AI funding rounds in August 2026: 31 rounds
- Lambda raises $1B Debt, . AI infrastructure. Led by JPMorgan Chase. GPU cloud that rents Nvidia-based compute for AI training and inference.
- Instinct raises $250M Series B, . AI apps. Led by Index Ventures, Benchmark. Consumer AI assistant that connects to a user's apps and devices and is reached by text and phone calls.
- Runable raises $21M Series A, . AI apps. Led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Nexus Venture Partners. AI agent platform that builds websites and apps for small businesses and runs their marketing.
- 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.
- Alice raises $140M Growth, . Security. Led by Apax Digital. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, tests and protects AI models and agents against misuse and unsafe behavior.
- Stability AI raises $76M Series B, . AI models. Develops generative image, audio and video models for media and entertainment.
- Keenable raises $26M Seed, . Data infrastructure. Led by Accel, Conviction Partners. Independent web search index and API built for AI agents.
- Ringg raises $10M Series A, . AI apps. Led by Peak XV Partners. Voice and chat AI agents for enterprise support calls, sales outreach and KYC checks; this is a Series A extension.
- XPENG Robotics raises $900M Series A, . Robotics. Led by IDG Capital. XPENG Robotics, the robotics unit of XPeng, develops the IRON humanoid robot and physical AI models.
- Embedd raises $2.7M Pre-seed, . Developer tools. Led by Seedcamp. Generates embedded driver code for chip-to-chip communication in hardware devices.
- 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.
- Etched raises $700M Growth, . AI infrastructure. Led by Jane Street. Designs inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.
- Rillet raises $100M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Iconiq. AI-native accounting and general ledger platform for finance teams.
- Hypercubic raises $5.3M Seed, . Developer tools. Led by CIV. AI agents that map legacy COBOL codebases and rewrite them in modern languages.
- Gravis Robotics raises $200M Series A, . Robotics. Led by SoftBank. Gravis Robotics retrofits heavy construction machinery for assisted and autonomous operation.
- Vals AI raises $40M Series A, . AI infrastructure. Led by Andreessen Horowitz. Independent benchmarks that evaluate AI models on real professional tasks.
- Databricks raises $5B Growth, . Data infrastructure. Led by Coatue. Data and AI platform spanning lakehouse analytics, the Lakebase Postgres database and AI tooling.
- Lovable raises $400M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Menlo Ventures. AI app builder that turns natural language prompts into working software.
- CodeRabbit raises $143M Series C, . Developer tools. Led by Atomico, Smash Capital. AI code review and change-governance platform for pull requests.
- Skan AI raises $63M Series C, . Analytics. Led by Cathay Innovation, Dell Technologies Capital. Process intelligence platform that maps how enterprise work is done and deploys agents to automate it.
- Blacksmith raises $45M Series B, . Developer tools. Led by Peak XV Partners. Code build and testing platform with an AI agent that fixes failed CI checks.
- Cytix raises $7M Series A, . Security. Led by Northern Gritstone. Cytix assesses the security risk of code changes in fast, AI-assisted software development.
- Corma raises $60M Seed, . Security. Led by Sequoia Capital. Corma builds a foundation model and AI agents for defensive cybersecurity work across existing security tools.
- Omilia raises $67M Series B, . AI apps. Led by Expedition Growth Capital. Customer support automation platform with AI agents for voice, chat and messaging.
- Naïve raises $29M Series A, . AI apps. Led by Nexus Venture Partners. Single API that lets AI agents form companies and set up payments, email, phone numbers and cloud services.
- HappyRobot raises $150M Series C, . AI apps. Led by Prysm Capital, Eurazeo. Builds AI agents, including voice agents, that automate operational workflows for logistics and other enterprises.
- Oligo Security raises $60M Series C, . Security. Oligo Security provides runtime security that detects and blocks exploits in applications, cloud workloads and AI systems.
- Convex raises $57M Series B, . Databases. Led by Insight Partners. Application backend with a TypeScript-native database, search, auth and file storage.
- RWX raises $12M Series A, . Developer tools. Led by Hyde Park Venture Partners. Cloud platform for building, testing and validating code, aimed at engineers and AI coding agents.
- 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.
- Zenity raises $125M Series C, . Security. Led by Norwest. Zenity secures and governs enterprise AI agents by allowing, modifying or blocking their actions.