438 startups announced funding in September 2026. Stage, amount, investors and market for each round, with a business-model breakdown per company.
By region: North America 151 · Europe 84 · China 62 · Other regions 60 · Japan 36 · Korea 23 · Asia 22
Open-source AI agent platform.
Payments.
AI-powered construction estimating.
An AI platform that automates document-heavy administrative work for insurance agencies and brokers, extracting and transferring data across commercial insurance submission…
Fine motor skills for robot dexterity.
AI intelligence layer for hospitals.
Frontline operations platform.
Robotics.
Stablecoin infrastructure for businesses.
Counter-drone systems.
Healthcare AI.
Gene-reactivating RNA platform.
AI tutoring for students in smaller cities.
Satellite rendezvous technology.
Durable workflow engine for AI agents.
AI agent layer that automates HR processes on top of an enterprise's existing HR systems, using Celonis process intelligence to model workflows.
Connects AI spending and adoption to business outcomes.
No-code collaborative welding and grinding robots (RB-MIG) that floor workers configure without programming; developing an autonomous mobile welder.
Third-generation DNA synthesis.
Receipt-buying app ONE and a Performance Media Network that uses AI receipt analysis to run and measure CPG ads through to verified purchase.
Finance AI agent for e-commerce sellers, connected to Taobao, Douyin, PDD and ERPs.
AI agent security.
Paediatric health-tech.
AI layer on top of a hotel's existing property-management system.
Stablecoin infrastructure API for cross-border payments, push-to-card, institutional finance and programmable money across stablecoins and bank rails.
Student success coaching platform combining AI-enhanced text messaging, staff Conversation Copilot and expert services for higher education.
AI chips.
Collaborative browser CAD for interior design.
Software that uses geographic data and AI to measure buildings digitally in 3D so roofers and contractors can calculate quantities, quote and order materials.
Commerce AI.
Carbon/sustainability accounting
AI companions with face, voice and memory.
AI receptionist voice agents.
Shared intelligence for warehouse robots.
Takes enterprise software out of firefighting mode.
Computer chips.
AI for property management (AI landlord).
Farm machinery manufacturing.
Big-league treatment for adult recreational basketball.
Sensor-based machine condition monitoring.
Fraud and AML decisioning and case workflows.
Agentic inventory and supply-chain decisions.
Sells humanoid robots as modular parts.
Daedal builds standardized plasma measurement (diagnostics) systems that fusion companies use to see how their reactor designs perform.
AI agent plus BPO that turns emailed, faxed and PDF orders into structured data.
Beauty and wellness.
Live risk scores for AI agents.