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CurifyLabs, powering a new generation of personalized therapies, led by Charlotta Topelius, Niklas Sandler, and the team, has announced the closing of a $14 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Sandwater and HealthCap, with participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd.) and existing investors, including Lifeline Ventures. US customers and employees also participated in the round. The funding will support CurifyLabs' expansion in the U.S., streng

Wultra, building digital identity for today and the quantum era, led by Petr Dvorak, has announced a €6.8 million Series A funding round backed by lead investor Seventure Partners, followed by ARIADNEXT founders Marc Norlain and Guillaume Despagne and existing investors J&T Ventures and Elevator Ventures. The funding will accelerate the expansion of Wultra's digital identity platform, support international growth, and advance its post-quantum authentication capabilities. The

Leyden Labs, freeing humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses, led by Koenraad Wiedhaup, Ronald Brus, and the team, has announced a €40 million investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Invest-NL, Gates Foundation, ClavystBio, and others. The Company welcomes Ben Verwaayen as a new Supervisory Board member. Nominated by EIC Fund and Invest-NL, Mr. Verwaayen brings decades of international leadership experience, having served in senior executive and bo

Graph Therapeutics, decoding immune dysfunction at scale, led by Gregory Vladimer, PhD, Robert Sehlke, PhD, Prof. Berend Snijder, PhD, Bojan Vilagos, PhD, and Christophe Boudesco, PhD, has announced that Daphni, the Paris-based venture capital firm, has joined Graph’s investor syndicate to accelerate its internal pipeline. Daphni invests alongside continued participation from existing investors SquareOne, Merantix Capital, and NAVEC Investment Management, with additional non-

HealthLeap, a leading AI clinical screening startup, led by Josiah Meyer and Jemima Meyer, RD(SA), announced it has launched its AI-driven clinical screening platform across Houston Methodist’s system to help address this issue earlier and more consistently among at-risk inpatients. HealthLeap is the first and only validated AI-powered malnutrition screening tool with an EHR-integrated screening layer for hospitals. Developed by clinicians for clinicians, the platform continu

Tsuga, the enterprise observability platform that runs in your cloud, led by Gabriel-James Safar, Sébastien Deprez, and the team, has announced its Series A, led by Singular, with General Catalyst also participating, both of whom backed its $10 million seed round in December 2025. They are joined by new investors DST Global and Quantumlight, with Picus and Databricks also participating. The Problem. Observability has followed the same model for decades: telemetry is ingested

Tamarind Bio, building AI infrastructure for biotech R&D, led by Deniz Kavi, Sherry Liu, and the team, is integrating NVIDIA-optimized NIM microservices into the inference layer that powers the Tamarind platform. Building the Infrastructure for Agentic Biology. Advances in AI are rapidly transforming how new molecules, drug candidates, diagnostics, and biological tools are discovered and designed. Yet computational biology workflows often remain complex, requiring researchers

Probook, the AI operating system for home services, led by George Eliadis, Ben Cervantez, and Lewis Zhang, has announced $40M from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. Built by Operators. Probook was founded by a team with firsthand experience in the home services industry. Early experience in pressure washing, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical operations exposed the inefficiencies that service businesses face every day, inspiring the creation of a better solution. Founders

Timefold, developing vehicle routing and shift scheduling APIs for field service and workforce management, led by Maarten Vandenbroucke, Geoffrey De Smet, and the team, has raised a $13M Series A funding round led by Alstin Capital, with co-investor Kompas VC, and continued backing from existing investors Lakestar and Smartfin. Timefold provides scheduling and optimization infrastructure for field service and workforce management software. Following 4x ARR growth in 2025, th

Ralo, giving every borrower the savings the mortgage industry keeps for itself, led by Arjun Lalwani and Helly Shah, has raised a $2.9M seed round from Y Combinator, Manresa Ventures, Pack Ventures, and angels, including Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-winning director of Inside Job, and Ryan Frazier, co-founder and CEO of Arrived. Rebuilding the Mortgage Process. Ralo was created to modernize a mortgage process that remains slow, fragmented, and expensive. Borrowers often face e

Vali Health, building the future of home care operations, led by Serena Dang and Jason Wu, has emerged from stealth with $6 million in funding from Bonfire Ventures, Supernode, and Comma Capital, along with Jacquelyn Kung, an industry veteran who built two of the largest software platforms for home care. Vali’s AI agents enable home care agencies to automate workforce management and coordination, while maintaining trust and safety front and center. Modernizing Operations in H

Foundation Alloy, a foundation for the next industrial era, led by Jake Guglin, Erin McDevitt, Chris Schuh, and Tim Rupert, has announced $22 million in Series A financing to scale production on its MetalsFIRST™ platform, a fully integrated, solid-state metallurgy technology, to industrial volumes. The round was led by Voyager Ventures, with participation from Trust Ventures, Yamaha Motor Ventures, America’s Frontier Fund, Overlap Holdings, Material Impact, Engine Ventures, a

Tamarind Bio, building AI infrastructure for biotech R&D, led by Deniz Kavi, Sherry Liu, and the team, has been selected by Lilly TuneLab as a third-party technology partner to build, host, and operate the inference infrastructure layer for TuneLab2.0, which is now live. Lilly Launches Collaborative AI Drug Discovery Platform. Eli Lilly and Company has introduced Lilly TuneLab, a collaborative AI and machine learning platform designed to accelerate drug discovery across the

Sandstone, in-house counsel legal AI software, led by Nick Fleisher, Jarryd Strydom, Liam Germain, and Jessica Nguyen, has announced $30 million in Series A financing, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors. The Missing Layer In Legal AI. AI can now automate legal tasks like drafting, review, and research. But the knowledge that makes those tasks accurate- precedents, policies, workflows, and institutional know-how- often remains scatte

Cellares, the first Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO), providing global cell therapy development and manufacturing services through an Industry 4.0 approach to the mass manufacture of living drugs, led by Fabian Gerlinghaus and Omar Kurdi, has announced that ARK Invest has joined the company’s Series D financing with a $20 million investment, bringing the total Series D to $277 million. ARK joins a high-caliber group of Cellares investors, including

Companion.energy, the platform for power pioneers navigating the energy transition, led by Thomas Vyncke and Jonas Verstraeten, has announced the close of a €7.8 million seed round led by Realyze Ventures (Germany) and Pi Labs (United Kingdom), with participation from Asterion Ventures (France) and existing investors. Rapid Growth Driven by Enterprise Energy Management. Over the past year, the company increased both revenue and its customer base tenfold, surpassing €1 million

IMU Biosciences, decoding the immune system with unprecedented resolution and scale to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat disease, led by Adam Laing, Mario Cantero, John Baker, and Thomas Hayday, has successfully brought its Series A to over $53 million (£40 million) in an oversubscribed financing round, co-led by IQ Capital and Molten Ventures, and supported by The British Business Bank, and Meltwind alongside existing investors. Building a Comprehensive Map o

Atmo, transforming indoor and outdoor air quality data into clear, actionable decisions, has released its first year-long study of air quality in New York City. The timing is pointed: in February 2026, New York City was briefly ranked among the most polluted cities in the world, after an air quality alert blanketed the metro area amid high particulate levels. But even on ordinary days, individual exposure varies dramatically depending on where a person walks, commutes, and co

Adaptive Innovations, the AI-native healthcare provider rebuilding the way care is delivered in America, starting with home health, led by Alex Wendland, Logan Stinson, Ryan Tolsma, Hunter Stinson, and the team, has raised $50 million in Series A funding led by Felicis, with significant participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Optum Ventures, Sunflower Capital, Conviction, BoxGroup, Dorm Room Fund, and Constellation, alongside prominent angels across healthcare services and

H1, an AI-driven platform that integrates fragmented healthcare data to identify and match doctors across clinical trials, medical affairs, commercialization, referrals, and patient care, led by Ariel Katz and Ian Sax, has raised a $40M investment in a round led by CVS Health Ventures. The investment follows several successful collaborations between CVS Health and H1, including an AI model that significantly improved healthcare provider directory accuracy, helping patients fi