Startups

Vaulted Deep Secures $35 Million In Debt Financing From Mediobanca, Arranged By CFP Energy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Vaulted Deep, a Houston-based waste management and carbon removal company, has secured a $35 million debt facility from Mediobanca, arranged by CFP Energy, to expand its subsurface waste disposal infrastructure across the United States. According to the company, the transaction represents the largest publicly disclosed U.S. commercial debt financing for durable carbon removal secured by long-term purchase contracts. The funding will support new waste disposal sites and additional investments in technology to accelerate infrastructure development.

Morphotonics Raises Over €40 Million In Series B Funding To Expand AI Glasses Manufacturing Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Morphotonics, a Netherlands-based developer of nanoimprint lithography technology, has closed a Series B financing round exceeding €40 million to expand manufacturing technology for artificial intelligence glasses, augmented reality waveguides, and advanced photonic components. The financing includes increased commitments from existing investors 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, and BOM, alongside major new investor Invest-NL. Additional participants include the European Innovation Council Fund, Ernij Next, and the European Investment Bank.

HighLife Medical Raises More Than $90 Million To Advance U.S. Clinical Study And European Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

HighLife Medical, a Paris-based medical technology company developing transcatheter treatments for structural heart disease, has raised more than $90 million (€80 million) in financing to advance its U.S. clinical development program and accelerate commercial expansion in Europe. The funding round was co-led by Andera Partners, Sofinnova Partners, Supernova Invest, and Mérieux Equity Partners, with participation from new and existing investors.

Cyera Raises $400 Million From Goldman Sachs At Over $12 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Cyera, an artificial intelligence and data security company, has secured a $400 million investment from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives through an extension of its Series G financing round, which was led by Evolution Equity. The investment will accelerate Cyera's development of a unified data and identity security platform for enterprises deploying autonomous AI agents. The company reports a valuation exceeding $12 billion.

Beagle Labs Raises $4.1 Million In Pre-Seed Funding Led By Chingona Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Beagle Labs, an AI-powered property intelligence platform for commercial insurance underwriting, has raised $4.1 million in pre-seed funding led by Chingona Ventures. Additional investors include Sovereign's Capital, Remarkable Ventures, C2 Ventures, South Loop Ventures, and Red Bike Capital. The company will use the funding to expand its technology platform, develop additional AI capabilities, strengthen customer support, and grow its team.

Sol Raises $4 Million In Funding To Launch Proactive AI Assistant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Sol, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, has emerged from stealth with $4 million in funding from General Catalyst, Nexus Venture Partners, DeVC, Peercheque, and Kunal Shah. The company has developed a proactive AI assistant that identifies commitments made in Gmail and automatically begins completing the associated work, including research, document creation, presentations, scheduling, and drafting email responses. Unlike conventional AI assistants that wait for instructions, Sol is designed to recognize what users have already promised to do and initiate the necessary tasks, while requiring their approval before completing final actions.

Michigan State University Research Foundation Breaks Ground On $20 Million Rosenberg Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

The Michigan State University Research Foundation (MSU Research Foundation) has officially broken ground on the Rosenberg Center, a $20 million, 65,000-square-foot innovation hub on Michigan State University's campus in East Lansing. I had the opportunity to attend the groundbreaking ceremony, and it was wonderful to see the university, business leaders, and Michigan's entrepreneurial community come together to celebrate this major investment in the region's innovation economy. The facility is expected to open in summer 2027 and will bring startups, researchers, investors, and corporate partners together to accelerate the commercialization of new technologies.

Teal Health Raises $22 Million Series A To Expand FDA-Authorized At-Home Cervical Cancer Screening

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Teal Health has raised $22 million in Series A funding to expand access to its FDA-authorized at-home HPV cervical cancer screening platform as the women's healthcare company prepares for broader insurance coverage beginning in January 2027.

Hunt Scanlon Ventures Invests In Millionways, Building The Behavioral Intelligence Layer For AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Hunt Scanlon Ventures, an M&A advisory firm focused on the human capital markets, has completed an investment in millionways, a New York-headquartered frontier lab building a behavioral intelligence layer for AI. millionways pioneered the development of a proprietary Large Psychology Model, Thorsten-4, designed to understand human signals, motives, communication patterns, and behavior, with applications across AI governance, executive hiring, talent management, and leadership assessment.

Bird&Be Raises $13 Million To Expand Supplements, At-Home Testing, And Retail Distribution

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Bird&Be, a fertility and wellness company providing supplements and at-home reproductive health tests for women and men, has raised $13 million in new funding to accelerate product development, clinical research, retail expansion and broader access to evidence-backed fertility care. The round was led by BDC Thrive and BFG Partners, with participation from BAM Ventures, Founder Collective, Rejuvenation Ventures and HSR Ventures.

Blair Health Raises C$4.2 Million Pre-Seed To Close Specialist Gap In Women’s Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Blair Health, a clinical infrastructure company that enables generalist healthcare providers to deliver specialist-level care, has raised C$4.24 million in pre-seed financing, marking the company's first institutional round and bringing total capital raised to date to C$4.5 million. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Thrive Venture Fund, Accelia Capital, and Ogaei, with participation from Ontario Centre of Innovation through its Life Sciences Innovation Fund, and angel investors.

Verda Raises $189 Million Series B To Become Europe’s Latest AI Infrastructure Unicorn

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 22, 2026

Verda, the Helsinki-founded AI infrastructure company, has hit unicorn status after raising $189 million in an oversubscribed Series B plus additional investment. The round is led by Emergence Capital, an early backer of Salesforce and Zoom, with participation from MUFG Innovation Partners, Supermicro, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, Lifeline Ventures, 6 Degrees Capital, byFounders, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment), and a group of angel investors including Ola Tørudbakken of Meta and Mark Saroufim of Core Auto and GPUMODE.

SENA Health Secures Series A Led By Rittenhouse Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

SENA Health has secured Series A financing led by Rittenhouse Ventures to expand its AI-powered healthcare access and care coordination platform, Clinical Command Center and global operations.

Nara Health Raises $14 Million To Expand AI-Native Health Insurance Administration Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Nara Health has raised $14 million across pre-seed and seed financing led by Khosla Ventures to expand its AI-native health benefits administration platform, which has already processed more than $600 million in medical claims for over 25,000 members. Long Journey Ventures and Superior Studios participated alongside other investors and angel investors.

Payment Nerds Secures $2 Million Credit Facility From Espresso Capital To Accelerate Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Payment Nerds has secured a $2 million credit facility from Espresso Capital, giving the merchant services and payment processing company additional non-dilutive capital to expand its technology, sales organization and strategic partnerships.

Pave Finance Raises $15 Million Series A At $100 Million Pre-Money Valuation As Advisor AUM Surpasses $130 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Pave Finance has raised more than $15 million in an oversubscribed Series A at a $100 million pre-money valuation as adoption of its AI-powered portfolio management platform expands across wealth management firms overseeing more than $130 billion in assets.

Paymob Raises $35 Million Pre-Series C To Expand Payments Across MENA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Paymob has raised $35 million in pre-Series C funding to accelerate the expansion of its digital payments platform across the Middle East and North Africa, giving the company additional capital to broaden its merchant network, develop new financial technology products and prepare for the next generation of digital commerce.

Common Vector Robotics Wins PitchMI Award For Rugged Defense And Aerospace Robots

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Detroit-based Common Vector Robotics has won $425,000 after taking first place in the Defense & Aerospace semifinal of Michigan's PitchMI Startup Competition, providing the company with additional capital as it develops rugged autonomous ground systems for military and other critical field applications.

S2S China Selects 10 Biotech Finalists To Pitch Global Investors At Westlake University

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

RA Capital Management and Qiming Venture Partners have selected 10 biotech startup teams as finalists for the inaugural S2S China Symposium, an initiative designed to connect academic therapeutics research in China with global biotechnology investors.

Corridor Raises $25 Million Led By Bain Capital Ventures For AI-Native Small Business Benefits Brokerage

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Corridor has launched with $25 million in funding led by Bain Capital Ventures to expand an AI-native employee benefits brokerage designed specifically for small businesses. BoxGroup and Definition Capital also participated alongside angel investors that include founders and executives associated with OpenAI, Modal, Ramp, Scale AI, Oscar, Rogo, Decagon, Medallion, Reducto and Tennr.

FintechOS Raises $28 Million To Expand AI-Native Financial Services Platform After 130% U.S. Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

FintechOS has raised $28 million in combined equity and debt financing as the financial technology company accelerates expansion of its AI-native platform for banks, insurers and other financial services organizations across the United States and Europe.

Fluxnium Raises $7 Million Seed Round To Develop Uranium-From-Seawater Technology For Domestic Nuclear Fuel Supply

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Fluxnium has raised $7 million in seed funding to commercialize technology designed to extract uranium from seawater, giving the company additional capital to develop a potential domestic source of the critical mineral used across civilian nuclear power and defense applications. The round was led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from Constellation Technology Ventures, the venture investing organization within Constellation, and Active Impact Investments, a Canadian climate technology seed investor.

Luzern Risk Raises $45 Million Series B To Expand AI-Native Captive Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Luzern Risk has raised $45 million in Series B funding to accelerate its AI-native captive insurance platform and expand the alternative risk solutions it provides to companies seeking greater control over insurance costs and exposures. Insight Partners led the round, with participation from Trust Ventures and existing investor Caffeinated Capital. Caffeinated Capital previously led Luzern Risk's seed financing in 2023 and its $12 million Series A in 2025.

Synapse Analytics Raises $13 Million Series A Led By Partech For AI Decisioning Platform For Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Synapse Analytics has raised $13 million in Series A funding to expand its agentic AI decisioning infrastructure for banks and other regulated financial institutions. Partech led the round, with additional participation from Algebra Ventures and Silicon Badia. The financing brings Synapse Analytics’ total capital raised since inception to $17 million.

Mantic Raises $25 Million To Scale AI Forecasting Platform For Hedge Funds And Decision-Making

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Mantic has raised $25 million to scale its AI-powered forecasting technology, with the financing led by Radical Ventures and participation from Balderton, Thinking Machines Lab, DRW, FT Ventures from the Financial Times, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Episode 1 Ventures and Charlie Songhurst.

Notes.fm Raises $5 Million To Expand Music Royalty Collection, Publishing And Distribution Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Notes.fm has raised $5 million from a group of prominent artists, music executives, managers and strategic investors as the music royalty technology company expands a platform designed to help independent artists identify, collect and manage all of the money they are owed. The financing includes participation from Benny Blanco, Zach Bryan and his managers Stefan Max and Danny Kang, Tainy, Blake Slatkin, Mt. Joy frontman Matt Quinn, WME Group Executive Chairman Ari Emanuel, Chord Music founder Sam Hendel and longtime Atlantic Records chief and 26.2 founder Julie Greenwald.

Expertise AI Raises $3.2 Million Seed Round To Expand AI Sales And Customer Support Agents For Traditional Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Expertise AI has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its AI agent platform for sales and customer support, with the company focusing on bringing AI automation to businesses in traditional industries. The round was led by UpHonest Capital, with participation from Amino, Welight, UpScaleX, and Altair, according to an announcement from Expertise AI founder and CEO Hao Sheng.

Helios AI Raises $3 Million From W23 Global And Launches Hunger Exposure Index For Food Security Risk

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Helios AI has raised a $3 million strategic financing round from W23 Global as the company expands its technology for analyzing food security, climate and geopolitical risks across global agricultural markets.

Verily Health Secures Investment From NVIDIA And CU Healthcare Innovation Fund To Expand Precision Health AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Verily Health has secured new investment from NVIDIA and existing backer CU Healthcare Innovation Fund II as the precision health technology company expands its data and artificial intelligence platform. The financing extends Verily’s March fundraising. The company did not disclose the size of the additional investments. Verily’s existing investors also include Alphabet, Series X Capital and UCHealth.

Ride Therapeutics Secures Up To $7.3 Million From Cystic Fibrosis Foundation For AI-Designed Genetic Medicine Delivery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Ride Therapeutics has secured a strategic investment commitment of up to $7.3 million from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to advance its Molecular Logistics platform for delivering genetic medicines to the lung.