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Seed Rounds Are Getting Bigger Again, and Nobody Can Agree Why
Median seed size crossed $5.6 million last quarter, the highest figure the market has recorded.
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ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
Aina Raises $5.5 Million for AI-Native Interface Hardware
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
Oak Launches With $60 Million for an AI-Native Identity Operating System
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
The startup is adding automation to a data layer that connects the accounting, project and payment systems used by contractors.
Queue Raises $12.6 Million to Expand Autonomous Pharmacy Kiosks
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Proception Raises $11 Million for Dexterous Robot Hands
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
Aseon Labs Raises $10 Million for Automated Robotaxi Service Stops
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Seltz Raises $12.5 Million to Rebuild Web Search for AI Agents
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
Mirendil Raises $200 Million to Build Self-Improving AI for Scientists
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Ent Emerges With $100 Million to Prevent Risky Actions Before They Happen
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
Probably Raises $9 Million to Make AI Outputs More Verifiable
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
Magnitude Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Mercury Raises $200 Million at a $5.2 Billion Valuation
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Mind Robotics Adds $400 Million to Scale AI-Powered Factory Robots
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
Judgment Labs Raises $32 Million to Improve AI Agents With Production Data
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
Roadrunner Raises $27 Million to Rebuild Quote-to-Cash Software
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
Crewline AI Raises $7.1 Million to Automate Construction Equipment
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
NeoCognition Launches With $40 Million for Agents That Learn on the Job
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
Ulysses Raises $38 Million to Scale Autonomous Ocean Fleets
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
HYFIX Raises $15 Million for a U.S.-Made Control Chip for Autonomous Machines
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
Modern Relay Raises $3 Million for a Shared Context Layer for AI Agents
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
Nexus Raises $4.3 Million to Put Governed AI Agents in Business Teams
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
EPIC Microsystems Raises $21 Million to Tackle AI Data Center Power Loss
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million to Build Infrastructure for MCP Developers
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
AgentMail Raises $6 Million to Give AI Agents Their Own Inboxes
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
Kai Emerges With $125 Million for Security Across IT and Industrial Systems
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
S2.dev Raises $3.85 Million for Serverless Streaming Data Infrastructure
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
