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Thatch, building a healthcare system people love, led by Chris Ellis and Adam Stevenson, has raised a $108 million Series C funding round, bringing Thatch's valuation to $1 billion. The funding comes from The General Partnership, Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Avid Ventures, Quiet Capital, SemperVirens, and QuantumLight, with strategic participation from Eli Lilly and Company, ADP Ventures, and Paychex. Putting Consumers in Cont

Jack & Jill, an AI agent for your career, led by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan, has raised a $40M Series A, led by Air Street Capital with participation from Creandum and Madrona, to move faster toward a job market where every person and company has an agent in their corner. Jack is an AI agent for candidates, while Jill is an AI agent for employers. When the two identify a potential match, they connect the candidate and company directly, removing the traditional applicatio

Buildots, building construction intelligence to power your whole operation, led by Roy Danon, Aviv Leibovici, and Yakir Sudry, has announced $130 million in new funding, led by O.G. Venture Partners, with Mohari Ventures, Qumra Capital, Human Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Avigdor Willenz, Intel Capital, Poalim Equity, and Viola Growth, bringing the total raised to $297 million. Construction leaders manage multi-billion-dollar projects with thousands of moving parts, o

Clay, helping you build systems to grow revenue, led by Kareem Amin and Varun Anand, has raised $115M in Series D funding at a $7.1B valuation, following 4x revenue growth in 2025. Wellington led the round, with participation from Sequoia, Stepstone, a16z perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, BoxGroup, Boldstart, Bloomberg Beta, and Evolution. More than 17,000 companies, including 80% of the Forbes AI50 and customers such as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs, Visa,

Forus, accelerating medicine for the people, led by Sahir Jaggi and the team, has raised $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bain Capital Ventures, with every existing institutional investor reinvesting, including Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, Redpoint, BoxGroup, Pear VC, Avra, Human Capital, Neo, Vast Ventures, and SV Angel. Forus has now raised more than $300 million in total funding to build the AI network for medicine. Medicine

CloudNC, the technology company that created the leading AI software for precision machining, led by Theo Saville, Chris Emery, and the team, has raised $20 million in new investment capital. The funding is led by Nimble Ventures, a US-based venture investor, with participation from other investors including Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneurs First, and LM Ventures, Lockheed Martin’s venture capital fund. The investment will accelerate adoption of CloudNC’s AI solutions

Rebaba, the Swedish energy technology, led by Paula Runsten and Felix Kruse, has raised $4.6 million (SEK 44.1 million) through an oversubscribed seed round led by Sistafund, alongside EIT Urban Mobility, with participation from existing shareholders and new European investors. The financing will support Rebaba’s mission to deliver circular battery energy storage systems that address rising demand for stable, cost-effective energy while reducing climate impact. Rebaba combine

Fusionality, building integrated operations technology for fusion devices, led by Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, has raised a $3.7 million (CHF 3 million) pre-seed round from Founderful and Playfair. Sometimes the right startup idea takes years to find. For Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli, it emerged from years of solving the same problem for fusion companies. Fusion developers repeatedly told them they wanted to buy components for their control systems, but few suppliers

Atira, building Multi-Agent Orchestration for Industrial Sales Processes, led by Florian Diegruber and August DuMont Schütte, has announced a $15M Seed round led by Accel, which, together with the previously unannounced pre-seed (UVC, Fortino Ventures, booom), brings total funding to $17.5M. The round includes industry leaders like Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Marc Bitzer (CEO of the Whirlpool Corporation), Dr. Markus Flik (multiple industrial boards), and Bastian Nominacher (co-f

Sirdab, simplifying commerce & logistics through technology, led by Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by new investor Elm, the PIF-backed digital solutions company, and existing investor BECO Capital. Other backers include Y Combinator, COTU Ventures, and D Global Ventures. Founded in 2022, Sirdab gives businesses a single platform to access, manage, and scale logistics, covering warehousing, transportation

Octave.energy, providing cutting-edge energy management and storage systems, led by Maxime Snick, Nicolas Quintin, and the team, has raised €10 million in Series A funding to accelerate its expansion across Europe and further develop its Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and Energy Management System (EMS) solutions. The round combines equity and flexible debt financing and was led by SPDG Growth, an investor in Octave.energy since its seed round, with participation from im

SeatPin, the ticket marketplace built for fans, led by Galin Ananiev, has introduced PinAI, an AI-powered assistant that turns the search for any ticket into a simple conversation. Sold-out doesn’t have to mean out of luck. PinAI lets fans describe the event they’re looking for, by text or voice, and searches for relevant ticket options. Instead of scrolling through social media, websites, and ticket listings, users can simply ask for what they want, whether it’s two tickets

Metriport, building healthcare data infrastructure for next-generation care delivery, led by Dima Goncharov, Colin Elsinga, and Matt Davis-Ratner, has raised $26 million in new funding to give clinicians a secure, comprehensive picture of their patients’ health history and what’s most relevant in the moment, right at the point of care. The round, led by TJ Parker, general partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS and Y Combinator, brings the company’s total funding to

Onos Health, turning behavioral health noise into clarity and action, led by Akshay Agrawal, Josh Levitan, Suhaas Prasad, and the team, has raised a $17 million Series A financing round led by Costanoa, with participation from Flare Capital Partners and strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures. The financing follows strong commercial momentum, with leading U.S. health plans such as Aetna using Onos’ AI platform to improve behavioral health outcomes while reducing overal

Certain Energy, the British long-duration energy storage company, led by Tim Von Werne and the team, has announced it has received £10m Series A funding for its pioneering manganese flow battery technology. The investment will be used to commercialise Certain Energy’s technology and prepare it for deployment to stabilise grids and provide power during periods of low renewables production. The funding round, led by the British Business Bank with participation from Centrica plc

eComID, the shopping passport for the internet, led by Oscar Rundqvist, Otto Nordgren, Patrick Samuel Rengifo, Erika Markör, and Jaime Ferrando Huertas, has raised a $17 million seed round led by Systemiq Capital, with participation from Regeneration.VC, Course Corrected, Stadium, and returning investor CapitalT. Shopper Context for eCommerce. AI is transforming how consumers discover and purchase products, but most online shopping experiences still begin with limited context

Hypercubic, Accelerating Mainframe and COBOL Modernization with Agentic AI, led by Aayush Naik and Sai Gurrapu, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding, led by CIV, with participation from Y Combinator, Afore Capital, Multimodal Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Epsilon Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, and others, alongside our angels including Kaz Nejatian (CEO, Opendoor), Venky Harinarayan (Co-Founder, Walmart Labs), Gokul Rajaram (Board, Coinbase & Pinterest), Henri Stern (Co-Founder,

Rillet, the AI-native ERP (enterprise resource planning) platform for modern finance teams, led by Nicolas Kopp and Stelios Modes, has announced a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1 billion valuation, with participation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Global Equities, Bain Capital Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Battery Ventures, FirstMark, Scale Venture Partners, and Creandum. The round is Rillet’s third in the last year and brings total funding to more than $200 mi

Reservoir, the world's first predictive water heater, has raised an $8 million seed round, led by Asymmetric Capital Partners, and joined by Founder Collective, which led the pre-seed round in 2024, and MCJ. Reservoir is focused on making home electrification easier and more affordable, starting with residential hot water. The company has installed its smart, high-efficiency water heaters in nearly 100 homes across the Boston area and plans to expand into additional homes and

Bios Life, the intelligent OS for cancer surveillance led by Ryan Richardson, Zach Taylor, Dr. Logan Frank, MD, and the team, has emerged from stealth with $25 million in seed financing to build a more personalized and continuous approach to cancer screening and survivorship care. The seed round was led by Redmile, Vsquared Ventures, and Kindred Capital, supported by a syndicate of leading healthcare and technology investors across the United States and Europe. Bios Life is d

Alps2Alps, a tech-driven Alpine transfer company led by Artjoms Fokejevs and the team, has released a public API that allows tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity to assist users in booking last-mile transfers across more than 1,000 Alpine destinations. Until now, Alps2Alps has not offered a public API or supported price parsing. The launch is part of the company’s business-to-agent strategy, making its travel services accessible to AI agents as the market shifts

Made, the AI platform developed by RHEI to amplify human creativity and scale content production, led by Shahrzad Rafati and Lewis Ball, is publicly debuting Made for Music, an agentic platform designed for artists, labels, and distributors. Built for the realities of today’s music industry, Made for Music enables teams to create, package, distribute, and promote releases across relevant platforms, providing a faster and more scalable way to turn a single track into a full-sc

Intropy, the AI-native platform automating inventory, led by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh, has announced that it has raised $11 million in seed financing. The seed round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Capital and early investors General Catalyst and firstminute capital. Applying AI to Spare Parts Operations. Founded in 2024 by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh, Intropy is developing AI-powered tools to help spare parts distributors, manufacture

inforcer, a unified Microsoft security and AI management platform built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), led by Jamie Daum and the team, has announced a $50 million Series C funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners. Rising Demand Drives Rapid Growth. Inforcer has experienced rapid growth over the past two years as managed service providers (MSPs) increasingly seek scalable tools to manage Microsoft 365 security, compliance, and AI services. The comp

Ahead Health, the Zurich-based preventive healthcare company led by Nick Lenten, Sven Jaeschke, Dennis Hermann, Vinsensius Vega N., and the team, is launching in Germany and the Netherlands, its first markets beyond Switzerland, backed by a $10 million investment led by venture capital firms 3VC and RTP Global. Building a Preventive Healthcare Platform Across Europe. Ahead Health is developing a preventive healthcare platform designed to provide a more proactive approach to

Qureight, developing enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials, led by Dr Muhunthan Thillai and the team, has raised $20 million in a Series B financing, led by Molten Ventures. Existing investors Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, XTX Ventures, Guinness Ventures, Meltwind, and Ascension also participated in the round. The new funding will support the expansion of the company’s 3D deep learning imaging platform and accelerate commercial growth across new thera

Xeltis, addressing major life-threatening diseases, backed by Nobel-winning science, led by Eliane Schutte and the team, has raised an additional €20.5M of new funding from new and existing shareholders. Participating investors included the European Innovation Council, Invest-NL, VI Partners, EQT Life Sciences, DaVita and other current shareholders, alongside Horizon 3 Healthcare, a new investor who led the round. The additional financing, alongside the €50 million secured in

Spur Intelligence, transforming obfuscation into evidence so you can stop threats hiding behind VPNs, proxies, and other anonymization infrastructure, led by Kevin Hickey, Ethan Smith, Riley Kilmer, and the team, has raised a $200 million investment from Insight Partners. The investment highlights Insight’s confidence in the growing IP Intelligence market and Spur’s position as a leading platform in the space. The funding will support expansion across the business, helping ac

Aampere, a Munich-based e-mobility startup, led by Florian Reister, and the team, has raised €4.2 million to expand its fully digital resale platform for used electric cars across Europe. The round is led by Estonian VC Trind Ventures. Joining the round is Vend Marketplaces ASA, the Nordic family of marketplaces behind FINN.no, Blocket and Bilbasen, which joins as a minority investor. Also newly on board is G-FUND, an investor focused on major consumer trends. The existing in

TidalSense, the respiratory intelligence company, led by Dr Ameera Patel, Dr Julian Carter, and the team, has announced a $19 million funding round to accelerate commercialisation in the UK and support globalisation of the technology, including to the USA. The round includes investment from new investor Cross-Border Impact Ventures (a North American health tech impact fund), and returning investors BGF (the UK's most active growth capital investor), Airstream Capital, and For

Cascade, the AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms led by Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital, shuckerVC, G2C Ventures, and Snowball VC. In construction, some of the biggest opportunities are often identified long before a formal request for proposals (RFP) is issued. By the time projects become publicly available, key decisions m

Fora, the platform powering a new generation of travel entrepreneurs, led by Henley Vazquez, Evan Frank, and Jake Peters, has announced it has closed a $60 million Series D at a $1 billion post-money valuation. The round is led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, and Heartcore Capital. New investors PLUS Capital, alongside Amy Schumer and other members of its artist and athlete collective;

Callie Care, an AgeTech startup building a proactive phone-first voice AI that calls seniors daily, helping them fight isolation, manage everyday needs, and stay connected to their families and care teams, led by Yury Palevich, Igor Gurovich, and Michil Androsov, has received non-dilutive funding from InterSystems Ventures and closed a $500K pre-seed round backed by angel investors. Callie Care was built around a simple insight: aging adults need better support, but existing

Neko Health, building a completely new healthcare experience led by Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek, has announced the completion of its $700 million Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Atomico, General Catalyst and Lakestar, alongside new backers including Liberty City Ventures, Positive Sum, and BDT & MSD. As part of the round, David Ofer of O.G. Venture Partners will join t

Gridcog, accelerating the global deployment of flexible energy assets, led by Fabian Le Gay Brereton, Pete Tickler, Genna Boyle, and Matt Ryan, has raised a US$10m (£7m) Series A investment round led by ABB, with participation from Axpo, DNV Ventures and VERBUND X Ventures. AlbionVC and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, both existing shareholders, continue to back Gridcog through this round. As renewable energy becomes the dominant source of new power capacity worldwide,

Oxylabs, a high-quality proxy service to gather data at scale, led by Vytautas Savickas and Juras Juršėnas, has raised a $130 million investment from a leading private equity firm, Warburg Pincus. The investment brings the value of the Oxylabs group to $3.6 billion, making it the second unicorn to emerge from the Tesonet accelerator and one of the highest-valued companies in Lithuania's history. Oxylabs has reached $350 million in ARR as its web data platform supports more t

Alchemab Therapeutics, pioneering the next generation of antibody therapeutics for hard-to-treat diseases, led by Jane Osbourn, OBE, FMedSci, PhD, and the team, has extended its Series A financing with a £25 million (USD $34m) investment from the British Business Bank – the Bank’s largest investment in a life sciences company to date. The funding will enable the company to build its clinical pipeline and grow its proprietary unique antibody dataset to more than a billion sequ

Axle Energy, connecting EVs, batteries, and heat pumps to energy markets through a single, unified API, led by Karl Bach and Archy de Berker, has raised a $25m Series A led by Energize Capital, with continued participation from existing investors Accel, Picus Capital, and Eka. Axle has spent the past three years building a platform that enables distributed energy assets such as batteries, EVs, and heat pumps to participate in electricity markets. The company has delivered hun

Polysense, enabling food lines to catch quality drift before it becomes waste, led by Jarne Bogaert, Yarne De Munck, and Lucas Van Dijck, has closed an oversubscribed seed round of $10.7 million led by Felix Capital, with participation from Fortino Ventures and angel investors including Syndicate One and 100IN. The Belgian technology company helps food manufacturers reduce waste by automating in-line quality control with real-time imaging and synthetic data models. Its platfo

Bohr Energie, a French scale-up specializing in the aggregation, optimization, and management of distributed renewable and storage assets, announced a €10 million Series A funding round led by Suma Capital through its SC Net Zero Ventures fund, dedicated to European scale-ups developing technologies for energy transition and decarbonization, with participation from Irdi Capital Investissement, GSO Capital, and Crédit Agricole. Existing investors Varsity, Founders Future, and

Alqem, a German-Portuguese deep-tech start-up revolutionizing the discovery of high-impact materials through advanced AI and intelligent synthesis, led by Hanh Nguyen, Tiago Cerqueira, and Milan Allan, has raised €8 million in pre-seed funding co-led by UVC Partners and Union Square Ventures. Founded by the team behind Alexandria, one of the world's leading open materials databases, alqem is building an AI-powered materials discovery platform on two proprietary assets: a vas

CurifyLabs, powering a new generation of personalized therapies, led by Charlotta Topelius, Niklas Sandler, and the team, has announced the closing of a $14 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Sandwater and HealthCap, with participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd.) and existing investors, including Lifeline Ventures. US customers and employees also participated in the round. The funding will support CurifyLabs' expansion in the U.S., streng

Wultra, building digital identity for today and the quantum era, led by Petr Dvorak, has announced a €6.8 million Series A funding round backed by lead investor Seventure Partners, followed by ARIADNEXT founders Marc Norlain and Guillaume Despagne and existing investors J&T Ventures and Elevator Ventures. The funding will accelerate the expansion of Wultra's digital identity platform, support international growth, and advance its post-quantum authentication capabilities. The

Leyden Labs, freeing humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses, led by Koenraad Wiedhaup, Ronald Brus, and the team, has announced a €40 million investment from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Invest-NL, Gates Foundation, ClavystBio, and others. The Company welcomes Ben Verwaayen as a new Supervisory Board member. Nominated by EIC Fund and Invest-NL, Mr. Verwaayen brings decades of international leadership experience, having served in senior executive and bo

Graph Therapeutics, decoding immune dysfunction at scale, led by Gregory Vladimer, PhD, Robert Sehlke, PhD, Prof. Berend Snijder, PhD, Bojan Vilagos, PhD, and Christophe Boudesco, PhD, has announced that Daphni, the Paris-based venture capital firm, has joined Graph’s investor syndicate to accelerate its internal pipeline. Daphni invests alongside continued participation from existing investors SquareOne, Merantix Capital, and NAVEC Investment Management, with additional non-

HealthLeap, a leading AI clinical screening startup, led by Josiah Meyer and Jemima Meyer, RD(SA), announced it has launched its AI-driven clinical screening platform across Houston Methodist’s system to help address this issue earlier and more consistently among at-risk inpatients. HealthLeap is the first and only validated AI-powered malnutrition screening tool with an EHR-integrated screening layer for hospitals. Developed by clinicians for clinicians, the platform continu

Tsuga, the enterprise observability platform that runs in your cloud, led by Gabriel-James Safar, Sébastien Deprez, and the team, has announced its Series A, led by Singular, with General Catalyst also participating, both of whom backed its $10 million seed round in December 2025. They are joined by new investors DST Global and Quantumlight, with Picus and Databricks also participating. The Problem. Observability has followed the same model for decades: telemetry is ingested

Tamarind Bio, building AI infrastructure for biotech R&D, led by Deniz Kavi, Sherry Liu, and the team, is integrating NVIDIA-optimized NIM microservices into the inference layer that powers the Tamarind platform. Building the Infrastructure for Agentic Biology. Advances in AI are rapidly transforming how new molecules, drug candidates, diagnostics, and biological tools are discovered and designed. Yet computational biology workflows often remain complex, requiring researchers

Probook, the AI operating system for home services, led by George Eliadis, Ben Cervantez, and Lewis Zhang, has announced $40M from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. Built by Operators. Probook was founded by a team with firsthand experience in the home services industry. Early experience in pressure washing, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical operations exposed the inefficiencies that service businesses face every day, inspiring the creation of a better solution. Founders

Timefold, developing vehicle routing and shift scheduling APIs for field service and workforce management, led by Maarten Vandenbroucke, Geoffrey De Smet, and the team, has raised a $13M Series A funding round led by Alstin Capital, with co-investor Kompas VC, and continued backing from existing investors Lakestar and Smartfin. Timefold provides scheduling and optimization infrastructure for field service and workforce management software. Following 4x ARR growth in 2025, th