venture capital

Cognition achieved a $48 billion valuation after raising $2 billion to expand its Devin coding assistant amid rising enterprise adoption.

COFE Tech has secured a $178 million valuation in a pre-IPO funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures and Aditum ahead of a planned Saudi listing.

French AI lab Mistral raised €3 billion in Series D funding led by Samsung Electronics, valuing the company at over €21 billion.

Day three of LEAP 2026 in Riyadh secured billions in tech funding, including the SAR 3.3B Khuzam Digital Valley project and a $20M regional AI fund.

Leap26 witnessed 293 million dollars in startup funding across 11 investment deals on day three, solidifying Saudi Arabia’s venture capital position.

Venture capital investor Chibo Tang joins LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to share insights from managing over $200M across Asian technology startups.

Saudi startups Ejari and Torod announced significant investment rounds following their participation in the LEAP technology conference.

More than 1,000 investors representing $14.3 trillion in assets under management will convene in Riyadh for the fifth edition of the LEAP tech conference.

A new $5 million investment from Jordan’s Innovative Startups Fund into Saudi VC fund STV establishes a strategic technology corridor between the two nations.

The Sanabil Accelerator has selected eight startups from over 690 applications for its eleventh cohort, focusing on AI, fintech, and healthcare.

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in its latest funding round, pushing its valuation to $965 billion and overtaking rival OpenAI.

Reactor has emerged from stealth with $59 million in funding to build real-time World Model infrastructure for global developers.

Stitch raises $25 million in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, marking the VC firm’s first GCC investment. The Riyadh-based fintech platform provides unified infrastructure for financial institutions across lending, payments, and ledgers.

Bosch commits €200 million to expand its venture builder unit, targeting 20 new startups by 2030 in software manufacturing, health monitoring, and carbon capture sectors.

Arthur D. Little report shows MENA fintech sector strengthened in 2025 despite global funding headwinds, with 77% of leaders rating sector strength positively and venture capital reaching 3.8 billion dollars regionally.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, is in talks for first-round funding at over $20 billion valuation with Tencent and Alibaba as potential backers.

Effective pitch decks convince VCs by combining data-driven strategies, team expertise, and realistic projections. Twenty-two funded presentations in 2026 secured capital commitments across technology sectors through validated customer evidence and clear market analysis.

Anthropic valuation 800 billion has been achieved as the AI company attracts investor offers, reflecting strong investor confidence in the artificial intelligence sector and the company’s development of large language models.

Anthropic receives multiple investor offers valuing the AI startup at $800 billion, more than double its February valuation, driven by strong enterprise revenue growth.

Europe attracts only 5% of global private quantum funding versus 50% in the US, as Brussels prepares a Quantum Act. An investor warns the bloc must act now to avoid repeating its AI mistakes.

Cursor, the AI-powered coding tool, is in preliminary talks for a funding round at a $50 billion valuation — nearly double its November 2025 figure of $29.3 billion.

AI-powered digital analytics platform Dataroid has raised $6.6 million in Pre-Series A funding to accelerate its global expansion, with a strategic focus on EMEA markets. The investment will strengthen the company’s AI capabilities and support its growth from serving 120 million users.