On September 18th, Japanese artificial intelligence company SakanaAI raised about 30 billion yen (about 214 million US dollars) in the A round of financing, and the company valuation reached 1.50 billion US dollars. Sakana AI was established only one year ago and was founded by former Google researchers in July 2023. Investors in this round of financing include Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and Nomura Holdings, as well as well-known companies such a...
Tokyo-based start-up Sakana AI has raised $100 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures and Lux Capital, with participation from Nvidia. The funds will be used for talent and infrastructure development to advance "nature-inspired, sustainable and energy-efficient AI technologies".