Funding — Page 23
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Pangram raised $9 million to expand AI detection into images
Pangram pairs a $9 million round announced July 29th with Pangram 4 and a public research preview of its image detector.
- CleanCore launches another stock offering as its $100 million data-center bill approaches
Tyler Hassen's cleaning-to-data-center pivot carries a near-term funding commitment larger than the issuer's recent operating scale.
- Lightview backs InStore Technology to build a grocery IT services platform
CEO Tom Courlas plans to expand InStore Technology's services, territory and acquisition pipeline; the deal's size and ownership terms were not disclosed.
- Exclusive: Ex-Meta AI Director discloses $10M financing for Noosphere Labs
Former Meta research director Kevin Carlberg leads the 2026 startup, whose filing lists 10 investors and a converted SAFE.
- heyyyyAI raises $10.5 million from one investor for AI character app
A Thinking Ape co-founders Wilkins Chung and Kenshi Arasaki are back in consumer apps after selling their game studio to Embracer.
- inKind adds $414 million financing as banks back its restaurant-credit model
Citi and Cross River supplied most of the new tranche, extending a 2026 capital push that mixes institutional credit with consumer dining demand.
- Sila secures conditional $1.4B Pentagon commitment for U.S. anode production
Gene Berdichevsky's 15-year battery bet is moving from a 2 GWh Washington plant toward defense and auto-scale production.
- Neo backs Daso's child-safe AI tablet with a $750K pre-seed check
Daso's pitch is that child safety should be the product architecture, not a parental-control setting: creative tools, a constrained AI tutor and no browser, app store or feed.
- Flora Coatings sells $800,000 offering to one undisclosed investor
Founder and polymer scientist Atul Tiwari is turning NSF-backed research into coating products for aerospace, marine and automotive applications.
- Latitude Health discloses $2M as CMS tightens prior-authorization rules
Chuck Feerick and Guru Nadiger are building an AI platform for payer workflows as CMS decision-time and electronic-interface requirements take effect.
- emberOS files $2.49 million fully sold seed round
Former Google executive Justin Inman is building software to monitor, predict and act on how brands appear in AI-generated answers.
- Hadrian raises $1.37 billion to build automated defense factories
Chris Power's factory network spans nearly 3 million square feet, including a Navy-opened Alabama site making submarine components.
- Firmus raises $2 billion to expand AI factories across Asia-Pacific
The August round includes follow-on investments from Coatue and Nvidia, new capital from Blackstone vehicles and participation from Jane Street, following a US$505 million equity investment announced in April.
- SkillBench sells $15.1M to measure AI's effect on developer skills
SkillBench's July financing backs a privacy-first system for measuring AI coding gains, human contribution and the skills developers retain.
- Gravity raises $30.5 million to build an ad exchange for AI agents
Lightspeed and Committed Capital co-led the Series A as Gravity tests ads that influence software agents before users ever see them.
- Pally raises $5.2 million to put an AI assistant in your text messages
Haz Hubble and Wyatt Lansford are running the YC-backed company as a two-founder team, with Pally valued at $30 million.
- Lumilens raises more than $700 million to connect AI data centers with light
The two-year-old startup says an unnamed hyperscaler is deploying its optical hardware under a multi-billion-dollar agreement.
- Malachyte raises $10M to bring Spotify-style user vectors to commerce
Bessemer and Gradient co-led the round backing Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson and Shivaditya Sinha's push to personalize stores from a shopper's first session.
- Ambrook raises $30M to take its farm accounting playbook into trucking and construction
Mackenzie Burnett's six-year-old fintech says it has grown to 8,000 businesses by pairing industry-specific software with hands-on service.
- Moove raises $250 million to finance and operate robotaxi fleets
Mubadala led the Series C at a reported $2.1 billion valuation as Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi expand from driver finance into autonomous fleet infrastructure.
- Rivo launches cash-management service with a $2.7M seed round
The San Francisco fintech Rivo moves excess checking cash into short-duration U.S. Treasury bills and returns it before bills come due.
- Sapiom raises $35 million to cut the cost of running AI agents
Dragonfly led the round six months after Sapiom's seed, as the startup expands from agent payments into routing, building and runtime tools.
- Avatar Robotics raises $6.5M to turn warehouse shifts into robot-training data
The seed backs Colin Webb's model: sell warehouse labor now, collect training data on every shift, and automate the work over time.
- Ambrook raises $30M Series B to expand beyond farm accounting
Lachy Groom led the Series B as Ambrook expands into construction, trucking and other family-run industries.