led by Coatue, Index Ventures. Builds AI agents that handle customer support conversations for enterprises.
- StepFun raises $718M Series B, . AI models. Develops multimodal foundation models and AI assistants integrated into phones and other devices.
- Synthesia raises $200M Series E, . AI apps. Led by GV. Synthesia offers an AI video platform that turns text into videos presented by digital avatars for corporate training and communication.
- Railway raises $100M Series B, . Developer tools. Led by TQ Ventures. Railway is a cloud platform that provisions and deploys apps, databases and services from code with little setup.
- OpenEvidence raises $250M Series D, . AI apps. Led by Thrive Capital, DST Global. OpenEvidence is an AI medical search and reference tool that answers clinical questions for doctors using peer-reviewed literature.
- Baseten raises $300M, . AI infrastructure. Led by IVP, CapitalG. Baseten provides infrastructure for deploying and serving AI models in production with fast, reliable inference.
- Emergent raises $70M Series B, . Developer tools. Led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Khosla Ventures. Emergent is a vibe coding platform where AI agents build and deploy full applications from natural language prompts.
- ClickHouse raises $400M Series D, . Databases. Led by Dragoneer Investment Group. ClickHouse builds an open source column-oriented database for real-time analytics, offered as a managed cloud service.
- Skild AI raises $1.4B Series C, . Robotics. Led by SoftBank. Builds a general-purpose robotics foundation model, the Skild Brain, that can control many kinds of robots.
- Aikido Security raises $60M Series B, . Security. Led by DST Global. Aikido Security offers a developer-focused platform that unifies code, cloud and runtime security scanning.
- Etched raises $500M, . AI infrastructure. Led by Stripes. Etched builds application-specific AI chips and server racks optimized for running transformer model inference.
- Deepgram raises $130M Series C, . AI models. Led by AVP. Deepgram provides speech recognition, text to speech and voice agent APIs for developers.
- Torq raises $140M Series D, . Security. Led by Merlin Ventures. Torq provides an AI-driven security operations automation platform for SOC teams.
- Cyera raises $400M Series F, . Security. Led by Blackstone. Cyera builds an AI-native data security platform that discovers, classifies and protects sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments.
- xAI raises $20B Series E, . AI models. Develops the Grok AI models and assistant and runs large GPU training clusters.