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NeuralTrust Raises $20 Million to Secure the Growing Swarm of AI Agents in the Enterprise
NeuralTrust, the platform for AI & agent security, led by Joan Vendrell and Victor García, has announced a $20 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain's State Research Agency (AEI). The round will fund engineering,
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Comand AI Raises €32 Million Series A to Scale AI-Native Command-And-Control Platform Across NATO
Comand AI, building an AI-native command for defense and security operations, led by Loïc Mougeolle, Marie I., Quentin Le Pape, and Paul Mustière, has announced a €32 million Series A funding round at Eurosatory, led by Blossom Capital, with strategic investment from Saab, and with Expeditions renewing its participation in the company. The round will support the expansion of Comand AI’s AI-native command-and-control platform, Prevail, across NATO markets and into new operatio
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How Pramaana Labs is Building a Compiler for Mission-Critical AI
Pramaana Labs, building the verification layer of AI for accelerated trust and super-intelligence, led by Ranjan Rajagopalan, Krishnan Raghavan, and Sanjay Ganapathy, has raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Accel, Boldcap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and Unbound. Closing AI's Trust Gap. AI can generate answers, but in high-stakes domains such as tax, law, healthcare, finance, and governance, accuracy alone is not enoug
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Odyssey Raises $310 Million to Accelerate World Simulation
Odyssey, an AI lab pioneering general world models, led by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has announced its $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, GV, AMD Ventures, EQT, IQT, and others. They join existing investors including Jeff Dean, Elad Gil, Qasar Younis, Kyle Vogt, Garry Tan, alongside researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines. Building the Foundation for World Models. Mo
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Vali Health Emerges Out of Stealth to Build Responsible AI Infrastructure for Home Care Agencies
Vali Health, building the future of home care operations, led by Serena Dang and Jason Wu, has emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding from Bonfire Ventures, Supernode, and Comma Capital, along with Jacquelyn Kung, an industry veteran who built two of the largest software platforms for home care. Vali’s AI agents enable home care agencies to automate workforce management and coordination, while maintaining trust and safety front and center. Modernizing Operations in H
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NeuralTrust Raises $20 Million to Secure the Growing Swarm of AI Agents in the Enterprise
NeuralTrust, the platform for AI & agent security, led by Joan Vendrell and Victor García, has announced a $20 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain's State Research Agency (AEI). The round will fund engineering,
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How Pramaana Labs is Building a Compiler for Mission-Critical AI
Pramaana Labs, building the verification layer of AI for accelerated trust and super-intelligence, led by Ranjan Rajagopalan, Krishnan Raghavan, and Sanjay Ganapathy, has raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Accel, Boldcap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and Unbound. Closing AI's Trust Gap. AI can generate answers, but in high-stakes domains such as tax, law, healthcare, finance, and governance, accuracy alone is not enoug
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How Pramaana Labs is Building a Compiler for Mission-Critical AI
Pramaana Labs, building the verification layer of AI for accelerated trust and super-intelligence, led by Ranjan Rajagopalan, Krishnan Raghavan, and Sanjay Ganapathy, has raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Accel, Boldcap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and Unbound. Closing AI's Trust Gap. AI can generate answers, but in high-stakes domains such as tax, law, healthcare, finance, and governance, accuracy alone is not enoug
Odyssey Raises $310 Million to Accelerate World Simulation
Odyssey, an AI lab pioneering general world models, led by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has announced its $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, GV, AMD Ventures, EQT, IQT, and others. They join existing investors including Jeff Dean, Elad Gil, Qasar Younis, Kyle Vogt, Garry Tan, alongside researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines. Building the Foundation for World Models. Mo
Causa Prima Exits Stealth with $10 Million to Build the First Agent-to-Agent AI Network for B2B Finance
Causa Prima, the agent-to-agent network for finance teams, led by Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing, and Philip Stanislaus, has raised a $10M pre-seed round led by Creandum, with participation from Kfund and HelloWorld, Angel Invest, alongside angel investors from Qonto, Pennylane, SAP, ING, SoFi, LIDL, and DeepMind. On its network, the approvals, disputes, and payment terms that used to bounce between humans and inboxes are handled between AI agents. Building the Financial Network
Cortea Raises €12 Million to Transform Audit Quality with AI
Cortea, building AI audit agents for professional audit firms, led by Valentin Neumann and Philipp Hövelmann, has raised €12 million in seed funding led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, and angel investors including Larry Bradley, former Global Head of Audit at KPMG. Building Trust in AI-Powered Audits. This milestone reflects more than a funding achievement; it highlights a broader transformation underway across the audit profession.
Sakana AI Launches Its First Commercial Product, Sakana Marlin
Sakana AI, building frontier AI in Japan, led by David Ha, Llion Jones, and Ren Ito, has introduced Sakana Marlin, its first commercial product, an autonomous research assistant for business, built on long-horizon reasoning technology. Give it a research topic, and Marlin works autonomously for up to roughly eight hours, crafting a detailed strategy report up to a hundred pages long, along with executive summary slides. Automating Strategic Research. Sakana Marlin is designed
Waniwani Raises $8M Seed Round
Waniwani, the leading revenue and compliance infrastructure for the agentic distribution of financial services, led by Maxime Antoine, Robin Diligent, Raphaël Vullierme, and Luiza Gusmao, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Seedcamp, with participation from Redstone, Plug & Play, Zone II Ventures, OPRTRs Club, and Kima Ventures alongside a group of prominent angel investors. Waniwani has already become the infrastructure of choice for global financial institutions na
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Causa Prima Exits Stealth with $10 Million to Build the First Agent-to-Agent AI Network for B2B Finance
Causa Prima, the agent-to-agent network for finance teams, led by Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing, and Philip Stanislaus, has raised a $10M pre-seed round led by Creandum, with participation from Kfund and HelloWorld, Angel Invest, alongside angel investors from Qonto, Pennylane, SAP, ING, SoFi, LIDL, and DeepMind. On its network, the approvals, disputes, and payment terms that used to bounce between humans and inboxes are handled between AI agents. Building the Financial Network
Causa Prima Exits Stealth with $10 Million to Build the First Agent-to-Agent AI Network for B2B Finance
Causa Prima, the agent-to-agent network for finance teams, led by Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing, and Philip Stanislaus, has raised a $10M pre-seed round led by Creandum, with participation from Kfund and HelloWorld, Angel Invest, alongside angel investors from Qonto, Pennylane, SAP, ING, SoFi, LIDL, and DeepMind. On its network, the approvals, disputes, and payment terms that used to bounce between humans and inboxes are handled between AI agents. Building the Financial Network
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Waniwani Raises $8M Seed Round
Waniwani, the leading revenue and compliance infrastructure for the agentic distribution of financial services, led by Maxime Antoine, Robin Diligent, Raphaël Vullierme, and Luiza Gusmao, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Seedcamp, with participation from Redstone, Plug & Play, Zone II Ventures, OPRTRs Club, and Kima Ventures alongside a group of prominent angel investors. Waniwani has already become the infrastructure of choice for global financial institutions na
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How Capsa AI is Building the AI Operating System for Private Capital
Capsa AI, building the AI intelligence layer private capital has been waiting for, led by Danyal Özdüzenciler and Callum Downie, has announced its $18M Series A, co-led by TX Ventures and Pivot Investment Partners, with participation from Bek Ventures and continued support from Outward VC, Antler, and Cornerstone VC, alongside angel investors, including Paul Forster, co-founder of Indeed. Building Institutional Intelligence For Private Capital. Capsa was founded to solve a
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Gradient Labs Raises $26 Million to Build Specialist AI Agents for Finance
Gradient Labs, building AI for customer operations in finance, led by Dimitri Masin, Danai Antoniou, and 🚀 Neal Lathia, has announced an increased Series A of $26 million, led by new investors Octopus Ventures and CommerzVentures, with follow-on backing from Redpoint Ventures and Exceptional Capital. This funding will help build the foundation for autonomous banking that drastically improves the experience of bank operators and the customers they serve. Reimagining How Banks
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Corgi Reaches $2.6B Valuation With $106M Series B1 Three Weeks After $160M Unicorn Round
Corgi, business insurance at the speed of compute, led by Nico Laqua, Emily Yuan, and the team, has raised a $106 million Series B1 round, led by TCV with participation from Prime Capital, Zone 2 Ventures, Oliver Jung, Leblon Capital, Kindred Ventures, Quadri Ventures, First Order Fund, Vocal Ventures, Nordstar, GSBackers, Repeat Ventures, 8188 Capital, and other strategic investors. The new funding round values Corgi at $2.6 billion and will support the expansion of its ful
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Didit is Building the Infrastructure for Identity and Fraud
Didit, identity and fraud, rebuilt as infrastructure, led by twin brothers Alberto Rosas and Alejandro Rosas, has raised $6 million, bringing the total raised to $7.5 million. This round was backed by Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, SaaSholic, Founders Future, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Fund, Lobster Capital, alongside angels like Tomer London (co-founder of Gusto) and Taro Fukuyama (founder of Fond), and other amazing VCs and angels who joined the round, operator
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Gigascale Capital is Backing Founders Rebuilding the Physical Economy with a New $250 Million Fund
Gigascale Capital, backing early-stage companies rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact, led by Mike Schroepfer and the team, has announced Gigascale Capital Fund I, a $250 million fund to back founders rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact. Climate Impact Starts in the Physical Economy. Most global emissions originate from the physical economy, the energy systems, factories, supply chains, and infrastructure that produce, transport, and consume energ
Pitchdrive Closes Oversubscribed €60 Million Fund IV to Back Europe's AI-Native Founders
Pitchdrive, backing the boldest founders and build alongside them from day one, led by Boris Bogaert, Koen Christiaens, Wim Derkinderen, Jonas Dhaenens, Lorenz Bogaert, and the team, has announced the closing of its fourth fund at €60 million, strengthening its commitment to the Co-founder Capital model. Fund IV is fully privately backed, with no government or institutional money, unusual for a European fund of this size. Strong Investor Demand. The fund attracted significant
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Gigascale Capital is Backing Founders Rebuilding the Physical Economy with a New $250 Million Fund
Gigascale Capital, backing early-stage companies rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact, led by Mike Schroepfer and the team, has announced Gigascale Capital Fund I, a $250 million fund to back founders rebuilding the physical economy for climate impact. Climate Impact Starts in the Physical Economy. Most global emissions originate from the physical economy, the energy systems, factories, supply chains, and infrastructure that produce, transport, and consume energ
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Convective Announces $85 Million Fund II for Disaster Resilience
Convective, investing in systems that keep the world running, led by Bill Clerico, Kat Mañalac, Mike Trapanese, Jay Ribakove, and Amy Brown, has announced $85 Million Fund II for Disaster Resilience. Fund II investments so far span supply chain, manufacturing, forestry, design, and grid resilience and include companies like Drafted, Edge, The Lumber Manufactory, and Voltair, and is backed by LPs like the Arbor Day Foundation, John & Patrick Collison, Pathstone, StepStone Grou
May 22
A* Announces Fund III
A*, guiding outliers from idea to IPO, led by Kevin Hartz, Bennett Siegel, Gautam Gupta, and the team, has announced A* III, a $450 million early-stage fund. A* was founded on a simple idea: becoming a founder’s first believer. Sector-agnostic but deeply specialized in seed investing, A* backs exceptional builders before consensus, traction, or even a product exists. The focus is driven not by market theses, but by conviction. As seed investing becomes increasingly crowded an
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How Early-Stage Investing Is Shifting — From Pattern Matching to Founder Conviction
By Andra Bagdonaitė, General Partner at FIRSTPICK Most early-stage investment decisions are made with almost no data. There's no revenue to analyze. No market share to defend. No proven team history at the specific problem they're now attacking. And yet capital gets deployed, at speed, in volume, based on frameworks built for a world that increasingly no longer exists. The question every serious early-stage investor should be asking right now: what is actually driving convict
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Wisdom Ventures Closes Oversubscribed $77.7 Million Fund II to Advance Tech-Enabled Wellbeing
Wisdom Ventures, a leading early-stage VC fund investing in tech-enabled wellbeing, led by Bradley Horowitz, Cecily Mak, Soren Gordhamer, and the team, announced the close of its oversubscribed $77.7M Fund II. The new raise comes after the successful deployment of its $10 million Fund I. With the new fundraise, Wisdom Ventures will deepen its investment in startups building technologies that advance human resilience and wellbeing at scale. “In an era where AI is reshaping eve
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Comand AI Raises €32 Million Series A to Scale AI-Native Command-And-Control Platform Across NATO
Comand AI, building an AI-native command for defense and security operations, led by Loïc Mougeolle, Marie I., Quentin Le Pape, and Paul Mustière, has announced a €32 million Series A funding round at Eurosatory, led by Blossom Capital, with strategic investment from Saab, and with Expeditions renewing its participation in the company. The round will support the expansion of Comand AI’s AI-native command-and-control platform, Prevail, across NATO markets and into new operatio
Comand AI Raises €32 Million Series A to Scale AI-Native Command-And-Control Platform Across NATO
Comand AI, building an AI-native command for defense and security operations, led by Loïc Mougeolle, Marie I., Quentin Le Pape, and Paul Mustière, has announced a €32 million Series A funding round at Eurosatory, led by Blossom Capital, with strategic investment from Saab, and with Expeditions renewing its participation in the company. The round will support the expansion of Comand AI’s AI-native command-and-control platform, Prevail, across NATO markets and into new operatio
Odyssey Raises $310 Million to Accelerate World Simulation
Odyssey, an AI lab pioneering general world models, led by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has announced its $310 million Series B at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, GV, AMD Ventures, EQT, IQT, and others. They join existing investors including Jeff Dean, Elad Gil, Qasar Younis, Kyle Vogt, Garry Tan, alongside researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, MSL, Recursive, and Thinking Machines. Building the Foundation for World Models. Mo
Dawn Aerospace Closes US$25 Million Series B to Accelerate Global Expansion of Reusable Space Transportation
Dawn Aerospace, building a scalable, sustainable space transportation network, with the frequency and reliability of aviation to seamlessly connect the Earth and space economies, led by Stefan Powell, Jeroen Wink, James Powell, Robert Werner, and Tobias Knop, has announced the close of its Series B funding round, raising $25 million at a $195 million post-money valuation. The round was led by US-based VC Balerion Space Ventures. Participants include Mana Ventures (US), ANA Fu
Katalyst Space Raises $12 Million to Send a Space Robot to GEO for Satellite Servicing
Katalyst Space, developing next-gen satellite and mission designs that break through the long cycle times, rigid architectures, and inflexibility in mission planning that dominate the space industry, led by Ghonhee Lee, Gavin Petit, and the team, has raised $12 million, led by Geodesic Capital, with significant participation from Fortitude Ventures and other investors to develop Katalyst’s NEXUS robotic spacecraft and expand satellite servicing to multi-orbit, multi-mission o
REGENT Completes the World's First Seaglider Manufacturing Facility, Anchoring America's Lead in Maritime Innovation
REGENT Craft, the developer and manufacturer of Seaglider vessels, led by Billy Thalheimer, Mike Klinker, and the team, has announced the completion of the world's first Seaglider Manufacturing Facility, located at 1 Seaglider Way in Quonset Business Park, North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The milestone was unveiled at the Reindustrialize conference in Detroit, where REGENT introduced a new 3D model and immersive experience that allows visitors to virtually explore the productio
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NeuralTrust Raises $20 Million to Secure the Growing Swarm of AI Agents in the Enterprise
NeuralTrust, the platform for AI & agent security, led by Joan Vendrell and Victor García, has announced a $20 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain's State Research Agency (AEI). The round will fund engineering,
NeuralTrust Raises $20 Million to Secure the Growing Swarm of AI Agents in the Enterprise
NeuralTrust, the platform for AI & agent security, led by Joan Vendrell and Victor García, has announced a $20 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust is also backed by public funding from the European Innovation Council and Spain's State Research Agency (AEI). The round will fund engineering,
Ent Emerges from Stealth to Bring Prevention Back to Cybersecurity
Ent, the intent-aware security platform powering the AI-native enterprise, extending endpoint security into a real-time layer of prevention across human and AI-driven work, Elias(Lou)Manousos and Brandon Dixon, has emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed financing led by Decibel, with participation from Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Preventing Cyber Threats Before They Become Incidents. Ent is pioneer
NewCore Emerges from Stealth to Rebuild Workforce Identity for the Agentic Era
NewCore, the security-first identity platform built for humans and AI agents, led by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, has emerged from stealth and has raised $66 million from Cyberstarts, Index Ventures, and Evolution Equity Partners. It is led by a founding team of cybersecurity and enterprise-IT veterans whose prior exits include Check Point's acquisition of Dome9. Identity has emerged as the primary attack surface within modern enterprises. Many of the large
Cyera is Building The Trust Layer for Enterprise AI
Cyera, the AI security platform, led by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, Yonatan Itai, and the team, has announced its Series G: $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts and Temasek, in addition to all existing investors, including Accel, AT&T Ventures, Blackstone, Coatue, Spark Capital, among others. Building The Trust Layer For AI. Cyera was founded to help enterprises understand what sensitive data they hav
Didit is Building the Infrastructure for Identity and Fraud
Didit, identity and fraud, rebuilt as infrastructure, led by twin brothers Alberto Rosas and Alejandro Rosas, has raised $6 million, bringing the total raised to $7.5 million. This round was backed by Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, SaaSholic, Founders Future, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Fund, Lobster Capital, alongside angels like Tomer London (co-founder of Gusto) and Taro Fukuyama (founder of Fond), and other amazing VCs and angels who joined the round, operator
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