AI Venture Stream
Global AI venture moves SVTR tracks: funding rounds, IPOs, M&A and fund closes, plus SVTR research, events and camps that have an English edition. Daily commentary is published in Chinese.
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This week · since Oct 19
23
funding rounds
$1.7B
disclosed· 19 with amounts
1
fund closes
1
M&A / IPOs
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AI venture at a glance · This week · since Oct 19
Top 10 funding rounds
Scope: confirmed rounds only (rumored/unverified and mega-IPOs excluded); rounds reported without a convertible amount are not summed, so real activity runs higher than the disclosed total.
Source: SVTR AI Venture Database
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Beyond Eric Schmidt's 1% of Anthropic: 13 of the 20 AI companies he backed personally build models
Bloomberg reports Eric Schmidt owns about 1% of Anthropic. According to the SVTR AI venture database, 13 of the 20 AI companies he has backed in his own name train their own models, versus 4 of 27 for Innovation Endeavors, the fund he co-founded, since 2023. His fund backs apps; his own money backs models, and Anthropic is the first of those bets to pay off.
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2026.10.20·Beijing·Founded 2018
Transport & LogisticsFoundersInvestorsBoyu Capital (lead), 阿里巴巴AEF NextGen香港基金, Monolith Management, 纪源资本, Vertex Growth, Meridian Capital and others, 12 in total
2026.10.20·Mountain View·Founded 2016
ProductivityThis round$100M
ARR
2021-08 · estimate
First round on record at SVTR
2026.10.20·United States·Founded 2025
ManufacturingFoundersAlex Mark, Bob McGrew, Jakob Frick, Augustus Odena
InvestorsAccel (lead), Altimeter Capital (lead), Khosla Ventures (lead), Founders Fund, XYZ Ventures, 8VC and others, 8 in total
This round$1.5B
Round valuation
First round on record at SVTR
2026.10.20·Cambridge·Founded 2025
RoboticsEka Robotics★ Rated raised $150M in a Series A round
FoundersTuomas Haarnoja, Pulkit Agrawal
InvestorsAndreessen Horowitz (lead), F-Prime Capital (lead), E14 Fund, Obvious Ventures
This round$1.4B
Round valuation
First round on record at SVTR
2026.10.20·New York·Founded 2023
Developer ToolsFoundersIvan Burazin, Vedran Jukic, Goran Draganić
InvestorsFirstMark Capital (lead · existing), Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung Next, Okta Ventures, e2vc (existing), Upfront Ventures (existing) and others, 10 in total
This round8 mo
Since last round
4
Existing investors back
6
New investors
Last round: 2026-02 · Series A · $24M
2026.10.20·San Francisco
Retail & MarketingFoundersAbhishek Pani, Ajeet Singh, Abhinav Yajurvedi
InvestorsGeneral Catalyst (lead), Lightspeed, Together Fund, Haystack, MXV Capital, Firebolt Ventures
2026.10.20·San Francisco·Founded 2024
Retail & MarketingFoundersJasmine Kaur, Rahul Garg, Taranveer Singh
InvestorsSmilegate (lead), SenseAI Ventures (lead), Berkeley SkyDeck, Stanford GSB Fund, Dent Capital
2026.10.20·Shenzhen·Founded 2026
RoboticsYITA Dynamics★ Rated raised a Seed round
2026.10.20·Beijing·Founded 2017
Fintech
Mon, Oct 19
2026.10.19·Nanjing·Founded 2021
Compute2026.10.19·San Francisco·Founded 2024
Enterprise SoftwareFoundersTony Vincent, Jean-Denis Greze, Angela Zhang
InvestorsForerunner Ventures (lead · existing), Menlo Ventures (lead), Andreessen Horowitz (existing), First Round Capital (existing), Better Tomorrow Ventures, Precedent.vc and others, 9 in total
This round5 mo
Since last round
3
Existing investors back
$1B
Round valuation
Last round: 2026-06 · Series A · $55M
Market positionSVTRTop 25%
#6 / 146
2026.10.19·San Francisco·Founded 2026
RoboticsDream Labs★ Rated raised $90M in a Seed round
FoundersJoel Jang, Scott Reed, Yunhao Ge, Youliang Tan
InvestorsB Capital (lead), Kindred Ventures (lead), A.Capital, Unusual Ventures, Wing VC, SV Angel and others, 7 in total
2026.10.19·Bangalore·Founded 2020
Life SciencesEven Healthcare★ Rated raised $50M in a Series B round
FoundersMatilde Giglio, Alessandro Ialongo, Mayank Banerjee
InvestorsKhosla Ventures (lead), Alpha Wave Ventures
This round$300M
Round valuation
First round on record at SVTR
2026.10.19·San Francisco·Founded 2023
Social & EntertainmentFoundersQuinten Farmer, Ajay Mehta, Evan Goldschmidt
InvestorsUnion Square Ventures, Khosla Ventures (existing), Homebrew (existing)
This round16 mo
Since last round
2
Existing investors back
1
New investors
Last round: 2025-07 · Series A · $20M
Market positionSVTRTop 25%
#8 / 44
2026.10.19·New York·Founded 2020
FintechPrism Data★ Rated raised $20M in a Series A round
FoundersInvestorsStory Ventures (lead), Fintop, Core VC, Obvious Ventures, 1st & Main Growth Partners, Mana Ventures
2026.10.19·Tel Aviv·Founded 2018
Defense & SecurityHigh Lander★ Rated raised $16M in a Series A round
FoundersRonen Racz, Alon Abelson, Adam Kraif, Ido Yahalomi
InvestorsEDGE Group (lead), Protego Ventures, STEP, Kinetica
2026.10.19·San Francisco·Founded 2025
DataContext.dev★ Rated raised $9M in a Seed round
2026.10.19·Valencia·Founded 2012
Climate & Sustainability2026.10.19·London·Founded 2024
Life Sciences2026.10.19·United States·Founded 2021
RoboticsFoundersMatt Verminski, Merritt Jenkins
InvestorsKonvoy Ventures (lead), Breakwater Ventures (lead), Blue Forest Asset Management, NYA Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Congruent Ventures and others, 9 in total
2026.10.19·Stockholm·Founded 2026
PropTechFoundersOrman Gazvini, Kasper Janehag, Arash Dabiri
InvestorsSeedcamp (lead), Inception Fund, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
2026.10.19·Shanghai·Founded 2023
Compute2026.10.19·Guangzhou·Founded 2023
Life SciencesFunding Halved, and the Money Went to Gatekeeping AI Agents
The SVTR AI Venture Activity Index fell 4.8% to 155.7 this week. 92 confirmed AI rounds totaled $3.3B, less than half of last week. Money was scarcer, yet deals that put gates around AI agents piled up: five agent security and governance companies raised $120M combined, and Workday signed to acquire agent identity platform C1.ai.
Montreal·Founded 2007
Inovia Capital★ Rated closed Fund VI, size $200M
Partners Karamdeep Nijjar, Mia Morisset, Steve Woods, Magaly Charbonneau, Dennis Kavelman