Funding — Page 16
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- 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.
- Stav Levi-Neumark's Alta raises $25M to build an AI command layer for revenue teams
The Tel Aviv startup says its agents already serve Snowflake, Deel and Atlassian, but valuation and deployment depth remain undisclosed.
- Oskar Block's Stilta raised $10.5M to put AI agents inside patent litigation
The seven-month-old startup's pitch deck shows a McKinsey-trained team selling auditability where legal AI still has to earn trust.
- Vendelux raises $50M to make event marketing answer for pipeline
Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran are taking their Shutterstock-era event thesis upmarket as CMOs face pressure to defend live-event spend.
- Polysense raises $10.7M to push AI quality control deeper into food factories
The Ghent startup says its food-line software has moved from pilots to deployments with Agristo, Darta and Poppies Bakeries.
- MiniMax says it raised $2B, but leaves investors and valuation unnamed
Ryan Lee's X thread did not name investors, valuation or deal structure, leaving the financing terms around the Chinese AI lab unresolved.
- Fleek raises $25M to turn secondhand clothing sorting into software
Burda Principal Investments led the Series B, with eBay joining a cap table that already included a16z, HV Capital and Y Combinator.
- Trinity Robotics raises EUR500k to scale Konyk ground robots
The Ukrainian maker of casualty-evacuation UGVs says Konyk ONE is already used by more than 20 military units across frontline sectors.
- The People Who Monetized Mobile Apps Are Building the Ad Layer for AI Chats
Velocity raised a $27 million seed round to put native ads, auctions, and intent analysis inside AI applications.
- Skapion lands $36 million seed round for counter-swarm air defense
UP Partners and Khosla Ventures co-led the seed round for the Washington and Ramat Gan defense startup.