The Daily Deal
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Amazon in talks to buy Decart for $7B
- Chart of the day World models funding hits a record $3.2B in 2026.
- Just raised ID Finance $600M, InfiniGence AI $316M, Mujin $252M.
- Just founded AlleyBloom, Hundred, LIMTOR Defence.
- In the news Amazon in talks to buy AI chip startup Decart for $7B, and two more stories.
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VC funding into world model startups has reached $3.2B in 2026, a record and already more than the whole of 2025. Each year is split by round.
Just raised
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ID FinanceBarcelona$600M Late VCDigital Finance & Online Lending Technology.
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InfiniGence AIBeijing$316M Series CHeterogeneous AI infra and Agentic MaaS for efficient model deployment. Backed by Baidu and Bohuiyuan Venture Capital.
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MujinTokyo$252M Series DDevelops automation solutions for industrial robots to simplify factory automation and increase worldwide manufacturing productivity. Backed by TGC Square.
By country
- US$56B
- South Korea$2.6B
- China$815M
- Spain$607M
- India$472M
- UK$412M
By sector
- Enterprise software$51B
- Health$4.6B
- Hosting$4.4B
- Fintech$3.2B
- Food$2.7B
- Robotics$1.4B
$63B across 461 rounds in October so far, by headquarters and by sector.
Just founded
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AlleyBloomLos Angeles
Connecting local businesses with content creators.
YZWWYigan Zhang & Wenwei Wu founded it. Zhang worked at Addepar and Amazon. -
HundredSan Francisco$125K raised
Automated cosmetic inspection for consumer electronics parts.
IGILEDImani Gosserand, Iris Liao & Erica Diaz founded it. Gosserand worked at Twitch. Liao worked at Citadel.
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LIMTOR DefencePalma
Autonomous multi-domain systems for asymmetric defense advantage.
PMIKPedro Miguel López Zamora & Ivan K founded it. Zamora studied at Valencia Polytechnic University.
In the news
View all news stories- Amazon in talks to buy AI chip startup Decart for $7B
Amazon is in talks to acquire San Francisco AI startup Decart in a deal that could value it at about $7 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- Ex-Google engineers' Discovery Loop eyes $50B valuation a month after launch
Discovery Loop, an AI startup founded by four former top Google engineers, is raising capital at a valuation of around $50 billion, Business Insider reports.
- Musk: only 3 companies had enough coding data to build a "compelling SI"
SpaceX has acquired AI coding startup Cursor, maker Anysphere, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion.
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