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Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
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With €5M Series A Raised, IVEX Aims to Bring AI-Driven On-Road Automotive Safety Testing To The US and Asia
IVEX, a deep-tech startup developing technology for automotive safety testing, led by Mario Torres and the team, has raised €5M in a Series A funding round to accelerate its engineering roadmap and expand its presence in North America and Asia. The round was backed by existing investors The Faktory and Dedicated.lu, alongside private investors. IVEX will use the funding to expand its coverage of NCAP protocols, scale its data-processing platform, and enter new automotive mark
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Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
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Lightfield Announces $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Lightfield, the AI-native CRM, led by Keith Peiris, Pete Nichols, Henri Liriani, Jack Reed, and the team, has announced a $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Since launching last November, Lightfield has signed up more than 5,000 companies and become the system of record for fast-growing businesses, with teams migrating entire Salesforce implementations to the platform. The funding will support further growth and expand the range of tasks Lightfield’s AI agent can perfo
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Clay Raises $115M to be the AI Growth Engine for Every Company
Clay, helping you build systems to grow revenue, led by Kareem Amin and Varun Anand, has raised $115M in Series D funding at a $7.1B valuation, following 4x revenue growth in 2025. Wellington led the round, with participation from Sequoia, Stepstone, a16z perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution. More than 17,000 companies, including 80% of the Forbes AI50 and customers such as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Visa,
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Limetax Raises €36 Million to Build Germany’s Agentic-First Accounting & Tax Group
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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Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
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Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
Lightfield Announces $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Lightfield, the AI-native CRM, led by Keith Peiris, Pete Nichols, Henri Liriani, Jack Reed, and the team, has announced a $47M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Since launching last November, Lightfield has signed up more than 5,000 companies and become the system of record for fast-growing businesses, with teams migrating entire Salesforce implementations to the platform. The funding will support further growth and expand the range of tasks Lightfield’s AI agent can perfo
How Forus is Building the AI Network for Medicine
Forus, accelerating medicine for the people, led by Sahir Jaggi and the team, has raised $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bain Capital Ventures, with every existing institutional investor reinvesting, including Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Avra, Human Capital, Neo, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel. Forus has now raised more than $300 million in total funding to build the AI network for medicine. Medicine
Antioch Raises $32M to Bring Software Speed to Physical AI Development
Antioch, the simulation platform for robotics and autonomy, led by Harry Mellsop, Alex Langshur, Michael Calvey, and Collin Schlager, has raised $32 million to bring software speed to physical AI development. Together with the $8.5 million seed round announced earlier this year, this brings the total funding raised to $40.5 million. Greylock General Partner Saam Motamedi joins the company's board. “Software-speed innovation in the physical world will be the foundation of the
Cognition Announces its Series E Funding
Cognition, developer of the first autonomous software engineer, led by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, has raised over $2B at a $48B valuation. The round was led by new investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, alongside existing investors Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir. Other investors in the round include Benchmark, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, Lightspeed, Altimeter, Bond Capital, Meritech, Atreides, Valor, T. Rowe Price, Lux, 8VC, D1, 137 Ventures
OpenAI Solves the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI says an internal AI system has produced a solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The proof argues that the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations can develop a singularity in finite time and includes both a written proof and a formalization in Lean. The problem, unresolved for roughly 90 years, asks whether smooth three-dimensional fluid motion can remain smooth indefinitely. OpenAI says the proof was pr
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Limetax Raises €36 Million to Build Germany’s Agentic-First Accounting & Tax Group
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
Limetax Raises €36 Million to Build Germany’s Agentic-First Accounting & Tax Group
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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Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A to Build the Independent Benchmark Layer for the AI Compute Economy
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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'
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Einride Founders Launch Navisalma to Turn Europe's Frontier Technologies into Global Leaders
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RunwayVC Announces Fund II to Back the Next Generation of Industry
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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
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Highland Europe Raises €1.1B Fund VI to Continue Backing Exceptional Founders at the Growth Stage
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With €5M Series A Raised, IVEX Aims to Bring AI-Driven On-Road Automotive Safety Testing To The US and Asia
IVEX, a deep-tech startup developing technology for automotive safety testing, led by Mario Torres and the team, has raised €5M in a Series A funding round to accelerate its engineering roadmap and expand its presence in North America and Asia. The round was backed by existing investors The Faktory and Dedicated.lu, alongside private investors. IVEX will use the funding to expand its coverage of NCAP protocols, scale its data-processing platform, and enter new automotive mark
With €5M Series A Raised, IVEX Aims to Bring AI-Driven On-Road Automotive Safety Testing To The US and Asia
IVEX, a deep-tech startup developing technology for automotive safety testing, led by Mario Torres and the team, has raised €5M in a Series A funding round to accelerate its engineering roadmap and expand its presence in North America and Asia. The round was backed by existing investors The Faktory and Dedicated.lu, alongside private investors. IVEX will use the funding to expand its coverage of NCAP protocols, scale its data-processing platform, and enter new automotive mark
Besxar Completes Inaugural Flight with SpaceX, Advancing Path to Semiconductor Manufacturing in Space
Besxar, the exoindustrial company manufacturing advanced semiconductor materials, led by Ashley Pilipiszyn, has reported the results of Besxar Flight-1 “Mission Asimov.” On July 5, 2026, two Besxar-built “Clipper-class” canisters flew aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 first-stage booster and were recovered intact after the booster returned to land. The mission marked Besxar’s first flight carrying custom wafer cartridges, power, avionics and printed-circuit hardware designed and built
Antioch Raises $32M to Bring Software Speed to Physical AI Development
Antioch, the simulation platform for robotics and autonomy, led by Harry Mellsop, Alex Langshur, Michael Calvey, and Collin Schlager, has raised $32 million to bring software speed to physical AI development. Together with the $8.5 million seed round announced earlier this year, this brings the total funding raised to $40.5 million. Greylock General Partner Saam Motamedi joins the company's board. “Software-speed innovation in the physical world will be the foundation of the
Poseidon Aerospace Raises $60 Million Series A to Build Unmanned Cargo Aircraft
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Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
Cylake, the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments, led by Nir Zuk, Udi Shamir, Wilson Xu, and the team, has closed $245 million through a convertible note, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. This latest funding brings Cylake’s total raised to $290 million, following a $45 million seed round in Marc
HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B to Advance Trustworthy AI
HiddenLayer, the most comprehensive security platform for AI, led by Chris Sestito, Tanner Burns, James Ballard, and the team, has announced a $100 million Series B funding round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, and Booz Allen Ventures. The company will use the funding to expand its enterprise platform, including Agentic Runtime Security and Agent Harness Security, a new solution designed to se
Air Security Emerges Out of Stealth to Protect AI Agents
Air, the context firewall for AI agents, founded by Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman, has announced that it is coming out of stealth. AI With Seatbelts. AI agents are becoming a fundamental part of enterprise knowledge work, with coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex seeing rapid adoption. Yet enterprises remain cautious about deploying them without stronger controls. Organizations face risks from employees using AI through personal accounts, untrusted agent harnesse
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