How Did AI Startups Attract Over **$600M** Today? 📈🤖💸

TL;DR

• Genspark secured a $300M Series B for agents
• Decagon tripled valuation with $250M Series D
• Limy emerged with $10M for agentic web
• Checkbox raised $35M to automate legal workflows

HEADLINES

Genspark hit hypergrowth with AI Workspace 2.0 🧠🔗

Checkbox turned AI legal intake into $35M raise 📄🔗

Decagon tripled valuation powering concierge AI support 🤝🔗

BoldVoice scaled AI speech coaching with $21M backing 🗣️🔗

Limy funded to measure brand visibility in AI agents 🌐🔗

Meta launched AI Glasses Impact Grants program 🕶️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Voyager Ventures raised $275M Fund II for energy and AI infra 🏗️🔗

Touring Capital led Checkbox’s $35M AI legal Series A 💼🔗

Coatue Management co-led Decagon’s $250M Series D round 📊🔗

Matrix Partners backed BoldVoice with $21M Series A 🎙️🔗

Flybridge led Limy’s $10M agentic web funding 🚀🔗

RAISES

Genspark raised $300M in a Series B led by Emergence Capital and others ⚙️🔗

Decagon raised $250M in a Series D led by Coatue and Index Ventures 🤖🔗

Checkbox raised $35M in a Series A led by Touring Capital 📑🔗

BoldVoice raised $21M in a Series A led by Matrix 🗣️🔗

Limy raised $10M in a seed round led by Flybridge 🌐🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Genspark launched AI Workspace 2.0 for autonomous knowledge work 🧩🔗

Meta unveiled AI Glasses Impact Grants for accessibility and education 🕶️🔗

LEGO Education showcased AI literacy resources at Bett 2026 🧱🔗

Limy announced Agentic Web infrastructure platform for AI search revenue 🌍🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Genspark AI Workspace all-in-one AI agents for busywork 🧠🔗

BoldVoice AI-powered American accent training app 📱🔗

Limy Analytics tracks AI bot traffic and brand visibility 📈🔗

Checkbox AI legal intake and workflow automation hub 🧾🔗

METRICS

Genspark surpassed $100M ARR in just nine months 📊🔗

BoldVoice reached over 5M users and $10M ARR 📈🔗

Samsung posted record Q4 profit of ₩20T on AI chips 💾🔗

Voice AI India saw three startups raise $14.8M in January 🔊🔗

BENCHMARKS

ETtech analysis flagged voice AI as India’s next killer app 📘🔗

LEGO Education positioned AI literacy as “glass box” classroom standard 🏫🔗

UK DSIT reported 38 of 50 AI plan actions completed 📊🔗

Genspark highlighted $36M ARR in 45 days post-agent launch 🚀🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Samsung said AI memory prices are “racing higher” 💽🔗

Voyager Ventures earmarked $275M for energy and AI infrastructure 🔋🔗

UK government launched call for input on secure AI compute 🖥️🔗

Limy pitched itself as infrastructure for the Agentic Web 🌐🔗

VALUATIONS

Decagon tripled valuation to $4.5B after Series D 🏷️🔗

PaleBlueDot AI crossed $1B valuation with $150M Series B 💡🔗

MainFunc / Genspark confirmed $1.25B valuation after prior $275M Series B 📈🔗

Checkbox reached roughly $100M valuation post-Series A ⚖️🔗

POLICY

UK DSIT published one-year update on national AI Opportunities Action Plan 📜🔗

UK DSIT / NCSC opened consultation on secure national AI infrastructure 🛡️🔗

Bangladesh government proposed draft AI policy tightening oversight and banning social scoring ⚖️🔗

UK Science Secretary Liz Kendall framed AI as core to Britain’s economic power 🏛️🔗

SOVEREIGN

Japan government joined US Genesis Mission with Nvidia for AI science 🛰️🔗

Bangladesh interim government tied AI funding, sandboxes to national sovereignty goals 🌏🔗

UK government sought industry input on sovereign secure AI compute 🏰🔗

AI in Government 2026 convened UK public sector leaders on responsible AI 🏢🔗

SECTORS

Legal deployed AI agents as an “AI Legal Front Door” 📚🔗

Customer Experience adopted AI concierge agents across travel, finance, retail 🛎️🔗

Education used LEGO robots to teach AI literacy 🧒🔗

Brand Marketing deployed Limy to track AI search attribution 📣🔗

Voice Services rolled out voice AI agents in Indian enterprises 🎧🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

AI Founders Connect hosted Cambridge investment night linking startups and funders 🤝🔗