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Emergent has Raised $130M in Series C at a $1.5B Valuation
Emergent, an AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software, led by Mukund Jha and Madhav Jha, has closed a $130 million Series C. Creaegis led the round, with MNI Ventures - Claypond Capital and Sentinel Global as co-leads and participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator. The round values Emergent at $1.5 billion and brings the total funding to $230 million. A year after its public launch, Emergent has grown its val
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Meticulous Raises $15M to Accelerate the Pace of Software Development
Meticulous, radically accelerating the pace of software development for every company in the world, led by Gabriel Spencer-Harper and Quentin Spencer-Harper, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Chemistry. Comprehensive testing is essential for shipping software rapidly with AI. Without high confidence in test coverage, development velocity is limited regardless of how quickly code can be generated. Achieving that level of confidence requires testing at a far greater sc
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SwitchOn Secures $8M (Rs 78Cr) in Pre-Series B Funding Led by IvyCap Ventures
SwitchOn, an AI-powered quality inspection for manufacturers, led by Aniruddha Banerjee, Avra Banerjee, and Neil Lasrado, has raised $8M (Rs 78Cr) in a Pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, with participation from SIG Tattva and Trifecta Capital. The Bengaluru-based Physical AI startup will use the funding to accelerate global expansion and advance zero-defect manufacturing for Fortune 500 customers, including Unilever, Bosch, and Maruti Suzuki. Its AI-powered qu
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Walden Robotics Launches with $300 Million to Put General-Purpose Robots to Work Today
Walden Robotics, a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots that put human ingenuity to work at industrial scale, led by Russ Tedrake and the team, has emerged out of stealth with $300 million in funding. The round, which values the company at $1.1 billion, is co-led by Toyota (Toyota Motor Corp, Toyota Invention Partners, and Toyota Ventures) and Deviation Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prol
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Emergent has Raised $130M in Series C at a $1.5B Valuation
Emergent, an AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software, led by Mukund Jha and Madhav Jha, has closed a $130 million Series C. Creaegis led the round, with MNI Ventures - Claypond Capital and Sentinel Global as co-leads and participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator. The round values Emergent at $1.5 billion and brings the total funding to $230 million. A year after its public launch, Emergent has grown its val
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How Rime is Building the Future of Voice Intelligence
Rime, building voice models made for human conversation, led by Lily Clifford, Brooke Larson, and Ares Geovanos, has raised a $24M Series A led by M13, with participation from Corazon Capital, Unusual Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, and Twilio Ventures. As part of this milestone, Rime welcomes Morgan Blumberg, Partner at M13, to the Board of Directors. Rafael Valle has joined Rime as the Chief Scientist. For the first time, advanced language intelligence is becoming an accessible
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Meticulous Raises $15M to Accelerate the Pace of Software Development
Meticulous, radically accelerating the pace of software development for every company in the world, led by Gabriel Spencer-Harper and Quentin Spencer-Harper, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Chemistry. Comprehensive testing is essential for shipping software rapidly with AI. Without high confidence in test coverage, development velocity is limited regardless of how quickly code can be generated. Achieving that level of confidence requires testing at a far greater sc
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Meticulous Raises $15M to Accelerate the Pace of Software Development
Meticulous, radically accelerating the pace of software development for every company in the world, led by Gabriel Spencer-Harper and Quentin Spencer-Harper, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Chemistry. Comprehensive testing is essential for shipping software rapidly with AI. Without high confidence in test coverage, development velocity is limited regardless of how quickly code can be generated. Achieving that level of confidence requires testing at a far greater sc
SwitchOn Secures $8M (Rs 78Cr) in Pre-Series B Funding Led by IvyCap Ventures
SwitchOn, an AI-powered quality inspection for manufacturers, led by Aniruddha Banerjee, Avra Banerjee, and Neil Lasrado, has raised $8M (Rs 78Cr) in a Pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, with participation from SIG Tattva and Trifecta Capital. The Bengaluru-based Physical AI startup will use the funding to accelerate global expansion and advance zero-defect manufacturing for Fortune 500 customers, including Unilever, Bosch, and Maruti Suzuki. Its AI-powered qu
Emergent has Raised $130M in Series C at a $1.5B Valuation
Emergent, an AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software, led by Mukund Jha and Madhav Jha, has closed a $130 million Series C. Creaegis led the round, with MNI Ventures - Claypond Capital and Sentinel Global as co-leads and participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator. The round values Emergent at $1.5 billion and brings the total funding to $230 million. A year after its public launch, Emergent has grown its val
How Rime is Building the Future of Voice Intelligence
Rime, building voice models made for human conversation, led by Lily Clifford, Brooke Larson, and Ares Geovanos, has raised a $24M Series A led by M13, with participation from Corazon Capital, Unusual Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, and Twilio Ventures. As part of this milestone, Rime welcomes Morgan Blumberg, Partner at M13, to the Board of Directors. Rafael Valle has joined Rime as the Chief Scientist. For the first time, advanced language intelligence is becoming an accessible
Monumental Raises $32 Million Led by Khosla Ventures to Scale the Robots Already Building the Physical World
Monumental, making construction autonomous, led by Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser, has announced a $32 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors Hummingbird, Plural, and others. The round will grow Monumental’s world-class team of hardware and software engineers, scale the number of robots it can deploy across Europe, launch the company in the US this year, and expand the range of construction tasks the robots can handle. The
Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Open-Weights Model - Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence research and product company, has introduced Inkling - a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active. It supports a context window of up to 1M tokens. It was pretrained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio, and video. It is the first in a family of models of different sizes: alongside it, the company is sharing a preview of Inkling-Small, a lighter-weight model with 12B active parameters, trai
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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
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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Stocard Founder Björn Goß Receives 12 Million Euros to Fundamentally Change the Tax Industry
Skalar, providing digital tax consulting for companies, led by Björn Goß, Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Christian Pötter, has closed a pre-seed and seed funding round totaling €12 million. The round was led by Headline, with participation from futurepresent, QED Investors, Repeat, MS&AD, and Foreword, as well as several prominent angel investors. Founded in 2025 by former Stocard founder Björn Goß alongside Niklas Wagener, Florian Lang, Martin Gugel, and Chr
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Nopan Raises €7.2M to Further Build its Performance Platform for Account and Wallet Payments
Nopan, an account and wallet payments platform, led by Konstantin Surkov, Nick Ryabov, and the team, has raised €7.2 million to date, including a new funding round led by Newion, with follow-on investment from Crane and Seedcamp and support from a group of angel investors with deep experience in merchant payments and fintech. Founded by former Netflix payments leaders Konstantin Surkov and Nick Ryabov, Nopan was created to solve a key challenge in digital payments: launching
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How Tangos is Scaling Financial Crime Investigations with Autonomous AI
Tangos, building investigation intelligence for risk and financial crime, led by Eyal Azoulay and the team, has raised a $20 million seed financing round led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from Leaders Fund, Clarim Ventures, Ventureisrael, Signal Fire, Clutch Capital, and Selah Ventures, and a strategic investment by Bright Data. Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneur Eyal Azoulay, Tangos brings together expertise across financial crime investigations, sancti
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How LinqAlpha is Building the Alpha Intelligence Layer for Global Public Markets
LinqAlpha, an AI-powered investment research firm that turns fragmented data from global markets into a real edge, led by Jacob Chanyeol Choi, Subeen Pang, Yongjin Kim, and Hojun Choi, has announced $22 million in Series A funding. The round was anchored by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures, with participation from a global syndicate of strategic financial institutions and venture platforms. Founded by Jacob Choi, Subeen Pang, Jin Kim, and Hojun Choi, LinqAlpha combine
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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
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
Jul 4
Rick Hao - Ruya Ventures Closes $50 Million Solo GP Debut Fund to Back Europe's Deep Tech
Ruya Ventures, a solo GP fund led by Rick Hao, closes a $50M Solo GP debut fund to back Europe's deep tech. Ruya Ventures: Investment Philosophy. Ruya Ventures was founded to take a deliberate approach to venture investing rather than pursuing the easiest entry point into the asset class. The focus is on deep technology, informed by more than a decade of investing through cycles where long timelines and high capital intensity made the category less conventional for many inves
Jul 2
Menlo Ventures Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital
Menlo Ventures, an early-stage VC firm, marked its 50th anniversary and announced $3 billion in new capital, the largest raise in Menlo’s history, to back the next generation of AI leaders, from infrastructure and frontier models to AI-native applications across enterprise, healthcare, and consumer markets. Two Funds to Go All In on AI. Menlo Ventures XVII focuses on Seed and Series A investments, backing founders at the earliest stages as they develop breakthrough technologi
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Seedcamp Announces $320 Million in New Funds
Seedcamp, partnering with Europe’s most exceptional tech founders from day one, led by Reshma Sohoni, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, and the team, has announced $320 million in new funds. Seedcamp was the first believer in Revolut, Wise, UiPath, Synthesia, and Fluidstack, back when those category-defining companies were just ideas. It has backed teams like BioOrbit, Sunrise Robotics, and Dust, building where software meets science and the physical world. Across every technology cycl
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Deep Tech
Walden Robotics Launches with $300 Million to Put General-Purpose Robots to Work Today
Walden Robotics, a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots that put human ingenuity to work at industrial scale, led by Russ Tedrake and the team, has emerged out of stealth with $300 million in funding. The round, which values the company at $1.1 billion, is co-led by Toyota (Toyota Motor Corp, Toyota Invention Partners, and Toyota Ventures) and Deviation Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prol
Walden Robotics Launches with $300 Million to Put General-Purpose Robots to Work Today
Walden Robotics, a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots that put human ingenuity to work at industrial scale, led by Russ Tedrake and the team, has emerged out of stealth with $300 million in funding. The round, which values the company at $1.1 billion, is co-led by Toyota (Toyota Motor Corp, Toyota Invention Partners, and Toyota Ventures) and Deviation Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prol
Loft Orbital Expands Commoditized Satellite Bus Inventory for Rapid Constellation Deployments – Combined Orders Total 50 Satellites from 5 Suppliers Across 2 Continents
Loft Orbital, building space infrastructure for any mission, led by Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Alex Greenberg, and Antoine de Chassy, has announced the procurement of 10 new Longbow satellites and the availability of a larger, high-powered satellite platform, expanding its inventory to meet growing customer demand. This reflects continued momentum for Loft’s space infrastructure services, offering a range of off-the-shelf buses so Loft can focus on the integration and execution o
Monumental Raises $32 Million Led by Khosla Ventures to Scale the Robots Already Building the Physical World
Monumental, making construction autonomous, led by Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser, has announced a $32 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors Hummingbird, Plural, and others. The round will grow Monumental’s world-class team of hardware and software engineers, scale the number of robots it can deploy across Europe, launch the company in the US this year, and expand the range of construction tasks the robots can handle. The
Slingshot Aerospace Wins $69.2 Million U.S. Space Force Contract to Advance AI-Powered Mission Readiness for Space Defense
Slingshot Aerospace, bringing together the systems, software, and AI that turn sensing, data fusion, and simulation into coordinated operational action, led by Tim Solms and the team, has announced a $69.2 million award in support of the U.S. Space Force’s ongoing digital transformation efforts. This 4.5-year initiative, part of the Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI) program, will deliver AI-powered mission rehearsal and operational training capabilities to G
BRINC Raises $125M to Put a 911 Response Drone on Every Police and Fire Station Roof
BRINC, building technology in the service of public safety, led by Blake Resnick and the team, has announced a $125 million financing round led by Motorola Solutions, with participation from Index Ventures and Dylan Field, Figma’s CEO and founder. The investment brings BRINC’s total funding to more than $250 million, supporting the company’s mission to deploy emergency response drones across 80,000 police and fire stations in the United States. The funding will support BRINC’
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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
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,
Ent Emerges from Stealth to Bring Prevention Back to Cybersecurity
Ent, the intent-aware security platform powering the AI-native enterprise, extending endpoint security into a real-time layer of prevention across human and AI-driven work, Elias(Lou)Manousos and Brandon Dixon, has emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed financing led by Decibel, with participation from Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Preventing Cyber Threats Before They Become Incidents. Ent is pioneer
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
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