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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

octonomy AI , an AI company building agentic systems for complex enterprise support and service workflows, led by Sushel Bijganath, Oliver Trabert, Thorsten Grote, Markus Hanslik, and Thomas Bollig, has raised $US20 million, led by Macquarie Capital Venture Capital , with participation from Capnamic , NRW.Bank , and the TechVision Fund, bringing the total funding to US $25 million since its founding 15 months ago. Octonomy equips heavy-equipment industries with AI systems

Onfire , AI revenue intelligence for technical-buyer GTM, led by Tal Peretz (CEO), Shahar Shavit (CTO), and Nitzan Hadar (CPO), has secured $20 million initial round led by Grove Ventures and TLV Partners with participation by IN Venture and Leumi 77 Ventures. Onfire is redefining how revenue teams engage with technical buyers through a purpose-built vertical AI platform. Trained on years of proprietary contextual data, it enables precise targeting of engineering, data, an

Keycard , building identity infrastructure for AI agents, led by Matt Creager, Jared Hanson, and Ian Livingstone, has secured a $38 million combined inception round led by Andreessen Horowitz , Acrew Capital , and Boldstart Ventures with participation from Mantis VC , Tapestry Ventures , Essence Ventures , Exceptional Capital , Modern Technical Fund , Vermillion Cliffs Ventures , and many incredible angels. A new era of computing is emerging, where software evolves in

Dedalus Labs , building an infrastructure layer for shipping AI agents at a rocket-fast speed, led by Catherine Di and Windsor Nguyen, has raised $11 million in seed funding co-led by Kindred Ventures and Saga Ventures , with participation from E14 Fund , Emergence Capital , Sunshine Lake , Transpose Platform , Liquid 2 Ventures , FPV Ventures , Twenty Two Ventures , Telescope Foundation , Spot VC , Operator Partners , and Y Combinator . Dedalus Labs is also ba

SylloTips , an innovative seed-stage startup supported by Techstars, pioneering the first human-in-the-loop AI platform for automating...

Juicebox , the AI Recruiting Platform that understands who you're looking for, led by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, has secured $36...

FinBox , the operating system for digital lending, led by Rajat Deshpande, Anant Deshpande, Srijan Nagar, and Nikhil Bhawsinka, has...

Rulebase , a YC-backed AI start-up building an AI agent for back-office operations at Financial Services led by Gideon Ebose and Chidi...

Blocks , an AI-powered work automation platform, led by Tal Haramati and Michal Lupu, has secured $10 million in a seed round led by...

Motion , a YC-backed single platform to manage all Human Work and AI Work, led by Harry Qi, Omid Rooholfada, and Ethan Yu, has raised a...

Throxy , a sales platform for hard industries, led by Bergen Merey, Arnau Ayerbe Garcia, and Pablo Jimenez de Parga Ramos, has secured...

Sierra , an AI-powered customer experience platform, led by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, has raised $350 million in additional capital...

Augment , an AI teammate for shippers, brokers, and carriers, led by Harish Abbott, Justin Hall, and Arthur Rivilis, has raised $85...

Supersonik AI , an AI Agent for product demos, led by Daniel Carmona Serrat , Joaquim Lecha , and Pol Ruiz Farre , has announced $5...

CoreWeave , a cloud purpose-built for scaling, supporting, and accelerating GenAI, led by Mike Intrator , Brian Venturo, Brannin McBee...

DeepL , a global AI product and research company led by Jarek Kutylowski, Stefan Mesken, and others, has unveiled an autonomous AI agent...