693 startups announced funding in October 2026. Stage, amount, investors and market for each round, with a business-model breakdown per company.
By region: North America 147 · Europe 143 · China 139 · Other regions 137 · Asia 62 · Korea 40 · Japan 25
AI audio.
AI receivables / order-to-cash automation
Pet food.
Fan-activation platform for festivals: fans who join presales get a WhatsApp shop to buy tickets in-chat, AI agents handle one-to-one fan conversations, and fans create and share…
AI sales operating system for financial and insurance advisors: compliant AI agents transcribe client meetings, handle routine back-office tasks, coach advisors on sales and…
Consumer intelligence platform covering study design, participant recruitment, AI-moderated adaptive video interviews and automated analysis, stored in a queryable knowledge base…
Quantum computing company spun out of the University of Sussex
Membership giving members unlimited (dental) cleanings and diagnostics for $249 a year
Zero-sugar, monk-fruit-sweetened mixers.
Brings bank-grade privacy to public blockchains / regulated on-chain money (per headlines).
AI-powered specialty insurance underwriting.
Consumer electronics devices and software.
Turns waste into jet fuel.
Finances taxi fleets in emerging markets (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire).
On-orbit security spacecraft.
Laser communications for satellite constellations
Textile technologies including waterless wool finishing.
Neutral-atom quantum computing.
Lets fans buy stakes in athletes' future income.
Helical Fusion is developing a helical-type fusion power plant for commercial electricity generation.
AI agents that take on business-operations responsibilities over weeks or months, consulting people when needed, e.g. sales lead evaluation.
Runtime security and governance for enterprise AI agents.
Tech-powered apparel manufacturing, scaling garment production in Portugal.
Platform connecting university students with flexible hourly paid jobs; sells student work hours to companies and takes a commission per task.
AI semantic layer for go-to-market teams that unifies CRM, call, email and document data into a knowledge graph, with AI agents ('Sidekicks') that monitor pipeline, flag slipping…
AI workflow platform for financial advice and wealth management firms that captures client meetings, produces documentation and updates back-office systems.
Action-native embodied models.
Non-invasive brain-computer interface applications.
Second-generation reusable rockets.
Robotics.
General-purpose robot foundation (Tsinghua team).
Commercial infrared remote sensing.
Action-fantasy webtoon studio founded by the creator of 'Terror Man'.
An AI-native mortgage origination platform where AI agents automate loan review, underwriting decisions and workflow tracking for lenders.
29 g AI display glasses.
A compliance-focused legal services platform.
Le Zèbre sells health insurance (mutuelle) and protection (prévoyance) cover to companies, with offers by profile: independents, 1-250 employee SMEs, and large groups.
AlloBrain sells contact center AI built on AI-human collaboration: AI agents, live assist for agents, quality monitoring and voice of customer analysis.
Vegetarian pizza chain founded in Mumbai in 2020 with 30+ pizza varieties and 8 outlets.
An AI camera app that generates pose-reference photos and gives real-time posing guidance to both the subject and the photographer.
Platform for K-pop and culture live events, connecting fans with artists.
Agentic AI platform that runs enterprise transformation from strategy and planning through execution and measured outcomes.
Crypto prop trading.
Wealth management platform.
AI-native cybersecurity and IT solution.
Stablecoin payments infrastructure
Fin-edtech.