AI Money Map
Recent AI funding rounds, acquisitions and venture activity — plus upcoming accelerators, grants and demo days worth applying to.
xAI
Series CxAI closed a $6B Series C to expand Colossus, scale Grok and accelerate frontier model training.
Perplexity
Series DPerplexity raised $500M at a $9B valuation to expand its answer engine, ads and Pro Search offering.
Sarvam AI
Series ASarvam AI raised $41M to build India-first foundation models optimised for Indic languages and voice.
Black Forest Labs
Series BThe team behind Stable Diffusion raised $200M to scale FLUX image and video generation models.
Anthropic
Series FAmazon committed an additional $4B to Anthropic, deepening the AWS partnership and Trainium collaboration.
OpenAI
SecondaryOpenAI raised $6.6B at a $157B valuation, led by Thrive Capital with participation from Microsoft, NVIDIA and SoftBank.
Sakana AI
Series ATokyo-based Sakana AI raised $214M at a $1.5B valuation to pursue nature-inspired foundation models.
Moonshot AI
Series BMoonshot AI, maker of Kimi Chat, raised $300M+ to expand long-context LLM capabilities.
Cohere
Series DCohere secured $500M for enterprise-focused LLMs, retrieval and multilingual models across regulated industries.
Mistral AI
Series BMistral raised €600M ($640M) at a $6B valuation to accelerate open and commercial model releases from Paris.
Wayve
Series CLondon's Wayve raised $1.05B for AI-native autonomous driving foundation models.
G42
Series CMicrosoft made a $1.5B strategic investment in Abu Dhabi's G42 to accelerate global AI infrastructure.
Krutrim
Series BKrutrim became India's first AI unicorn after raising $50M for its multilingual model and AI cloud stack.
01.AI
Series AKai-Fu Lee's 01.AI reached a $1B+ valuation to advance Yi open models across Chinese and English.
Accelerators, grants & demo days
Y Combinator W26 Batch
AcceleratorFlagship US accelerator with rolling AI-heavy batches. $500K standard deal for early-stage teams.
NVIDIA Inception
IncubatorFree program for AI startups — GPU credits, technical training, marketing support and VC introductions.
Hub71 Ignite / Scale
IncubatorAbu Dhabi's flagship tech ecosystem offering incentives, housing and capital access for AI startups relocating to the UAE.
100X.VC Class
AcceleratorIndia's Class-based pre-seed program investing via iSAFE notes. AI/deep-tech startups strongly encouraged.
Antler Singapore
AcceleratorDay-zero investor helping founders form teams and raise pre-seed capital across Southeast Asia.
SGInnovate Deep-Tech Grants
GrantSingapore government-backed deep-tech investor with grants and co-investments across AI and quantum.
EU EIC Accelerator
GrantUp to €2.5M grant + €15M equity for European deep-tech and AI startups scaling breakthrough technology.
Techstars London
AcceleratorThree-month program with $120K in funding, mentorship and access to a global investor network.
a16z SPEEDRUN
Acceleratora16z's tech-x-games accelerator with $750K checks for AI-native creative and consumer teams.