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Lior Hanuka, CEO of HiCenter Ventures, offered insights into Israel’s evolving venture capital landscape as part of CTech’s 2026 VC Survey, highlighting how the startup ecosystem is transitioning toward more deep-tech, hardware-inclusive investment strategies. In the interview, Hanuka discusses how the traditional boundary between hardware and software is increasingly blurring especially as the influence of advanced compute, semiconductor innovation, and dual-use technologies grows within Israeli tech. “The boundary between hardware and software is rapidly disappearing” | Ctech
5 hours ago|by Team S
Abu Dhabi-based investment firm Shorooq has launched a $200 million late-stage growth fund under its Qatalyst Series to address a critical gap in capital available for scaling tech companies and preparing them for public markets. The firm unveiled the new fund at Web Summit Qatar 2026, where it confirmed that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is backing the initiative alongside other sovereign and institutional partners from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Asia. The Qatalyst Fund is designed to provide patient, long-duration capital to companies that have already achieved strong fundamentals and are nearing expansion or pre-IPO stages particularly in sectors such as fintech infrastructure, software, artificial intelligence and other mission-critical verticals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This structured financing aims to help promising scale-ups professionalize, build governance maturity and prepare for listings or sustained global growth. Shorooq was founded in 2017 and has grown into a multi-strategy investment platform spanning venture capital, credit, private equity and real assets. The launch of the Qatalyst Series reinforces Shorooq’s full-stack model of supporting founders across the entire capital journey from early stages to large growth and eventual public market execution pairing capital with hands-on value creation. With this fund and its growing roster of institutional partners, Shorooq is positioned to play a major role in institutionalizing late-stage capital across the GCC.
5 hours ago|by Team S
MeetsMore, a Tokyo-based SaaS provider that supports online customer acquisition, order management, and efficiency tools for service-oriented businesses, has secured a strategic investment from SMBC Edge as part of its Series B financing round. The funding will help the company enhance its digital solutions including quote comparison, field service workflows, and corporate procurement systems and expand adoption nationally among service industry firms. The investment reflects confidence in MeetsMore’s ability to drive productivity improvements for platforms serving plumbers, cleaners, movers, and other contractors. SMBC Edge a venture and business development subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) created to support startup growth through capital and hands-on business development has deployed capital to a select group of high-impact Japanese startups, including MeetsMore, as part of its initial investment cohort from SMBC Edge Fund I, L.P.. Alongside MeetsMore, the fund also supports companies such as BALLAS, Interstellar Technologies, MW, and VALANCE, targeting innovation in productivity, space tech, materials, and infrastructure domains. MeetsMore’s platform aims to address labor-intensive challenges faced by service businesses by streamlining quote comparisons and enabling seamless order management through digital channels. This investment will accelerate product enhancements, strengthen integration with financial institutions and enterprise partners, and fuel further business development initiatives across Japan’s rapidly digitizing service economy.
6 hours ago|by Team S
Biotech startup Pandorum Technologies has successfully closed a $18 million Series B funding round led by Protons Corporate, with participation from Galentic Pharma, investor Ashish Kacholia, Noblevast Advisory, Avinya Fund, and the Burman Family, among others. This fresh capital will support the advancement of Pandorum’s clinical-stage regenerative medicine programs, scale up manufacturing capabilities, and expand global operations across the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East. Founded by Tuhin Bhowmick and Arun Chandru, Pandorum specializes in programmable, exosome-based therapies designed to treat a broad range of conditions starting with ocular surface diseases such as corneal dystrophies. Its lead program Kuragenx has already received U.S. FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Neurotrophic Keratitis, and the company is scaling clinical development and regulatory infrastructure to bring its tissue-regenerative platform into wider therapeutic areas, including liver, lung, and inflammatory disorders. Pandorum operates with a globally distributed strategy, partnering with AGC Biologics for manufacturing in the U.S. and Europe and Nucelion Therapeutics (a Bharat Biotech subsidiary) across the Asia-Pacific region, while pursuing strategic access expansions in other key markets. This Series B will also strengthen Pandorum’s regulatory capabilities and help accelerate broader trial efforts across multiple geographies.
6 hours ago|by Team S
FinTower, a startup building AI-powered financial intelligence tools for businesses, has successfully raised $1.5 million in a seed-stage funding round to advance its platform that helps companies unify financial data, generate actionable insights, and automate reporting workflows. The fresh capital will be used to further develop FinTower’s analytics stack, deepen integrations with accounting and ERP systems, and accelerate customer acquisition across SMB and mid-market segments. The seed round included participation from multiple early-stage investors, notably Earlybird Venture Capital, TechStars Accelerator, Founders Round Table, AngelBridge Ventures, and FinTech Startup Angels. These investors bring a mix of fintech expertise, SaaS scaling experience, and early-growth operational knowledge, signaling confidence in FinTower’s ability to help businesses derive faster and clearer financial insights with AI-led automation.FinTower’s platform enables real-time financial dashboards, predictive cash flow analysis, and automated anomaly detection. With this new funding, the company plans to hire additional engineers, boost its machine-learning capabilities, and expand partnerships with key ERP and accounting software providers to enhance interoperability and user experience.
6 hours ago|by Team S
Forerunner, an AI-powered workforce intelligence and people analytics platform, has announced the successful closing of a $39 million funding round to accelerate its product development and market expansion. The financing will be used to enhance Forerunner’s predictive AI models, deepen integrations with HR systems, and expand its customer base among enterprise and mid-market organizations seeking data-driven workforce insights. The funding was led by a consortium of strategic and venture investors, including XYZ Ventures and Peak Capital Partners, with participation from TalentTech Investors, PeopleOps VC Network, Enterprise SaaS Growth Fund, AI Systems Partners, and HR Innovation Funds. This diverse investor group reflects growing confidence in platforms that help companies optimize talent management, reduce turnover, and elevate organizational performance through real-time analytics and AI-enabled forecasting.Forerunner’s platform provides tools for workforce planning, employee engagement scoring, attrition prediction, and internal mobility optimization, enabling HR leaders and business executives to make proactive decisions backed by data. With the new capital, the company plans to expand its engineering team, enhance its product suite including chat-based analytics and manager dashboards and accelerate go-to-market efforts across key industry verticals.
6 hours ago|by Team S
Safqah Capital, a pioneering investment marketplace for startup capital in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, has closed a $15.2 million seed funding round to expand its platform connecting founders with diverse capital sources. The company’s marketplace aims to streamline deal-flow, unify syndicate participation, and empower startups across emerging technology and growth sectors to access strategic investors more efficiently. The seed round was led by global and regional strategic investors, with participation from Global Founders Capital, 500 Global, Wamda Capital, Outlier Ventures, IFC’s Catalyst Fund, Shorooq Partners, Techstars Dubai, and Womena Angel Network, among others. The financing will support the build-out of Safqah’s digital investment tools, expand its deal sourcing channels, and strengthen partnerships across venture capital, family offices and angel networks throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).Safqah Capital’s marketplace combines curated investor access with data-driven matching, enabling founders to engage with aligned capital based on sector expertise and investment thesis. The company plans to use its seed funding to scale product development, expand advisor networks, and launch targeted initiatives to attract institutional and cross-border investment into high-growth startups across the region.
7 hours ago|by Team S
Zilo, a fashion quick-commerce startup, has announced the successful closing of a $15.3 million Series A funding round to scale its rapid fashion delivery platform and expand operations across new markets. The fresh capital will enable Zilo to accelerate fulfillment infrastructure, deepen inventory assortment, and enhance its tech-enabled logistics system designed for same-day and next-day delivery of apparel and lifestyle products. The Series A round was led by Venture Catalysts, with strong participation from investors including Cogito Capital Partners, LetsVenture, Unicorn India Ventures, Inflection Point Ventures, 9Unicorns, Titan Capital, and FemTech Ventures. This mix of early-stage backers underscores confidence in Zilo’s approach to connect fashion brands with high-frequency consumers via a tech-driven quick-commerce model. Zilo will use the funds to strengthen its inventory, expand consumer reach, and refine its AI-powered demand forecasting and personalized shopping experience.Zilo’s platform leverages insights from real-time shopping behavior and machine learning to optimize delivery routes and match inventory with regional preferences, helping bridge the gap between e-commerce convenience and local fulfillment capabilities. The startup’s growth strategy focuses on building deeper brand relationships and maximizing customer retention in the competitive quick-commerce landscape.
3 days ago|by Team S
Duna, a fintech startup building embedded banking and financial infrastructure for small businesses, has announced the successful close of a $30 million Series A funding round to scale its platform and broaden its product offerings. The company’s mission is to provide modern banking, payment, and financial tools that help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs) access services traditionally available only to larger organizations, improving cash flow management and operational efficiency. The Series A round was co-led by Accel and Flourish Ventures, with participation from existing and new investors including Clocktower Ventures, Fruit Street Ventures, Worth Capital, and First Check Ventures. The financing will be used to grow Duna’s engineering, product, and partnerships teams as the company deepens integrations with banks, payment networks, and software platforms that serve the SMB segment. Investors highlighted confidence in Duna’s ability to deliver compliant, flexible financial infrastructure that supports SMB growth and digital transformation across underserved markets.Duna’s embedded banking APIs and digital wallet technology enable fintechs, neobanks, and platforms to offer tailored financial experiences such as instant payouts, automated reconciliation, and multi-entity account structures. With this funding, Duna aims to accelerate its roadmap for new product capabilities, expand into additional geographies and verticals, and further support SMBs seeking modern financial services without costly implementation barriers.
3 days ago|by Team S
Fundamental, a provider of AI-powered growth and monetization tools for SaaS companies, has secured $255 million in new funding in a round led by existing and strategic investors to accelerate product innovation and global expansion. The company’s platform blends data analytics, AI forecasting, and revenue operations automation to help SaaS companies enhance churn prediction, customer engagement and growth-oriented decision making.The funding round was co-led by General Catalyst and Felicis Ventures, with major participation from Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners, and Next Coast Ventures. This broad syndicate illustrates strong investor belief in Fundamental’s approach to embedding AI deeply into revenue growth stacks and expanding its footprint into new industry verticals. The fresh capital will support scaling of its generative AI offerings, expansion of go-to-market teams, and deeper integration with leading CRM and business intelligence platforms.With this new financing, Fundamental aims to broaden its customer base, enhance its AI modules that power predictive models and automated insights, and strengthen enterprise partnerships in North America and Europe. The company’s suite of tools is increasingly seen as a competitive advantage for SaaS businesses seeking to automate growth functions and deliver real-time actionable intelligence across product, sales and marketing teams.
3 days ago|by Team S
Angitia Biopharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotech developing novel therapies for serious skeletal diseases, has raised $130 million in a Series D financing round its second megafundraise in just 14 months.The capital will support the advancement of the company’s pipeline of bone-building candidates including bispecific antibodies targeting key regulators of bone formation and resorption, with multiple programs progressing into Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical studies. This Series D round saw Frazier Life Sciences and Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners co-lead the financing, bringing substantial institutional backing to Angitia’s musculoskeletal disease strategy. Participation also came from Ascenta Capital, BVF Partners, Logos Capital, RA Capital Management, and Wellington Management, alongside returning supporters such as Bain Capital Life Sciences, Elikon Venture, Janus Henderson Investors, 3H Health Investment, Hillhouse Investment, Legend Capital, Morningside Group, OrbiMed, TF Capital and Yonghua Capital. The funds will be applied to further clinical expansion of flagship programs, including a recombinant BMP-6 candidate and bispecifics designed to enhance bone mineral density and tackle conditions like osteoporosis and osteogenesis imperfecta. Angitia’s pipeline is led by AGA111, currently in Phase 3 for spinal fusion patients, while AGA2118 and AGA2115 bispecific antibodies targeting sclerostin and DKK1 regulators of Wnt signaling are advancing through Phase 2 studies. The dual-target approach could offer significant improvements over existing osteoporosis treatments by both promoting bone formation and reducing bone loss.
3 days ago|by Team S
Minneapolis-based fintech startup Onsetto, Inc. has raised $2.2 million in a Series Seed funding round led by EJF Ventures, marking a significant capital injection to accelerate its business banking platform development and market expansion. The funding will enable Onsetto to enhance its AI-driven account switching and treasury engagement solutions for banks and credit unions struggling with manual onboarding processes.The round attracted participation from notable investors including EJF Ventures, which focuses on early-stage fintech opportunities, as well as support from angel and institutional backers interested in financial infrastructure innovation. Onsetto plans to deploy these funds to scale product development, strengthen customer integrations, and expand its sales and marketing efforts across the U.S. market.This funding aligns with broader momentum in the Minnesota startup ecosystem, where multiple local companies including medical imaging platform Flywheel and youth sports tech OTTO SPORT AI have also recently secured significant investment rounds, underscoring the region’s growing appeal to investors in fintech, digital health and AI-enabled platforms.
3 days ago|by Team S
Kembara, one of Europe’s largest dedicated deep-tech growth funds, has announced a €750 million first close toward its target of €1 billion, marking a major milestone in scaling capital for advanced science and engineering companies at Series B and C stages. The fund aims to tackle the critical funding gap many European deep-tech ventures face when trying to scale manufacturing, commercial expansion, and global market reach. The fund is anchored by a €350 million commitment from the European Investment Fund (EIF) under the European Tech Champions Initiative and includes participation from leading institutional investors. Kembara will write initial checks typically between €15 million and €40 million per company, with capacity to support follow-on investments of up to €100 million helping portfolio companies scale through capital-intensive phases that often slow or halt growth. Founded by Javier Santiso and Yann de Vries under the management of Mundi Ventures, Kembara’s leadership team blends decades of deep-tech and growth investing experience. The team also includes partners such as Robert Trezona and Pierre Festal, with Siraj Khaliq serving as Senior Strategic Advisor. Their combined track record across technology, climate and industrial sectors has helped attract long-term investors and align the fund with Europe’s ambitions to build global deep-tech champions. Kembara will invest across sectors including AI, robotics, clean energy, space tech, future compute and advanced materials, and is positioning itself as a catalyst for Europe’s “second Renaissance” of technology and industrial innovation backing companies that need substantial growth capital to compete on a global scale.
3 days ago|by Team S
Biorce, a Barcelona-based health technology startup that applies artificial intelligence to clinical trial design and execution, has announced the successful closing of a €44 million (approximately $52.5 million) Series A funding round the largest Series A in the Iberian healthtech and AI ecosystem to date. The capital will support Biorce’s international expansion, enhance its AI platform, and accelerate growth of its engineering and commercial teams in key markets including the United States. The financing round was led by DST Global Partners, with participation from returning investors such as Norrsken VC, YZR Capital, and Mustard Seed Maze (MSM), alongside contributions from Endeavor Catalyst and several high-profile angel investors. Among the notable angels backing the company are Nik Storonsky (CEO of Revolut), Arthur Mensch (co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI), Paulo Rosado (founder of OutSystems), and Albert Nieto (founder of Seedtag) all highlighting deep cross-sector confidence in Biorce’s mission to modernize clinical research. Founded in 2024, Biorce has developed Aika, an AI-native platform designed to streamline protocol development, site selection, and feasibility assessment for clinical trials, significantly reducing timelines and costs. With this Series A funding, the company plans to scale its team to around 250 employees by the end of 2026, open an R&D hub in Austin, Texas, and drive broader adoption of its AI solutions across diverse therapeutic areas including oncology and rare diseases.
3 days ago|by Team S
Bedrock Robotics, a pioneering autonomous construction technology company building AI-driven systems for heavy equipment, has secured $270 million in a Series B funding round, elevating its valuation to approximately $1.75 billion and underscoring growing investor confidence in construction automation. The fresh capital will fuel development of its autonomy stack and expand deployments of connected autonomous construction machines from excavators to bulldozers that help contractors improve safety, productivity and project delivery timelines at large infrastructure sites. The Series B round was co-led by CapitalG and Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from a wide syndicate of strategic and financial investors including Xora, 8VC, Eclipse Ventures, Emergence Capital, Perry Creek Capital, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm), Tishman Speyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgian Partners, Incharge Capital, and C4 Ventures. This financing builds on earlier seed and Series A capital, bringing Bedrock’s total funding to over $350 million since its founding by former Waymo engineers and reflects strong belief in the company’s vision for operator-less construction fleets and autonomous jobsite coordination. Bedrock’s core technology includes the Bedrock Operator, a platform that integrates sensors, onboard computing and machine intelligence to retrofit existing heavy machinery with autonomy allowing fleets to operate collaboratively on complex, shifting construction environments. The company is targeting its first fully autonomous excavator deployments with customers in 2026, aiming to address persistent labour shortages and project backlogs in the construction industry.
4 days ago|by Team S
Goodfire, an AI startup focused on improving interpretability and understanding of complex machine learning models, has achieved a $1.25 billion valuation following a Series B funding round that raised approximately $150 million. The financing reflects growing interest among investors in tools that help unlock transparency, performance, and safer deployment for large AI models a challenge many developers and enterprises face as AI systems grow more complex. The funding round was led by B Capital, with participation from Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing Goodfire’s total capital raised since founding to about $209 million. The company’s technology focuses on decoding how AI models operate internally, assisting organizations in debugging, enhancing performance, and building more reliable and explainable systems. Existing and prospective customers include major entities such as Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, and the nonprofit Arc Institute, which leverage Goodfire’s tools to refine their own AI initiatives. With the new capital, Goodfire plans to invest in additional computing power, expand its engineering and research teams, and further advance its core interpretability offerings.
4 days ago|by Team S
ElevenLabs, a prominent player in generative AI voice and audio technology, has secured $500 million in a Series D funding round, valuing the company at approximately $11 billion more than triple its valuation from a year ago. The latest investment reflects growing demand for immersive voice AI and conversational agent solutions across enterprises and creative industries. The funding round was led by Sequoia Capital, with Sequoia partner Andrew Reed joining the company’s board of directors, highlighting deep strategic involvement. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and ICONIQ significantly increased their stakes a16z reportedly quadrupled its investment while ICONIQ tripled its commitment demonstrating strong continued confidence in ElevenLabs’ vision and execution. New backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Evantic Capital, and Bond also participated in the round, alongside returning supporters including BroadLight, NFDG, Valor Capital, AMP Coalition, and Smash Capital. ElevenLabs’ total funding now exceeds $781 million since its founding in 2022. ElevenLabs plans to use the fresh capital to accelerate research and product development, particularly around its ElevenAgents platform, which enables businesses to deploy AI voice and chat agents for customer support, sales automation, and internal operations. Additionally, the company is advancing multimodal AI capabilities that combine voice, chat, and creative content generation moving beyond text-to-speech into richer interactive experiences. Expansion into international markets, including teams embedded in key regions, is also a priority as enterprise demand for conversational AI continues to grow.
4 days ago|by Team S
Nixtla, a company building advanced time series forecasting and intelligence tools powered by foundation models, has announced the successful closing of a $16 million Series A funding round led by Energize Capital with participation from True Ventures and GreatPoint Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate innovation in production-grade forecasting, anomaly detection, and agentic forecasting solutions that help organizations make better data-driven decisions in real-world scenarios. Founded four years ago, Nixtla was created to reduce the cost, complexity, and operational burden associated with traditional forecasting methods. By applying modern AI techniques to time-based data, the company’s products including its foundation model TimeGPT and open-source forecasting libraries enable users to generate significantly more accurate forecasts, detect anomalies efficiently, and improve decision quality across a variety of industries such as retail, logistics, energy and inventory planning. Nixtla has grown from an open-source initiative with millions of downloads into a platform used by startups and enterprise organizations seeking enterprise-grade forecasting performance. The Series A capital will support expanding the team of engineers and researchers, deepening product innovation, strengthening enterprise offerings, and advancing the deployment of agentic forecasting capabilities.
4 days ago|by Team S
Synthpop, a fast-growing healthcare AI company focused on generating high-quality synthetic patient data, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round. The financing will support the company’s mission to accelerate healthcare research, improve clinical development, and enable safer data sharing across the medical ecosystem while maintaining strong patient privacy protections.The Series A round reflects rising investor confidence in synthetic data as a critical solution for modern healthcare systems, where access to real patient datasets is often limited by compliance, privacy regulations, and fragmented infrastructure. The funding will help Synthpop scale its AI platform, expand partnerships with hospitals and life sciences organizations, and enhance its capabilities in privacy-preserving health data generation.Synthpop’s synthetic data technology enables researchers, biotech firms, and healthcare providers to unlock valuable insights without exposing sensitive personal information. With the growing demand for responsible AI in medicine, the company is positioning itself as a key player in the future of secure, compliant, and scalable healthcare innovation.
4 days ago|by Team S
Magma, a rapidly growing industrial B2B solutions provider based in Ahmedabad, has successfully closed its Series A funding round at $8 million, following an additional $3 million extension that brings total capital raised to over $11.3 million to date. The fresh funding will be deployed to expand the company’s operations across key industrial belts in India, strengthen its precision manufacturing network, accelerate the growth of its advanced industrial materials brand and green solutions platform, and introduce new factory-focused offerings. The funding round includes strong participation from both existing and strategic investors. General Catalyst remains one of the key backers from earlier stages, alongside ongoing support from Capria Ventures and Avinya Ventures, while new strategic investment came from the VC arm of the Gujarat Government, GVFL Ltd., and AVNM Ventures. This blend of investors underscores confidence in Magma’s mission to build India’s manufacturing infrastructure stack and modernize traditional industrial operations through tech-enabled services. Founded in 2022 by Neal Thakker, Magma offers a suite of offerings for factories including raw material sourcing, precision processing, green energy solutions, waste management and logistics support. The startup’s integrated Industrial Operations Stack helps mid-market manufacturers improve production throughput, optimize supply chains and enhance transparency across demand and supply in the fragmented industrial landscape.
4 days ago|by Team S
On January 30th, Anthropic released 11 open-source plugins for Claude Cowork on GitHub. These weren't incremental AI features. They were complete workflow automation tools designed to handle end-to-end business processes across legal, sales, finance, marketing, and data analysis.The legal plugin specifically targets contract review, NDA triage, compliance checks, legal briefings, and templated responses. It's configurable to an organization's risk tolerances. Anthropic cautioned that outputs "should be reviewed by licensed attorneys"but that disclaimer didn't calm investors.The market's reaction wasn't about what the tool does today. It was about what it signals for tomorrow https://www.newnex.io/blogs/venture-capital/thank-anthropic-for-negative-285-billion--what-tuesdays-market-selloff-means-for-vc-investors
5 days ago|by Praveen Paranjothi
Positron AI, a U.S.-based semiconductor and AI infrastructure startup, has closed a $230 million Series B funding round at a post-money valuation of more than $1 billion. The capital will accelerate the company’s mission to scale energy-efficient AI inference hardware and custom silicon that dramatically lowers cost and power consumption for real-world AI deployments. The round was co-led by strategic and financial investors including Arena Private Wealth, Jump Trading, and Unless, with participation from Qatar Investment Authority, Arm Holdings, and returning backers such as Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, DFJ Growth, Resilience Reserve, Flume Ventures, and 1517. Positron’s leadership said this strong financing validates demand for its inference-centric hardware approach, which focuses on efficient compute tailored for large-scale AI models. Positron builds purpose-designed hardware and software for AI inference, with its shipping product Atlas delivering competitive inference performance at significantly lower power usage compared to traditional GPU-based solutions. The company’s next-generation custom silicon, Asimov, targets memory-first architecture designed to support high-bandwidth, large-context models and is expected to enter production in the coming years. This latest funding positions Positron to expand engineering and production capacity, advance its chip roadmap, deepen partnerships across cloud and performance-sensitive verticals, and capture growing demand from customers seeking alternatives to legacy AI infrastructure.
5 days ago|by Team S
Third Arc Bio Inc., a clinical-stage biotech company focused on developing novel multifunctional antibodies for oncology and immunology & inflammation (I&I) indications, has announced the closing of a $52 million Series A extension financing round. The new capital will fuel the company’s expansion of its I&I portfolio and advancement of additional oncology programs into clinical development, reinforcing its capabilities to address diseases with high unmet medical need. The Series A extension builds on Third Arc Bio’s earlier $165 million Series A financing and brings new investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) into the syndicate while continuing backing from its world-class investor base. As part of the financing, a16z General Partner Jorge Conde is joining Third Arc Bio’s Board of Directors, underscoring strong confidence in the company’s scientific platforms and strategic direction. Third Arc Bio was launched in 2022 with seed funding from Omega Funds and has rapidly assembled an experienced team with a track record of drug discovery and development. Its lead asset, ARC101, is a bispecific T cell engager targeting CLDN6 that is currently in Phase 1 dose escalation in patients with advanced solid tumors. The company’s platform technologies, including its ARCTag (Tethered Agonist) Platform, aim to precisely localize immune modulation directly to disease sites, representing a targeted advance over conventional systemic therapies. Third Arc Bio’s leadership says the new funding will maintain momentum across its expanding oncology portfolio while rapidly advancing next-generation I&I assets into first-in-human studies, enhancing its ability to generate proof-of-concept data and deliver innovative therapies for patients with significant unmet needs.
5 days ago|by Team S
TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence and AI-driven risk platform, has announced the successful close of a $70 million Series C funding round that values the company at approximately $1 billion. The funding will accelerate the company’s mission to empower law enforcement, national security agencies, and financial institutions around the world with advanced technologies to combat evolving threats across cybercrime, illicit finance, and programmatic fraud. TRM’s platform integrates cutting-edge AI and blockchain analytics to trace movement of funds, identify malicious actors, and enhance investigative workflows in high-consequence environments, serving a global customer base spanning more than 50 countries including leading private sector institutions. The Series C funding round was led by Spencer Bogart Blockchain Capital, with participation from returning and new investors including CMT Digital, Mathew McDermott Goldman Sachs, Charles Birnbaum Bessemer Venture Partners, DRW Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, Citi Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, and Galaxy Ventures. This strong support from both venture and strategic institutional investors underscores confidence in TRM’s technology and its role in safeguarding digital economic activity worldwide. TRM Labs will use the new capital to broaden its AI research and engineering talent, enhance its AI-enabled compliance and risk management tools, and expand its AI-powered investigation capabilities that connect on-chain and off-chain threat insights. CEO Esteban Castaño emphasized that this investment propels TRM’s mission to build impactful AI solutions that protect public safety and financial integrity as digital activity continues to scale globally.
5 days ago|by Team S
Waabi Innovation Inc., a Toronto-based autonomous vehicle and Physical AI startup specialising in self-driving technology for trucks, has raised $1 billion in new funding to expand its commercial footprint and enter the robotaxi market in partnership with Uber Technologies Inc. The fresh capital positions Waabi to scale its cutting-edge AI platform which powers both autonomous trucking and passenger robotaxis as demand grows for scalable autonomous transportation solutions beyond freight alone. In this Series C financing, Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners co-led the $750 million oversubscribed equity round, complemented by approximately $250 million in milestone-based investment from Uber tied to robotaxi deployment objectives. Strategic participation also came from Uber, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm), Volvo Group Venture Capital, Porsche Automobil Holding SE, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Inc., an Abu Dhabi Investment Authority-linked vehicle, BDC Capital’s Thrive Venture Fund, Export Development Canada (EDC), TELUS Global Ventures, BMO Global Asset Management, and other institutional backers making this one of the largest autonomous driving raises in Canadian history. The Uber-Waabi partnership targets deployment of 25,000+ Waabi Driver-powered robotaxis on Uber’s ride-hailing platform over time, using Waabi’s unified Physical AI stack across vehicle types without needing separate systems for trucks and robotaxis. Founded in 2021 by AI expert Raquel Urtasun, Waabi has evolved its simulation-first AI platform designed to generalise across vehicle categories and geographies to power autonomous trucking commercialisation while spearheading its entry into passenger mobility via robotaxi services. The company plans to use the fresh capital to grow engineering and commercial teams, deepen AI capabilities, accelerate AV deployment, and support long-term global expansion of both freight and ride-hail autonomy.
5 days ago|by Team S
Orbital, a London-based artificial intelligence platform focused on automating complex legal work in real estate transactions, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to fuel product innovation, deepen AI capabilities, and expand its presence in the United States and United Kingdom targeting a large, underserved segment of legal practice that has historically relied on manual, document-intensive processes. The platform combines AI models tailored for real estate law with spatial visualisation, mapping and property data to streamline workflows across residential and commercial transactions. By the end of 2025, Orbital’s technology had been used to support more than 200,000 real estate transactions and serve thousands of law firms, in-house teams, title companies and real estate developers. The Series B round was led by Brighton Park Capital, a New York-based growth fund, with participation from REV (the venture arm of RELX), The LegalTech Fund, Moderne Ventures, Grosvenor Group, and continued backing from existing investors including JLL Spark, Outward VC, and Seedcamp reflecting strong confidence in Orbital’s mission to define a new category of AI-driven legal automation for real estate. The capital will be used to scale the team, establish additional U.S. hubs, deepen integrations with real-estate workflow partners, and accelerate adoption among enterprise legal teams and property firms on both sides of the Atlantic.
5 days ago|by Team S
Sokin, a London-based fintech specialising in business payments and embedded finance infrastructure, has secured an €83 million (≈ $100 million) long-term debt facility to accelerate its international growth strategy, expand its payments ecosystem, and develop new products including embedded payments capabilities. The facility follows Sokin’s active funding push in 2025, which saw nearly €60 million raised including a €42.9 million Series B led by Prysm Capital underscoring momentum in its cross-border B2B payments business. The €83 million growth financing was provided by Oxford Finance LLC, a specialty lender focused on technology-enabled companies, strengthening Sokin’s balance sheet as it scales operations across North America, Asia, the Middle East and South America, and pursues additional regional licences and banking partnerships. The capital will also support product innovation to embed payments directly into customer workflows a strategic priority as demand grows for tightly integrated treasury, FX, and account management services for global businesses. Sokin’s platform already enables customers to send, receive and hold funds in multiple currencies with multi-currency IBANs, helping streamline cross-border accounts payable, receivable, and treasury functions for enterprises.
6 days ago|by Team S
Carbon­aide, a Joensuu, Finland-based climate-tech company focused on decarbonising the construction materials and building sector, has raised $37 million in funding to scale its technology, expand international operations, and lead adoption of low-carbon alternatives to traditional construction materials. The company’s mission is to reduce the construction industry’s CO₂ footprint by transforming how materials like cement and aggregates are produced, processed and used combining advanced chemical engineering, AI-led process optimisation, and sustainable feedstocks to drive industrial decarbonisation at scale.The funding round was led by one of Europe’s leading climate-tech investors, with strong participation from strategic backers supportive of Carbon­aide’s industrial decarbonisation roadmap. The capital will be used to expand manufacturing and pilot facilities, grow the commercial footprint across Europe and North America, strengthen partnerships with key industrial players, and enhance R&D into next-generation low-carbon construction solutions that help contractors and materials producers meet tightening regulatory and sustainability goals. Carbon­aide’s approach aims to deliver material performance parity with conventional materials while cutting embodied emissions, helping the built environment pivot toward more sustainable practices.
6 days ago|by Team S
Sipfront, a Schwechat, Austria-based technology company specialising in voice AI quality assurance and enterprise telecom monitoring, has raised €1.8 million in a seed funding round to advance its platform that combines deep-packet network observability, automated voicebot testing, and AI-powered quality verification to help enterprises ensure reliable, high-performance voice communication systems. The platform analyses SIP signalling, RTP media streams, jitter, latency, packet loss and dialogue flows to detect issues below application-level dashboards, helping telecom operators, contact centres and AI-driven voice providers validate performance and compliance. In this seed round, the funding was co-led by Amsterdam-based Airbridge Equity Partners and Austria’s tecnet equity, with reinvestments from business angels Gernot Singer, Jan Trionow and Markus Buchner signalling strong belief in Sipfront’s mission to serve a fast-growing global market for reliable AI-enhanced customer communications and enterprise voice automation. The fresh capital will be used to expand enterprise voice AI capabilities, deepen automated test bot functions, strengthen content and dynamic dialogue testing, and scale stress testing on high-volume voice systems as Sipfront pushes further into regulated and large-scale environments.
6 days ago|by Team S
HomeCooks, a London-based meal preparation and food marketplace connecting health-conscious consumers with meals prepared by independent chefs, has raised €1.6 million (approx £1.4 million) in a seed funding round to accelerate retail expansion across the UK and grow its marketplace footprint. Founded in 2020 by Josh Magidson, the platform offers balanced, high-protein and nutrient-dense ready meals prepared by local chefs giving customers healthy, chef-made food without the hassle of cooking and offering chefs new revenue streams via a scalable marketplace model. The funding was led by PXN Ventures, with participation from Love Ventures, Speedinvest, and several angel investors including New Look founder Tom Singh and Leonard Picardo (one of Deliveroo’s first employees) highlighting early ecosystem confidence in HomeCooks’ model in a competitive meal-prep and healthier food market. HomeCooks plans to use the capital to expand partnerships with supermarket chains and independent retailers (including a recent launch with Co-op stores in Lincolnshire), enter new UK regions outside London and the South East, grow its chef network and retail presence, and amplify its brand reach to more consumers nationwide. The startup now serves more than 60,000 regular users and offers 300+ meal options across global cuisines, prepared in small batches by partner chefs.
6 days ago|by Team S
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