187 startups announced funding in May 2026. Stage, amount, investors and market for each round, with a business-model breakdown per company.
By region: China 43 · Europe 42 · Other regions 37 · North America 36 · Asia 13 · Japan 10 · Korea 6
Customer data unification and AI marketing automation for restaurants, combining data from QR menus, POS, reservations, loyalty tools and digital ads.
'AI product teams as a service'.
AI office agent, from one-minute PPT generation to commercial-grade deliverables.
Cancer diagnostics.
Aerospace and marine robots.
LOBX, a battery-free, ceiling-mounted IoT sensor with thermal vision and embedded AI for occupancy, temperature and security in smart buildings, plus Orioconnect software.
Autonomous hacking (pentest) platform.
Turns routine blood and cytology imaging into genomic insights for hematology labs.
Gaudi-1 for automated architectural generation.
AI legal platform.
Medical multimodal model WiseDiag, medical Agent OS WiseClaw and consumer health app 好伴AI (health-report reading, risk assessment, chronic disease management).
Expert network with voice onboarding.
Quick commerce.
Whole-body unified robot model.
EEG to read sports psychology.
An agentic AI platform that automates e-commerce advertising.
Agentic AI for SAP migrations.
Agentic AI in Southeast Asia.
AI automation in hospitality.
Geology AI for critical mineral discovery.
Repurposes used EV batteries.
Infrastructure for AI agents (AI agent protocol).
Lets everyone build games.
POS and management system for SMBs, adding WhatsApp-connected AI agents that answer customers, remind debts, issue receipts and update inventory.
Agroforestry.
Degen, an AI app that creates professional content without prompt engineering.
AI grocery platform helping independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon.
White-label branded mobile ordering and loyalty apps for F&B and retail merchants, with CRM, payments, promotions and a back office in one platform.
AI customer experience agents.
API platform for digital tax compliance: e-invoicing, real-time tax e-reporting and open banking across multiple countries.
An intelligent logistics layer that cuts e-commerce delivery costs in Africa.
Serverless inference platform giving one API to 40,000+ open-source models, plus dedicated GPUs.
Makes fashion resale more profitable than destroying stock.
Converts crypto and cash.
zenshot, which uses AI to automatically structure construction site conditions from data such as 360-degree video, to automate and reduce manpower in construction site management.