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Kin Health, a free app that allows patients to remember and act upon doctors’ advice, led by Arpan Parikh, Amit Parikh, Kyle Alwyn, Doug Hirsch, Trevor Bezdek, and the team, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Maveron, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Flex Capital, Eniac Ventures, The Family Fund, Pear VC, Watershed Ventures, Foundry Square Capital, and individual investors including GoodRx co-founders Doug Hirsch and Trevor Bezdek, Nabeel Quryshi, Jay Desai,

LawX, an AI-powered OS for notaries and law firms, led by Dr. Norman Koschmieder, Dr. Sara Brinkmann, and Torben Rabe, has closed a seed round led by Motive Partners, raising over €7 million in capital, alongside WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures, as well as several prominent angels from the tech and legal sectors. The legal market is undergoing structural change, with rising demand for legal services and a growing shortage of administrative staff. Around half of law fir

Multiverse, an upskilling platform for AI adoption, led by Euan Blair and the team, has raised $70 million in primary funding to drive growth across Europe. The funding was led by Schroders Capital, with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, D1 Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Bond, and StepStone Group. The investment will accelerate Multiverse’s expansion across Europe, with a focus on helping workers adapt to AI rat

Iceotope, a data center liquid cooling solutions provider, led by Simon Jesenko and the team, has announced the close of a $26M series B funding round led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures, along with participation by existing investors Edinv, ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, and British Business Bank. Iceotope Technologies will use the funding to advance product and engineering development, expand its patent portfolio, and accelerate ecosystem partnerships to

Intuitive Machines, a space technology, infrastructure, and services leader, led by Stephen Altemus and the team, has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. (“Goonhilly”), a world-class deep space communications provider with major ground station assets in the United Kingdom and Goonhilly USA Inc. (dba COMSAT). The acquisition, including Goonhilly’s lunar and deep space communications, commercial satcom, and defense and se

Chromie Health, one of the world’s fastest-growing AI-powered scheduling and management platform for hospital operations, led by Douglas Ford, Scott Tisoskey, and the team, has announced a $2 million pre-seed round led by AIX Ventures along with the launch of Chromie Dispatch, the company’s flagship AI agent that instantly fills internal shift gaps via simple SMS. The funding follows strong demand, with 750 hospitals on the waitlist, and will support the development of a suit

Ranger, the agentic revenue operations platform for industrial tendering, led by James Zhan, Sari Saadi, and Kyle Jordan, has emerged from stealth with $8.4 Million in seed funding led by Bonfire Ventures, along with 25madison, Inovia Capital, and Panache Ventures. The company’s platform connects fragmented systems and manual processes to automate critical workflows across industrial, manufacturing, and supply chain operations. Industry’s Problem: Bureaucratic Bottlenecks Sl

Recursive, building self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery, led by Richard Socher, Yuandong Tian, and Caiming Xiong, has emerged from stealth and raised $650M led by GV (Google Ventures) and Greycroft, with major participation from AMD Ventures and NVIDIA at a $4.65 billion valuation to create AI that conducts experiments on how to safely improve itself, in an open-ended process of automated scientific discovery. Open-ended evolution, both Darwinian

Origin Lab, a platform and technology company that captures, creates, and delivers premium, rights-cleared multimodal content for AI training, led by Anne-Margot Rodde, Antoine Gargot, and Colin Carrier, has raised $8M seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Eniac Ventures, FPV Ventures, Seven Stars, and SV Angel, along with angels from robotics, AI, gaming, and Google, including Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Cruise founder Kyle Vogt. For decad

Mantle8, unearthing natural hydrogen, led by Emmanuel Masini, has raised €31M in Series A funding led by Sandwater and includes Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Ecotechnologies 2 fund managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifrance, IP Group, Wind Capital, and Calderion (an Audacia-backed investment platform). This capital will fund the next two years of advanced natural hydrogen exploration and drilling. Mantle8 will deploy its technology platform to identify and rank p

Moment Energy, developing a new standard for commercial-scale energy storage, led by Edward Chiang and the team, announced it is building the world’s largest battery repurposing facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, over the next 6 weeks, marking a major step forward in scaling domestic energy storage infrastructure and the fastest in the world to scale battery manufacturing. The announcement follows the company’s $40M Series B, bringing total funding to over $100M and ref

Enhanced Radar, applied AI for aviation, led by Eric Button, has raised $7 million in funding, led by Initialized Capital, joined by investors such as United Airlines, Y Combinator, Decisive Point, and several individual founders and operators with a track record in aviation and elsewhere, including Tyson Weihs, Sky Dayton, Adrian Aoun, James Tamplin, Oliver Cameron, and other operators from top companies such as NVIDIA, OpenAI, and more. Enhanced Radar is building systems th

Fractile, the AI inference hardware company, led by Walter Goodwin and the team, has raised $220M to accelerate the path to getting its first chips and systems into customers’ hands, in a financing round led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with participation from Conviction, Gigascale, O1A, Felicis, Buckley Ventures, and 8VC, investing alongside its brilliant existing backers. Fractile, founded in 2022, was built on the belief that frontier AI is ultimately con

Proxima Fusion, building stellarators to power the future, led by Francesco Sciortino, Lucio Milanese, Jorrit Lion, Martin Kubie, and the team, has announced the creation of its Industrial Development Board (IDB), bringing together some of Europe's most experienced industrial and energy leaders to accelerate the shift from fusion science to large-scale industrial deployment. The IDB members include Luc Rémont, former CEO of EDF and Schneider Electric, Dr. Michael Bolle, forme

Isomorphic Labs, reimagining the drug discovery process with AI, led by Demis Hassabis and the team, has raised $2.1 Billion in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, and includes participation from existing backers Alphabet and GV alongside new investors MGX, Temasek, CapitalG, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, significantly expanding Isomorphic Labs’ global capital base. The new capital will advance Isomorphic Labs’ AI drug design engine (IsoDDE), accelerating its therapeutic

Star Catcher, powering the next industrial revolution, led by Andrew Rush, Michael Snyder, and Bryan Lyandvert, has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. The new investment, led by B Capital and co-led by Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures, the venture arm of Cerberus Capital Management, brings Star Catcher's total capital raised to $88 million. Cerberus’ General John W. “Jay” Raymond (Ret.), the first Chief of Space Operations of the United States Space F

Exaforce, an agentic SOC platform and MDR, led by Ankur Singla and the team, has raised $125M in Series B from Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, HarbourVest, Peak XV, Seligman Ventures, and AICONIC Ventures, taking the total funding to $200M. A year ago, emergence from stealth followed a $75M Series A and a clear thesis: SOCs cannot scale by hiring more analysts or engineers, nor by continuously adding SIEM rules. Scale comes from combining human expertise with task-specific AI agen

A*, guiding outliers from idea to IPO, led by Kevin Hartz, Bennett Siegel, Gautam Gupta, and the team, has announced A* III, a $450 million early-stage fund. A* was founded on a simple idea: becoming a founder’s first believer. Sector-agnostic but deeply specialized in seed investing, A* backs exceptional builders before consensus, traction, or even a product exists. The focus is driven not by market theses, but by conviction. As seed investing becomes increasingly crowded an

Adfin, the first platform designed from the ground up for the specific demands of invoice payments, led by Tom Pope & Ciprian Diaconasu, has raised Series A, bringing the total invested in Adfin to over $30M in less than two years. The long-time supporters, Index Ventures, have tripled down by leading the round, along with existing investors Visionaries Club. The company is delighted to welcome Stéphane Kurgan, one of Europe's best operators, and Andrey Khusid, founder of Mir

Nscale, the engine of superintelligence, led by Josh Payne and the team, has announced an additional $790 million in financing, committed by ABN AMRO, DNB, Eksfin, Nordea, and SEB, to reinforce the continued development of the AI data center in Narvik, Norway. This data center project is the largest AI infrastructure investment in Norway. The committed financing includes an additional $790 million uncommitted accordion feature to fund a further 115MW expansion at the Narvik