Funding — Page 22
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Maria Zhang's Palona launches restaurant operating layer as funding reaches $20M
The former Google and Meta executive is extending Palona from phone orders into catering, revenue intelligence and camera-triggered workflows.
- Takt raises $9.25M to turn warehouse labor data into live operating decisions
The Reston founders will use their first institutional round to push Takt from labor reporting into order orchestration and bounded AI action.
- Tech.eu reports amber raised €7M to expand its AI workflow platform
Tech.eu says Ventech and NRW.Venture co-led the Aachen company's Series A, while amber's last independently confirmed financing remains its March 2025 seed.
- Lanyon AI discloses $10.6M round for formally verified scientific code
The Princeton-based lab pairs an LLM with a symbolic compiler to generate scientific code and machine-checkable proofs from one specification.
- Higgsfield reaches $5.4B valuation seven months after its last funding
DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global and Intel backed the AI video platform seven months after its $1.3B round.
- Astra seeks $250M at a $1B valuation to fund Rocket 4
The proposed round would fund Rocket 4 and a mobile-launch defense strategy as Astra leans on its spacecraft propulsion business.
- Adaly files Form D for $11M federated enterprise AI offering
The August 13th filing identifies an $11M offering, but does not say how much Adaly has sold, who participated or what the company is worth.
- Archean Sciences raises $385,000 for living-neuron computers
A new SEC filing shows $385,000 in SAFE sales as UIUC researchers Austin Ellis-Mohr and Mattia Gazzola pursue drug discovery and computing with living neurons.
- Stephanie Hendricks' AGent Energy raises $11M to turn backup generators into grid capacity
Spero Ventures and MassMutual Ventures co-led the round, taking AGent's disclosed funding to $17M in its first year.
- Joe Harris raises $8M for Alloy's AI robot-debugging platform
Square Peg led the round at an $80M valuation as Alloy expands in the US and builds agents that trace failures across robot fleets.
- Semaphore reports $7.45M sold in equity offering after Sigmaways acquisition
Luke Mann and Ori Spector lead the San Francisco company, whose five-investor offering follows a software-services acquisition involving disputed assets and wage claims.
- AiGent files Form D disclosing fully sold $17.45 million offering
AiGent's SEC filing reports a fully sold exempt offering; its security type and relationship to AGent Energy's 2025 seed remain unclear.
- ClearJet raised $12.35 million in Series A funding for passenger-flight parcel network
An SEC filing and CB Insights record show the May 2024 financing as founder Chris Guggenheim built an asset-light parcel network around commercial passenger flights.
- Avinash Misra's Skan AI raises $63 million to map work for enterprise agents
The Series C backs software that observes desktop workflows, models undocumented decisions and turns those patterns into AI agents.
- Reservoir raises $8M to scale its in-house water-heater installation model
The Formlabs veteran is pairing predictive heat-pump hardware with an in-house plumbing crew to reach homeowners and, eventually, utilities.
- Cognition enters talks for funding at a potential $40 billion valuation
Cognition is in early funding talks less than three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion post-money valuation.
- MicroRefrigeration raises $4.07 million for AI chip cooling
The Gilroy startup is developing cooling hardware for critical points inside AI servers, with technical details still undisclosed.
- Silicon Data raises $30.5 million as CME readies GPU futures
Carmen Li's benchmark startup will expand the pricing and performance data behind CME Group's planned cash-settled contracts.
- Scoop: ChampionHQ discloses $4.8M sold toward a planned $6M offering
ChampionHQ filed the Form D on August 11th, 2026, nearly two years after founders Jeff Reekers, Gianna Scorsone and Courtney Crispin announced a $3.3 million seed. The filing does not identify the new offering's investors, lead investor, valuation or closing date.
- Kikitora discloses $19.7M round for offline AI motion capture
Founder Astrid Wilde is betting ordinary video can replace specialized capture rigs, with local processing as Kikitora's privacy edge.
- Neros raises $250 million to expand autonomous drones and interceptor production
Drone-racing founders Soren Monroe-Anderson and Olaf Hichwa plan to use the Bloomberg-reported round to expand autonomous and interceptor programs and manufacturing capacity.
- Igor Babuschkin's River AI raises $1.1 billion for customer-owned models
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the combined seed and Series A, with Nvidia and AMD backing an open-weight training stack.
- Aureka raises $100M to build a biological world model for drug discovery
Granite Asia backed the first tranche as Aureka expands OpenDDE and its wet-lab feedback system for antibody discovery.
- Palette raises EUR 3M to make company context portable across AI models
The Copenhagen founders behind Linkfire and Airtame are selling a model-neutral layer for files, workflows and organizational memory.