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TENEX.AI , the first leading AI-native, human-led SOC that triages every alert, investigates every threat, and frees your team for strategic work, led by Eric Foster, Venkata Koppaka, Ryan Shreve, Edwin Solis, Jan Grzymala-Busse, Elias “Lou” Manousos, and the team, has raised  $250M in Series B funding led by Crosspoint Capital Partners .  Nearly one year since entering the market, TENEX has achieved rapid growth, generating $25M+ in contracted revenue, scaling headcount by 3

Cognichip , builders of ACI® Artificial Chip Intelligence, led by Faraj Aalaei, Ehsan Kamalinejad, Simon Sabato, and the team, has raised  $60 million in new funding led by Seligman Ventures , with notable participation from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who will be joining Cognichip’s board. Umesh Padval, a managing partner at Seligman, will also join the board. Cognichip is developing a deep learning model to assist engineers in designing next-generation chips, tackling a long-stan

Antaris , simplifying and automating the design, simulation, and operation of satellite missions, cutting time-to-orbit by 2X and reducing lifetime cost by 10X, led by Thomas Barton, Karthik Govindhasamy, John Trionfo, and the team, has announced  the first close of a $28 Million Series A funding round led by WestWave Capital  with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures , other insiders, and new investors. The fundraise follows a breakout year for Antaris, driven by stro

Centivax , a clinical-stage company on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to a post-pathogen humanity, led by Jacob Glanville , and the team, has announced  the closing of a $37 million oversubscribed financing led by Structure Fund, with participation from  Meiji Seika Pharma Co. , Ltd., Sigmas Group, Kendall Capital Partners , and Patrick(Stripe) and John Collison. Meiji Group holds the No. 1 market share for influenza vaccines in Japan.  This financing builds o

ScaleOps , innovators in cloud resource automation, led by Yodar Shafrir and the team, has raised  $130M in Series C funding led by Insight Partners , with participation from all of the existing investors, Lightspeed Venture Partners , NFX , Glilot Capital Partners , and Picture Capital . This round brings the total funding to $210M and values the company at more than $800M. This milestone underscores ScaleOps’ market leadership, having pioneered the Autonomous Cloud and AI I

Starcloud , building data centers in space, led by Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, and Adi Oltean, has raised  $170 million in Series A  led by Benchmark  and EQT Ventures , valuing the company at $1.1 billion.  Starcloud has raised $200 million to date and launched its first satellite equipped with an Nvidia H100 GPU in November 2025. Later this year, Starcloud 2 will deploy a more powerful satellite featuring multiple GPUs, including an Nvidia Blackwell chip, an AWS server b

TerraSpark , powering Earth from space, led by Jasper Deprez, Dr. Sanjay Vijendran, Matthias Laug, and the team, has completed  its pre-seed financing round, raising over five million euros from Daphni , Sake Bosch, angel investor alliance better ventures, the Hans(wo)men Group , and other strategic business angels. The financing will be used to further develop the technology and prepare for initial pilot applications and live tests. Europe’s Energy Challenge Europe’s power g

Midas , the standard for onchain investment products, led by Dennis Dinkelmeyer, Fabrice Grinda, Romain Bourgois, and the team, has announced  a $50M Series A led by RRE and  Creandum , with participation from  Framework Ventures ,  HV Capital ,  Ledger Cathay ,  North Island Ventures ,  Coinbase Ventures ,  Franklin Templeton , GSR, and others across crypto-native, institutional, and venture capital. Alongside this, Midas is launching Midas Staked Liquidity (MSL), the core

IQM , building full-stack superconducting quantum computers for HPCs, researchers, and enterprises, led by Dr. Jan Goetz, and the team, has secured  a €50 million financing package from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. The facility will accelerate IQM’s technology roadmap, strengthen R&D, enable expansion into new markets, and reinforce its leadership in quantum computing. The facility was secured ahead of IQM’s planned merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp (RAAQ) t

Zalos , automating repetitive finance workflows, without having to change your finance systems, led by William Fairbairn and Hung Hoang, has raised a $3.6 million in seed led by 14 Peaks  with participation from Cohen Circle , 20VC , and notable angels. Finance teams rely on complex ERPs, yet still manage manual, repetitive work across disconnected systems. Zalos automates these workflows using computer agents, without requiring system replacement. Modern finance teams operat

Mountly , a food ordering and discovery platform for mountain resort tourists, founded by Katia Sogreeva, begins a pilot in three French Alps locations, backed by a €600,000 investment from Amitours . The app launches with hot meals from local restaurants and pre-assembled grocery boxes across Chamonix, Portes du Soleil, and Les Trois Vallées, targeting a tourism market that attracts over 80 million visitors to the Alps annually. The platform aims to unify fragmented local re

Xona Space , unlocking the potential of tomorrow’s technologies by providing the most robust and accurate navigation and timing services on Earth, led by Brian Manning , Tyler Reid , Jay Wakenshaw , Christina Youn , Adrien Perkins , and Allison Hampel , has raised  a $170 million Series C round led by Mohari Ventures Natural Capital with additional support from Craft Ventures , ICONIQ , Woven Capital , NGP Capital , Samsung Next , Hexagon , and other new and existing investor

Cohere , building foundational models and AI solutions that help teams turn everyday effort into extraordinary impact, led by Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang, and the team, has announced  Transcribe, a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that is open source and available  for download . Speech is rapidly emerging as a core modality for AI-driven workflows, from transcription and analytics to real-time support agents. Cohere developed Cohere Transcri

Inifinity Avionics , an Australian hardware company providing spaceflight-proven and qualified camera and processor systems for space missions worldwide, led by Igor Dimitrijevic  and the team, has announced  the full commercial availability of Aquila. Following a debut at IAC Sydney, the high-performance Aquila imaging system is now flight-ready, providing critical ‘eyes’ for the $14B Space Situational Awareness, In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) and Ren

EPIC Microsystems , a semiconductor company developing breakthrough power delivery solutions for AI infrastructure, led by Sabin Eftimie  and Wonyoung Kim , has raised  an oversubscribed $21 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development and commercialization of its vertical power delivery technology for next-generation AI compute platforms, led by Seligman Ventures , with participation from Intel Capital , AICONIC Ventures , Cambium Capital , and existing seed inv

Arbor , delivering clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions, led by Brad Hartwig, Andres Garcia-Clark, and the team, has announced  an agreement with GridMarket , an energy and infrastructure project facilitator, led by Nick Davis, to deliver up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of zero-emission power starting in 2029. GridMarket helps large energy users, such as data centers, manufacturers, and logistics providers, secure reliable and cost-effective power. Arbor

Glimpse , the AI platform for CPG and retail operations, led by Akash Raju, Anuj Mehta, and Kushal Negi, has raised  a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz  with continued participation from 8VC  and Y Combinator . The round comes less than a year after the previous financing and brings Glimpse’s total funding to $52 million. The capital will support scaling the platform as it evolves into a system of action for leading consumer brands. CPG is one of the largest ma

Renasens , a deep tech company revolutionising textile recycling through a proprietary, waterless supercritical CO2 platform, led by Jade Abir Bouledjouidja , Nora Eslander , and the team, has raised a €10 million seed round led by Extantia , with participation from Course Corrected VC  and continued backing from Norrsken Launcher . The funding, reportedly the largest hardware seed round in Europe this year, will be allocated toward implementing a pilot plant in Borås, Sweden

NoTraffic , a leading AI-powered mobility platform for traffic management, led by Tal Kreisler, Uriel Katz, Or Sela, and the team, has raised  a $90 million Series C funding round led by  PSG Equity , with participation from  M&G Investments , Grove Ventures , LifeX Ventures , Meitav Investment House , and Next Gear Ventures . With deployment projected to reach 1 in 10 traffic agencies across the U.S. and Canada by mid-2026, NoTraffic is becoming a core platform for transform

Ramon.Space , a leader in space computing infrastructure, led by Avi Shabtai and the team, and Ingrasys , a subsidiary of  Foxconn Technology Group  and the world’s largest manufacturer of server and storage platforms, led by Benjamin Ting, have announced  an expansion of their collaboration to develop data center infrastructure for space. As space data grows, Earth-based systems face limits in latency and bandwidth, driving the shift to space-based data centers for real-time