MENLO TIMES

Donna , eliminating the admin burden for field sales, led by Nicolas Christiaen, Jonas Deprez, Xander Berkein, and others, has secured $4.8 M seed round, led by Frontline Ventures , with participation from existing funds: Pitchdrive , Fortino Capital , WeLoveFounders , Syndicate One , New School , Everywhere Ventures , and a group of seasoned angel investors. The funding will be used to deepen Donna’s product leadership and scale go-to-market operations across Europe and the

Orq.ai , the all-in-one platform to build reliable LLM apps, led by Sohrab Hosseini  and Anthony Diaz , has secured raised €5 million in seed funding, led by  Seed + Speed Ventures  and  Galion exe , with continued support from  Curiosity VC ,  Spacetime ,  XO Ventures ,  xdeck ventures ,  Waves Capital , and  GoldenEggCheck , bringing the total funding to €7.3 million since the company’s founding in 2022. Strategic advisors joining include industry leaders such as Sam Bourto

Ricursive Intelligence , the first frontier AI lab addressing the most fundamental constraint in AI progress: chip development timelines that can’t keep up with algorithmic advancement, led by Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, announced  its launch and a $35 million seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital( Stephanie Zhan ), along with other investors, including Modern Capital( Suhail Nimji , Jennifer Campbell ), 49Palms( Madhavan Ramanujam , Joshua Bloom ), and Striker ( M