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Dedalus Labs , building an infrastructure layer for shipping AI agents at a rocket-fast speed, led by Catherine Di and Windsor Nguyen, has raised  $11 million in seed funding co-led by   Kindred Ventures  and  Saga Ventures , with participation from  E14 Fund , Emergence Capital ,  Sunshine Lake ,  Transpose Platform ,  Liquid 2 Ventures ,  FPV Ventures ,  Twenty Two Ventures ,  Telescope Foundation ,  Spot VC ,  Operator Partners , and  Y Combinator . Dedalus Labs is also ba

Liberate , harnessing technology to help insurers and agents deliver fast, led by Amrish Singh, Ryan Eldridge, Jason St. Pierre, and others, has secured  a $50 million Series B funding round led by Battery Ventures , with participation from new investor Canapi Ventures  and returning backers Redpoint Ventures , Eclipse Ventures , and Commerce Ventures , bringing the total funding to $72 million. Battery General Partner Marcus Ryu, the co-founder and former CEO of Guidewire So

Enspired , Europe’s leading optimizer for battery energy storage systems (BESS), led by Jürgen Mayerhofer, Wolfgang Eichberger, Cornelia Habetler, Jürgen Pfalzer, Johann Schütz, and Christoph Schreiber, has secured  EUR 40 million in Series B funding. The round brings in Future Energy Ventures  as a new partner, alongside renewed commitments from Zouk Capital , EnBW New Ventures , Banpu NEXT , PUSH VC , and 360 Capital , following enspired’s rapid expansion into multiple new

Dexory , the leading provider of real-time warehouse intelligence, led by Andrei Danescu, Adrian Negoita, Oana Jinga, Kristen Shannon, and others, has secured  $165 million. Eurazeo , through its Growth team, led the $100M Series C round, with participation from LTS Growth and Endeavor Catalys t, alongside existing investors DTCP , Atomico , Lakestar , Elaia , Latitude Ventures, Wave-X , and others. In addition, Bootstrap Europe expanded the existing growth debt facility.  Si

FleetWorks , an always-on dispatcher that calls, emails, or texts you when high-paying loads match your truck, led by Paul Singer and Quang Tran, has secured  $17 million in funding led by First Round Capital  with participation from Y Combinator , Saga Ventures , and LFX Venture Partners . In the U.S., over 200,000 truckloads are coordinated daily, yet 80% are still booked manually via phone, email, and text. Carriers, especially small operators, waste hours chasing loads, w

SiC Systems , developer of Industrial Agentic AI, led by Christopher Savoie and Christopher Brown, has secured  €2 million led by Dutch quantum investment fund  QDNL Participations , with additional backing from Propagator Ventures , Plug and Play , and Wavepeak Ventures. The company is a spinout from the Technical University of Denmark  (DTU).  SiC Systems develops intelligent, adaptive AI agents designed to orchestrate complex physical systems in real time. Its proprietary

Exa , the search engine built for AI, led by Will Bryk, Jeff Wang, and others, has introduced  Exa 2.0, the next generation of search endpoints. Specifically, Exa 2.0 includes three major updates: Exa Fast:  the fastest search API in the world at sub350ms Exa Auto:  the default search type is now much higher quality Exa Deep:  a new search type that agentically retrieves the highest quality results Exa’s mission is to build the perfect search engine, one that delivers exactly

Reducto , offering robust and reliable document ingestion for any workflow, led by Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri, has secured  a new $75M Series B led by a16z , alongside existing investors Benchmark , First Round Capital , Y Combinator , and BoxGroup . Less than two years after launching the first Parse API that combined traditional computer vision with Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Reducto has set a new benchmark for transforming complex documents into LLM-ready data w

Afori , a new AI platform specifically for insurance brokers, led by Fabian Wesemann and Sergi Baños, has emerged from stealth mode with a €4 million pre-seed funding round led by  General Catalyst , with participation from Yellow  and  Booom . Individual backers include industry leaders Christopher Lohmann (founder of Mulberry Ventures, former CEO of HDI and Gothaer), Chris Leifeld (founder of Thinksurance), and Garrett Koehn (CIO, CRC), as well as AI pioneers Mustafa Suleym

Sensi AI , the pioneer in Care Intelligence, led by Romi Gubes, Nevo Elmalem, and Alon Brener, has secured  $45 million Series C funding...

Datacurve , providing high-quality and complexity data, unlocking model improvements and new capabilities, led by Serena Ge and Charley...

Tigris , building a globally distributed object storage service that unlocks true choice for builders, led by Ovais Tariq, Himank...

Kernel , crazy fast browsers-as-a-service, led by Catherine Jue and Rafael Garcia, has secured  $22 million in Seed and Series A funding...

Reflection AI , an AI Research lab building superintelligence accessible to everyone, led by Misha Laskin and Ioannis Alexandros...

EvenUp , an AI-powered platform for personal injury law, led by Rami Karabibar, Raymond Mieszaniec, and Saam Mashhad, has secured  $150...

Relace , LLMs for Code Generation, led by Preston Zhou, Eitan Borgnia, and Julian Thomassie, has secured  a $23 million Series A led by...

David AI , the world’s first audio data research lab, led by Tomer Cohen and Ben Wiley, has raised  $50 million in Series B from Meritech...

Phagos , the sustainable alternative to antibiotics, led by Alexandros Pantalis  and Adèle James , has secured 25 million euros Series A...

Dragonfly , the AI-powered tech companion that helps businesses identify and implement tailored software recommendations instantly, led...

Resourcly , an AI-powered platform tackling inventory complexity for global manufacturers, led by Helena Most and Ian Draxten, has...