Startups

Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5 Million To Build A 24/7 Humanoid Robot Workforce For Warehouses And Factories

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Avatar Robotics has raised $6.5 million in Seed funding to scale its humanoid robotics platform for industrial labor, targeting persistent worker shortages across warehousing, logistics, and manufacturing. The round was led by AlleyCorp, alongside a pre-seed led by defy.vc, with participation from Headline, Henry Ford III, Refashiond, Paul Vogel, Jack Huffard, and Samuel Udotong.

Exclaim Robotics Raises $5 Million Pre-Seed Round To Build Robots For AI Data Center Maintenance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Exclaim Robotics has emerged from stealth with a $5 million pre-seed round to develop robots that can autonomously maintain AI data centers. Founderful and Playfair co-led the financing as Exclaim builds its initial robotic systems and assembles its engineering team.

Moss Raises €30 Million Series C And Reaches Unicorn Status

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Moss has raised €30 million in Series C funding led by Portage and Cherry Ventures, with the European financial technology company saying the financing has established it as a unicorn. The funding will support Moss as it expands beyond spend management and builds a broader Finance AI product suite.

Ore Energy Raises $43 Million Series A To Scale Iron-Air Batteries For Long-Duration Energy Storage

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Ore Energy has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale its iron-air battery technology for storing renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. Plural and HV led the round, with participation from Positron Ventures. The financing brings Ore Energy’s total capital raised to more than $61 million.

Clarity Systems Raises $4.4 Million To Fight $103 Billion Retail Returns Fraud Problem With AI Scanning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Clarity Systems has raised $4.4 million in seed funding to scale its AI-powered fraud detection technology, which can inspect returned and received products in three seconds without requiring retailers to open the packaging. The round was led by LMnT Ventures, with participation from Regeneration VC, Humba Ventures, and Massive Technology Ventures.

AGent Energy Raises $11 Million To Unlock 200+ GW Of Idle Behind-The-Meter Power

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

AGent Energy has raised $11 million in Series Seed funding to scale its AI-driven distributed power plant platform and pursue more than 200 GW of behind-the-meter generation capacity across commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities. The round was co-led by Spero Ventures and MassMutual Ventures, with participation from Intrepid Investment Management and existing investors CIV and Zero Infinity Partners.

Actualyze AI Raises $7 Million Seed Round And Emerges From Stealth With Enterprise AI Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Actualyze AI has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding and launched an enterprise platform designed to govern, secure, operate, and optimize AI model usage through a common infrastructure layer.

JIJ Raises $5.2 Million To Expand AI And Quantum Optimization Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

JIJ has raised JPY 840 million, or approximately $5.2 million, in equity financing to expand its AI-enabled mathematical optimization platform, quantum computing technologies, and international operations.

Delightree Raises $25 Million To Build Agentic AI Operating System For Franchise And Multi-Unit Brands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Delightree has raised $25 million from Innovius, Accel, Timber Grove Ventures, and Emergent to expand its AI-powered operating system for franchise and multi-location businesses. The financing will support expansion across restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, healthcare, home services, and other industries with large frontline workforces.

Convex Raises $57 Million Series B, Bringing Total Funding To $110.5 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Convex has raised $57 million in Series B funding to expand its backend development platform as AI coding agents produce a growing share of software. Insight Partners led the round, with participation from Etna Labs and existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. The financing brings Convex’s total funding to $110.5 million.

Wellinks Raises $10 Million Series B To Expand Predictive Cardiopulmonary Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Wellinks has closed its first Series B round, raising $10 million from UMass Memorial Health and existing investors to accelerate commercial growth of its predictive cardiopulmonary care platform.

Faye Raises $50 Million Series C, Bringing Total Funding To $100 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 14, 2026

Faye has raised $50 million in Series C funding to expand its AI-powered travel protection platform, bringing total capital raised to $100 million. Madrona led the round, with participation from BRM and existing investors Portage, F2 Venture Capital, Viola Ventures, and Lumir Ventures.

Rivo Raises $3.1 Million To Build Autonomous Cash Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Rivo has raised $3.1 million in total funding and launched publicly with an autonomous cash management platform designed to automatically move consumers’ idle cash into higher-yielding assets.

Aligned Marketplace Raises $20 Million Series A To Expand Independent Primary And Specialty Care Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Aligned Marketplace has raised an additional $20 million in funding through a Series A round led by Venrock as the healthcare marketplace expands access to independent advanced primary care for self-insured employers and Third Party Administrators.

Meduloc Raises $4 Million Series B Led By GenHenn Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Meduloc has raised $4 million in Series B funding to support the controlled commercialization of its FDA-cleared fracture fixation platform. GenHenn Capital led the financing, with participation from Life Sciences Greenhouse Investments, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Broad Street Angels, former Major League Baseball All-Star Andre Ethier, and additional existing and new investors.

Acrab Raises $130 Million Series B To Advance Agentic AI Compute Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Acrab has raised $130 million in Series B funding to scale the commercialization of its full-stack computing platform for agentic AI systems as the company moves from technology development toward broader industrial deployment.

Triangle Group Raises $15 Million To Scale Asia-Pacific Live Entertainment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Triangle Group has raised $15 million in equity and venture debt to expand its live touring and festival infrastructure across Asia-Pacific. The financing consists of a $10 million equity seed round led by DSG Consumer Partners, with participation from Golden Gate Ventures, the Oberoi Family Office, and angel investors, along with a $5 million venture debt facility from Genesis Alternative Ventures.

Worldscape Raises $10 Million Seed Extension To Advance AI-Native Mission Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Worldscape has raised a $10 million seed extension to expand its AI-native Decision Advantage Platform for government and mission engineering applications. Scout Ventures led the financing, with participation from Radius Capital.

Ordway Secures $20 Million In Growth Capital To Accelerate AI Roadmap

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Ordway has secured access to $20 million in additional equity and debt financing to expand its AI-powered billing, revenue management, and quote-to-cash platform. Harbert Growth Partners led the equity financing, while Western Alliance Bank’s Innovation Banking Group provided debt capital.

Khartis Therapeutics Raises $50 Million Series B, Bringing Total Funding To $95 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Khartis Therapeutics has raised $50 million in Series B funding to advance its pipeline of oral small molecule therapies targeting immunological and chronic diseases, bringing total capital raised to $95 million. Forge Life Science Partners led the round, with participation from Longwood Fund and Alexandria Venture Investments alongside existing investors Foresite Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, and Nextech Invest.

Databricks Raises $5 Billion At $190 Billion Valuation As Revenue Run-Rate Tops $7 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Databricks has raised $5 billion in strategic funding at a $190 billion valuation as the Data and AI company continues to report rapid growth across its enterprise AI platform. Coatue led the round, with participation from Blackstone, MGX, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price, and new investor Sixth Street Growth. Other new investors included BOND, Clearlake Capital, Point72, Premji Invest, and TPG, alongside existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Dragoneer, Fidelity Management & Research Company, GIC, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan Private Capital, NEA, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Temasek, Thrive Capital, and WCM Investment Management.

Vexev Raises $6 Million To Advance FDA Clearance And U.S. Commercialization Of Robotic Vascular Imaging Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Vexev has raised $6 million in new funding to advance FDA regulatory activities and accelerate U.S. commercialization of VxWave, its AI-powered robotic vascular ultrasound platform. The new financing brings the Australian medical robotics company’s total funding to $19 million. Existing investors Blackbird Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Startmate, and Horizon participated alongside new investors TreeArc Investment Group, TEN13, Bioshore Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.

Yuno Raises $45 Million Series B To Scale AI-Native Global Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Yuno has raised $45 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-native global payments and financial services infrastructure and accelerate its path toward profitability. Global PayTech Ventures led the round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, Endeavor Catalyst, Rasmal Ventures, Further Ventures, GrowthX Capital, and other investors.

Palette Raises €3 Million Pre-Seed Round Led By Ugly Duckling For AI-Native Team Operating System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Palette has raised €3 million in pre-seed funding to build an operating system designed for AI-native teams. The round was led by Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from Emblem and Acadian Ventures.

Silicon Data Raises $30.5 Million Series A Led By Valor Atreides AI Fund To Build AI Compute Benchmark Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Silicon Data has raised an initial $30.5 million closing of its Series A financing to expand its independent pricing, performance and market intelligence infrastructure for the AI compute economy.

Entravel Group Raises $7.5 Million To Expand Travel Infrastructure Beyond Crypto Platforms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Entravel Group has raised $7.5 million to expand its travel technology infrastructure beyond the cryptocurrency sector and into the broader travel and consumer markets. The round included Finality Capital, Joseph Lubin, Ethereal Ventures, GSR Ventures, Varrock, G1 Ventures, Seier Capital, Veris Ventures, FunFair Ventures, and WTG Ventures.

Mindgard Raises $30 Million Series A To Expand AI Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Mindgard has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its AI security platform as enterprises increase deployment of AI models, agents, and applications. Album VC led the financing, with participation from Karma Ventures and existing investors .406 Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, IQ Capital, and Lakestar. Mindgard plans to use the new capital to expand its product, engineering, sales, and marketing operations in response to growing customer demand.

Heaviside Industries Raises $60 Million Series B At $600 Million Valuation And Partners With Nammo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

Heaviside Industries has raised $60 million in Series B funding at a $600 million valuation and formed a strategic partnership with Norwegian defense company Nammo to supply warheads for Heaviside’s precision munitions platforms. Felicis led the financing, with significant participation from Hedosophia. Other investors included Menlo Ventures, Cantos, Flume Ventures, Qstar Capital, Friends & Family Capital, Anorak Ventures, and MVP Ventures. The financing comes three months after Heaviside emerged from stealth.

InduPro Raises $77 Million Series B And Doses First Patient In Phase 1 Study Of IDP-001

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

InduPro has raised $77 million in Series B funding and dosed the first patient in a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating IDP-001, the biotechnology company’s lead oncology candidate. The Column Group led the financing. Existing investors Vida Ventures, MRL Ventures Fund, Emerson Collective advised by Yosemite, and Euclidean Capital participated alongside new investors Solasta Ventures, Sanofi, and Eli Lilly and Company.

CodeRabbit Raises $143 Million Series C At $1.5 Billion Valuation As Revenue Jumps More Than 5X

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

CodeRabbit has raised $143 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion valuation as the AI code review company expands into what it calls Agentic Change Management. Atomico and Smash Capital co-led the financing. New investors included BMW i Ventures, Datadog, Hirtle Callaghan, SineWave Ventures, and Scenic Management. Existing investors CRV, Scale Venture Partners, Flex Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, Harmony Partners, and Engineering Capital also participated. Atomico partner Luca Eisenstecken will join CodeRabbit’s board.