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Proxima Raises $80 Million Led by DCVC to Power the Next Generation of Proximity-Based Medicines.
Proxima Bio , unlocking a new chapter in medicine by making protein interactions programmable, led by Zachary Carpenter, Luca Naef, and others, has secured an oversubscribed $80M seed financing led by DCVC , with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Braidwell , Roivant , AIX Ventures , Yosemite, Magnetic Ventures , Alexandria Venture Investments, Modi Ventures , and additional strategic and institutional investors. As part of the financing, the compan
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Cast AI Valued at Over $1 Billion With the Launch of its GPU Marketplace
Cast AI , the leading Application Performance Automation platform, led by Yuri Frayman, Leon Kuperman, Laurent Gil, and others, has introduced OMNI Compute , a unified compute control plane that automatically discovers available resources across cloud providers and regions and transparently extends existing Kubernetes clusters to consume them. The company also announced a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures (PAV) , the U.S.-based corporate venture arm of Shins
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Proxima Raises $80 Million Led by DCVC to Power the Next Generation of Proximity-Based Medicines.
Proxima Bio , unlocking a new chapter in medicine by making protein interactions programmable, led by Zachary Carpenter, Luca Naef, and others, has secured an oversubscribed $80M seed financing led by DCVC , with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Braidwell , Roivant , AIX Ventures , Yosemite, Magnetic Ventures , Alexandria Venture Investments, Modi Ventures , and additional strategic and institutional investors. As part of the financing, the compan
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Sandstone Announces its Launch to Invent a Better Way for In-House Lawyers to Work
Sandstone , the home for AI-native legal departments, led by Nick Fleisher , Liam Germain , and Jarryd Strydom , has announced its launch with a $10 million seed round led by Sequoia , with participation from an incredible group of additional investors as well as over 20 GCs, law firm partners, and customers. Experience in fast-growing B2B companies and legal tech consulting revealed a critical gap: in-house legal teams face inefficiencies from scattered knowledge and outdate
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Deepgram Raises $130M Series C at $1.3B Valuation to Power the Voice AI Economy, Acquires OfOne
Deepgram, enabling human-machine interactions with voice AI, led by Scott Stephenson , Adam Sypniewski , Shadi Baqleh , and others, has secured $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, led by AVP . All major existing investors joined the round, including Alkeon , In-Q-Tel, Madrona , Tiger, Wing , Y Combinator , and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. Several new investors, including Alumni Ventures and Princeville Capital , participated in the round
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Diffraqtion is Building Quantum Camera-Enabled Satellite and Telescope Constellations
Diffraqtion , an MIT and University of Maryland spinout building the next generation of visual AI hardware and software to make satellites and machines see further and think faster, led by Johannes Galatsanos, Christine Yi-Ting Wang, Saikat Guha, Mark Michael, and others, has raised its pre-seed funding round, led by QDNL Participations , with participation from milemark•capital , Aether VC , ADIN, Offline Ventures , and a non-dilutive DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase 2 contract su
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Sandstone Announces its Launch to Invent a Better Way for In-House Lawyers to Work
Sandstone , the home for AI-native legal departments, led by Nick Fleisher , Liam Germain , and Jarryd Strydom , has announced its launch with a $10 million seed round led by Sequoia , with participation from an incredible group of additional investors as well as over 20 GCs, law firm partners, and customers. Experience in fast-growing B2B companies and legal tech consulting revealed a critical gap: in-house legal teams face inefficiencies from scattered knowledge and outdate
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Sandstone Announces its Launch to Invent a Better Way for In-House Lawyers to Work
Sandstone , the home for AI-native legal departments, led by Nick Fleisher , Liam Germain , and Jarryd Strydom , has announced its launch with a $10 million seed round led by Sequoia , with participation from an incredible group of additional investors as well as over 20 GCs, law firm partners, and customers. Experience in fast-growing B2B companies and legal tech consulting revealed a critical gap: in-house legal teams face inefficiencies from scattered knowledge and outdate
Deepgram Raises $130M Series C at $1.3B Valuation to Power the Voice AI Economy, Acquires OfOne
Deepgram, enabling human-machine interactions with voice AI, led by Scott Stephenson , Adam Sypniewski , Shadi Baqleh , and others, has secured $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, led by AVP . All major existing investors joined the round, including Alkeon , In-Q-Tel, Madrona , Tiger, Wing , Y Combinator , and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. Several new investors, including Alumni Ventures and Princeville Capital , participated in the round
Diffraqtion is Building Quantum Camera-Enabled Satellite and Telescope Constellations
Diffraqtion , an MIT and University of Maryland spinout building the next generation of visual AI hardware and software to make satellites and machines see further and think faster, led by Johannes Galatsanos, Christine Yi-Ting Wang, Saikat Guha, Mark Michael, and others, has raised its pre-seed funding round, led by QDNL Participations , with participation from milemark•capital , Aether VC , ADIN, Offline Ventures , and a non-dilutive DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase 2 contract su
How Boltz is Helping Build Better Molecules with Frontier AI
Boltz , helping every scientist reshape biology, led by Gabriele Corso, Jeremy Wohlwend, and Saro Passaro, announced its launch with $28 Million Seed Round from Zetta , Amplify , a16z , and strategic angels, including Clement Delangue (CEO of Hugging Face), Factorial Capital , and Obvious Ventures . AI-powered molecular modeling is advancing rapidly, offering the potential to make biology programmable, digitize experiments, and accelerate drug development. However, emerging
How Protege is Unlocking Access to Data for AI Development
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
How Luxury Presence is Building the Growth Platform for Relationship-Driven Real Estate Agents
Luxury Presence , the growth platform for real estate’s top performers, led by Malte Kramer, has raised $37 million in new capital to accelerate the launch of Presence® CRM and deepen the data and intelligence layer that feeds our platform, including $22 million in Series C equity, led for the third time by Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners , with participation from NextEquity Partners , GSBackers , a Stanford alumni fund, including Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff,
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Bluecopa Secures $7.5 Million Series A funding to Expand AI-Driven Finance Software
Bluecopa , the unified finance operations management platform, led by Satya Prakash, Nilotpal Chanda, and Raghavendra Reddy, has secured $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Singapore-based Analog Partners , with participation from existing investors Blume Ventures and Dallas Venture Capital , bringing the total funding to $11.6 million. “This funding fast-tracks our vision of autonomous finance, where routine processes run themselves, and teams focus on strategy
Bluecopa Secures $7.5 Million Series A funding to Expand AI-Driven Finance Software
Bluecopa , the unified finance operations management platform, led by Satya Prakash, Nilotpal Chanda, and Raghavendra Reddy, has secured $7.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Singapore-based Analog Partners , with participation from existing investors Blume Ventures and Dallas Venture Capital , bringing the total funding to $11.6 million. “This funding fast-tracks our vision of autonomous finance, where routine processes run themselves, and teams focus on strategy
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Rain is Scaling Stablecoin-Powered Payments Infrastructure for Global Enterprises
Rain , the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, led by Farooq Malik and Charles Naut, has secured a $250 million Series C funding round led by ICONIQ , with participation from Sapphire Ventures , Dragonfly , Bessemer Venture Partners , Galaxy Ventures , FirstMark , Lightspeed , Norwest , and Endeavor Catalyst , bringing the total funding to $338 million and valuing the company at $1.95 Billion. Stablecoins have shifted from a speculative niche to
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Indian Wealthtech Platform PowerUp Money is Expanding Access to High-Quality Mutual Fund Advisory
PowerUp Money , India's trusted Mutual Fund Advisory App, led by Prateek Jindal, Harshil Sharma, Navdha Khera, Mridul Mimansa, Gaurav Singh, and Arush Kapoor, has secured $12 million in a Series A round led by Peak XV , with support from existing backers Accel , Blume Ventures , Kae Capital , 8i Ventures , and DeVC . India today has nearly 60 million mutual fund investors, with SIP participation at an all-time high. Yet many working professionals struggle to make prudent fin
Dec 23, 2025
Nodu is Upgrading Europe’s Payment Rails as Stablecoins Surge
Nodu , a compliant platform bridging fiat and stablecoin payments, led by Alex Novozhenov , Vladislav Nikolayev , and Daria Dubinina , has closed a $1.45 million pre-seed round led by Digital Space Ventures . Nodu provides banks, fintechs, and businesses with a ready-to-use global compliance and payments framework for stablecoins, enabling services to be launched without the need to build internal infrastructure. The platform enables sending, receiving, and holding stable
Dec 20, 2025
Modern Brokerage Firm Cache Exceeds $1 Billion in Assets Just Twenty Months after Launch
Cache , building the best brokerage to manage your large stock positions, led by Srikanth Narayan and others, has crossed $1 billion in total platform assets. For more than fifty years, exchange funds have operated largely out of the spotlight, addressing a specific need for a narrow group of investors, primarily ultra-wealthy families with private banking relationships. While the structure proved effective, the overall experience saw little innovation. High minimums, elevat
Dec 19, 2025
FINNY Raises a $17 Million Series A to Help Great Financial Advisors Help More People
Finny , the organic growth engine for financial advisors, led by Eden Ovadia, Victoria Toli, and Theodore Janson, has secured $17 million in Series A funding led by Venrock , with participation from Activant , Altruist’s Jason Wenk, and continued support from Y Combinator , Maple VC, and Crossbeam Ventures . Nick Beim from Venrock and Bill McNabb, the former Chairman and CEO of Vanguard, will join the Board. Financial advisors play a critical role in helping Americans navigat
Dec 19, 2025
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Lux Capital Announces Lux Ventures IX, its Largest Fund to Date
Lux Capital , a Venture Capital Firm, started in 2000, investing in opportunities at the frontier of science and technology that others find too hard, too early, or too confusing, led by Peter Hebert, Josh Wolfe, and others, has announced its largest fund to date, Lux Ventures IX, a $1.5B commitment to investing in the people turning sci-fi into sci-fact. Entire sectors, from aerospace and biotech to defense and industrials, are being rebuilt by a bold new generation of sci
Lux Capital Announces Lux Ventures IX, its Largest Fund to Date
Lux Capital , a Venture Capital Firm, started in 2000, investing in opportunities at the frontier of science and technology that others find too hard, too early, or too confusing, led by Peter Hebert, Josh Wolfe, and others, has announced its largest fund to date, Lux Ventures IX, a $1.5B commitment to investing in the people turning sci-fi into sci-fact. Entire sectors, from aerospace and biotech to defense and industrials, are being rebuilt by a bold new generation of sci
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Cloudberry Launches Europe’s First Semiconductor Venture Fund
Cloudberry , a venture capital firm based in Helsinki and London, led by Rene Kromhof, Veera Pietikäinen, Lawrence Lundy-Bryan, Tuomas Hollman, and Lukas Steinmann, has announced the launch of Europe’s first semiconductor venture fund with an initial close of €30 million. The fund invests in companies advancing the technological frontier with semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials to advance compute, connectivity, sensing, and power. Cloudberry’s fund, anchored
Dec 19, 2025
Fortino Capital Closes Oversubscribed PE III Fund at €700 Million
Fortino Capital , a specialist European investor in B2B SaaS companies, led by Duco Sickinghe, Renaat Berckmoes, and others, has announced the final close of its third private equity fund (“Fortino PE III”) at an extended hard cap of €700 million, surpassing its initial €600 million target, with strong support from both existing and new institutional investors across Europe and the US. Fortino PE III is around 85% larger than its predecessor and attracted a diverse base of i
Dec 19, 2025
MD One Ventures & Randox launch Accelerator Randox for Builders
MD One Ventures , Europe's first Defence and National Security Venture Capital, led by Will McManners, Kelvin Au, Edward Ebbern, and others, and Randox , a global diagnostics and healthcare company from the UK and Ireland, have announced the launch of Randox for Builders , a security and biotech incubator and accelerator for UK and European founders and their teams. Alongside funding, founders gain immediate access to world-class scientific, R&D, and commercial expertise, g
Dec 16, 2025
Aneli Capital Launches €35 Million Fund for Baltic and CEE Startups
Aneli Capital , investing in visionary startups to revolutionize industries and drive transformative change, led by Daiva Rakauskaitė, Jacek Blonski, Nerijus Baliunas, Sabina Siniciene, and others, has announced €35 million fund to support early-stage startups in the Baltics, Poland, and other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, that will primarily focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as robotics, space, photonics, and energy startups, to
Dec 10, 2025
betacluster Ventures Launches New Early-Stage Fund betacluster Poland.One Under the PFR Starter Program
betacluster Ventures , fueling early-stage smart data startups from the beta phase to worldwide success, led by Florian Steger, Gabriela Brodzińska-Drozd, and Cezary Iwan, has launched betacluster Poland.One , a new early-stage fund under the PFR Starter program with a target capitalisation of €19 million (PLN 81.25 million). The fund will back technology startups primarily from Poland that are building solutions for the Smart Data Economy, where intelligent data systems, AI
Dec 9, 2025
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Proxima Raises $80 Million Led by DCVC to Power the Next Generation of Proximity-Based Medicines.
Proxima Bio , unlocking a new chapter in medicine by making protein interactions programmable, led by Zachary Carpenter, Luca Naef, and others, has secured an oversubscribed $80M seed financing led by DCVC , with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Braidwell , Roivant , AIX Ventures , Yosemite, Magnetic Ventures , Alexandria Venture Investments, Modi Ventures , and additional strategic and institutional investors. As part of the financing, the compan
Proxima Raises $80 Million Led by DCVC to Power the Next Generation of Proximity-Based Medicines.
Proxima Bio , unlocking a new chapter in medicine by making protein interactions programmable, led by Zachary Carpenter, Luca Naef, and others, has secured an oversubscribed $80M seed financing led by DCVC , with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Braidwell , Roivant , AIX Ventures , Yosemite, Magnetic Ventures , Alexandria Venture Investments, Modi Ventures , and additional strategic and institutional investors. As part of the financing, the compan
Diffraqtion is Building Quantum Camera-Enabled Satellite and Telescope Constellations
Diffraqtion , an MIT and University of Maryland spinout building the next generation of visual AI hardware and software to make satellites and machines see further and think faster, led by Johannes Galatsanos, Christine Yi-Ting Wang, Saikat Guha, Mark Michael, and others, has raised its pre-seed funding round, led by QDNL Participations , with participation from milemark•capital , Aether VC , ADIN, Offline Ventures , and a non-dilutive DARPA SBIR Direct-to-Phase 2 contract su
Nuclera Extends Series C Funding to $87 Million to Advance Antibody Engineering
Nuclera , the biotechnology company accelerating drug discovery by providing rapid, easy access to functional proteins through its benchtop eProtein Discovery™ System, led by Michael Chen, Gordon Mcinroy, and others, announced a USD $12 million financing extension, bringing the Company’s total Series C funding to USD $87 million, led by Elevage Medical Technologies and Jonathan Milner, joined by existing investors British Business Bank and GK Goh . The investment will acc
Harmattan AI is Scaling Autonomous Defense for Allied Forces with new $200 Million in Funding.
Harmattan AI , building the future of autonomous warfare, with speed and intelligence, led by Mouad M'Ghari, Martin de Gourcuff , Jean-Christophe Charlaix , Edouard Rosset , Jean-Patrice Coste , and others, has secured $200 million in a Series B funding round led by Dassault Aviation. The two companies have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the integration of controlled autonomy and AI technologies into combat aviation systems. Harmattan AI, awarded multiple Pr
How Boltz is Helping Build Better Molecules with Frontier AI
Boltz , helping every scientist reshape biology, led by Gabriele Corso, Jeremy Wohlwend, and Saro Passaro, announced its launch with $28 Million Seed Round from Zetta , Amplify , a16z , and strategic angels, including Clement Delangue (CEO of Hugging Face), Factorial Capital , and Obvious Ventures . AI-powered molecular modeling is advancing rapidly, offering the potential to make biology programmable, digitize experiments, and accelerate drug development. However, emerging
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Torq Raises $140M Series D to Dominate the Future of Security Operations
Torq , the AI security platform, led by Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind, Eldad Livni, and others, has secured a massive $140 million Series D funding round led by Merlin Ventures with participation from all existing investors, including Evolution Equity Partners , Notable Capital , Bessemer Venture Partners , Insight Ventures Partners , and Greenfield Partners , propelling its valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding to $332M. Torq is transforming Security Operations Center
Torq Raises $140M Series D to Dominate the Future of Security Operations
Torq , the AI security platform, led by Ofer Smadari, Leonid Belkind, Eldad Livni, and others, has secured a massive $140 million Series D funding round led by Merlin Ventures with participation from all existing investors, including Evolution Equity Partners , Notable Capital , Bessemer Venture Partners , Insight Ventures Partners , and Greenfield Partners , propelling its valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding to $332M. Torq is transforming Security Operations Center
Cyera Raises $400 Million to Secure AI Adoption at Scale for Every Enterprise
Cyera , the AI-native data security platform, led by Yotam Segev, Tamar Bar-Ilan, and others, has secured $400 million in funding. AI now demands a new security model. Public data powered the first wave; proprietary data will drive the next. As agentic AI spreads across enterprises, automated systems generate massive volumes of actions and decisions, expanding exposure. The real challenge is securing this ecosystem. Legacy security tools cannot see or control the data AI dep
Armis is Joining ServiceNow to Protect Customers’ Most Critical Environments and Reduce Cyber Risk at Scale
Armis , the cyber exposure management & security company, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time, led by Yevgeny Dibrov, Nadir Izrael, and others, is being acquired by ServiceNow . The move represents a strategic step forward for customers and the broader mission. Since its inception, Armis has focused on enabling organizations to see, protect, and manage every asset across IT, OT, IoT, medical devices, cloud, and co
Exein Raises €100 Million in New Funding to Accelerate its Global Expansion
Exein , a global leader in embedded IoT cybersecurity, led by Gianni Cuozzo, Giovanni Alberto Falcione, Gerardo Gagliardo, and Gary Walshe, has raised €100 million in new funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures , with participation from HV Capital , Intrepid Growth Partners , Geodesic , and J.P. Morgan . The new funding will drive next-generation AI security and international growth. It will enable: Development of embedded runtime security for connected devices, including AI-
How Adaptive Security is Building the Future of Security Awareness in the Age of AI
Adaptive Security , protecting your organization from AI-powered attacks like deepfakes, smishing, and vishing, led by Brian Long and Andrew Jones, has secured $81M Series B from new investors NVIDIA , Bain Capital Ventures , Capital One Ventures , and Citi Venture s, alongside participation from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund , Abstract Ventures , and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Less than a year after launch, Adaptive now protects more than 500 enterpr
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