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Brickanta , construction's AI-native operating system for bid analysis, cost estimation, and procurement, led by Lucas Otterling, Linus B, and others, has secured $8M Seed funding, led by Northzone , with participation from global sports stars, founders of Lovable, Tandem Health, and angel investors from OpenAI, Google, and Meta. Brickanta is building an AI-native operating system for construction, starting with pre-construction workflows that shape the outcome of entire p

CVector , the industrial AI startup, led by Richard Zhang, Tyler Ruggles, Joshua Napoli, Alex Kamath, and others, has closed a $5 million seed round led by Powerhouse Ventures and included a mix of venture and strategic backing, with participation from early-stage funds like Fusion Fund and Myriad Venture Partners , as well as Hitachi’s corporate venture arm . CVector is building an AI software layer to act as a brain and nervous system for industrial operations, with earl

Synthesia , the all-in-one AI video platform for business, led by Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Prof. Matt Niessner, and Prof. Lourdes Agapito, has secured a $200 million Series E round, led by Google Ventures , with participation from Evantic , Hedosophia , NVentures , Accel , Kleiner Perkins , New Enterprise Associates , PSP Growth , Air Street Capital , and MMC Ventures , valuing the company at $4 billion. The new capital will be used to expand the AI video platform

Parambil , building trusted, high-quality software with a specialty in medical record review, led by Sara Dwyer , Dr. Ralph Horwitz , Liam Gordon , and others, has secured $6 million in seed funding led by Bling Capital with participation from NVP Capital and strategic angels across mass torts, personal injury, and legal-tech. Parambil’s founders are betting on a fundamental shift in how justice is administered in the United States, with the expectation that this transform

Agileday , the AI operating platform for professional services, led by Mikko Virtanen, Jaakko Hartikainen, Jaakko Hallavo, Hannu Kärkkäinen, and others, has secured €6.4 million Series A funding led by Newion , with participation from Specialist VC , Vendep Capital , and Business Finland . The investment will support Agileday’s global expansion and accelerate its mission to modernize how professional services firms plan, deliver, and scale their operations. Agileday’s PSA pla

Quadric , the inference engine that powers on-device AI chips, led by Veer Kheterpal , Daniel Firu , Nigel Drego , Steve Roddy , and others, announced an oversubscribed $30 million Series C funding round, bringing total capital raised to $72 million, led by ACCELERATE Fund, managed by BEENEXT Capital Management. Uncork Capital returned with one of the largest insider commitments through its opportunity fund, joined by insider Pear VC . New investors include Volta, Gentree,

Antidote , an AI-powered automated billing compliance platform for global law firms, led by Nicholas d’Adhemar and Matt Lyons, has secured a $5 million Seed round led by Lakestar , with participation from Concept Ventures , The LegalTech Fund (TLTF) , and a group of prominent industry angels. This follows the company’s earlier $2 million pre-seed round in 2025, bringing total funding raised to $7 million. Law firms face growing pressure to comply with complex Outside Couns

Fini , empowering enterprises to effortlessly deploy headless AI agents capable of resolving 80%+ of support tickets with 97% accuracy in over 50 languages, all without writing a single line of code, led by Deep Singla, Hakim, and others, has raised $3.6M in seed funding led by Matrix Partners with the backing of Y Combinator , along with people working at Uber, and high-profile angels from McKinsey and SoftBank. A significant trust gap limits the adoption of generative AI

Crunched , transforming your Excel modelling with autonomous Excel AI agents, led by Philip Borge, Lars Gjardar Musæus, Michael Sakowski, and Markus Skagemo, has secured $6M in seed funding, led by First Round Capital , with participation from Y Combinator , 20VC , and many more incredible VCs and angels, including YC founder Paul Graham and Mario Götze. Spreadsheets remain central to business and finance, yet Excel modeling is often slow, manual, and error-prone. Under t

Bolna , voice AI agents for Indian languages, led by Prateek Sachan and Maitreya Wagh, has secured $6.3 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst , with participation from Y Combinator , Blume Ventures , Orange Collective , Pioneer Fund , Transpose Capital , and Eight Capital , along with angels Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer, and Taro Fukuyama, among others. Founded in 2024, Bolna is building a self-serve platform that enables e

Stilla , the multiplayer AI for teams, led by Siavash Ghorbani and Kaj Drobin, has announced its launch with $5M in Pre-Seed funding led by General Catalyst with participation from the founders & leaders of Elevenlabs (Mati Staniszewski), Lovable (Anton Osika), Shopify (Harley Finkelstein), Legora (Max Junestrand), Synthesia (Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild), Sana Labs (Joel Hellermark), Hugging Face (Thomas Wolfe), and more to build the intelligence layer that keeps hu

Elyos AI , an AI agent built for trades and field services, led by Adrian Johnston, Philippa Brown, and Panos Stravopodis, has secured a $13 million Series A round, led by Blackbird Ventures , with participation from Y Combinator and Pi Labs , bringing the total funding to $16 million. Trades businesses such as plumbers, electricians, HVAC teams, fire and security operators, and facilities managers form the backbone of the built world, yet many struggle with overwhelming cal

ClickHouse , a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, led by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky, has announced the close of its Series D financing, raising $400 million, led by Dragoneer Investment Group , with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners , GIC, Index Ventures , Khosla Ventures , Lightspeed Venture Partners , accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and WCM Investment Management . ClickHouse conti

Parloa , the premier provider of AI agents elevating enterprise customer experience, led by Malte Kosub, Stefan Ostwald, Latane Conant, Csaba Tamas, Chris Silver, and Tino Mittelmeier, has announced $350 million in Series D funding led by General Catalyst , with strong continued support from Parloa’s existing investors, including EQT Ventures , Altimeter Capital , Durable Capital Partners , and Mosaic Ventures , bringing its valuation to $3 billion. Closing just seven months

WitnessAI , a platform that helps enterprises protect and accelerate their AI journey across the rapidly evolving AI tech stacks, led by Rick Caccia, Gil Spencer, Stephanie Gilliam, and others, has secured strategic funding of $58 million led by Sound Ventures , with participation from Fin Capital , Qualcomm Ventures , Samsung Ventures, and Forgepoint Capital Partners . The company also unveiled expanded agentic AI governance capabilities that bring observability to global e

Skild AI , building omni-bodied intelligence, led by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, has raised $1.4 billion in Series C funding, led by SoftBank with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), Macquarie Capital (entities administered by Macquarie Capital), and Jeff Bezos(via Bezos Expeditions ), valuing the company at over $14 Billion. Lightspeed , Felicis , Coatue , and Sequoia Capital have doubled down on their investments. Several strategic investors have also come on b

depthfirst , an applied AI Lab solving security’s AI-era problems, led by Daniele Perito, Qasim Mithani, and Andrea Michi, has secured $40M Series A round, led by Accel with participation from Alt Capital , BoxGroup , Liquid 2 Ventures , Mantis VC , SV Angel , and notable angel investors including Jeff Dean, Kirsten Green, Colin Evans, Logan Kilpatrick, and Julian Schrittwieser. depthfirst’s General Security Intelligence platform introduces a unified AI system that detects,

VoiceRun , building a secure, reliable voice infrastructure for enterprises, led by Derek Caneja and Nicholas Leonard, has secured $5.5 million in funding. In the near future, AI-powered voice agents will be able to communicate anytime, anywhere, and in any language, with billions expected to run on VoiceRun. Advances in real-time voice understanding and generation from companies like ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and Fish Audio, combined with intelligence from models by OpenAI, Ge

Cerebras , the world’s fastest AI inference and training platform, led by Andrew Feldman and others, has signed a multi-year agreement with OpenAI to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras wafer-scale systems to serve OpenAI customers. This deployment will roll out in multiple stages beginning in 2026, making it the largest high-speed AI inference deployment in the world. A decade of parallel ambition brought OpenAI and Cerebras together, two companies founded at the same time wi

Sandstone , the home for AI-native legal departments, led by Nick Fleisher , Liam Germain , and Jarryd Strydom , has announced its launch with a $10 million seed round led by Sequoia , with participation from an incredible group of additional investors as well as over 20 GCs, law firm partners, and customers. Experience in fast-growing B2B companies and legal tech consulting revealed a critical gap: in-house legal teams face inefficiencies from scattered knowledge and outdate