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Axiom Space Completes NASA’s Critical Design Review for Next-Generation Spacesuit
Axiom Space has closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), a major milestone on the path toward NASA certifying the new spacesuit for flight. Completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) confirms that a component’s design and manufacturing plans are ready for production and qualification testing. The review evaluates supporting documentation, including engineering drawings, structural analyses, component packages, and protot
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Axle Raises $9M to Modernize How Banks Match Institutional Investors with Public Companies
Axle, the operating system for sell-side corporate access, led by Sam Shapiro and the team, has announced a $9 million funding round led by Eniac and Bonfire Ventures, along with Teamworthy Ventures (founded by GLG Co-founder Thomas Lehrman). The company’s platform manages and automates the workflows banks use to connect institutional investors with the management teams, analysts, and experts who drive their investment decisions. The Problem: Corporate access remains a critic
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Axiom Space Completes NASA’s Critical Design Review for Next-Generation Spacesuit
Axiom Space has closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), a major milestone on the path toward NASA certifying the new spacesuit for flight. Completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) confirms that a component’s design and manufacturing plans are ready for production and qualification testing. The review evaluates supporting documentation, including engineering drawings, structural analyses, component packages, and protot
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only and is ordered by launch date/time, from earliest to latest.) 1) Reason Machines: Founded by Adi Singh and Sven Myhre, Reason Machines is the world's most effective agent on cost per task. Know More At: reasonmachines.com 2) Mnemonic Labs: Founded by Videh Seksaria and Kalki Seksaria, Mnemonic Labs is training a foundation model for quant trading. Know More At: mnemoniclabs.ai 3) Constor: Founded by Dany Delacour, Elio Delac
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only and is ordered by launch date/time, from earliest to latest.) 1) Blank Bio: Founded by Jonny Hsu, Philip Fradkin, and Ian Shi, Blank Bio is an applied AI research lab focused on increasing the success rates of clinical trials. Know More At: blank.bio 2) Acyclic Labs: Founded by Ram Vinjamuri and Varun Latthe, Acyclic Labs is building the foundations for AI swarms. Know More At: acyclic.dev 3) Caveman: Founded by Julius Bruss
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PsiQuantum and AMD Collaborate to Build the Computing Foundation for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing
PsiQuantum, building and deploying the future of computing with the world’s first useful quantum computers, led by Victor Peng and the team, has announced an expanded strategic partnership with AMD to co-design the computing infrastructure required to operate utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers and the hybrid applications that combine quantum, high-performance, and AI computing. AMD and PsiQuantum are expanding their collaboration beyond FPGA technology to integra
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Nectar Launches an AI Agent to Automate Creator Discovery and Outreach for Brands
Nectar, an AI-native OS for social, led by sisters Misbah Uraizee and Farah Uraizee, is launching a new AI agent designed to take a lot of the manual work out of influencer marketing, from finding the right creators to contacting them, managing partnerships, and tracking results. Nectar has launched its Creator Agent, an AI-powered tool that automates influencer discovery, outreach, and campaign management. The agent searches more than 300 million creator profiles, analyzes
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Nectar Launches an AI Agent to Automate Creator Discovery and Outreach for Brands
Nectar, an AI-native OS for social, led by sisters Misbah Uraizee and Farah Uraizee, is launching a new AI agent designed to take a lot of the manual work out of influencer marketing, from finding the right creators to contacting them, managing partnerships, and tracking results. Nectar has launched its Creator Agent, an AI-powered tool that automates influencer discovery, outreach, and campaign management. The agent searches more than 300 million creator profiles, analyzes
Physical AI Leader Agile Robots Raises $500 Million Series F at $8.5 Billion Valuation to Accelerate Global Growth
Agile Robots, which builds and deploys Physical AI, humanoid and mobile robots, robotic arms and hands, and the software and AI models behind them, to help industrial customers automate tasks that have traditionally relied on human dexterity and judgment, led by Dr. Zhaopeng Chen, has closed a Series F funding round, raising $500 million at a valuation of $8.5 billion. The round brings the company's total invested capital to $2 billion. CEO and Founder Dr. Zhaopeng Chen said:
Plurai Introduces Plurai Simulation: The Self-Improving Layer for AI Agents
Plurai, building the self-improvement layer for AI agents, led by Dr. Ilan Kadar and Dr. Elad Levi, has introduced Plurai Simulation, the self-improving layer for AI agents. It’s free to start for every AI engineer, and it has also announced $13M in seed funding led by Team8, with U&I, Velocity, and Mercer, and more than 20 angels and industry leaders. They include CyberArk founder Udi Mokady and Reah Miyara, Senior Director of Google Models at Google Cloud and former model e
Snapp Emerges with $4.6M to Build the World’s Most Intelligent Sports AI for Teams & Fans
Snapp, a startup building the most intelligent sports AI, led by Shawn Tsao, Min Park, Andrew Tamura, and Alex Marshall, has announced $4.6M in funding from a16z Speedrun, Dorm Room Fund, Gold House Ventures, House Fund, and Valia Ventures. Snapp has an enterprise platform to help professional sports teams make better decisions, along with consumer apps that have more than 20,000 users. The funding round also included Jason Wang and Andy Zhang (Caviar founders), Prakash Janak
Skyfall AI Introduces the World’s First AI CEO, Steve, and Announces $2M Startup Program
Skyfall AI, enabling the future where an entire business can operate autonomously, led by Sam Pasupalak, Kaheer Suleman, and Sumit Pasupalak, has introduced Steve, the world’s first autonomous business harness that can run digital businesses such as SaaS products and Shopify apps. Alongside the launch of Steve, Skyfall AI is announcing a $2 million Startup Program, through which Skyfall will acquire 5 additional startups to run completely autonomously on Steve. Steve, the wor
Lightberry Lumi is the First and Only American Humanoid Robot Company cleared by the U.S. Government
Lightberry, the company building autonomous robots that live and work around people, led by Ali Attar, Stephan Koenigstorfer, and Stephan Wolski, announced that its Lumi line of humanoids has received approval from the U.S. Department of War (DoW). Following the approval, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau exempted Lumi from the FCC Covered List, making Lightberry the first, and currently only, humanoid robotics company to receive the exemption. How Lumi Ear
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Axle Raises $9M to Modernize How Banks Match Institutional Investors with Public Companies
Axle, the operating system for sell-side corporate access, led by Sam Shapiro and the team, has announced a $9 million funding round led by Eniac and Bonfire Ventures, along with Teamworthy Ventures (founded by GLG Co-founder Thomas Lehrman). The company’s platform manages and automates the workflows banks use to connect institutional investors with the management teams, analysts, and experts who drive their investment decisions. The Problem: Corporate access remains a critic
Axle Raises $9M to Modernize How Banks Match Institutional Investors with Public Companies
Axle, the operating system for sell-side corporate access, led by Sam Shapiro and the team, has announced a $9 million funding round led by Eniac and Bonfire Ventures, along with Teamworthy Ventures (founded by GLG Co-founder Thomas Lehrman). The company’s platform manages and automates the workflows banks use to connect institutional investors with the management teams, analysts, and experts who drive their investment decisions. The Problem: Corporate access remains a critic
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Snapp Emerges with $4.6M to Build the World’s Most Intelligent Sports AI for Teams & Fans
Snapp, a startup building the most intelligent sports AI, led by Shawn Tsao, Min Park, Andrew Tamura, and Alex Marshall, has announced $4.6M in funding from a16z Speedrun, Dorm Room Fund, Gold House Ventures, House Fund, and Valia Ventures. Snapp has an enterprise platform to help professional sports teams make better decisions, along with consumer apps that have more than 20,000 users. The funding round also included Jason Wang and Andy Zhang (Caviar founders), Prakash Janak
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Collective Raises $100M for Full-Stack AI Financial OS Powering the Solopreneur Revolution
Collective, the AI-native financial operating system for Businesses-of-One, led by Hooman Radfar, Ugur Kaner, and Bugra Akcay, has announced $100 million in new funding to accelerate its mission of building the agentic financial OS for solo entrepreneurs. The round includes a $40 million Series B led by General Catalyst, QED, and Gradient Ventures, along with Intuit Ventures, FT Partners, and SemperVirens, alongside a $60 million growth facility from General Catalyst’s Custom
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Nevis Raises $70M Series B Led by EQT Ventures
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CapitalOS, a money orchestration layer for B2B platforms, led by Nir Dremer and Matan Goldschmiedt, has announced $21.9M in Series A funding led by LGVP, along with WEX Venture Capital, Group 11, Great North Ventures, Night Capital, and existing investors. CapitalOS allows any platform to quickly offer its users and agents world-class financial products, including credit cards, wallets, bill pay, and more. The Platform Payment Problem: Expensive and Complicated Payment Build
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Norwest Announces Norwest 18: $4 Billion Fund for Every Stage of Your Journey
Norwest, a global, multi-stage investment firm, has announced Norwest 18, a $4 billion fund and the largest in the firm’s history, bringing our total capital under management to $18 billion. The fund continues Norwest’s global, multi-stage investment strategy, backing companies across venture and growth equity stages in three core sectors: technology, healthcare and consumer. It aims to support entrepreneurs at every stage, from early-stage founders to established, bootstrap
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Inspired Capital Announces Fund IV
Inspired Capital, backing founders building an inspired future, led by Alexa von Tobel, Penny Pritzker, Mark Batsiyan, Lucy Deland, and the team, announced Inspired Fund IV, a $450M fund committed to backing the 0.01% of early-stage founders who are bending the world to their reality. Inspired reflects on seven years of backing founders with capital, operational expertise, and networks, reporting 10 unicorns and 10 portfolio companies generating over $100 million in revenue,
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Pear VC Announces $333M Fund V
Pear VC, building a venture firm that truly puts founders first, led by Mar Hershenson and Pejman Nozad, has announced Fund V, a $333 million fund that brings Pear to more than $1.1 billion in assets under management, along with three new General Partners. Building Around Founders. Pear has backed founders behind companies such as DoorDash, Gusto, Guardant Health, Vanta, and Listen Labs, supporting businesses that have gone public, become category leaders, or been acquired.
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Graduate Ventures Launches Second Seed Fund of €125 Million
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Volition Capital Announces Closing of Volition Capital Fund VI with $950 Million in LP Capital Commitments.
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Axiom Space Completes NASA’s Critical Design Review for Next-Generation Spacesuit
Axiom Space has closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), a major milestone on the path toward NASA certifying the new spacesuit for flight. Completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) confirms that a component’s design and manufacturing plans are ready for production and qualification testing. The review evaluates supporting documentation, including engineering drawings, structural analyses, component packages, and protot
Axiom Space Completes NASA’s Critical Design Review for Next-Generation Spacesuit
Axiom Space has closed out the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), a major milestone on the path toward NASA certifying the new spacesuit for flight. Completing the Critical Design Review (CDR) confirms that a component’s design and manufacturing plans are ready for production and qualification testing. The review evaluates supporting documentation, including engineering drawings, structural analyses, component packages, and protot
PsiQuantum and AMD Collaborate to Build the Computing Foundation for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing
PsiQuantum, building and deploying the future of computing with the world’s first useful quantum computers, led by Victor Peng and the team, has announced an expanded strategic partnership with AMD to co-design the computing infrastructure required to operate utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers and the hybrid applications that combine quantum, high-performance, and AI computing. AMD and PsiQuantum are expanding their collaboration beyond FPGA technology to integra
Physical AI Leader Agile Robots Raises $500 Million Series F at $8.5 Billion Valuation to Accelerate Global Growth
Agile Robots, which builds and deploys Physical AI, humanoid and mobile robots, robotic arms and hands, and the software and AI models behind them, to help industrial customers automate tasks that have traditionally relied on human dexterity and judgment, led by Dr. Zhaopeng Chen, has closed a Series F funding round, raising $500 million at a valuation of $8.5 billion. The round brings the company's total invested capital to $2 billion. CEO and Founder Dr. Zhaopeng Chen said:
ENPULSION and Orbion Join Forces to Bring Flight-Proven Hall-Effect Propulsion to European Satellite Manufacturers
Enpulsion, delivering fast, configurable mobility at the lowest risk to your mission, led by Dr. Alexander Reissner and the team, and Orbion Space Technology, a York Space Systems (NYSE: YSS) company, have announced a partnership that will give European satellite manufacturers access to Orbion's proven Hall-effect thrusters alongside ENPULSION's established FEEP propulsion systems. The partnership strengthens ENPULSION’s Spacecraft Mobility Backbone by combining its precise,
Dow, X-energy Proposed SMR Project Receives Historic Construction Permit for Nuclear-Powered Industrial Site
X-Energy, building energy solutions that empower the unprecedented led by Dr. Kam Ghaffarian, J. Clay Sell, and the team, and Dow (NYSE: DOW), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Long Mott Energy, LLC (“Dow”), announced that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”) has approved the Construction Permit Application (“CPA”) for the proposed construction of four Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors at Dow’s UCC Seadrift Operations site in Texas. The CPA approval marks a
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Upwind, the cloud and AI security platform, led by Amiram Shachar, Tal Zur, and Lavi Ferdman, has announced $400M Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from each and every one of Upwind’s investors: Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts, Craft, Salesforce Ventures, Alta Park, Picture Capital, Swish Ventures, Cerca Partners, TCV, Penny Jar, Leaders Fund, and new investor Canapi Ventures. This additional capital will fuel product and engineering growth
Upwind Raises $400M Series C to Build The Cloud & AI Security Platform
Upwind, the cloud and AI security platform, led by Amiram Shachar, Tal Zur, and Lavi Ferdman, has announced $400M Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from each and every one of Upwind’s investors: Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts, Craft, Salesforce Ventures, Alta Park, Picture Capital, Swish Ventures, Cerca Partners, TCV, Penny Jar, Leaders Fund, and new investor Canapi Ventures. This additional capital will fuel product and engineering growth
As AI Worms Threaten Smart Devices, Nothreat Tests A Digital Twin To Spot Early Attacks
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Infisical Raises $40M Series B led by Elad Gil: Building Security Infrastructure for the AI Era
Infisical, the security infrastructure developers love, led by Vlad Matsiiako, Tony Dang, and Maidul Islam, has raised a $40M Series B at a $600M valuation. The round was led by Elad Gil, doubling down since our Series A, with Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures tripling down. Gallery Ventures, Pace Capital, Dynamic Capital, and other investors also participated. Infisical's Growth and Financial Position. Infisical has grown while remaining focused on solving customer problems
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Reco, an AI agent security platform, led by Ofer Klein, Gal Nakash, Dr. Tal Shapira, and Bob Horn, has raised an additional $55 million, including a strategic investment from AT&T Ventures and support from new investors Forestay and Quadrille Capital. It brings Reco’s total funding to $140 million and will support expansion across sales, partnerships, channels, and customer support. The new capital follows growing adoption of AI agents across enterprise applications, collabor
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