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Funding

Who raised what in AI. Every round verified by an editor before it is published.

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The wire · Sep 1618 deals · largest first

  1. $40MTypeSafe AI Raises $40M to Build Machine-Native AISeed · Led by DCVC · San Francisco
  2. $40MAIUC Raises $40M to Build AI Agent Safety StandardSeries A · Led by Ribbit Capital · AI Agent Safety Certificati…
  3. €18MIntegral Raises €18M to Scale AI Tax ServicesSeries A · Led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman · Berlin
  4. $20MVeridion Raises $20M to Scale Company DataSeries A · Led by Hoxton Ventures · Company Data Intelligence
  5. $19MHackuity Raises $19M to Scale Vulnerability ManagementSeries B · Led by Forgepoint Capital International · Lyon
  6. $11MComplir Closes $11M to Scale Retail Compliance AISeed · Led by General Catalyst · Copenhagen
  7. $8.5MMedow Health AI Raises $8.5M to Expand AI PlatformSeed · Professor Michael Boyer · Melbourne
  8. €4.5MExpanse Raises €4.5M to Scale AI InfrastructureSeed · Led by Crane Venture Partners · London
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September 2026

$20.8B across 160 verified rounds this month, 27 of them $100M or more. AI Agents & Enterprise took 54.

Deals verified per week · last eight weeks100 this week

Rounds this month by sector · 5 unclassified

Biggest rounds · SepAll $100M+ →

  1. Figure$3.5B
  2. Mistral$3.5B
  3. Crusoe$3B
  4. Cognition$2B
  5. Motive$1.3B

Most active · Q3 2026All investors →

  1. Sequoia Capital15 deals
  2. General Catalyst13 deals
  3. Y Combinator13 deals
  4. Andreessen Horowitz12 deals
  5. Index Ventures10 deals

Intelligence

Short analysis built from Chinese-language AI reporting and our own interviews. Every argument is credited to the person who made it.

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  1. Consumer

    Volumetric Media at the Compression Threshold

    Volumetric media is approaching an infrastructure inflection point as 100x compression enables browser-native streaming. However, capture costs and interaction limits remain the primary structural constraints.

  2. Agents & Enterprise

    The Collapse of Initiation Latency in Web Systems

    Human-initiated web optimization has reached its economic limit. As CAC rises and SEO returns diminish, the competitive boundary is shifting from creative volume to decision latency compression.

  3. Defense & Security

    The Decoupling of Defense Hardware

    Modern warfare is shifting from high-cost platform preservation to modular, attritable systems. Here is why procurement inertia remains the primary barrier to the goal-oriented "agentic" battlefield.

  4. Physical AI

    The Architectural Mismatch in Micromobility Safety

    Automotive safety assumptions are structurally incompatible with two-wheel dynamics. The industry is moving toward vision-first systems as car-grade sensors reach their physical and economic limits.

  5. Agents & Enterprise

    The Governance Gap in Enterprise AI

    Enterprise AI is scaling faster than it can be governed. Prompt versioning and multi-agent monitoring are emerging as structural production risks. Here is why the industry is accumulating…

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  1. Vlad Gozman Involve.me CEO Vlad Gozman  identifies  the AI agent not as a builder, but as an  orchestrator within a predefined system of components.

    in How Risk Topology Shapes AI System Design

  2. Georgii Vysotskii Gracia CEO Georgii Vysotskii  benchmarks  the current inflection point at a  75 Mbps streamable format.

    in Volumetric Media at the Compression Threshold

  3. Michelle Lim When a six-week coordination cycle yields zero marginal business gain, the failure is not in the creative—it is in the  initiation latency.

    in The Collapse of Initiation Latency in Web Systems

Events

38 events in the next 30 days · 15 added this week

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Sep 14–17AixEnergy 2026LiveBangkok, Thailand · Conference
Sep 16–18GISEC Global 2026LiveDubai, UAE · Conference
Sep 17–18AgriNext Conference 2026Dubai, UAE · Conference
Sep 24AI & Cybersecurity Summit 2026Berlin, Germany · Conference
Sep 28–29AI Infrastructure Summit 2026Berlin, Germany · Conference
Sep 28MLCon 2026New York, USA · Conference

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