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AI Funding · October 11, 2026 · 1 min read

Instinct Raises $1 Billion and Armadin Raises $255.5 Million in a Week Dominated by AI

Crunchbase's early-October roundup led with a $1 billion round for an everyday-tasks AI assistant.

Instinct Raises $1 Billion and Armadin Raises $255.5 Million in a Week Dominated by AI

Crunchbase's weekly roundup of the biggest funding rounds led with a $1 billion round for Instinct, a developer of AI assistants for everyday tasks. A separate summary from SyncGTM said Instinct and FieldAI, which raised $700 million, were both valued at $10 billion.

Armadin, an AI-native cybersecurity company, raised $255.5 million in Series B funding in the same week. Armadin builds autonomous cybersecurity agents and was founded by Kevin Mandia, with Accel leading its earlier combined seed and Series A of about $190 million in March.

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Crunchbase's headline described the week as almost all about AI.

Source: Crunchbase News

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