Over $1.1bn Raised Across Funding Raises in Red-Letter Week for FinTech
FinTech saw a record week in 2026, raising over $1.1 billion across 23 deals. Consumer‑first privacy firm Cloaked led the pack with a $375 million Series B and growth financing round. CyberTech dominated the deal count with nine transactions, while the United States contributed 17 of the 23 deals. Despite a 10% dip in European deal volume, funding surged 63% to $4.8 billion, indicating a shift toward larger, high‑value financings.
Agentic Healthcare Platform Flexzo AI Raises £9m
Flexzo AI, an agentic workforce platform for hospitals, closed a £9 million ($12 million) Series A round led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Fuel Ventures. The funding will fuel a rollout across NHS Trusts and support expansion into the United States. Founded in...
Exclusive: Celesta Capital To Launch ₹2,000 Cr India-Focused Deeptech Fund
Celesta Capital, a San‑Francisco‑based venture firm, is preparing to raise a ₹2,000 crore (approximately $24 billion) Category II AIF dedicated to Indian deep‑tech startups. The fund will focus on early‑stage companies at Series A and B, with typical checks of $3‑7 million per deal. Celesta,...
Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion Fund to Transform Companies With A.I.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is negotiating with investors in the Middle East and Southeast Asia to raise up to $100 billion for a new investment fund. The fund would sit alongside his AI venture, Project Prometheus, and aim to acquire or...
Inside One VC’s Litmus Test for Investable Healthcare AI Startups
Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Yahoo, Google and Twitter executive, transitioned into healthcare investing after a stint as CMO at Color Genomics. In 2019 she founded Moxxie Ventures, focusing on early‑stage AI‑driven health companies such as Dandelion Health, Pharos Health, Luminai...
AI Legal Tech Startup MiAI Law Raised $2 Million
Australian legal‑tech startup MiAI Law, founded by barrister Laina Chan, announced a $2 million seed round raised in five days from family, staff and angel investors. The platform differentiates itself by linking case law and statutes through a transparent reasoning engine...
Audeo Ventures Will Close on $65m for Fund II by End of March
Audeo Ventures announced it will close its second fund with $65 million in commitments by the end of March. The fund’s limited partner base is dominated by single and multifamily offices, alongside sovereign wealth funds from the United Arab Emirates. Audeo...
Cape Nabs $100M Series C Round
Cape, the privacy‑first mobile carrier, announced a $100 million Series C financing round co‑led by Bain Capital Ventures and IVP, with participation from several new investors. The new capital brings the company’s total funding to $191 million, underscoring strong investor confidence in its...
Eclypsium Receives $25M Strategic Funding
Eclypsium announced a $25 million strategic financing round led by PEAK6 Strategic Capital, with participation from a top three U.S. bank and Ten Eleven Ventures. The round adds to prior backing from Qualcomm Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and other notable investors. Eclypsium’s...
Bluesky Announces $100M Series B After CEO Transition
Bluesky announced a $100 million Series B round led by Bain Capital Crypto, disclosed after closing in April 2025. The funding follows a recent leadership change, with CEO Jay Graber moving to chief innovation officer. User numbers have surged to over 43 million,...
Why Verily Raised $300M to Become an Independent Precision AI Health Giant
Verily has closed a $300 million Series X Capital‑led round and re‑incorporated as Verily Health Inc., shifting Alphabet from a controlling owner to a significant minority shareholder. The funding will accelerate its AI‑native precision health platform, Verily Pre, aimed at unifying fragmented...
Cleavr Raises €1M to Develop an AI Solution for Accounts Receivable
Cleavr announced a €1 million funding round led by Kima Ventures and other investors to accelerate its AI‑driven accounts‑receivable platform. The solution automates reminders, reconciliation, dispute handling and multi‑channel communication, aiming to cut late‑payment losses for finance teams. Already deployed with...
Excalipoint Closes $68.7M Seed Round for Cancer T-Cell Engagers
Excalipoint, a biotech focused on cancer T‑cell engagers, announced the close of a $68.7 million seed financing round. The capital, raised from leading venture firms and strategic investors, will fund the development of its bispecific antibody platform targeting solid tumors. The...
Afrime Studios Enters Seed Round After Raising $400,000 to Build Afrofuturistic RPG Unyverse
Afrime Studios, a majority Black‑owned US game developer, has closed an angel round of roughly $400,000 and is now moving into a seed funding phase. The studio is building a public demo of its debut Afrofuturistic sci‑fi RPG, Unyverse, to...
EquipmentShare Founders Seal $25m for Oversubscribed Sophomore Redbud VC Fundraise
Redbud VC, a pre‑seed investor, closed its sophomore fund at $25 million. The raise was oversubscribed and represents a five‑fold increase over its inaugural vehicle. The round was anchored by the founders of EquipmentShare, who joined as limited partners. The new...
Two Palantir Veterans Just Came Out of Stealth with $30M and a Sequoia Stamp of Approval
Edra, a New York‑based startup, announced a $30 million Series A round led by Sequoia, with participation from 8VC and A*. The company, founded by former Palantir executives Eugen Alpeza and Yannis Karamanlakis, builds an AI‑driven knowledge base that automatically extracts and...
Inside FinSight Ventures’ Bet On A Pricey Yet Durable Indian Fintech Market
FinSight Ventures, led by Pavel Gurianov, has committed roughly $20 million per deal to Indian fintech and consumer super‑app companies, backing firms such as Razorpay, Easy Home Finance, Gupshup and Car Dekho after an initial fund‑of‑funds strategy. While Gurianov acknowledges that...
Parallel Raises $20M to Scale AI Solutions for Hospital Administration
Paris‑based Parallel has closed a $20 million Series A round led by Index Ventures, following a $3.5 million seed less than a year ago. The startup’s AI agents sit on top of legacy hospital systems to automate administrative workflows, starting with medical coding...
How Mega IPOs Could Take All the Money Away From Smaller IPOs | Pitchbook
Pitchbook warns that upcoming mega IPOs could dominate market liquidity in 2026. SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are rumored to go public, potentially becoming the three largest VC‑backed IPOs ever. Their combined valuation may surpass the total value of all VC‑backed...
Raven Raises $20M Seed Round
Raven.io, a runtime‑focused cybersecurity startup, announced a $20 million seed round. The round was led by Norwest with a post‑seed tranche led by Elron Ventures, and included investors such as SentinelOne, UpWest, and RedSeed. The capital will accelerate product development, expand...
Multiply Closes $9.5M Funding
Multiply, an AI‑native media agency targeting B2B firms, emerged from stealth with a $9.5 million Series A round led by Mayfield. The funding includes contributions from Sorenson Capital, Instacart co‑founder Max Mullen, Google Gemini head Josh Woodward, and senior executives from...
Obin AI Emerges From Stealth with $7 Million Seed
Obin AI, an enterprise‑focused startup building an agentic AI workforce for financial institutions, announced a $7 million seed round. The financing was led by Motive Partners and supplemented by angel investors. Notable advisors Dr. Fei‑Fei Li and Lukasz Kaiser, both prominent in AI...
Boreal Ventures Closes on $43m for Fund II, Targeting $60m
Boreal Ventures announced the closing of $43 million for its second venture fund, with a target of $60 million. The fund’s limited partners include the Government of Quebec via Investissement Québec, BDC Capital, the Teralys seed fund backed by La Caisse, and...
This Startup Wants to Make Enterprise Software Look More Like a Prompt
Eragon, a San‑Francisco startup founded by former Oracle and Salesforce executive Josh Sirota, closed a $12 million Series A round at a $100 million post‑money valuation. The company is building an agentic AI operating system that lets enterprise users run and orchestrate SaaS...
Condor Software Raises $24M for Life Sciences Finance Platform
Condor Software announced a $24 million Series A round, led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $36 million. The capital will accelerate development of its AI‑driven financial intelligence platform that unifies clinical, operational, and accounting data for life‑science firms. Early adopters—including...
Swedish Legora Lands $5.55B Valuation Less than a Year After Entering the U.S.
Legora, a Swedish legal‑tech startup, closed a $550 million Series D led by Accel, pushing its valuation to $5.55 billion. The funding will fund U.S. expansion, adding offices in Houston and Chicago and scaling headcount to over 300 by the end of 2026....
Manifold Raises $8M to Secure Autonomous AI Agents on Enterprise Endpoints
Manifold, an AI detection and response startup, announced an $8 million seed round led by Costanoa Ventures to develop its endpoint security platform for autonomous AI agents. The solution monitors agent behavior on employee devices, capturing API calls, file access, and...
Lilly-Backed China Startup Debuts With $68.7M Seed to Advance Next-Gen T Cell Engagers
Excalipoint Therapeutics, a Shanghai‑based biotech, closed a $68.7 million seed round, including a $41 million founding raise and a $27.7 million extension led by MPCi, Centurium Capital, Lilly Asia Ventures, and Eisai Innovation. The capital will fund six tri‑specific T‑cell engager candidates, notably...
Partech Picks up €300m for Debut Impact Fund Amid ‘One of the Most Challenging Fundraising Environments of the Past Decade’
Partech has closed its inaugural impact fund, raising €300 million. The capital will be deployed to European B2B technology firms that are reshaping global value chains. The close occurs amid what the firm calls one of the most challenging fundraising environments...
Tracebit Raises $20M to Scale Cloud Security Tech
Tracebit announced a $20 million Series A round, led by FirstMark, bringing its total capital to roughly $25 million. The London‑based startup offers a cloud‑native deception platform that plants realistic fake assets—called canaries—to flag malicious activity the moment an attacker interacts with them....
Exclusive: AI Cybersecurity Startup RunSybil, Founded by OpenAI’s First Security Hire, Raises $40 Million Led by Khosla Ventures
RunSybil, an AI‑driven cybersecurity startup founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, closed a $40 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Anthropic’s Anthology Fund, Menlo Ventures and notable angels. Its flagship AI agent, Sybil, conducts continuous autonomous penetration...
R1 Therapeutics Raises $77.5m to Progress AP306 for Hyperphosphatemia
R1 Therapeutics announced a $77.5 million oversubscribed Series A round to advance AP306, a first‑in‑class pan phosphate transporter inhibitor for hyperphosphatemia in chronic kidney disease patients. The funding, led by Abingworth, F‑Prime and DaVita Venture Group, also secured an exclusive global licence...
UK Family Office, VCs Cash in on Swarmer’s Moonshot IPO
Drone software developer Swarmer completed a high‑profile IPO, attracting a consortium of UK investors. This group—including Theseus Capital Partners, D3 Venture Capital, Green Flag Ventures, R‑G AI and Radius Capital Ventures—now holds combined shares valued at $177 million. The IPO underscores...
LPs Love Consistency: Breakout Ventures’ Fishburne
Breakout Ventures’ managing partner Lindy Fishburne told VCJ that limited partners are rewarding the firm’s disciplined, seed‑stage focus. While many venture funds are launching opportunistic or growth‑oriented vehicles, Breakout has stuck to its original thesis. This consistency has helped it...
Pi Labs Leads $7M Round in VerbaFlo for AI Real Estate Platform
VerbaFlo, a conversational AI platform for residential real estate, secured a $7 million seed round led by Pi Labs, bringing its total financing to roughly $9 million. The startup automates leasing, operations, and resident engagement through purpose‑built AI agents that integrate with...
BambooBox Announces $6.6 Million to Build the Managed ABM Operating System for Enterprise Revenue Teams
BambooBox announced a $6.6 million Series A round led by Peak XV’s Surge to accelerate its Managed ABM Operating System. The platform blends AI‑driven orchestration with forward‑deployed ABM experts, aiming to solve the execution gap that many enterprises face with traditional ABM tools....
Advanced Navigation Raises $158 Million Series C Round with NRFC Backing
Australian deep‑tech firm Advanced Navigation secured $158 million Series C led by Airtree Ventures, with $50 million from the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation. The funding supports expansion of its AI‑enhanced inertial navigation systems that operate without GPS, addressing rising jamming and spoofing threats....
Sequen Lands $16M to Transform Customer Experiences
Sequen, an enterprise AI infrastructure startup, announced a $16 million Series A round, bringing its total funding to $22 million. The round was co‑led by White Star Capital and Threshold Ventures, with Greycroft participating again. Sequen will use the capital to accelerate product...
Surf Raises $57M to Automate Security With AI Agents
Surf, a New York‑based cybersecurity startup, announced a $57 million Series A round led by Accel to develop AI‑driven security agents. The funding underscores growing investor confidence in “agentic AI” that can autonomously detect and remediate threats. Surf’s platform continuously monitors cloud...
ISPTech Raises €5.5M Seed Round to Redefine How Spacecraft Manoeuvre in Orbit
ISPTech, a German spin‑off from the DLR, announced a €5.5 million seed round led by Join Capital and backed by several European venture funds. The capital will fund expanded manufacturing, critical‑infrastructure testing, and the commercial rollout of its non‑toxic propulsion suites,...
Tord Olav Dønnum
Norwegian serial entrepreneur Tord Olav Dønnum, now CBO of OLHSO, leads the world’s first fully autonomous Korean BBQ kitchen. Earlier, he built a capital‑raising platform that linked over 20,000 startups with hundreds of funds, processing more than $10 billion in transactions...
STAT+: VC Firm Dimension Scouting Out $700 Million for New Fund
Dimension Ventures, founded by former Lux Capital and Obvious Ventures partners, is launching its third fund targeting the intersection of artificial intelligence and life sciences. The firm aims to raise roughly $700 million, following a 2023 debut fund and a second...
Young "Bug Bounty Hunter" Bags $6M Pre-Seed Round for Security Startup
French cybersecurity startup Lupin & Holmes, founded by 23‑year‑old former bug bounty hunter Roni Carta, closed a $5.9 million pre‑seed round led by 20VC and Seedcamp. Carta, who earned nearly $800,000 hunting vulnerabilities for FAANG firms, built Depi, an upstream security...
Turquoise Health Secures $40M for AI-Powered Healthcare Pricing Platform
Turquoise Health announced a $40 million Series C round, led by Oak HC/FT with participation from a16z, Adams Street Partners and Yosemite. The funding will accelerate its transition from a pricing data vendor to an AI‑driven workflow and transaction operating system that...
British Business Bank Promises £50m for SuperSeed’s Physical AI Fund
The British Business Bank has pledged up to £50 million as a cornerstone commitment to SuperSeed Fund III, a seed‑stage vehicle focused on B2B AI and SaaS firms building physical AI for manufacturing, energy, construction and autonomous systems. The investment, made...
Exclusive: Candex Extends Series C To $40M+ To Help Enterprises Easily Onboard Global Vendors
Candex has extended its Series C round to $40 million, bringing total funding above $120 million, with HSBC joining as an investor. The New York fintech acts as a master vendor, allowing large enterprises to pay one‑off or irregular suppliers without separate onboarding,...
Who’s Who in Tech: Equatic Is ‘Sinking’ in the Ocean
Equatic, a Santa Monica carbon‑removal startup, secured $11.6 million Series A funding to build a 100‑kiloton ocean‑based CO₂ capture plant that also produces green hydrogen. The technology electrolyzes seawater with renewable power, generating base that pulls carbon from the air while the...
Six Trends Shaping the Emerging Manager Landscape
The article identifies six pivotal trends reshaping the emerging manager landscape, from tighter fundraising cycles to evolving LP expectations. It highlights that limited partners now prioritize demonstrable track records and ESG credentials when allocating capital to new general partners. Niche...
Who’s Who in Tech: Antares Working on Nuclear Solution
Antares Nuclear, founded in 2023, secured $96 million in Series B funding (bringing total capital to about $130 million) to build modular, transportable reactors for hard‑to‑reach energy deserts. The startup is targeting the U.S. military and aerospace sectors rather than commercial data centers,...
Kudwa Lands $1.1 Million Funding to Scale Its AI Finance Manager Platform
Kudwa, a UAE‑USA fintech SaaS, secured $1.1 million in a round led by 1818 Venture Capital, F6 Ventures, Sparked VC, IM Fndg and IVP. The AI‑powered finance manager automates reporting, forecasting, and insights, linking to ERP and accounting systems. The capital...
