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Boom Supersonic, America’s most vertically integrated aviation and energy company, led by Blake Scholl and the team, has unveiled its first complete supersonic turbine core, unveiled a 2GW turbine superfactory, and announced it is developing the world’s most advanced all-digital foundry, capable of casting the world’s most advanced single-crystal turbine blades and vanes. The Superfactory will create up to 500 high-paying jobs. The Superfactory is operational now and already

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

Skyfly, a company that designs, builds, and sells electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL), led by Michael Thompson and the team, has closed a $10 million seed round led by specialist growth equity investor HICO Investment Group, with participation from Archangel, Europe’s only dedicated next-generation defence technology fund. The investment will help Skyfly transition its two-seat Axe electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft from prototype to

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

Different, the AI marketing system for lean B2B teams, led by Ajeet Singh, Abhishek Pani, and Abhinav Yajurvedi, has emerged from stealth with $48 million in funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners. Ambitious companies are building new products and defining the future faster than ever with AI. But building is only half the challenge, success also depends on communicating value to the right audiences. Great marketing turns a company

IVEX, a deep-tech company whose safety-testing technology is used in official vehicle assessments, led by Mario Torres and the team, is bringing its NCAP Evaluator software to NVIDIA Halos SAFE (Safety Assurance Framework for Evaluation), expanding the safety evaluation capabilities available within NVIDIA's autonomous-driving ecosystem. The software helps developers evaluate and score simulated and real driving tests against NCAP protocols, enabling them to compare safety pe

CapitalOS, a money orchestration layer for B2B platforms, led by Nir Dremer and Matan Goldschmiedt, has announced $21.9M in Series A funding led by LGVP, along with WEX Venture Capital, Group 11, Great North Ventures, Night Capital, and existing investors. CapitalOS allows any platform to quickly offer its users and agents world-class financial products, including credit cards, wallets, bill pay, and more. The Platform Payment Problem: Expensive and Complicated Payment Build

CollectiveX Health, a women's health and performance intelligence platform, led by Lindsey Abramo, Stacy Sims, PhD, and Angelica Marden, has emerged from stealth with a $3.2 million oversubscribed pre-seed round, co-led by Council Capital and Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund, with participation from SoGal Ventures, Emerson Collective, Muse Capital, and Segal Ventures. CX was built to address gaps in women’s health research, where historical underrepresentation in clinical

XRlabs, the Surgical Intelligence company, led by Ali Haddad and the team, announced it has raised $8.4 million in seed funding led by Playground Global, with participation from Eka Ventures. Alongside the seed round, XRlabs also announced that Omar Ishrak has joined the company as Chair of its Board of Directors. The funding will accelerate XRlabs’ development and clinical deployment of its device-agnostic platform, bringing real-time AI into operating rooms as a surgical co

Neura Robotics, expanding the skill set of robots with cognitive capabilities so that they can work with humans in existing environments without having to invest in complex and costly safety systems, led by David Reger and the team, has introduced Neuron AI, its multimodal foundation model for Physical AI. Neuron AI combines 3D vision, touch, audio, robot state, language, and memory to help robots perceive and act beyond visual information alone. Its Perception-Language-Actio

Inspired Capital, backing founders building an inspired future, led by Alexa von Tobel, Penny Pritzker, Mark Batsiyan, Lucy Deland, and the team, announced Inspired Fund IV, a $450M fund committed to backing the 0.01% of early-stage founders who are bending the world to their reality. Inspired reflects on seven years of backing founders with capital, operational expertise, and networks, reporting 10 unicorns and 10 portfolio companies generating over $100 million in revenue,

Jooba, an AI-native recruiting firm, led by Mark Benliyan, announced its general availability and $4 million in seed funding from a16z Speedrun, Scribble Ventures, and Genius Ventures. Jooba combines human expertise with custom AI agents to deliver an embedded recruiting solution that helps companies hire top talent faster and at lower costs. Fast-growing startups face a choice between traditional recruiting agencies, which can charge over $30,000 per hire, and self-serve AI

Skyfall AI, a neolab building the first autonomous enterprise, led by Sam Pasupalak, Kaheer Suleman, and Sumit Pasupalak, has announced SKY-001, the first world model for designing complex physical products. SKY-001 helps turn an idea into a structured physical design, planning the sequence of steps needed to construct its geometry in computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) software. The model advances Skyfall’s core mission of building the first a

Positron AI, building hardware and software to make AI inference dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient, led by Mitesh Agrawal, announced that General Compute, the neocloud for alternative chips, led by Finn Puklowski, will purchase its Atlas inference systems and has committed to purchasing its next-generation Titan systems, expanding General Compute’s dedicated inference offering. The agreement expands General Compute’s world-class inference offering with Atlas and

Merlin, a leading U.S.-based developer of cost-effective, takeoff-to-touchdown autonomy for both legacy and next-generation airborne systems, led by Matthew George and the team, has added an Aero L-39C Albatros to its test fleet, the company’s first jet. Merlin has added its first jet, the Aero L-39C Albatros, to its test fleet. The aircraft will serve as a dedicated testbed to advance Merlin Pilot’s aircraft-agnostic autonomy capabilities for tactical aircraft and dynamic m

OMass Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing small molecule therapeutics against highly validated target ecosystems, led by Rosamond Deegan and the team, has announced an oversubscribed $310 million (£230 million) Series C financing round. Proceeds from the financing will support the advancement of the Company’s lead program, OMS1620, a potential best-in-class MC2 (melanocortin-2) receptor antagonist, through Phase 2 clinical development in congenital adrenal hyperp

Notch, an autonomous performance marketer, led by Vinay Jain and Aman Jain, has announced that OpenAI is acquihiring the company. Why Notch Was Built? After two years of building Notch, the team identified an opportunity to use AI to help businesses create and test better advertising. Fragmented workflows across research, briefing, production, testing, and optimization highlighted the need for a more connected approach combining creative judgment with execution. This led to a