Funding — Page 7
Rounds, valuations, term sheets.
- Mara raises $7M to make counter-drone defense as expendable as the threat
Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu built Spike around tiny kinetic interceptors, with company-reported tests in Army exercises and Ukraine.
- Merck co-leads Faro AI's $37.3M bet on structured clinical-trial agents
Scott Chetham built Faro after seeing static protocols slow trials; the new round funds agents that can carry study intent into downstream workflows.
- Codebreaker Labs files first Form D, leaves offering amount undisclosed
Codebreaker Labs, Ryan Gill's Boulder startup, wants to turn engineered genetic variants into experimental training data for biology AI.
- Noah Shinn's Instinct seeks at least $200M at a valuation above $2.5B
Benchmark and Index are in talks to lead the round after Kleiner Perkins backed a $75M Series A earlier in August.
- Transfyr launches with $25M to capture lab work for AI and robots
Anna Marie Wagner and Renee Wegrzyn's startup aims to turn tacit laboratory know-how into data that scientists, software and robots can use.
- Deep Cogito raises $43M for enterprise-owned specialized AI models
TQ Ventures led the Series A, with Benchmark, Nexus, Atreides, South Park Commons and Zscaler backing former Google employees Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malrana.
- Christopher Ricciuti's Noteworthy AI raises $15M to turn utility trucks into grid inspectors
An SEC filing shows 18 investors backed the equity offering, which includes converted securities and leaves $3.2M still available.
- Voya Energy raises $35M to build aluminum-fueled data center generators
Cuberg founder Richard Wang plans 2027 pilots for a system that turns scrap aluminum into firm onsite power without combustion.
- Oliver AI raises undisclosed pre-seed to build a database for AI agents
Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures backed Praneet Sharma, Grace Johnson and Toby O'Brien as Oliver AI tests its performance case against internal benchmarks.
- Onos Health raises $17M to turn behavioral-health notes into payer intelligence
Costanoa led the round, with Flare and CVS Health Ventures joining as Akshay Agarwal expands the platform beyond manual payer reviews.
- Arga raises $10M to give enterprise AI agents somewhere safe to fail
General Catalyst led Arga's seed round for Phillip Li and Akira Tong's four-person operation, which builds stateful replicas of business software.
- Legato raises $12M to turn ordinary glasses into OTC hearing aids
Bose veterans Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine plan a fall launch through selected eye-care providers, betting eyewear can normalize hearing support.
- Celera raises $30M to automate custom analog chip design
Maverick Silicon solely funded the Series B, one year after its $20M Series A, as Celera expands engineering in California and Portugal.
- Caden Flynn Scott's Azonic raises undisclosed pre-seed for law-enforcement AI
Blackbird and Antler backed the Auckland startup, which says investigators in New Zealand, Australia and the US already use its platform.
- Gradient Health raises $3M from one investor for its medical AI data bet
Joshua Miller and Ouwen Huang are applying their FarmShots computer-vision playbook to a harder bottleneck: usable healthcare data.
- Digs raises $25.3M as Builders FirstSource signs five-year deal
Ryan Fink's third startup pairs a Series A led by Builders FirstSource with a five-year commercial agreement for AI-powered homebuilding tools.
- Hike Medical raises $22.5M to put AI agents inside an orthotics factory
Aadi Bhanti is turning three generations of orthotics experience into AI agents, clinical software and a 3D-printing operation in Peoria.
- Corvus raises $20M as co-founder Mohammed Kabir takes over as CEO
Catalyst led the financing as co-founder Jackie Wu moved to the board and Corvus reported more than 300 devices deployed across North America.
- Loamy sells $8.62M of a planned $9.9M food supply chain round
The filing shows 15 investors and $1.28M still unsold as Charles Julius and Jason Pesek expand a mobile-first ERP for perishable food.
- Stability AI raises $76M as music labels and EA buy in
Prem Akkaraju has moved beyond a 2024 rescue with strategic capital, while valuation, revenue and investor stakes remain undisclosed.
- OppyAI reports $3.5M equity sale as it pitches neural encryption
An SEC filing lists nine investors in the fully sold offering. OppyAI is commercializing research that splits an open-source model between the user's device and the cloud.
- Gautam Narang's Gatik raises $200M to scale driverless middle-mile freight
QIA and Koch co-led the Series D as Gatik targets more than 100 trucks by year-end, with $600M in contracted revenue claimed but unaudited.
- Andrey Styskin raises $26M for Keenable's agent-first web index
Former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and Amazon retrieval scientist Matthias Petri are building Keenable with a 15-engineer team across the US and Europe.
- H&M-backed eComID announces $17M seed for AI shopping memory
The startup announced a Systemiq Capital-led round for former H&M Group digital customer experience lead Oscar Rundqvist's cross-brand Shopping Passport.