AI startup funding
AI Startup Funding, September 28, 2026 – October 3, 2026: 56 Rounds
Published October 7, 2026 · Updated October 19, 2026 · Presspool
Presspool confirmed 56 funding rounds announced by AI companies in the week of September 28, 2026 – October 3, 2026; the 46 announced in dollars add up to $3.32 billion. The largest were Instinct ($1 billion), EliseAI ($350 million) and Armadin ($255.5 million). 5 of the 56 companies had already been cited in AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index; the other 51 had not.
Compare all 56 rounds
| Company | Amount | Round | Announced | Investors | Cited by AI engines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instinct | $1 billion | Series C | Sep 28 | Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue (no lead named) | Not yet |
| EliseAI | $350 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 29 | Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners | Not yet |
| Armadin | $255.5 million | Series B | Oct 1 | Andreessen Horowitz, Accel | Not yet |
| GMI Cloud | $223 million | Series B | Sep 30 | ARCHIV | Yes (128 answers) |
| General Intuition | $220 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 29 | Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, 776, Point72, Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (no lead named) | Not yet |
| PaleBlueDot AI | $200 million | Series C | Oct 1 | ComputeCore | Not yet |
| SiMa.ai | $150 million | Series C | Sep 28 | Fidelity Management & Research Company, Amplify | Yes (4 answers) |
| Supabase | $150 million | Round type not disclosed | Oct 2 | GIC | Not yet |
| CScale | $145 million | Series C | Sep 30 | Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Premji Invest | Not yet |
| Volantis | $88 million | Series A | Oct 1 | Lachy Groom, Abstract Ventures | Not yet |
| Metaview | $60 million | Series C | Sep 30 | Insight Partners | Yes (20 answers) |
| Reco | $55 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 29 | AT&T Ventures, Forestay and Quadrille Capital (no lead named) | Yes (40 answers) |
| Flow Engineering | $50 million | Series B | Sep 30 | Antonio Gracias (Valor Equity Partners), Gavin Baker (Atreides Management) | Not yet |
| Miter | $40 million | Series B | Sep 30 | Battery Ventures | Not yet |
| Outmarket AI | $34.5 million | Series B | Sep 28 | SignalFire | Not yet |
| Halluminate | $30 million | Series A | Oct 1 | Oak HC/FT | Not yet |
| Modulate | $25 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 28 | Future Ventures | Not yet |
| OuterSignal | $22 million | Series A | Sep 30 | Long Journey Ventures, Abstract Ventures | Not yet |
| Restate | $20 million | Series A | Sep 30 | Singular | Not yet |
| Ascerta | $18 million | Series A | Sep 30 | Dell Technologies Capital | Not yet |
| IPercept | $16.5 million | Series A | Sep 29 | Isogon Ventures, 2150 | Not yet |
| Daptic | $15 million | Series A | Oct 1 | Canvas Ventures | Not yet |
| Atomic | $12.5 million | Series A | Sep 29 | Klass Capital, Madrona | Not yet |
| Kanu AI | $11.7 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 30 | Trilogy Equity Partners | Not yet |
| Parakeet Health | $10 million | Series A | Oct 1 | Canvas Ventures | Not yet |
| Presto | $10 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 28 | Remus Capital-affiliated investors and other existing investors (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Zenithon | $10 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 30 | Backed, Lunar Ventures, Seraphim Space, MMC Ventures and SOSV, alongside founders and hyperscaler directors (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Blue Fire AI | $9 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 29 | Asset Management One (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Destro AI | $8 million | Seed | Sep 29 | Base10 Partners, Bonfire Ventures | Not yet |
| Satlyt | $8 million | Seed | Oct 1 | non sibi ventures | Not yet |
| Autoheal | $7.9 million | Seed | Sep 28 | Innovation Endeavors | Not yet |
| Aleph | $7.5 million | Pre-seed | Sep 30 | Andreessen Horowitz | Not yet |
| Hestus | $7.4 million | Seed | Oct 2 | Insight Partners | Not yet |
| Elio Mortgage | $5.1 million | Pre-seed | Sep 29 | Motive Partners, Social Leverage | Not yet |
| Menos AI | $5.1 million | Pre-A | Sep 28 | Copper Sky Capital | Not yet |
| F2 | $5 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 28 | Golub Capital (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Tangent Robotics | $4.5 million | Pre-seed | Sep 30 | Fly Ventures, Toyota Ventures | Not yet |
| Kutlerri.ai | $4 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 30 | Narahari Investments | Not yet |
| Quotr | $4 million | Seed | Sep 30 | Llama Ventures | Not yet |
| Bodhium Labs | $3.5 million | Pre-seed | Sep 30 | Streamlined Ventures, Long Journey Ventures | Not yet |
| Mona | $3.5 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 28 | Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners | Not yet |
| Humanos | $3.2 million | Seed | Sep 28 | Anthemis | Not yet |
| Revnu | $3 million | Round type not disclosed | Oct 1 | PXN Ventures | Not yet |
| Dodge AI | $2.65 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 29 | Accel, Google AI Futures Fund | Not yet |
| DOD Solution | $2.1 million | Pre-seed | Sep 28 | Angel One Fund, Better Angle, Defence Builder Fund, Network VC, Newfund, UAID Fund, WildField Ventures, 4C-Next Holding AG and strategic investor Draganfly (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Bilt | $700,000 | Pre-seed | Sep 28 | Superhero Capital | Not yet |
| 1club | €2.2 million | Seed | Oct 1 | LAUNCHub Ventures and BrightCap Ventures (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Ahron | €2.2 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 29 | Cusp Capital | Not yet |
| Deepslate | €7.7 million | Seed | Oct 1 | 42CAP | Not yet |
| Falcon | €1.5 million | Pre-seed | Oct 1 | Syndicate One | Not yet |
| Granite | €4 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 28 | Bifrost Studios | Not yet |
| Inbolt | €11 million | Round type not disclosed | Sep 30 | Shift4Good | Not yet |
| Kyndred | €500,000 | Pre-seed | Sep 29 | Early Game Ventures | Not yet |
| Marble | €6.5 million | Series A | Sep 29 | Smartfin | Yes (2 answers) |
| Osavul | €8.5 million | Series A | Oct 1 | 33N Ventures | Not yet |
| Spotable | €4 million | Seed | Sep 29 | Jonas Dhaenens (team.blue), Christophe Morbee (NewSchool.vc), the family office of Hilde Cloostermans and Philip Corens, and Arne Vandendriessche (no lead named) | Not yet |
Every round, largest first
Instinct raised $1 billion (Series C)
Instinct is building a personal agent for everyday life: text or call it, and it uses its own phone and computer to get tasks done.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
EliseAI raised $350 million (round type not disclosed)
EliseAI is an AI company transforming housing and healthcare through deep workflow automation, with AI agents that automate leasing, maintenance, scheduling and intake.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Armadin raised $255.5 million (Series B)
Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company that runs an autonomous swarm of specialized agents to find and chain an organization's exploitable weaknesses.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
GMI Cloud raised $223 million (Series B)
GMI Cloud is an AI-native cloud infrastructure company that provides GPU clusters, optimized inference and agent infrastructure on one unified cloud.
Cited by AI engines Cited in 128 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
General Intuition raised $220 million (round type not disclosed)
General Intuition is a frontier lab building foundation models trained on billions of action-labeled videos and capable of acting in real time.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
PaleBlueDot AI raised $200 million (Series C)
PaleBlueDot AI is a superintelligence infrastructure platform providing global GPU infrastructure and customised compute.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
SiMa.ai raised $150 million (Series C)
SiMa.ai delivers a full-stack Physical AI platform, combining purpose-built silicon and software, for robotics, automotive, drones, industrial automation, aerospace and defense.
Cited by AI engines Cited in 4 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Supabase raised $150 million (round type not disclosed)
Supabase is the leader in agentic infrastructure and open source Postgres development platform, aiming to be where developers and agents turn for backend support.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
CScale raised $145 million (Series C)
CScale is building an integrated light engine to deliver reliable optical connectivity for AI infrastructure at gigawatt scale.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Volantis raised $88 million (Series A)
Volantis is a semiconductor company building a new architecture for AI inference, combining photonics and semiconductor design to increase memory capacity and bandwidth.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Metaview raised $60 million (Series C)
Metaview, the Agentic Recruiting Platform, powers connected AI agents that source candidates, review applications, conduct screening conversations and turn interviews into notes.
Cited by AI engines Cited in 20 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Reco raised $55 million (round type not disclosed)
Reco's platform secures AI agents and their operating environments where applications, identities, permissions and workflows converge.
Cited by AI engines Cited in 40 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Flow Engineering raised $50 million (Series B)
Flow is building the agentic systems engineering platform for hardware teams, with AI agents that keep requirements, CAD, simulation and tests aligned.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Miter raised $40 million (Series B)
Miter is an AI-powered workforce management platform for the construction industry that contractors use to run payroll, HR, field operations and expense management.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Outmarket AI raised $34.5 million (Series B)
Outmarket AI is an AI platform purpose-built for insurance that connects directly to agency management systems to automate complex, high-stakes processes.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Halluminate raised $30 million (Series A)
Halluminate is a data research lab building the benchmarks and RL environments needed to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Modulate raised $25 million (round type not disclosed)
Modulate is a frontier audio AI company whose audio-native models analyze voice conversations for emotion, tone, intent and synthetic speech.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
OuterSignal raised $22 million (Series A)
OuterSignal is the agentic customer intelligence platform that tells brands who their customers actually are and activates them 1:1.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Restate raised $20 million (Series A)
Restate provides durable execution infrastructure for building reliable modern applications, from distributed backends to AI agents.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Ascerta raised $18 million (Series A)
Ascerta, formerly Pay-i, is the Enterprise AI Management platform that helps companies transition to AI-first operations by measuring, optimizing and scaling AI value.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
IPercept raised $16.5 million (Series A)
IPercept's predictive AI platform monitors machine health without complex system integrations, using patented technology that enables CNC machine tools to report their own mechanical condition.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Daptic raised $15 million (Series A)
Daptic is AI-powered product compliance software that enables manufacturers to design products for regulation, making regulatory requirements part of product development.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Atomic raised $12.5 million (Series A)
Atomic is building the AI control system for physical goods companies, giving planning teams product-level models, explained recommendations and AI agents.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Kanu AI raised $11.7 million (round type not disclosed)
Kanu AI turns how an organization works into software workflows the organization owns, deployed inside the customer's own cloud and security layer.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Parakeet Health raised $10 million (Series A)
Parakeet Health is a healthcare AI company transforming patient access with a conversational agentic platform powered by large language models.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Presto raised $10 million (round type not disclosed)
Presto is the Voice AI market leader for restaurant drive-thrus, aiming to deliver a full suite of Vertical AI solutions for restaurant chains.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Zenithon raised $10 million (round type not disclosed)
Zenithon is building world models to accelerate innovation in rockets, fusion reactors and fabs, using physics-grounded machine learning to make complex simulations dramatically faster.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Blue Fire AI raised $9 million (round type not disclosed)
Blue Fire AI is an AI-native active asset manager built around Emmalyn, its proprietary neuro-symbolic AI framework for active investment decisions.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Destro AI raised $8 million (Seed)
Destro AI builds the intelligence layer for autonomous warehouse robotics, letting robots, people and enterprise systems work together regardless of hardware.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Satlyt raised $8 million (Seed)
Satlyt builds software that helps satellites process data and run AI onboard, working toward virtual AI data centers in space.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Autoheal raised $7.9 million (Seed)
Autoheal is a self-improving software factory where enterprise engineering teams build, run, govern and improve worker agents.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Aleph raised $7.5 million (Pre-seed)
Aleph is building autonomous surgical robots, bringing frontier embodied AI into the operating room.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Hestus raised $7.4 million (Seed)
Hestus is building an AI foundation model for mechanical engineering that works inside existing computer-aided design software.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Elio Mortgage raised $5.1 million (Pre-seed)
Elio Mortgage is an AI-native mortgage company rebuilding origination from the ground up, running a licensed mortgage operation powered by its proprietary agentic platform.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Menos AI raised $5.1 million (Pre-A)
Menos AI builds institutional AI infrastructure connecting proprietary knowledge, investment workflows and AI agents across research, portfolio management and operations.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
F2 raised $5 million (round type not disclosed)
F2 is the agentic operating system for global credit, deploying AI agents across deal screening, underwriting, portfolio management and firm-wide workflows.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Tangent Robotics raised $4.5 million (Pre-seed)
Tangent Robotics develops the fine motor skill layer for robotic manipulation, aiming to automate complex, high-precision tasks, starting on the factory floor.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Kutlerri.ai raised $4 million (round type not disclosed)
Kutlerri.ai is building a team of AI agents aimed at a restaurant's revenue expansion and cost control, running each agent and getting paid on results.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Quotr raised $4 million (Seed)
Quotr is an AI-native estimating and procurement platform that automates quantity takeoff, cost estimation, proposal generation and material procurement for contractors.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Bodhium Labs raised $3.5 million (Pre-seed)
Bodhium Labs is an applied AI lab building AI visibility software and an AI simulation and testing layer for marketing teams.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Mona raised $3.5 million (round type not disclosed)
Mona is an AI platform for small business capital access and financial coaching.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Humanos raised $3.2 million (Seed)
Humanos is the risk network for AI, helping companies measure, control and transfer AI risk to unlock insurance and credit.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Revnu raised $3 million (round type not disclosed)
Revnu is an AI growth hire that runs a business's outbound, ads and search content, doing the work a growth team would.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Dodge AI raised $2.65 million (round type not disclosed)
Dodge AI has built a unified platform of AI agents for ERP maintenance and modernization across the enterprise application stack.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
DOD Solution raised $2.1 million (Pre-seed)
DOD Solution is an Estonian-Ukrainian defence technology company developing onboard computers and autonomy systems, integrating AI-powered autonomy into unmanned platforms.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Bilt raised $700,000 (Pre-seed)
Bilt is an AI mobile app builder: people build their mobile app and monetize it.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
1club raised €2.2 million (Seed)
1club is AI-native management software for gyms, studios, sports clubs and fitness businesses.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Ahron raised €2.2 million (round type not disclosed)
Ahron puts AI agents to work across a company's existing HR systems and governs every action, with Celonis process intelligence at its core.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Deepslate raised €7.7 million (Seed)
Deepslate is an AI model lab that trains its own speech-to-speech models, audio in and audio out with no detour through text.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Falcon raised €1.5 million (Pre-seed)
Falcon is an AI-native law firm for commercial contracting: AI prepares contracts and an expert lawyer reviews them within 24 hours.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Granite raised €4 million (round type not disclosed)
Granite is Europe's full-stack sovereign cloud for the agentic era, handing customers a complete agentic AI stack: compute, storage, GPU, agents and audit.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Inbolt raised €11 million (round type not disclosed)
Inbolt gives robots the ability to see, think, and adapt in real time; its generalist AI model enables any robot to master any process.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Kyndred raised €500,000 (Pre-seed)
Kyndred makes AI characters with their own voice and a memory that holds.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Marble raised €6.5 million (Series A)
Marble is an AI-powered fraud and AML compliance platform for banks and fintechs, open source and deployed as SaaS or on-premise.
Cited by AI engines Cited in 2 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Osavul raised €8.5 million (Series A)
Osavul is an AI-driven hybrid risk intelligence company whose platform identifies hostile intent across the information, cyber and physical domains before attacks materialise.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
Spotable raised €4 million (Seed)
Spotable makes AI-driven software that turns a building's address into 3D roof and facade measurements and a professional quote contractors can send right away.
Not yet cited Not cited in any AI answer the Machine Relations Index recorded between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026.
What “cited by AI engines” means here
The Machine Relations Index asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews a fixed panel of buyer questions on a recurring schedule and records which websites each answer cites. A company counts as cited when its own website appeared as a source in at least one recorded answer between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026 (release mri_score_v2.1+2026-10-18+380d7c3b11dc). The panel asks buyer questions across 24 industry categories, not questions about these companies by name, so “not yet” means no recorded answer cited the company's site. A company whose market sits outside those categories can be absent for that reason alone.
Questions
- Which AI startups raised the most money the week of September 28, 2026?
- Instinct, $1 billion (Series C), EliseAI, $350 million (round type not disclosed) and Armadin, $255.5 million (Series B).
- How much did AI startups raise the week of September 28, 2026?
- The 56 AI rounds confirmed here include 46 announced in dollars, which total $3.32 billion. 10 rounds were announced in another currency and are listed as announced, not converted.
- Do AI answer engines already know these companies?
- 5 of the 56 companies had been cited in at least one AI answer recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026: GMI Cloud, SiMa.ai, Metaview, Reco and Marble. A funding announcement does not by itself put a company into AI answers.
How this list was built
Rounds come from public announcements. This week's candidates came from a funding-announcement feed over TechCrunch, Tech.eu and EU-Startups, from the daily funding reports of AlleyWatch, Raise Track, Tech.eu, EU-Startups and Crunchbase News, from a hand read of AlleyWatch's and Crunchbase News' roundups, and from Fireround's public funding rounds; 56 of them met the AI rule and were confirmed at their own sources. Each entry links the two sources that confirm it: the company's announcement and one outlet, which settle the amount and investors, or two independent outlets that agree on the amount and the lead, or on one investor as the only backer. The company's own words describe it as AI or as built for AI. The round type is printed as announced, or as not disclosed when no source states it. Full method.