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Validio , the agentic enterprise data management platform, led by Patrik Liu Tran, Adrian Strömberg, Sophia Granfors, and Christopher Alfred Brown, has raised  $30 million in Series A funding led by Plural . Previous investors and angels such as Lakestar , J12 , Kevin Ryan (MongoDB), Denise Persson (Snowflake), and Emil Eifrem (Neo4J) also participated in the round. The round brings Validio’s total funding to $47 million and will be used to further scale go-to-market across t

Simmetry.ai , providing high-quality, annotated training data for your machine learning applications, led by Kai von Szadkowski, Anton Elmiger, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Stiene, has raised €330,000 from NBank , the investment and development bank of the German state of Lower Saxony, as part of the High-Tech Incubator (HTI) accelerator programme. simmetry.ai generates photorealistic, annotated synthetic data to train computer vision models for robotics, autonomous machines, and in

Lucend , building a future where all data center organizations in the world are transformed into intelligent ecosystems, led by Rene Gompel and Jasper De Vries, has secured  $3.3M in Seed funding led by Remarkable Ventures Climate (RVC) and was joined by Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Fund , New Climate Ventures , Avesta  and Stepchange with support from their current investor, 4impact capital . Lucend is expanding its transparent data center optimization to the U.S., enablin

Artie , redefining data replication for the modern era, led by Robin and Jacqueline, has raised  a $12M Series A to continue building the fastest, most reliable way to move data in real-time led by Dalton Caldwell at Standard Capital , with continued participation from Y Combinator , Pathlight Ventures , and angel investors including Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox founder & CTO), Benn Stancil (Mode founder & CTO), Chris Best (Substack founder & CEO), Charles Hearn (Alloy founder & C

ClickHouse , a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, led by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky, has announced the close of its Series D financing, raising $400 million, led by Dragoneer Investment Group , with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners , GIC, Index Ventures , Khosla Ventures , Lightspeed Venture Partners , accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and WCM Investment Management . ClickHouse conti

Protege , building the data layer for AI training, led by Bobby Samuels, Travis May, Engy Ziedan, and Richard Ho, has announced a $30 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz ( a16z ). The financing expands the company’s $25 million Series A from August 2025 and brings total funding to $65 million since the company’s founding in 2024. Returning investors include Footwork , CRV , Bloomberg Beta , Flex Capital, Shaper Capital , and more. Bobby Samuels, CEO and co-found

Enlightra , building scalable, extreme-bandwidth, and low-power optical interconnects for the future of computing and communications, led by John Jost and Maxim Karpov, has announced it has raised a total of $15 million in funding to tackle the biggest bottleneck in AI infrastructure: fast and energy-efficient data transfer. The company’s investors include Y Combinator , Runa Capital , Pegasus Tech Ventures , Protocol Labs , Halo Labs, Asymmetry Ventures , and TRAC VC , among

Crusoe , the AI infrastructure company led by Chase Lochmiller, Cully Cavness, Matthew DeNezza, Nitin Perumbeti, Chris Dolan, Tara Green, and others, has announced  the initial closing of its anticipated $1.375 billion Series E round, bringing the company's expected valuation to over $10 billion. The oversubscribed round was co-led by technology investors Valor Equity Partners  and Mubadala Capital , with participation from 137 Ventures , 1789 Capital , Activate Capital , Alt

Crustdata , a real-time B2B data broker, led by Abhilash Chowdhary, Manmohit Grewal, and Chris Pisarski, has secured  $6 million in a seed round led by Y Combinator  and A Capital , with participation from General Catalyst , SV Angel , and Phosphor Capital . Crustdata is creating a real-time web data layer for AI agents, allowing customers to track companies, founders, and recruiting candidates before they gain traction. Its signals power top AI SDRs, recruiting platforms, an

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Polars , the company enabling seamless data processing experience on any scale, led by Ritchie Vink and Chiel Peters, has secured  €18...

Led by Salma Bakouk(CEO), Wissem Fathallah(Chief Product Officer), and Wajdi Fathallah(CTO), Sifflet has raised $18 Million in funding...

Led by François Gaspard(Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder), Genna Elvin(Chief Tada Officer and Co-Founder), Tracey Trewin(Chief...