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Doss , helping transform and unleash your operations, led by Wiley Jones and Arnav Mishra, has raised  a $55M Series B, co-led by Madrona  and Premji Invest , with Greyhound , Commerce Ventures , and Intuit Ventures  as new investors, and continued investment from Theory , General Catalyst , Contrary Capital , Mintaka , Pathlight VC , and 47th Street Partners. Karan Mehandru, Managing Director at Madrona, will be joining the company's board. Inventory-driven businesses are fa

Shepherd , smarter underwriting powered by data and technology, led by Justin Levine, Mo Mahallawy, and the team, has raised  a $42M Series B, led by Intact Private Capital , the venture arm of one of the world's largest commercial insurers, with continued participation from Spark Capital , Costanoa Ventures , and more, bringing the total funding to $67M. While much of the AI boom focuses on compute, models, and software, a critical challenge lies in insuring the physical inf

Spade , the data and AI platform for modern finance, led by Oban MacTavish , Tess Bloch , and the team, has raised  a $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT , with participation from Andreessen Horowitz , Flourish , Gradient , NAventures  (National Bank of Canada’s corporate venture arm), and Y Combinator . While transaction volumes have surged, the underlying data infrastructure has remained largely unchanged for decades, leaving key details incomplete or inaccurate due to misaligne

Zevero , a carbon management platform, led by Shigeo Taniuchi, Yuya Kuratomi, George Wade, and Ben Richardson, has secured  $7 million in new investment, bringing its total funding to $14 million to date. The round includes participation from Spiral Capital , Gazelle Capital , and Deep 30 , and it follows a period of rapid growth for the company, with annual recurring revenue increasing 400% year-on-year and its customer base doubling . Zevero has also acquired sustainability

JAAQ , the clinically governed digital health and engagement platform, led by Danny Gray, Alex Packham, Dan Cook, Tiff Werdmuller, Saurabh Johri, and the team, has raised  $17 million from Meridian Health Ventures , Fuel Ventures , Bolt Angels, and Guinness Ventures . JAAQ leverages an AI-native approach, offering a bespoke library of over 10,000 clinically reviewed videos that integrate mental health content directly into user, patient, and customer journeys, driving impact

Finfinity , a bootstrapped digital lending marketplace, led by Pradeep Chauhan, Mohit Jain, Vijay Kadam, Saaurabh R Pradhaan, and the team, has USD 2.4 million in a seed funding round led by the Mankind Pharma Promoter’s Family Office. The round also saw participation from Vi-John Group, Sanjay Singhvi, Bavadeep Reddy, Malani Ventures Pvt Ltd (Sanjay Shah Family office), Gurshant Singh Bhatia, Sunny Bhatia, Upkaran Singh Chawla, Harbir Dhingra, and employees of the company. 

Littlebird , the AI assistant that thinks like you, led by Alap Shah, Alexander Green, and Naman Shah, has raised  $11 million led by Lotus Studio, with participation from Lenny Rachitsky, Scott Belsky, Gokul Rajaram, Justin Rosenstein, Shawn Wang, and Russ Heddleston.  Modern computing increasingly feels adversarial, driven by attention-driven business models that prioritize engagement over user experience. What was once envisioned as a tool to augment the mind has, in many

PointOne , rethinking how firms run with AI, led by Jeremy Ben-Meir , Katon Luaces , and the team, has raised  $16 million in Series A led by 8VC , with continued participation from Bessemer Venture Partners , General Catalyst , Y Combinator , and existing investors, bringing the total funding to $20 million. Law firms rely heavily on time data, yet the tools used to capture it have long been inadequate, limiting pricing, staffing, and profitability decisions. Founded three y

Interloom , the enterprise operations platform that captures expert knowledge and transforms it into permanent memory for AI agents, led by Fabian Maximilian Jakobi , has announced  a $16.5 million seed round led by  DN Capital , with participation from  Bek Ventures  and existing investor  Air Street Capital .   As AI agents advance, enterprise deployment remains constrained by a critical gap: the absence of operational memory. Interloom addresses this challenge by processin

Dash0 , the first full OpenTelemetry-Native Observability tool out there, led by Mirko Novakovic , Ben Blackmore , and the team, has announced  a $110 million Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital . The round saw participation from additional new investor DTCP Growth , existing investors Accel , Cherry Ventures , and DIG Ventures , and strategic partners July Fund  and T.Capital  (Deutsche Telekom). The round values Dash0 at $1 billion, elevating it to unicorn statu

Paradigm AI , an AI-first workspace that enables fast, accurate research in spreadsheets, led by Anna Monaco and the team, has   announced new features for its AI platform built to eliminate manual research workflows. The company is also launching its free plan, giving anyone access to easily try Paradigm’s AI research agents. Manual research has become a competitive liability. Across industries like private equity and venture capital, thousands of hours are consumed by repet

CloudCruise , a developer platform for fast and reliable browser agents, led by Felix Eckert  and Adrian Ziegler , has raised  a 5M seed round, backed by Floating Point , Meridian Street Capital , Twine , Refract Ventures , and angels like Zack Lipton (CTO, Abridge) and David Singleton (fmr. CTO, Stripe). Healthcare software was built for human use, not automation. Workflows like prior authorizations, EHR note creation, and eligibility verification involve complex, multi-step

Hosted.ai , helping you turn your GPU infrastructure into a profitable AI cloud, led by Ditlev Bredahl , Narendar Shankar , Julian Chesterfield , and James Withall , has closed  a $19M seed funding round led by Creandum , with Repeat VC  following, and participation from existing investors People Ventures , Z21 Ventures , Golden Sparrow , Hersir Ventures , and Tekton . The problem: GPU Infrastructure is Inefficient. AI relies on GPUs, yet the current infrastructure is rigid a

Cleavr , an AI-powered cash collection platform, led by Antoine Grenard , Baptiste Nassoy , and Arthur Guerin , has raised  a pre-seed funding of €1 million, alongside  Kima Ventures ,  Better Angle ,  Another VC ,  Aonia Ventures ,  Super Capital , and business angels from Pennylane, MyUnisoft, Convelio, and others. A persistent challenge 94% of French companies face late payments, forcing finance teams to spend hours on manual accounts receivable tasks. Despite advances in

Bounti , an AI-native platform for operational execution in the physical economy, led by Deniz Bay, Ziar Khosrawi, and the team, has raised €4Million led by the pan-European VC Ventech , alongside IBB Ventures , Robin Capital , and Common Magic . Business angels include Paul Forster, founder of Indeed, and Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk, founders of Framer. AI has yet to fully deliver on its promise, especially in white-collar use cases, where scaling remains limited, and ROI oft

SuperSeed , backing technical founders bringing AI to the physical world, led by Mads Jensen and Dan Bowyer, has launched  Fund III, a seed-stage fund focused on Physical AI startups. The fund has secured a cornerstone commitment of up to £50 million from the  British Business Bank , which invested through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme. Christine Hockley of British Business Bank said SuperSeed’s backing will attract private capital to support applied physical AI comp

XBOW , transforming application security with AI-powered continuous offense, led by Oege de Moor, Nico Waisman, Niroshan Rajadurai, Jonaki Egenolf, and others, has raised  $120 million in Series C financing led by  DFJ Growth  and  Northzone , valuing the company at over $1 Billion. As part of DFJ Growth’s investment, Ramin Sayar will join XBOW’s board, bringing experience to scale enterprise growth. The round also includes Sofina , Alkeon Capital , and existing investors Alt

Manifold , building runtime security for AI agents on endpoints, led by Oleksandr Yaremchuk, Neal Swaelens, and Michael McKenna, has announced  the close of an $8 million seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures  with participation from Cherry Ventures , Rain Capital , and Modern Technical Fund , and notable angel investors including former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and former Google DeepMind CISO Vijay Bolina. The funding will accelerate development of Manifold’s agentic AI D

Tracebit , the answer to assume breach, led by Andy Smith and Sam Cox, has announced its Series A investment round, led by FirstMark  and joined by Accel , MMC Ventures , Tapestry VC , and CCL, with continued support from angel investors. This brings the total investment in Tracebit to $25M. Tracebit was founded three years ago on the belief that an “assume breach” mindset would become increasingly critical, with canary deployments designed to expose attackers the moment they

Ceramic AI , an AI-native search infrastructure company, led by Anna Patterson and Tom Costello, has unveiled Supervised Generation at NVIDIA GTC 2026, a system that augments large language model (LLM) outputs with real-time verification, citations, and confidence signals. Supervised Generation is model-agnostic, operating as a trust layer alongside any existing LLM infrastructure, with   NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano  as the featured verification engine.  As AI is deployed across h