- Flapping Airplanes pursues new round at reported $5 billion valuation
Index Ventures and Lux Capital are leading talks for a round in the hundreds of millions, six months after the AI research lab's $180 million seed.
- Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI
Seligman Ventures led the round as founders Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi introduced the Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
- Revoy raises $27M to build a hybrid-electric long-haul freight network
Standard Capital led the round for Ian Rust's swappable electric dolly system, which adds battery power to existing diesel semis.
- Lamina Labs raises $4.8 million to turn AI answers into explainer videos
The two-person YC startup's Simi product turns prompts and documents into narrated whiteboard videos for people, software and AI agents.
- Simile raises $200M at a $2B valuation to simulate human behavior
Greenoaks led the round five months after the Stanford spinout emerged with a $100M Series A.
- Xsight Labs raises more than $300 million for open AI networking chips
Fidelity led the round at a $2.8 billion valuation as Xsight Labs scales programmable Ethernet switches and 800G DPUs.
- Dili discloses $15M Series A for capital-project compliance AI
Khosla Ventures led the financing, which closed roughly six months before Dili's July 30th announcement.
- K2 Space raises $500 million at $6.8 billion valuation
Brothers Karan and Neel Kunjur more than doubled K2 Space's valuation after the Gravitas mission reached orbit and SES outlined an initial 28-bus plan.
- Intropy raises $11 million to automate spare-parts decisions in ERPs
Felix Capital led the seed round for Intropy, founded by former Tractable researchers Franziska Kirschner and Yih Kai Teh, as the AI spare-parts software maker prepares a New York office.
- Onyx Security raises $113 million for AI agent control plane
Bessemer led Onyx Security's Series B four months after Maxim Bar Kogan and Gil Elbaz took the Israeli AI security company out of stealth.
- Eliyan raises $145 million at $1 billion valuation for AI interconnects
The Santa Clara chiplet developer is financing NuLink and NuGear as data movement constrains larger AI systems.
- Encore AI raises $30 million to turn top sales calls into agent playbooks
Dvir Ginzburg is taking a recommender-system thesis into enterprise voice agents, with Team8 leading the Series A and customers joining as investors.
- Henry AI announces $16.5M Series A and expands into CRE underwriting
FirstMark led the round as Henry AI launched a deal system spanning financial models, comps, research, buyer lists and pitch decks.
- Polar Browser raises $5.7 million for hours-long work automation
Kevin Jiang's three-person team rebuilt its earlier Composer agent on Chromium and says users have handed it 4.5 million browser actions.
- Claros raises $55 million to move PFAS destruction from trials to deployments
Daikin and Veralto joined the round, tying Claros' expansion to industrial customers that need to eliminate PFAS waste at the source.
- telli raises $15M to move AI agents beyond phone calls
redalpine led the seed round as telli expands from voice automation into a multichannel customer-operations platform.
- InvestiFi raises $20 million as credit unions back embedded investing push
Vibe Credit Union led the financing, and InvestiFi says signed institutions climbed from four in 2024 to more than 60 by July 2026.
- Reuters reports ChipAgents raised $60 million after Nvidia tie-up expanded
William Wang's semiconductor engineering startup is financing Renoir as Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens build competing AI agents.
- Groundcover raises $100 million to challenge Datadog's observability model
One Peak led the Series C at an approximately $500 million valuation as the founders push their customer-cloud architecture deeper into the US.
- CopySight raises $3 million to score IP risk before AI video ships
CopySight, founded by former Snap and Meta creative operator Artem Petrov and CTO Konstantin Orlov, is taking CopyScore into video.
- LemonEdge raises $21 million from Blackstone and BNY for fund accounting
Founder Gareth Hewitt is handing the scaling job to former Numerated president David O'Malley as LemonEdge expands in the US and Europe.
- Kevin Jiang's Polar raises $5.7 million to automate knowledge work in browsers
The former Perplexity Comet builder is betting recurring research, recruiting and sales tasks will create the daily pull consumer AI browsers lacked.
- Eliyan launches NuLink-XD after January $50 million strategic raise
The July product launch follows strategic backing from AMD, Arm, Coherent, Meta, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Intel Capital for manufacturing and qualification of Eliyan's interconnect IP and chiplets.
- Modus raises $10 million to build context warehouse for AI agents
Daniel Shimoni and Tomer Mesika launched Modus with a $10 million Seed round to address the "Context Gap" that can undermine the accuracy and cost of enterprise AI agents.