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Consumer & media startup funding in 2026

Every Consumer & media round we tracked this year: the biggest raises, active investors and where the money went.

Research desk · data to 4 November 2026
Raised$552m
Rounds11
Median round$10.6m
$100m+ rounds1

We tracked 11 startup funding rounds in Consumer & media so far in 2026, together worth $552m in disclosed funding. The median disclosed round was $10.6m.

The largest was Suno's $400m Series D+ round, led by BOND, at a $5.4bn valuation. 1 round reached $100m or more and accounted for 72% of the money.

By region, North America took $413m (75%).

1 company raised at a valuation of $1bn or more: Suno.

The biggest rounds

  1. 1SunoSeries D+ · Consumer & media · Cambridge$400m
  2. 2EloElo GroupSeries C · Consumer & media · Bengaluru$80m
  3. 3NousSeries A · Consumer & media · United Kingdom$17m
  4. 4Bird&BeSeries A · Consumer & media · Toronto$13m
  5. 5StryvSeries B · Consumer & media · Singapore$11.5m
  6. 6CometSeries B · Consumer & media · India$10.6m
  7. 7Spill GamesSeries A · Consumer & media · Bengaluru$10.5m
  8. 8HEARTBEATSDebt · Consumer & media · Tokyo$8m
  9. 9Popcorn AI StudioPre-seed · Consumer & media · Dubai$1m
  10. 10TreportalSeed · Consumer & media · Tokyo$430k

Figures cover the rounds in our tracker, which records disclosed amounts converted to US dollars at announcement. See the methodology.

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