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
AI for drug discovery (Tsinghua AIR incubated).
Non-invasive brain-computer interface.
Counter-drone detection and jamming equipment for low-altitude security.
Advanced materials.
Operates and manages hotels and ryokan using AI and data, and is productising a hotel-management DX platform and its own booking engine for outside properties.
AI-native data preparation and automation platform (fileForge, fileLedger, fileShield) that turns unstructured enterprise files into validated, governed data and runs agent…
R&D, manufacture and sale of glutathione-based agricultural inputs.
Agentic AI data platform.
Shifts small businesses from group insurance to individual coverage.
Orbis Live AI model.
AI-powered payments system.
RBC-based liquid biopsy.
Develops the CV-8 electric mobility vehicle.
Compliance platform.
AI synthetic consumers.
Operator of the social app Chuloop.
Footwear brand
Self-healing infrastructure.
Firewall for AI agents; vets skills and add-ons AI agents use.
AI counter-drone systems.
Year-long flight aircraft.
Building shared infrastructure for battery manufacturing.
Encryption of health data for AI
Desktop CNC.
Plug-in hardware agent that operates a PC over HDMI/USB.
AI loan origination and servicing platform (SweetAg) that cuts agricultural and commercial lending processes from weeks to days.
Lab-on-a-chip platforms for molecular diagnostics.
Thermal management for AI data centres, AI chips and robots.
Miniaturised dedicated MRI.
Agency for virtual IP "Miracle"
Space propulsion systems.
Autonomous mowing robots for golf fairways and other turf; the Boulder F1 fairway mower launched September 2025.
Agent-led growth platform that evaluates how AI agents discover and use a software product across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers and agent skills.
AI marking assistant for secondary teachers: photograph or scan paper homework, transcribe handwriting, propose editable grades, and surface individual and class weak points with…
"Heyi" all-in-one AI inference machine that drops HBM memory, cutting full DeepSeek deployment cost to RMB 149,000.