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Lightberry, the company building autonomous robots that live and work around people, led by Ali Attar, Stephan Koenigstorfer, and Stephan Wolski, announced that its Lumi line of humanoids has received approval from the U.S. Department of War (DoW). Following the approval, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau exempted Lumi from the FCC Covered List, making Lightberry the first, and currently only, humanoid robotics company to receive the exemption. How Lumi Ear

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

Sema4.ai, the enterprise AI agent company, led by Rob Bearden, Ram Venkatesh, and Paul Codding, has announced the latest release of its Enterprise AI Agent Platform, introducing new capabilities designed to address three of the biggest challenges enterprises face as they move AI agents into production: trusting their output, controlling costs as usage scales, and enabling AI across team-based work. The release enables teams to share and manage AI agents, skills, memories, dat

Formation Bio, a tech-driven, AI-native pharma company changing the way drug development is done, led by Ben Liu, Linhao Zhang, and the team, has announced the $600M Formation Bio Drug Development Accelerator Fund (the “Fund”), the latest step towards the ambition to build an enduring, AI-native pharmaceutical company. The Fund pairs dedicated capital with its drug development capabilities, team, and AI platform, allowing the company to acquire and advance more promising drug

Upwind, the cloud and AI security platform, led by Amiram Shachar, Tal Zur, and Lavi Ferdman, has announced $400M Series C funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from each and every one of Upwind’s investors: Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts, Craft, Salesforce Ventures, Alta Park, Picture Capital, Swish Ventures, Cerca Partners, TCV, Penny Jar, Leaders Fund, and new investor Canapi Ventures. This additional capital will fuel product and engineering growth

Nothreat, an AI-powered preemptive cybersecurity platform, led by Sergej Kostenko, Vojislav Simic, Lev Zabudko, and the team, has tested a way to identify suspicious activity before an AI-powered attack could spread. Nothreat Tests Digital Twins to Detect Early Signs of AI-Driven Cyberattacks. Anthropic research published on October 12 warned that poorly secured connected devices could potentially enable self-replicating AI to spread across networks, although real-world AI wo

Artiso, the AI operating system built for fashion teams, led by Sarah Iglesias Hiller, Lucas Pastur Romay, and Matthias Brenninkmeijer, has raised more than €3 million in a fully equity pre-seed round led by Criteria Venture Tech, fuelling the rapid growth it has built since emerging from stealth. Swanlaab Venture Factory and Bynd Venture Capital joined the round, alongside business angels David Tomás, co-founder of Cyberclick, and Nicolaj Reffstrup, founder and former CEO o

Rime, the leading developer of enterprise voice AI models, led by Lily Clifford, Brooke Larson, and Ares Geovanos, has launched Prism, the first fully customizable frontier speech-to-speech (S2S) model. Brands can run Prism entirely within their own infrastructure while maintaining control over their data, conversation latency, vocabulary, pronunciation, and safety guardrails. Enterprise Voice AI: Limitations of Rigid, Opaque Models. While speech-to-speech (S2S) models delive

Infisical, the security infrastructure developers love, led by Vlad Matsiiako, Tony Dang, and Maidul Islam, has raised a $40M Series B at a $600M valuation. The round was led by Elad Gil, doubling down since our Series A, with Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures tripling down. Gallery Ventures, Pace Capital, Dynamic Capital, and other investors also participated. Infisical's Growth and Financial Position. Infisical has grown while remaining focused on solving customer problems

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

General Compute, the world’s first heterogeneous inference cloud, Finn Puklowski and Jason Goodison, has announced $100M in Series A funding co-led by Blackbird and Abstract, along with Fuse Venture Partners, Village Global, and others. General Compute provides AI companies with on-demand access to GPUs and advanced inference chips through flexible cloud contracts. The company’s first major deployments are scheduled to go live in Q1 2027, with more than 50 MW of capacity in i

Arctic RAVN, manufacturing drone electronics that outperform the alternative and eliminate single-source dependency in your supply chain, led by Matti Vansén and the team, has received €2.5 million in investment commitments in five days. Arctic RAVN has invested more than €1 million in scaling production of its electronic speed controllers (ESCs), targeting tens of thousands of units by the end of 2026, with a significant share already reserved by customers. The company’s ne

Sonexos, pioneering plasma-based noise control, transforming how the world eliminates unwanted low-frequency sound in real environments, led by Mark Donaldson and the team, has announced CHF 5 million (approximately EUR 5.4 million / USD 6.1 million) in new equity financing. The Pre-Series A round was led by Valquest Partners, with participation from Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (Bosch Ventures) and industry angels and private investors. Fadi Noureddine, Founder and Mana

Helsing, designing new types of AI-defined autonomous systems across all domains, led by Torsten Reil, Dr. Gundbert Scherf, and the team, unveiled Contra, an AI-controlled autonomous air defence system designed to protect countries from scaled drone and missile attacks. The company also introduced two advanced interceptor missiles, AD-1 Inferno and AD-2 Ambush, designed to outmatch and outrun even the fastest jet-powered drone and cruise missile threats. Helsing Develops Cont

Nevis, the AI operating system for wealth, led by Mark Swan, Philipp Burda, and Ivan Chalov, has raised a $70 million Series B, led by EQT Ventures, with participation from Charles Schwab, Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, QuantumLight, and Ribbit Capital, bringing the total funding to $110 million in just two years since founding the company. Nevis is building an AI operating system for wealth management, integrating CRM, meeting intelligence, financial planning, and custodial workfl

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

Photon Bridge, redefining photonics integration, led by Paul Marchal and Rui Santos, has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers that will be needed to connect increasingly large clusters of AI processors. The round was co-led by new investors, the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and 360 Capital, with existing investors Innovation Industries, Faber, and Brabant Development Agency (BOM) also increasing their inves

Recursive, building the Eureka Machine, the self-improving superintelligence that automates the scientific method, led by Richard Socher and the team, has introduced Flint, a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model built for fast agentic coding on local hardware. Flint has 40 billion total parameters and activates just 2.5 billion per token, built from scratch in under four months. Recursive’s Flint, an MoE model with fewer than 50 billion parameters, matches dense models’ coding perf

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