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UPDATED 23 October 2026 216 REPORTS · 172 COMPANIES

Capital

Higgsfield AI in talks for $300-500m at a $5bn pre-money valuation

The round is explicitly not closed. The Information and TechFundingNews name DST Global among the investors in the discussions.

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What this basis means: Reported by a named news outlet, and traceable to neither a filing, a research vendor, nor the company itself.

Higgsfield AI is in talks to raise $300-500m at a pre-money valuation of $5bn, according to The Information and TechFundingNews. DST Global is named among the investors in the discussions.

The round is not closed. No filing and no company confirmation has appeared, so it does not count as a completed financing.

It is the third financing to surface in the AI tool layer, after Runway and Evoken - capital moving to production tooling rather than to consumer microdrama apps. In the consumer layer, DramaBox's reported $100m remains a rumour without a primary source.

Companies Higgsfield AI, DST Global, Runway, Evoken, DramaBox

Sources

  • Report on Higgsfield AI financing talks The Information
  • Report on Higgsfield AI financing talks TechFundingNews

Correction

: This report was labelled as a research-vendor estimate. It rests on press reporting and is now labelled reported.