A new AI startup founded by former Sequoia Partners executives is developing technology that autonomously negotiates meetings, aiming to reduce scheduling friction for professionals.
San Francisco-based AI startup Emergent has raised $70 million in Series B funding to scale its team and strengthen its enterprise-focused AI platform.
A growing number of US AI startups raised over $100 million in 2025, highlighting sustained investor confidence despite market caution and tighter capital flows.
Shunya Labs has unveiled an AI model designed to better understand India’s code-mixed speech, aiming to improve voice-based applications across diverse languages.
AI presentation startup Gamma has raised $68 million in Series B funding, pushing its valuation to $2.1 billion amid rising demand for AI-powered content tools.
Chinese AI company Z.ai has become the world’s first publicly listed large language model developer following its Hong Kong stock market debut.
PM Narendra Modi engages with Indian AI startups ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, signalling India’s ambition to build globally relevant AI solutions.
Meta acquires AI startup Manus as it expands enterprise focused artificial intelligence offerings and strengthens its broader generative AI strategy.
Google DeepMind has invested in Indian AI startup CoRover AI, creator of BharatGPT, signalling growing global interest in India-focused language models.
Mirelo has raised $41 million to develop AI technology that improves sound quality and synchronization in AI generated video content.
Jeff Bezos joins Project Prometheus as co-CEO in his first operational role since Amazon, with the AI startup backed by $6.2 billion and focused on engineering and manufacturing.
Salesforce, Figma and HubSpot acquire early-stage Israeli AI startups to expand enterprise search, marketing AI and creative tech capabilities.
VideoDB acquires Chennai-based AI testing startup Devzery to boost AI-driven software testing automation and expand its India operations.
Microsoft, NVIDIA and WeTransact launch the Agentic Launchpad in the UK-Ireland region offering startups technical support, Azure credits and go-to-market assistance.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT launches the ₹5.85 crore Global AI Impact Challenge to fund innovators, startups, and researchers building AI solutions for public good.
Former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao raises $1B for Unconventional Inc, a startup aiming to redefine computing with ambitious AI-driven infrastructure.
AI startup Anthropic appoints Bengaluru-born Rahul Patil as CTO, marking a key leadership move as the company scales its global AI ambitions.
The global AI for sales and marketing market is projected to surge through 2030, with tech giants, startups, and specialists driving growth via acquisitions and partnerships.
Neo4j invests $100M to expand generative AI with new agentic offerings, strengthening graph database innovation and enterprise adoption worldwide.
Surat-based AI startup, Rocket secures $15 million from Salesforce and Accel to expand its Complete App Platform and strengthen enterprise AI adoption.
AI startup ZeinteiqAI receives ₹75 crore under IndiaAI Mission to develop an 8-billion parameter scientific model, advancing India’s AI research ecosystem.
Blinkit AI secures $1.2M seed funding to build AI-led content creation platform, aiming to democratize artificial intelligence for individuals and enterprises.
Sentient AI launches an open-source AGI network for over two million users, aiming to democratize advanced AI access and challenge global players like OpenAI and AWS.
Databricks invests in ex-Intel AI chief Naveen Rao’s new startup, signaling a push to develop advanced AI hardware for scalable, efficient enterprise adoption.
Parag Agrawal launches AI startup Parallel with $30M backing, aiming to grant AI agents real-time web access and outperform GPT-5 on deep-research benchmarks.
Nasscom warns India’s fast-growing GenAI startup sector faces funding and compute infrastructure gaps, urging policy support for sustainable global growth.
Google announces 20 Indian AI startups for its AI First Accelerator, supporting innovation in health, legal-tech, agri, and more.
Memories.AI raises $8 million in seed funding, backed by Samsung Next and former Meta leaders. The startup aims to revolutionize video intelligence.
Industrial AI startup secures $1.5M in funding, aiming to build trust and resilience in critical infrastructure with no plans of acquisition.
Deep Algorithm Solutions raises ₹10.8 Cr in seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures to scale its AI-driven cybersecurity and fraud prevention tools.
Wonderful, an AI startup focused on multilingual customer support automation, has raised $34 million in seed funding led by Coatue and Felicis.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2B for Thinking Machines Lab to develop advanced general-purpose AI systems with human-like reasoning.
Corover launches BharatGPT Mini at VivaTech 2025—an offline, multilingual AI model designed for India’s low-infra, regional language-first market.
Darwix AI raises $1.5M to build vertical GenAI tools for sales teams, aiming to scale omnichannel personalization and global enterprise adoption.
Nvidia is backing top AI startups like Runway, Hugging Face, and Perplexity to build a future-ready ecosystem beyond GPUs. Here’s what it means for Martech.
