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Sycamore , the trusted agent operating system for the enterprise, led by Sri Viswanath, has announced  a $65 million seed round led by Coatue  and Lightspeed Venture Partners , with additional participation from Abstract Ventures , Dell Technologies Capital , 8VC , Fellows Fund , and E14 Fund . AI agents are emerging as the next major platform shift in enterprise computing. While models can reason and act, enterprise infrastructure for safe, scalable deployment remains limite

Manifold , building runtime security for AI agents on endpoints, led by Oleksandr Yaremchuk, Neal Swaelens, and Michael McKenna, has announced  the close of an $8 million seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures  with participation from Cherry Ventures , Rain Capital , and Modern Technical Fund , and notable angel investors including former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan and former Google DeepMind CISO Vijay Bolina. The funding will accelerate development of Manifold’s agentic AI D

Wonderful , building the engine behind enterprise AI transformation, led by Bar Winkler, Roey Lalazar, Roi Tavor, Melissa Zeloof, Guy Sustiel, Barak Kaufman, and the team, has raised  $150 million in a Series B funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners , with participation from existing investors Index Ventures , IVP , Bessemer Venture Partners , and Vine Ventures . The new capital will enable Wonderful to further invest in its agentic platform and accele

Basis , building the next era of accounting with agentic AI, led by Matt Harpe, Mitchell Troyanovsky, and the team, has raised  $100 million led by Accel  alongside GV  (Google Ventures). Basis was founded on the belief that AI agents will soon become central to knowledge work, with accounting emerging as one of the first and most critical domains. Structured, high-stakes, and essential to every business, accounting remains one of the most underbuilt areas in technology. Thre

Straion , building AI coding agents that follow your rules, led by Lukas Holzer, Katrin Freihofner, and Fabian Friedl, has raised   €1.1 million in seed funding led by Marathon Venture Capital . The company previously raised €280,000 in pre-seed support through government grants and the AWS startup program. As organizations increasingly adopt AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor, Straion provides the critical layer of organizational context that en

Hypercore , the company on a mission to modernize loan administration, led by Daniel Liechtenstein, David Yahalomi, Tomer Moshe, and Eitan Frailich, has announced  $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. The investment will support the launch of Hypercore’s AI Admin Agent, introducing a new category of loan servicing that integrates established loan management technology with AI agents to provide end-to-end operational infrastructure for private credit fund

Meridian , the AI-powered modeling layer for Excel that automates the work behind financial models, helping teams move faster without losing precision, led by John Ling, George Fang, and Zach Kirshner, has raised  $17 million in seed funding, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz  and The General Partnership , to bring Meridian to more finance teams. Why Meridian Was Built Excel remains foundational in finance, but manual modeling is tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone. Existing

Sapiom , giving AI agents trusted access to the API economy, led by Ilan Zerbib, has raised  a $15.75M Seed round, led by Accel , with participation from Gradient , Array Ventures , Okta Ventures , Menlo Ventures , Anthropic , Coinbase Ventures , Formus Capital , and Operator Collective . For two decades, the internet economy has been built for humans; interfaces, authentication, payments, and risk models all assume a person is present to sign up, manage access, and approve s

From Left to Right: Dmitry Zakharov (CEO and Co-founder),  Dima Ivanouski (CRO and Co-founder), David Klassen (CTO and Co-founder), Anna Bunina - HRD. Naoma , an AI video sales agent that runs personalized demo calls 24/7 in any language, led by Dmitry Zakharov, Dima Ivanouski, David Klassen, and Anna Bunina, has announced the launch of the first AI video sales agent that runs instant personalized demo calls, with no sales representative required. The launch is supported by a

Arctis AI , the contract operating system for construction professionals, turning complex documents into clarity, alignment, and control, led by Leon Stawowiak, Duc-Trung Nguyen, Dila Ekrem, and Simon Paul, has raised  $1M+ led by PT1  (Berlin/London), with participation from  EWOR , and a prominent group of angels, including Alexander Schwörer (Owner of PERI), Sebastian Johnston (Founding Partner at La Famiglia), Christian Vollmann (Founder of C1 Green Chemicals), Daniel Bro

Fini , empowering enterprises to effortlessly deploy headless AI agents capable of resolving 80%+ of support tickets with 97% accuracy in over 50 languages, all without writing a single line of code, led by Deep Singla, Hakim, and others, has raised  $3.6M in seed funding led by Matrix Partners  with the backing of Y Combinator , along with people working at Uber, and high-profile angels from McKinsey and SoftBank. A significant trust gap limits the adoption of generative AI

Crunched , transforming your Excel modelling with autonomous Excel AI agents, led by Philip Borge, Lars Gjardar Musæus, Michael Sakowski, and Markus Skagemo, has secured  $6M in seed funding, led by  First Round Capital , with participation from  Y Combinator ,  20VC , and many more incredible VCs and angels, including YC founder Paul Graham and Mario Götze. Spreadsheets remain central to business and finance, yet Excel modeling is often slow, manual, and error-prone. Under t

Elyos AI , an AI agent built for trades and field services, led by Adrian Johnston, Philippa Brown, and Panos Stravopodis, has secured a $13 million Series A round, led by Blackbird Ventures , with participation from Y Combinator  and Pi Labs , bringing the total funding to $16 million. Trades businesses such as plumbers, electricians, HVAC teams, fire and security operators, and facilities managers form the backbone of the built world, yet many struggle with overwhelming cal

Parloa , the premier provider of AI agents elevating enterprise customer experience, led by Malte Kosub, Stefan Ostwald, Latane Conant, Csaba Tamas, Chris Silver, and Tino Mittelmeier, has announced  $350 million in Series D funding led by General Catalyst , with strong continued support from Parloa’s existing investors, including EQT Ventures , Altimeter Capital , Durable Capital Partners , and Mosaic Ventures , bringing its valuation to $3 billion. Closing just seven months

Trigger.dev , the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript, led by Matt Aitken, Eric Allam, Dan Patel, and James Ritchie, has secured  a $16M Series A led by Standard Capital , with new investment from Michael Grinich and the CTO fund. Existing investors, including  Y Combinator ,  Liquid 2 ,  Wayfinder Ventures ,  Pioneer Fund , and  Rebel Fund , also participated again in the round. Trigger.dev empowers developers to build production-grade AI

Mindoo , the European platform for deploying safe and governed agentic workflows in healthcare, led by Dr. Gauthier Willemse and Bart Lens, has secured  €5 million in seed financing from 6DC , Syndicate One , and a group of strategic angel investors.  The investment advances Mindoo’s mission to deliver a scalable AI workforce that automates routine tasks for hospitals and practices, easing staff pressure while keeping teams in control. Healthcare providers face a growing gap

Navier AI , developing agent-driven engineering, led by Cameron Flannery and Evan Kay, has announced  $5.6 million in seed funding and its launch from stealth. The round includes participation from GV  (Google Ventures), HCVC , and Y Combinator . Engineering has seen two major productivity leaps: CAD replaced manual drafting, and simulation enabled virtual testing. Navier introduces the third, Agent-Driven Engineering, where AI agents automate repetitive design-to-engineering

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

Runlayer , making enterprise AI secure, compliant, and fully connected, led by Andy Berman, Tal Peretz, and Vitor Balocco, has secured  $11 million seed round from Khosla Ventures  and Felicis . Teams are increasingly wiring their preferred AI tools directly into production databases via MCP, just like thousands of others. But with more than 18,000 MCP servers in the wild, an estimated 10% are outright malicious, and most of the rest remain exploitable. Enterprises face a dan

Giga AI , an AI agent platform for enterprise support, led by Varun Vummadi and Esha Manideep, has secured  $61 million led by Redpoint  with participation from Y Combinator  and Nexus . Founded in a college dorm, Giga evolved from LLM fine-tuning to redefining enterprise support with AI. Its technology now powers global companies like DoorDash through self-improving agents (60%→98% resolution), rapid deployment (<2 weeks), and ultra-low-latency voice across 99 languages. Gig