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STARTUPS RAISING MILLIONS
💰 Startup Funding Updates
PRE-SEED
Aisel Health, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based HealthTech company building an operating system purpose-built for psychiatry and mental health, raised €1.7M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Caesar Ventures, with participation from Nordic Web Ventures, LifeX, Angel Invest, Rockstart, and EIFO.
Peppy, a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of a prototyping platform for robotics, raised an undisclosed amount in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Element Ventures, with participation from Rock Creek Capital, Mana Ventures, and Yonder.
XSquare, a Dubai, UAE-based B2B payment orchestration startup, raised an undisclosed amount in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Raed Ventures, with participation from AngelSpark, 500 Global, and Oraseya Capital.
Guideless, a Vilnius, Lithuania-based provider of an AI-powered software training and operational knowledge platform, raised €1M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Superhero Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK VC, Thomas Plantenga, Vytautas Atkočaitis, and Mantas Mikuckas.
SEED
Twin1 AI, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of an AI-powered digital twin platform for knowledge workers, raised $20M in Seed funding. The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Aramco Ventures, with participation from EJF Ventures, Tin Alley Ventures, AGI House Ventures, Neo, F-Prime, Btech Consortium, Antiportfolio Ventures, Lakestar, Notion Capital, and others.
Capitan Orthopedics, a Grand Rapids, MI-based provider of an orthopedic implant platform for shoulder surgery, raised $4.1M in Seed funding. Backers included Genesis Innovation Group.
Apollo Atomics, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of compact pressurized water reactors, raised $31M in Seed funding. The round was led by FCVC, with participation from Y Combinator, Telesoft Partners, Alumni Ventures, Robinhood Ventures, Nucleation Capital, Pelion VC, Duke Capital Partners, and angel investors.
HeyBreez, a Wilmington, DE-based enterprise voice AI infrastructure platform provider, raised $2.5M in Seed funding. The round was led by Lunara Partners, with participation from Jabbar Group, DASH Ventures, and strategic tech founders and angel investors.
Solinide Photonics, a Partille, Sweden-based provider of silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits for optical interconnects, raised €4M in Seed funding. The round was co-led by Navigare Ventures and PSV Hafnium, with participation from Chalmers Ventures, Turbine Capital, Norrsken Evolve, and Almi Greentech Fund.
Callosum, a London, UK-based systems software and AI infrastructure startup, raised $100M in Seed funding. The round was led by Atomico, with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund.
Quantizr, a Park City, UT-based provider of an AI-powered financial operations platform for the live entertainment industry, raised $5M in Seed funding. The round was led by TTV Capital, with participation from Jonathan Azu, Chris Kappy, and Andy Levine.
Synthefy, an Austin, TX-based provider of structured data foundation models, raised $6.5M in Seed funding. The round was led by Wing Venture Capital, with participation from Haystack, Samsung Next, Canonical, Lightscape, and angel investors.
GROWTH
Thunder Compute, a San Francisco, CA-based GPU virtualization and cloud infrastructure platform provider, raised $13M in Series A funding. The round was led by Matrix Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and CEAS Investments.
Ampaire, a Long Beach, CA-based provider of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for aircraft, raised $19M in Series B funding. The round was led by DiamondStream Partners, with participation from Alaska Star Ventures, IAGi Ventures, Pay it Forward Ventures, Massive Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Autodesk Foundation Impact Fund, Elemental Impact, and others.
Quartr, a Stockholm, Sweden-based first-party data layer for institutional finance and AI, raised $18M in funding. The round was led by existing investor Altos Ventures, with participation from SEB.
Relativity Networks, an Orlando, FL-based provider of advanced optical networking technology for distributed AI, raised $22M in SAFE funding. Backers included Rhapsody Venture Partners, Bell Ventures, and Faster Than Glass.
Prevalent AI, a London, UK-based AI-powered enterprise context company, raised $22M in growth funding from Integrity Growth Partners.
Magic Potion Games, a Kelowna, Canada-based provider of a safe social online world platform for Gen Alpha, closed an undisclosed Series A funding round. Backers included Square Enix, 1AM Gaming, 1Up Ventures, and Konvoy.
bitdrift, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a mobile observability platform, raised $15M in total funding. Backers included Amplify Partners, 01 Advisors, Primeset, and Lyft.
MaxQ Medical, a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of a transurethral imaging and therapy platform for prostate care, raised $31.5M in Series A financing. The round was led by Atlantic Blue Ventures, S3 Ventures, and Olympus Innovation Ventures, with participation from Hillside Capital.
Peeko, a Bengaluru, India-based quick-commerce babycare platform, raised approximately $8.1M in Series A funding. The round was led by Chiratae Ventures, with participation from Stellaris Venture Partners and angel investors.
Pixelgen Technologies, a Stockholm, Sweden-based provider of a platform for mapping molecular cell architecture, raised $15.5M in Series B funding. The round was led by Flat Capital, with participation from Industrifonden and Navigare Ventures.
Rundoo, a Redwood City, CA-based provider of an AI-first system of record platform for independent supply stores, raised $30M in Series B financing. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and CRV.
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NEW VCs IN THE MARKET
🏦 Venture Capital Updates.
Third Mind, a Menlo Park, CA-based newly formed venture capital firm, is raising its first fund. According to a SEC form, Third Mind I, LP, has a target of $25m with $5.7m already raised. The document lists Antoine Nivard (formerly at Blank Ventures) as the person related to the raise.
Floating Point, a Boston, and NYC-based early stage venture capital firm investing in complex sectors, closed its third fund, at $125m. Backers included institutional investment firms, endowments and foundations, funds of funds, and the founders and chairmen of major hedge funds and private equity firms. The closing brought total assets under management to more than $300m.
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📜 Latest In Tech
ChatGPT can now send and manage Apple Messages
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT, letting users search, organize, analyze, edit, draft, delete, and send messages directly through ChatGPT.
The integration also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work, enabling tasks such as finding information in old conversations or suggesting follow-up messages based on recent chats.
OpenAI says the plug-in runs locally and doesn’t create an index of a user’s entire message history, but recommends reviewing messages before they’re sent rather than enabling persistent approval.
Ex-Meta engineer testifies against Zuckerberg
Arturo Béjar, a former Meta engineer, testified against Mark Zuckerberg in an Oakland federal trial, telling jurors the culture the CEO built made it nearly impossible to fix safety problems on Facebook and Instagram.
Four state attorneys general, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey, argue the apps were designed to hook minors, pointing to infinite scrolling, autoplay video, beauty filters, and the “like” button as harmful features.
Béjar said the safety tools Meta shipped were left as optional settings instead of defaults, so almost nobody used them, while the company denies misleading the public and disputes penalties it says could reach $1.4 trillion.
Meta AI launches Mac app
Meta has released a beta version of its Meta AI app for the Mac, built mainly for businesses and content creators, with links to Facebook and Instagram plus tools for tracking how posts perform.
The app can share a window during a session through screen capture to give advice on your work, offers dictation across all Mac apps, and connects to Google Workspace if you have a professional Facebook or Instagram account.
Meta AI is free, though Meta One plans raise the rate limits, and its privacy policy states that interactions with AI features are used to train Meta’s models, so users may want to be careful.
Marvell to build AI chips for Google
Marvell has agreed to supply custom AI chips to Google, and in return granted Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of Marvell shares, sending the chipmaker’s stock up as much as 14 percent.
Google earns the right to buy nearly 59 million shares at $206.58 each by placing orders, with each $500 million of chip purchases unlocking more, a deal that could bring Marvell about $120 billion in sales through 2033.
The chips are parts that attach to Google’s tensor processing units, such as inference accelerators and storage and networking controllers, adding Marvell as a second major supplier alongside Broadcom, whose stock fell around 5 percent.
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☕ Other News
Robots’ ChatGPT moment nears
Unitree chief Wang Xingxing told Beijing’s World Robot Conference that humanoid robots are nearing a “ChatGPT moment,” yet warned the breakthrough could take two to three years if all goes well, or five to 10 years if it doesn’t.
Wang defined the milestone as a robot dropped into an unfamiliar home, taking voice or text orders and finishing about 80% of tasks with no scene-specific training beforehand, a test he calls a tipping point for the field.
His caution follows Unitree’s Shanghai listing, where shares jumped nearly sixfold before falling 11% the next day, even as Chinese makers shipped over 40,000 humanoids in early 2026 to buyers who are still mostly universities and research labs.
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