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
Stay is a corporate financial-wellness platform combining private pension, group life insurance, financial health and long-term incentive (ILP) solutions for employers.
Designs a new clean-sheet general-purpose CPU core (WarpCore) for AI infrastructure and agentic computing in hyperscale data centers.
Robotaxi
D2C brand scaling offline
Applied AI Data Research Lab Encoding Human Expertise into Machines…
Data center rack-scale computers.
AI project in the Robinhood ecosystem.
European financial platform.
Handheld L1 laser welders (600/900/1200W) that combine welding, cutting and laser cleaning, with AI to lower the skill barrier, sold to overseas small shops.
CPU developer (pre-product).
Cold-pressed oil brand.
EV charging and energy management.
Tackling the venture liquidity crunch.
AI-native micro-machine maker.
Women's healthcare brand.
Multi-omics plus AI for science research.
Mental-health service platform: digital medicine, psychiatric doctor network, offline specialist clinics, corporate mental-health services and AI solutions.
Non-invasive brain-computer interface.
Smart battery-swapping for two-wheel electric vehicles, built on battery PACK technology.
Tactile sensors.
Power and cooling infrastructure for AI data centers.
Brings traditional finance capital onto blockchain.
Explainable AI (XAI) technology for generative AI.
A wearable AI companion for children aged 3-8 that acts as a pocket early-education guide, built on a proactive multimodal agent with child-speech understanding and memory.
Defense tech
AI evaluation platform.
AI agent.
Phyraxis AI builds verifiable experiment-execution infrastructure for life sciences; its Phyraxis Runtime turns approved lab SOPs into controlled workflows run by people, robots…
SmartIR develops graphene-based smart optics: an active electrochromic radiator for satellite thermal control, adaptive thermal tiles for defence stealth, and the Orca compact…
Nola is an editor tool dedicated to writers (creation platform for novel writing).
AI-led market research platform: AI conducts interviews with hundreds of consumers and experts simultaneously, then human researchers interpret the findings; every finding links…
Autonomous delivery vehicles.
AI trade-regulation intelligence platform that monitors more than 1,250 trade regulations and tariff schedules and flags where companies overpay duties or miss preferential…
Lifestyle-tech accessories brand.
Military logistics platform.
Satellite radar technology.
Brain-AI interface inside a baseball cap.