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Garner Health develops a healthcare data analytics platform that improves healthcare quality and affordability, enabling healthcare providers to access care with reduced financial burden.

New Funding Raised: $100M, Series E

Round Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its provider quality platform, accelerate AI-powered product innovation, and grow its member base.

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 487

Utilidata provides an AI-integrated edge computing platform for real-time data processing and decision-making, allowing utilities and infrastructure operators to train models at the device level, reduce dependency on cloud computing, accelerate analysis at the source, and improve responsiveness and operational efficiency in distributed environments.

New Funding Raised: $40M, Series C

Round Investors: Renown Capital Partners (lead), Keyframe Capital Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Strengthen its position to scale commercialization with hyperscalers and the data center market.

HQ: Ann Arbor, MI

Industry: Energy Technology

Employee Count: 93

Corgi Insurance develops an AI-powered insurance platform that automates and optimizes carrier operations, enabling insurers and policyholders to access fast, data-driven coverage with improved efficiency and reduced operational costs.

New Funding Raised: $106M, Series B1

Round Investors: TCV (lead), GSBackers, Oliver Jung, 8188 Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its full-stack insurance platform and support its move into additional segments of the commercial insurance market.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Financial Services

Employee Count: 181

Airis Labs operates an AI-driven video intelligence and defense technology platform that transforms unorganized visual data into real-time operational insights, allowing military intelligence, law enforcement, and public safety agencies to identify threats, trace movements, and reconstruct complex events through a unified intelligence layer.

New Funding Raised: $31M, Series B

Round Investors: PSG Equity (lead), StepStone Group, TLV Partners, Yasmin Lukatz

🚀Growth Focus: Support to fund US expansion, product development, and headcount growth.

HQ: Washington, DC

Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics

Employee Count: 52

Observable Space develops a line of software-defined telescopes that improve space observation capabilities, enabling users to conduct space research and exploration.

New Funding Raised: $90M, Series A

Round Investors: Lux Capital (lead), Island Green Capital, Detroit Venture Partners, Venrex

🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of laser communications systems and in-space optical systems, as well as expand international partnerships.

HQ: Los Angeles, CA

Industry: Space Research and Technology

Employee Count: 50

Picogrid develops a field intelligence technology platform that provides continuous and real-time information in remote locations, allowing enterprises and government organizations to digitize and monitor the remote world.

New Funding Raised: $45M, Series A

Round Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), Starburst Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Giant Step Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its product family, extend its integration capabilities into new operational domains, and scale deployments with the US military, allied forces, and the partner vendors building on the platform.

HQ: El Segundo, CA

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Employee Count: 61

Gray Swan operates a cybersecurity and safety platform that evaluates the risks of AI models, enabling developers and research institutions to prevent misuse, maintain model integrity, and ensure responsible deployment.

New Funding Raised: $40M, Series A

Round Investors: Madrona (lead), Wing Venture Capital (lead), Snowflake Ventures, Hudson River Trading

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its go-to-market operations, deepen collaboration with frontier AI labs, and scale its internal team to help enterprises deploy secure AI infrastructure.

HQ: Pittsburgh, PA

Industry: Computer and Network Security

Employee Count: 69

Canals builds enterprise automation technology for streamlining operational workflows in distribution-focused businesses, allowing distributors across sectors to reduce manual workload, improve processing speed, preserve institutional knowledge, and integrate with existing ERP systems.

New Funding Raised: $35M, Series A

Round Investors: Base10 Partners (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development to eliminate friction from the thousands of daily interactions between distributors and their customers and suppliers, unlocking a new era of growth for the $8.2T wholesale distribution industry.

HQ: Coral Gables, FL

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 98

Saris AI’s AI-based negotiation and workflow management platform reshapes the landscape of negotiation and complex customer interactions, enabling users to handle challenging tasks and reduce costs.

New Funding Raised: $28.8M, Series A

Round Investors: 8VC (lead), Audacious Ventures, Homebrew, Btech Consortium

🚀Growth Focus: Scale its platform across more financial institutions, deepen integrations with partners like Fiserv, Encompass, and MeridianLink, and grow the team that trains and deploys its agents.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 41

LightTable develops AI-powered peer review systems for construction and real estate development workflows, allowing developers, architects, and contractors to identify design flaws early, reduce coordination errors, and shorten project timelines through review tools.

New Funding Raised: $22M, Series A

Round Investors: Innovation Endeavors (lead), DivcoWest, MetaProp, Primary Venture Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Continue scaling its QA/QC product, grow the team across all roles, and begin rapidly introducing new tools for customers across the U.S. and internationally.

HQ: Denver, CO

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 27

Drafted operates a home designing platform that simplifies the creation of personalized floor plans and architectural drafts using AI, enabling prospective homeowners, home buyers, and self-builders to visualize custom homes, accelerate planning, and prepare builder-ready documentation without technical expertise.

New Funding Raised: $16M, Seed

Round Investors: Buckley Ventures (lead), Ryan Tedder, Y Combinator, Ben Silbermann

🚀Growth Focus: Develop an AI-powered platform that simplifies home design, turning the traditional complex process into a faster, more flexible digital experience.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 12

Trajectory develops a continual learning platform that helps product teams improve AI models using real usage data, allowing engineering and product teams to build AI systems that continuously learn and improve from actual user behavior.

New Funding Raised: $15M, Seed

Round Investors: Conviction (lead), Radical Ventures, BoxGroup, Fei-Fei Li

🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 10

SOND’s sleep wellness platform helps people get better sleep, enabling people with insomnia, irregular sleep schedules, and poor sleeping habits to gain access to the content that helps them fall asleep faster to improve the quality of their sleep.

New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed

Round Investors: E14 Fund (lead), Crosslink Capital, Ubiquity Ventures, Meach Cove Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Launch Dreambuds, its AI sleep coach earbuds.

HQ: Boston, MA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 8

Byron develops an AI-powered tax preparation platform for CPA firms, allowing accounting professionals to reduce manual work and improve efficiency.

New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Square Peg Ventures (lead), Correlation Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Develop its launched AI agent platform for business tax preparation for CPA firms, designed to automate manual tasks throughout the tax workflow.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Accounting

Employee Count: 7

Kubera Health develops a monitoring platform that transforms managed care and revenue cycle for healthcare organizations via contract and payments intelligence, enabling users to understand and improve their financial performance.

New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Upfront Ventures (lead), Company Ventures, Dria Ventures, SemperVirens Venture Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Support continued investment in its product, engineering, and go-to-market teams as it expands its capabilities across value-based care and other novel contract structures, builds out a dedicated payment recovery layer, and grows adoption across health systems, provider organizations, and payor networks.

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

Employee Count: 11

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