Who Raised: 26 startups, $384M — 27 Oct–2 Nov 2026

◆ Startups this week

26

◆ Fresh capital

$384M

◆ Undisclosed terms

1 startups

◆ Previous week

87 startups · $760M

◆ Published

2 November 2026

◆ The Week

Twenty-six startups closed rounds in the window of 26 October to 2 November 2026, pulling in a combined $384M across disclosed and one undisclosed round. That is down from 87 the previous week — a fall of 61 deals — though capital concentration in a smaller cohort kept the average ticket size high. Series A dominated both by count and by capital, absorbing the lion's share of the week's activity.

◆ Stages

Series A and seed rounds tied at 10 deals each, but Series A captured $280M against seed's $89M — a ratio that signals investors are deploying larger follow-on cheques into proven teams while still seeding a comparable number of new entries. Pre-seed accounted for 6 deals totalling $15M.

◆ Sectors

AI & ML produced the largest capital haul of any sector — $102M across just 2 deals — driven by a single nine-figure round, pointing to the market's willingness to write concentrated bets on compute and inference infrastructure rather than spreading capital broadly. Fintech was the most active sector by deal count with 5 raises totalling $64M, a pattern consistent with sustained investor appetite for compliance-embedded and AI-native financial tooling. Robotics collected $55M across 2 deals, reflecting growing conviction in embodied AI as foundation-model approaches mature from language into physical systems.

◆ Geography

The United States led on both deal count and capital, with 8 startups raising $257M — more than two-thirds of the week's total. The United Kingdom came second by capital with 2 startups raising $45M, while India was second by deal count with 6 startups raising $26M, reflecting continued seed-stage momentum in Bengaluru and Kolkata.

◆ The Database

Full deal records, investor tables, and founder profiles for all 26 raises in this window are available in the Fusion42 Scout database.

◆ Startups in this edition

• General Compute
• Hyphenate
• Machenta
• Avante
• Vera Health
• Emvolon, Inc.
• Nous
• MoSense
• Overwatch
• Atlas Bio
• Predicate
• Mochatrade