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379 startups announced funding in August 2026. Stage, amount, investors and market for each round, with a business-model breakdown per company.
By region: China 83 · North America 80 · Other regions 62 · Europe 52 · Korea 44 · Asia 33 · Japan 25
Hospitality freelancer platform.
Freight intelligence platform.
Rent-to-own home purchase model (buy a home while renting).
Zero-knowledge cryptography to verify what happens inside AI systems
Debugging layer for robotics.
Xiangshan RISC-V IP cores.
Foundation models for AI drug discovery.
Chip company.
An AI insurance clearinghouse that verifies insurance policies through one API across fragmented carrier systems, replacing faxes and phone calls.
Classify, split, extract and verify documents, with confidence scores and citations.
Autonomous welding robots.
Audio models.
Functional beauty brand "Sione"
AI infrastructure for institutional investment research.
Restaurant commerce platform.
AI-powered market research service.
Edge AI platform.
A crowdsourced smartphone network (DePIN) that collects privacy-filtered spatial mapping data for physical AI, autonomy and defence.
Live shopping marketplace.
Embodied "instinct" model (Natus) for flexible industrial manufacturing.
Actra, a magnetic AI pendant with its own connectivity, continuous voice interaction and personal memory that connects to office apps.
Brain-computer interface company.
Open-ear AI hearing aid.
Launches AI-native SaaS companies.
Software for medication and controlled-drug management with products StrongER, StrongCare, StrongPro and StrongHospital.
AI chip manufacturing (lithography).
MSME financing platform.
English input keyboard specialized for Korean, Chinese and Japanese speakers
Monetisation and distribution infrastructure for AI applications
Digital risk screening for high-trust hiring and safeguarding: searches surface, deep and dark web sources, enriches with AI, and has ex-military-intelligence analysts verify…
Satellite developer preparing in-orbit demonstration (Daejeon-sat).
Spatial data engine.
AI infrastructure / data centres.
Supports enterprise AI strategy through in-house implementation
AI-powered defence factories.
Business-succession startup in Hokkaido rolling up franchise headquarters.
Space-structure startup developing structures for use in space.
Robotics for industrial labor constraints.
AI drug discovery / AI scientist agent for bio research
D2C activewear brand.
Automates high-volume operational recruiting (candidate validation, structured interviews, screening) for companies in retail, logistics, delivery and fast-food chains.
Fast-casual pasta restaurant brand
AI sales agents.