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Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Weave raises $13.5 million to measure the payoff from AI coding
Adam Cohen and Andrew Churchill are turning engineering measurement into a finance tool as companies scrutinize rising AI bills.
- Hush Security raises $30M to govern AI agents at runtime
Akamai joined Battery Ventures and YL Ventures in backing the Meta Networks veterans, who plan to expand engineering and US sales.
- ZuriQ raises $25.5 million to scale its 2D trapped-ion quantum chip
Pavel Hrmo and his ETH Zurich co-founders must turn a nine-ion demonstrator into processors supporting hundreds of qubits.
- Simbryo discloses $5.25M round for organoid-based fertility diagnostics
Yael Katz's biotech sold the offering to 24 investors as it began marketing an assay designed to predict embryo implantation outcomes.
- Jordan Bramble's Antares raises $470M for U.S. military microreactors
Paradigm and Caffeinated co-led $370M in equity, while $100M in debt backs a 2027 power test and targeted 2028 deployments.
- Prentis seeks $100M at $1B valuation for computer-use agents
The three-month-old AI lab has up to $50M in performance-linked contracts, TechCrunch reports, while its benchmark claims remain unverified.
- Azora raises $7.67 million for modular optical ground stations
The SEC filing names 18 investors but leaves the lead, valuation and customers behind Azora's laser downlink network undisclosed.
- MeridianMade, led by ByHeart CEO Ron Belldegrun, raises $20.3M
The filing names Mia Funt and four ByHeart-linked operating leaders, but gives no product, valuation or investors for the 2026 health-care company.
- World Foundation raises $52.5 million in WLD sale for identity push
Pantera led the WLD sale as Alex Blania tries to turn World's Orb-based network into proof-of-human infrastructure for companies and AI agents.
- Make the Dot discloses $2.25M SAFE financing that began in 2024
The New York software maker has seven investors in the offering, but its SEC filing dates the first sale to August 15th, 2024.
- Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10 billion deal
The Wall Street Journal reports that Stripe is negotiating to buy AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $10 billion.
- Prosper Medical raises $16M for AI-supported concierge primary care
FUSE led the round for Prosper Medical, Ryan McQuaid and Dr. James Wantuck's post-PlushCare push to build a national virtual primary-care practice.
- Great Sky sells $25.9 million in securities for superconducting AI hardware
Jeffrey Shainline's NIST spinout is seeking $30.72 million as it moves a cryogenic, light-linked neural architecture toward larger systems.
- AegisAI raises $36M to replace email rules with AI investigators
Battery Ventures led the Series A less than a year after Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo launched AegisAI, bringing total funding to $49 million.
- Cosmic Robotics joins Y Combinator summer batch to accelerate autonomous construction robots for Mars
Founder James Emerick says the startup's Cosmic-1 robot already doubled crew productivity on major U.S. solar farms and will help build a future Martian city.
- Sierra acquires TakeOff, the long-horizon AI agent platform
The deal was announced on X by former Salesforce CTO Bret Taylor, who said the acquisition brings TakeOff's year‑old agent platform into Sierra's portfolio.
- Paper raises $34 million for a design canvas coding agents can edit
Accel and ICONIQ co-led the Series A as Stephen Haney's startup pushes HTML and CSS into the design-to-code handoff.
- IBM acquires HRL Laboratories to boost silicon-spin qubit quantum program
The deal brings HRL's spin-qubit and quantum-sensing expertise into IBM's expanding quantum portfolio, with Boeing and GM staying as partners.
- Fly.io sells $23.2 million in new equity, SEC filing shows
The filing lists five investors and directors from a16z and Dell, but leaves the buyers, round label and valuation undisclosed.
- Transcripta Bio discloses $24M raised since Series A for clinical prep
Chris Moxham is moving autism and FSHD programs toward the clinic, though the financing has no disclosed lead, valuation or single close date.
- Work-Bench leads Petra Labs' $5.2 million seed for AI search attribution
Founders Sami Akkawi, Rishi Penmetcha and Ramie Khoury are pairing AEO software with an embedded services team for enterprise brands.
- Project Obelisk discloses $8 million round with $4 million convertible conversion
The Glendale venture brings together ServiceTitan operators, an ex-JPL engineer and Fika Ventures GP TX Zhuo as a director.
- Cheiron raises $8M to build an operating system for drug programs
Menlo Ventures is backing the Stanford-linked founders' move from biopharma search into clinical, regulatory and program decision software.
- 1872 raises $15M to automate steel fabrication from a Cincinnati factory
1872 founders Dan Summers, Brian Mongilio and Michael Grant are building Factory OS around robotic welding, with full autonomy targeted for 2027.