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Did Stability AI Raise Again in 2026? $76M Series B
Stability AI closed a $76M Series B on August 25, 2026, with Universal, Sony, Warner, and EA on the cap table. Coatue returned; Thomas Laffont joined the board. No valuation. The $232M total is Akkaraju-era capital, not the 2022 Coatue round aggregators still dump.
Stability AI raised $76 million Series B on August 25, 2026. Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures are the new-money names. Coatue returned. Thomas Laffont joined the board. No valuation was disclosed.
Unexpected truth: aggregator sheets dated this month still dump Stability’s October 2022 $101 million as if it were August 2026 tape. It is not. The live close is this $76 million round. The $232 million total in the company post is capital under CEO Prem Akkaraju since June 2024 (two equity rounds plus convertibles) — not a lifetime sum you can add to 2022.
This page is for people who need the current raise, not the stale last-round. Last verified August 26, 2026. Primary: Stability’s August 25 post.
Five-minute decision
| If you need… | Verdict |
|---|---|
| What happened | Funded. $76M Series B, Aug 25, 2026. Labels + AMD Ventures. No valuation. |
| What Stability is now | Creative-production tools for music, games, and entertainment — not “the Stable Diffusion company” as a 2022 snapshot. |
| Whether rights holders sued or funded | Both, over time. This round puts UMG, Sony, Warner, and EA on the cap table. UK Getty: largely won (TC). U.S. Getty: pending. |
| Whether to diligence | Yes, if you underwrite licensed-data creative tools. No, if you need a 2026 valuation or you are still quoting the 2022 Coatue round as live. |
Investigate further when: you believe the scarce asset is licensed catalogs + a DAW plugin, not another unlicensed image model.
Wait or pass when: no mark is a hard stop, or you think Higgsfield already occupies August’s generative-media allocation at $5.4B.
What happened
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Company | Stability AI (stability.ai); CEO Prem Akkaraju (since June 2024); HQ Los Angeles in this announcement |
| Round | $76M Series B · Aug 25, 2026 (company) |
| New money named | EA, Sony Music Group, UMG, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, Pacific Alliance Ventures |
| Returning this round | Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt |
| Existing roster named (not called new money) | Lightspeed, Mantis Capital, Sound Ventures, WPP, plus named individuals (James Cameron, Kevin Mayer, others) |
| Board add | Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont |
| Valuation | Not disclosed |
| Akkaraju-era total | $232M (two equity rounds + convertibles, company) |
| Product callout in the same post | Stable Audio 3.0 — open-weight music models, company says trained on fully licensed data |
WPP is described as a strategic partner and investor through the Akkaraju era, not as a new Series B lead.
Stale dump vs live close — what differs
| Oct 2022 round (aggregator dump) | Aug 25, 2026 Series B | |
|---|---|---|
| Amount | $101M (historical) | $76M |
| Date to use | 2022 | August 25, 2026 |
| Valuation | Do not recycle as 2026 | Not disclosed |
| Coatue | Historical lead on that era | Returning; Laffont to the board |
| Job of the capital | Scale the 2022 image-model company | Licensed creative tools + professional services |
If a spreadsheet row dated mid-August still shows $101M, it is a scrape, not this close.
Stability vs Higgsfield — what differs
| Stability AI | Higgsfield | |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 print | $76M Series B | $400M Series B @ $5.4B |
| Valuation | None disclosed | Priced |
| New capital type | Rights holders + AMD Ventures | DST; Menlo returning |
| Proof in the post | Licensed-data audio models; labels as shareholders | Video-gen scale-up |
Higgsfield is the priced August media-model print. Stability is the rights-alignment print.
Worked numbers (company figures)
Setup: $76M new. Company total under Akkaraju: $232M.
Move: if you subtract, prior Akkaraju-era capital is $156M (equity + notes). That arithmetic is only as good as the company’s “two equity rounds and convertible notes” bag.
Punch: no 2026 mark. A $76M check into an unnamed post-money can be a down, flat, or up round. Do not back-solve it.
When not to use this page
- Do not publish the 2022 $101M as August 2026 news.
- Do not treat $232M as lifetime capital since 2019.
- Do not invent a valuation.
- Do not say Lightspeed led this round — the company lists Lightspeed on the existing roster.
Where to go next
Entity: Stability AI. Priced August media round: Higgsfield $5.4B. Coatue’s other August print: Databricks $190B. Month: August 2026 VC news. Directory: /directory.
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