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
Creator of Jev (AI models).
Epitaxial wafer maker
Open banking payments network: Pay by Bank payments, payouts, verification and data APIs.
D2C silver jewellery brand.
Personal AI agent and wearable assistant.
Predicts drug toxicity in human tissue before clinical trials
Agentic software testing: AI agents author test code that then runs deterministically, with a human-in-the-loop verification layer.
AI lending platform.
On-prem, self-improving security AI.
Neobank (cross-border payments).
Stablecoin payments.
Digital lending
AI pricing engine and trading infrastructure for stablecoin FX conversions, especially non-USD pairs, for payment firms and stablecoin issuers.
Platform that checks OpenTelemetry data quality and stops unreliable telemetry from reaching observability backends, with an AI OpenTelemetry engineer called Rose.
Nuclear reactor technology.
Diffusion language models.
Neutron functional ceramics/materials for advanced nuclear and fusion environments.
AI data center buildout in Asia ('token factory' strategy).
Decision workstation for high-value decisions (investing, research) that learns from users' real decisions and outcomes, with personal memory of how the user reasons; positioned…
Low-frequency ultrasound imaging that penetrates the skull for real-time brain imaging; portable device for stroke triage and non-invasive brain data for BCI.
Developer of the viral game Lagos Life.
Launched 'Engines', a business-outcome-based product.
High-resolution (0.5m and sub-0.5m) optical remote-sensing cameras for satellites.
Platform-level foundation for embodied AI.
Crewed eVTOL aircraft (type certificate application accepted).
High-speed interconnect chips.
Glucose microsensor
Rovi, an autonomous in-hospital transport robot that attaches to any brand of stretcher and navigates elevators and doors using computer vision, with transport analytics on…
AI trading agents for everyday investors.
Bitcoin-denominated life insurance written by a Bermuda BMA-licensed life insurer.
Autonomous-driving AI; pursuing US expansion.
Open-source AI agents for businesses.
AI-native 3D generation platform producing structured, programmatically controllable 3D assets that plug into Unity, Unreal and Roblox.
Rhythmic gymnastics
AI-native service firm for IT sourcing and procurement that encodes practitioner methodology to scope, draft and evaluate tenders, delivering work through AI with expert…
Micro LED microdisplays.
Noa, an accounting and document-automation AI platform running on domestic NPUs for audit, finance and public-sector work.
Indian financial content and market-intelligence platform that publishes video series (Market Pillars Uncovered, Know Your Promoter, Result Analysis For You, Podcast with…
Device to create an ostomy under local anaesthesia
Smart home-cleaning services combining smart cleaning devices with a housekeeping booking platform.
Molecular separation replacing heat-based processes.
Superconducting power delivery for AI data centers.
Lab-grown diamond jewellery brand.
AI podcasting.