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Basis , building the next era of accounting with agentic AI, led by Matt Harpe, Mitchell Troyanovsky, and the team, has raised  $100 million led by Accel  alongside GV  (Google Ventures). Basis was founded on the belief that AI agents will soon become central to knowledge work, with accounting emerging as one of the first and most critical domains. Structured, high-stakes, and essential to every business, accounting remains one of the most underbuilt areas in technology. Thre

Straion , building AI coding agents that follow your rules, led by Lukas Holzer, Katrin Freihofner, and Fabian Friedl, has raised   €1.1 million in seed funding led by Marathon Venture Capital . The company previously raised €280,000 in pre-seed support through government grants and the AWS startup program. As organizations increasingly adopt AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor, Straion provides the critical layer of organizational context that en

VoiceLine , transforming the efficiency of field sales operations through cutting-edge voice collaboration and AI technology, led by Nicolas Höflinger, Sebastian Pinkas, and the team, has closed  a Series A funding round of €10 million led by Alstin Capital  and Peak Capital , with participation from existing investors Scalehouse Capital , Venture Stars , and NAP . With Series A funding, VoiceLine will scale its AI platform, expand internationally, and accelerate growth acros

Rapidata , a company that accelerates AI development through scalable, on-demand data labeling via digital ads, led by Jason Corkill , Luca Strebel , Marian Kannwischer , Mads Alber , and the team, has raised  an $8.5 million seed round co-led by Canaan Partners  and IA Ventures with participation from Acequia Capital  and BlueYard . Rapidata addresses a key AI bottleneck: the slow manual collection of human feedback used to train and improve models. Its platform provides fas

Cognee , AI Agents that adapt and learn from your feedback, led by Vasilije Markovic and the team, has raised  a $7.5 million seed round led by  Pebblebed , with participation from  42CAP  and  Vermilion Ventures , and angel investors from  Google DeepMind ,  n8n , and  Snowplow . Cognee was founded in 2024 in Berlin to address why AI agents forget context between sessions despite patched RAG pipelines and vector stores. Drawing on cognitive science and research from the Univ

Grotto AI , an AI that supercharges leasing teams in the moments that matter most, led by Nick Deveau and Ben Epstein, has raised  a $10 million seed round led by  ICONIQ . Advisors and angel investors also include industry veterans David Dear (BILT, formerly Equity Residential), Caren Maio (Co-founder, Get100 and Funnel Leasing), and Avi Dorfman (Co-founder, Compass), with participation from Asymmetric Capital Partners . While many industries attempt to replace frontline wor

Stacks , helping reinvent the financial close, led by Albert Malikov  and the team, has raised  $23M Series A led by Lightspeed , with EQT Ventures , General Catalyst , and S16VC  doubling down. The round comes less than a year after Stacks’ $12 million seed financing led by General Catalyst, underscoring the company’s rapid traction and momentum. Finance is becoming the next major enterprise function to be rebuilt with AI, following multibillion-dollar transformations in cus

Flinn , leading the way in medtech compliance, led by Markus Mueller, Bastian Krapinger-Ruether, Hasib Samad, MBA, and the team, has raised $20 million in additional funding led by HV Capital , followed by US-based healthcare specialist BHI - Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments , with continued support from existing investors Cherry Ventures , Speedinvest , and SquareOne . With the new funding, Flinn will expand its platform across the full MedTech and Pharma lifecycle, from r

Unicity Labs , building Agentic marketplaces for machine-speed commerce, led by Mike Gault and the team, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal Al Kaleej , a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures , a leading Web3 early-stage investor. The funding aligns with the emergence of AI agents as economic participants, with the global agentic AI market projected to exceed $100 billion by 2032. Unici

Temporal , revolutionizing backend software engineering, led by Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev, has raised  a $300M Series D at a $5B post-money valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners , Sapphire Ventures , Sequoia Capital , Index , Tiger, GIC , Madrona , and Amplify. Raghu Raghuram  joins as a board observer. AI and other long-running processes expose the limits of traditional backends. Durable Execution preserves state, reco

Render , an intuitive infrastructure to scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth, led by Anurag Goel , Meagan Gamache , Michael Greer , Eli Staykova , and Shuting Zhang , has raised  $100M in an extension of its Series C, valuing the company at $1.5B. Led by Georgian , who also led the Series C, the round includes strong participation from all the major partners, including Addition, Bessemer , General Catalyst , and 01A , and brings the total funding to $

Koyeb , a high-performance serverless infrastructure for intensive workloads, led by Yann Léger, Edouard Bonlieu, Bastien Chatelard, and the team, has entered  into a definitive agreement to join  Mistral AI  to advance cutting-edge AI infrastructure. Koyeb will bring its platform, technology, and team to accelerate  Mistral Compute  offering. Compute is designed to provide leading teams across the globe with the same state-of-the-art infrastructure Mistral AI uses to build,

Braintrust , the AI observability platform helping teams measure, evaluate, and improve AI in production, led by Ankur Goyal and the team, has raised  $80M in Series B funding led by ICONIQ , with participation from prior investors Andreessen Horowitz , Greylock , Elad Gil, Basecase Capital , and others. Like many founders, building Braintrust came from a personal pain point. While at Impira and Figma, internal tools had to be created just to run evals. That repeated experien

Sphinx , the company building browser-native compliance agents for financial institutions, led by Alexandre Berkovic and Chrisjan Wust, has raised a $7.1 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures , with participation from Y Combinator , Rebel Fund , Deel Ventures, and Singularity Capital. Unlike traditional RegTech platforms, Sphinx does not require teams to adopt a new system. Its AI agents operate directly within existing tools, case management systems, third-party portals,

ScyAI , building AI-powered risk intelligence for companies with large real asset portfolios, led by Bernhard Rannegger and Alex Sidorenko, has raised a €2 million pre-seed round from AENU  and PT1 . The round also attracted unicorn founders, including David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge), alongside the angel investor alliance Better Ventures .  For manufacturers, energy producers, and companies with large physical asset portfolios, clima

Neysa , purpose-built systems and services to help you accelerate AI adoption and integrate AI seamlessly into your operations, led by co-founders Sharad Sanghi, Anindya Das, and the team, has announced that private equity funds affiliated with Blackstone  (collectively, “Blackstone”) and co-investors have entered into definitive agreements to invest in Neysa, enabling a $1.2 billion capital raise. Blackstone and co-investors have provided equity capital of up to $600 million

Sitegeist , delivering easy-to-use, modular construction robots that boost productivity, led by Claus Carste, Nicola Kolb, Julian Hoffmann, and Dr. Lena-Marie Pätzmann, has raised  €4M in a pre-seed funding round co-led by  b2venture  and  OpenOcean , with participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators  and several angel investors, including Verena Pausder, Lea-Sophie Cramer, Alexander Schwörer, and additional strategic backers from the construction and robotics sec

Simile AI , a simulation platform for human behavior, led by Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein, Lainie Yallen, Percy Liang, and the team, has raised  $100 million in Series A led by Index Ventures with participation from Hanabi Capital , A* , Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) , Andrej Karpathy , Fei-Fei Li , Adam D'Angelo , Guillermo Rauch , Scott Belsky , and others. Joon, an oil painter turned entrepreneur, combines creativity with operational excellence, ambition with realism, a

Simmetry.ai , providing high-quality, annotated training data for your machine learning applications, led by Kai von Szadkowski, Anton Elmiger, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene, has raised €330,000 from NBank , the investment and development bank of the German state of Lower Saxony, as part of the High-Tech Incubator (HTI) accelerator programme. simmetry.ai generates photorealistic, annotated synthetic data to train computer vision models for robotics, autonomous machines, and in

Didero , the leading AI procurement agent, led by Tim Spencer, Lorenz Pallhuber, Tom Petit, and the team, has raised  a $30 million Series A financing round co-led by Chemistr y and Headline , with participation from  M12 , Microsoft’s Venture Fund. The Problem - Procurement teams at manufacturers and distributors handle thousands of supplier interactions across email, ERP systems, and spreadsheets, with much of the work still done manually. The Solution - AI agents work with