AI Funding Tracker

What we captured

NVIDIA said it will invest 1.5 billion in SB Energy to back the company's Ohio data-center project.

• • Article states NVIDIA will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy to back its Ohio data-center buildout.
• • Article cites NVIDIA's plan with Wall Street firms to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
• • Gavin Baker described NVIDIA's move to make GPUs financeable and called it potentially the 'Federal Reserve of AI.'

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Confidence 92% / Completeness 88%

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Kling AI raised a $2.8-billion Series D that accounted for about 68% of Southeast Asia native AI funding in 2026, according to Tracxn as reported by Crowdfund Insider.

• • Article cites Tracxn's report and is published by Crowdfund Insider (Aug 15, 2026).
• • Kling AI raised a $2.8B Series D that accounted for ~68% of 2026 SE Asia AI funding (Tracxn).
• • Southeast Asia native AI startups raised $4.1B across 23 disclosed equity rounds as of July 2026 (Tracxn).
• • Excluding Kling AI's $2.8B, native AI funding in SE Asia was roughly $1.3B in 2026 to date (Tracxn).
• • MiniMax raised a $1.2B round; Princeton Digital Group raised $2.2B across four Data Center Infrastructure rounds (Tracxn).

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Groq announced a $650 million growth financing led by Disruptive and Infinitum to expand its global AI inference cloud.

• • Groq announced the financing on June 22, 2026.
• • The round was led by Disruptive and Infinitum.
• • Groq plans to scale toward 200 MW by the end of 2027.

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Confidence 100% / Completeness 98%

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OpenAI announced $110 billion in new investment at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, including $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon, alongside strategic partnerships with Amazon and NVIDIA.

• • Article headline: "Scaling AI for everyone" (OpenAI blog)
• • "Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre-money valuation."
• • "This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon."
• • OpenAI says it has "signed a strategic partnership with Amazon and secured next generation inference compute with NVIDIA."
• • Article date: February 27, 2026.

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Confidence 95% / Completeness 87%

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Figure announced more than $1 billion in committed Series C capital led by Parkway Venture Capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation.

• • Figure announced more than $1 billion in committed Series C capital on September 16, 2025.
• • The round was led by Parkway Venture Capital.
• • Figure disclosed a $39 billion post-money valuation.
• • The company said proceeds will support humanoid robot production and deployments, Helix development, GPU infrastructure, and multimodal data collection.

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Confidence 100% / Completeness 100%