AI startup funding tracker
went into AI companies in the last 7 days.
Mirendil's $1B round was 18% of it.
Rounds75 · all stagesBy capitalAI Models & Research 18% · AI Infrastructure 16% · Robotics & Physical AI 15%Previous 7 days$17.9B · 77 rounds
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Funding by sector
Disclosed capital and rounds by sector and headquarters region. Click a sector for a summary, or open its page for the full view.
Fastest-growing sub-sectors
Ranked by how many more companies raised a round than in the 12 months before.
Ranked by % growth in companies that raised a round, against the 12 months before.
Ranked by how many more companies raised a round than in the 6 months before.
Ranked by % growth in companies that raised a round, against the 6 months before.
Last 12 months (Nov 2025 – Nov 2026) against the 12 months before, by announcement date. Companies funded = companies with at least one round announced in the period. Bars show rounds by quarter.
Last 6 months (May 2026 – Nov 2026) against the 6 months before, by announcement date. Companies funded = companies with at least one round announced in the period. Bars show rounds by quarter.
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Explore a sector
Capital raised in the last 12 months. Open a sector for its sub-sectors, companies and every round.
Funding by region
Headquarters country, by disclosed money and round count. Click a country to see its rounds.
Stages
Every stage — capital disclosed and number of rounds. Click a stage to see its rounds.
Capital raised by stage
Rounds by stage
Most active investors
Click a company for its deal sheet, with the source articles.
Deal log
Every AI round in the period. Click any row for the full deal sheet, including founding team and primary sources.
| Company | Region | Stage | Amount | Founders | Lead | Sector | Date |
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Class notes
Live cohorts from the two programs that publish their lineups, a16z Speedrun and Y Combinator, refreshed each cycle from the official program pages.
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Exits announced Jan 1, 2024 to Nov 14, 2026; exit records last added Nov 14, 2026 (funding data refreshed Nov 15, 2026). 980 exits counted: 848 at AI-native or AI-enabled companies and 132 at venture-backed tech companies not classified as AI (the methodology's exit scope covers those at $500M or more, and all listings). By kind: 720 acquisitions, 18 acqui-hires, 31 license-and-hire deals and 211 listings (181 IPOs, 7 direct listings and 23 SPAC mergers). Status: 793 completed and 187 announced but not yet completed. Listings count once completed (0 pending listings are held apart), and 3 deals reported in talks are listed separately and not counted. Exit value is one figure per exit, recorded for 519 of 980: the acquisition price for 348 of 769 acquisitions, acqui-hires and license-and-hire deals, and the market capitalisation at the IPO price for 171 of 211 listings. IPO proceeds (cash raised; 108 of 181 IPOs) and funding raised before the exit are shown separately and are not part of exit value.
Deals reported in talks
Reported negotiations, not yet signed. Values are press figures; none are counted as exits until a deal is announced.
Type of exits
IPOs and listings by valuation
Acquisitions by deal value
Exits by region
Valued exits by headquarters region. Exits without a sourced HQ are counted in the note below the chart, not drawn.
All regions: counts, values, medians
Exits by sector
Valued exits. AI and non-AI companies in the same field share a sector.
Over time
Valued exits by announcement date; quarterly, or monthly for a year or less.
Number of exits
Exit value
Largest exits
Top 30 by exit value.
Acquirers
Acquisitions and talent deals by acquirer: who is acquiring, what, and how (company or team).
Acquirer types by deal value
Deals by acquirer type over time
What each acquirer type acquires · deals by target sector
Most active acquirers
Investors in exited companies
Institutional backers of exited companies. Exit value is the value of the portfolio company at exit, not the investor's return.
Repeat co-investors in exits
Exits without a disclosed value
No disclosed deal value or IPO-price valuation. Shown by number of exits; Regions, Sectors and Over time cover valued exits only. Click a bar to open the deal log filtered to it.
By region
By sector
Deal log
| Company | Type | Acquirer / venue | Region | Sector | Announced | Source |
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Exit log
Every listed exit in the period. ~ marks an approximate or press-reported value; ranges count at their low end. Companies also in the investment deal log are marked.
| Company | Type | Acquirer / venue | Exit value | Region | Sector | Announced | Source |
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MethodologyWhat counts, and how money and exits are measured
- Every AI round since Jan 2, 2023Every disclosed equity round, Pre-Seed to pre-IPO, at AI-native and AI-enabled companies.
- Only stated money is addedRounds without a stated amount count as rounds, never as dollars. A stated floor counts at the floor, and nothing is estimated.
- Sources are linkedOpen any deal for the pages its figures came from, where a public one exists.
- Updated dailyLast sweep Nov 15, 2026. Past months can change as missed rounds are added.
- Exits since Jan 1, 2024Acquisitions, talent deals and listings, valued at the deal price or the IPO-price market cap.
Definitions
What counts as a round
Every disclosed equity round at an AI-native or AI-enabled company, at every stage from Pre-Seed to Series F+, growth and pre-IPO rounds, announced from — onward.
- Later rounds: Series C onward, growth rounds and unlabelled rounds (pre-IPO, strategic and large raises without a series letter) count in every total and chart.
- Not rounds: debt, grants, listings, acquisitions, secondary sales and investments in listed companies.
- Each later round shows its amount, valuation where stated (post- or pre-money), lead, and time since the company's earlier round. Valuation multiples compare only valuations of the same type.
- Exits of tracked companies are linked to the company.
AI-native and AI-enabled
- AI-native: the product is an AI model, agent or AI-native workflow.
- AI-enabled: AI is a material part of a product that is not itself AI, or the company builds for AI workloads.
- AI-enabled coverage is still being completed for some months. The deal log filters by either kind.
Money and currency
- All amounts are in USD: the source's own USD figure where it gives one, otherwise converted at the European Central Bank rate for the announcement date.
- A floor ("more than $500M") counts at the floor and shows as $500M+. An approximate figure ("about $2B", "nearly RMB 2bn") counts as printed and shows as ~$2B. A figure reported by the press but never confirmed by the company or its investors counts as reported and also shows with ~. A ceiling ("up to $1B") is not counted. A total that includes shares sold by existing holders is counted as announced and flagged. A round that closes larger than first announced counts at its final close.
- Vague amounts (e.g. "tens of millions of RMB") are left undisclosed, never estimated.
Exits
- Scope
- AI startups, plus venture-backed tech companies exiting at $500M or more, and every listing.
- Counted
- Acquisitions, acqui-hires, license & hire deals, and listings (IPOs, direct listings and de-SPACs, once shares trade).
- Not counted
- Asset purchases, shutdowns, secondaries, tender offers, talks, and mergers between companies under common control.
- Exit value
- The deal price for acquisitions and talent deals; the market capitalisation at the IPO price for listings. Approximate or press-reported figures are marked ~.
Accelerator cohorts
Full cohort lists taken from each program's own site, not a selection. Currently covers a16z Speedrun (SR006, SR007) and Y Combinator (Spring, Summer and Fall 2026 batches).
How much funding has gone to AI startups?
Aperture Tracker records $903.2B in disclosed funding across 10,499 of the 12,753 AI startup funding rounds it tracks, announced Jan 2, 2023 to Nov 14, 2026 (data last refreshed Nov 15, 2026). These are rounds raised by AI-native and AI-enabled companies, from Pre-Seed to late-stage rounds, that Aperture Tracker has recorded; they are not an estimate of all AI investment worldwide. Amounts reported in other currencies are converted to US dollars at the European Central Bank reference rate for the announcement date unless the source gives a US dollar figure; a stated floor ("more than $500M") counts at the floor and an approximate figure as printed, undisclosed or vague amounts are not estimated, and debt, grants and investments in listed companies are not counted as funding rounds.
| Year | Rounds | With a disclosed amount | Disclosed capital raised |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,486 | 1,272 | $51.2B |
| 2024 | 2,587 | 2,181 | $112.7B |
| 2025 | 4,909 | 3,957 | $218.3B |
| 2026 (to Nov 14, 2026) | 3,771 | 3,089 | $521.1B |
Dataset summary
Computed from the full dataset at the last build; the interactive views above filter it by period.
- AI classification
- 8,422 AI-native, 4,331 AI-enabled
| Region | Rounds | Disclosed capital raised |
|---|---|---|
| North America | 6,394 | $726.1B |
| Europe | 2,412 | $69B |
| Israel | 334 | $12.8B |
| China | 1,304 | $68.2B |
| India | 665 | $4.7B |
| SEA | 220 | $3.6B |
| Japan & South Korea | 610 | $6.7B |
| Rest of World | 814 | $12B |
| Stage | Rounds | Disclosed capital raised |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-Seed | 1,103 | $2.4B |
| Seed | 4,772 | $44.2B |
| Pre-A | 474 | $3.7B |
| Series A | 3,010 | $81.8B |
| Series B | 1,535 | $104.7B |
| Series C | 473 | $76.2B |
| Series D | 187 | $48.6B |
| Series E | 81 | $46.7B |
| Series F+ | 69 | $164.5B |
| Growth | 97 | $7.5B |
| Stage not stated | 952 | $323.1B |
| Sector | Rounds | Disclosed capital raised |
|---|---|---|
| AI Models & Research | 323 | $427.8B |
| AI Infrastructure | 720 | $91.9B |
| Robotics & Physical AI | 1,238 | $71.3B |
| Enterprise & Vertical AI | 2,918 | $48.5B |
| Healthcare & Life Sciences | 1,616 | $46.1B |
| Industry AI | 1,281 | $43.1B |
| AI Hardware & Chips | 389 | $33.4B |
| Defense & Public Safety AI | 249 | $32B |
| Fintech AI | 1,106 | $25.7B |
| Cybersecurity AI | 616 | $23.1B |
| AI Developer Tools | 600 | $21B |
| AI Agents | 783 | $21B |
| Consumer & Media AI | 909 | $18.4B |
| Unknown | 5 | $111M |