Funding — Page 24
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Palona AI discloses $28.3 million financing for restaurant automation push
The filing lifts disclosed funding to $38.3 million as Maria Zhang, Tim Howes and Steve Liu push Palona deeper into restaurant operations.
- Decade raised $85 million to pair AI with wealth advisers in Brazil
In May 2026, the Brazilian wealth advisory disclosed an $85 million seed backed by Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion.
- Ore Energy raises $43 million to build its first iron-air battery factory
Plural and HV Capital led the Series A as Ore Energy prepares a 400 MWh delivery to Budget Thuis in 2028.
- Endeavor Optical Networks raises $10.75M to route data-center traffic through satellites
Endeavor Optical Networks plans a 20-satellite network for dedicated, multi-terabit links between data centers.
- Andromeda Surgical raises $15 million to push autonomy into prostate surgery
Standard Capital led the round as Andromeda runs an international clinical trial of its tablet-controlled Beacon robotic platform.
- Othello parent Cicero discloses $6.85 million round from 35 investors
Jared Zelman's New York startup moved from AI celebrity avatars to live sales-call guidance, while its valuation and investor list remain private.
- Emerald AI filing discloses $90.2 million sold toward $150 million offering
Emerald AI, Varun Sivaram's Washington, DC startup, is raising fresh equity to commercialize software that makes AI data centers flexible power loads.
- Intelligence, the DesignArena maker, raises $7.9 million for human-ranked AI evals
Grace Li says the 10-person startup grew from $5 million to $60 million in ARR over six months by selling creative-model evaluations.
- Zenity raises $125 million to secure autonomous AI agents
Norwest led the Series C as the Microsoft alumni behind Zenity expand from low-code governance into runtime controls for enterprise agents.
- Qunett sells $1.48M toward planned $3M quantum networking offering
The MIT and University of Maryland spinout is adding private capital after using contracts and grants to move its hardware toward deployment.
- Base Power raises $1B at $13B valuation and launches Texas-built battery
Base Core moves battery production in-house as Zach Dell and Justin Lopas push their distributed storage model beyond Texas.
- Actualyze AI raises $7M to govern enterprise model calls
Rafi Khardalian and Sean Lynch are putting identity, security and budgets in the path of every enterprise model call.
- Mariana Minerals raises $310 million for software-run US mines
Khosla Ventures led the Series B, joined by a16z, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BHP, Greenoaks and four other investors.
- James Dacombe's OLIX raises $312 million at $3.3 billion before first chip ships
OLIX's 25-year-old founder has raised $532 million in six months to fund a rack-scale AI inference system due in 2027.
- June raises $20 million pre-seed to automate enterprise AI deployment
The Bonobo AI founders reunited after several years inside Salesforce, with Time Ventures leading the pre-seed round.
- Arrakis raises $8 million for AI agent runtime security
Hetz Ventures backed Tal Baron, Omer Efrat and Ron Shani's runtime monitoring and enforcement layer for autonomous software.
- Dopl raises $6.3 million to move robotic ultrasound toward FDA clearance
SpringTide led the seed round as three co-founders use an in-person staffing service to prepare rural hospitals for remote robotic exams.
- Axis Robotics raises $12 million to turn browser users into robot trainers
Hack VC led the seed round for Chris Feng's simulation-first system, which collects and cleans human demonstrations for robot models.
- PDW gets conditional $820 million federal loan commitment for drone components
PDW plans to turn its racing-drone roots into a domestic component supplier for its own aircraft and other U.S. platforms.
- Flapping Airplanes pursues new round at reported $5 billion valuation
Index Ventures and Lux Capital are leading talks for a round in the hundreds of millions, six months after the AI research lab's $180 million seed.
- Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI
Seligman Ventures led the round as founders Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi introduced the Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
- Revoy raises $27M to build a hybrid-electric long-haul freight network
Standard Capital led the round for Ian Rust's swappable electric dolly system, which adds battery power to existing diesel semis.
- Lamina Labs raises $4.8 million to turn AI answers into explainer videos
The two-person YC startup's Simi product turns prompts and documents into narrated whiteboard videos for people, software and AI agents.
- Simile raises $200M at a $2B valuation to simulate human behavior
Greenoaks led the round five months after the Stanford spinout emerged with a $100M Series A.