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Mirage , empowering anyone, anywhere, to make quality videos, led by Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill, has raised $75 million in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund , bringing the total funding to more than $175 million. This milestone highlights the scale of Captions’ reach, with over 20 million global users, including small businesses, creators, and enterprise teams, leveraging the platform to grow their presence. To date, users have created more

Gimlet Labs , an applied research lab dedicated to building next-generation AI infrastructure, led by Zain Asgar, Michelle Nguyen, Omid Azizi, Natalie Serrino, James Bartlett, Beltir Caglar-Dayanik, and the team, has announced an $80M Series A raise, led by Menlo Ventures and joined by Eclipse , Factory, Prosperity7 , and Triatomic . Gimlet is an inference cloud built to run AI agents. In the five months since launch, demand has surged, with the customer base tripling to in

Littlebird , the AI assistant that thinks like you, led by Alap Shah, Alexander Green, and Naman Shah, has raised $11 million led by Lotus Studio, with participation from Lenny Rachitsky, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Justin Rosenstein, Shawn Wang, and Russ Heddleston. Modern computing increasingly feels adversarial, driven by attention-driven business models that prioritize engagement over user experience. What was once envisioned as a tool to augment the mind has, in many

PointOne , rethinking how firms run with AI, led by Jeremy Ben-Meir , Katon Luaces , and the team, has raised $16 million in Series A led by 8VC , with continued participation from Bessemer Venture Partners , General Catalyst , Y Combinator , and existing investors, bringing the total funding to $20 million. Law firms rely heavily on time data, yet the tools used to capture it have long been inadequate, limiting pricing, staffing, and profitability decisions. Founded three y

Interloom , the enterprise operations platform that captures expert knowledge and transforms it into permanent memory for AI agents, led by Fabian Maximilian Jakobi , has announced a $16.5 million seed round led by DN Capital , with participation from Bek Ventures and existing investor Air Street Capital . As AI agents advance, enterprise deployment remains constrained by a critical gap: the absence of operational memory. Interloom addresses this challenge by processin

Dash0 , the first full OpenTelemetry-Native Observability tool out there, led by Mirko Novakovic , Ben Blackmore , and the team, has announced a $110 million Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital . The round saw participation from additional new investor DTCP Growth , existing investors Accel , Cherry Ventures , and DIG Ventures , and strategic partners July Fund and T.Capital (Deutsche Telekom). The round values Dash0 at $1 billion, elevating it to unicorn statu

Paradigm AI , an AI-first workspace that enables fast, accurate research in spreadsheets, led by Anna Monaco and the team, has announced new features for its AI platform built to eliminate manual research workflows. The company is also launching its free plan, giving anyone access to easily try Paradigm’s AI research agents. Manual research has become a competitive liability. Across industries like private equity and venture capital, thousands of hours are consumed by repet

CloudCruise , a developer platform for fast and reliable browser agents, led by Felix Eckert and Adrian Ziegler , has raised a 5M seed round, backed by Floating Point , Meridian Street Capital , Twine , Refract Ventures , and angels like Zack Lipton (CTO, Abridge) and David Singleton (fmr. CTO, Stripe). Healthcare software was built for human use, not automation. Workflows like prior authorizations, EHR note creation, and eligibility verification involve complex, multi-step

Sequen , developing dynamic in-session personalization in the post-cookie, privacy-first AI era, led by Zoe Weil , Mo Afshar , Alex Thom , Ethan Benjamin , and the team, has raised $16 million in Series A funding co-led by White Star Capital and Threshold Ventures , with participation from its prior investors, including Greycroft , which had led its seed round. To date, Sequen has raised $22 million. Sequen CEO Weil explains: “Modern tech no longer just recommends content,

Hosted.ai , helping you turn your GPU infrastructure into a profitable AI cloud, led by Ditlev Bredahl , Narendar Shankar , Julian Chesterfield , and James Withall , has closed a $19M seed funding round led by Creandum , with Repeat VC following, and participation from existing investors People Ventures , Z21 Ventures , Golden Sparrow , Hersir Ventures , and Tekton . The problem: GPU Infrastructure is Inefficient. AI relies on GPUs, yet the current infrastructure is rigid a

Deeptune , developing a simulation environment where AI can practice doing work, led by Tim Lupo , and the team, has raised $43 million Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from 776 , Abstract Ventures , and Inspired Capital , and angels including Noam Brown (Research, OpenAI), Brendan Foody (CEO, Mercor), and Yash Patil (CEO, Applied Compute). Mastery requires more than knowledge. Operating rooms and cockpits prove that skill comes from practice, not the

Bounti , an AI-native platform for operational execution in the physical economy, led by Deniz Bay, Ziar Khosrawi, and the team, has raised €4Million led by the pan-European VC Ventech , alongside IBB Ventures , Robin Capital , and Common Magic . Business angels include Paul Forster, founder of Indeed, and Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk, founders of Framer. AI has yet to fully deliver on its promise, especially in white-collar use cases, where scaling remains limited, and ROI oft

Manifold , building runtime security for AI agents on endpoints, led by Oleksandr Yaremchuk, Neal Swaelens, and Michael McKenna, has announced the close of an $8 million seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from Cherry Ventures , Rain Capital , and Modern Technical Fund , and notable angel investors including former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and former Google DeepMind CISO Vijay Bolina. The funding will accelerate development of Manifold’s agentic AI D

Latent , the clinical-AI company accelerating access to life-saving medications, led by Sriram Somasundaram , Rishabh Jain , and the team, has raised an $80M Series A co-led by Spark Capital and Transformation Capital , with participation from Conviction , McKesson Ventures , General Catalyst , and Y Combinator . Today, Latent works with 50% of the top 20 U.S. health systems. Modern medicine has outpaced the systems that deliver it. In the U.S., even after a doctor prescrib

Ceramic AI , an AI-native search infrastructure company, led by Anna Patterson and Tom Costello, has unveiled Supervised Generation at NVIDIA GTC 2026, a system that augments large language model (LLM) outputs with real-time verification, citations, and confidence signals. Supervised Generation is model-agnostic, operating as a trust layer alongside any existing LLM infrastructure, with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as the featured verification engine. As AI is deployed across h

Gecko Robotics , combining advanced robotics and AI-powered software to build, operate, and modernize the world’s most critical infrastructure, has been awarded a five-year IDIQ contract from the U.S. Navy and GSA with a $71 million ceiling to deploy artificial intelligence and robotics to assess and maintain the health of military assets. Gecko will start work with 18 ships in the U.S. Pacific Fleet with the initial award worth up to $54m over a five-year period. Customers

Mistral AI , making frontier AI accessible to everyone, has introduced Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge. Most AI models today are trained on public data and optimized for general-purpose tasks, while enterprises rely on deeply embedded internal knowledge, ranging from engineering standards to operational workflows. Forge bridges this gap by enabling organizations to train AI models on proprietary data,

RoboForce , building the future of Physical AI, scalable, deployable Robo-Labor designed for demanding industrial environments, led by Leo Ma, Calvin Zhou, and others, has secured $52 million in oversubscribed funding, bringing the total raised to $67 million. The round was led by YZi Labs with participation from Jerry Yang (co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.), who joined existing investors Myron Scholes (Nobel Laureate economist), Gary Rieschel (Founding Partner of Q

Memories.ai , an Al company dedicated to reshaping machine perception and interaction, led by Dr. Shawn Shen and Enmin (Ben) Zhou, has announced a collaboration with semiconductor giant Nvidia to let Memories.ai use Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason 2, a reasoning vision language model, and Nvidia Metropolis, an application for video search and summarization, to continue to develop its visual memory technology. Shen and Ben conceived the company while developing the AI system behind M

Wonderful , building the engine behind enterprise AI transformation, led by Bar Winkler, Roey Lalazar, Roi Tavor, Melissa Zeloof, Guy Sustiel, Barak Kaufman, and the team, has raised $150 million in a Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners , with participation from existing investors Index Ventures , IVP , Bessemer Venture Partners , and Vine Ventures . The new capital will enable Wonderful to further invest in its agentic platform and accele