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Sema4.ai, the enterprise AI agent company, led by Rob Bearden, Ram Venkatesh, and Paul Codding, has announced the latest release of its Enterprise AI Agent Platform, introducing new capabilities designed to address three of the biggest challenges enterprises face as they move AI agents into production: trusting their output, controlling costs as usage scales, and enabling AI across team-based work. The release enables teams to share and manage AI agents, skills, memories, dat

Artiso, the AI operating system built for fashion teams, led by Sarah Iglesias Hiller, Lucas Pastur Romay, and Matthias Brenninkmeijer, has raised more than €3 million in a fully equity pre-seed round led by Criteria Venture Tech, fuelling the rapid growth it has built since emerging from stealth. Swanlaab Venture Factory and Bynd Venture Capital joined the round, alongside business angels David Tomás, co-founder of Cyberclick, and Nicolaj Reffstrup, founder and former CEO o

Rime, the leading developer of enterprise voice AI models, led by Lily Clifford, Brooke Larson, and Ares Geovanos, has launched Prism, the first fully customizable frontier speech-to-speech (S2S) model. Brands can run Prism entirely within their own infrastructure while maintaining control over their data, conversation latency, vocabulary, pronunciation, and safety guardrails. Enterprise Voice AI: Limitations of Rigid, Opaque Models. While speech-to-speech (S2S) models delive

General Compute, the world’s first heterogeneous inference cloud, Finn Puklowski and Jason Goodison, has announced $100M in Series A funding co-led by Blackbird and Abstract, along with Fuse Venture Partners, Village Global, and others. General Compute provides AI companies with on-demand access to GPUs and advanced inference chips through flexible cloud contracts. The company’s first major deployments are scheduled to go live in Q1 2027, with more than 50 MW of capacity in i

Nevis, the AI operating system for wealth, led by Mark Swan, Philipp Burda, and Ivan Chalov, has raised a $70 million Series B, led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Charles Schwab, Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, QuantumLight, and Ribbit Capital, bringing the total funding to $110 million in just two years since founding the company. Nevis is building an AI operating system for wealth management, integrating CRM, meeting intelligence, financial planning, and custodial workfl

Recursive, building the Eureka Machine, the self-improving superintelligence that automates the scientific method, led by Richard Socher and the team, has introduced Flint, a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model built for fast agentic coding on local hardware. Flint has 40 billion total parameters and activates just 2.5 billion per token, built from scratch in under four months. Recursive’s Flint, an MoE model with fewer than 50 billion parameters, matches dense models’ coding perf

Mach9, the AI CAD software for civil engineering, led by Alex Baikovitz, Haowen Shi, Michael Mong, and Zachary Sussman, has raised a $34 million Series A co-led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Prudence and continued participation from Quiet Capital. The new financing brings Mach9’s total funding to $49 million. The company will use the capital to expand its AI software for surveying and civil engineering as America faces a growin

Different, the AI marketing system for lean B2B teams, led by Ajeet Singh, Abhishek Pani, and Abhinav Yajurvedi, has emerged from stealth with $48 million in funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Ambitious companies are building new products and defining the future faster than ever with AI. But building is only half the challenge, success also depends on communicating value to the right audiences. Great marketing turns a company

IVEX, a deep-tech company whose safety-testing technology is used in official vehicle assessments, led by Mario Torres and the team, is bringing its NCAP Evaluator software to NVIDIA Halos SAFE (Safety Assurance Framework for Evaluation), expanding the safety evaluation capabilities available within NVIDIA's autonomous-driving ecosystem. The software helps developers evaluate and score simulated and real driving tests against NCAP protocols, enabling them to compare safety pe

XRlabs, the Surgical Intelligence company, led by Ali Haddad and the team, announced it has raised $8.4 million in seed funding led by Playground Global, with participation from Eka Ventures. Alongside the seed round, XRlabs also announced that Omar Ishrak has joined the company as Chair of its Board of Directors. The funding will accelerate XRlabs’ development and clinical deployment of its device-agnostic platform, bringing real-time AI into operating rooms as a surgical co

Jooba, an AI-native recruiting firm, led by Mark Benliyan, announced its general availability and $4 million in seed funding from a16z Speedrun, Scribble Ventures, and Genius Ventures. Jooba combines human expertise with custom AI agents to deliver an embedded recruiting solution that helps companies hire top talent faster and at lower costs. Fast-growing startups face a choice between traditional recruiting agencies, which can charge over $30,000 per hire, and self-serve AI

Skyfall AI, a neolab building the first autonomous enterprise, led by Sam Pasupalak, Kaheer Suleman, and Sumit Pasupalak, has announced SKY-001, the first world model for designing complex physical products. SKY-001 helps turn an idea into a structured physical design, planning the sequence of steps needed to construct its geometry in computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) software. The model advances Skyfall’s core mission of building the first a

Positron AI, building hardware and software to make AI inference dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient, led by Mitesh Agrawal, announced that General Compute, the neocloud for alternative chips, led by Finn Puklowski, will purchase its Atlas inference systems and has committed to purchasing its next-generation Titan systems, expanding General Compute’s dedicated inference offering. The agreement expands General Compute’s world-class inference offering with Atlas and

Notch, an autonomous performance marketer, led by Vinay Jain and Aman Jain, has announced that OpenAI is acquihiring the company. Why Notch Was Built? After two years of building Notch, the team identified an opportunity to use AI to help businesses create and test better advertising. Fragmented workflows across research, briefing, production, testing, and optimization highlighted the need for a more connected approach combining creative judgment with execution. This led to a

Causa Prima, the agent-to-agent platform for enterprise finance, led by Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing, and Philip Stanislaus, has raised a $20 million seed round that closed in September to expand its agent-to-agent platform, led by Base10 Partners, with participation from QED Investors, FJ Labs, and existing investors Creandum, Kfund, and Borusan Ventures. The company previously raised $10 million in a pre-seed round, bringing its total funding to $30 million. “The status quo t

Applied Intuition and Honda have entered a partnership to accelerate the development of software-defined vehicles. Together, the companies will build a consolidated, upgradable Honda SDV platform leveraging Applied Intuition’s Vehicle OS software and development tooling. The partnership deepens a relationship that began in 2019, when Honda became Applied Intuition’s first OEM customer in Japan. The automotive industry is shifting from horsepower to computing power, with softw

Nearly half of B2B invoices in Western Europe are paid late, with 6% written off as losses. Late payments contribute to one in four EU bankruptcies. SmallClaims, a Copenhagen-based legal tech company founded in 2021, led by Christian Olson, has raised €2 million in a seed round led by Vendep Capital to make even the smallest court cases economical with AI agents. More than €930 billion in EU claims are written off annually as SMEs abandon small claims that are too costly to p

Klarent, an autonomous software testing platform, led by Asheem Panakkat and Momchil Ivanov, has announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to fuel its expansion into the United States following strong growth across Europe. The round is led by Mosaic Ventures, with participation from Moonfire Ventures and a group of prominent angel investors including Jürgen Galler (former Google Director), Harris Barton, and AngelInvest Ventures, among others. Working on the Lens and

Rebellions, a global leader in AI inference infrastructure, and ai&, a vertically integrated global AI technology company, are partnering to deploy Rebellions RebelRack within ai&’s heterogeneous infrastructure as part of the ai& inference service in Japan. The collaboration expands domestic access to Rebellions-powered inference, supporting Japan’s sovereign AI priorities. ai& will begin deploying Rebellions-powered infrastructure at its Tokyo data center, with plans to sca

Rivercell, building the AI virtual cell to decipher biology and disease, led by Yann Fleureau and Éric Durand, has announced a $25 million seed round led by HV. HCVC, Alven, and Bpifrance Digital Venture also participated in the round, which will fund the scale-up of Rivercell’s proprietary data generation platform, the expansion of its wet lab in Paris (a lab working with chemicals and biological samples), and the launch of its AI Virtual Cell program. As an indication-agnos

Arena, the official AI ranking and LLM leaderboard, led by Anastasios Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and Ion Stoica, has announced a $200 million Series B at a $3.1 billion valuation to continue on its mission to measure and advance the AI frontier for real-world use. In parallel, arena is announcing the release of its Alignment Index, which measures how AI can deviate from human values in the real world. Arena’s Series B, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventu

Preference Model, a superintelligence data research company, led by Jennifer Zhou and Ning Cao, has open-sourced Karotte, a framework for building RL environments. Karotte, used internally for the past year, is the first component of the company’s RL environment development stack being released publicly. Designed with secure defaults and built-in primitives, it aims to simplify the creation of robust reinforcement learning environments and support safer, more aligned AI train

Vesta, an AI-native mortgage loan origination system, led by Mike Yu and Devon Yang, has announced a $30 million Series B, led by Conversion Capital, with strategic participation from Pennymac, New American Funding, Citi Ventures, NBKC Bank, First American, and FirstKey Mortgage, as well as participation from a16z, Zigg, and Navitas, bringing the total funding to $85 million. Vesta’s revenue has grown more than 12x in the past year, while customer numbers and headcount have i

Mecka, the data and deployment layer for physical AI, led by Josh Gao, Jason Chong, Mogen Cheng, and Duy Nguyen, has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, backed by new investors including NVIDIA, M12 — Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, and Samsung, with continued support from Kindred, Framework Ventures, and Neo. The Physical World Was Never Recorded. The internet captures information, but not how humans interact with the physical world. Robots

Healthleap, a clinical AI platform that screens patients for conditions that often go undiagnosed, led by Josiah Meyer and Jemima Meyer, has raised $38 million in combined seed and Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures. Healthleap helps care teams identify at-risk patients earlier by reviewing their complete medical records daily. The funding will support expansion into more conditions and team growth across key functions. The Pr

Sante, a leading fintech and AI platform for the wine and spirits industry, led by Darren Fike, has raised a $15 million Series A funding led by FINTOP alongside returning investors Bonfire Ventures, Operator Collective, Y Combinator, and Veridical Ventures. The funding comes 6 months after Santé announced its $7.6M seed, and during a period of immense growth where the business grew by 500%, serving nearly 1,000 retailers processing $2B in annual GMV. The Problem: Regulatory

Vocca, the AI platform medical practitioners rely on to speak with their patients, led by Eliott Hoffenberg and Hugo Danet, has announced a $20 million Series A led by Norrsken VC, with participation from Heal Capital, Speedinvest and Firstminute Capital, and angel investors including the founders of Alan and Datadog. Total funding to date is $25 million. Vocca Leads with National Deployments as the Category Matures. Vocca’s AI phone assistant automates inbound calls for heal

SafeWorld, an AI lab building robot safety simulation technologies, led by Kyle Wong, Dr. Ding Zhao, and Simo Rachidi, emerged from stealth with $12.2M in seed funding co-led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, along with Box Group, Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors, SV Angel, and other leading VCs & angel investors. SafeWorld’s platform provides safety testing and simulation software to help enterprises evaluate and deploy robots safely and responsib

Risotto, the AI-native autonomous help desk, has announced the launch of its Autonomous IT Engineer. The new co-pilot can handle complex Tier-2 requests by investigating unfamiliar issues, analyzing logs, and executing fixes with human approval. It also turns successful resolutions into reusable workflows, reducing the need for repeated manual intervention. Automated IT’s Problem: Low Solve Rate for Most Edge Cases. Traditional IT automation typically handles basic Tier-1 r

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

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

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, 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

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, 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

Ema, building agentic AI Employees for HR, IT, and Finance, led by Surojit Chatterjee and the team, has raised $77 million in Series B, led by Creaegis, with Accel, S32, and Prosus all increasing their existing investments in Ema. The round brings the total funding to $140 million, and more than quadruples the valuation from the previous round. "Our customers are not running experiments; they are running their HR, IT, and Finance operations on AI Employees at a scale of milli

Firecrawl, powering AI agents with clean web data, led by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, has raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital, with participation by Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle, and Offline Ventures. The company has also introduced Alexandria, which brings official data providers, custom connectors, and Firecrawl’s own indexes together with the live web, so your AI agent has one way to find a source, s

Confido, building AI infra for CPG brands, led by Kara Holinski and Justin Hunter, has raised $55M Series B, bringing total funding to $77M. The round is led by Insight Partners and drew participation from returning investors Footwork, Trenches Capital, Watchfire, Barrel Ventures, and Y Combinator. What Confido Has Built. Since 2022, Confido has built a unified system for CPG brands, bringing commercial and financial workflows onto a shared data foundation. Cash application,

Corridor, the AI-native benefits brokerage built for small businesses, led by Nikhil Aggarwal, Jackson Wagner, Eric Qian, and Jason Dong, has launched with $25 million in funding. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from BoxGroup, Definition Capital, and angel investors including founders and executives from OpenAI, Modal, Ramp, Scale AI, Oscar, Rogo, Decagon, Medallion, Reducto, and Tennr. Nearly 6.4 million U.S. businesses have fewer than 500 empl

Verda, the full-stack AI cloud of tomorrow, led by Ruben Bryon and the team, has raised $189 million in new funding. The oversubscribed Series B was led by Emergence Capital, with MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Lifeline Ventures, 6 Degrees Capital (6DC), byFounders, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd), and a group of angel investors including Ola Tørudbakken and Mark Saroufim participating. That brings the total funding to dat

Feldera, the incremental view maintenance engine for enterprises, led by Lalith Suresh, Leonid Ryzhyk, Mihai Budiu, Ben Pfaff, and Gerd Zellweger, has raised $21.5 million across a $15.4M Series A round led by Inovia Capital, with participation from Costanoa Ventures and Battery Ventures, and a $6.1M Seed round led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Ion Stoica (co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale). Founded by award-winning computer scientists, Feldera has built a

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

Crusoe, the AI factory company, led by Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness, has announced the initial closing of its anticipated $3.9 billion Series F funding round, at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, alongside significant backing from new and existing investors including Founders Fund, GIC, NVIDIA, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Radical Ventures, and TPG. With mo

Euka AI, the largest affiliate marketing platform on TikTok Shop, led by Jeremy Ding and Kevin Wang, has announced its expansion beyond TikTok, launching an Instagram integration with Shopify-connected fulfillment that lets brands run their entire creator program across platforms from one system. The launch builds on Euka's $5 million seed round led by Susa Ventures and Creator Ventures, and comes as the company surpasses $4 billion in GMV driven for brands, roughly 5% of all

Exa, an API Developer for LLM Search, led by Will Bryk and Jeff Wang, has introduced Snapshot, a new way to search the past. As AI models are tested on increasingly complex tasks, temporal evaluation is emerging as a way to measure whether models could have discovered information before it was published or predicted what happened next. Exa Snapshot enables this testing by providing access to more than 400 billion webpage snapshots spanning two decades, allowing searches of th

Magnetic, providing AI digital workers for operations at large industrial companies, led by Robin Van Aeken and Odhran O'Donoghue, has announced an $18 million Series A. The round was raised a year after launch and led by Felicis, alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group. "The physical world is dealing with the biggest capex cycle in history, driven by AI demand, during a time of trade disruption and geopolitical challenges," said Robin Van Aeken, CE

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

Sakana AI has released Fugu Max, which expands the Pareto Efficiency Frontier by orchestrating its largest pool of open and specialized models to date, and Fugu Ultra v2, which pushes peak performance higher than ever before, without the indispensable reliance on the frontier models it orchestrates. The Two-Dimensional AI Frontier. The AI industry has largely focused on one metric: building increasingly capable and expensive foundation models. But real-world AI has another cr

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

Periodic Labs, an AI research and deployment company creating models and autonomous labs to accelerate science, led by Liam Fedus, Dogus Cubuk, and the team, has introduced Periodic Neon, a 1T-parameter model that was post-trained to analyze experimental results and deployed to its physical labs. This is a step towards putting autonomous discovery into the hands of scientists. Building AI-Powered Materials Labs. Since launching last year, Periodic has built high-throughput la