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Lightberry, the company building autonomous robots that live and work around people, led by Ali Attar, Stephan Koenigstorfer, and Stephan Wolski, announced that its Lumi line of humanoids has received approval from the U.S. Department of War (DoW). Following the approval, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau exempted Lumi from the FCC Covered List, making Lightberry the first, and currently only, humanoid robotics company to receive the exemption. How Lumi Ear

Dream, a product and research company that automates the design and engineering of the built world, led by Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, has emerged from stealth today with $17 million in seed funding. The round included investment from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, XYZ, and Zigg Capital, among others. Trained on the largest known dataset of real, permitted buildings, Dream's models reason about the physical world the way large language models reason about text. Dream

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