💰The Funding Letter #1744: August 27

Attio, Assort Health, Blue Water Autonomy, and more...

August 27, 2025

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🌎 Americas

Assort Health has developed a conversational AI platform to augment and automate call center operations for healthcare for transforming patient care, enabling the healthcare sector to reduce hold time, decrease dropped calls, and reduce costs while driving appointment revenue. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.

New Funding Raised: $50M, Series B

Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Enhance AI-driven patient communication solutions.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 59 (⚡211% increase in last 6 months)

🔥Open Sales Gigs: Currently Hiring

Blue Water Autonomy is a manufacturer of autonomous ships to enhance national defense and improve maritime operations, allowing naval forces and defense partners to increase efficiency and adaptability. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.

New Funding Raised: $50M, Series A

Round Investors: GV (lead), Eclipse Ventures, Riot Ventures, Impatient Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Build and deploy its first long-range, full-sized autonomous ship next year.

HQ: Boston, MA

Industry: Shipbuilding

Employee Count: 23 (⚡109% increase in last 6 months)

OpenLight develops photonic application-specific integrated circuits that enable companies to reduce manufacturing and assembly costs by eliminating less reliable manufacturing processes, like aligning external lasers with waveguides. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.

New Funding Raised: $34M, Series A

Round Investors: Capricorn Investment Group (lead), Xora Innovation (lead), New Legacy Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

🚀Growth Focus: Support to supercharge silicon photonics for AI data centers.

HQ: Santa Clara, CA

Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Employee Count: 40

🔥Open Sales Gigs: Currently Hiring

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