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Verda, the full-stack AI cloud of tomorrow, led by Ruben Bryon and the team, has raised $117 million. The round combines equity funding led by Lifeline Ventures with participation from byFounders, Tesi, Varma, and other investors, alongside debt financing from a group of Nordic financial institutions. “We’re building next-generation AI cloud infrastructure for teams globally,” said Ruben Bryon, Founder and CEO of Verda. “This funding enables accelerated development and expans

Cloudsmith, a cloud-native artifact management platform, led by Glenn Weinstein, Lee Skillen, Alan Carson, and the team, has raised a $72M Series C financing led by TCV and with participation from Insight Partners, along with investments from other existing investors. The additional funding positions Cloudsmith for significant growth as it aims to power the next phase of AI-driven software development. The investment supports rapid growth at Cloudsmith, as enterprises shift t

Petual, delivering audit testing results from any dataset in minutes, with better than human precision, led by Snir Kodesh, Eliot Walker, and the team, has raised $20 million which includes a $17M round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and a $3.2M round led by First Round, with participation from Cowboy Ventures, Elad Gil, the founders of Lyft, Opendoor, and more. Efficiency in SOX Testing Audit is inherently a creative function, focused on understanding business risks and e

Realm, Agents for RFPs and sales deliverables, led by Johan Jern, Miika Huttunen, and Mikko Mäntylä, has raised a $4.5 million Seed round led by Frontline and joined by HubSpot Ventures, Lifeline, the founders of Slack and Deel, and many other incredible angels. Building Toward the “Cursor Moment” in Sales Software development workflows have rapidly evolved, with engineers now managing multiple AI agents simultaneously. A similar transformation is expected in revenue teams. P

NeoCognition , an Agent Lab for Specialized Intelligence, led by Yu Su, Xiang Deng, and Yu Gu, has announced its emergence from stealth with a $40 million seed funding round. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures , with participation from Vista Equity Partners and others. Angel investors and founding advisors include Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, Ion Stoica, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks, A&E Investments , Salien

Linexa , a Munich-based deep tech startup that decodes decades-old industrial automation code across vendors, making Europe's factories AI-ready, led by Viktor Stryczek, Alexandros Vassiliadis, Tobias Drees, and the team, has raised €2 million pre-seed round led by Project A , with Thomas Böck (CEO Festo), Bastian Nominacher (founder Celonis), and Christian Schlögel (former CTO/CDO Kuka & Körber) as angels. European manufacturing is facing mounting pressure, with Volkswagen c

inploi , an AI-powered candidate engagement platform, led by Matthew de la Hey and the team, has secured £3m funding in a round led by YFM Equity Partners , alongside support from existing investors. Following its 2021 pivot to enterprise SaaS, inploi integrates with existing systems to streamline candidate journeys, reduce drop-off, and improve hiring efficiency. The investment supports growth across product and commercial functions, including expansion of Talent Agents, AI-

VisioLab , building an AI self-checkout for high traffic venues, led by Tim Niekamp and the team, has raised $11 million Series A financing round co-led by eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners and Simon Capital , with continued participation from existing investors High-Tech Gründerfonds  HTGF ), zwei.7 , and Heartfelt (formerly APX). The funding positions VisioLab for its next phase of global expansion, building on stadium-wide deployments at major venues while advancing a

Archil , the cloud filesystem for AI, led by Hunter Leath and the team, has raised $11M in new Series A capital led by Standard Capital with participation from Y Combinator , Felicis , Peak XV partners , Wayfinder Ventures , with participation from angel investors including Anurag Goel (Render), Richard Artoul (Warpstream), Andy Jefferson, and several individuals at Antithesis and Clay. This round, less than a year after the seed funding, brings Archil's total capital rais

This is a guest post by Daniel Liechtenstein, Co-Founder & CEO @ Hypercore. Private credit has grown into a $2+ trillion asset class. The capital is there. The deals are there. What hasn't kept pace is how firms actually run their operations once the money is deployed. That gap is becoming harder to ignore. The Hidden Operational Problem. Most private credit firms run loan servicing through a combination of spreadsheets, legacy systems, and manual workflows. Payment waterfall

Muse Group , creating the world’s most popular music apps and content, has published a survey conducted among 1,200 users across platforms like Ultimate Guitar, MuseScore, Audacity, and MuseHub, revealing a nuanced relationship between creators and AI. While adoption is already widespread, acceptance comes with strict conditions around control, authorship, and transparency. Artificial intelligence has rapidly entered the music creation workflow, but for most musicians, its ro

Antioch , the cloud simulation platform for robotics and autonomy, led by Harry Mellsop, Alex Langshur, Colton Swingle, Collin Schlager, and Michael Calvey, has raised $8.5 million led by A* and Category Ventures , with other investors including MaC Venture Capital , Abstract , Box Group , Icehouse Ventures , and angel investors including Shyam Sankar (CTO, Palantir) and Adrian Macneil (CEO, Foxglove). The company removes the need for physical hardware and real-world testing

Solidroad , AI optimization for human & AI agents, led by Mark Hughes and Patrick Finlay, has raised a $25 million Series A led by Hedosophia , with continued participation from First Round Capital and Y Combinator . The Shift in Customer Experience Leading customer experience teams treat every interaction as a signal, not just escalations or standout cases. Over time, this consistent evaluation drives continuous improvement in support quality. However, most teams struggle to

Factory , an AI-native software development platform, led by Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, has raised $150M Series C led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital , Blackstone , Insight Partners , Evantic Capital , 20VC , NEA , and Mantis VC . This puts Factory's valuation at $1.5B and will accelerate investment in research, product, and global go-to-market. Factory was founded to bring autonomy to software engineering, with its “Droids” now used by hundre

Synera , an agentic AI platform that orchestrates engineering workflows across 80+ hardware tools, led by Dr. Moritz Maier, Sebastian Möller, Daniel Siegel, and the team, has raised $40M in a Series B led by Revaia , with participation from Capgemini through ISAI Cap Venture . The round also includes all existing Series A investors, including UVC Partners with a substantial commitment from its growth fund, BMW iVentures , Cherry Ventures , Venture Stars , and Spark Capital

spektr , building AI agents that handle the manual work behind compliance, led by Mikkel Skarnager , Ciprian Florescu , Jan-Erik Wagner , and Jeremy Joly , has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by NEA , with continued participation from Northzone , Seedcamp , and PreSeed Ventures . The new capital will go toward expanding our AI platform and accelerating adoption across financial institutions globally. The Problem Being Solved Compliance teams at banks and finan

Sygaldry , envisioning a future of affordable, sustainable, personalized, and secure superintelligence, led by Chad Rigetti, Idalia Friedson, and Michael Keiser, has raised $139M in Series A and Seed financing to build quantum-accelerated AI servers. The $105M Series A in March 2026 was led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures , following a $34M seed round led by Initialized Capital . Sygaldry’s servers aim to exponentially speed up critical AI algorithms, reducing the cost and p

Auctor , the agentic operating system for modern professional services and system integrators, led by William Sun , Xinan Rahman , Sky Ng-Thow-Hing , Matthew Blackburn , and the team, has announced $20 million in funding, including a Series A led by Sequoia Capital , with participation from Y Combinator , M12 , Microsoft's Venture Fund, Workday Ventures , HubSpot Ventures , OneStream , Tercera , and Dig Ventures . Auctor is addressing a widespread yet underserved challenge, a

HockeyStack , the AI platform for revenue teams, led by Buğra Gündüz , Arda Bulut , Emir Atli, and the team, has raised $50 Million from Bessemer Venture Partners , YC , and Uncorrelated Ventures . How It Started In 2023, an opportunity emerged to rebuild the go-to-market foundation for large enterprises, as existing systems remained rooted in outdated data architectures introduced in the early days of platforms like Salesforce. The solution involved shifting from static obj

Wafer , helping you ship the fastest inference in the world, led by Steven Arellano and Emilio Andere, has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Fifty Years , with participation from Liquid2 and Y Combinator . The round also includes participation from prominent angel investors such as Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist at Google), Wojciech Zaremba (Co-founder of OpenAI), Arash Ferdowsi (Co-founder of Dropbox), Dan Fu (Head of Kernels at Together), Kawal Gandhi (Office of the