- Rivo launches cash-management service with a $2.7M seed round
The San Francisco fintech Rivo moves excess checking cash into short-duration U.S. Treasury bills and returns it before bills come due.
- Sapiom raises $35 million to cut the cost of running AI agents
Dragonfly led the round six months after Sapiom's seed, as the startup expands from agent payments into routing, building and runtime tools.
- Avatar Robotics raises $6.5M to turn warehouse shifts into robot-training data
The seed backs Colin Webb's model: sell warehouse labor now, collect training data on every shift, and automate the work over time.
- Ambrook raises $30M Series B to expand beyond farm accounting
Lachy Groom led the Series B as Ambrook expands into construction, trucking and other family-run industries.
- Palona AI discloses $28.3 million financing for restaurant automation push
The filing lifts disclosed funding to $38.3 million as Maria Zhang, Tim Howes and Steve Liu push Palona deeper into restaurant operations.
- Decade raised $85 million to pair AI with wealth advisers in Brazil
In May 2026, the Brazilian wealth advisory disclosed an $85 million seed backed by Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion.
- Ore Energy raises $43 million to build its first iron-air battery factory
Plural and HV Capital led the Series A as Ore Energy prepares a 400 MWh delivery to Budget Thuis in 2028.
- Endeavor Optical Networks raises $10.75M to route data-center traffic through satellites
Endeavor Optical Networks plans a 20-satellite network for dedicated, multi-terabit links between data centers.
- Horizon3 raises $250 million to expand its autonomous cybersecurity platform
NightDragon and NEA co-led the Series E, which values the NodeZero maker at more than $2 billion.
- Andromeda Surgical raises $15 million to push autonomy into prostate surgery
Standard Capital led the round as Andromeda runs an international clinical trial of its tablet-controlled Beacon robotic platform.
- Othello parent Cicero discloses $6.85 million round from 35 investors
Jared Zelman's New York startup moved from AI celebrity avatars to live sales-call guidance, while its valuation and investor list remain private.
- Emerald AI filing discloses $90.2 million sold toward $150 million offering
Emerald AI, Varun Sivaram's Washington, DC startup, is raising fresh equity to commercialize software that makes AI data centers flexible power loads.
- Intelligence, the DesignArena maker, raises $7.9 million for human-ranked AI evals
Grace Li says the 10-person startup grew from $5 million to $60 million in ARR over six months by selling creative-model evaluations.
- Zenity raises $125 million to secure autonomous AI agents
Norwest led the Series C as the Microsoft alumni behind Zenity expand from low-code governance into runtime controls for enterprise agents.
- Qunett sells $1.48M toward planned $3M quantum networking offering
The MIT and University of Maryland spinout is adding private capital after using contracts and grants to move its hardware toward deployment.
- Base Power raises $1B at $13B valuation and launches Texas-built battery
Base Core moves battery production in-house as Zach Dell and Justin Lopas push their distributed storage model beyond Texas.
- Actualyze AI raises $7M to govern enterprise model calls
Rafi Khardalian and Sean Lynch are putting identity, security and budgets in the path of every enterprise model call.
- Mariana Minerals raises $310 million for software-run US mines
Khosla Ventures led the Series B, joined by a16z, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BHP, Greenoaks and four other investors.
- James Dacombe's OLIX raises $312 million at $3.3 billion before first chip ships
OLIX's 25-year-old founder has raised $532 million in six months to fund a rack-scale AI inference system due in 2027.
- June raises $20 million pre-seed to automate enterprise AI deployment
The Bonobo AI founders reunited after several years inside Salesforce, with Time Ventures leading the pre-seed round.
- Arrakis raises $8 million for AI agent runtime security
Hetz Ventures backed Tal Baron, Omer Efrat and Ron Shani's runtime monitoring and enforcement layer for autonomous software.
- Dopl raises $6.3 million to move robotic ultrasound toward FDA clearance
SpringTide led the seed round as three co-founders use an in-person staffing service to prepare rural hospitals for remote robotic exams.
- Axis Robotics raises $12 million to turn browser users into robot trainers
Hack VC led the seed round for Chris Feng's simulation-first system, which collects and cleans human demonstrations for robot models.
- PDW gets conditional $820 million federal loan commitment for drone components
PDW plans to turn its racing-drone roots into a domestic component supplier for its own aircraft and other U.S. platforms.