January 2026 AI Funding Roundup

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

$950M
Total Raised
3
Deals
$317M
Avg Deal Size
#1
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OpenAI
Foundation Models & AGI
Series C Extension

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.

$300M
Apr 15, 2023
Founded: 2015HQ: San Francisco, CA

Investors

Sequoia Capital (Lead)Andreessen HorowitzThrive Capital
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#2
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Cohere
Enterprise AI
Series D

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.

$450M
Jan 25, 2026
Founded: 2019HQ: Toronto, Canada

Investors

Index Ventures (Lead)NVIDIA
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#3
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Replit
AI Developer Tools
Series C

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.

$200M
Jan 5, 2026
Founded: 2016HQ: San Francisco, CA

Investors

Andreessen Horowitz (Lead)Khosla VenturesGoogle Ventures (GV)
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