All the fundraising deals in the agentic AI market (from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026)
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The agentic AI market raised over $1.67 billion across 40 verified deals between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026, making it one of the fastest-growing segments in enterprise software.
Q1 2026 alone accounted for nearly 40% of all capital deployed, with 18 deals spanning security, procurement, marketing, finance, and core agent infrastructure.
Investors are now funding the full agentic AI stack, from customer-facing agents to the orchestration, search, and billing layers that make autonomous software reliable in production.
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Insights
- Q1 2026 saw $658 million raised across 18 agentic AI deals, nearly triple the $230 million raised in Q4 2025, signaling that investors now treat agentic AI as a full investment category.
- Customer service agents attracted $377 million across 5 rounds, making it the single best-funded vertical in the agentic AI market over the past five quarters.
- Agent infrastructure (orchestration, search, billing, integrations) pulled in $316 million across 10 deals, showing that picks-and-shovels plays are being funded just as aggressively as end-user applications.
- Wonderful raised $250 million across two rounds in just four months (Series A in Q4 2025, Series B in Q1 2026), reaching a $2 billion valuation and becoming the poster child for multilingual customer-service agents.
- Security emerged as a standalone agentic AI sub-market: Armadin alone raised $189.9 million, and four security-focused startups collectively brought in over $260 million.
- The average agentic AI deal size across all five quarters was about $41.9 million, but excluding the top two rounds per quarter drops that figure closer to $20 million, revealing a market still dominated by a handful of mega-rounds.
- Y Combinator appeared in 6 of the 40 deals, more than any other investor, reinforcing its role as the most active early-stage backer in the agentic AI ecosystem.
- Finance agents (Unique, Hyperbots, AppZen, Meridian) raised $233.5 million, confirming that rules-heavy, audit-friendly workflows are a natural fit for autonomous AI execution.
- In Q3 2025, the single largest deal (AppZen at $180 million) represented 69% of total quarterly funding, but by Q1 2026, the top deal (Armadin at $189.9 million) represented only 29%, showing the market is broadening.
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Summary table of the funding deals in the agentic AI market (last 5 quarters)
We define the agentic AI market as software that can turn a user goal into a multi-step plan and take actions through tools or integrations to produce an outcome.
We include agentic applications and platforms that manage task state (context/memory), execute and verify steps, and operate with either full autonomy or human approval gates.
We exclude copilots that only suggest content, one-off tool calls without planning/state, and deterministic automation (RPA/BPM/iPaaS) where the LLM does not drive step selection or execution.
You can also read our detailed analysis to understand how funding activity in the agentic AI market has evolved over the last few years.
Also, you should know that we have a dedicated page, updated weekly, with all the latest fundraising deals in the agentic AI market.
| Name | What they do | Amount ($M) | Quarter | Source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hippocratic AI | Builds patient-facing healthcare agents for non-diagnostic workflows like prep and monitoring. | $141.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Atomicwork | Agentic enterprise IT and service-management platform for employee support tasks. | $25.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Qeen.ai | Autonomous e-commerce agents for content, marketing, and sales, focused on the MENA region. | $10.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| TrueFoundry | Platform for deploying and operating complex AI agent systems at enterprise scale. | $19.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Unique | Agentic AI platform for banks and financial services, with strong European roots. | $30.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Browser Use | Makes websites readable and operable for AI agents navigating multi-step web tasks. | $17.0M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Paid | Billing and monetization infrastructure for AI agents and outcome-based pricing. | $10.9M | Q1 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Manus AI | General-purpose AI agent for multi-step tasks like research, travel, and analysis. | $75.0M | Q2 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Parloa | Agentic AI for customer experience across voice and contact-center workflows. | $120.0M | Q2 2025 | Parloa |
| Relevance AI | AI workforce platform that lets businesses build and coordinate teams of agents. | $24.0M | Q2 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Hyperbots | Agentic AI for automating multi-step finance and accounting workflows. | $6.5M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Sweep | Agentic workspace for go-to-market systems like Salesforce and HubSpot. | $22.5M | Q2 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Sema4.ai | Platform for building and managing enterprise AI agents with Snowflake integration. | $25.0M | Q2 2025 | SiliconANGLE |
| Composio | Integration layer that lets AI agents act inside SaaS products and learn over time. | $25.0M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Tavily | Search and compliance infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents. | $20.0M | Q3 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Geordie | Agent-native security software using autonomous agents for security operations. | $6.5M | Q3 2025 | Yahoo Finance, SecurityWeek |
| AppZen | Autonomous finance agents for accounts payable, expense, and card workflows. | $180.0M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Paid | Second, larger round for its outcome-based billing infrastructure for AI agents. | $21.6M | Q3 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Notch.cx | Autonomous customer-support agents that resolve tickets and execute transactions end to end. | $7.0M | Q3 2025 | PR Newswire |
| LangChain | Open-source platform for engineering, orchestrating, and observing AI agents. | $125.0M | Q4 2025 | TechCrunch |
| Bricklayer AI | Agentic cybersecurity platform that automates and scales SOC team operations. | $5.0M | Q4 2025 | PR Newswire |
| Wonderful | Enterprise multilingual customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email. | $100.0M | Q4 2025 | TechCrunch |
| WitnessAI | AI security and governance platform for enterprise AI systems and agents. | $58.0M | Q1 2026 | PR Newswire |
| VoiceRun | Code-first platform for launching and scaling voice agents at production level. | $5.5M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Bolna | Voice-agent orchestration layer built for India's calling and language landscape. | $6.3M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Blockit | Scheduling agents that autonomously negotiate meetings with other calendars. | $5.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Airrived | Enterprise "Agentic OS" for governed deployment of autonomous agents in IT and security. | $6.1M | Q1 2026 | Airrived, New Market Pitch |
| Meridian | Agentic spreadsheet and modeling workspace for finance teams to build and audit models. | $17.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| ChipAgents | Multi-agent platform for semiconductor design using coordinated AI agents. | $50.0M | Q1 2026 | New Market Pitch |
| Kana | Customizable agent-based marketing tools for teams to automate multi-step campaigns. | $15.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Reload | AI workforce and agent-management platform centered on shared memory and state. | $2.3M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Nimble | AI agents that search the web, verify findings, and return structured clean data. | $47.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Trace | Context and orchestration software so AI agents know where to act inside a company. | $3.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Lio | AI agents that automate the full enterprise procurement process end to end. | $30.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| AgentMail | Email service and API layer built specifically for AI agents to send, receive, and manage mail. | $6.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Armadin | Autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity response and remediation without human intervention. | $189.9M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Gumloop | No-code platform that lets non-technical employees build and share reliable AI agents. | $50.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Wonderful | Second round: scaling multilingual customer-service agents into more countries and channels. | $150.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Nyne | Intelligence layer that helps AI agents understand humans across their digital footprint. | $5.3M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Eragon | Enterprise "agentic AI operating system" replacing static software with prompt-driven workflows. | $12.0M | Q1 2026 | TechCrunch |
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How has funding activity in the agentic AI market changed over time?
Q1 2026 was the most active quarter for the agentic AI market, with $658 million raised across 18 deals, though three large rounds (Armadin at $189.9M, Wonderful at $150M, and Gumloop at $50M) accounted for about 60% of the total.
Q4 2025 was the quietest quarter with only 3 deals totaling $230 million, as the agentic AI market briefly consolidated before the Q1 2026 acceleration.
Comparing Q1 2026 to Q4 2025, total agentic AI funding jumped by about 186%, and compared to Q1 2025 (one year earlier), the increase was about 160%, showing strong year-over-year growth in the agentic AI market.
If you strip out the top two deals each quarter, the underlying agentic AI market still grew steadily: the remaining rounds moved from roughly $82 million in Q1 2025 to about $318 million in Q1 2026, which means the breadth of smaller and mid-sized deals expanded just as much as the headline mega-rounds.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Total raised ($M) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 7 | $252.9M | Hippocratic AI's $141M Series B dominated; early infrastructure and vertical agent bets emerged. |
| Q2 2025 | 6 | $273.0M | Parloa ($120M) and Manus AI ($75M) led; customer service and general-purpose agents gained momentum. |
| Q3 2025 | 6 | $260.1M | AppZen's $180M growth round was 69% of the total; agent infrastructure deals kept coming in steadily. |
| Q4 2025 | 3 | $230.0M | Only three deals, but LangChain ($125M) and Wonderful ($100M) were both significant bets on the agentic AI stack. |
| Q1 2026 | 18 | $658.4M | Massive acceleration across security, procurement, marketing, voice, and infrastructure for agentic AI startups. |
| All quarters | 40 | $1,674.4M | Agentic AI funding nearly tripled from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026, confirming the category's breakout moment. |
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Which startups in the agentic AI market raised the largest rounds over the last months?
These startups raised the most recently in the agentic AI market:
- Armadin raised $189.9 million in a combined seed and Series A because the cybersecurity startup, founded by Mandiant's creator, convinced top-tier investors that autonomous security remediation is a massive standalone opportunity.
- AppZen raised $180 million in a growth round because its autonomous finance agents for accounts payable and expense management had proven ROI at enterprise scale.
- Wonderful raised $150 million in its Series B to scale multilingual customer-service agents across Europe, LATAM, and APAC, reaching a $2 billion valuation.
- Hippocratic AI raised $141 million in its Series B to expand patient-facing healthcare agents into more products and geographies, backed by Kleiner Perkins.
- LangChain raised $125 million because its open-source agent orchestration platform had become essential infrastructure, pushing its valuation to $1.25 billion.
- Parloa raised $120 million in its Series C to reinvent customer service with agentic AI across voice and contact-center workflows in Europe and the U.S.
- Wonderful raised $100 million in its earlier Series A because Index Ventures and others bet that non-English customer-service agents were a massive untapped wedge.
- Manus AI raised $75 million from Benchmark and others to bring its general-purpose AI agent from China to the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East.
- WitnessAI raised $58 million in a strategic round because enterprises need governance and security layers to trust autonomous AI agents in production.
- ChipAgents raised $50 million in its Series A1 to scale a multi-agent platform for semiconductor design, a niche where coordinated autonomous agents can replace months of manual chip engineering.
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Is the agentic AI market shifting toward smaller or bigger deals?
Across all five quarters, the average deal size in the agentic AI market was about $41.9 million, reflecting a mix of large growth rounds and a growing number of seed and Series A deals for newer agentic AI startups.
Quarter by quarter, the average agentic AI deal size fluctuated between $36.1 million (Q1 2025) and $76.7 million (Q4 2025), with Q4 2025's high average driven by LangChain and Wonderful being the only large deals in a quarter with just three transactions total.
If you exclude the top two outlier rounds from each quarter, the average deal in the agentic AI market drops to roughly $15-20 million, which suggests the core of the market is still in early-stage and mid-stage territory even as headline rounds grab attention.
| Quarter | Number of deals | Average deal size ($M) | Deals below $2M | Deals above $50M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 7 | $36.1M | 0 | 1 |
| Q2 2025 | 6 | $45.5M | 0 | 2 |
| Q3 2025 | 6 | $43.4M | 0 | 1 |
| Q4 2025 | 3 | $76.7M | 0 | 2 |
| Q1 2026 | 18 | $36.6M | 0 | 3 |
| All quarters | 40 | $41.9M | 0 | 9 |
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How concentrated was funding activity in the agentic AI market?
Funding concentration in the agentic AI market has been gradually decreasing, which is a healthy sign for the ecosystem. In Q3 2025, a single deal (AppZen) captured 69.2% of the quarter's total, but by Q1 2026, the top deal (Armadin) accounted for just 28.8% of funding, showing that capital is spreading across more agentic AI startups.
The top three deals still captured over 60% of quarterly funding in most periods, which means mega-rounds remain important to the agentic AI market's total numbers, but the gap is narrowing as more mid-sized rounds close across infrastructure, security, and vertical agent categories.
| Quarter | Number of deals | % by Top 1 | % by Top 3 | % by Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2025 | 7 | 55.8% | 77.5% | 100.0% |
| Q2 2025 | 6 | 44.0% | 80.6% | 100.0% |
| Q3 2025 | 6 | 69.2% | 87.1% | 100.0% |
| Q4 2025 | 3 | 54.3% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Q1 2026 | 18 | 28.8% | 60.4% | 94.0% |
| All quarters | 40 | 11.3% | 31.1% | 75.7% |
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Which categories in the agentic AI market received the most funding?
Customer service agents attracted $377 million across 5 rounds (about 22.5% of all agentic AI funding), largely because customer support offers clear ROI metrics, well-defined integrations, and a natural path to let AI agents handle more of each case while keeping humans in the loop when needed.
Agent infrastructure was the second-largest category with $316.5 million across 10 deals, reflecting investor conviction that the agentic AI market needs robust orchestration, search, billing, and integration layers before end-user applications can scale reliably.
Finance agents raised $233.5 million across 4 rounds because financial workflows are rules-heavy, high-volume, and audit-friendly, making them a natural fit for autonomous AI that can do real work without requiring an open-ended environment.
| Category | Number of deals | Total raised ($M) | Startups and amounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer service agents | 5 | $377.0M | Parloa ($120M), Notch.cx ($7M), Wonderful ($100M, Q4 2025), Wonderful ($150M, Q1 2026) |
| Agent infrastructure | 10 | $316.5M | TrueFoundry ($19M), Browser Use ($17M), Paid ($10.9M), Sema4.ai ($25M), Composio ($25M), Tavily ($20M), LangChain ($125M), Nimble ($47M), AgentMail ($6M), Paid ($21.6M) |
| Finance agents | 4 | $233.5M | Unique ($30M), Hyperbots ($6.5M), AppZen ($180M), Meridian ($17M) |
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Who are the biggest investors in the agentic AI market?
Y Combinator is the most active investor in the agentic AI market with 6 deals, which makes sense given that many early-stage agentic AI startups come through YC's accelerator before raising their seed or Series A rounds.
Insight Partners participated in 4 agentic AI deals and backed companies across multiple stages, from Sweep's Series B to both of Wonderful's rounds, showing a consistent thesis around enterprise agent adoption.
Bessemer Venture Partners also appeared in 4 deals in the agentic AI market, often co-investing alongside Insight Partners in companies like Relevance AI, Sweep, and Wonderful.
General Catalyst backed 3 agentic AI startups (Parloa, Bolna, and AgentMail), focusing on customer service and agent infrastructure plays where the path to enterprise deployment is clear.
Benchmark participated in 2 agentic AI deals but picked high-profile bets: Manus AI (general-purpose agents) and Gumloop (no-code agent builder), both with strong consumer and enterprise crossover potential.
Andreessen Horowitz also backed 2 agentic AI startups, Meridian and Lio, both in the enterprise vertical-agent category where the firm sees the clearest near-term revenue opportunities.
Sequoia invested in 2 agentic AI rounds (Paid and Blockit), backing both agent monetization infrastructure and a consumer-facing scheduling agent.
IVP appeared in 2 deals, leading LangChain's $125 million round and participating in both Wonderful rounds, positioning the firm as a backer of the largest agentic AI platforms.
Disclaimer: this investor list may be incomplete; we focus on publicly disclosed lead and prominent recurring investors, so some frequent minority participants may be underrepresented. "Total funded" does not represent the amount personally invested by an individual investor. Instead, it refers to the aggregate amount raised across all fundraising rounds in which the investor participated.
| Investor | Number of deals | Total funded ($M) | Startups |
|---|---|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 6 | $100.3M | Browser Use, Bolna, Trace, Lio, AgentMail, Gumloop |
| Insight Partners | 4 | $296.5M | Sweep, Relevance AI, Wonderful (Q4 2025), Wonderful (Q1 2026) |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 4 | $296.5M | Relevance AI, Sweep, Wonderful (Q4 2025), Wonderful (Q1 2026) |
| General Catalyst | 3 | $132.3M | Parloa, Bolna, AgentMail |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2 | $32.0M | Composio, Notch.cx |
| Benchmark | 2 | $125.0M | Manus AI, Gumloop |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | $47.0M | Meridian, Lio |
| Sequoia | 2 | $15.9M | Paid (Q1 2025), Blockit |
| IVP | 2 | $375.0M | LangChain, Wonderful (Q4 2025), Wonderful (Q1 2026) |
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