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Middle East AI startups: $2.56B across 148 Gulf deals, 2023 to 2025
Market IntelligenceJuly 31, 2026 · 17 min read

Middle East AI Startups: $2.56B Across 148 Deals

Middle East AI startups raised $2.56B across 148 Gulf deals from 2023 to 2025. The UAE leads with 103 deals, Saudi Arabia grew 4.3x, FinTech takes 30%.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 11 min read

Climate AI Startups: 19 Companies and Their Funding

Climate AI startups raised $70.5B across 1,424 deals. See the 19 highest-funded green AI companies, stage breakdown, and top investors.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Startup Funding Stages: 2023-2026 Breakdown

Explore AI startup funding stages: 5,429 deals, $444.3B deployed in 2025 from pre-seed to Series G+. Median deal sizes, YoY trends, and progression rates.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 12 min read

AI Developer Tools: Top Startups by Funding

Explore 33 AI developer tool startups that raised $379.7B across 1,817 deals. Bot Memo’s data reveals which companies VCs are backing most in 2026.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 10 min read

Top 20 Real Estate AI Startups (PropTech AI)

Discover the top 20 real estate AI startups ranked by funding. Bot Memo analyzed 585 proptech AI deals totaling $13.8B, including 4 new unicorns in 2025-2026.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Startups in San Francisco: Funding and Investors

San Francisco AI startups raised $400.3B across 2,589 deals since 2023. See the top companies, investors, verticals, and funding stages behind the boom.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 13 min read

25 Billion-Dollar Business Ideas for 2026

How to Think About “Making” a Billion Dollars Alex Hormozi, entrepreneur and co-owner of Skool, states,…

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 9 min read

European AI Startups: Top 48 Rounds of 2025

The top 48 European AI startup funding rounds of 2025, ranked by size. Bot Memo tracked 1,269 deals totaling $35.1B across 32 countries.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 27, 2026 · 8 min read

Nordic AI Startups: Sweden, Finland, Norway

Nordic AI startups raised $12.19B across 478 rounds since 2023. Sweden takes 62.7%, but one Stockholm company holds 27.1% of the region’s capital.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 8 min read

AI Startup Funding by City: 2025 Breakdown

San Francisco took $111.6B of 2025 AI startup funding, 39.8% of the global total. See how the top 20 cities and 788 hubs worldwide stack up.

AI Video Generation Startups: Top 15 Companies (2026)
Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 11 min read

AI Video Generation Startups: Top 15 in 2026

The top 15 AI video generation startups ranked by funding, with $3.67B across 131 tracked deals since 2023. See the funding leaders, stages, and video AI trends.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Sales & Marketing Startups: Top 30 by Funding

Top 30 AI sales and marketing startups ranked by funding, with $18.4B across 709 tracked deals since 2024. See the funding leaders, stages, and GTM trends.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 13 min read

30 Financial Services Business Ideas for 2026

What is a Business That Provides Financial Services? A business that provides financial services refers to any…

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 6 min read

Make Something People Want: Does It Apply to AI?

In the age of AI, creating products has become much easier and requires less investment in terms of time or money….

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Market IntelligenceJuly 27, 2026 · 11 min read

AI Drug Discovery Startups: Top Funded in 2026

Ranked list of the top-funded AI drug discovery startups, built on $32.6B across 621 deals since 2024. Funding data, investors, and geography from Bot Memo.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 5 min read

The Most Promising Online Business Models in 2026

In this article, you can see glimpses of various business models and determine what works. From subscription-based…

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Do Things That Don’t Scale: Does It Apply to AI?

In the dynamic world of startups, sometimes doing counterintuitive things can reap huge rewards. One of these…

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 10 min read

Most Active AI Investors of 2025

See the most active AI investors of 2025, ranked by deal count. General Catalyst led with 59 deals and Lightspeed backed $20.33B across 5,421 AI deals.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Legal Tech Startups: 20 Companies to Know in 2026

Explore 20 AI legal tech startups that raised $7.3B across 260 deals from 2024-2026. See which companies VCs are backing.

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Market IntelligenceJuly 28, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Startups London: Funding Guide to the UK AI Hub

AI startups in London raised $16.8B across 627 deals in 2024-2025. See top companies, funding stages, investors, and verticals from Bot Memo’s dataset.

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