Funding signal — Charlcye Mitchell

Funding signal, week of October 22, 2026

2026-10-22T12:00:00Z

Evos: Pre-Seed, $9M. Evos builds software operators that learn a job from experienced employees and then do routine operational work inside the systems logistics and other physical-industry businesses already use.
Matters: Pre-seed, $5M. Matters is a Stockholm startup building an AI-driven digital consumer bank with a flat monthly fee and an AI adviser.
PataBid: Pre-Seed, $2M. PataBid builds Quantify, an AI-powered construction estimating platform that automates takeoffs, costing and proposals for specialty contractors.
CapQuest: Pre-Seed, $1M. CapQuest builds cap table and equity management software covering ownership records, employee share plans, investor relations and dilution modeling.
ArtMaster: Seed, $2.4M. ArtMaster builds Artie, an AI piano learning app that listens as users play and gives real-time feedback through song-based lessons.
Flapping Airplanes: Series A, $1B. Flapping Airplanes is an AI lab working on training models with less data and compute, plus its own software layer for Nvidia GPUs; it has no product yet.
Mach9: Series A, $34M. Mach9 builds AI-powered CAD software for civil engineering that turns raw scans from vehicles, drones and scanners into draft infrastructure features for review.
Optivolt: Series A, $32M. Optivolt builds panel-integrated power electronics, the Power Balancer, that sit inside solar panels and redistribute energy among cell groups to reduce shade and degradation losses.
Qualitate: Series A, $25M. Qualitate builds an AI-native primary research platform that runs AI-moderated expert interviews and turns them into a searchable, continuously updated research library.
CapitalOS: Series A, $21.9M. CapitalOS builds embedded financial infrastructure that lets B2B software platforms offer their customers cards, bill pay, wallets and cash management without building the financial operations themselves.
AuxoAI: Series A, $20.7M. AuxoAI builds production AI systems for large enterprises through forward-deployed engineering teams and a proprietary workbench called Damia.
Firefly: Series A, $20M. Firefly builds a physical safety platform that pairs its Ember software with panic buttons, beacons and gateways to detect incidents and coordinate emergency response.
Firstwork: Series A, $15M. Firstwork builds AI agents that automate frontline workforce operations such as document verification, compliance checks and onboarding inside employers' existing HR and payroll systems.
ScribeUp: Series A, $13M. ScribeUp builds an AI-powered recurring bill management platform that banks and credit unions embed in their digital banking apps.
BloomX: Series A, $13M. BloomX builds biomimetic pollination systems combining robotics and AI, sold as pollination as a service for blueberry and avocado growers.
Azoma: Series A, $11.2M. Azoma sells software that helps brands optimize product data and content so AI shopping assistants find and recommend their products.
Chariot Claims: Series A, $10M. Chariot Claims builds an AI-driven legal technology platform that identifies potential consumer claims and matches consumers to mass arbitration cases handled with partner law firms.
DrizzleX: Series A-2, $6.8M. DrizzleX builds patented fixture-level water micrometers and software that detect leaks and overuse in multifamily and commercial buildings.
Salience Labs: Series B, $125M. Salience Labs builds silicon photonics all-optical switches that connect GPUs in AI data centers.
Town: Series B, $108M. Town makes AI work assistants called Townies, one per person, that connect to email, calendar and apps and can now hand off work across a team.
Peak Energy: Series B, $108M. Peak Energy designs and deploys sodium-ion battery storage systems for the power grid, aimed at data centers, utilities and independent power producers.
North.cloud: Series B, $60M. North.cloud builds a cloud financial operations platform that gives companies one view of cloud, AI and data spend and automates cost reduction.
Daytona: Series B, $60M. Daytona builds cloud sandboxes, isolated virtual machines where AI agents can write and run code, which it calls the agentic cloud.
Albert: Series B, $55M. Albert builds an AI operating system for chemistry R&D teams, grounded in their own data.
Harmonic Security: Series B, $50M. Harmonic Security builds software that inspects how employees and AI agents use AI tools and enforces security policy on that activity as it happens.
RapidCanvas: Series B, $29M. RapidCanvas builds an agentic AI platform and pairs it with field engineers to build and run custom AI applications for enterprises.
Hive: Series B, $27M. Hive builds a marketing platform for live events that connects ticket buyer data from ticketing providers to email, SMS and advertising tools.
ASI: Series C, $325M. ASI builds AI software that models physical operations hours to weeks ahead for critical infrastructure such as aviation, energy, defense and logistics.
Blackwall: Series C, $100M. Blackwall builds a web traffic management and security platform that hosting and cloud providers resell to block bots, application-layer DDoS and brute-force attacks.
Blacksmith: Series C, $66M. Blacksmith builds continuous integration infrastructure that runs software builds and tests faster and at lower cost than general-purpose cloud.
Modal: Series D, $750M. Modal runs a cloud platform for AI teams to build, train and serve models and applications, with products for inference, training and sandboxed environments.
ICON: Series D, $200M. ICON builds large robotic 3D-printing systems, materials and software for constructing buildings, including its multistory Titan machine.
Whop: Series D, $200M. Whop builds a platform for creating, running and getting paid for online businesses, with payments, distribution tools and an API.
Sirona Medical: Series D, $40M. Sirona Medical builds RadOS, a cloud-based radiology software platform combining PACS, reporting, image viewing, worklist and workflow AI.
Legora: Series E, $550M. Legora builds collaborative AI tools for law firms and in-house legal teams, including an agentic operating system for legal work.

Funding signal, week of October 14, 2026

2026-10-14T12:00:00Z

Evos: Pre-Seed, $9M. Builds autonomous AI operators that learn a team's decisions to run operational work for small and mid-sized industrial businesses.
Affinity Labs: Pre-Seed, $2M. Builds and scales AI-powered, creator-led software brands by pairing creators' audiences with its product-development technology.
Sabi: Seed, $50M. Neurotech company building a non-invasive brain-AI interface in a baseball-cap form factor that turns imagined speech into AI commands.
Catalyst: Seed, $30M. Consumer investing platform whose AI agents turn plain-English goals into trading strategies that users approve before execution.
Cambridge Heavy Industries: Seed, $6.2M. Energy-tech company building a benchtop laser-driven inertial-confinement fusion device for rapid reactor testing and tritium production.
Dapta: Seed, $6M. AI sales-agent platform that answers inbound leads, qualifies them and books meetings for small and mid-sized businesses.
Bloom: Seed, $3.6M. AI-native marketplace that connects hardware companies with vetted manufacturing, logistics and after-sales service providers.
TypeSafe AI: Series A, $870M. AI lab building machine-native decision models; its Jev model returns typed, calibrated decisions with confidence scores instead of prose.
Universal Quantum: Series A, $100M. UK quantum computing company building scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers using a modular trapped-ion architecture.
Gallatin AI: Series A, $50M. Software company modernizing US military logistics and sustainment with predictive, AI-driven decision-support tools.
Ultra: Series A, $50M. Warehouse-robotics company that rents its packing, sorting and kitting robots as a service, using AI from a partner research firm.
Duvo: Series A, $32M. Enterprise execution platform that maps, runs and improves business processes by combining a company's people, AI agents and existing systems.
Fortastra: Series A, $30M. Develops maneuverable, autonomous spacecraft for on-orbit security and national defense that protect high-value orbital assets.
Rein Security: Series A, $25M. AI-native runtime security platform that secures enterprise AI agents and applications and defends against adversarial AI agents.
Kapta Space: Series A, $24M. Develops electronically steerable moving-target radar payloads for space-based intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking.
Vocca: Series A, $20M. AI-powered patient communication platform whose voice agents handle medical practices' phone calls, scheduling and admin requests.
AblePay Health: Series A, $20M. Healthcare payment platform that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical costs while improving payment performance for providers.
GenHealth.ai: Series A, $16.5M. Healthcare AI company building agents that run medical back-office revenue-cycle tasks such as eligibility, prior authorization and billing.
Meticulous: Series A, $15M. AI-powered software testing platform that automatically generates and maintains frontend end-to-end test suites for developers.
Clueso: Series A, $10M. Agentic AI platform that automates the creation and updating of business videos for marketing, onboarding, training and tutorials.
Rebel Audio: Series A, $10M. AI podcasting platform that helps creators record, edit, publish, translate, distribute and monetize their shows.
HydRegen: Series A, $8M. Develops enzyme-based biocatalysts that replace precious-metal catalysts in industrial chemical and specialty manufacturing.
Arena: Series B, $200M. AI evaluation company that runs a public leaderboard benchmarking frontier AI models and agents through blind human votes.
Salience Labs: Series B, $125M. Silicon-photonics company building fully optical circuit-switching chips that connect thousands of GPUs to cut latency and power in AI datacenters.
Multiply Labs: Series B, $75M. Robotics and automation company building robotic systems that automate the manufacturing of biologics such as cell, gene and antibody therapies.
Mecka: Series B, $60M. Builds data and deployment infrastructure for physical AI, collecting human motion data from body sensors to train humanoid and other robots.
Albert: Series B, $55M. Chemistry-native AI platform and research operating system used by chemical and materials-science companies to speed research.
Stuut: Series B, $52.5M. AI-powered order-to-cash platform that automates enterprise accounts receivable, collections, payments, cash application and disputes.
Harmonic Security: Series B, $50M. Data security and AI governance platform that inspects and controls how employees use AI tools before sensitive data is exposed.
Scarlet: Series B, $50M. AI-native regulatory certification body and software platform that reviews and certifies third-party software and AI medical devices.
Reach Security: Series B, $50M. AI-native cybersecurity company whose platform reads live security-tool configurations and autonomously closes defensive gaps attackers target.
Vesta: Series B, $30M. AI-native mortgage loan origination system where staff and AI agents jointly handle underwriting, condition clearing and closing reviews.
KONST: Series B, $30M. Builds and operates GPU data centers across Asia and delivers compute through its cloud and AI governance platforms.
Helical Fusion: Series B second close, $20.6M. Fusion energy company developing a helical stellarator reactor aimed at steady-state, net-power fusion plants.
Infinigence AI: Series C, $344M. Chinese AI infrastructure provider whose software runs AI models efficiently across heterogeneous chips and sells compute as token services.
VEIR: Series C, $110M. Designs and manufactures superconducting power delivery systems that move more electricity through a smaller footprint to supply energy to AI data centers.
Parallel Systems: Series C, $100M. Builds autonomous, battery-electric freight rail vehicles that shift short-haul freight from trucks to rail.
Oxide Computer Company: Series D, $445M. Builds full-stack, on-premises cloud infrastructure, pairing purpose-built rack-scale hardware with open-source software for enterprises.
Voltus: Series D, $225M. Distributed energy resource platform and virtual power plant that pays businesses and homes to cut, shift or supply power when the grid needs it.
Mujin: Series D, $224M. Industrial robotics and physical-AI company whose brand-agnostic control platform coordinates robots and automation across warehouses and factories.
ICON: Series D, $200M. Building-technology company that uses large-scale 3D printing and robotic construction systems to build homes faster and at lower cost.
Manus: Undisclosed, $500M. AI agent company whose general-purpose agent carries out real-world tasks, operating independently after a blocked Meta acquisition.

Funding signal, week of October 12, 2026

2026-10-12T12:00:00Z

Sabi: Seed, $50M. Sabi is building a non-invasive wearable brain-computer interface, built into a cap, that turns imagined speech and intent into commands.
GUDEA: Seed, $7M. GUDEA builds AI narrative-intelligence software that detects and forecasts how online narratives form and spread.
Bloom: Seed, $3.6M. Bloom runs an AI-driven marketplace that connects hardware companies with manufacturing, logistics, and after-sales service providers.
TypeSafe: Series A, $870M. TypeSafe develops AI models that return structured, type-safe decisions with calibrated probabilities instead of free-form text.
Universal Quantum: Series A, $100M. Universal Quantum builds modular trapped-ion quantum computers designed to scale toward utility-grade machines, spun out of the University of Sussex.
Gallatin AI: Series A, $50M. Gallatin AI builds artificial-intelligence software for military logistics and defense supply-chain planning.
Healthleap: Seed and Series A, $38M. Healthleap builds clinical software that reads hospital records to flag inpatients who may have undiagnosed conditions needing review.
Vitalize: Series A, $31M. Vitalize offers an AI operating system that coordinates hospital staffing, scheduling, patient flow, and capacity.
Fortastra: Series A, $30M. Fortastra builds maneuverable spacecraft designed to protect and defend satellites and other assets in orbit.
Rein Security: Series A, $25M. Rein Security provides a runtime security platform that monitors and controls enterprise AI agents at the execution layer.
Kapta Space: Series A, $24M. Kapta Space builds modular electronically-scanned radar payloads that let defense satellites track moving targets from orbit.
Vocca: Series A, $20M. Vocca offers an AI phone assistant that automates patient calls and scheduling for medical practices.
AblePay Health: Series A, $20M. AblePay Health operates a payments platform that helps patients manage out-of-pocket healthcare costs while improving provider collections.
Navra: Series A, $19M. Navra, founded by Mike Cagney, is building fintech infrastructure that bridges traditional finance to blockchain with self-custody.
Siena: Series A, $17M. Siena runs an AI customer-experience platform that handles support, shopping, and social interactions for consumer brands.
Avarra: Series A, $17M. Avarra runs an AI avatar platform that captures expert knowledge to coach and upskill go-to-market and sales teams.
Sante: Series A, $15M. Sante provides an AI operating system for wine and spirits retailers, unifying point of sale, e-commerce, delivery, and marketing.
Meticulous: Series A, $15M. Meticulous builds an AI platform that autonomously generates and maintains end-to-end tests for frontend software.
Vinci: Series B, $250M. Vinci builds an AI-native physics-simulation platform for hardware and semiconductor engineering.
Arena: Series B, $200M. Arena operates a platform that evaluates frontier AI models and agents using crowdsourced human-preference leaderboards.
Type One Energy: Series B, $200M. Type One Energy develops stellarator-based magnetic-confinement fusion technology to build commercial fusion power plants.
Spiko: Series B, $90M. Spiko offers regulated tokenized money-market funds that let businesses earn yield on treasury cash through an API.
Nous Research: Series B, $90M. Nous Research is an open-source AI company building open models and its Hermes agent for enterprises.
Multiply Labs: Series B, $75M. Multiply Labs builds robotic systems that automate the manufacturing of cell and gene therapies and other biologic medicines.
Mecka: Series B, $60M. Mecka builds data, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for robots, using large-scale human-motion datasets.
Stuut: Series B, $52.5M. Stuut builds AI agents that automate enterprise order-to-cash work, including collections, cash application, and dispute handling.
Scarlet: Series B, $50M. Scarlet runs an AI-native platform and certification body that speeds regulatory certification of medical devices and software.
Namespace: Series B, $42M. Namespace provides developer compute infrastructure that accelerates builds, continuous integration, testing, and AI coding agents.
Vesta: Series B, $30M. Vesta offers an AI-native mortgage loan-origination system with software agents for lenders.
KONST: Series B, $30M. KONST builds and operates AI data centers across Asia, providing GPU cloud and compute capacity.
Veir: Series C, $110M. Veir develops high-temperature superconducting power delivery systems and cables to move large amounts of electricity to AI data centers.
Oxide: Series D, $445M. Oxide designs full-stack, rack-scale cloud computers that let enterprises run cloud-style infrastructure on their own premises.
Voltus: Series D, $225M. Voltus operates a virtual power plant that aggregates distributed energy resources to provide grid flexibility and demand response.
Valon: Series D, $150M. Valon operates an AI-native mortgage-servicing platform and deploys software agents to handle loan-servicing workflows.