# River AI Raises $1.1B Across Seed and Series A Rounds

On August 11, 2026, per River AI, frontier model and agent lab River AI announced $1.1B combined across seed and Series A rounds, led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with NVIDIA and AMD Ventures participating. The company was founded by Igor Babuschkin, a former xAI co-founder with research experience at Google DeepMind and OpenAI.



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## Connected profiles

- [AMD Ventures](/institutions/amd-ventures)
- [AMP PBC](/institutions/amp-pbc)
- [General Catalyst](/institutions/general-catalyst)
- [NVIDIA](/institutions/nvidia)
- [River AI](/companies/river-ai)

## Sources

- https://river.ai/series-seed-series-a-funding