Funding news on the AI desk

The latest funding news

1. Oct 5 Bloomberg: “GPU Financing Filters Into ABS With Stonebriar, Wingspire Deals” 2
2. Oct 1 channelnewsasia.com: “AI cybersecurity startup Armadin valued at over $2.5 billion after new funding round” 2
3. Sep 30 ElevenLabs valued at $22bn after $300m employee share sale 2
4. Sep 28 Seligman Ventures doubles capital to $1 billion 2
5. Sep 23 eng.pressbee.net: “Prime Focus-backed Brahma AI raises $150 million at $2 billion valuation ...Middle East” 2
6. Sep 22 ventureburn.com: “Baselayer Raises $35M to Scale AI Agent Identity Infrastructure” 2
7. Sep 16 AI-Native Chip Verification Startup VerifAIX Raises $5M 2
8. Sep 15 Factory raises $200 million, valuation triples to $5 billion 2
9. Sep 14 Samsung backs Nvidia AI chip rival in $230m funding round: report 2
10. Sep 9 Broadcom VP Vikas Sinha's $20M UNT Gift Funds AI College 6
11. Sep 12 Anthropic's backers include Amazon, Alphabet and Salesforce 2
12. Sep 11 CNBC: “Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness is active in options market, sources say” 2
13. Sep 5 businesstimes.com.sg: “AI cloud firm Nscale seeks US$3.5 billion in pre - IPO financing” 2
14. Sep 5 Anthropic reportedly files confidentially for IPO 2
15. Sep 4 Accel's Subrata Mitra on AI, funding and deep tech 2
16. Sep 4 XDOF, three months out of stealth, in talks for Series B at $1.2B valuation 1
17. Aug 29 Druckenmiller sold Broadcom, bought Amazon and Alphabet, report says 2
18. Aug 29 Space startup funding hits record $20.3B in 2026, Crunchbase says 2
19. Aug 26 Report: AI infrastructure spend to hit $487B in 2026 as power limits bite 3
20. Aug 24 OpenAI's A$5.5M API Credit Push Targets Australian AI Builders 2
21. Aug 21 Goldman says hedge funds saw worst July underperformance vs S&P 500 in 20+ years 2
22. Aug 20 Unitree shares surge 460% on debut 1
23. Aug 19 standard.net.au: “China robotics firm shares soar 600 per cent on debut” 3
24. Aug 12 CodeRabbit valued at $1.5B in latest funding round 2
25. Aug 12 wkzo.com: “Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400 million at $13.3 billion valuation” 2
26. Aug 11 Nvidia teams with Wall Street on $500bn AI infrastructure funding 1
27. Aug 11 Aureka Lands $100M to Train Next-Gen Biological AI Models 2
28. Aug 5 Report: some Situational Awareness investors saw warning signs before fund's AI bets fell 1
29. Aug 5 en.tempo.co: “AI Ecosystem Circular Investment: Risk or Advantage?” 2
30. Aug 4 AI Agent Startup HappyRobot Secures $150M, Targets Enterprise Superintelligence 2

Who is named most?

1. NVIDIA 12
2. Anthropic 9
3. OpenAI 5
4. Amazon 5
5. SpaceX 5
6. Alphabet 5
7. Broadcom 4
8. Goldman Sachs 4

Counted over the 40 events listed above. Source: GetYourBrief's record of the outlets' reports.