Funding

Overlord Labs' extension brings disclosed funding to $10M as co-founders Richard Nicholson and Carlos Rodriguez move GENESIS from working silicon toward customer validation.

Forbes attributed its September 26th report to two people familiar with the financing; CB Insights separately lists a September 4th Series B-IV and a July valuation of $4B. The supplied material does not establish whether the records describe the same financing.

Sara Du, the Alloy Automation co-founder, wants agents inside team conversations; Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence Capital backed the financing.

Bloomberg says Graepel is seeking tens of millions from initial backers, with a possible later tranche in the hundreds of millions; neither is reported closed.

Founder Phil Farese is expanding production of liquid-desiccant units; an SEC filing records nearly $25M sold, including converted securities.

The dividend recap gives existing and former employees liquidity as founder Robert Vis pitches Bird's communications network as infrastructure for agents that can act.

Pilgrim told the WSJ its $25M seed round valued the Redwood City startup at $150M; Anthropic researchers Logan Graham and Sholto Douglas invested personally.

Titan's September Form D reports $4M sold toward a $5M target and 16 investors, whose identities are not disclosed. It does not establish whether the offering is tied to the $3M seed announced in June.

Founder Sara Du is betting that agents need persistent identities, permissions and shared context inside workplace messaging, rather than another add-on to Slack.

The Cambridge startup says its inference system can reduce costs by up to 80%; its funding backs a push to sell the runtime to engineering teams.

Patrick Eden and Julian Kolbe are building a shared permissions and audit layer for agents using different AI assistants.

The API-led growth follows an August price increase; DeepSeek is targeting an end-of-October close for its second funding round and preparing for a Shanghai listing.

Dextr AI CEO Sajid Shariff started with a guest-messaging agent; its $6.7M seed, led by Elevation Capital, will fund more integrations and customer-facing engineers.

Co-founders Dan Amiga and Mike Fey built an enterprise browser; Island now says it can govern work across browsers, endpoints, networks and data.

Lohit Sarma's Ande combines venue booking, approvals and payments; its bigger bet is becoming the corporate sales channel for hospitality.

SalivIQ founder Julia Halterman is building a saliva-based strep test; a September SEC filing reports $707,000 more sold since June and a larger offering target.

Alive HealthTech led the round as UltraSight expands its FDA-cleared software across U.S. healthcare systems, with deployments in intensive-care units at more than 10 facilities.

CEO Adriano Pezzuto says the seed will fund kMetal's expansion and more R&D for AI workloads, while open-source control-plane engine Kamaji remains central to the business.

Entree Capital led the round eight months after a $5.7M seed took Chamelio's publicly announced funding to $10M, backing a founder team built from in-house legal, operations and AI experience.

GridX's September filing records three investors and debt and warrant-linked securities, but leaves their identities, terms and valuation undisclosed.

Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets and Siegel Family Endowment are backing operations and infrastructure as Cornell steps back from the archive Paul Ginsparg founded.

The proposed rounds would sharply reprice two inference providers as AI companies buy outside capacity to run models in production.

A June SEC filing said the three-year facility was expected to close after delivery and installation of 2,304 B300 GPUs. USD.AI announced a larger $128.9M facility on September 23rd.

Gregory Janik and Ingimar Tomasson are building editable vector models for diagrams and infographics, with early access open ahead of a wider launch.