- Cori Clinical raises $4M to connect trial design with execution
Co-founders Jorn Jansen Schoonhoven and Patricio Fernandez are building an AI workspace that links trial decisions to documents, budgets and operating plans.
- MintNeuro raises $5M to put neural-device chips into customer programs
MintNeuro says working silicon and a multi-year Motif Neurotech supply agreement put it beyond chip validation and into customer adoption.
- AirTrunk takes a $1B green loan to cool AI workloads in Japan
Founder Robin Khuda is adapting the 300-plus-megawatt TOK1 campus for AI, with the first liquid-cooled capacity expected in January 2028.
- Ghost raises $11M to sell a $3,499 computer for personal AI
Founded by former quant Zain Javaid, Ghost says its screenless Core runs AI models and personal memory locally.
- Type One Energy raises $200M to see if its stellarator works as advertised
Type One Energy's Series B, co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Clutterbuck Capital, will fund an engineering prototype and Project Infinity in Tennessee.
- Sante raises $15M to turn liquor-store software into a sales engine
Founder Darren Fike began by working nights at a New York wine shop; the funding backs Sante's move from automating store operations to helping retailers drive purchases.
- General Medicine raises $120M to bring healthcare into one storefront
The Series B, led by Andreessen Horowitz, comes as co-founder TJ Parker takes the CEO job full time after co-founding PillPack and helping build Amazon Pharmacy.
- Lambda is raising up to $4B ahead of a planned 2027 IPO
The round reportedly values the Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider at $14.5B pre-money, with Blackstone and Coatue leading.
- Avarra raises $17M to put sales leaders' expertise inside AI avatars
David Knight's Avarra pairs sales practice with live deal support and buyer-facing avatars. The company says ARR grew more than 400% year over year before the round.
- Ampersand raises $15M to connect enterprise agents to customized systems
Ampersand's $15 million Series A, led by Bessemer, backs founders Ayan Barua and Lauren Long as they tackle customer-specific CRM and ERP integrations that can stall enterprise AI deployments.
- Flagship commits $20M to iris labs' personal AI for wellbeing
Led by AI entrepreneur Armen Mkrtchyan and digital-wellness founder Rockwell Shah, iris labs is launching iris chat through iMessage and RCS.
- Flai raises $27M as its AI books 50,000 dealership appointments a month
Flai says revenue grew 20x in a year as the startup expands from answering calls into sales, service and customer follow-up.
- Zeroset raises $5.2M to give AI agents a memory of company workflows
Zeroset co-founders Akshat Kannan and William Zhang are building Nebula to track how work changes across enterprise software; the product remains in a closed research preview.
- pubX raises $5M and buys Compliant to put agents on both sides of ad buying
Andrew Mole's pubX will use the Chicago Ventures-led $5M round to expand in the US; Compliant CEO Jamie Barnard will lead demand growth.
- Vinci raises $250M to expand physics simulation beyond chip heat
Vinci's $250 million Series B values the Palo Alto physics-simulation startup at $1.5 billion. CEO Hardik Kabaria told Reuters the money will fund computing, hiring and new products.
- Finmid raises €17M to finance Bolt fleet vehicles
The Series A extension, led by Big Pi Ventures and Mainset, backs Finmid's move from short-term merchant credit into multi-year vehicle finance.
- Comparables.ai raises $6M to give deal teams a wider search
Comparables.ai's four founders bring backgrounds in finance and machine learning; Pragmatech and Araya Ventures led the seed round.
- DeepSeek seeks $12B after demand outstrips its funding target
Liang Wenfeng's latest model release helped lift the round's reported target from 50 billion yuan, with an IPO described as possible in early 2027.
- SecondSight closes Series A to take its insurance AI beyond cyber
SecondSight named former Ryan Financial Lines CEO Jamie Bouloux president as it broadens SHAPE beyond cyber; the announcement did not disclose the round size.
- RobCo crosses $1B as its CEO moves to the US to scale factory robotics
RobCo paired a reported $40M employee share sale with new investment as it prepares to launch its two-armed Alfie robot in March 2027.
- SignSplit secures a $400M strategic seed commitment at a $1B valuation
CEO Alessandro Monterosso brings lessons from clinical-data startup PatchAi to SignSplit's consented-data platform. Its $400M commitment includes capital and a multi-year package of strategic resources.
- Clockwork raises $31M as LinkedIn deploys LinkPass across its AI infrastructure
Clockwork.io CEO Suresh Vasudevan says a conversation with co-founder Balaji Prabhakar drew him back to startups; Together AI is commercializing TorchPass on its GPU clusters.
- Namespace raises $42M to build infrastructure for AI coding agents
Scale Venture Partners led the round, about six and a half months after Namespace announced $23M in combined seed and Series A funding.
- a16z leads Conway Research's first round for on-device personal AI
Andreessen Horowitz did not disclose the round's size or valuation; founder Sigil Wen is building Underdog around a privacy problem he experienced firsthand.