AI Funding Tracker
45 funding rounds tracked across the AI industry. Real deals, real numbers.
2026 Total Raised
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All-Time Tracked
$86.3B
45 total rounds
Largest Single Round
$13.0B
OpenAI
Average Deal Size
$1.9B
across all rounds
| Company | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead Investors | Date |
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| CoreWeave | IPO | $1.5B | $23B | Public Markets | Mar 28, 2025 |
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CoreWeave went public on NASDAQ, raising $1.5B in one of the largest tech IPOs of 2025. |
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| Anysphere (Cursor) | Series B | $900M | $9B | Thrive Capital, a16z | Jan 15, 2025 |
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Cursor AI code editor maker raised at $9B valuation as developer adoption skyrocketed. |
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| Anthropic | Series E | $2.0B | $61.5B | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Jan 7, 2025 |
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Anthropic raised $2B at a $61.5B valuation as Claude models gained enterprise traction. |
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| xAI | Series C | $6.0B | $50B | A16z, Blackrock, AMD, Nvidia | Dec 23, 2024 |
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xAI doubled its valuation to $50B in a second massive round to fund compute infrastructure. |
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| Perplexity | Series B1 | $500M | $9B | Institutional Venture Partners | Dec 19, 2024 |
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Perplexity tripled its valuation again to $9B as AI search became mainstream. |
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| Physical Intelligence | Seed | $400M | $2.4B | Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital | Nov 4, 2024 |
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Robotics AI company raised $400M seed to build foundation models for physical interaction. |
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| Waymo | Private | $5.6B | -- | Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake | Oct 25, 2024 |
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Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit raised $5.6B as robotaxi service expanded to new cities. |
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| OpenAI | Debt | $4.0B | -- | JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs | Oct 15, 2024 |
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Revolving credit facility secured alongside the equity round, giving OpenAI additional financial flexibility. |
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| OpenAI | Series B | $13.0B | $157B | Microsoft, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures | Oct 2, 2024 |
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Largest private funding round in history. OpenAI raised $6.6B at $157B valuation with plans to transition to a for-profit structure. |
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| OpenAI | Secondary | $6.6B | $157B | Thrive Capital, Microsoft | Oct 2, 2024 |
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Part of the massive October 2024 round, included both primary and secondary share sales at $157B valuation. |
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| Poolside | Series A | $400M | $2B | Bain Capital Ventures | Oct 2, 2024 |
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AI coding assistant raised at $2B valuation to compete with GitHub Copilot and Cursor. |
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| Liquid AI | Series A | $250M | $1.2B | AMD Ventures | Sep 16, 2024 |
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MIT spinoff developing liquid neural networks raised to build more efficient AI architectures. |
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| Sakana AI | Series A | $214M | $1.5B | Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures | Sep 13, 2024 |
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Tokyo-based AI lab founded by ex-Google researchers raised to develop nature-inspired AI architectures. |
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| Safe Superintelligence | Seed | $1.0B | $5B | Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global | Sep 4, 2024 |
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Ilya Sutskever's new AI safety startup raised $1B seed round immediately after leaving OpenAI. |
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| Databricks | Series J | $500M | $43B | T. Rowe Price | Sep 1, 2024 |
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Data and AI platform raised at $43B valuation as enterprises adopted its lakehouse architecture for AI workloads. |
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| Magic | Series B | $320M | $1.5B | Eric Schmidt | Aug 19, 2024 |
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AI code generation company raised to build AI software engineers with long-context capabilities. |
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| Cerebras | Series F | $720M | $4.25B | Alpha Wave Global | Aug 12, 2024 |
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Wafer-scale AI chip company raised ahead of planned IPO, competing with NVIDIA in AI training hardware. |
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| Anduril | Series F | $1.5B | $14B | Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz | Aug 7, 2024 |
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Defense AI company nearly doubled valuation as military demand for autonomous systems accelerated. |
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| Groq | Series D | $640M | $2.8B | BlackRock | Aug 5, 2024 |
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AI inference chip maker raised at $2.8B valuation for its LPU architecture promising ultra-fast AI inference. |
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| Character.ai | Licensing | $2.7B | -- | Aug 2, 2024 | |
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Google secured a licensing deal valuing Character.ai technology at $2.7B, with key talent returning to Google. |
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| Harvey | Series C | $100M | $1.5B | Google Ventures | Jul 23, 2024 |
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Legal AI platform reached unicorn status serving top law firms with AI-powered legal research and drafting. |
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| Cohere | Series D | $445M | $5.5B | PSP Investments, Cisco | Jul 22, 2024 |
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Enterprise LLM provider raised at $5.5B valuation positioning as the enterprise alternative to consumer-focused AI labs. |
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| Hebbia | Series B | $130M | $700M | Andreessen Horowitz | Jul 9, 2024 |
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Enterprise AI search and analysis platform raised to serve financial services and legal markets. |
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| Perplexity | Series B | $250M | $3B | IVP | Jun 27, 2024 |
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AI-powered search engine tripled valuation in six months amid rapid user growth and publisher partnerships. |
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| ElevenLabs | Series B | $180M | $3.3B | Andreessen Horowitz | Jun 20, 2024 |
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Voice AI startup reached unicorn status on the strength of its text-to-speech and voice cloning technology. |
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| Shield AI | Series F | $300M | $2.8B | US Innovative Technology Fund | Jun 18, 2024 |
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Autonomous defense systems maker raised to scale AI pilot technology for military aircraft. |
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| Runway | Series D | $141M | $1.5B | General Atlantic | Jun 17, 2024 |
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AI video generation pioneer raised as Hollywood and creators adopted its Gen-2 and Gen-3 models. |
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| Pika | Series B | $135M | $800M | Spark Capital | Jun 17, 2024 |
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AI video generation startup surged in valuation as demand for AI-generated video content exploded. |
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| Mistral AI | Series B | $645M | $6B | General Catalyst, Lightspeed | Jun 11, 2024 |
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European AI champion raised at $6B valuation, making it the most valuable French startup in history. |
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| xAI | Series B | $6.0B | $24B | Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital | May 27, 2024 |
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Elon Musk's AI startup raised $6B to build Grok and challenge OpenAI, leveraging X platform data. |
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| Scale AI | Series F | $1.0B | $13.8B | Accel | May 21, 2024 |
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Data labeling and AI infrastructure company nearly tripled valuation amid surging demand for training data. |
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| Suno | Series B | $125M | $500M | Lightspeed Venture Partners | May 21, 2024 |
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AI music generation platform raised amid growing adoption of generative AI for creative applications. |
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| Writer | Series B | $100M | $1.9B | ICONIQ Growth | May 14, 2024 |
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Enterprise generative AI platform doubled valuation as Fortune 500 companies adopted its full-stack AI tools. |
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| CoreWeave | Debt | $7.5B | -- | Blackstone, Magnetar Capital | May 1, 2024 |
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Massive debt financing secured against GPU infrastructure to fund rapid data center expansion for AI workloads. |
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| CoreWeave | Series C | $1.1B | $19B | Coatue, Magnetar | May 1, 2024 |
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GPU cloud provider raised $1.1B equity as AI companies scrambled for compute capacity. |
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| Anthropic | Series D | $4.0B | $18.4B | Amazon | Mar 27, 2024 |
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Amazon completed its full $4B investment in Anthropic, the largest venture deal by a single investor in AI. |
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| Figure | Series B | $675M | $2.6B | Microsoft, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos | Feb 29, 2024 |
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Humanoid robotics company attracted AI heavyweights as investors for its general-purpose robot program. |
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| Glean | Series D | $260M | $4.6B | Kleiner Perkins | Feb 12, 2024 |
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Enterprise AI search platform more than doubled valuation as companies deployed internal AI assistants. |
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| Mistral AI | Series A | $415M | $2B | Andreessen Horowitz | Dec 11, 2023 |
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Record Series A for a European AI company as Mistral released competitive open-weight models. |
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| Anthropic | Series C | $2.0B | $15B | Oct 27, 2023 | |
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Google invested up to $2B in Anthropic as cloud AI competition intensified between hyperscalers. |
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| Stability AI | Series A | $101M | $1.1B | Coatue, Lightspeed | Oct 25, 2023 |
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Stable Diffusion creator raised amid growing financial difficulties, leadership changes, and competitive pressures. |
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| Hugging Face | Series D | $235M | $4.5B | Google, Amazon, Salesforce, NVIDIA | Aug 24, 2023 |
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Open-source AI platform raised from every major tech player, cementing its role as the GitHub of machine learning. |
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| Inflection AI | Series B | $1.3B | $4B | Microsoft, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt | Jun 29, 2023 |
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Raised $1.3B before most of its team joined Microsoft in a controversial talent acquisition deal in 2024. |
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| Anthropic | Series B | $450M | $4.1B | Spark Capital, Google | May 23, 2023 |
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Early 2023 round as Anthropic launched Claude and positioned as the AI safety-focused alternative to OpenAI. |
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| OpenAI | Series A | $10.0B | $80B | Microsoft | Jan 23, 2023 |
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Microsoft invested $10B in a multiyear deal, extending its partnership and integrating OpenAI into Azure and Office products. |
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Public Markets
CoreWeave went public on NASDAQ, raising $1.5B in one of the largest tech IPOs of 2025.
Thrive Capital, a16z
Cursor AI code editor maker raised at $9B valuation as developer adoption skyrocketed.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Anthropic raised $2B at a $61.5B valuation as Claude models gained enterprise traction.
A16z, Blackrock, AMD, Nvidia
xAI doubled its valuation to $50B in a second massive round to fund compute infrastructure.
Institutional Venture Partners
Perplexity tripled its valuation again to $9B as AI search became mainstream.
Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital
Robotics AI company raised $400M seed to build foundation models for physical interaction.
Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake
Alphabet's autonomous vehicle unit raised $5.6B as robotaxi service expanded to new cities.
JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs
Revolving credit facility secured alongside the equity round, giving OpenAI additional financial flexibility.
Microsoft, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures
Largest private funding round in history. OpenAI raised $6.6B at $157B valuation with plans to transition to a for-profit structure.
Thrive Capital, Microsoft
Part of the massive October 2024 round, included both primary and secondary share sales at $157B valuation.
Bain Capital Ventures
AI coding assistant raised at $2B valuation to compete with GitHub Copilot and Cursor.
AMD Ventures
MIT spinoff developing liquid neural networks raised to build more efficient AI architectures.
Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures
Tokyo-based AI lab founded by ex-Google researchers raised to develop nature-inspired AI architectures.
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, DST Global
Ilya Sutskever's new AI safety startup raised $1B seed round immediately after leaving OpenAI.
T. Rowe Price
Data and AI platform raised at $43B valuation as enterprises adopted its lakehouse architecture for AI workloads.
Eric Schmidt
AI code generation company raised to build AI software engineers with long-context capabilities.
Alpha Wave Global
Wafer-scale AI chip company raised ahead of planned IPO, competing with NVIDIA in AI training hardware.
Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz
Defense AI company nearly doubled valuation as military demand for autonomous systems accelerated.
BlackRock
AI inference chip maker raised at $2.8B valuation for its LPU architecture promising ultra-fast AI inference.
Google secured a licensing deal valuing Character.ai technology at $2.7B, with key talent returning to Google.
Google Ventures
Legal AI platform reached unicorn status serving top law firms with AI-powered legal research and drafting.
PSP Investments, Cisco
Enterprise LLM provider raised at $5.5B valuation positioning as the enterprise alternative to consumer-focused AI labs.
Andreessen Horowitz
Enterprise AI search and analysis platform raised to serve financial services and legal markets.
IVP
AI-powered search engine tripled valuation in six months amid rapid user growth and publisher partnerships.
Andreessen Horowitz
Voice AI startup reached unicorn status on the strength of its text-to-speech and voice cloning technology.
US Innovative Technology Fund
Autonomous defense systems maker raised to scale AI pilot technology for military aircraft.
General Atlantic
AI video generation pioneer raised as Hollywood and creators adopted its Gen-2 and Gen-3 models.
Spark Capital
AI video generation startup surged in valuation as demand for AI-generated video content exploded.
General Catalyst, Lightspeed
European AI champion raised at $6B valuation, making it the most valuable French startup in history.
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital
Elon Musk's AI startup raised $6B to build Grok and challenge OpenAI, leveraging X platform data.
Accel
Data labeling and AI infrastructure company nearly tripled valuation amid surging demand for training data.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
AI music generation platform raised amid growing adoption of generative AI for creative applications.
ICONIQ Growth
Enterprise generative AI platform doubled valuation as Fortune 500 companies adopted its full-stack AI tools.
Blackstone, Magnetar Capital
Massive debt financing secured against GPU infrastructure to fund rapid data center expansion for AI workloads.
Coatue, Magnetar
GPU cloud provider raised $1.1B equity as AI companies scrambled for compute capacity.
Amazon
Amazon completed its full $4B investment in Anthropic, the largest venture deal by a single investor in AI.
Microsoft, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos
Humanoid robotics company attracted AI heavyweights as investors for its general-purpose robot program.
Kleiner Perkins
Enterprise AI search platform more than doubled valuation as companies deployed internal AI assistants.
Andreessen Horowitz
Record Series A for a European AI company as Mistral released competitive open-weight models.
Google invested up to $2B in Anthropic as cloud AI competition intensified between hyperscalers.
Coatue, Lightspeed
Stable Diffusion creator raised amid growing financial difficulties, leadership changes, and competitive pressures.
Google, Amazon, Salesforce, NVIDIA
Open-source AI platform raised from every major tech player, cementing its role as the GitHub of machine learning.
Microsoft, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt
Raised $1.3B before most of its team joined Microsoft in a controversial talent acquisition deal in 2024.
Spark Capital, Google
Early 2023 round as Anthropic launched Claude and positioned as the AI safety-focused alternative to OpenAI.
Microsoft
Microsoft invested $10B in a multiyear deal, extending its partnership and integrating OpenAI into Azure and Office products.
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