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602 rounds held · 17 Jul 2026 → 30 Oct 2026 · 33 collection runs
All sectors
1–100 of 602- 30 Oct 202601.AI
Develops large general-purpose AI models.
- 30 Oct 2026Ares Intelligence€2.6m (reported)
Collects what a company's own staff say about their work and turns it into a plan for where to adopt AI.
- 30 Oct 2026Easol€17.9m (reported)
Software that lets businesses selling experiences take their own bookings and payments instead of going through a marketplace.
- 30 Oct 2026Machenta$40m (reported)
A robotics research lab, funded before it has a product to sell.
- 30 Oct 2026Nano-core Chip¥1bn (reported)
Designs chips that run already-trained AI models, and is preparing to make them in volume.
- 30 Oct 2026Netra Runtime
Runs AI models inside an organisation's own systems, so it keeps control of how they are deployed and of sensitive data.
- 30 Oct 2026Smylo₹300m (reported)Rumoured · not indexed
Cat food sold direct to owners online, now widening the range.
- 29 Oct 2026Ace Blend$9.9m (reported)
Sells nutrition and dietary supplements direct to shoppers online, and is now paying for clinical trials of them.
- 29 Oct 2026ALLOX$10.5m (reported)
A drug-discovery platform, used both with partners and for medicines the company is developing itself.
- 29 Oct 2026Bleu Robotics€5m (reported)
AI that teaches an industrial humanoid robot a new task from only a handful of demonstrations.
- 29 Oct 2026Copy GeekAUD 2m (reported)
Copy-trading software that mirrors one trader's crypto orders across the major exchanges, matching every fill.
- 29 Oct 2026Dream$17m (reported)
An AI model of how buildings behave, trained on permit records, so construction teams can test designs against real physics and codes.
- 29 Oct 2026FLTRD€500k (reported)
An app that tells shoppers how heavily processed the food in front of them is.
- 29 Oct 2026Fronted€1.7m (reported)
Software for hiring and paying staff in other countries, aimed at companies expanding abroad.
- 29 Oct 2026FuriosaAI$620m (reported)
Designs chips for running trained AI models, claiming better efficiency than Nvidia's professional cards.
- 29 Oct 2026Jingshuo
Builds the data infrastructure used to train AI systems that act in the physical world; it was spun out of a self-driving car company.
- 29 Oct 2026KineDB€850k (reported)
Database software built to run both in the cloud and on devices that are offline.
- 29 Oct 2026Let's Game₹300m (reported)
Runs competitive video-game tournaments in India.
- 29 Oct 2026MuRay€7.1m (reported)
Uses muons to look inside rocket engines and turbines, reaching places X-ray inspection cannot.
- 29 Oct 2026Pixel Systems€2.7m (reported)
Flags images and documents that have been generated or altered by AI.
- 29 Oct 2026Ravical$17m (reported)
AI software for accounting and tax firms, so they can take on more client work without hiring at the same rate.
- 29 Oct 2026StrollMe€22m (reported)
Rents prams, car seats and children's bikes on subscription, so families swap them as the child grows.
- 29 Oct 2026Venttup$3m (reported)
Helps hardware and deeptech firms get from a working prototype into precision manufacturing, including its own Bengaluru facility.
- 29 Oct 2026VUSE XR€1.2m (reported)
Mixed-reality training software for employers, so staff can practise a task in a headset before doing it for real.
- 29 Oct 2026Zorit₹270m (reported)
A wholesale platform that gets stock to small retailers quickly; it used to trade as Bijnis.
- 28 Oct 2026Baishida
Makes desktop 3D printers for consumers.
- 28 Oct 2026NeuroXess¥700m (reported)
Brain implants that read signals through flexible electrodes and send them out wirelessly, now heading into multi-site trials.
- 28 Oct 2026Numeracle$28m (reported)
Checks that a business is genuine and ties it to the phone numbers it calls from, so its calls are not blocked as spam.
- 27 Oct 2026Bedrock$600m (reported)
Excavators that dig and shift earth on building sites on their own, with nobody in the cab, already doing paid work.
- 27 Oct 2026Cent$15m (reported)
A preventive-health service that uses AI to spot problems early and push people towards checks before they fall ill.
- 27 Oct 2026Cortas€1.5m (reported)
Software for managing rental property, built around a different operating model to the usual letting-agency setup.
- 27 Oct 2026CyboPal
A small desktop robot that gives a personal AI assistant a body, with movement and vision, alongside the user's computer.
- 27 Oct 2026Forward Deployed$1m (reported)
Turns a chemical-detection technology called DINGO into a portable detector soldiers and responders can carry into hostile areas.
- 27 Oct 2026Lette$6.5m (reported)
Software that uses AI to take the day-to-day admin of running rented homes off letting agents' hands.
- 27 Oct 2026MoSense¥100m (reported)
Electronic skin that gives a robot a sense of touch across its whole body.
- 27 Oct 2026Tensrai
Machines that move materials around and clean floors in factories, warehouses, airports and hospitals.
- 26 Oct 2026adsilico£10m (reported)
Tests medical devices on simulated virtual patients, so a device can be tried on body types a real trial would miss.
- 26 Oct 2026BioStack$9.5m (reported)
Builds training datasets out of patient records from several countries so medical AI tools have something to learn from.
- 26 Oct 2026Hypersphere Technology
Building a next generation of general-purpose AI foundation models.
- 26 Oct 2026Matiks$10m (reported)
A mobile games platform built on maths and logic puzzles that people play competitively against each other.
- 26 Oct 2026MP SpaceAUD 23m (reported)
Off-the-shelf batteries and power systems for satellites, in place of the one-off custom builds spacecraft normally carry.
- 26 Oct 2026Nevis$70m (reported)
Software that automates the research and paperwork wealth managers get through for their clients.
- 26 Oct 2026Nous$17m (reported)
An AI assistant that handles a household's paperwork — bills, renewals, forms — and looks for cheaper deals.
- 26 Oct 2026Tradl$4.1m (reported)
A trading app that uses AI to help private investors research shares and place their trades.
- 26 Oct 2026Volare€7.1m (reported)
Farms insects on the leftovers from food factories and processes them into protein, now at industrial scale.
- 23 Oct 2026CubiFab
A CNC machine small enough to sit on a workbench, cutting and shaping parts in a workshop or an office.
- 23 Oct 2026Cygrid€2.7m (reported)
Decides which confidential company files an AI agent is allowed to open, by checking the identity behind each request.
- 23 Oct 2026DeepSeek$15bn (reported)Rumoured · not indexed
A Chinese AI lab that builds large language models.
- 23 Oct 2026Huixi Technology
Designs the chips that handle a robot's perception and movement control.
- 23 Oct 2026Intuitivo€1.4m (reported)
Software that takes paperwork and marking off teachers' hands, now expanding from Portugal into Brazil.
- 23 Oct 2026Nirva$25m (reported)
A $249 pendant worn round the neck that runs an AI assistant, shipping to its first buyers by the end of the year.
- 22 Oct 2026Arke Telekom€1m (reported)
Communications kit that keeps drones connected, built for defence buyers.
- 22 Oct 2026Beyond Vision€28m (reported)
Makes drones and other unmanned vehicles, selling to civilian and military buyers alike.
- 22 Oct 2026Chapter Homes$6.7m (reported)
Builds and sells its own furniture and home-furnishing brands, through shops and online.
- 22 Oct 2026CureBay₹1bn (reported)
Runs a network of clinics across rural India and is adding AI-assisted screening to them.
- 22 Oct 2026Harajuku Tokyo Cafe$3m (reported)
A chain of Japanese-themed cafes in Indian cities, a quarter of its sales now coming from Mumbai.
- 22 Oct 2026Indurex€7m (reported)
Protects factory machinery and critical infrastructure from cyber attack.
- 22 Oct 2026Karta AI$3m (reported)
Answers the incoming customer phone calls of banks, insurers and lenders without a person on the line.
- 22 Oct 2026Reduck$3m (reported)
Speeds up the way AI agents click and read their way through websites.
- 22 Oct 2026RhymeQ$2.2m (reported)
Tools that make writing software for quantum computers simpler than it is today.
- 22 Oct 2026Slingshot Insurance$27m (reported)
An insurer for the small add-on policies that shops offer you at the checkout.
- 22 Oct 2026TravClan$5m (reported)
A booking platform that travel agents in India sell trips through, with more than 15,000 agents using it.
- 22 Oct 2026Warhound$200m (reported)
Genetically engineers dogs for military and police work and fits them with Anduril equipment.
- 21 Oct 2026Blacksmith$66m (reported)
A platform for building and testing code written by AI.
- 21 Oct 2026Cuttable$20m (reported)
Produces advertising creative with AI and learns from which ads flopped and which worked.
- 21 Oct 2026Jingji Intelligent
Robots that clean vertical surfaces, countertops and bathroom fixtures, using force control to judge their touch.
- 21 Oct 2026Legora$550m (reported)
Software that uses AI to do the drafting and review work inside a law firm.
- 21 Oct 2026Opply$7.5m (reported)
A platform consumer-goods brands run their day-to-day operations on, with AI agents doing the legwork.
- 21 Oct 2026Photon Bridge€10m (reported)
Makes the lasers that carry data between AI chips, aiming at the millions needed as clusters grow.
- 21 Oct 2026YITA¥100m (reported)
Makes the hardware components that go inside robots.
- 20 Oct 2026Neolix$400m (reported)
Small driverless delivery vans that carry parcels and goods around towns with nobody at the wheel.
- 20 Oct 2026Plinto€2.9m (reported)
Checks a company's transactions against its own contracts and rules automatically, instead of finance staff doing it by hand.
- 20 Oct 2026XRlabs€7.5m (reported)
Brings AI into the operating theatre to support surgeons while they operate, built by surgeons themselves.
- 19 Oct 2026Even Healthcare$50m (reported)
A managed-care company that treats its members through its own growing network of hospitals and clinics in Bengaluru.
- 19 Oct 2026FAIRINO
Makes robot arms built to work safely alongside people on a production line.
- 19 Oct 2026Gewu Tongzhi¥100m (reported)
AI that gives robotic hands the dexterity to handle objects, learned from watching people do it.
- 19 Oct 2026Hunar₹400m (reported)
AI that runs the recruiting legwork when a company has to hire thousands of frontline staff across many cities.
- 19 Oct 2026Linkener€7.5m (reported)
Meters how much electricity a business uses and works out where the waste and the savings are.
- 19 Oct 2026Nouscom€120m (reported)
Developing off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapies that train the immune system to attack mutations found in tumours.
- 19 Oct 2026NOVUS
Builds a lightweight electric two-wheeler for city riding, and is taking it from Germany to California.
- 19 Oct 2026SupaHumanNZD 2.6m (reported)
Uses AI to take the manual work out of putting together staff training courses.
- 19 Oct 2026SyncrowinAUD 3m (reported)
AI that watches factory equipment to catch breakdowns and wasted material before they happen.
- 19 Oct 2026Tenstorrent$1.5bn (reported)
Designs chips for running AI models and publishes the designs openly, positioning itself against Nvidia.
- 19 Oct 2026The Pant Project₹1.1bn (reported)
An Indian menswear brand built around trousers, now widening its range and opening more of its own shops.
- 19 Oct 2026Vessla$3.3m (reported)
AI assistants that take on the day-to-day administration of managing rented property.
- 16 Oct 2026GasLab$1m (reported)
A platform for making music with generative AI, started by a dance-music producer.
- 16 Oct 2026Goodweek€10.7m (reported)
An AI assistant that acts as a manager for small and mid-sized firms, handling the day-to-day admin in one place.
- 16 Oct 2026InfiMaker
Compact five-axis milling machines small enough to sit on a desk, sold to professional makers and designers.
- 16 Oct 2026Ruoyu Technology
AI that helps robots make sense of what is around them so they can move and work in it.
- 15 Oct 2026Ambio€5.1m (reported)
A sourcing platform for sustainable plastics, built to make buying the material faster and more reliable for the firms that need it.
- 15 Oct 2026Chariot Claims$10m (reported)
Helps ordinary people bring claims when a company has charged hidden fees, made a subscription hard to cancel, or misused their data.
- 15 Oct 2026Confido Health$12.5m (reported)
Uses AI to take over the administrative work that keeps a healthcare practice running.
- 15 Oct 2026Elevatry€3m (reported)
An AI platform that automates the steps a company works through to buy from its suppliers.
- 15 Oct 2026Holo€5m (reported)
Marketing software that plans and runs the campaigns for a small business, so the owner does not have to.
- 15 Oct 2026Matters$5m (reported)
A consumer banking app that uses AI to help people get a grip on their spending.
- 15 Oct 2026Origin$20m (reported)
Construction robots that carry out building-site work on their own.
- 15 Oct 2026Rabot Energy$50m (reported)
Sells electricity on tariffs that move with the market, pooling the devices in people's homes so they act as one power plant.
- 15 Oct 2026SciVisual
Software that simulates scientific problems and turns the results into data researchers and AI models can use.
- 15 Oct 2026Shamrock AI$5m (reported)
Tooling that lets a company put AI agents into live use and keep them behaving predictably.
- 15 Oct 2026Solvera$6.3m (reported)
An engineering firm for the construction industry that does its design work with AI rather than by hand.
Every figure here is what a news outlet reported, not a verified or audited number, and outlets sometimes disagree about the same round. Rounds tagged “rumoured” are unconfirmed reports and are excluded from the i-Index entirely. This page is general information — not investment advice, and not a recommendation of any company on it. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and it gets corrected.