We tracked 10 startup funding rounds in January 2026, together worth $23.5bn in disclosed funding. The median disclosed round was $275m.
The largest was xAI's $20bn Series D+ round. 10 rounds reached $100m or more and accounted for 100% of the money.
AI led by sector with $20.98bn across 4 rounds. By region, North America took $22.28bn (95%).
8 companys raised at a valuation of $1bn or more: LMArena, Harmattan AI, Skild AI, Parloa, humans&, Preply and others.
The biggest rounds
- 1xAISeries D+ · AI · Palo Alto$20bn
- 2Skild AISeries C · Robotics & hardware · Pittsburgh$1.4bn
- 3humans&Seed · AI · United States$480m
- 4ParloaSeries D+ · AI · Berlin$350m
- 5MewsSeries D+ · Enterprise software · Amsterdam$300m
- 6UpwindSeries B · Cybersecurity · San Francisco$250m
- 7OvivaSeries D+ · Healthtech & bio · Altendorf$220m
- 8Harmattan AISeries B · Defence & space · Paris$200m
- 9LMArenaSeries A · AI · United States$150m
- 10PreplySeries D+ · Edtech · Barcelona$150m
Figures cover the rounds in our tracker, which records disclosed amounts converted to US dollars at announcement. See the methodology.