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Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, unveiled GHOST: a new globally deployable containerized launch system to enable suborbital and orbital launches from anywhere in the world. GHOST transforms Rocket Lab’s Electron and HASTE rockets into a mobile, launch-anywhere capability for multi-launch campaigns and national security missions. The system fits within standard shipping containers and includes rockets, launch infrastructure, ground support, an
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Axle Announces $17.5M Series A Led by Base10
Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled t
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Cytix Raises $7M To Take On Cyber Risk Posed By AI-Driven Software Development
Cytix, the security decision layer for software change led by Ben Armstrong and Thomas Ballin, has raised $7M, led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from existing investors, Auriga Cyber Ventures and NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance, which is managed by PXN Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II). The Challenge. Software change is becoming a growing security risk as AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and continuous delivery outpac
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.) 1) Gamgee: Founded by Paul Conyngham, Gamgee is scalable personalised cancer treatment. Know More At: gamgee.io 2) Markov: Founded by Dev Mandal and Harish Ashok, Markov sources high-quality tasks and data to train the next generation of computer-use AI models. Know More At: markovstudios.com 3) OS3: Founded by Rishabh Chanana and Chris Hailey, OS3 is buil
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Y Combinator Launches of the Week
(This round-up is for informational purposes only, and in order of the date/time of the launch, from earliest to latest.) 1) Derya: Founded by Oguzhan Karaca and Mert Turna, Derya is the AI-native logistics office. Know More At: usederya.com 2) Exosat: Founded by Edward Ge, Exosat is building thousands of low-cost communication satellites to provide a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink. Know More At: exosat.com 3) Osseus: Founded by Anish Mariathasan and Ayush Patel,
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Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, unveiled GHOST: a new globally deployable containerized launch system to enable suborbital and orbital launches from anywhere in the world. GHOST transforms Rocket Lab’s Electron and HASTE rockets into a mobile, launch-anywhere capability for multi-launch campaigns and national security missions. The system fits within standard shipping containers and includes rockets, launch infrastructure, ground support, an
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Axle Announces $17.5M Series A Led by Base10
Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled t
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Axle Announces $17.5M Series A Led by Base10
Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled t
River AI Raises $1.1B in Funding Across Series Seed and Series A
River AI, building a new stack for personal AI led by Igor Babuschkin and the team, has announced $1.1 billion in funding across Series Seed and Series A, led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with strategic investment from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures and participation from Y Combinator and Temasek. The round accelerates the development of powerful personal AI that understands users and works on their behalf, while putting ownership of that intelligence in the hands of the people
Discovered Materials has Announced its Launch with a $9M Seed Round
Discovered Materials, building AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips, led by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, has raised a $9M seed round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV, and angels like Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram and Thariq Shihipar. Intelligence Has a Heat Problem. AI chips face a growing thermal challenge. Modern GPUs can generate heat fluxes of around 140 W/cm², exceeding the heat experienced by a space shuttle
Lumilens Emerges from Stealth with More Than $900 Million in Funding to Break AI’s Connectivity Constraint
Lumilens, the connectivity platform for AI infrastructure led by Ankur Singla, Ritesh Kapahi, Samuel Liu, Dave Friedman, Ted Schmidt, and the team, has emerged from stealth, having been founded to solve the growing networking bottlenecks limiting AI scale. In just two years after its founding, the company is commercially shipping its first product into production AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement, and announced more than $700 million in new fundi
Naïve Raises $28.5M Series A to Build Autonomous Company Infrastructure
Naive, a Palo Alto-based AI lab building the infrastructure AI agents need to run entire businesses, led by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, has announced a $28.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Tim Zheng (Apollo), JD Sherman (former HubSpot), Gert Lanckriet (Amazon), Robert Chatwani (Docusign), and Zachary Sims (Codecademy). The Problem: Apps Ship in an Afternoon, Bu
How Malachyte is Building Behavior Intelligence for "Cold Start" Retail
Malachyte, the first e-commerce AI Platform that adapts in real time, responding to consumer behavior instantly, led by Ian Anderson, Siddharth Motwani, and Shivaditya Sinha, has raised $10M in seed funding, co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient Ventures, with participation from Harpoon Ventures, to bring this vision to life. Before founding Malachyte, co-founders Ian Anderson and his co-founder spent a decade at Spotify working on personalization. Their work inclu
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Axle Announces $17.5M Series A Led by Base10
Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled t
Axle Announces $17.5M Series A Led by Base10
Axle, building AI agents to automate insurance workflows led by Cameron Duncan, Nihar Parikh, and Armaan Sikand, has announced $17.5M in Series A funding led by Base10 Partners, with continued investment from Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, and participation from Stage2 Capital, Chris Bayley (Co-Founder and CEO of Cover Genius), and other industry angel investors, joined by existing investors, including the early team at Plaid. Over the past six months, Axle has tripled t
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River Markets Announces $8.5M Seed Round
River Markets, building prime brokerage for prediction markets, led by Oscar Levy and Antonin Parrot, has announced $8.5M seed round led by Haun Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures, UFO Holdings, Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), TENET, Humbition, Kima Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Stack Asset Management, Perpetual Strategies, Mark Kornfilt, Jacob Fortinsky (Novig), and other amazing angel investors from Citadel, Google, HRT, Tower Research Capita
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Ellis Emerges from Stealth with More than $10 Million to Build the AI-Native Operating Foundation for Private Credit
Ellis, the AI-native operations platform for private credit, led by Ryan Williams, has launched today with more than $10 million in seed funding closed. First Round Capital led the financing with participation from a group of prominent operators and investors, including Kearny Jackson, 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla Ventures, Slow Ventures, Wilshire Lane, Westbound, Collide Capital, Gallery Ventures, Ariel Alternatives CEO Mellody Hobson, Thrive Capital Founder Josh Kus
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Natural is Building Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents
Natural, powering agentic payments, led by Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, has raised a $30M Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued participation by all major investors. The round was raised when the company was 193 days old and brings Natural’s total funding to over $40M. The round was supported by Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, Restive, SV Angel, Darragh Buckley (CEO of Increase), Pablo Palafox (CEO of HappyRobot), Pau
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Halo Fund Leads $70M Investment to Accelerate the Launch of Flex Global
Flex, the financial home for business owners globally, led by Zaid Rahman and the team, has announced a $70 million Series B1, led by Ryan Smith and Ryan Sweeney’s Halo Fund with participation from Portage Ventures, Wellington, Crosslink Capital, 53 Stations, Titanium Ventures, Spice, Florida Funders, and others. The round comes just months after the company's $60 million Series B in December 2025. Annualized revenue increased 3x since then as Flex accelerated private banking
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Halo Fund Leads $70M Investment to Accelerate the Launch of Flex Global
Flex, the financial home for business owners globally, led by Zaid Rahman and the team, has announced a $70 million Series B1, led by Ryan Smith and Ryan Sweeney’s Halo Fund with participation from Portage Ventures, Wellington, Crosslink Capital, 53 Stations, Titanium Ventures, Spice, Florida Funders, and others. The round comes just months after the company's $60 million Series B in December 2025. Annualized revenue increased 3x since then as Flex accelerated private banking
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South Park Commons Announces $575M Fund IV
South Park Commons, helping the world's most talented technologists discover and build their life's work, announced $575M Fund IV. Since 2016, the firm’s thesis has been that exceptional outcomes emerge when high talent density meets innate curiosity. Its approach focuses on identifying intensely curious builders, bringing them together at the earliest and often most isolating stage of the startup journey, and supporting them through the uncertainty of company building. The f
South Park Commons Announces $575M Fund IV
South Park Commons, helping the world's most talented technologists discover and build their life's work, announced $575M Fund IV. Since 2016, the firm’s thesis has been that exceptional outcomes emerge when high talent density meets innate curiosity. Its approach focuses on identifying intensely curious builders, bringing them together at the earliest and often most isolating stage of the startup journey, and supporting them through the uncertainty of company building. The f
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Highland Europe Raises €1.1B Fund VI to Continue Backing Exceptional Founders at the Growth Stage
Highland Europe, a growth-stage specialist investor, has announced its sixth fund of €1.1B and promoted two new Partners, on the back of generating over €1 billion of liquidity in 2026. The firm will continue backing Europe’s next generation of technology leaders. Founded in 2012, Highland has raised €3.75 billion across six funds, backed more than 80 companies, and completed 30 exits. Notable outcomes include the $3 billion sale of Nexthink, Huel's agreed acquisition by Dano
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SuperCharger Ventures Announces €10M Fund I to Back EdTech and Future-of-Work Startups
SuperCharger Ventures, the global ecosystem for EdTech startups led by Janos Barberis and the team, has announced the launch of Fund I. It will invest in EdTech and Future-of-Work companies worldwide, with a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage startups. Initial investments in selected startups will be up to €250,000, with follow-on funding ranging from €500,000 to €1.5 million. The fund is backed by family offices and high-net-worth investors, with 90% of first-close commitments
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Paradigm has Raised Its Fourth Fund: $1.2B
Paradigm, a technology investment firm led by Matt Huang and the team, has raised its fourth fund: $1.2B to back the most ambitious builders at the frontier of technology. Founded in 2018, Paradigm invests in frontier technologies spanning crypto, AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing, combining research and product development with venture investing. The firm backs founders across stages, with investments in companies such as Zipline, SendCutSend, True Anomaly, and Nous R
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Expeditions Closes €197M for Fund II to Shape the Future of European Security
Expeditions, investing in the future of European security, led by Mikołaj Firlej and Stanisław Kastory, has announced the final close of its second fund at €197M. Expeditions’ Fund II is investing in the technologies and founders that are shaping the future of European defence and strengthening its sovereignty, helping to define Europe’s role in the world over the next century. Founded in 2021 by defence technology and autonomous warfare experts Dr. Mikolaj Firlej and Stanis
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Climentum Capital Launches Fund II
Climentum Capital, investing in climate hard tech companies shaping a sustainable, resilient, and competitive Europe, led by General Partners Doerte Hirschberg, Dr. Jennifer Jacobs Dungs, Morten Halborg, and Stefan Maard, has announced the close of the first €60 million of Fund II, matching the full size of Fund I. The new fund will continue backing hard tech for a new Europe, investing in climate hard tech companies shaping a sustainable, resilient, and competitive industria
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Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, unveiled GHOST: a new globally deployable containerized launch system to enable suborbital and orbital launches from anywhere in the world. GHOST transforms Rocket Lab’s Electron and HASTE rockets into a mobile, launch-anywhere capability for multi-launch campaigns and national security missions. The system fits within standard shipping containers and includes rockets, launch infrastructure, ground support, an
Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch services and space systems, unveiled GHOST: a new globally deployable containerized launch system to enable suborbital and orbital launches from anywhere in the world. GHOST transforms Rocket Lab’s Electron and HASTE rockets into a mobile, launch-anywhere capability for multi-launch campaigns and national security missions. The system fits within standard shipping containers and includes rockets, launch infrastructure, ground support, an
Neros Technologies Raises $250M Series C at $2.5B Valuation to Scale Autonomous and Interceptor Drone Programs
Neros, building unmanned superiority at scale led by Soren Monroe-Anderson and Olaf Hichwa, has raised $250M Series C at a post-money valuation of $2.5B, co-led by Sequoia Capital and American Strategic Technology Fund (ASTF), with participation by Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Thiel Capital, Spark Capital, and Dylan Field. The funding will accelerate production of Neros’ new drone programs, including Archer AI, an autonomous FPV platform, and Bandit, a
Cambridge Aerospace Announces $300M Series C Raise
Cambridge Aerospace, the air defence company led by Steven Barrett, Chris Sylvan, and Junaid Hussain, announced the closure of its Series C round with $300M dollars of investment at a $3.4B valuation, led by DFJ Growth and supported by Lux, Accel, Lakestar, Never Lift, Ora Global, and Elad Gil & Co. The financing will support Cambridge Aerospace’s continued growth by expanding manufacturing capacity to meet existing and new contracts, while advancing current products and deve
Lumilens Emerges from Stealth with More Than $900 Million in Funding to Break AI’s Connectivity Constraint
Lumilens, the connectivity platform for AI infrastructure led by Ankur Singla, Ritesh Kapahi, Samuel Liu, Dave Friedman, Ted Schmidt, and the team, has emerged from stealth, having been founded to solve the growing networking bottlenecks limiting AI scale. In just two years after its founding, the company is commercially shipping its first product into production AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement, and announced more than $700 million in new fundi
Hadrian Raises $1.37B Series D to Build Highly Automated Factories to Accelerate America's Industrial Renewal
Hadrian, the advanced manufacturing company building highly automated factories for America, led by Chris Power and the team, has announced $1.37 billion in new equity financing co-led by WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour Partners, Valor Equity Partners, 137 Ventures, and Baillie Gifford. JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group joined as anchor co-lead, investing through the firm's Security and Resiliency Initiative, a program dedicated to strengthening the ind
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Cytix Raises $7M To Take On Cyber Risk Posed By AI-Driven Software Development
Cytix, the security decision layer for software change led by Ben Armstrong and Thomas Ballin, has raised $7M, led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from existing investors, Auriga Cyber Ventures and NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance, which is managed by PXN Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II). The Challenge. Software change is becoming a growing security risk as AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and continuous delivery outpac
Cytix Raises $7M To Take On Cyber Risk Posed By AI-Driven Software Development
Cytix, the security decision layer for software change led by Ben Armstrong and Thomas Ballin, has raised $7M, led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from existing investors, Auriga Cyber Ventures and NPIF II – PXN Equity Finance, which is managed by PXN Ventures as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II). The Challenge. Software change is becoming a growing security risk as AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and continuous delivery outpac
Glow Announces Its Launch
Glow, the endpoint AI company led by Roi Tiger, Omer Singer, Ophir Arie, and the team, has announced its launch with $180M in funding, led by Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Index Ventures, Swish Ventures, Holly Ventures, Operator Collective, and Lux Capital. Traditional endpoint security has long forced organizations to choose between reacting after threats emerge or restricting business operations to reduce risk. As AI
Neo Launches with $100M to Secure AI Software Across the Enterprise
Neo, building real-time protection for the agentic enterprise, led by Nicholas Warner, Shlomi Salem, and Eran Shirazi, has emerged from stealth with $100M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures. Neo was founded by former executives and engineers from SentinelOne, Wiz and Palo Alto Networks. The company's platform provides security operations (SecOps) teams with inventory management, posture
Dawnguard Launches Platform to Build Secure Cloud Systems from Day Zero, with Fresh Funding and US Office
Dawnguard, building the next-gen platform that makes security easy from day one, led by Mahdi Abdulrazak, Kim van Lavieren, Sarah van Lavieren, and David van der Hoeven, has announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, making it available to organizations looking to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production. Dawnguard announced the opening of its New York City office and an additional $3.3 million
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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