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Suno , building a revolutionary creative platform powered by the world's best music model, led by Mikey Shulman, Martin Camacho, and Georg Kucsko, has secured  $250M Series C at a $2.45B post-money valuation, led by Menlo Ventures , with participation from NVentures  (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Hallwood Media , Lightspeed , and Matrix.  Music has always been humanity’s most powerful form of expression, yet creating it has often been inaccessible. Suno is changing that: ov

Jiga , an AI-native platform transforming the entire sourcing workflow, led by Adar Hay, Assaf Geuz, and Yonatan Wolowelsky, has closed a $12M Series A led by Aleph , with participation from Symbol  and Y Combinator . The team has spent years solving sourcing challenges, streamlining RFQ workflows, standardizing drawings, and enabling direct manufacturer communication, to ensure custom parts procurement no longer slows innovation in rockets, robots, satellites, and other cutt

Maxima , maxizing every company’s long-term financial performance by making their financial data accurate, accessible, and actionable through real-time accounting, led by Yogi Goel, Akshaya Srivatsa, and Jack Liao, has announced $41 million in Seed and Series A funding, led by Redpoint , Kleiner Perkins , and Audacious Ventures . The accounting function is under unprecedented strain: record-high restatements, record-low talent inflow, and rising complexity across standards an

Automat , simplifying business process automation, led by Gautam Bose and Lucas Ochoa, has raised  a $15.5M Series A led by  Felicis , with participation from  Initialized ,  Khosla Ventures , and  Y Combinator , with follow-on from K5 Global  and Input Capital , bringing the total capital raised to $19.25M. Automat delivers a simple way to build AI agents that operate computers like humans, offering a modern alternative to legacy RPA tools. Operators can demonstrate workflow

Doppel , defending your brand and people from social engineering attacks, led by Kevin Tian , Rahul Madduluri, Mike Ferrari, Bobby Ford, and others, has secured $70M Series C, led by returning investors Bessemer Venture Partners  alongside Andreessen Horowitz , South Park Commons , Script Capital , 9Yards Capital , Sozo Ventures , and Strategic Cyber Ventures . In addition, new investors include George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Aurum Partners, the invest

Condukt , the next-generation compliance platform for financial services, led by Paulo Guichard and Bhasker Rao, has secured  US$10 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners  and MMC Ventures , with participation from Cocoa Ventures . The funding will accelerate Condukt’s mission to reinvent KYB and make compliance a driver of growth. Launched in 2023, Condukt already powers compliance for leading fintechs like Wise, Tide, Mollie, Rakuten, Shift4, Flatpay, and myP

Agentio , the AI-native platform for creator advertising, led by Jonathan Meyers , Arthur Leopold , Catherine Etter Bailey , Hilary Anne Hyman , and others, has raised a $40 million Series B led by Forerunner, with continued backing from Benchmark , Craft Ventures , AlleyCorp  and other leading investors, bringing the total funds raised to $56 million and valuing the company at $340 million, just 2 years after launching the platform and following 5x year-over-year growth. Cre

Guardio , protecting your entire digital world by securing every account and interaction, led by Amos Peled, Michael Vainshtein, Daniel Sirota, Meital Baruch, Sharon Cohen, and others, has raised  $80 million in a funding   round led by ION Crossover Partners , with participation from existing investors, including Union Tech Ventures , Vintage Investment Partners , and Emerge . The funding follows Guardio’s recent partnership with Lovable , the fast-growing AI software compan

Quindar , bringing cloud-native thinking to space operations, led by Nate Hamet, Sunny Bhagavathula, David Lawrence, Zach Meza, Shaishav Parekh, and Matt Regan, has secured $18M in Series A funding led by  Washington Harbour Partners  with continued investment from  Booz Allen Ventures , FUSE , FCVC , and Y Combinator . The new funding will support the development of a state-of-the-art classified facility in the Denver area, expand commercial integrations, and grow the workfo

Sphere , the AI-native cross-border compliance engine, led by Nicholas Rudder, has raised $21 million in Series A, led by Andreessen Horowitz , with participation from Y Combinator  and Felicis Ventures . The raise reflects rising demand for scalable tax solutions as companies globalize earlier and face increasing regulatory complexity. Regulators are tightening enforcement, EU authorities now require platforms like Stripe and Adyen to report tax evasion, and many countries a

Cellbyte , AI agents for pharmaceutical drug launches, led by Felix Steinbrenner , Daniel Moreira , and Samuel M. , has secured   $2.75 million in seed funding led by Frontline Ventures , with participation from Y Combinator , Pace Ventures , Saras Capital , and Springboard Health Angels .  Fragmented data slows drug launches, leaving patients waiting over a year for life-saving treatments. Market Access teams spend a huge amount of time and money assembling regulatory, prici

Infracost , enabling engineers to proactively find and fix cloud cost issues, led by Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, and Alistair Scott, has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Pruven Capital  with participation from Y Combinator , Sequoia Capital , Mango Capital, Alumni Ventures , TIAA Ventures  (a strategic investment from TIAA’s venture arm), and angel investors Paul Copplestone (co-founder of Supabase) and Timothy Chen (Essence VC).  Sudip Chakrabarti  has

Pionix , making EV charging reliable, interoperable, and future-ready for everyone, led by Dr. Marco Möller, Johanna Claussen, Cornelius Claussen, Markus Juhr-De Benedetti, and Tim Valbert, has raised  over €8 million led by Ascend Capital Partners , with participation from Start-up BW Seed Fonds , managed by MBG Baden-Württemberg , Pale blue dot , Vireo Ventures , Axeleo Ventures , and further investors. Despite major progress in e-mobility, EV charging remains fragmented du

Peec AI , the marketing platform built for the age of AI search, led by Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwonia, and Daniel Drabo, Peec AI has raised  a $21 million in Series A, led by European VC firm Singular , with participation from Antler , Combination VC , identity.vc , and S20. The round follows the seed financing led by 20VC in July 2025 and brings total funding to $29 million, marking one of the largest Series A financings in AI search to date. AI search is becoming the new d

Leanspace , a European satellite operations technology provider, led by Guillaume Tanier, Alvaro Alonso Ruiz, and Gert Villemos, has raised  €10 million in Series A funding from new strategic investors: ISAI Cap Venture , Capgemini’s corporate venture arm, Qwaltec, 42CAP , Karista , and Arnaud Guérin, co-founder of military AI platform Preligens. Additional non-dilutive funding comes from Caisse d’Epargne and Bpifrance via the France 2030 strategic investment plan. The space

Luminal , compiling AI models to give you the fastest, highest throughput inference cloud in the world, led by Joe Fioti, Matthew Gunton, and Jake Stevens, has secured  a $5.3 million seed round led by Felicis Ventures , with incredible angels like Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and many more. Compute demand is soaring, and chips are advancing faster than ever. But software isn’t keeping pace, leaving large portions of modern accelerators underutilized. Reaching peak performan

Artios Pharma Limited , a biopharmaceutical company committed to realizing the therapeutic power of targeting the DNA damage response (“DDR”) in cancer, led by Michael T. Andriole, Christine Silverstein, Graeme Smith, Ian Smith, and others, has announced  the successful close of an oversubscribed $115 million Series D financing, co-led by founding investor SV Health Investors  and new investor RA Capital Management , with participation from new investor Janus Henderson Invest

Sakana AI , building a world-class AI research lab in Tokyo, led by David Ha, Llion Jones, and Ren Ito, has raised 20 Billion Yen (135 million US Dollars) from new and existing investors, including Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group  (MUFG), Khosla Ventures , Factorial, Macquarie Capital , Fundomo , Mouro Capital , New Enterprise Associates , Geodesic Capital , Lux Capital , Ora Global , MPower Partners , Shikoku Electric Power , and In-Q-Tel (IQT) . Record levels of capital are

Hummink , developer of High Precision Printing for Advanced Electronics and a spin-off of the prestigious physics lab of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and PSL University, led by Amin M'BARKI, Pascal Boncenne, Pr. Lydéric Bocquet, Alessandro Siria, Antoine Niguès, and Christophe Bureau, has secured  €15 million to expand the deployment of their patented High-Precision Capillary Printing (HPCaP) technology, co-led by  KBC Focus Fund ,  Cap Horn , and  Bpifrance , with foll

Catalyx Space , a space infrastructure company providing turnkey solutions for orbital missions across industries, led by Rifath Shaarook, Clinton Antony, Keerthan Chand Aluvala, Saqib Hussain, Niharika Naveen, and Thaneem Rayan, has secured  $5.4 million in seed funding led by venture capital firm Outlander VC , with participation from Arka Venture Labs , Lex Reddy, KDX Management LLC , Together Fund , Higher Life Ventures , Nivesha Ventures , Prana Tech Ventures , Bria, HF0