122 startups announced funding in October 2025. Stage, amount, investors and market for each round, with a business-model breakdown per company.
By region: Other regions 36 · North America 34 · Europe 19 · Asia 11 · Japan 9 · China 9 · Korea 4
HR and global payroll platform.
Operating system for HR in the AI era
Digitising and financing Africa's informal workforce.
Embedded lending-as-a-service platform delivering liquidity products (Hapa Cash, Kazi Cash) via mobile money and agent networks in emerging markets.
Speech AI infrastructure.
CO2 separation membranes
AI-era finance platform
AI for industrial equipment sales.
An AI co-pilot that helps construction estimators find information and spot risks and opportunities in project documents (Project Review, Chat Agent, Scope Agent).
Space construction technology.
AI spoken-English learning app with an AI teacher that teaches in the learner's own Indian language and gradually shifts to English.
PFAS and heavy-metal water treatment.
AI marketing agents.
AI-native holiday rental property management platform.
Platform using vocal biomarkers to build behavioural profiles that match people and organisations, applied to recruiting and potentially credit scoring.
Matches truckers with cargo faster.
Helps businesses save on cloud costs.
Consumer credit-health app in India with AI agent for monitoring score, negotiating overdue settlements, bill payment cashback and in-app loans.
Consumer CNC machines.
International payments for African SMEs.
Rare-earth-free motor manufacturing.
Cloud TMS (transportation management system) for carriers, brokers, hybrid and private fleets, with driver app, accounting, compliance, native EDI and AI agents.