- 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.
- Funding U reports $6 million equity offering with $2.7 million in cash
Jeannie Tarkenton's no-cosigner student lender sold equity to six investors, while $3.35 million of the total converted or canceled existing securities.
- Chris Faught's Neon raises $13M as KRAFTON backs direct game commerce
Andreessen Horowitz and Renegade Partners joined the financing for Neon's webstore, payments and player-loyalty stack.
- Semaphor rebrands as Inner Logic with $11.5M seed for medical-device simulation
Tito Porras co-founded Baltimore-based Inner Logic with Johns Hopkins researchers Mathias Unberath and Axel Krieger to test devices across virtual patients.
- StrongestLayer raises $4.1 million to replace email pattern matching with AI reasoning
Inovia led the seed extension as three security veterans prepare the two-year-old vendor for a Series A.
- Glow raises $180 million to control AI software on enterprise endpoints
The Onavo co-founder and former Meta VP is betting prevention-first security can manage the software and agents spreading across corporate devices.
- Ema seeks $80 million at $800 million valuation in Creaegis-led talks
The enterprise-agent company would more than double its disclosed funding after Creaegis backed Emergent at $1.5 billion last week.
- Ex-Rapyd leaders raise $8M for Cordant's payment observability layer
Motive Partners and Oak HC/FT backed Cordant's private-beta platform, which must prove its shared event model inside regulated production systems.
- ParcoData sells $544,910 toward nuclear-powered AI data center plan
Founders Alex Gadotti and Luca Longobardi are seeking $2.31 million while their reactor suppliers remain in NRC pre-application work.
- Lite Run reports $3M private offering after Brooks deploys rehab system
The St. Paul medtech maker sold the fully subscribed offering to two investors as its air-pressure exosuit moves into Brooks Rehabilitation.
- ALZpath sells $8.4M in equity after licensing Alzheimer's antibody to Abbott
The Carlsbad diagnostics developer has $2 million left to sell as partners build tests around its pTau217 reagent.
- Cascade raises $3.5M to predict construction projects before bids open
Cascade's $3.5 million round from a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures and others backs Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira's push to detect construction work before formal RFPs appear.
- Intermezzo reports $8.3 million sold in a $10.3 million equity offering
Intermezzo began the Rule 506(b) offering on July 6th and reported sales to 18 investors, leaving roughly $2 million available.