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Respan Announces Span-01: The First Hyper-Parallel Reasoning Classifier Built for Unseen Challenges
Respan, defining the next generation of the agent infra stack, led by Andy Li, Raymond Huang, and Hendrix Liu, has announced Span-01: the first hyper-parallel reasoning classifier built for unseen challenges. Jev demonstrated that decision models can make classification fast and practical. The next challenge is whether a classifier can preserve frontier-level reasoning, generalize across unseen definitions, and carry that reasoning through long traces in a single forward pass
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Ray Enters the US Betting on a 300,000-Station Charging Market thats Just 3% Built
Ray, a power bank-sharing company, led by Roman Averianov and Igor Kosolap, has announced its launch in New York City, the launchpad for its expansion into the US market. The company is piloting 120 charging stations across Manhattan. Users rent a portable power bank by tapping a bank card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay at the station and return it to any other station in the network. Founded in 2025 by Igor Kosolap and Roman Averianov, Ray operates battery-charging stations acros
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Dextr AI Raises $6.7M to Scale Hospitality AI Workforce Already Driving 49x ROI Through Its Forward-Deployed Approach
Dextr AI, the AI agent platform for hospitality, led by Sajid Shariff and Scott Arnold, has announced a $6.7 million seed round led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Foundation Capital. The company’s platform allows any hospitality employee to control teams of specialized agents across voice AI, guest management, back office operations, staff management, sales, and marketing. Dextr AI’s platform automates more than one million interactions each month across hundr
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Ando Announces its Launch
Ando, the modern team messaging platform, led by Sara Du, has announced its launch with $20M in funding. Language came before software. Early fascination with untranslatable words, obscure emotions, and Wittgenstein’s ideas about the limits of language eventually became a broader interest in how humans use language to coordinate across time, distance, and institutions. That perspective became especially relevant with the arrival of LLMs. For the first time, non-human systems
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Neko Health Opens Its Doors In New York
Neko Health, which designs and engineers its own hardware, software, and clinical protocols in-house, powering a next-generation health scan, led by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, has opened its doors in New York. Neko Health has opened its first U.S. clinic at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, following a waitlist of more than 25,000 New Yorkers. Founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Neko has already served more than 100,000 members across Sweden and the UK. Its
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Respan Announces Span-01: The First Hyper-Parallel Reasoning Classifier Built for Unseen Challenges
Respan, defining the next generation of the agent infra stack, led by Andy Li, Raymond Huang, and Hendrix Liu, has announced Span-01: the first hyper-parallel reasoning classifier built for unseen challenges. Jev demonstrated that decision models can make classification fast and practical. The next challenge is whether a classifier can preserve frontier-level reasoning, generalize across unseen definitions, and carry that reasoning through long traces in a single forward pass
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Dextr AI Raises $6.7M to Scale Hospitality AI Workforce Already Driving 49x ROI Through Its Forward-Deployed Approach
Dextr AI, the AI agent platform for hospitality, led by Sajid Shariff and Scott Arnold, has announced a $6.7 million seed round led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Foundation Capital. The company’s platform allows any hospitality employee to control teams of specialized agents across voice AI, guest management, back office operations, staff management, sales, and marketing. Dextr AI’s platform automates more than one million interactions each month across hundr
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Dextr AI Raises $6.7M to Scale Hospitality AI Workforce Already Driving 49x ROI Through Its Forward-Deployed Approach
Dextr AI, the AI agent platform for hospitality, led by Sajid Shariff and Scott Arnold, has announced a $6.7 million seed round led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Foundation Capital. The company’s platform allows any hospitality employee to control teams of specialized agents across voice AI, guest management, back office operations, staff management, sales, and marketing. Dextr AI’s platform automates more than one million interactions each month across hundr
Ando Announces its Launch
Ando, the modern team messaging platform, led by Sara Du, has announced its launch with $20M in funding. Language came before software. Early fascination with untranslatable words, obscure emotions, and Wittgenstein’s ideas about the limits of language eventually became a broader interest in how humans use language to coordinate across time, distance, and institutions. That perspective became especially relevant with the arrival of LLMs. For the first time, non-human systems
Respan Announces Span-01: The First Hyper-Parallel Reasoning Classifier Built for Unseen Challenges
Respan, defining the next generation of the agent infra stack, led by Andy Li, Raymond Huang, and Hendrix Liu, has announced Span-01: the first hyper-parallel reasoning classifier built for unseen challenges. Jev demonstrated that decision models can make classification fast and practical. The next challenge is whether a classifier can preserve frontier-level reasoning, generalize across unseen definitions, and carry that reasoning through long traces in a single forward pass
Ema Raises $77M Series B to Put AI Employees to Work at Enterprises
Ema, building agentic AI Employees for HR, IT, and Finance, led by Surojit Chatterjee and the team, has raised $77 million in Series B, led by Creaegis, with Accel, S32, and Prosus all increasing their existing investments in Ema. The round brings the total funding to $140 million, and more than quadruples the valuation from the previous round. "Our customers are not running experiments; they are running their HR, IT, and Finance operations on AI Employees at a scale of milli
Firecrawl Introduces Alexandria and Announces $75M Series B
Firecrawl, powering AI agents with clean web data, led by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, has raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, with participation by Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle, and Offline Ventures. The company has also introduced Alexandria, which brings official data providers, custom connectors, and Firecrawl’s own indexes together with the live web, so your AI agent has one way to find a source, s
Confido Raises $55M Series B to Scale the AI Operating System for CPG Brands
Confido, building AI infra for CPG brands, led by Kara Holinski and Justin Hunter, has raised $55M Series B, bringing total funding to $77M. The round is led by Insight Partners and drew participation from returning investors Footwork, Trenches Capital, Watchfire, Barrel Ventures, and Y Combinator. What Confido Has Built. Since 2022, Confido has built a unified system for CPG brands, bringing commercial and financial workflows onto a shared data foundation. Cash application,
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Integral, connecting accounting, tax, and payroll in one AI-native firm, led by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, has announced an €18m Series A, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with its existing investors Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures joining again. It brings the total capital raised by Integral to more than €30m. Where Integral Started. Before Integral, the founders spent years building banking and payments products for businesses and sp
Numeral Raises $100 Million Series C to Expand AI-Powered Tax Compliance Across Industries
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Intermezzo, a global payroll infrastructure company, led by Siddharth Ram and Kumar Ramanathan, has announced $10M in funding from Crosslink Capital, UKG Ventures, CloudPay, Character Capital, Behind Genius Ventures, and leading angel investors. International Payroll. Intermezzo is building a platform to automate the complex and highly regulated world of international payroll. Its founding team brings a combined 40 years of experience leading technical and product teams at In
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Limetax, a Berlin-based technology company bringing established tax firms together in one group and building a proprietary AI agent platform for them, led by Christoph Gamon, Christoph Dansard, and Maximilian Meyer, has raised €36 million in financing, comprising €6 million in pre-seed equity led by Motive Partners, with participation from Activant and Heliad, and a €30 million acquisition facility from a consortium of German banks. Angel investors include former German Finan
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Uplift Ventures, an independently operating venture platform investing in and building startups shaping the future of Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI, and Logistics, has announced the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe's next generation of Deep Tech founders. Uplift Ventures plans to back up to 20 startups and selected Deep Tech funds from its €100 million fund, creating a unique global network that benefits founders long
Uplift Ventures Launches €100 Million Fund to Back Europe's Next Generation of Product-Obsessed Deep Tech Founders
Uplift Ventures, an independently operating venture platform investing in and building startups shaping the future of Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI, and Logistics, has announced the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe's next generation of Deep Tech founders. Uplift Ventures plans to back up to 20 startups and selected Deep Tech funds from its €100 million fund, creating a unique global network that benefits founders long
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Volition Capital Announces Closing of Volition Capital Fund VI with $950 Million in LP Capital Commitments.
Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity investment firm, led by Managing Partners Sean Cantwell, Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, and the team, has announced the final closing of Volition Capital Fund VI, L.P. (“Fund VI”) at its hard cap of $950 million in limited partner capital commitments. Fund VI was oversubscribed, reflecting strong demand from both its existing and new limited partners. Fund VI is the largest fund raised by Volition to date, bringing its total assets
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Seed Capital Closes €130M Fund V to Expand into Sweden and Cybersecurity
Seed Capital, partnering with remarkable entrepreneurs across the Nordics to build global winners, led by General Partners Lars Andersen, Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack, Geeta Schmidt, and Managing Partner Christian Brøndum, has now completed its fifth fund, valued at €130 million. Fund V will make investments ranging from €3 million to €6 million across 15 to 17 companies, from the seed stage through to Series A. The firm continues to concentrate on fintech and AI-driven B2B servi
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Molten Ventures Announces £175m First Close of Molten Growth Fund with Cornerstone Commitment from British Business Bank
Molten Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with a 20-year track record of investing in and developing disruptive high-growth technology companies across Europe and the UK, announced the first close of its Growth Fund at £175 million. The British Business Bank has committed £75 million as a cornerstone investor. Molten Ventures has committed the remaining £100 million of the first close and will continue to seek additional investors, with the aim of growing the Growth Fun
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Andreessen Horowitz Announces 'The Machine Age Fund'
A16Z has raised $1.1B for its newest fund: the Machine Age Fund, aimed at accelerating the physical buildout of AI. The fund reflects a broader push to bring AI into the physical world, positioning the technology as a powerful tool for solving real-world problems and expanding abundance. AI’s capabilities are expanding rapidly, with systems moving from chat to reasoning, coding, and increasingly complex forms of knowledge work. As utility and demand grow, so does the computat
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Einride Founders Launch Navisalma to Turn Europe's Frontier Technologies into Global Leaders
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Neko Health Opens Its Doors In New York
Neko Health, which designs and engineers its own hardware, software, and clinical protocols in-house, powering a next-generation health scan, led by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, has opened its doors in New York. Neko Health has opened its first U.S. clinic at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, following a waitlist of more than 25,000 New Yorkers. Founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Neko has already served more than 100,000 members across Sweden and the UK. Its
Neko Health Opens Its Doors In New York
Neko Health, which designs and engineers its own hardware, software, and clinical protocols in-house, powering a next-generation health scan, led by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, has opened its doors in New York. Neko Health has opened its first U.S. clinic at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo, following a waitlist of more than 25,000 New Yorkers. Founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Neko has already served more than 100,000 members across Sweden and the UK. Its
Basecamp Research Raises $140M to Advance AI-Designed Therapeutics
Basecamp Research, training frontier AI models for therapeutic design, led by Glen Gowers, PhD, Oliver Vince, PhD, and the team, has announced a $140M Series C financing to train a new generation of EDEN models and advance a pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics towards clinical development. The oversubscribed round was led by S32, with participation from Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, Catalio Capital Management, European Tech Collective, Firebrand River Capital, Inception Fu
Hubble Network Opens Satellite Coverage to All Bluetooth Devices, Raises $200 Million Series C at $1.6 Billion Valuation
Hubble Network, building a low earth orbit satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled device can connect to, led by Alex Haro, Ben Wild, John Kim, has raised a $200 million Series C led by Smith Point Capital, with Seraphim, Carthona Capital, Earthshot Ventures, Y Combinator, and RPM Ventures. It brings total funding to $300 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, one year after a $70 million Series B. The Hubble satellite network enables devices with Bluetooth® LE radios to c
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TEKEVER Raises US$580 Million, Reaching a US$6.4 Billion Valuation in Series D Round Led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford
Tekever, Europe’s leading provider of AI-powered autonomous systems, led by Ricardo Mendes, and the team, has announced the first close of its US$580 million Series D financing, valuing the company at US$6.4 billion. UC Investments (University of California) and Baillie Gifford led the round, which marks UC Investments’ first direct investment in Europe. Merlyn Advisors joined TEKEVER as a new strategic investor alongside continued investment from shareholders Crescent Cove,
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Comp AI, an AI-native compliance and security company helping businesses navigate an increasingly complex security landscape, led by Lewis Carhart, Claudio Fuentes, and Mariano Fuentes, has announced a $34 million Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. The raise follows a period of rapid growth since the company’s January 2025 founding, with Comp AI achieving 15x ARR growth year-over-year and now serving more than 1,000 customers. The funding will accelerate the com
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