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Buntar Aerospace Secures $16 Million to Weaponise and Scale
Buntar Aerospace, a Ukrainian defense tech startup building autonomous combat systems, led by Ivan Kaunov, Bohdan Sas, and Kateryna Bezsudna, has locked in a $16 million investment round led by Freedom Fund and a top-tier international private equity fund, joined by Gardar, Iron Wolf, and Autonomy Capital, taking the company's total funding to $30 million. Buntar Aerospace deploys the Buntar-1 reconnaissance drone alongside Buntar Copilot, software designed to support drone o
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Valon Announces Series D, Deploying ValonOS and AI to the Mortgage Industry
Valon, the AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing, led by Andrew Wang, Linda Du, and the team, has raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. For six years, Valon operated its own mortgage servicing business on ValonOS, proving its technology in one of the most regulated industries in the U.S. Last year, Valon sold its servicing business and opened ValonOS to the broader mortgage industry. The platform quickly attracted major servicers in
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Hadrian Raises $40M to Tackle the AI Hacking Cyber Security Crisis
Hadrian, the agentic AI offensive security platform, led by Rogier Fischer, Maurice Clin, and Olivier Beg, has announced a $40 million funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures, bringing the total funding to $65M. The funding comes as AI reshapes offensive security. AI agents are increasingly capable of conducting cyberattacks with limited hu
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Buntar Aerospace Secures $16 Million to Weaponise and Scale
Buntar Aerospace, a Ukrainian defense tech startup building autonomous combat systems, led by Ivan Kaunov, Bohdan Sas, and Kateryna Bezsudna, has locked in a $16 million investment round led by Freedom Fund and a top-tier international private equity fund, joined by Gardar, Iron Wolf, and Autonomy Capital, taking the company's total funding to $30 million. Buntar Aerospace deploys the Buntar-1 reconnaissance drone alongside Buntar Copilot, software designed to support drone o
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Volantis Raises $88M Series A Funding
Volantis, a scalable solution to the memory bottleneck, enabling more than an order-of-magnitude increase in capacity and bandwidth, led by Tapa Ghosh and Roy Meade, has raised a Series A, led by Lachy Groom and Abstract, totalling $97M in funds raised to date, including from Sam Altman, Jeff Dean, Dylan Patel, John Doerr & others. Volantis is developing an optical interconnect technology designed to enable models with over 10 trillion parameters to run at speeds of up to 10,
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Valon Announces Series D, Deploying ValonOS and AI to the Mortgage Industry
Valon, the AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing, led by Andrew Wang, Linda Du, and the team, has raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. For six years, Valon operated its own mortgage servicing business on ValonOS, proving its technology in one of the most regulated industries in the U.S. Last year, Valon sold its servicing business and opened ValonOS to the broader mortgage industry. The platform quickly attracted major servicers in
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Valon Announces Series D, Deploying ValonOS and AI to the Mortgage Industry
Valon, the AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing, led by Andrew Wang, Linda Du, and the team, has raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. For six years, Valon operated its own mortgage servicing business on ValonOS, proving its technology in one of the most regulated industries in the U.S. Last year, Valon sold its servicing business and opened ValonOS to the broader mortgage industry. The platform quickly attracted major servicers in
How Foundry Management Plans to Build the Intelligent Industrial Age
Foundry Management, backing exceptional founders to build inside the industrial world, created by Atlas Holdings and A16Z, led by Arye Barnehama, has announced its launch. To the Founders Building in the Physical World. The opportunity is to build companies that change what the world can make, move, and power, putting technical expertise to work on tangible problems across industries people depend on. Artificial intelligence is opening new possibilities across factories, inf
Cerebras and General Compute Partner to Bring Ultra-Fast Inference to Agentic Coding
General Compute, the neocloud for alternative chips, led by Finn Puklowski and Jason Goodison, has announced a multi-year agreement with Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) to deploy Cerebras' ultra-fast inference at scale for a growing customer base demanding faster AI. General Compute is a neocloud purpose-built for deploying AI chips. The integration’s first use case is agentic coding, where inference speed can significantly affect overall workflow performance. Coding agents m
Dextr AI Raises $6.7M to Scale Hospitality AI Workforce Already Driving 49x ROI Through Its Forward-Deployed Approach
Dextr AI, the AI agent platform for hospitality, led by Sajid Shariff and Scott Arnold, has announced a $6.7 million seed round led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Foundation Capital. The company’s platform allows any hospitality employee to control teams of specialized agents across voice AI, guest management, back office operations, staff management, sales, and marketing. Dextr AI’s platform automates more than one million interactions each month across hundr
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Ando, the modern team messaging platform, led by Sara Du, has announced its launch with $20M in funding. Language came before software. Early fascination with untranslatable words, obscure emotions, and Wittgenstein’s ideas about the limits of language eventually became a broader interest in how humans use language to coordinate across time, distance, and institutions. That perspective became especially relevant with the arrival of LLMs. For the first time, non-human systems
Respan Announces Span-01: The First Hyper-Parallel Reasoning Classifier Built for Unseen Challenges
Respan, defining the next generation of the agent infra stack, led by Andy Li, Raymond Huang, and Hendrix Liu, has announced Span-01: the first hyper-parallel reasoning classifier built for unseen challenges. Jev demonstrated that decision models can make classification fast and practical. The next challenge is whether a classifier can preserve frontier-level reasoning, generalize across unseen definitions, and carry that reasoning through long traces in a single forward pass
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Valon Announces Series D, Deploying ValonOS and AI to the Mortgage Industry
Valon, the AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing, led by Andrew Wang, Linda Du, and the team, has raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. For six years, Valon operated its own mortgage servicing business on ValonOS, proving its technology in one of the most regulated industries in the U.S. Last year, Valon sold its servicing business and opened ValonOS to the broader mortgage industry. The platform quickly attracted major servicers in
Valon Announces Series D, Deploying ValonOS and AI to the Mortgage Industry
Valon, the AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing, led by Andrew Wang, Linda Du, and the team, has raised $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. For six years, Valon operated its own mortgage servicing business on ValonOS, proving its technology in one of the most regulated industries in the U.S. Last year, Valon sold its servicing business and opened ValonOS to the broader mortgage industry. The platform quickly attracted major servicers in
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Charter Space Closes Oversubscribed $5 Million Seed Round as Demand for Space Insurance Accelerates
Charter Space, the AI-native economic defense company insuring the rapidly growing space economy, led by Yuk Chi Chan and Yukun Yin, has announced the close of an oversubscribed $5 million seed round, led by Crystal Venture Partners with participation from QED, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Hustle Fund, and other leading fintech and space investors. The round brings Charter’s total funding to $8 million, following the company’s earlier $3 million pre-seed round. The new funding f
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Numeral Raises $100 Million Series C to Expand AI-Powered Tax Compliance Across Industries
Numeral, an AI-powered platform to stay compliant with US sales tax and global VAT, led by Sam Ross and Matt DuVall, has raised a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator and Uncork. Numeral will use the funding to accelerate product development, expand into industries including software, manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale, and grow its engineering, sales, marketing, a
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Integral Raises €18m Series A Led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman to Build the AI-Native Accounting, Tax, and Payroll Services Firm for SMEs
Integral, connecting accounting, tax, and payroll in one AI-native firm, led by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, has announced an €18m Series A, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with its existing investors Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle Ventures joining again. It brings the total capital raised by Integral to more than €30m. Where Integral Started. Before Integral, the founders spent years building banking and payments products for businesses and sp
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Chift Raises €10.5M in a Series A Round led by BlackFin Capital Partners
Chift, building the agentic infrastructure for financial connectivity, led by Gauthier Henroz, Matthieu Hertoghe, and Henry Hertoghe, has raised a €10.5M Series A to solve Europe's financial connectivity problem. The round is led by BlackFin Capital Partners, the European fintech specialist, with its existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund, and Wallonie Entreprendre all doubling down. Chift’s latest milestone reflects the support of its investors, employees, and cu
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Intermezzo Raises $10M to Build the World’s First AI-Native Global Payroll Platform
Intermezzo, a global payroll infrastructure company, led by Siddharth Ram and Kumar Ramanathan, has announced $10M in funding from Crosslink Capital, UKG Ventures, CloudPay, Character Capital, Behind Genius Ventures, and leading angel investors. International Payroll. Intermezzo is building a platform to automate the complex and highly regulated world of international payroll. Its founding team brings a combined 40 years of experience leading technical and product teams at In
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Uplift Ventures Launches €100 Million Fund to Back Europe's Next Generation of Product-Obsessed Deep Tech Founders
Uplift Ventures, an independently operating venture platform investing in and building startups shaping the future of Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI, and Logistics, has announced the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe's next generation of Deep Tech founders. Uplift Ventures plans to back up to 20 startups and selected Deep Tech funds from its €100 million fund, creating a unique global network that benefits founders long
Uplift Ventures Launches €100 Million Fund to Back Europe's Next Generation of Product-Obsessed Deep Tech Founders
Uplift Ventures, an independently operating venture platform investing in and building startups shaping the future of Physical AI, Energy, Enterprise AI, and Logistics, has announced the launch of its inaugural €100 million venture capital fund, dedicated to backing Europe's next generation of Deep Tech founders. Uplift Ventures plans to back up to 20 startups and selected Deep Tech funds from its €100 million fund, creating a unique global network that benefits founders long
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Volition Capital Announces Closing of Volition Capital Fund VI with $950 Million in LP Capital Commitments.
Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity investment firm, led by Managing Partners Sean Cantwell, Larry Cheng, Roger Hurwitz, and the team, has announced the final closing of Volition Capital Fund VI, L.P. (“Fund VI”) at its hard cap of $950 million in limited partner capital commitments. Fund VI was oversubscribed, reflecting strong demand from both its existing and new limited partners. Fund VI is the largest fund raised by Volition to date, bringing its total assets
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Seed Capital Closes €130M Fund V to Expand into Sweden and Cybersecurity
Seed Capital, partnering with remarkable entrepreneurs across the Nordics to build global winners, led by General Partners Lars Andersen, Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack, Geeta Schmidt, and Managing Partner Christian Brøndum, has now completed its fifth fund, valued at €130 million. Fund V will make investments ranging from €3 million to €6 million across 15 to 17 companies, from the seed stage through to Series A. The firm continues to concentrate on fintech and AI-driven B2B servi
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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'
A16Z has raised $1.1B for its newest fund: the Machine Age Fund, aimed at accelerating the physical buildout of AI. The fund reflects a broader push to bring AI into the physical world, positioning the technology as a powerful tool for solving real-world problems and expanding abundance. AI’s capabilities are expanding rapidly, with systems moving from chat to reasoning, coding, and increasingly complex forms of knowledge work. As utility and demand grow, so does the computat
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Einride Founders Launch Navisalma to Turn Europe's Frontier Technologies into Global Leaders
Navisalma, the newly founded European Venture Platform, founded by Einride founders Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed Falck, together with previous McKinsey Partner and Material Economics co-founder Robert Westerdahl, announced its launch. Europe does not have an innovation problem. It has a scaling problem. Europe produces world-class science, engineering, and frontier technologies, backed by centuries of leadership in design, craftsmanship, industrial excellence, and quality
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Buntar Aerospace Secures $16 Million to Weaponise and Scale
Buntar Aerospace, a Ukrainian defense tech startup building autonomous combat systems, led by Ivan Kaunov, Bohdan Sas, and Kateryna Bezsudna, has locked in a $16 million investment round led by Freedom Fund and a top-tier international private equity fund, joined by Gardar, Iron Wolf, and Autonomy Capital, taking the company's total funding to $30 million. Buntar Aerospace deploys the Buntar-1 reconnaissance drone alongside Buntar Copilot, software designed to support drone o
Buntar Aerospace Secures $16 Million to Weaponise and Scale
Buntar Aerospace, a Ukrainian defense tech startup building autonomous combat systems, led by Ivan Kaunov, Bohdan Sas, and Kateryna Bezsudna, has locked in a $16 million investment round led by Freedom Fund and a top-tier international private equity fund, joined by Gardar, Iron Wolf, and Autonomy Capital, taking the company's total funding to $30 million. Buntar Aerospace deploys the Buntar-1 reconnaissance drone alongside Buntar Copilot, software designed to support drone o
Volantis Raises $88M Series A Funding
Volantis, a scalable solution to the memory bottleneck, enabling more than an order-of-magnitude increase in capacity and bandwidth, led by Tapa Ghosh and Roy Meade, has raised a Series A, led by Lachy Groom and Abstract, totalling $97M in funds raised to date, including from Sam Altman, Jeff Dean, Dylan Patel, John Doerr & others. Volantis is developing an optical interconnect technology designed to enable models with over 10 trillion parameters to run at speeds of up to 10,
Satlyt Raises $8M to Run AI on Satellites
Satylt, the above cloud service provider, led by Rama Afullo, Nelson Psenjen, and the team, has raised an $8 million seed round. The Kenyan-American engineer previously worked in Google’s cloud computing business and briefly joined SpaceX’s Starlink team in 2024, where he saw untapped potential for computing in space. He later co-founded Satlyt, headquartered in Sunnyvale and Nairobi, to build software that enables satellites to share large computing workloads. The company ha
Efficient Computer, Taking on AI's Energy Problem, Announces $97M to Scale its Processors from Physical AI to the Data Center
Efficient Computer, the company building the world's most energy-efficient processors, led by Brandon Lucia, Graham Gobieski, and Nathan Beckmann, has announced it has entered into agreements for more than $97 million in Series B financing at a $650 million valuation, bringing its total funding raised to $173 million. The new round is led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Eclipse, Union Square Ventures, Giant Ventures, Triatomic Capital, TO Capital, TF Capital, Mana Ven
Charter Space Closes Oversubscribed $5 Million Seed Round as Demand for Space Insurance Accelerates
Charter Space, the AI-native economic defense company insuring the rapidly growing space economy, led by Yuk Chi Chan and Yukun Yin, has announced the close of an oversubscribed $5 million seed round, led by Crystal Venture Partners with participation from QED, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Hustle Fund, and other leading fintech and space investors. The round brings Charter’s total funding to $8 million, following the company’s earlier $3 million pre-seed round. The new funding f
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Hadrian Raises $40M to Tackle the AI Hacking Cyber Security Crisis
Hadrian, the agentic AI offensive security platform, led by Rogier Fischer, Maurice Clin, and Olivier Beg, has announced a $40 million funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures, bringing the total funding to $65M. The funding comes as AI reshapes offensive security. AI agents are increasingly capable of conducting cyberattacks with limited hu
Hadrian Raises $40M to Tackle the AI Hacking Cyber Security Crisis
Hadrian, the agentic AI offensive security platform, led by Rogier Fischer, Maurice Clin, and Olivier Beg, has announced a $40 million funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures, bringing the total funding to $65M. The funding comes as AI reshapes offensive security. AI agents are increasingly capable of conducting cyberattacks with limited hu
Reco Raises $55 Million in Additional Funding with Participation from AT&T Ventures
Reco, an AI agent security platform, led by Ofer Klein, Gal Nakash, Dr. Tal Shapira, and Bob Horn, has raised an additional $55 million, including a strategic investment from AT&T Ventures and support from new investors Forestay and Quadrille Capital. It brings Reco’s total funding to $140 million and will support expansion across sales, partnerships, channels, and customer support. The new capital follows growing adoption of AI agents across enterprise applications, collabor
How Raindrop is Protecting the World from AI Agent Failures
Raindrop, Sentry for AI Agents, led by Zubin Koticha, Ben Hylak, and Alexis Gauba, has announced its Series A and a brand new product called Raindrop Simulations. The company has raised a total of $50 million, led by CRV and researchers and executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines. Raindrop's goal is to protect the world from agent failures, big and small. Over the past year, Raindrop has expanded from a startup-focused tool to an enterprise platform trusted acr
Comp AI Raises $34M Series A to Build Agentic AI for Continuous Compliance and Cybersecurity
Comp AI, an AI-native compliance and security company helping businesses navigate an increasingly complex security landscape, led by Lewis Carhart, Claudio Fuentes, and Mariano Fuentes, has announced a $34 million Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. The raise follows a period of rapid growth since the company’s January 2025 founding, with Comp AI achieving 15x ARR growth year-over-year and now serving more than 1,000 customers. The funding will accelerate the com
Exein Raises $270m at $1.7bn Valuation to Build the Security Layer for Physical AI
Exein, a global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, Gianni Cuozzo, Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Gerardo Gagliardo, and Gary Walshe, has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation, led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, EIB Group through the European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI), KfW Capital and T.Capital, plus existing investors Balderton, HV, Intrepid Growth Partners, 33N Ventures, Lakestar, Supernova Invest, Blue Cloud Ventur
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