Funded Artificial Intelligence Startups in Oakland
Oakland's AI funding activity, as reflected in these 19 rounds spanning November 2020 through July 2025, covers a broad spectrum of deal sizes and company…
Oakland's AI funding activity, as reflected in these 19 rounds spanning November 2020 through July 2025, covers a broad spectrum of deal sizes and company stages. Round values range from $100K — a grant to Dascena in March 2022 — and $500K pre-seeds for Weave and OfOne, up to Vivun's $75M Series C in May 2022 and Fal.ai's $49M Series B in February 2025. Activity has been distributed across multiple years, with a notable cluster in 2022–2023 and three rounds already recorded in 2024–2025.
The segment is not confined to a single use case. Fal.ai represents AI model infrastructure; Hayden AI and Cartken address transit enforcement and autonomous delivery, respectively; Numa and Vivun target automotive dealerships and enterprise presales; and Dascena, Promaxo, and StructionSite bring AI into clinical, imaging, and construction workflows. Series A and Series B rounds each appear three times in the dataset, sitting alongside earlier-stage deals and several rounds where stage designation was not disclosed.
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What are the largest disclosed funding rounds among Oakland AI startups in this dataset?
Vivun leads at $75M Series C (May 2022), followed by Fal.ai at $49M Series B (February 2025) and Numa at $32M Series B (October 2024). Hayden AI's $20M Series A (August 2021) and Manifold's $15M Series A (November 2023) round out the top five by disclosed amount.
Which funding stages are most common among these Oakland-based AI companies?
Series A and Series B each appear three times in the dataset. Pre-Seed and Seed rounds account for four entries combined — Weave, OfOne, Viable, and Qpoint. Four rounds are labeled Series Unknown and two as Venture–Series Unknown, reflecting a subset of companies that raised without disclosing a stage designation.
Which industries and use cases do these Oakland AI startups address?
The dataset spans a range of verticals: construction documentation (StructionSite), transit enforcement and smart city applications (Hayden AI), autonomous delivery robots (Cartken), automotive dealerships (Numa), clinical decision support (Dascena, Promaxo), presales automation (Vivun), and enterprise document intelligence (Allganize). AI model infrastructure is represented by Fal.ai, which raised a $49M Series B in February 2025.
How recent is the Oakland AI funding activity in this dataset?
The most recent round is Qpoint's $9M Seed, closed July 21, 2025. Weave (Pre-Seed, March 2025) and Fal.ai (Series B, February 2025) also closed within 2025. The dataset stretches back to November 2020, with the densest cluster of activity recorded across 2022 and 2023.
Are there any non-equity or undisclosed-amount rounds in the Oakland AI dataset?
Dascena received a $100K grant in March 2022, the only non-equity round in the dataset. Two companies — Promaxo and Gemini Data Inc. — raised rounds with undisclosed amounts, and Nana's November 2020 round has no stage type listed.
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