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Pumpkinseed is Unlocking Biology’s Most Valuable Hidden Data Layer
Pumpkinseed, the biology mining company, led by Dr. Jennifer Dionne, Dr. Jack Hu, and Nhat Vu, has announced a $20 million Series A funding round to scale its protein sequencing platform, mining biological functional data at a resolution and scale that simply hasn't existed before. The Series A round was co-led by NfX and Future Ventures, with participation from Base4 Capital, ADVentures, and Stanford, among others. The funding will accelerate Pumpkinseed’s deSIPHR platform t
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CopilotKit Raises $27 Million Series A
CopilotKit, the enterprise agentic frontend stack, led by Atai Barkai, Uli Barkai, and the team, has raised a $27 Million Series A funding led by Glilot Capital, NfX, and SignalFire, with participation from Discovery Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, DVC, Abstraction Capital, 97212 Ventures, Deep Acre, J-Ventures, Gurtin Ventures, and Fresh Fund. CopilotKit is now used by a majority of Fortune 500 companies, powering millions of daily agent-user interactions in production.
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Moment Energy Raises $40 Million to Scale North America's Largest Second-Life Batteries and Drive Energy Independence
Moment Energy, building a new standard for commercial-scale energy storage, led by Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan, Gabriel Soares, and Gurmesh Sidhu, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over $100 million. The Series B round was led by Evok Innovations, with participation from Liberty Mutual Investments, W23 Global Fund, and Acario (the corporate venture capital arm of Tokyo Gas), joining the company’s major investors, Amazon’s
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How Corvera is Building the Agentic Operating System for CPG Brands
Corvera, building AI supply chain management for fast-growing brands, led by Christopher Kong, Dirk Breeuwer, Matthew Collins, and Berk Güngör, has raised $4.2M in Seed funding, led by 6 Degrees Capital, with participation from 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, Multimodal Ventures, Y Combinator, and a group of exceptional angels and operators, including Jake Heller (Casetext), Christian Mathiesen (Frigade), and Dom Maskell (Runna). The funding round marks the close of
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Animoca Brands Launches up to US$ 10 Million Investment Programme for Developers Building with Persistent AI Agent Platform Minds
Animoca Brands, building, investing, and accelerating the most impactful technologies and ecosystems, turning participants into stakeholders, led by Yat Siu and the team, has announced it will invest up to US$10 million in select projects building with Minds by Animoca Brands (“Minds”), also known as Animoca Minds. Minds is a persistent AI agent platform that simplifies deployment while maintaining full control and customization for both builders and general users, enabling t
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Pumpkinseed is Unlocking Biology’s Most Valuable Hidden Data Layer
Pumpkinseed, the biology mining company, led by Dr. Jennifer Dionne, Dr. Jack Hu, and Nhat Vu, has announced a $20 million Series A funding round to scale its protein sequencing platform, mining biological functional data at a resolution and scale that simply hasn't existed before. The Series A round was co-led by NfX and Future Ventures, with participation from Base4 Capital, ADVentures, and Stanford, among others. The funding will accelerate Pumpkinseed’s deSIPHR platform t
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CopilotKit Raises $27 Million Series A
CopilotKit, the enterprise agentic frontend stack, led by Atai Barkai, Uli Barkai, and the team, has raised a $27 Million Series A funding led by Glilot Capital, NfX, and SignalFire, with participation from Discovery Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, DVC, Abstraction Capital, 97212 Ventures, Deep Acre, J-Ventures, Gurtin Ventures, and Fresh Fund. CopilotKit is now used by a majority of Fortune 500 companies, powering millions of daily agent-user interactions in production.
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CopilotKit Raises $27 Million Series A
CopilotKit, the enterprise agentic frontend stack, led by Atai Barkai, Uli Barkai, and the team, has raised a $27 Million Series A funding led by Glilot Capital, NfX, and SignalFire, with participation from Discovery Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, DVC, Abstraction Capital, 97212 Ventures, Deep Acre, J-Ventures, Gurtin Ventures, and Fresh Fund. CopilotKit is now used by a majority of Fortune 500 companies, powering millions of daily agent-user interactions in production.
How Corvera is Building the Agentic Operating System for CPG Brands
Corvera, building AI supply chain management for fast-growing brands, led by Christopher Kong, Dirk Breeuwer, Matthew Collins, and Berk Güngör, has raised $4.2M in Seed funding, led by 6 Degrees Capital, with participation from 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, Multimodal Ventures, Y Combinator, and a group of exceptional angels and operators, including Jake Heller (Casetext), Christian Mathiesen (Frigade), and Dom Maskell (Runna). The funding round marks the close of
How Auryx is transforming Everyday Earbuds into Continuous Health Monitors
Auryx, turning ordinary earbuds into health sensors through the power of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, led by Erika Bondareva, Kayla-Jade Butkow, and Cecilia Mascolo, has raised $2M in pre-seed funding to build a platform that turns everyday devices, such as earbuds, into continuous health monitors using sound. The round is led by Celero Ventures, with participation from EWOR, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Vento, PurposeTech, and additional institutional and angel in
Elastics Raises $2 Million Pre-Seed for AI Agents for Prediction Markets
Elastics, building AI agents for prediction markets, led by Szymon Pawica and Mateusz Brodowicz, has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Frst with participation from angels from across the AI and crypto world, among them the co-founders of ElevenLabs, partners from XBTO, an a16z scout, and a co-founder of RedStone. Elastics has secured funding to democratize quantitative trading by equipping individual traders with AI-powered tools for automated resea
How Sierra is Building Better Customer Experiences
Sierra, helping businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI, led by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, has raised $950 million from new and existing investors, led by Tiger Global and GV, at a valuation of over $15 billion. Sierra now has more than $1 billion to invest in becoming the global standard for companies wanting to transform their customer experiences with AI. Confidence in the opportunity for Sierra and its customers has grown significantly. From ju
DeepInfra Raises $107 Million Series B to Scale Inference Infrastructure
DeepInfra, helping you accelerate your AI with developer-friendly APIs designed for performance and cost-efficiency, led by Nikola Borisov, Georgios Papoutsis, and Yessenzhar Kanapin, has raised $107 million in Series B funding to scale DeepInfra's inference cloud and expand its global capacity, co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik, with participation from A.Capital Ventures, Crescent Cove, Felicis, NVIDIA, Peak6, Samsung Next, Supermicro, and Upper90. Inference is becoming
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Rogo Announces $160 Million Series D Round
Rogo, building the best AI analyst on Wall Street, led by Gabriel Stengel, John Willett and Tumas Rackaitis, has raised $160M in new financing, led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, BoxGroup, Mantis VC, Jack Altman, Evantic, and Positive Sum. Rogo is now deployed across many of the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, and private equity firms, reflecting strong early adoption
Elastics Raises $2 Million Pre-Seed for AI Agents for Prediction Markets
Elastics, building AI agents for prediction markets, led by Szymon Pawica and Mateusz Brodowicz, has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by Frst with participation from angels from across the AI and crypto world, among them the co-founders of ElevenLabs, partners from XBTO, an a16z scout, and a co-founder of RedStone. Elastics has secured funding to democratize quantitative trading by equipping individual traders with AI-powered tools for automated resea
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Rogo Announces $160 Million Series D Round
Rogo, building the best AI analyst on Wall Street, led by Gabriel Stengel, John Willett and Tumas Rackaitis, has raised $160M in new financing, led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, BoxGroup, Mantis VC, Jack Altman, Evantic, and Positive Sum. Rogo is now deployed across many of the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, and private equity firms, reflecting strong early adoption
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Fixed Income’s $140 Trillion Plumbing Problem
(A Guest Post by Marius Jurgilas, CEO of Axiology) Fixed income is the quiet giant of capital markets. With more than $140 trillion outstanding globally, it dwarfs listed equities and funds, governments, banks, and corporates. And yet the machinery that moves it has not meaningfully changed in a generation. The whole bond lifecycle (issuance, custody, trading, settlement) still runs on siloed systems stitched together by intermediaries, message queues, and overnight batch pro
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Marloo has Raised a $10 Million USD Seed Round Led by Blackbird Ventures
Marloo, building AI for financial advisers, led by Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, has raised a $10 M USD seed round led by Blackbird Ventures, with participation from Icehouse Ventures. Blackbird is doubling down on its pre-seed investment from six months ago, bringing the total funding to $12.7 M USD in twelve months. “Every advisory firm stands to benefit from a partner like Marloo. Early adoption is already translating into greater capacity, stronger compli
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How Agentic AI Is Transforming Private Credit - From Manual Servicing to Autonomous Operations
This is a guest post by Daniel Liechtenstein, Co-Founder & CEO @ Hypercore. Private credit has grown into a $2+ trillion asset class. The capital is there. The deals are there. What hasn't kept pace is how firms actually run their operations once the money is deployed. That gap is becoming harder to ignore. The Hidden Operational Problem. Most private credit firms run loan servicing through a combination of spreadsheets, legacy systems, and manual workflows. Payment waterfall
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spektr Raises $20M Series A to Eliminate Manual Compliance Work Across Financial Services
spektr , building AI agents that handle the manual work behind compliance, led by Mikkel Skarnager , Ciprian Florescu , Jan-Erik Wagner , and Jeremy Joly , has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by NEA , with continued participation from Northzone , Seedcamp , and PreSeed Ventures . The new capital will go toward expanding our AI platform and accelerating adoption across financial institutions globally. The Problem Being Solved Compliance teams at banks and finan
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DVC Launches Live State of AI Report — A Continuously Updated View of the AI Economy
DVC, a San Francisco–based VC focused on AI startups, led by Marina Davidova, Nick Davidov, and the team, has released its State of AI Report — a living, continuously updated analysis of the artificial intelligence landscape. According to the report, the market is mispricing AI. The State of AI report is based on a framework developed by DVC co-founders Nick Davidov and Marina Davidova over more than a decade of AI investing. It combines meta-analysis of leading industry rese
Haun Ventures Announces Fund II
Huan Ventures, backing the founders building the future of finance, led by Katie Haun and the team, has announced Fund II. Founders redefining financial assets operate at the frontier of evolving rules and technology. As capital and trust systems shift, those who can navigate both will shape the next era. Haun Ventures is backing this opportunity with $1 billion in new funds to support builders of the emerging economy. The Opportunity Ahead Core financial services, money, pay
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DVC Launches Live State of AI Report — A Continuously Updated View of the AI Economy
DVC, a San Francisco–based VC focused on AI startups, led by Marina Davidova, Nick Davidov, and the team, has released its State of AI Report — a living, continuously updated analysis of the artificial intelligence landscape. According to the report, the market is mispricing AI. The State of AI report is based on a framework developed by DVC co-founders Nick Davidov and Marina Davidova over more than a decade of AI investing. It combines meta-analysis of leading industry rese
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Eka Ventures Announces Fund II
Eka Ventures , investing in founders creating positive system change, led by Camilla Dolan, Jon Coker, and the team, has announced the final close of its second fund at $107m (£80m), making Eka the UK’s largest early-stage impact VC investing across health, wellbeing, and sustainability. Why These Sectors, and Why Now Eka’s thesis is that the biggest opportunities lie in reshaping core systems, health, consumption, and access, where impact and returns align. Three shifts dri
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London-Based Venture Capital Firm SuperSeed has Launched Fund III to Support “Physical AI” Startups
SuperSeed , backing technical founders bringing AI to the physical world, led by Mads Jensen and Dan Bowyer, has launched Fund III, a seed-stage fund focused on Physical AI startups. The fund has secured a cornerstone commitment of up to £50 million from the British Business Bank , which invested through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme. Christine Hockley of British Business Bank said SuperSeed’s backing will attract private capital to support applied physical AI comp
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Breakout Ventures is Building the Future Powered by Science with the Launch of Fund III
Breakout Ventures , partnering with exceptional founders scaling scientific innovation to build the breakout companies powering our future, led by Managing Partners Lindy Fishburne and Julia Moore, has announced the close of its $114M Fund III. Given Breakout’s ongoing success, the new fund received strong support from returning investors, including Cortes Capital , S-Cubed Capital , The Kraft Group, Pinegrove Venture Partners , and an affiliate of LH Capital, and is pleased
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Elaia is Backing Europe's Deep Tech Future with Deep Tech Seed Fund 3
Elaia , backing ambitious tech entrepreneurs with capital and care, has closed its third deep tech seed fund (DTS3) at €134 million, double the size of its previous deep tech seed funds. Developed in partnership with leading European research institutions, including PSL , INRIA , CNRS , the Barcelona Supercomputing Center , and also the Max Planck Foundation , DTS3 reflects strong investor confidence in Europe's growing deep tech ecosystem. Since its first close of €60 mi
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Moment Energy Raises $40 Million to Scale North America's Largest Second-Life Batteries and Drive Energy Independence
Moment Energy, building a new standard for commercial-scale energy storage, led by Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan, Gabriel Soares, and Gurmesh Sidhu, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over $100 million. The Series B round was led by Evok Innovations, with participation from Liberty Mutual Investments, W23 Global Fund, and Acario (the corporate venture capital arm of Tokyo Gas), joining the company’s major investors, Amazon’s
Moment Energy Raises $40 Million to Scale North America's Largest Second-Life Batteries and Drive Energy Independence
Moment Energy, building a new standard for commercial-scale energy storage, led by Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan, Gabriel Soares, and Gurmesh Sidhu, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over $100 million. The Series B round was led by Evok Innovations, with participation from Liberty Mutual Investments, W23 Global Fund, and Acario (the corporate venture capital arm of Tokyo Gas), joining the company’s major investors, Amazon’s
Pumpkinseed is Unlocking Biology’s Most Valuable Hidden Data Layer
Pumpkinseed, the biology mining company, led by Dr. Jennifer Dionne, Dr. Jack Hu, and Nhat Vu, has announced a $20 million Series A funding round to scale its protein sequencing platform, mining biological functional data at a resolution and scale that simply hasn't existed before. The Series A round was co-led by NfX and Future Ventures, with participation from Base4 Capital, ADVentures, and Stanford, among others. The funding will accelerate Pumpkinseed’s deSIPHR platform t
QuantWare is Building the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Processors at an Industrial Scale
QuantWare, hyper-scaling quantum computers with our VIO™ 3D scaling architecture, led by Matthijs Rijlaarsdam, Alessandro Bruno, and the team, has raised a $178 million (€152 million) Series B equity funding following the announcement of VIO-40K™, a quantum processor architecture for 10,000 qubits, 100x larger than the state of the art today. New investors joining the round include Intel Capital, IQT, and ETF Partners, with existing investors participating, including FORWARD.
Quantum Computing Scale-Up eleQtron Closes One of the World's Largest Series A Financing Rounds, Raising €57 Million
eleQtron, a spin-off from the Quantum Optics Chair at the University of Siegen, developing a freely programmable, scalable quantum computer, led by Jan Leisse and Michael Johanning, has closed a €57 million Series A funding round led by Schwarz Digits(the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group) with participation from EIC Fund and existing investors such as Earlybird. New investors include the French VC firm Ankaa Ventures, the laser equipment specialist Precitec, and t
Quantum Machines Acquires QHarbor and Opens Delft Office to Deepen European Quantum Footprint
Quantum Machines, building Quantum Orchestration: the platform that powers quantum breakthroughs and accelerates the path towards the new age of quantum computing, led by Dr. Itamar Sivan, Dr. Yonatan Cohen, Dr. Nissim Ofek, and the team, has announced the acquisition of Dutch company QHarbor and the opening of a new office in Delft, the Netherlands. The move establishes a local presence within one of Europe’s leading quantum ecosystems and supports the expansion of Quantum
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General Analysis is Building the Security Arsenal for the Agentic Era
General Analysis, providing a comprehensive suite of AI safety tools, including run-time guardrails, red-teaming frameworks, interpretability techniques, observability, and more, led by Rez Havaei, Maximilian Li, and Rex Liu, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Altos Ventures with participation from 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Leonis Capital, & strategic funds & angels. Agent Security Is an Empirical Problem Traditional software is deterministic and
General Analysis is Building the Security Arsenal for the Agentic Era
General Analysis, providing a comprehensive suite of AI safety tools, including run-time guardrails, red-teaming frameworks, interpretability techniques, observability, and more, led by Rez Havaei, Maximilian Li, and Rex Liu, has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Altos Ventures with participation from 645 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Leonis Capital, & strategic funds & angels. Agent Security Is an Empirical Problem Traditional software is deterministic and
How MindFort is Securing the World's Software in the AI Era
MindFort, building the security agent company, led by Brandon Veiseh and Akul Gupta, has raised a $3M+ seed round, led by Soma Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, CRV, Sandwith Ventures, and Blast. The raise comes as Anthropic showcases AI systems capable of uncovering thousands of hidden vulnerabilities, highlighting the limits of traditional security approaches. MindFort addresses this shift with an autonomous security engineer built for continuous,
TENEX.AI Announces $250M in Series B
TENEX.AI , the first leading AI-native, human-led SOC that triages every alert, investigates every threat, and frees your team for strategic work, led by Eric Foster, Venkata Koppaka, Ryan Shreve, Edwin Solis, Jan Grzymala-Busse, Elias “Lou” Manousos, and the team, has raised $250M in Series B funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners . Nearly one year since entering the market, TENEX has achieved rapid growth, generating $25M+ in contracted revenue, scaling headcount by 3
XBOW Accelerates the Expansion of its Autonomous Hacker Platform
XBOW , transforming application security with AI-powered continuous offense, led by Oege de Moor, Nico Waisman, Niroshan Rajadurai, Jonaki Egenolf, and others, has raised $120 million in Series C financing led by DFJ Growth and Northzone , valuing the company at over $1 Billion. As part of DFJ Growth’s investment, Ramin Sayar will join XBOW’s board, bringing experience to scale enterprise growth. The round also includes Sofina , Alkeon Capital , and existing investors Alt
How Manifold is Securing AI Agents on Endpoints
Manifold , building runtime security for AI agents on endpoints, led by Oleksandr Yaremchuk, Neal Swaelens, and Michael McKenna, has announced the close of an $8 million seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Cherry Ventures , Rain Capital , and Modern Technical Fund , and notable angel investors including former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and former Google DeepMind CISO Vijay Bolina. The funding will accelerate development of Manifold’s agentic AI D
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