Startups

GrailPay Raises $10.5 Million To Scale Risk Decisioning Infrastructure For Instant And Agentic Payments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2026

GrailPay announced it has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding to expand its risk decisioning infrastructure for instant payments and agentic commerce. The round was led by MissionOG, with participation from EJF Ventures, Counterpart Ventures, Construct Capital, Commerce Ventures, and SSC Venture Partners. The new funding brings GrailPay’s total funding raised to $17.2 million.

Jarvie AI Raises $8.3 Million To Bring AI Agents To Group Chats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 30, 2026

Jarvie AI announced it has raised $8.3 million in seed funding to bring AI agents to everyday consumers. The funding round included Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, and Lightspeed.

Baz Raises $9 Million To Advance Agentic Coding Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Baz announced the launch of Baz Planner, a new product designed to help engineering teams eliminate bugs and vulnerabilities earlier in the software development process. The company also announced an additional $9 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding raised to $17 million.

Quantifind Raises $200 Million To Advance AI-Native Risk Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Quantifind announced a $200 million growth investment led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Citi Ventures, S&P Global, Deloitte, and Stephens Group also participated in the round.

STARK Raises €500 Million To Expand European Defense Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

STARK announced that it has secured €500 million to expand European defense capabilities. The funding includes continued support from Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and the NATO Innovation Fund.

8090 Raises $135 Million Series A Led By Salesforce Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

8090 announced that it has raised a $135 million Series A funding round led by Salesforce Ventures. The round also included participation from WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, and LAUNCH.

Lycia Therapeutics Raises $75 Million Series D To Advance LYTAC Pipeline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Lycia Therapeutics announced that it has completed an oversubscribed $75 million Series D financing. The financing was co-led by existing investor Janus Henderson Investors and new investor Balyasny Asset Management. The round also included new participation from Adage Capital Management, HBM Healthcare Investments, and OrbiMed, along with continued support from Eli Lilly and Company, Franklin Templeton, Invus, RTW Investments, and Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners.

Nebex Raises $30 Million Seed Round To Build Market Infrastructure For Space Economy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Nebex announced that it has raised $30 million in seed funding to build market infrastructure for the global space economy. The round was led by GV, with participation from other venture funds. Nebex also announced a banking relationship with J.P. Morgan.

Pocket Raises $11 Million To Expand Personal AI Assistant Device

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Open Vision Engineering announced that it has raised $11 million in funding for Pocket, its dedicated AI hardware device for capturing conversations, organizing insights, and helping people stay present. The funding came from Accel, Y Combinator, and several founders, CEOs, and operators, including Vercel founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch, ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski, and Opendoor CEO and former Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian.

Wultra Raises €6.8 Million Series A To Expand Post-Quantum Digital Identity Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Wultra announced that it has raised €6.8 million in Series A funding to accelerate the global expansion of its post-quantum authentication and digital identity solutions. The round was led by Seventure Partners, with participation from new and existing investors.

X Square Robot Surpasses $2.8 Billion Valuation After Four Consecutive Financing Rounds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

X Square Robot announced the closing of four consecutive financing rounds, culminating in a Series C that brought its valuation to more than $2.8 billion.

GenerativeX Raises $4 Million Series A To Scale Forward Deployed Engineer Model

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

GenerativeX announced that it has closed a $4 million Series A funding round led by Nissay Capital. The round included participation from Salesforce Ventures, Angel Bridge, DeepCore, and SMBC Venture Capital.

Straiker Raises $64 Million Series A To Secure Enterprise AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Straiker announced that it has raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure enterprise AI agents. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners, Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Workday Ventures, with continued support from Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed. The financing brings Straiker’s total funding to $85 million. Gokul Rajaram, founding partner of Marathon, is joining Straiker’s board of directors.

Orderful Raises $35 Million Series C To Grow AI-Native EDI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Orderful announced that it has raised $35 million in Series C funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies. NewRoad Capital Partners also participated in the round. The financing brings Orderful’s total funding to $85 million. Orderful’s previous investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Initialized Capital, 9Yards Capital, Flume Ventures, NFI Ventures, and GLP Capital Partners.

Ornn Raises $33 Million Seed Round To Build Compute Market Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Ornn announced the launch of Ornn Compute, a physical capacity layer for the compute market, alongside a $33 million seed round led by a16z crypto.

Runpod Raises $100 Million Series A Led By Summit Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Runpod announced that it has closed a $100 million Series A funding round led by Summit Partners.

xCures Raises $46 Million Series B To Expand Clinical Clarity Engine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

xCures announced that it has closed a $46 million Series B financing round led by Innovius Capital. The round included participation from iGrow, GKCC, Spring Mountain Capital, and existing investors.

Almetra Raises $19 Million Series A To Bring Real-Time Intelligence To Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 29, 2026

Almetra announced that it has raised $19 million in Series A funding led by blisce/.

Imagion Biosystems Raises AU$3.75 Million To Advance MagSense Phase 2 Trial

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 28, 2026

Imagion Biosystems announced that it has secured firm commitments for AU$3.75 million, or about US$2.59 million, in new capital.

Orthogonal Raises $4.3 Million Seed Round For AI Agent Discovery And Payments Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 28, 2026

Orthogonal announced that it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to build discovery, orchestration, and payments infrastructure for AI agents.

Neurometric Raises $4 Million To Launch Automated Token Engineering Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 28, 2026

Neurometric AI announced that it has launched its automated token engineering platform and raised $4 million in funding. The round included participation from Betaworks, ex-Ante, Everywhere.vc, Encoded, Vermillion, Abstraction, and Mu Ventures. Angel investors included Jason Calacanis, co-host of the All-In Podcast, and Dharmesh Shah, CTO of HubSpot.

Warp Raises $60 Million Series B To Build AI-Native Employee Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Warp announced that it has raised $60 million in Series B funding to accelerate development of its AI-native employee management platform.

Mirendil Raises $200 Million Seed Round To Build Self-Accelerating AI R&D Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Mirendil announced its formal launch with a $200 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins. NVIDIA also invested in the company, along with other backers.

General Intuition Raises $320 Million Series A At $2.3 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

General Intuition announced that it has raised $320 million in Series A funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Hillspire, the family office of Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.

Reed Semiconductor Raises $100 Million To Scale AI Infrastructure Power Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Reed Semiconductor announced that it has completed an upsized and oversubscribed $100 million funding round. The round included participation from several leading global semiconductor companies.

Oblenio Bio Raises $62 Million Series B To Advance Autoimmune Disease Therapy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Oblenio Bio announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $62 million Series B financing round to advance its lead autoimmune disease program into clinical development. The round was led by Pfizer Ventures, with participation from new investors Deep Track Capital and GV. Aditum Bio, Oblenio’s founding and Series A investor, also participated.

Scaled Cognition Raises $100 Million To Build Reliable Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Scaled Cognition announced that it has raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures.

Sail Research Raises $80 Million To Build Infrastructure For Long-Horizon AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 27, 2026

Sail Research announced that it has raised $80 million in Seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation.

H2SITE Raises Series B Funding To Over €42 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

H2SITE announced that it has completed a second closing of its Series B round, bringing total funding raised in the round to more than €42 million. The new closing adds the EIC Fund and a private investor to H2SITE’s shareholder base. They join Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Suma Capital, Hy24, Crane, Enagás Emprende, Calderion, and CRPV, which participated in the first closing.

Sazabi Raises $8 Million Seed Round To Build AI-Native Observability Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 26, 2026

Sazabi announced that it raised an $8 million seed round to build an AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams. The round was led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator, with participation from Orange Collective and more than 60 angel investors from AI, developer tools, and infrastructure companies. Investors included angels from Vercel, Cursor, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, Replit, Browserbase, and others.