AI Funding Tracker

45 funding rounds tracked across the AI industry. Real deals, real numbers.

2026 Total Raised

$0

0 rounds

All-Time Tracked

$86.3B

45 total rounds

Largest Single Round

$13.0B

OpenAI

Average Deal Size

$1.9B

across all rounds

IPO
$1.5B at $23B

Public Markets

Mar 28, 2025

CoreWeave went public on NASDAQ, raising $1.5B in one of the largest tech IPOs of 2025.

$900M at $9B

Thrive Capital, a16z

Jan 15, 2025

Cursor AI code editor maker raised at $9B valuation as developer adoption skyrocketed.

Series E
$2.0B at $61.5B

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Jan 7, 2025

Anthropic raised $2B at a $61.5B valuation as Claude models gained enterprise traction.

xAI
Series C
$6.0B at $50B

A16z, Blackrock, AMD, Nvidia

Dec 23, 2024

xAI doubled its valuation to $50B in a second massive round to fund compute infrastructure.

Series B1
$500M at $9B

Institutional Venture Partners

Dec 19, 2024

Perplexity tripled its valuation again to $9B as AI search became mainstream.

$400M at $2.4B

Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital

Nov 4, 2024

Robotics AI company raised $400M seed to build foundation models for physical interaction.

Private
$5.6B

Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake

Oct 25, 2024

Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit raised $5.6B as robotaxi service expanded to new cities.

Debt
$4.0B

JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs

Oct 15, 2024

Revolving credit facility secured alongside the equity round, giving OpenAI additional financial flexibility.

Series B
$13.0B at $157B

Microsoft, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures

Oct 2, 2024

Largest private funding round in history. OpenAI raised $6.6B at $157B valuation with plans to transition to a for-profit structure.

Secondary
$6.6B at $157B

Thrive Capital, Microsoft

Oct 2, 2024

Part of the massive October 2024 round, included both primary and secondary share sales at $157B valuation.

Series A
$400M at $2B

Bain Capital Ventures

Oct 2, 2024

AI coding assistant raised at $2B valuation to compete with GitHub Copilot and Cursor.

Series A
$250M at $1.2B

AMD Ventures

Sep 16, 2024

MIT spinoff developing liquid neural networks raised to build more efficient AI architectures.

Series A
$214M at $1.5B

Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures

Sep 13, 2024

Tokyo-based AI lab founded by ex-Google researchers raised to develop nature-inspired AI architectures.

$1.0B at $5B

Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global

Sep 4, 2024

Ilya Sutskever's new AI safety startup raised $1B seed round immediately after leaving OpenAI.

Series J
$500M at $43B

T. Rowe Price

Sep 1, 2024

Data and AI platform raised at $43B valuation as enterprises adopted its lakehouse architecture for AI workloads.

Series B
$320M at $1.5B

Eric Schmidt

Aug 19, 2024

AI code generation company raised to build AI software engineers with long-context capabilities.

Series F
$720M at $4.25B

Alpha Wave Global

Aug 12, 2024

Wafer-scale AI chip company raised ahead of planned IPO, competing with NVIDIA in AI training hardware.

Series F
$1.5B at $14B

Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz

Aug 7, 2024

Defense AI company nearly doubled valuation as military demand for autonomous systems accelerated.

Series D
$640M at $2.8B

BlackRock

Aug 5, 2024

AI inference chip maker raised at $2.8B valuation for its LPU architecture promising ultra-fast AI inference.

Licensing
$2.7B

Google

Aug 2, 2024

Google secured a licensing deal valuing Character.ai technology at $2.7B, with key talent returning to Google.

Series C
$100M at $1.5B

Google Ventures

Jul 23, 2024

Legal AI platform reached unicorn status serving top law firms with AI-powered legal research and drafting.

Series D
$445M at $5.5B

PSP Investments, Cisco

Jul 22, 2024

Enterprise LLM provider raised at $5.5B valuation positioning as the enterprise alternative to consumer-focused AI labs.

Series B
$130M at $700M

Andreessen Horowitz

Jul 9, 2024

Enterprise AI search and analysis platform raised to serve financial services and legal markets.

Series B
$250M at $3B

IVP

Jun 27, 2024

AI-powered search engine tripled valuation in six months amid rapid user growth and publisher partnerships.

Series B
$180M at $3.3B

Andreessen Horowitz

Jun 20, 2024

Voice AI startup reached unicorn status on the strength of its text-to-speech and voice cloning technology.

Series F
$300M at $2.8B

US Innovative Technology Fund

Jun 18, 2024

Autonomous defense systems maker raised to scale AI pilot technology for military aircraft.

Series D
$141M at $1.5B

General Atlantic

Jun 17, 2024

AI video generation pioneer raised as Hollywood and creators adopted its Gen-2 and Gen-3 models.

Series B
$135M at $800M

Spark Capital

Jun 17, 2024

AI video generation startup surged in valuation as demand for AI-generated video content exploded.

Series B
$645M at $6B

General Catalyst, Lightspeed

Jun 11, 2024

European AI champion raised at $6B valuation, making it the most valuable French startup in history.

xAI
Series B
$6.0B at $24B

Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital

May 27, 2024

Elon Musk's AI startup raised $6B to build Grok and challenge OpenAI, leveraging X platform data.

Series F
$1.0B at $13.8B

Accel

May 21, 2024

Data labeling and AI infrastructure company nearly tripled valuation amid surging demand for training data.

Series B
$125M at $500M

Lightspeed Venture Partners

May 21, 2024

AI music generation platform raised amid growing adoption of generative AI for creative applications.

Series B
$100M at $1.9B

ICONIQ Growth

May 14, 2024

Enterprise generative AI platform doubled valuation as Fortune 500 companies adopted its full-stack AI tools.

Debt
$7.5B

Blackstone, Magnetar Capital

May 1, 2024

Massive debt financing secured against GPU infrastructure to fund rapid data center expansion for AI workloads.

Series C
$1.1B at $19B

Coatue, Magnetar

May 1, 2024

GPU cloud provider raised $1.1B equity as AI companies scrambled for compute capacity.

Series D
$4.0B at $18.4B

Amazon

Mar 27, 2024

Amazon completed its full $4B investment in Anthropic, the largest venture deal by a single investor in AI.

Series B
$675M at $2.6B

Microsoft, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos

Feb 29, 2024

Humanoid robotics company attracted AI heavyweights as investors for its general-purpose robot program.

Series D
$260M at $4.6B

Kleiner Perkins

Feb 12, 2024

Enterprise AI search platform more than doubled valuation as companies deployed internal AI assistants.

Series A
$415M at $2B

Andreessen Horowitz

Dec 11, 2023

Record Series A for a European AI company as Mistral released competitive open-weight models.

Series C
$2.0B at $15B

Google

Oct 27, 2023

Google invested up to $2B in Anthropic as cloud AI competition intensified between hyperscalers.

Series A
$101M at $1.1B

Coatue, Lightspeed

Oct 25, 2023

Stable Diffusion creator raised amid growing financial difficulties, leadership changes, and competitive pressures.

Series D
$235M at $4.5B

Google, Amazon, Salesforce, NVIDIA

Aug 24, 2023

Open-source AI platform raised from every major tech player, cementing its role as the GitHub of machine learning.

Series B
$1.3B at $4B

Microsoft, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt

Jun 29, 2023

Raised $1.3B before most of its team joined Microsoft in a controversial talent acquisition deal in 2024.

Series B
$450M at $4.1B

Spark Capital, Google

May 23, 2023

Early 2023 round as Anthropic launched Claude and positioned as the AI safety-focused alternative to OpenAI.

Series A
$10.0B at $80B

Microsoft

Jan 23, 2023

Microsoft invested $10B in a multiyear deal, extending its partnership and integrating OpenAI into Azure and Office products.

Biggest AI Rounds Ever

1

OpenAI

$13.0B Series B
2

OpenAI

$10.0B Series A
3

CoreWeave

$7.5B Debt
4

OpenAI

$6.6B Secondary
5

xAI

$6.0B Series B
6

xAI

$6.0B Series C
7

Waymo

$5.6B Private
8

OpenAI

$4.0B Debt
9

Anthropic

$4.0B Series D
10

Character.ai

$2.7B Licensing

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