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The AI Funding Brief — January 2026 AI Funding Roundup

The year kicks off with massive rounds from OpenAI, Mistral, and Cohere totaling $8B+.

Feb 1, 2026
Monthly Roundup
Share
$950M
Total Raised
3
Deals
$317M
Avg Deal

Top Deals

1
OpenAI
Series C Extension
$300M — Led by Sequoia Capital

AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, DALL-E image generation, and the Sora video model. The fastest-growing consumer AI platform with over 200 million weekly active users.

2
Cohere
Series D
$450M — Led by Index Ventures

Enterprise AI platform providing language models for search, generation, and classification deployed in private cloud environments. Cohere's Command and Embed models are designed for enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), with strong multilingual support and data-privacy-first deployment options. A leading player in bringing LLMs to regulated industries including finance and healthcare.

3
Replit
Series C
$200M — Led by Andreessen Horowitz

AI-powered software development and deployment platform enabling anyone to build and ship applications from the browser. Replit's AI agent can generate, debug, and deploy full-stack apps from natural language prompts, backed by a cloud IDE with instant hosting. Used by millions of developers and learners, Replit is a pioneer in democratizing software creation through AI.

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