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Raindrop , Sentry for AI Agents, led by Zubin Singh Koticha , Alexis Gauba , and Ben Hylak , has secured  $15M in seed funding from Lightspeed  and leading AI companies, including Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures , founders of Replit (Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta), Cognition (Walden Yan), Framer (Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk), Speak (Andrew Hsu), Notion (Akshay Kothari), and YC . Over the past two years, the landscape has shifted from simple chatbots to agent systems capable

Nevis , the first unified AI platform built for wealth management, led by Mark Swan, Philipp Burda, and Ivan Chalov, has secured  $35 million in Series A from Sequoia Capital , ICONIQ , and Ribbit Capital , bringing the total funding to $40 million in under a year. Nevis enables advisors to complete operational work end to end, covering meeting preparation, client follow-ups, account openings, and ongoing service. The goal is straightforward: remove administrative burden so a

Minitap , an AI-powered mobile development platform, led by Nicolas Dehandschoewercker and Luc Mahoux-Nakamura, has secured $4.1 million in seed funding from Moxxie Ventures , Mercuri , EWOR , Tekton Ventures , Amigos Venture Capital , and six unicorn founders - Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Stefan Glanzer & Michael Breidenbrucker ( Last.fm ), Paul Muller (Adjust), Petter Made (SumUp), Daniel Krauss, Jochen Engert & André Schwämmlein (FlixBus), and Saturnin Pugnet (Worldcoin).