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On January 30th, Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork on GitHub. These weren't incremental AI features. They were complete workflow automation tools designed to handle end-to-end business processes across legal, sales, finance, marketing, and data analysis.The legal plugin specifically targets contract review, NDA triage, compliance checks, legal briefings, and templated responses. It's configurable to an organization's risk tolerances. Anthropic cautioned that outputs "should be reviewed by licensed attorneys"but that disclaimer didn't calm investors.The market's reaction wasn't about what the tool does today. It was about what it signals for tomorrow https://www.newnex.io/blogs/venture-capital/thank-anthropic-for-negative-285-billion--what-tuesdays-market-selloff-means-for-vc-investors
7 hours ago|by Praveen Paranjothi
Positron AI, a U.S.-based semiconductor and AI infrastructure startup, has closed a $230 million Series B funding round at a post-money valuation of more than $1 billion. The capital will accelerate the company’s mission to scale energy-efficient AI inference hardware and custom silicon that dramatically lowers cost and power consumption for real-world AI deployments. The round was co-led by strategic and financial investors including Arena Private Wealth, Jump Trading, and Unless, with participation from Qatar Investment Authority, Arm Holdings, and returning backers such as Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, DFJ Growth, Resilience Reserve, Flume Ventures, and 1517. Positron’s leadership said this strong financing validates demand for its inference-centric hardware approach, which focuses on efficient compute tailored for large-scale AI models. Positron builds purpose-designed hardware and software for AI inference, with its shipping product Atlas delivering competitive inference performance at significantly lower power usage compared to traditional GPU-based solutions. The company’s next-generation custom silicon, Asimov, targets memory-first architecture designed to support high-bandwidth, large-context models and is expected to enter production in the coming years. This latest funding positions Positron to expand engineering and production capacity, advance its chip roadmap, deepen partnerships across cloud and performance-sensitive verticals, and capture growing demand from customers seeking alternatives to legacy AI infrastructure.
7 hours ago|by Team S
Third Arc Bio Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing novel multifunctional antibodies for oncology and immunology & inflammation (I&I) indications, has announced the closing of a $52 million Series A extension financing round. The new capital will fuel the company’s expansion of its I&I portfolio and advancement of additional oncology programs into clinical development, reinforcing its capabilities to address diseases with high unmet medical need. The Series A extension builds on Third Arc Bio’s earlier $165 million Series A financing and brings new investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) into the syndicate while continuing backing from its world-class investor base. As part of the financing, a16z General Partner Jorge Conde is joining Third Arc Bio’s Board of Directors, underscoring strong confidence in the company’s scientific platforms and strategic direction. Third Arc Bio was launched in 2022 with seed funding from Omega Funds and has rapidly assembled an experienced team with a track record of drug discovery and development. Its lead asset, ARC101, is a bispecific T cell engager targeting CLDN6 that is currently in Phase 1 dose escalation in patients with advanced solid tumors. The company’s platform technologies, including its ARCTag (Tethered Agonist) Platform, aim to precisely localize immune modulation directly to disease sites, representing a targeted advance over conventional systemic therapies. Third Arc Bio’s leadership says the new funding will maintain momentum across its expanding oncology portfolio while rapidly advancing next-generation I&I assets into first-in-human studies, enhancing its ability to generate proof-of-concept data and deliver innovative therapies for patients with significant unmet needs.
7 hours ago|by Team S
TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence and AI-driven risk platform, has announced the successful close of a $70 million Series C funding round that values the company at approximately $1 billion. The funding will accelerate the company’s mission to empower law enforcement, national security agencies, and financial institutions around the world with advanced technologies to combat evolving threats across cybercrime, illicit finance, and programmatic fraud. TRM’s platform integrates cutting-edge AI and blockchain analytics to trace movement of funds, identify malicious actors, and enhance investigative workflows in high-consequence environments, serving a global customer base spanning more than 50 countries including leading private sector institutions. The Series C funding round was led by Spencer Bogart Blockchain Capital, with participation from returning and new investors including CMT Digital, Mathew McDermott Goldman Sachs, Charles Birnbaum Bessemer Venture Partners, DRW Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, Citi Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, and Galaxy Ventures. This strong support from both venture and strategic institutional investors underscores confidence in TRM’s technology and its role in safeguarding digital economic activity worldwide. TRM Labs will use the new capital to broaden its AI research and engineering talent, enhance its AI-enabled compliance and risk management tools, and expand its AI-powered investigation capabilities that connect on-chain and off-chain threat insights. CEO Esteban Castaño emphasized that this investment propels TRM’s mission to build impactful AI solutions that protect public safety and financial integrity as digital activity continues to scale globally.
7 hours ago|by Team S
Waabi Innovation Inc., a Toronto-based autonomous vehicle and Physical AI startup specialising in self-driving technology for trucks, has raised $1 billion in new funding to expand its commercial footprint and enter the robotaxi market in partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. The fresh capital positions Waabi to scale its cutting-edge AI platform which powers both autonomous trucking and passenger robotaxis as demand grows for scalable autonomous transportation solutions beyond freight alone. In this Series C financing, Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners co-led the $750 million oversubscribed equity round, complemented by approximately $250 million in milestone-based investment from Uber tied to robotaxi deployment objectives. Strategic participation also came from Uber, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm), Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Inc., an Abu Dhabi Investment Authority-linked vehicle, BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, Export Development Canada (EDC), TELUS Global Ventures, BMO Global Asset Management, and other institutional backers making this one of the largest autonomous driving raises in Canadian history. The Uber-Waabi partnership targets deployment of 25,000+ Waabi Driver-powered robotaxis on Uber’s ride-hailing platform over time, using Waabi’s unified Physical AI stack across vehicle types without needing separate systems for trucks and robotaxis. Founded in 2021 by AI expert Raquel Urtasun, Waabi has evolved its simulation-first AI platform designed to generalise across vehicle categories and geographies to power autonomous trucking commercialisation while spearheading its entry into passenger mobility via robotaxi services. The company plans to use the fresh capital to grow engineering and commercial teams, deepen AI capabilities, accelerate AV deployment, and support long-term global expansion of both freight and ride-hail autonomy.
8 hours ago|by Team S
Orbital, a London-based artificial intelligence platform focused on automating complex legal work in real estate transactions, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to fuel product innovation, deepen AI capabilities, and expand its presence in the United States and United Kingdom targeting a large, underserved segment of legal practice that has historically relied on manual, document-intensive processes. The platform combines AI models tailored for real estate law with spatial visualisation, mapping and property data to streamline workflows across residential and commercial transactions. By the end of 2025, Orbital’s technology had been used to support more than 200,000 real estate transactions and serve thousands of law firms, in-house teams, title companies and real estate developers. The Series B round was led by Brighton Park Capital, a New York-based growth fund, with participation from REV (the venture arm of RELX), The LegalTech Fund, Moderne Ventures, Grosvenor Group, and continued backing from existing investors including JLL Spark, Outward VC, and Seedcamp reflecting strong confidence in Orbital’s mission to define a new category of AI-driven legal automation for real estate. The capital will be used to scale the team, establish additional U.S. hubs, deepen integrations with real-estate workflow partners, and accelerate adoption among enterprise legal teams and property firms on both sides of the Atlantic.
8 hours ago|by Team S
Sokin, a London-based fintech specialising in business payments and embedded finance infrastructure, has secured an €83 million (≈ $100 million) long-term debt facility to accelerate its international growth strategy, expand its payments ecosystem, and develop new products including embedded payments capabilities. The facility follows Sokin’s active funding push in 2025, which saw nearly €60 million raised including a €42.9 million Series B led by Prysm Capital underscoring momentum in its cross-border B2B payments business. The €83 million growth financing was provided by Oxford Finance LLC, a specialty lender focused on technology-enabled companies, strengthening Sokin’s balance sheet as it scales operations across North America, Asia, the Middle East and South America, and pursues additional regional licences and banking partnerships. The capital will also support product innovation to embed payments directly into customer workflows a strategic priority as demand grows for tightly integrated treasury, FX, and account management services for global businesses. Sokin’s platform already enables customers to send, receive and hold funds in multiple currencies with multi-currency IBANs, helping streamline cross-border accounts payable, receivable, and treasury functions for enterprises.
a day ago|by Team S
Carbon­aide, a Joensuu, Finland-based climate-tech company focused on decarbonising the construction materials and building sector, has raised $37 million in funding to scale its technology, expand international operations, and lead adoption of low-carbon alternatives to traditional construction materials. The company’s mission is to reduce the construction industry’s CO₂ footprint by transforming how materials like cement and aggregates are produced, processed and used combining advanced chemical engineering, AI-led process optimisation, and sustainable feedstocks to drive industrial decarbonisation at scale.The funding round was led by one of Europe’s leading climate-tech investors, with strong participation from strategic backers supportive of Carbon­aide’s industrial decarbonisation roadmap. The capital will be used to expand manufacturing and pilot facilities, grow the commercial footprint across Europe and North America, strengthen partnerships with key industrial players, and enhance R&D into next-generation low-carbon construction solutions that help contractors and materials producers meet tightening regulatory and sustainability goals. Carbon­aide’s approach aims to deliver material performance parity with conventional materials while cutting embodied emissions, helping the built environment pivot toward more sustainable practices.
a day ago|by Team S
Sipfront, a Schwechat, Austria-based technology company specialising in voice AI quality assurance and enterprise telecom monitoring, has raised €1.8 million in a seed funding round to advance its platform that combines deep-packet network observability, automated voicebot testing, and AI-powered quality verification to help enterprises ensure reliable, high-performance voice communication systems. The platform analyses SIP signalling, RTP media streams, jitter, latency, packet loss and dialogue flows to detect issues below application-level dashboards, helping telecom operators, contact centres and AI-driven voice providers validate performance and compliance. In this seed round, the funding was co-led by Amsterdam-based Airbridge Equity Partners and Austria’s tecnet equity, with reinvestments from business angels Gernot Singer, Jan Trionow and Markus Buchner signalling strong belief in Sipfront’s mission to serve a fast-growing global market for reliable AI-enhanced customer communications and enterprise voice automation. The fresh capital will be used to expand enterprise voice AI capabilities, deepen automated test bot functions, strengthen content and dynamic dialogue testing, and scale stress testing on high-volume voice systems as Sipfront pushes further into regulated and large-scale environments.
a day ago|by Team S
HomeCooks, a London-based meal preparation and food marketplace connecting health-conscious consumers with meals prepared by independent chefs, has raised €1.6 million (approx £1.4 million) in a seed funding round to accelerate retail expansion across the UK and grow its marketplace footprint. Founded in 2020 by Josh Magidson, the platform offers balanced, high-protein and nutrient-dense ready meals prepared by local chefs giving customers healthy, chef-made food without the hassle of cooking and offering chefs new revenue streams via a scalable marketplace model. The funding was led by PXN Ventures, with participation from Love Ventures, Speedinvest, and several angel investors including New Look founder Tom Singh and Leonard Picardo (one of Deliveroo’s first employees) highlighting early ecosystem confidence in HomeCooks’ model in a competitive meal-prep and healthier food market. HomeCooks plans to use the capital to expand partnerships with supermarket chains and independent retailers (including a recent launch with Co-op stores in Lincolnshire), enter new UK regions outside London and the South East, grow its chef network and retail presence, and amplify its brand reach to more consumers nationwide. The startup now serves more than 60,000 regular users and offers 300+ meal options across global cuisines, prepared in small batches by partner chefs.
a day ago|by Team S
Bits Technology, a Stockholm-based provider of compliance and onboarding infrastructure for regulated financial institutions, has raised €12 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate automation across anti-money-laundering (AML), fraud and onboarding workflows and support broader expansion throughout Europe. The company’s platform helps fintechs and banks unify fragmented compliance processes including KYC, KYB, continuous monitoring and risk assessment into a single, scalable system that reduces manual work and supports growth across markets. This Series A was led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Alliance Ventures, and angel investor Haval van Drumpt (CEO, Tre Sweden) signalling strong investor confidence in Bits’ approach to modernising regulatory compliance as a growth enabler rather than a bottleneck. The new capital will be used to deepen automation across financial crime detection workflows, expand coverage of regulatory and data sources across Europe, and scale the company’s go-to-market operations as it targets continued expansion into key regions including the DACH market and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2022 by former operators from Klarna, AWS and Tink, Bits supports compliance workflows across 100+ jurisdictions, helping regulated organisations streamline onboarding, fraud detection and ongoing monitoring. Customers such as Qliro, Alisa Bank and Walley have reported significant reductions in manual case handling between 50 % and 70 % while speeding onboarding and approval times four to six times faster.
a day ago|by Team S
Flowla, a London-based platform using artificial intelligence to automate B2B sales and customer success workflows, has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round to scale its AI-driven buyer engagement and revenue orchestration technology. The startup’s platform provides sales and customer success teams with pre-built sales journeys, personalised AI-generated content, and automated follow-up triggers based on real-time buyer behaviour helping reduce manual admin, improve deal progression and standardise execution across complex revenue operations. Flowla’s tech aims to turn manual sales tasks into automated, data-driven workflows that accelerate pipeline velocity. The seed round was led by Revo Capital, with participation from AI Startup Factory, Türkiye Development Fund, APY Ventures, Sharks & Partners, and a group of Salesforce-experienced angel investors backing Flowla’s mission to redefine how B2B deals are executed. With the fresh capital, Flowla plans to enhance its automation and AI content generation capabilities and build a U.S. go-to-market team to extend its reach internationally as demand grows for AI-native revenue tools.
a day ago|by Team S
Salicru, a family-owned Spanish power electronics manufacturer headquartered in Santa Maria de Palautordera (Vallès Oriental), Catalonia, has secured €2.5 million in financing from the Institut Català de Finances (ICF) through its Eurocrèdit loan facility part of a push to accelerate the company’s reindustrialisation, production expansion and process digitalisation as it targets international growth and export market expansion. The financing comes from an ICF Eurocrèdit loan co-financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which provides favourable loan conditions for Catalan SMEs investing in production capacity, innovation and market expansion. Salicru, founded in 1965, is a recognised manufacturer of Uninterruptible Power Supply systems (UPS) and other power quality solutions that protect equipment across industrial, professional and domestic applications. With such systems deployed in over 130 countries and subsidiaries in markets like China, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, the Middle East, France and Australia, the company is positioning itself for further international scaling. ICF’s backing will support the expansion of Salicru’s industrial footprint, continued digital transformation of manufacturing processes, and reinforcements to its engineering and export capabilities at a strategic point in its growth cycle. Salicru’s leadership has highlighted the importance of both private and public financing support in reinforcing its competitive edge, while ICF emphasises its role in bolstering industrial projects that create jobs and strengthen local economic impact.
2 days ago|by Team S
Rainbow Weather, a Warsaw-based climate-tech and AI weather intelligence startup, has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round to extend its hyperlocal, minute-by-minute weather forecasting technology and broaden commercial offerings to B2B clients. The company’s platform focuses on real-time short-term forecasts delivering precipitation predictions updated every few minutes on a one-square-kilometer grid, helping users and businesses make decisions based on highly precise weather data rather than traditional long-range models. The seed round was backed by a syndicate of strategic investors led by Yuri Gurski, the founder of Flo Health and a veteran of Europe’s consumer tech scene, alongside other contributors from the tech and climate-tech investment community. The fresh funding will be used to extend the forecasting window from four hours to 24 hours, add additional weather parameters beyond precipitation, enhance enterprise APIs, and scale operations across industries such as logistics, agriculture, aviation, and drone services where near-term weather accuracy is critical. Rainbow Weather says its app has already surpassed one million installs globally and has begun supplying real-time data services to commercial partners.
2 days ago|by Team S
Nomagic, a Warsaw-based AI robotics company developing smart pick-and-place automation solutions for warehouse order fulfilment, has raised €8.6 million (approximately $9.4 million) in a funding round to accelerate product development and support wider commercial deployments of its robotic systems that automate complex item handling tasks for ecommerce and logistics operations. The fresh capital will help Nomagic expand its suite of autonomous robotics offerings, enhance AI-driven perception and manipulation capabilities, and lay the groundwork for future growth across sectors that face persistent labour shortages and operational inefficiencies. This round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Hoxton Ventures, with participation from seasoned technology investors including DN Capital, Capnamic Ventures, and Manta Ray underscoring strong investor confidence in Nomagic’s vision to make warehouse pick-and-place automation more flexible, scalable, and accessible to a wider range of logistics customers. Nomagic’s technology combines computer vision, machine learning, and modular robotics hardware to autonomously identify and handle diverse items in real-world environments, removing manual bottlenecks in order fulfilment and intralogistics workflows. Founded in 2017 by Kacper Nowicki and Tristan d’Orgeval, Nomagic has been at the forefront of Physical AI for warehouse automation, delivering robust robotic picking systems that integrate seamlessly with existing warehouse infrastructure and fulfilment software ecosystems. The company continues to build commercial traction and expects this funding to drive deeper integration with major supply chain partners and accelerate its move into new geographic markets.
2 days ago|by Team S
Metergrid, a Stuttgart-based energy technology company focused on software and processing solutions for solar tenant-power (Mieterstrom) models, has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round reported as the largest growth financing in Germany’s tenant-power segment. The fresh capital will help Metergrid evolve its platform from a billing-centric solution to a comprehensive energy management suite for multi-tenant residential buildings, integrating solar PV, EV charging, energy storage, smart metering and heating/utility cost accounting under one unified software ecosystem. The Series A round was led by SET Ventures, with strong participation from existing backers Hager, LBBW Venture Capital, Mätch VC, and multiple business angels that supported Metergrid’s mission to democratise access to renewable energy and digitalise building energy operations. Founded in 2021, Metergrid’s platform enables owners, housing associations and property managers to sell on-site solar power directly to residents bypassing traditional grid challenges and increasing adoption of local renewables. The company expanded its reach significantly in 2025, growing the number of residents served from around 10,000 to over 53,000, and aims to support one million people in multi-tenant homes with renewable energy by 2030, according to Co-Founder and CEO Johannes Mewes. The round will also fuel product expansion into EV infrastructure, advanced energy management systems and storage optimisation, while helping tackle regulatory and administrative hurdles that have historically slowed local energy concepts in Germany’s multi-family buildings.
2 days ago|by Team S
zSpace, Inc., a U.S.-based AR/VR education technology company developing immersive learning solutions for K-12 and vocational training, has secured a $3 million strategic investment as it navigates financial pressures and possible Nasdaq listing challenges. The fresh capital will help the company strengthen its balance sheet, support ongoing operations, and support international expansion efforts outside the United States. The $3 million investment came from Planet One Education a global provider of technology-driven education solutions across K-12, technical and vocational training (TVET), and higher education. The funding was structured through the purchase of convertible preferred stock and warrants, reinforcing confidence in zSpace’s patented headset-free AR/VR ecosystem while helping accelerate go-to-market initiatives in high-growth education sectors globally. zSpace and Planet One are also exploring a strategic collaboration to expand STEM and vocational training offerings outside the U.S. and deliver scalable immersive learning platforms. zSpace, which has historically focused on immersive AR/VR solutions that allow students to interact with 3D content without head-mounted displays, has faced ongoing Nasdaq compliance pressures after reported declines in stock price and market value, prompting restructuring efforts and cost reductions. This infusion of capital aims to bolster growth as the company adjusts to evolving education technology demand and explores broader adoption of its platform.
2 days ago|by Team S
Levellr, a London and New York-based engagement intelligence startup, has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round to scale its AI-driven platform that transforms unstructured community conversations especially on Discord into structured insights for product, marketing, community and support teams. The platform addresses the challenge many brands face in understanding sentiment and signal buried in fast-moving chat streams by converting community dialogue into actionable recommendations that help teams reduce noise, improve retention and make data-backed decisions. The seed round was led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from a high-profile group of individual backers and strategic investors including Bing Gordon, Frank Gibeau, Phil Mansell, Simon Hade, Norman Cheuk, Playformant, and Mark Pincus’ Workplay Ventures. Levellr also noted early support from investors such as Rich Barnwell, Matt Bilbey, Dylan Collins, Mitch Lasky, Owen Mahoney, and Mika Salmi showcasing strong confidence in the company’s vision to unlock community-centric signals that inform product metrics and retention strategies across consumer and gaming sectors. Founded in 2021 by Tom Gayner and Ben Barbersmith, Levellr has seen revenue double year-on-year and serves customers including Epic Games, Krafton, Scopely, YouTube and Google, highlighting early traction across gaming and consumer tech brands that rely on vibrant online communities to drive engagement and product feedback loops.
2 days ago|by Team S
RobCo, a Munich-born industrial robotics and physical AI company, has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to accelerate global deployments of its autonomous manufacturing robots and deepen its presence in the United States a key priority market where the firm already operates from hubs like San Francisco and Austin. The investment underscores growing demand for flexible, AI-powered robotic systems that can adapt to real-world factory environments, reduce manual programming, and drive productivity gains as manufacturers confront labor shortages and reshoring trends.The Series C round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation (Exor-backed), with strong participation from Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif, and The Friedkin Group - combining deep software-centric investors with strategic backers experienced in industrial ecosystems. RobCo plans to use the fresh capital to scale U.S. enterprise sales, advance its vertically integrated robotics platform that blends hardware, perception and motion AI, and expand deployment across complex manufacturing tasks such as machine tending, palletizing, dispensing and welding.
4 days ago|by Team S
heyData, a Berlin, Germany-based compliance technology company, has raised $16.5 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate development of its unified IT security and regulatory compliance platform and expand its footprint across Europe. The platform helps small and medium-sized businesses automate complex compliance requirements including GDPR, ISO 27001, NIS2 and the EU AI Act by integrating security and compliance workflows into a single modular SaaS system that reduces manual effort and operational friction. The Series A round was led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC), the specialised B2B software investment arm of The Riverside Company, with a focus on supporting high-growth enterprise software businesses. The fresh capital will be used to expand the platform’s unified security and compliance capabilities, add support for additional regulatory frameworks and deeper integrations, and scale across European markets beyond its strong DACH region base meeting rising demand as digital security risks and regulatory complexity increase. heyData serves more than 2,000 customers across sectors and aims to make compliance intuitive, automated and integrated into routine business workflows.
4 days ago|by Team S
Paris-based Twin Labs has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop an AI-driven automation platform that can replicate repetitive human tasks - like onboarding new employees, reordering stock, downloading reports or updating multiple SaaS systems by letting its AI directly interact with software interfaces much like a human using a mouse and keyboard. The company’s approach uses multimodal vision-capable AI models such as GPT-4 with Vision to interpret on-screen elements and perform actions autonomously, moving beyond traditional API-based automation tools. Twin Labs plans to ship a library of pre-trained tasks initially and later open up its platform so customers can define custom workflows for their own environments. The pre-seed round was led by Betaworks and Motier Ventures, with participation from Factorial (Matthew Hartman & Clem Delangue) and a strong group of angel investors including Florian Douetteau (Dataiku), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Charles Gorintin (Alan), Mehdi Ghissassi (DeepMind), Romain Huet (OpenAI), Irwan Bello (OpenAI), Romuald Elie (DeepMind), Yan-David Erlich (Weights & Biases), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Rodolphe Saadé (CMA CGM), Thibaud Elziere (Hexa), Quentin Nickmans (Hexa), Philippe Corrot (Mirakl) and Rand Hindi (Snips, Zama).
4 days ago|by Team S
Radiant (formerly Neamine), a European climate technology company building solar thermal solutions for decarbonising industrial heat, has raised €2 million in a seed funding round while being selected to participate in Hexa’s Carbon Zero acceleration programme a climate-focused cohort designed to back breakthrough technologies that can economically replace legacy carbon systems. The funds will help advance Radiant’s next-generation industrial heat platform and support construction of its first industrial demonstrator in Le Mans to validate scalability and operation at industrial sites. The round was led with participation from Tiresias Angels and investor Selim Cherif, underscoring early confidence in Radiant’s mission to cut fossil fuel reliance in heat-intensive sectors. Industrial heat accounts for a large share of energy consumption and emissions, especially in materials and process industries where traditional gas burners and oil-fired boilers remain dominant. Radiant’s solar thermal system combining next-generation heliostats, a proprietary receiver and thermal storage can deliver high-temperature heat up to 1,000 °C for industrial furnaces, kilns and dryers, while helping companies reduce carbon emissions and manage energy costs. Radiant builds on 15 years of research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and its technology addresses a longstanding gap in economically competitive low-carbon industrial heat solutions. With this funding and support from Hexa’s Carbon Zero programme, Radiant plans to expand demonstration deployments and pursue international expansion, contributing to broader industrial decarbonisation efforts across Europe and beyond.
4 days ago|by Team S
Bleap, a fintech startup building a self-custodial on-chain financial account platform that combines global money movement with stablecoin-based features, has raised $6 million in a seed funding round to accelerate product development and expand into new markets across Europe and Latin America. The platform lets users spend money with no FX markups, receive stablecoin cashback, move value instantly across borders, and access yield products all from a single self-custodial balance that keeps users in full control of their funds. Since its last raise, Bleap has grown to over 20,000 users and processed more than $30 million in transactions in 2025. This seed round was led by Blossom Capital, with additional participation from Maven11, Ethereal Ventures, and other strategic backers supportive of Bleap’s vision to rebuild financial infrastructure using blockchain settlement rails. The fresh capital will be used to deepen product development, enhance yield and trading features, and drive deeper geographic growth particularly across Europe and key Latin American markets, where the company is already live in countries like Mexico and expanding further. Founded by Joao Alves and Guilherme Gomes, both former product leaders at Revolut, Bleap combines the familiarity of modern financial interfaces with the transparency, speed, and flexibility of blockchain-based settlement layers using token rails and stablecoins as core components of everyday money tools.
4 days ago|by Team S
Origin, a Los Angeles-based hybrid healthcare provider focused on pelvic floor physical therapy and whole-body musculoskeletal (MSK) care for women, has secured a Series B funding round to amplify its hybrid care model and expand access to both virtual and in-person treatments across the United States.The new capital will accelerate product innovation, clinical training, and technology integration including AI-empowered clinical tools as the company works to broaden care coverage, improve outcomes, and make specialised women’s health services more affordable and accessible.This Series B round was led by SJF Ventures, with significant participation from Blue Venture Fund and Gratitude Railroad, alongside financing from the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank) and a group of acclaimed angel investors including Afton Vechery (founder of Modern Fertility), Hannah Bronfman (wellness entrepreneur), and Peter Klatsky (founder of Spring Fertility).Origin plans to use the funding to scale personalised care journeys, deepen its clinical service footprint through additional clinics, invest in AI-driven tools like Athena and GinaGPT, and expand clinician training via Origin University.Founded in 2020 by Co-founders Carine Carmy, Nona Farahnik Yadegar, and David Yadegar, Origin provides insurance-covered pelvic floor and MSK care services through a hybrid model combining nationwide virtual care with a growing network of physical clinics.The company has treated more than 50,000 patients and delivers care in-network for insurance plans covering over 50 million lives, with a reported 90 % improvement rate among patients seeking treatment for conditions such as incontinence, prolapse, and chronic pain. Its recently launched mobile app, The Origin Way, complements in-clinic care with custom exercise programmes and educational content to support patient progress between sessions.Origin’s clinical model includes 45-minute one-on-one sessions with licensed pelvic floor and musculoskeletal physical therapists and assistants, delivered both in-person across 19 clinics in seven states and virtually nationwide.With a hybrid approach and AI-augmented clinical decision support, Origin aims to mainstream women’s pelvic and MSK care, reduce out-of-pocket costs, and shorten wait times compared with traditional hospital-based services.
4 days ago|by Team S
Risotto, an AI-driven help-desk automation startup, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round to accelerate development of its autonomous IT support platform and expand customer adoption across enterprise environments. The company’s technology sits between existing ticket management systems like Jira and complex internal tooling, enabling companies to automatically resolve a large portion of support tickets by applying advanced AI infrastructure and prompt libraries trained on real-world examples, improving response efficiency and reducing manual workload. In real-world deployments with clients such as Gusto, Risotto’s system has already automated roughly 60 % of support tickets, validating its value proposition in IT operations and internal support. In this seed round, the funding was led by Bonfire Ventures, with participation from 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Ritual Capital, and Surgepoint Capital - a group of top investors backing Risotto’s ambitious vision to automate traditional help-desk processes while preparing for a future where AI and LLM-centric interfaces become the primary support channel for modern enterprises. The capital will be used to build product capabilities, expand strategic integrations with platforms like ChatGPT for Enterprise and Gemini, and scale commercial efforts as the company targets broader adoption across sectors grappling with ticket overload challenges.
5 days ago|by Team S
Montréal-based automation and robotics company Vention has raised $110 million in a Series D funding round, strengthening its position as a global player in physical AI-driven manufacturing solutions. The fresh capital will be used to enhance its AI-powered automation platform and expand its international footprint, particularly across Europe. The Series D round was led by Investissement Québec, with strong participation from Nvidia’s venture arm, Desjardins Capital, and Fidelity Investments Canada. The round was structured as a primarily equity-based investment, complemented by a small credit facility. With this raise, Vention’s total capital raised has crossed $300 million, while the company has achieved an annual run rate exceeding $100 million.Founded in 2016 by CEO Etienne Lacroix and CTO Max Windisch, Vention offers a self-serve manufacturing automation platform that combines engineering software with modular, plug-and-play hardware. Its physical AI technology enables robots and machines to better perceive environments and plan motion without requiring coding expertise, allowing factories to design and deploy complete automated systems efficiently.Vention’s platform is already deployed in more than 4,000 factories worldwide, serving major industrial clients such as Boeing, L’Oreal, and Lockheed Martin. The company currently employs around 330 people, with the majority of its customers based in the United States, followed by Europe and Canada.Looking ahead, Vention plans to accelerate research in physical AI, introduce advanced software features, and expand its European operations, building on its existing presence in Germany. As industrial automation adoption continues to grow globally, Vention aims to address productivity gaps and enable faster deployment of robotics across manufacturing sectors.
5 days ago|by Team S
Oviva, a Switzerland-based digital health leader providing reimbursed care for weight-related and chronic conditions, has successfully closed a €200 million (≈ $234 million) Series D funding round, making it one of the largest late-stage financings in the digital healthcare space in Europe. The company’s technology-powered platform combines personalised lifestyle, behavioural interventions and clinician-supported care often reimbursed through national systems to support patients in managing conditions such as obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, while helping health systems improve outcomes and reduce long-term costs. Oviva’s model integrates continuous care pathways with scalable digital tools to deliver measurable results for patients and providers alike. This Series D was led by Kinnevik, which committed approximately €100 million, with strong participation from Planet First Partners, A.P. Moller Holding, Lunate, EGS Beteiligungen AG and Norrsken VC, while existing backer Sofina continued its support underscoring broad investor confidence in Oviva’s growth trajectory and strategic role in modernising chronic care delivery. The new capital will be used to expand reimbursed chronic care programmes, deepen AI-driven clinical support tools, and accelerate expansion across Europe’s healthcare markets, where demand for scalable, evidence-based digital solutions continues to grow.
5 days ago|by Team S
Cellares, a California-based leader in automated cell and gene therapy manufacturing, has secured $257 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the build-out of its high-tech, integrated smart factories and prepare for commercial-scale cell therapy production starting in 2027. The company’s advanced automation platforms aim to overcome long-standing capacity and cost barriers in personalised cell therapy manufacturing a space poised for significant growth as engineered cell therapies move from clinical to commercial use. This funding round was co-led by BlackRock and Eclipse, and included participation from T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford, Gates Frontier, Duquesne Family Office, Intuitive Ventures, and EDBI, alongside existing backers such as DC Global Ventures, DFJ Growth, and Willett Advisors. The fresh capital will support Cellares’ global expansion with new facilities across Europe and Japan adding to its U.S. presence in South San Francisco and New Jersey and fund the deployment of automated platforms like Cell Shuttle and Cell Q that enable end-to-end manufacturing and testing of cell therapies at scale.
5 days ago|by Team S
Factify, a Tel Aviv & Pittsburgh-based AI infrastructure startup building a next-generation “document-as-infrastructure” platform, has raised $73 million in a seed funding round to transform how digital records such as contracts, agreements, and business documents are created, governed, and accessed particularly in enterprise and regulated sectors where document integrity and AI-readiness are crucial. The company’s platform aims to replace the decades-old static PDF format with intelligent, governable documents that carry built-in identity, version history, access control, audit logs and machine-readability enabling reliable, secure workflows for both humans and AI systems as organisations scale automation and compliance demands. This seed round was led by Valley Capital Partners and featured participation from a constellation of technology and business leaders including John Giannandrea (former Head of AI at Google and SVP of AI at Apple), Ken Moelis (Founder of Moelis & Co.), Peter Brown (CEO of Renaissance Technologies), Shai Wininger (co-founder of Lemonade & Fiverr), Jim Perry (Founding Partner at Madison Dearborn Fund) and Shay Doron (Partner at Clutch Capital). The funds will be used to scale engineering teams, deepen platform capabilities that enable secure, AI-ready document infrastructure, and expand enterprise adoption across highly regulated industries such as banking, insurance, legal services, HR and operations as Factify builds towards a future where documents themselves act as trusted sources of truth for both manual and automated workflows.
5 days ago|by Team S
Fulcrum, a US-based insurance technology company building an AI-driven automation platform for insurance brokerages, has raised $25 million in a combined seed and Series A funding round to accelerate product development, expand enterprise adoption among large brokerages, and deepen its AI-enabled workflow automation suite. The company’s platform uses advanced AI agents to streamline core brokerage processes including coverage and claims analysis, proposal generation, policy checking, certificate issuance, and carrier/client communication helping firms eliminate manual back-office bottlenecks and focus teams on higher-value client engagement. This round was led by CRV (Charles River Ventures), with strong participation from South Park Commons, Foundation Capital, and a group of angel investors from the insurance and tech sectors signalling broad confidence in Fulcrum’s vision to modernise traditional insurance brokerage operations with AI-first workflows. The fresh capital will be used to scale sales and engineering teams, strengthen integrations with leading agency management systems, and expand the company’s footprint across large U.S. brokerages seeking automation and efficiency gains.
5 days ago|by Team S
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