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Navier AI , developing agent-driven engineering, led by Cameron Flannery and Evan Kay, has announced $5.6 million in seed funding and its launch from stealth. The round includes participation from GV (Google Ventures), HCVC , and Y Combinator . Engineering has seen two major productivity leaps: CAD replaced manual drafting, and simulation enabled virtual testing. Navier introduces the third, Agent-Driven Engineering, where AI agents automate repetitive design-to-engineering

Mirelo AI , developing everything from the foundational AI model to the end product for full control, focused on audio, led by Carl Johann SIMON-GABRIEL , Florian Wenzel , and others, has secured a $41 million seed round, co-led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital . The funding marks a major milestone in reimagining how audio is created and experienced in videos and games. Mirelo was born out of a love of s

Serval , a unified help desk, access management, and automation platform with a built-in AI agent workforce, led by Jake Stauch and Alex McLeod, has raised $75 million in Series B funding, led by Sequoia with participation from Redpoint , Meritech , First Round , General Catalyst , Evantic , Sound Ventures , Radical Ventures , and others, bringing the total funds raised to $127 million since August and valuing the company at $1 Billion. This pre-empted round reflects Serval

Harness , delivering intelligent AI automation, so your team ships code faster, safer, and smarter, led by Jyoti Bansal, Carlos Delatorre, and others, has secured a $240 million Series E financing round, comprised of a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sachs and a planned $40 million tender offer with participation from IVP , Menlo Ventures , and Unusual Ventures . This investment values Harness at $5.5 billion. The real bottleneck in software engineering lies not in w

Port , the agentic engineering platform, led by Zohar Einy, Yonatan Boguslavsky, Aviv Teldan, Ariel Sakin, and others, has secured $100M Series C led by General Atlantic , with participation from Accel , Bessemer Venture Partners , and Team8 , bringing the total funds raised to $158M and valuing the company at $800M. In recent years, the company has become a leading provider of commercial Internal Developer Portals (IDPs), now supporting hundreds of customers worldwide. IDPs

Qargo , the intelligent transport management platform, led by Adriaan Coppens, Joeri De Turck, Sander De Wilde, Colin Blakely, and others, has secured $33 million in Series B funding led by Sofina , alongside existing investor Balderton Capital , taking the total investment raised to $54 million and marks the growing impact of AI technology on one of Europe’s most analogue industries. Qargo Intelligence automates major parts of the transport workflow, from order creation a

Trendtracker , predictive intelligence that turns trends into strategy, led by Vincent Defour, Mathias Colpaert, Valentijn Destoop, and others, has secured $7 million Series A funding round led by Armilar , with participation from existing investor Capricorn Partners . The investment accelerates Trendtracker’s mission to deliver an autonomous AI strategy and foresight analyst that streamlines strategic research, planning, and decision support for organizations. Pedro Ribei

Vybe , making vibe-coding work inside companies, led by Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos, has raised $10M in seed funding, led by First Round Capital , Y Combinator , Orange Collective , Pelion Ventures , Pioneer Fund , with participation from an incredible group of operators and founders, including Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Ami Vora (Anthropic), Shishir Mehrotra (Grammarly), Olivier Godement (Open AI), Stephen Deasy (Confluent), and many others. Fast-growing companies often

Outset , the most advanced AI-moderated research platform for research teams, led by Aaron Cannon and Michael Hess, has secured $30M in Series B funding led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, alongside existing investors 8VC , Y Combinator , and Adverb Ventures . This raise follows a breakout year for the team, with the business growing more than 8× and customers across industries adopting the newly created category of AI-moderated res

Channel3 , building a database of every product on the internet, led by Alexander Schiff, George Lawrence, Evan Fenster, and Ignacio Valdez, has secured a $6M seed round led by Matrix , joined by Y Combinato r and Ludlow Ventures . Last year, the team at Studio was building an AI teacher with personalized curriculums and needed reliable product recommendations. Existing APIs provided only articles or outdated listings, and indexing the entire product web was clearly a full co

Assaia , providing airports and airlines with real-time visibility of turnaround operations, led by Christiaan Hen, Max Diez, Dmitry Chugreev, Jan Willem Kappes, Louise Niven, and others, has secured $26.6 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by European investment firm Armira Growth , alongside existing investors. The new capital will help Assaia scale its AI platform globally and launch new solutions to boost airport, airline, and ground-handler efficie

Pryzm , the AI command center for federal business development growth and accelerated acquisitions, led by Nick LaRovere, David Istrati, Justin Deckert, Matt Hawkins, Joe Lace, and Bronwyn Davies, has secured a $12.2 million seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s ( a16z ) American Dynamism fund, with participation from existing investors XYZ Venture Capital , Amplify.LA , and Forum Ventures . The funding accelerates Pryzm’s mission to modernize federal technology ac

Boom Supersonic , the company building the world’s fastest airliner, led by Blake Scholl, Rachel Devine, Jeff Mabry, Megan Young, and others, has announced a backlog of more than $1.25 billion for its Superpower turbine and revealed its launch customer, Crusoe . The company also closed a $300 million funding round led by Darsana Capital Partners , with participation from Altimeter Capital , ARK Invest , Bessemer Venture Partners , Robinhood Ventures , and Y Combinator . Supe

Empromptu , creating accurate AI applications automatically, led by Dr. Sean Robinson and Shanea Leven, has secured $2 million in funding, led by Precursor Ventures , with participation from Alumni Ventures , Founders Edge, Rogue Women VC , South Loop , and Zeal Capital , as well as angel investor Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder of LaunchDarkly. Shanea Leven, Founder and CEO of Empromptu, remarked: “SaaS apps shouldn’t need rewrites to become intelligent; they should modernize in

Solve Intelligence , building intelligence for drafting, prosecution, claim charts, invention harvesting, and more, led by Chris Parsonson, Angus Parsonson, and Sanj Ahilan, has secured $40 million in Series B co-led by Visionaries and 20VC , with Thomson Reuters , Y Combinator , Operator Collective (led by ex-Cisco IP chief Mallun Yen), and angels like the founders of Tinder, Canva, Deel, Ironclad, Base44, Cleo, Hugging Face, Pigment, and Higgsfield, as well as Kevin

Unconventional AI , rethinking the foundations of a computer to optimize energy efficiency for AI, led by MeeLan Lee , Sara Achour , Michael Carbin , and Naveen Rao , has secured $475 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from Sequoia , Lux Capital , DCVC , Future Ventures , Jeff Bezos, and many other amazing investing partners, valuing the company at $4.5 Billion. Naveen Rao, cofounder and CEO, will personally be investing $

Besimple AI , building the data layer for AI, led by Yi Zhong and Bill Wang, has secured $3M in a seed round from Y Combinator , Surgepoint Capital , Porterfield Ventures, Amino Capital , WELIGHT Capital , Multimodal Ventures , Script Capital , and several amazing angel investors. The concept originated from challenges encountered at Meta, where training advanced AI models demanded vast amounts of high-quality data, an increasingly difficult resource to obtain. After years o

Yoodli , the company on a mission to help people communicate with confidence, led by Varun Puri, Padmashree Koneti, Esha Joshi, Derek Sessions, Andy Larson, Betsy McKibbin, and others, has secured a $40M Series B fundraise, led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Neotribe and Madrona . This funding marks Yoodli’s rapid progression to Series B, arriving just months after its Series A announcement in May and bringing total capital raised to nearly $60 million. Th

Imper.ai , a pioneer in real-time cyber impersonation prevention, led by Noam Awadish, Anatoly Blighovsky, and Rom Dudkiewicz, has announced its public launch and $28 million in new funding from Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures , with participation from Maple VC , Vessy VC , and Cerca Partners. Imper.ai ’s platform identifies impersonation risks in real time, maintaining privacy and accuracy across widely used communication platforms including Zoom, Teams, and Slack. B

Curvestone AI , the platform for regulated firms to automate complex tasks with code‑simple AI flows, led by Dawid Kotur and Sebastian Kotur, has secured $4 million in seed funding, led by MTech Capital with participation from Boost Capital Partners , D2 Fund , and Portfolio Ventures . The funding round will advance Curvestone AI’s mission to make AI automation truly dependable for financial services, legal, and insurance teams. Most AI tools excel at isolated tasks but