January 2026 Growth Funding Recap

In January 2026, Growthink Capital Research tracked $12.84 billion in venture funding, compared to the $16.28 billion reported in December 2025.

The month’s biggest funding event belonged to Skild AI ($1.4 billion), a foundation for robotics designed to enable machines to perform a wide variety of tasks in the physical world.

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The hottest sectors for funding during the month were Biotech, Fintech, A.I./Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and Healthtech.

Key funding events in each of these sectors for the month are below:

1. Biotech deals included Parabilis Medicines ($305 million), Cellares ($257 million), Orca Bio ($250 million), Soley Therapeutics ($200 million), Diagonal Therapeutics ($125 million), SonoThera ($125 million), Caldera Therapeutics ($112.5 million), EpiBiologics ($107 million), Rakuten Medical ($100 million), Cytotheryx ($60 million), Think Bioscience ($55 million), TRex Bio ($50 million), BridGene Biosciences ($28 million), Converge Bio ($25 million), Antheia ($24 million), Prenosis ($20 million), Prudentia Sciences ($20 million), Trailhead Biosystems ($20 million), Biographica ($9.4 million), STRM.BIO ($8 million), Parambil ($6 million), and Tesoro XP ($5.4 million).
2. Fintech deals included Rain ($250 million), Duetti ($200 million), Alpaca ($150 million), Snout ($110 million), Mesh ($75 million), Datarails ($70 million), Gyde ($60 million), Zocks ($45 million), Benepass ($40 million), HPS/PayMedix ($33 million), Balance Homes ($30 million), Enhanced Digital Group ($30 million), Idea Financial ($20 million), Mine ($14 million), Concourse ($12 million), Monnai ($12 million), MagicCube ($10 million), and Meld ($7 million).

3. A.I./Machine Learning deals included Skild AI ($1.4 billion), Humans& ($480 million), Genspark ($300 million), Ricursive Intelligence ($300 million), Decagon ($250 million), Upscale AI ($200 million), Deepgram ($130 million), Higgsfield ($80 million), Articul8 AI ($70 million), Emergent ($70 million), Eliyan ($50 million), Depthfirst ($40 million), Fiddler AI ($30 million), Protege ($30 million), Northslope ($22 million), OTTO SPORT AI ($16.5 million), Merciv ($14 million), Arkero ($6 million), and VoiceRun ($5.5 million).
4. Cybersecurity deals included Cyera ($400 million), Upwind ($250 million), Claroty ($150 million), Torq ($140 million), Defense Unicorns ($136 million), Blackbird.AI ($58 million), WitnessAI ($58 million), Outtake ($40 million), Memcyco ($37 million), Project Eleven ($20 million), RISA Labs ($11.1 million), Furl ($10 million), and AiStrike ($7 million).
5. Healthtech deals included OpenEvidence ($250 million), Pomelo Care ($92 million), Corsera Health ($80 million), VieCure ($43 million), AnswersNow ($40 million), Vista AI ($29.5 million), BrightInsight ($13 million), Neuramint ($5 million), and Oasys Health ($4.6 million).

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Last month, 43 companies reported raising over $100 million, compared to 33 in December. Below, we’ve included a summary of the top 20 companies (other than Skild AI) by amount raised.

1. Renewa ($502 million) a financing for renewable energy projects, focusing on land-based wind and solar developments.
2. Humans& ($480 million) an AI tool designed to enhance human collaboration and communication rather than replacing workers.
3. ClickHouse ($400 million) an online analytical processing database management system designed to generate reports using SQL queries in real-time.
4. Cyera ($400 million) a data security platform designed to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data.
5. Parabilis Medicines ($305 million) a precision medicine designed to target the underlying drivers of cancer and other serious diseases.
6. Genspark ($300 million) an AI agent-builder platform and workspace that performs complex, autonomous tasks to improve user productivity.
7. Mews ($300 million) a cloud-native property management system that automates operations and payments for hotels and hospitality brands.
8. Ricursive Intelligence ($300 million) a frontier AI lab focused on developing advanced foundational models and artificial intelligence research.
9. Cellares ($257 million) an Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO) that provides an automated, end-to-end platform for cell therapy production.
10. Decagon ($250 million) provides conversational AI agents designed to handle concierge-level customer experiences across chat, voice, and email.
11. OpenEvidence ($250 million) an AI platform for doctors that provides evidence-based clinical answers.
12. Orca Bio ($250 million) a high-precision cell therapy designed to replace diseased bone marrow with healthy immune systems.
13. Rain ($250 million) a noncustodial wallet designed to help users spend their cryptocurrency without a centralized exchange.
14. Upwind ($250 million) a runtime-first cloud security platform that leverages real-time data to protect cloud-native environments.
15. Duetti ($200 million) a financial services company that allows independent music creators to monetize their song catalogs and master recordings.
16. Onebrief ($200 million) a collaborative planning platform designed to streamline military and government workflows.
17. Soley Therapeutics ($200 million) an RNA interference therapy designed to target and silence disease-causing genes.
18. Upscale AI ($200 million) an advanced networking infrastructure specifically designed for AI workloads.
19. Alpaca ($150 million) a modern brokerage platform designed for people to access financial markets with a developer-friendly API.
20. Claroty ($150 million) a cyber-physical systems company across industrial, healthcare, and commercial environments from cyber threats.

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