AI Funding Tracker

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Nvidia announced a $1 billion equity investment in Poolside at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, alongside a $6 billion non-exclusive license for Poolside’s Model Factory and the hiring of 109 employees.

• • Nvidia is investing $1 billion in Poolside at a $12 billion pre-money valuation.
• • Nvidia is separately paying $6 billion for a non-exclusive Model Factory software license.
• • The arrangement is not an outright acquisition of Poolside.

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Confidence 91% / Completeness 100%

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Velaura AI announced a $110 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Samsung Catalyst Fund, Mayfield and other investors. The company is valued at over $1 billion.

• • The financing was announced on August 18, 2026.
• • Seligman Ventures led the Series A.
• • Velaura said the round values it at over $1 billion.
• • The company will use the funding for engineering and customer-facing team expansion.

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Higgsfield announced a $400 million Series B led by DST Capital, with participation from new and existing investors, valuing the AI startup at $5.4 billion.

• • Higgsfield raised $400 million in a Series B financing announced on August 18, 2026.
• • DST Capital led the round.
• • The financing valued Higgsfield at $5.4 billion.
• • Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Tribe Capital, Intel Capital, Accel, Menlo Ventures, and GFT Ventures participated.

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Etched announced a $700 million funding round at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street and joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Tiger Global, according to reports cited by the article.

• • The article states that Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation.
• • Reuters reportedly identified Jane Street as the lead investor and named Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Tiger Global as participants.
• • The article identifies Etched as an AI inference hardware startup delivering rack-level “frontier inference clusters.”

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Wispr Flow announced a $280 million Series B on 2026-08-17 and the company is now reported as a $2 billion company.

• • Article states Wispr Flow raised $280,000,000 in a Series B (announced Aug. 17, 2026).
• • Article states Wispr Flow is now a $2,000,000,000 company after the raise.
• • Article states the first and largest part of the round will go to improving accuracy.
• • Article states Wispr Flow is previewing its first proprietary speech model, Canto.

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Groq Inc. raised $350,000,000 in a Series A round led by Disruptive; Nvidia Corp. plans to join the round later.

• • Article states Groq announced a $350,000,000 Series A round.
• • Article states the round was led by returning backer Disruptive.
• • Article states Nvidia Corp. plans to join the round later but amount unspecified.
• • Article states Groq will use proceeds to grow GroqCloud and expand capacity from 57 MW to over 200 MW next year.
• • Article notes GroqCloud runs on hardware in 13 data centers worldwide.

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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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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%