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Thatch, building a healthcare system people love, led by Chris Ellis and Adam Stevenson, has raised a $108 million Series C funding round, bringing Thatch's valuation to $1 billion. The funding comes from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Avid Ventures, Quiet Capital, SemperVirens, and QuantumLight, with strategic participation from Eli Lilly and Company, ADP Ventures, and Paychex. Putting Consumers in Cont

Jack & Jill, an AI agent for your career, led by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan, has raised a $40M Series A, led by Air Street Capital with participation from Creandum and Madrona, to move faster toward a job market where every person and company has an agent in their corner. Jack is an AI agent for candidates, while Jill is an AI agent for employers. When the two identify a potential match, they connect the candidate and company directly, removing the traditional applicatio

Buildots, building construction intelligence to power your whole operation, led by Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici, and Yakir Sudry, has announced $130 million in new funding, led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Mohari Ventures, Qumra Capital, Human Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital, Poalim Equity, and Viola Growth, bringing the total raised to $297 million. Construction leaders manage multi-billion-dollar projects with thousands of moving parts, o

Clay, helping you build systems to grow revenue, led by Kareem Amin and Varun Anand, has raised $115M in Series D funding at a $7.1B valuation, following 4x revenue growth in 2025. Wellington led the round, with participation from Sequoia, Stepstone, a16z perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution. More than 17,000 companies, including 80% of the Forbes AI50 and customers such as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Visa,

Forus, accelerating medicine for the people, led by Sahir Jaggi and the team, has raised $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bain Capital Ventures, with every existing institutional investor reinvesting, including Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Avra, Human Capital, Neo, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel. Forus has now raised more than $300 million in total funding to build the AI network for medicine. Medicine

CloudNC, the technology company that created the leading AI software for precision machining, led by Theo Saville, Chris Emery, and the team, has raised $20 million in new investment capital. The funding is led by Nimble Ventures, a US-based venture investor, with participation from other investors including Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneurs First, and LM Ventures, Lockheed Martin’s venture capital fund. The investment will accelerate adoption of CloudNC’s AI solutions

Rebaba, the Swedish energy technology, led by Paula Runsten and Felix Kruse, has raised $4.6 million (SEK 44.1 million) through an oversubscribed seed round led by Sistafund, alongside EIT Urban Mobility, with participation from existing shareholders and new European investors. The financing will support Rebaba’s mission to deliver circular battery energy storage systems that address rising demand for stable, cost-effective energy while reducing climate impact. Rebaba combine

Fusionality, building integrated operations technology for fusion devices, led by Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, has raised a $3.7 million (CHF 3 million) pre-seed round from Founderful and Playfair. Sometimes the right startup idea takes years to find. For Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, it emerged from years of solving the same problem for fusion companies. Fusion developers repeatedly told them they wanted to buy components for their control systems, but few suppliers

Atira, building Multi-Agent Orchestration for Industrial Sales Processes, led by Florian Diegruber and August DuMont Schütte, has announced a $15M Seed round led by Accel, which, together with the previously unannounced pre-seed (UVC, Fortino Ventures, booom), brings total funding to $17.5M. The round includes industry leaders like Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Marc Bitzer (CEO of the Whirlpool Corporation), Dr. Markus Flik (multiple industrial boards), and Bastian Nominacher (co-f

Sirdab, simplifying commerce & logistics through technology, led by Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by new investor Elm, the PIF-backed digital solutions company, and existing investor BECO Capital. Other backers include Y Combinator, COTU Ventures, and D Global Ventures. Founded in 2022, Sirdab gives businesses a single platform to access, manage, and scale logistics, covering warehousing, transportation

Octave.energy, providing cutting-edge energy management and storage systems, led by Maxime Snick, Nicolas Quintin, and the team, has raised €10 million in Series A funding to accelerate its expansion across Europe and further develop its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and Energy Management System (EMS) solutions. The round combines equity and flexible debt financing and was led by SPDG Growth, an investor in Octave.energy since its seed round, with participation from im

SeatPin, the ticket marketplace built for fans, led by Galin Ananiev, has introduced PinAI, an AI-powered assistant that turns the search for any ticket into a simple conversation. Sold-out doesn’t have to mean out of luck. PinAI lets fans describe the event they’re looking for, by text or voice, and searches for relevant ticket options. Instead of scrolling through social media, websites, and ticket listings, users can simply ask for what they want, whether it’s two tickets

Metriport, building healthcare data infrastructure for next-generation care delivery, led by Dima Goncharov, Colin Elsinga, and Matt Davis-Ratner, has raised $26 million in new funding to give clinicians a secure, comprehensive picture of their patients’ health history and what’s most relevant in the moment, right at the point of care. The round, led by TJ Parker, general partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS and Y Combinator, brings the company’s total funding to

Onos Health, turning behavioral health noise into clarity and action, led by Akshay Agrawal, Josh Levitan, Suhaas Prasad, and the team, has raised a $17 million Series A financing round led by Costanoa, with participation from Flare Capital Partners and strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures. The financing follows strong commercial momentum, with leading U.S. health plans such as Aetna using Onos’ AI platform to improve behavioral health outcomes while reducing overal

Certain Energy, the British long-duration energy storage company, led by Tim Von Werne and the team, has announced it has received £10m Series A funding for its pioneering manganese flow battery technology. The investment will be used to commercialise Certain Energy’s technology and prepare it for deployment to stabilise grids and provide power during periods of low renewables production. The funding round, led by the British Business Bank with participation from Centrica plc

eComID, the shopping passport for the internet, led by Oscar Rundqvist, Otto Nordgren, Patrick Samuel Rengifo, Erika Markör, and Jaime Ferrando Huertas, has raised a $17 million seed round led by Systemiq Capital, with participation from Regeneration.VC, Course Corrected, Stadium, and returning investor CapitalT. Shopper Context for eCommerce. AI is transforming how consumers discover and purchase products, but most online shopping experiences still begin with limited context

Hypercubic, Accelerating Mainframe and COBOL Modernization with Agentic AI, led by Aayush Naik and Sai Gurrapu, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding, led by CIV, with participation from Y Combinator, Afore Capital, Multimodal Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Epsilon Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, and others, alongside our angels including Kaz Nejatian (CEO, Opendoor), Venky Harinarayan (Co-Founder, Walmart Labs), Gokul Rajaram (Board, Coinbase & Pinterest), Henri Stern (Co-Founder,

Rillet, the AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform for modern finance teams, led by Nicolas Kopp and Stelios Modes, has announced a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1 billion valuation, with participation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Global Equities, Bain Capital Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Battery Ventures, FirstMark, Scale Venture Partners, and Creandum. The round is Rillet’s third in the last year and brings total funding to more than $200 mi

Reservoir, the world's first predictive water heater, has raised an $8 million seed round, led by Asymmetric Capital Partners, and joined by Founder Collective, which led the pre-seed round in 2024, and MCJ. Reservoir is focused on making home electrification easier and more affordable, starting with residential hot water. The company has installed its smart, high-efficiency water heaters in nearly 100 homes across the Boston area and plans to expand into additional homes and

Bios Life, the intelligent OS for cancer surveillance led by Ryan Richardson, Zach Taylor, Dr. Logan Frank, MD, and the team, has emerged from stealth with $25 million in seed financing to build a more personalized and continuous approach to cancer screening and survivorship care. The seed round was led by Redmile, Vsquared Ventures, and Kindred Capital, supported by a syndicate of leading healthcare and technology investors across the United States and Europe. Bios Life is d