- Jake Adler's Pilgrim raises $25M to detect airborne biological threats
Pilgrim told the WSJ its $25M seed round valued the Redwood City startup at $150M; Anthropic researchers Logan Graham and Sholto Douglas invested personally.
- Titan reports $4M sold in SEC filing, more than its announced $3M seed
Titan's September Form D reports $4M sold toward a $5M target and 16 investors, whose identities are not disclosed. It does not establish whether the offering is tied to the $3M seed announced in June.
- Ando raises $20M to make AI agents members of the team chat
Founder Sara Du is betting that agents need persistent identities, permissions and shared context inside workplace messaging, rather than another add-on to Slack.
- Subconscious raises $5.1M to cut the cost of long-running AI agents
The Cambridge startup says its inference system can reduce costs by up to 80%; its funding backs a push to sell the runtime to engineering teams.
- Palma.ai raises $1.8M to govern AI agents across enterprise tools
Patrick Eden and Julian Kolbe are building a shared permissions and audit layer for agents using different AI assistants.
- DeepSeek hits a $1B revenue run rate as it seeks another $7.5B
The API-led growth follows an August price increase; DeepSeek is targeting an end-of-October close for its second funding round and preparing for a Shanghai listing.
- Dextr AI raises $6.7M to connect hotel guest-service and staffing agents
Dextr AI CEO Sajid Shariff started with a guest-messaging agent; its $6.7M seed, led by Elevation Capital, will fund more integrations and customer-facing engineers.
- Island raises $400M to take its browser-security bet into AI agents
Co-founders Dan Amiga and Mike Fey built an enterprise browser; Island now says it can govern work across browsers, endpoints, networks and data.
- Ande raises more than $52M to make corporate dinners a managed expense
Lohit Sarma's Ande combines venue booking, approvals and payments; its bigger bet is becoming the corporate sales channel for hospitality.
- SalivIQ reports $1.9M sold in seed round, with $1.26M left
SalivIQ founder Julia Halterman is building a saliva-based strep test; a September SEC filing reports $707,000 more sold since June and a larger offering target.
- UltraSight raises $24M to put cardiac ultrasound in more clinicians' hands
Alive HealthTech led the round as UltraSight expands its FDA-cleared software across U.S. healthcare systems, with deployments in intensive-care units at more than 10 facilities.
- Clastix raises €2.9M to expand its commercial Kubernetes platform
CEO Adriano Pezzuto says the seed will fund kMetal's expansion and more R&D for AI workloads, while open-source control-plane engine Kamaji remains central to the business.
- Chamelio raises $26M to make legal software do the legal work
Entree Capital led the round eight months after a $5.7M seed took Chamelio's publicly announced funding to $10M, backing a founder team built from in-house legal, operations and AI experience.
- GridX reports $7.5M in securities sold; its three investors remain unnamed
GridX's September filing records three investors and debt and warrant-linked securities, but leaves their identities, terms and valuation undisclosed.
- arXiv secures $17.2M in multiyear support for nonprofit independence
Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets and Siegel Family Endowment are backing operations and infrastructure as Cornell steps back from the archive Paul Ginsparg founded.
- Modal and Baseten seek funding at $15B and $26B valuations
The proposed rounds would sharply reprice two inference providers as AI companies buy outside capacity to run models in production.
- USD.AI's June $98.1M Duos facility was set to close after GPU delivery
A June SEC filing said the three-year facility was expected to close after delivery and installation of 2,304 B300 GPUs. USD.AI announced a larger $128.9M facility on September 23rd.
- F13 raises $5M to make AI-generated charts answer to the data
Gregory Janik and Ingimar Tomasson are building editable vector models for diagrams and infographics, with early access open ahead of a wider launch.
- Mika raises €6M to automate German bookkeeping with accountants in the loop
Agnieszka Walorska's Berlin startup pairs automated bookkeeping with human review, while customers remain responsible for approving their filings.
- Noxtua raises more than €100M and gives legal publisher C.H.BECK a majority stake
Founder Leif-Nissen Lundbæk is trading venture-backed independence for deeper access to the legal content his AI product needs.
- XIRRA raises hundreds of millions of yuan to build a physics model for robots
Founded in July by former Huawei Cloud large-model CTO Li Yin, XIRRA says it is valued at $500 million after seed and angel financing.
- Brahma AI raises $150M to sell Hollywood's content tools to enterprises
Multiples invested $100M in Prabhu Narasimhan's platform, which combines media-archive software with AI creation tools.
- Bioinsights reports $2.75M sold toward a $7.9M equity offering
Travis Bond's Florida company reported seven investors and a $7.9M offering target; the filing records money sold, not a completed round.
- SmartBarrel sells $3,999,994 of a $4M equity offering, leaving $6
Founder Albert Bou Fadel's Miami-based construction timekeeping company reported three investors in a September SEC filing.