Manufacturing AI
Terra's Record African Seed Round Is $52m Announced and $18m New
The number in almost every headline is the cumulative total of three tranches raised across most of a year. The money that arrived this week is $18m.
Aug 18, 2026
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Finance AI
Index Ventures Raised $2 Billion, and $700 Million of It Is a Top-Up
Three vehicles: a $400 million seed fund, a $900 million venture fund, and $700 million added to an existing 2024 growth fund. The $3.5 billion figure is something else again.
Aug 1, 2026
AI Agents
AI Security Startups Have Raised $855 Million in Seed Money This Year
More than 150 seed rounds, on track for an all-time high — and three of them were large enough to pass for Series As. Two more landed the day the numbers were published.
Jul 29, 2026
AI Models
microagi Raises $55M — Germany's Largest-Ever Seed — to Feed Robots Real-World Data
Five founders, several from Formula 1, are strapping cameras to engineers doing chores and factory tasks; ten months in, Hummingbird leads what the Munich startup calls a record German seed round.
Jul 17, 2026
