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NOX METALS Raises an $11.5M Seed Round to Reindustrialize America
NOX METALS, reindustrializing America by supplying manufacturers at warp speeds and lower prices, led by Zane Hengsperger, has raised a $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion, with participation from Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator Collective, DTX, Alumni Ventures, and others. Reviving American Manufacturing. For decades, domestic manufacturing in the United States has steadily declined, eroding the nation’s ability to produce at scale and contr
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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.
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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
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NOX METALS Raises an $11.5M Seed Round to Reindustrialize America
NOX METALS, reindustrializing America by supplying manufacturers at warp speeds and lower prices, led by Zane Hengsperger, has raised a $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion, with participation from Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator Collective, DTX, Alumni Ventures, and others. Reviving American Manufacturing. For decades, domestic manufacturing in the United States has steadily declined, eroding the nation’s ability to produce at scale and contr
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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
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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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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.
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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
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
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
TensorWave Raises $350 Million Series B at $1.55B Valuation to Expand Global AMD-Powered AI Infrastructure
TensorWave, the cloud built for the next wave of AI, led by Darrick Horton, Piotr Tomasik, Jeff Tatarchuk, and the team, has raised $350 million in Series B funding, co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, with continued participation from Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Partners, and Western Frontier. Expanding AMD-Powered AI Infrastructure. The new funding will help TensorWave expand its global AI compute footprint, including deployment of next-generation AMD Instinct™ MI355X
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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
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
Jun 2
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
May 29
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
May 27
Primer is Building AI-Native Infrastructure that the Next Generation of Payments and Finance Teams will Run On
Primer, unified intelligence for payments, led by Gabriel Le Roux and the team, has raised $100M Series C led by Sofina, with participation from Peak XV Partners and all existing investors. AI is reshaping payments and finance by enabling faster decision-making, earlier issue detection, and more confident real-time actions. However, its effectiveness depends on unified data, which has historically been fragmented across processors, acquirers, fraud tools, and finance systems,
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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
Jun 2
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
May 13
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
May 11
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
May 9
Deep Tech
Anduril and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Expand Partnership With 200 Additional Extended Range Sentry Towers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will purchase more than 200 Extended Range Sentry Towers (XRST) from Anduril to expand autonomous situational awareness across a much larger portion of the Southwest Border. The $363 million contract builds on more than seven years of collaboration between Anduril Industries and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, during which Anduril has delivered and supported hundreds of autonomous systems. Scaling Autonomous Border Surveillance. B
NOX METALS Raises an $11.5M Seed Round to Reindustrialize America
NOX METALS, reindustrializing America by supplying manufacturers at warp speeds and lower prices, led by Zane Hengsperger, has raised a $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion, with participation from Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy, Operator Collective, DTX, Alumni Ventures, and others. Reviving American Manufacturing. For decades, domestic manufacturing in the United States has steadily declined, eroding the nation’s ability to produce at scale and contr
Anduril and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Expand Partnership With 200 Additional Extended Range Sentry Towers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will purchase more than 200 Extended Range Sentry Towers (XRST) from Anduril to expand autonomous situational awareness across a much larger portion of the Southwest Border. The $363 million contract builds on more than seven years of collaboration between Anduril Industries and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, during which Anduril has delivered and supported hundreds of autonomous systems. Scaling Autonomous Border Surveillance. B
Arkadia Space and Reflex Aerospace Sign a Commercial Agreement for Green Propulsion System on Upcoming Satellite Mission
Arkadia Space, making space exploration sustainable, accessible, and innovative, led by Francho García, Sergio Soler, Ismael Gutiérrez, and Francisco Espinosa, has entered into a strategic partnership with Reflex Aerospace, desiging and developing adaptable satellites, led by Walter Ballheimer, Felix Motzki, and Dennis Moore, to integrate Arkadia’s green propulsion technology into an upcoming Reflex mission, marking an important milestone for both companies and for the Europe
Aavuus Secures Pre-Seed Funding from Maki.vc to Bring a New Generation of Space Debris Tracking to Market
Aavuus, a Finnish deep-tech company building infrastructure for a new era of orbital safety, led by Joonas Jokela, Jouni Peltoniemi, and Brian Dunne, has secured a pre-seed investment from Maki.vc. Improving Space Traffic Awareness. Aavuus is building a global network of ground-based laser tracking stations designed to provide significantly more precise orbital data than today's commercial tracking systems. The company is targeting a growing challenge in Low Earth Orbit: the
Invisible-Light Labs Closes €1.5 Million Pre-Seed Round
Invisible-Light Labs, a TU Wien spin-off developing infrared analysis technology for nanoscale materials, led by Dr. Josiane P. Lafleur, MBA, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Silvan Schmid, Dr. Hajrudin Bešić, M.Sc., and Dr. Niklas Luhmann, M.Sc., has closed a €1.5 million pre-seed round co-led by XISTA Science Ventures and aws Gründungsfonds, with participation from Fund F. Accelerating Commercialization And Product Expansion. The funding will support the global commercialization of the com
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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
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
How Socket is Securing AI-Driven Software Development
Socket, transforming how organizations protect their applications from the rising threat of software supply chain attacks, led by Feross Aboukhadijeh and the team, has raised $60 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, and Capital One Ventures, bringing the total funding to $125 million. AI has fundamentally changed how engineering teams write and ship code, dramatically increasing the
Ocean Emerges from Stealth to Protect Enterprises from AI-Powered Email Attacks
Ocean, an agentic email security platform, led by Shay Shwartz and Oran Moyal, has announced its launch from stealth with $28 million in total funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Picture Capital and Cerca Partners. Additional angel investors include Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael (Armis), and Dor Knafo (former CEO of Axis Security and General Partner at Cyberstarts), among other leading angel investors. Ocean is introdu
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