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Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Chicago Ventures backs Guthrie AI's managed estimating workforce for glaziers
Chicago Ventures led the seed round for the Philadelphia startup, which sells trained estimating labor plus software to glazing contractors.
- Pentagon invests $25 million in ReElement after $80 million loan effort ended
The Indiana refiner gets equipment funding for its Marion site three days after Reuters reported it ended pursuit of a larger Pentagon loan.
- Gradium extends seed to $100 million as Nvidia backs voice AI infrastructure
The Kyutai spinout is opening a Bay Area office less than a year after forming, with valuation and Nvidia's deal terms undisclosed.
- Helsing rewrote staff equity before its biggest funding round
The defense-AI company asked current and former employees in May to move from ESOP rights to a plan without direct equity.
- Catalyxx's EU grant puts its drop-in chemicals thesis on an industrial clock
Joaquin Alarcon's Spain-based bio-chemicals company is leading RenewChem, a CBE JU project supporting its first commercial plant in Europe.
- Mal Crease's Kraken Technology reaches $1 billion valuation with $175 million Series B
The British maritime defense startup says DTCP led the round as it expands uncrewed vessel production for allied navies.
- Lissi raises EUR3.5M as Europe's digital identity deadline nears
Ventech led the round for the German company, whose connector targets banks preparing for EUDI Wallet and AML compliance.
- Agility Robotics' $2.5B SPAC deal tests public-market appetite for humanoids
A late-June Churchill Capital Corp XI agreement gives Digit a Wall Street path before humanoid unit economics are settled.
- Stav Levi-Neumark's Alta raises $25M to build an AI command layer for revenue teams
The Tel Aviv startup says its agents already serve Snowflake, Deel and Atlassian, but valuation and deployment depth remain undisclosed.
- Oskar Block's Stilta raised $10.5M to put AI agents inside patent litigation
The seven-month-old startup's pitch deck shows a McKinsey-trained team selling auditability where legal AI still has to earn trust.
- Vendelux raises $50M to make event marketing answer for pipeline
Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran are taking their Shutterstock-era event thesis upmarket as CMOs face pressure to defend live-event spend.
- Polysense raises $10.7M to push AI quality control deeper into food factories
The Ghent startup says its food-line software has moved from pilots to deployments with Agristo, Darta and Poppies Bakeries.
- MiniMax says it raised $2B, but leaves investors and valuation unnamed
Ryan Lee's X thread did not name investors, valuation or deal structure, leaving the financing terms around the Chinese AI lab unresolved.
- Fleek raises $25M to turn secondhand clothing sorting into software
Burda Principal Investments led the Series B, with eBay joining a cap table that already included a16z, HV Capital and Y Combinator.
- Trinity Robotics raises EUR500k to scale Konyk ground robots
The Ukrainian maker of casualty-evacuation UGVs says Konyk ONE is already used by more than 20 military units across frontline sectors.
- The People Who Monetized Mobile Apps Are Building the Ad Layer for AI Chats
Velocity raised a $27 million seed round to put native ads, auctions, and intent analysis inside AI applications.
- Skapion lands $36 million seed round for counter-swarm air defense
UP Partners and Khosla Ventures co-led the seed round for the Washington and Ramat Gan defense startup.
- Europe Just Put Chips Act Money Behind Diamond-Based Chip Inspection
Kevin Berghoff and Dr. Fleming Bruckmaier are scaling a Munich factory for diamond-based quantum microscopes used in semiconductor failure analysis.
- QIZ Security's $17M seed puts enterprise crypto inventory ahead of Q-Day
Ben Volkow's startup announced a $17 million seed round today as regulators and CISOs move from PQC theory into migration work.
- Sherpa raises $2.2M to manage contractors, suppliers and AI agents in one workflow
The German company is selling enterprises on a single operating layer for external work, from intake and scoping to compliance and payment.
- reverse.fashion adds HTGF backing to automate textile sorting
The Berlin TU spin-off raised a seven-figure pre-seed extension as EU textile rules push sorters toward data-rich reuse.
- Alison Quinn's Respiro Diagnostics raises GBP 1M for breath-based lung diagnostics
The UK company plans a September 2026 lung cancer clinical study after early proof-of-concept work in mesothelioma patients.
- Aardaia raises 5 million euros to domesticate a protein tuber for European fields
Point Nine led the seed round for the Wageningen startup, which is turning a wild crop into a non-GMO alternative to imported protein.
- Mercor seeks $20B valuation as AI training spend pours into human data
The AI training startup also said it will acquire Deeptune, pushing beyond expert matching into the environments used to train agents.