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Dream, a product and research company that automates the design and engineering of the built world, led by Andy Elder and Arjun Mathur, has emerged from stealth today with $17 million in seed funding. The round included investment from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, XYZ, and Zigg Capital, among others. Trained on the largest known dataset of real, permitted buildings, Dream's models reason about the physical world the way large language models reason about text. Dream

Vera Health, providing evidence-based clinical answers, led by Maxime Allouch and Taieb Bennani, announced a $28.5 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures, with participation from Mantis VC and SV Angel. Existing investors Y Combinator and Gradient tripled down, bringing the company's total funding to $32 million. Vera Health has grown from a few thousand users to more than 800,000 clinicians in a year, reaching healthcare professionals across 190 countries, largely throug

BioStack, a healthcare technology company, led by Parth Patwa and Sanat Mishra, has announced that it's launching a data infrastructure network to power the next era of medicine. It spans a global footprint across the U.S., India, Brazil, and Argentina, with over 100 million de-identified patient records. The company also announced $9.5 million in seed funding led by Peak XV, Afore Capital, DCVC, Emerson Collective, SV Angel, Verdict Capital, Streamlined Ventures, and Y Combi

Mach9, the AI CAD software for civil engineering, led by Alex Baikovitz, Haowen Shi, Michael Mong, and Zachary Sussman, has raised a $34 million Series A co-led by First Round Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Prudence and continued participation from Quiet Capital. The new financing brings Mach9’s total funding to $49 million. The company will use the capital to expand its AI software for surveying and civil engineering as America faces a growin

Siloton, building the world’s smallest optics for the world’s largest health problems, led by Alasdair Price and the team, has been awarded a major contract to accelerate the development of its groundbreaking handheld eye imaging system, which makes the detection and monitoring of retinal diseases more accessible to patients. Siloton, a med-tech start-up, has secured £8.4 million from Innovate UK to accelerate the development and clinical trials of its GiraffeOCT optical cohe

CollectiveX Health, a women's health and performance intelligence platform, led by Lindsey Abramo, Stacy Sims, PhD, and Angelica Marden, has emerged from stealth with a $3.2 million oversubscribed pre-seed round, co-led by Council Capital and Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund, with participation from SoGal Ventures, Emerson Collective, Muse Capital, and Segal Ventures. CX was built to address gaps in women’s health research, where historical underrepresentation in clinical

Duvo, the enterprise execution OS, led by Tomáš Čupr, Marek Paris, and the team, has raised a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Northzone, and Credo Ventures. The round brings Duvo's total funding to $48 million and will fund its global expansion, starting with retailers and CPG companies. Two executives lead the expansion. Michael Green joins from Databricks as Chief Commercial Officer. He previously ser

Scarlet, building a global medical device certification built for AI, led by James Dewar and Jamie Cox, has raised $50m in Series B funding, led by Headline, with participation from existing investors Kindred Capital, Creandum, Atomico, and Entrepreneurs First (EF), and new investor Notion Capital. Scarlet is accelerating AI medical device certification, helping developers cut a year or more from certification timelines and reduce product-update cycles from months to weeks a

Nearly half of B2B invoices in Western Europe are paid late, with 6% written off as losses. Late payments contribute to one in four EU bankruptcies. SmallClaims, a Copenhagen-based legal tech company founded in 2021, led by Christian Olson, has raised €2 million in a seed round led by Vendep Capital to make even the smallest court cases economical with AI agents. More than €930 billion in EU claims are written off annually as SMEs abandon small claims that are too costly to p

Vitalize, transforming how health systems optimize labor, led by Veeraj Shah and Sanketh Andhavarapu, has raised a $31M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from Norwest Ventures, Y Combinator, .406 Ventures, Constellation Ventures, and the MemorialCare Innovation Fund. Healthcare staffing faces a real-time coordination challenge similar to air traffic control, yet hospitals lack a centralized system to manage it. Staffing coordinators often rely on spreadsheets, pho

Rivercell, building the AI virtual cell to decipher biology and disease, led by Yann Fleureau and Éric Durand, has announced a $25 million seed round led by HV. HCVC, Alven, and Bpifrance Digital Venture also participated in the round, which will fund the scale-up of Rivercell’s proprietary data generation platform, the expansion of its wet lab in Paris (a lab working with chemicals and biological samples), and the launch of its AI Virtual Cell program. As an indication-agnos

Healthleap, a clinical AI platform that screens patients for conditions that often go undiagnosed, led by Josiah Meyer and Jemima Meyer, has raised $38 million in combined seed and Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, and Hummingbird Ventures. Healthleap helps care teams identify at-risk patients earlier by reviewing their complete medical records daily. The funding will support expansion into more conditions and team growth across key functions. The Pr

Startup Policy Forum, a vital bridge between the startup community and policymakers, led by Shweta Rajpal Kohli, Avantika Gode, and Shubhangi Poddar, has launched DeepVerse, its centre for deeptech Innovation, bringing together investors, deeptech founders, policymakers, global technology companies, and academia to support the development of India’s deeptech ecosystem. DeepVerse will focus on policy, research and collaboration across 10 deeptech sectors, from semiconductors a

Vocca, the AI platform medical practitioners rely on to speak with their patients, led by Eliott Hoffenberg and Hugo Danet, has announced a $20 million Series A led by Norrsken VC, with participation from Heal Capital, Speedinvest and Firstminute Capital, and angel investors including the founders of Alan and Datadog. Total funding to date is $25 million. Vocca Leads with National Deployments as the Category Matures. Vocca’s AI phone assistant automates inbound calls for heal

Risotto, the AI-native autonomous help desk, has announced the launch of its Autonomous IT Engineer. The new co-pilot can handle complex Tier-2 requests by investigating unfamiliar issues, analyzing logs, and executing fixes with human approval. It also turns successful resolutions into reusable workflows, reducing the need for repeated manual intervention. Automated IT’s Problem: Low Solve Rate for Most Edge Cases. Traditional IT automation typically handles basic Tier-1 r

Breye Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing oral therapeutics for the early treatment of retinal diseases, led by Ulrik Mouritzen, MD, EMBA, and the team, has raised an oversubscribed €67.5 million Series A financing round. The round was co-led by new investor Mission BioCapital and existing investor Novo Holdings, with participation from existing investor Sound Bioventures and additional new investors including the Ljungström family office, Inno

Metaview, the Agentic Recruiting Platform built for radically efficient hiring, end-to-end, led by Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh, has raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, with participation from GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural, and Garuda Ventures, bringing the total funding to $110M. More than 7,000 companies now use Metaview for hiring. Over the past year, the company has expanded from capturing hiring conversations to de

SereneDB, the fastest search & analytics database in the world, led by Alexander Malandin and Andrey Abramov, has launched Krummelanke, the first production-ready version of its real-time search analytics database, data infrastructure designed from the ground up for the workload that will define the next decade of computing: fleets of AI agents querying massive enterprise data at machine speed. SereneDB Krummelanke is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and available now

Reverion, which builds reversible fuel cell power plants for decentralized energy supply, led by Stephan Herrmann, Felix Fischer, Jeremias Weinrich, Maximilian Hauck, and Luis Poblotzki, has closed a Series B funding round of $175 million to scale production of its dispatchable, carbon-negative power plants. The round is led by Kembara, Mundi Ventures’ European scale-up fund that backs breakthrough deeptech and climate technologies. Allianz, KfW Capital, Aurum Impact and Carb

HiringCafe, an agentic job discovery platform, led by Ali Mir and Hamed Nilforoshan, has raised $6.8 million in pre-seed funding led by Spark Capital, along with Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens, and angel investors from ZipRecruiter and Indeed. The company is also launching its AI Talent Agent, allowing anyone to create AI agents to search across millions of jobs on their behalf. Jobseekers’ Problem: Millions of Applicants Fighting for a Fraction of Roles Legacy job board