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title: "Did Stability AI Raise Again in 2026? $76M Series B"
description: "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."
date: 2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["2026-vc-news", "startup-funding", "venture-capital", "artificial-intelligence", "market-analysis"]
source: https://venturecapitaltracker.com/2026-stability-ai-76m-series-b-entertainment
---

# 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](/fund/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](/startup/higgsfield) already occupies August’s generative-media allocation at **$5.4B**.

## What happened

| Field | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Company | Stability AI ([stability.ai](https://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](/fund/coatue), [Greycroft](/fund/greycroft), Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt |
| Existing roster named (not called new money) | [Lightspeed](/fund/lightspeed-venture-partners-nyc), 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](/2026-higgsfield-400m-series-b-5-4b) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| August 2026 print | **$76M** Series B | **$400M** Series B @ **$5.4B** |
| Valuation | **None disclosed** | Priced |
| New capital type | Rights holders + AMD Ventures | DST; [Menlo](/fund/menlo-ventures) 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](/startup/stability-ai). Priced August media round: [Higgsfield $5.4B](/2026-higgsfield-400m-series-b-5-4b). Coatue’s other August print: [Databricks $190B](/2026-databricks-5b-190b-coatue). Month: [August 2026 VC news](/2026-august-vc-news). Directory: [/directory](/directory).

**By:** [Venture Capital Tracker](https://venturecapitaltracker.com/editorial-policy)
**Last updated:** August 26, 2026

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