166 startups announced funding in January 2026. Stage, amount, investors and market for each round, with a business-model breakdown per company.
By region: Other regions 37 · Europe 35 · North America 34 · China 24 · Asia 20 · Japan 13 · Korea 3
Direct-to-consumer travel luggage brand and marketplace selling trolley bags, backpacks and travel accessories, including co-branded lines with Snitch, HRX and Rare Rabbit.
Full-stack real estate service in India selling new-project homes with zero brokerage, plus home loans, rent agreements and Dubai desk.
Humanoid robots.
Helps manufacturers and retailers cut lost sales.
Logistics.
An AI and computer vision platform that extracts fashion product attributes, links them to sales and inventory data, and helps with trend prediction and sales analysis.
Bizmong, an agentic AI marketing platform for restaurants.
Light-based AI chips.
Voice data layer for enterprises.
AI-powered commercial real estate software.
Self-storage software.
Enterprise AI agents that automate customer engagement across voice, email and chat, integrated with CRM, telephony and ticketing systems.
Health "trust loop" (longevity).
AI agents for the trades.
Cyber insurance bundled with cybersecurity prevention tooling, 24/7 monitoring and in-house incident response for SMEs and mid-caps.
Drone delivery.
Coaches medical sales reps.
AI-powered language learning marketplace.
Sports-tech.
Self-service analytics with natural-language data queries powered by a deterministic AI model that gives consistent, auditable answers.
General-purpose embodied robot brain.
Bridge between security and productivity for AI use
Legal AI
Building the 'Shopify of energy'.
AI security.
AI-powered maintenance and asset-management software (CMMS) to manage physical assets, tasks and operations on one platform.
Brain-computer interface.
Materials science.
Accounting software platform
Payments infrastructure.
Software that connects to existing systems (e.g. returns management) to centralize data and workflows for selling excess inventory on secondary markets.
Lets SaaS users build AI-powered apps inside enterprise software.
Home heat pumps.
'Human-centric' AI.
Print-on-demand platform that lets small entrepreneurs and artists sell products without logistics barriers.
Minimally invasive glaucoma treatment devices.
Biocatalysis.
"Robot for AI" strategy.
Phone-based online sales/consultation system (bellFace) with no app install, recording, CRM link and remote control, positioned as No.1 for financial-industry phone consultations.
Modernizes Italy's driving schools.
AI agent company behind open-source MetaGPT framework, MetaGPT X (MGX) and now Atoms, an AI team that builds websites and apps without code.
AI sales coaching platform.
AI-powered retail.
AI tools for creators and AI influencers.
Outbound phone-call automation treated like marketing automation: ops teams import data, pick a multilingual voice and track calls in real time; developers get a typed API and…