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Limitless Labs, the world’s first Agentic Physical AI platform for CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing) in mechanical manufacturing, led by David Priev, Shahaf Finder, Assaf Peleg, and the team, has raised a $20 million Series A round co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg, with participation from Grove Ventures, Meron Capital, and Kinetica. The AI agent integrates directly into existing CAD/CAM systems, enabling manufacturers to captur

Etched, building frontier inference clusters, led by Gavin Uberti, Robert Wachen, and Chris Zhu, has raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street, Diffusion, Argo, and SK Hynix. The mission is to build the infrastructure that powers the world’s AI inference. Frontier models require a new generation of computing systems, from custom chips and advanced packaging to optimized interconnects and cooling, designed end-to-end

Kausable, putting science at the core of AI, led by Johannes Haux, Dr. Benjamin Herdeanu, and Gregor Ramien, has raised €12 million in a seed funding round led by UVC Partners and Entourage, with follow-on from the German investors HTGF and Mätch VC. Kausable is also backed by various private angel investors from the AI industry and academia working at Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Noxtua, and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

telli, an AI voice platform for agents that sell, support, and operate - across millions of calls led by Finn zur Mühlen, Philipp Baumanns, and Seb Hapte-Selassie, has raised $15M seed round led by redalpine with participation from strategic investors, Mutschler, and key angels like Marc Bitzer (CEO Whirlpool; supervisory board member BMW), Alexa von Bismarck (Adyen), Martin Koehler (Investor and former director at Flixbus & Lufthansa), Krischan von Moeller (Paragon Partners)

Augustus, the global dollar bank led by Ferdinand Dabitz, Joshua Becker, Simon Wimmer, Peter Mosebjane Lieck, announced a $180 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Hummingbird, QED, existing investors, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Circle, and Deel. The round also received backing from leading fintech and AI founders, including David Velez (Nubank), Karim Atiyeh (Ramp), Sean Neville (Circle), Alex Bouaziz (

Genius AI, building technology that makes every business the smartest version of itself, led by Danielle Cohen-Shohet & Leah Cohen-Shohet, has announced its Series D at a $1.15 billion valuation, bringing the total capital raised to more than $125 million. The round was led by Lux Capital, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Imaginary Ventures, 2048 Ventures, L Catterton Growth Fund, and StepStone Private Ventures. The company is also introducing Genius AI as i

Atoms, building physical automation to transform industry and move the world, led by Travis Kalanick, has announced a $1.7B equity investment with lead investor a16z and Ben Horowitz joining the board. As part of this investment, the various businesses were consolidated into a single Atoms equity structure. Marc and Ben have shared a long-standing relationship, and a partnership at Uber came remarkably close in 2011. Responsibility for the missed opportunity has long been deb

Cascade, the AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms led by Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital, shuckerVC, G2C Ventures, and Snowball VC. In construction, some of the biggest opportunities are often identified long before a formal request for proposals (RFP) is issued. By the time projects become publicly available, key decisions m

Gritt, AI that does the hardest work in the hardest places, led by Puneet Puri and Vishal Dugar, has launched with $32.4M in pre-seed and Series A funding. The $26M Series A was led by Obvious Ventures, with participation from Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments, and support from previous investors First Round Capital, Climactic, Congruent Ventures, and VSC Ventures. Gritt’s robotic arms and AI systems integrate with existing jobsite equipment, including skid

Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots led by Artem Sokolov and the team, announced a $152 million Series A financing at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. This funding brings the total amount raised to date to $270 million. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures. The investment marks a significant milestone for the European techn

Infinity, developing a generative optimization engine that automatically improves computational kernels to accelerate AI training and inference, led by Jeremy Nixon, has raised $15 million in seed funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. The round included significant participation from Touring Capital, along with Principal VC, executives at major chip companies, researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic, and other prominent angel investors. The funding will support the ex

Natural, powering agentic payments, led by Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, and Walt Leung, has raised a $30M Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued participation by all major investors. The round was raised when the company was 193 days old and brings Natural’s total funding to over $40M. The round was supported by Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, Restive, SV Angel, Darragh Buckley (CEO of Increase), Pablo Palafox (CEO of HappyRobot), Pau

Skyfall AI, a neolab building systems for the first autonomous enterprise led by Sam Pasupalak, Kaheer Suleman, and Sumit Pasupalak, has emerged from stealth with an undisclosed amount of funding from Fidelity, Inovia Capital, Touring Capital, M13, NextView Ventures, and Garage Capital. Skyfall was founded by the team behind Maluuba, the deep learning research lab acquired by Microsoft in 2017. The company aims to move beyond the limitations of today's Large Language Models (

CuspAI, building AI-powered materials discovery, led by Dr Chad Edwards and Prof. Max Welling, has launched the ‘AI Materials Foundry’, a global network of data, labs, compute, and scientific expertise for the design of new materials, alongside announcing its $450 million fundraise led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with significant participation from Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions. The round values Cusp at $2.6 billion and will allow the company to move faster still across the U

General Compute, building the world's fastest AI cloud, led by Finn Puklowski and Jason Goodison, has announced a committed debt facility of up to $400 million from Upper90 Capital Management, LP (“Upper90”). The financing begins at $100 million and scales with customer demand, allowing General Compute to quickly build one of the world’s largest inference neoclouds to deliver AI results 16x faster than current GPUs. $400M Debt Facility to Expand AI Compute Infrastructure. Ge

Runta, building an agent execution layer for token efficiency, secret protection, and governed access, led by Guanlan Dai, has raised $20M in seed funding led by Martin Casado at Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Ali Ghodsi, Ram Shriram, and Thomas Wolf. The foundation of modern software infrastructure has long relied on systems that enforce security, reliability, and governance before applications execute. Technologies such as edge proxies,

microagi, deploying embodied intelligence into the operations that run the physical world, then turns what it learns there into research that compounds, led by Bercan Kilic, Nico Nußbaum, Yoan Iliev, and Anton Poletaev, has raised $55 million in seed funding, the largest seed round in German history. The round was led by Hummingbird, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, and redalpine. It comes roughly ten months after the company was founded by form

Fireworks, the frontier platform for training and inference on open-weight models at scale, led by Lin Qiao, Benny Chen, Chenyu Zhao, Dmytro Dzhulgakov, Dmytro Ivchenko, James Reed, and Pawel Garbacki, has announced a $1.505 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, with participation from Evantic Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nvidia, 20VC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and others. This milestone c

Bunkerhill Health, empowering clinical and operational teams to build and deploy AI agents to bring their best ideas to life, led by Nishith Khandwala and David Eng, has announced the close of its Series B funding round, led by Khosla Ventures, with continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. The Series B brings Bunkerhill Health's total funding to date, including its Seed and Series A rounds, to $55 million, reflecting growing inv

Meticulous, radically accelerating the pace of software development for every company in the world, led by Gabriel Spencer-Harper and Quentin Spencer-Harper, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Chemistry. Comprehensive testing is essential for shipping software rapidly with AI. Without high confidence in test coverage, development velocity is limited regardless of how quickly code can be generated. Achieving that level of confidence requires testing at a far greater sc