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Finny , the organic growth engine for financial advisors, led by Eden Ovadia, Victoria Toli, and Theodore Janson, has secured $17 million in Series A funding led by Venrock , with participation from Activant , Altruist’s Jason Wenk, and continued support from Y Combinator , Maple VC, and Crossbeam Ventures . Nick Beim from Venrock and Bill McNabb, the former Chairman and CEO of Vanguard, will join the Board. Financial advisors play a critical role in helping Americans navigat

Trigger.dev , the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript, led by Matt Aitken, Eric Allam, Dan Patel, and James Ritchie, has secured  a $16M Series A led by Standard Capital , with new investment from Michael Grinich and the CTO fund. Existing investors, including  Y Combinator ,  Liquid 2 ,  Wayfinder Ventures ,  Pioneer Fund , and  Rebel Fund , also participated again in the round. Trigger.dev empowers developers to build production-grade AI

Ben , the London-based platform using AI to help global enterprises manage employee benefits, led by David Duckworth and Sebastian Fallert, has raised $27.5m (£20.8m) led by Mercia Ventures  with strong participation from existing investors Atomico , Cherry Ventures , DN Capital , and Seedcamp , along with new backing from Revolut founder Nik Storonsky’s QuantumLight Capital .  The investment comes amid rapid growth, fueled by strong adoption among enterprises previously usin

Ankar AI , empowering patent teams with AI tools to innovate more efficiently, thoroughly, and productively, led by Wiem Gharbi and Tamar Gomez, has secured a $20 million Series A round led by Atomico , with Index Ventures  doubling down and Norrsken VC  and Daphni  participating, bringing the total funding to $24 million. The company will use the funding to grow its team and expand further into the US. AI is transforming how inventions become protected assets, but fragmented

MoEngage , empowering consumer marketers with AI-powered tools to succeed in a fast-paced, competitive, digital-first, and multi-channel world, led by Raviteja Dodda, Yashwanth Kumar, Yashwanth Reddy, Narasimha Reddy, Krishna Reddy, Nalin Goel, Ajish Nair, and others, has closed  an additional $180 million as part of Series F, bringing the total round to $280 million, led by new investors ChrysCapital  and Dragon Funds , alongside Schroders Capital , with continued participat

Leona Health , the AI-powered assistant built for doctors to securely and intelligently manage patient care through WhatsApp, led by Caroline Merin, Tom Chokel, and Arela Solis, announced  its launch with backing from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), General Catalyst, Accel, and seasoned tech luminaries, including David Vélez, co-founder and CEO of Nubank, Simón Borrero, co-founder and CEO of Rappi, and Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven Clinic.  In Latin America, WhatsApp is th

Root Sustainability , empowering retailers to instantly turn complex product data into simple, actionable life cycle assessments, led by Gijs de Mol and Maud Schijen, has secured  a €1,000,000 seed round led by  Borski Fund , with participation from VC investor Rockstart and angel investors  Spotlight  and  Empower Impact , along with additional private investors. Root provides an AI-powered data foundation that helps retail brands turn fragmented value-chain data into audit

Mindoo , the European platform for deploying safe and governed agentic workflows in healthcare, led by Dr. Gauthier Willemse and Bart Lens, has secured  €5 million in seed financing from 6DC , Syndicate One , and a group of strategic angel investors.  The investment advances Mindoo’s mission to deliver a scalable AI workforce that automates routine tasks for hospitals and practices, easing staff pressure while keeping teams in control. Healthcare providers face a growing gap

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