- DeweyLearn raises $5 million to grade real-world skills with multimodal AI
SJF Ventures led the Series A for Luyen Chou and Dirk Liebich's assessment startup, which is already grading culinary and clinical training work.
- Beacon Security raises $13 million for agentic cybersecurity data layer
Gal Tal-Hochberg's new company wants to fix the raw telemetry problem before security teams hand more work to AI agents.
- Space startup funding stays near records after SpaceX IPO pulls in generalists
Seraphim Space counted $7.5B across 141 Q2 venture deals, with Blue Origin's reported $10B raise the next test of the market.
- Apoorv Shankar raises $5.5M for Aina's agent-control hardware
The former Ultrahuman hardware VP is backing a physical interface thesis after Dune, a three-key Mac keypad for workflows and agents.
- Arq raises $1.4 million to build quantum internet repeaters
The pre-seed turns a young quantum networking effort into a hardware bet on repeaters, memory devices and fibre links.
- Standard Nuclear raises $150 million in cut-down IPO at $2.41 billion valuation
Founder Thomas Hendrix keeps voting control as the Oak Ridge fuel maker enters the NYSE with a smaller float than planned.
- Hadrius raises $27 million to automate financial-services compliance with AI
CRV led the round as the New York company expands from adviser compliance into a broader system of record for regulated firms.
- State Affairs announces $70 million for AI policy intelligence platform
Founders Fund and Khosla are backing Evan Burns and Jamie Seltzer's bet that statehouse reporting can become proprietary data for AI.
- Prolo raises £4.2M to build AI procurement for construction SMEs
James Morris-Manuel is returning to proptech with a managed procurement service backed by Triple Point Ventures and a16z Scout Fund.
- EdVisorly raises $13.3 million to automate college admissions back offices
Founder Manny Smith is using an Air Force systems background to sell EddyAI into transcript and transfer-credit workflows at more than 100 institutions.
- Nous Research nears $75 million round at $1.5 billion valuation
Robot Ventures is leading the reported financing, with USV participating, as the 2023 open-source AI lab pushes Hermes toward a business.
- Refer raises $7.5 million for candidate-paid AI recruiting
Founder Andre Hamra built Refer after putting up flyers at Stanford to help people find jobs; hires pay 20% of their first month's salary.
- Float raises EUR4.5M to build AI finance stack for European startups
CHAPTERS Group led the Series A and its CEO Jan-Hendrik Mohr will join the board as Float moves beyond lending.
- StratX raises $1.19M to turn landfill methane into carbon credits
StratX, led by CEO Kevin Wheeler, is targeting unmanaged dumps in the Global South, where gas-capture infrastructure is often too expensive.
- TerraFirma raises $100M Series A to build robotic construction crews
Kleiner Perkins led the $100M Series A for the Austin company, whose founders worked on Starlink, Starshield and Starship at SpaceX.
- Promptwatch raises EUR6M to automate AI search optimization
The Amsterdam company is using the seed round to expand into New York as brands try to understand why AI chatbots recommend them.
- Chicago Ventures backs Guthrie AI's managed estimating workforce for glaziers
Chicago Ventures led the seed round for the Philadelphia startup, which sells trained estimating labor plus software to glazing contractors.
- Pentagon invests $25 million in ReElement after $80 million loan effort ended
The Indiana refiner gets equipment funding for its Marion site three days after Reuters reported it ended pursuit of a larger Pentagon loan.
- Gradium extends seed to $100 million as Nvidia backs voice AI infrastructure
The Kyutai spinout is opening a Bay Area office less than a year after forming, with valuation and Nvidia's deal terms undisclosed.
- Helsing rewrote staff equity before its biggest funding round
The defense-AI company asked current and former employees in May to move from ESOP rights to a plan without direct equity.
- Catalyxx's EU grant puts its drop-in chemicals thesis on an industrial clock
Joaquin Alarcon's Spain-based bio-chemicals company is leading RenewChem, a CBE JU project supporting its first commercial plant in Europe.
- Mal Crease's Kraken Technology reaches $1 billion valuation with $175 million Series B
The British maritime defense startup says DTCP led the round as it expands uncrewed vessel production for allied navies.
- Lissi raises EUR3.5M as Europe's digital identity deadline nears
Ventech led the round for the German company, whose connector targets banks preparing for EUDI Wallet and AML compliance.
- Agility Robotics' $2.5B SPAC deal tests public-market appetite for humanoids
A late-June Churchill Capital Corp XI agreement gives Digit a Wall Street path before humanoid unit economics are settled.