AI startup funding
AI Startup Funding This Week: 41 Rounds, September 28, 2026 – October 3, 2026
Published October 7, 2026 · Presspool
Presspool confirmed 41 funding rounds announced by AI companies in the week of September 28, 2026 – October 3, 2026; the 35 announced in dollars add up to $3.02 billion. The largest were Instinct ($1 billion), EliseAI ($350 million) and Armadin ($255.5 million). 5 of the 41 companies had already been cited in AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index; the other 36 had not.
Compare all 41 rounds
| Company | Amount | Round | Announced | Led by | 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 | Not stated | 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 (100 answers) |
| General Intuition | $220 million | Not stated | Sep 29 | Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, 776, Point72, Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (no lead named) | Not yet |
| SiMa.ai | $150 million | Series C | Sep 28 | Fidelity Management & Research Company, Amplify | Yes (3 answers) |
| Supabase | $150 million | Not stated | 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 (16 answers) |
| Reco | $55 million | Not stated | Sep 29 | AT&T Ventures, Forestay and Quadrille Capital (no lead named) | Yes (35 answers) |
| 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 | Not stated | 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 |
| Parakeet Health | $10 million | Series A | Oct 1 | Canvas Ventures | Not yet |
| Presto | $10 million | Not stated | Sep 28 | Remus Capital-affiliated investors and other existing investors (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Zenithon | $10 million | Not stated | 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 | Not stated | 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 |
| 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 | Not stated | Sep 28 | Golub Capital (no lead named) | Not yet |
| Tangent Robotics | $4.5 million | Pre-seed | Sep 30 | Fly Ventures, Toyota Ventures | Not yet |
| Quotr | $4 million | Seed | Sep 30 | Llama Ventures | Not yet |
| Revnu | $3 million | Not stated | Oct 1 | PXN Ventures | Not yet |
| Dodge AI | $2.65 million | Not stated | 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 |
| Ahron | €2.2 million | Not stated | Sep 29 | Cusp Capital | Not yet |
| Deepslate | €7.7 million | Seed | Oct 1 | 42CAP | Not yet |
| Inbolt | €11 million | Not stated | Sep 30 | Shift4Good | 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 6, 2026.
EliseAI raised $350 million
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 6, 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 6, 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 100 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026.
General Intuition raised $220 million
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 6, 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 3 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026.
Supabase raised $150 million
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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 16 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026.
Reco raised $55 million
Reco's platform secures AI agents and their operating environments where applications, identities, permissions and workflows converge.
Cited by AI engines Cited in 35 AI answers recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Modulate raised $25 million
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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Presto raised $10 million
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 6, 2026.
Zenithon raised $10 million
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 6, 2026.
Blue Fire AI raised $9 million
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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
F2 raised $5 million
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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Revnu raised $3 million
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 6, 2026.
Dodge AI raised $2.65 million
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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Ahron raised €2.2 million
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 6, 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 6, 2026.
Inbolt raised €11 million
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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 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 6, 2026 (release mri_score_v2.0+2026-10-06+2251ea11a4db). 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 undisclosed) and Armadin, $255.5 million (Series B).
- How much did AI startups raise the week of September 28, 2026?
- The 41 AI rounds confirmed here include 35 announced in dollars, which total $3.02 billion. 6 rounds were announced in another currency and are listed as announced, not converted.
- Do AI answer engines already know these companies?
- 5 of the 41 companies had been cited in at least one AI answer recorded by the Machine Relations Index between May 10, 2026 and October 6, 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: the company's own release where one exists, and the outlet that reported it. 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, and from a hand read of AlleyWatch's and Crunchbase News' roundups; 41 of them met the AI rule and were confirmed. Each entry was checked against its source for the amount, the round and the lead investors. A company is included when its own announcement describes the company, not one feature, as AI or as built for AI. Full method.