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The ASML-alumni team is targeting sub-2nm process control, but the named founders, valuation and chipmaker investor remain undisclosed.

Altos Ventures led the Series B for the pre-revenue Seoul rocket maker, which says it flew UNA EXPRESS-I from Goheung in May 2025.

AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures co-led the round; FeatherlessAI says it will hire engineers across the stack to keep customers off any single lab, chip, or cloud.

Eddy Grid says it will expand algorithmic trading of solar, wind, and batteries across European power markets, treating assets like a continuously optimized portfolio.

CapitalG leads; NVentures, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks back OpenRouter as it scales to 25T weekly tokens and 8M+ developers across 400+ models.

The X thread links to a single 1752.vc page with application links; examples include Boost VC at $500K for 15% and Techstars at $220K for 5%+ via SAFE.

Fresh capital will fund agentic automation across loan processing, compliance, and reconciliation for banks and credit unions, per an X thread and Axios.

Ex-Apple Vision Pro leads Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen debut a developer platform for real-time generative video and world models; AWS named preferred cloud provider and SDK/API available today.

Ex-DeepMind researcher @jgodwin_ai and co-founders @gin_james and @Dmiodovnik are betting on a full-stack path, starting with data center cooling.

The claim arrived in a post from the @cognition account on X, with no founders named and no product details in the snippet we saw.

The Series B, led by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, will help Thea expand manufacturing as it advances Eos and de-risks its first power plant, Helios.

Co-founders Michael Elabd and @QuantumArjun are building a platform that turns user corrections into post-training for deployed models; backers include Conviction and Bessemer.

The round follows a six-month jump in weekly volume from 5T to 25T tokens, as OpenRouter pitches infrastructure for the multi-model AI era.

Ex-Block founders Michael MacLennan and Ali Hussain are rolling out an AI order-taking agent for quick-service drive-thrus; investor Olivia Moore says accuracy up 5-10%.

Crunchbase data shows U.S. seed medians near $3M while only 24-27% of 2024-23 seed cohorts have advanced and Series A traction bars have shifted to roughly $2-4M ARR.

Founder-CEO Caroline Walerud is stepping up field validation and adding 12 technician and engineering roles as Northzone leads a convertible from existing backers.

Less than two years in, the industrial robotics startup led by Apple alum Hamza Derbas is rumored to be pursuing a $100M Series A.

Founder Brett Adcock lands a $6B valuation as Hark readies multimodal models and dedicated hardware for a personal AI assistant.

CEO Matias Berny and CPO/co-founder Quentin Le Bras founded Prelude in 2022 to turn the phone number from a one-time passcode into a continuous trust and fraud defense layer; its Auth and Intel APIs underpin a full-stack onboarding platform and ~40% lower verification costs.

Hewett says Physical AI can transform in-store commerce; X post lists investors including @nimble_partners, @gideonstrategic, @AlignVentures, @sound_ventures_, and @ycombinator.

Lightspeed leads; Picture Capital and Cerca join, with angels from Wiz, Armis, and Axis Security backing Shay Shwartz’s agentic email security platform built on autonomous investigation.

Seed and Series A led by Abstract, General Catalyst and USV; the social app says it hit 1M users 19 days after a quiet launch last year.

Fryd Wiatrowski says Viktor hit a $15M run rate and raised $75M, with backers from Accel to Nat Friedman, as its AI coworkers monetize inside Slack and Teams.

Led by Maveron, the seed backs a free app that records clinic visits, turns them into clear summaries with next steps, and keeps family in the loop.