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LOS ANGELES — Nominal, which operates a unified, real-time test stack for physical systems, has announced a $75 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with significant participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and continued support from Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, and additional investors. Programs across aerospace, defense, energy and advanced manufacturing—including Anduril Industries, Shield AI, and […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Horizon3.ai, the company behind the NodeZero Autonomous Security Platform, has announced a $100 million Series D funding round led by NEA, with participation from SignalFire, Craft Ventures and 9Yards Capital. As part of the investment, Lila Tretikov, Partner and Head of AI Strategy at NEA and former Deputy CTO of Microsoft, will […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Laurel, which bills itself as the world’s first AI Time platform, has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by IVP, with participation from GV (Google Ventures). Laurel plans to use this investment to scale its AI time platform and accelerate to solve what it calls the “time intelligence challenge”—the inability […]
SAN CARLOS — Obvio, which improves traffic safety with an AI-powered traffic camera solution, has landed $22 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. Additional investors include Khosla Ventures and Pathlight Ventures. With these funds, Obvio will expand nationally and grow the team. Traffic fatalities have accelerated over the last few years […]
MENLO PARK — Antheia, a pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer transforming essential medicine supply chains, today announced it has raised $56 million in Series C financing. The new financing will be used to expand commercialization of Antheia’s first product, thebaine, and launch additional products from the company’s pipeline of 70+ biosynthetic pharmaceutical ingredients, which spans seven therapeutic areas and prioritizes […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Voxel, an AI company specializing in workplace safety and risk, has raised $44 million in Series B funding led by NewRoad Capital Partners with participation from current investors Eclipse, Rite Hite, Tokio Marine, and MTech as well as HG Ventures and Whitestone. This round brings the company’s total funding of $61 million to date. Voxel plans to use the […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Parkade, a technology platform for managing private parking, has raised a $10 million Series A from real estate and “proptech” industry venture-capital firms to transform parking management for owners, managers, and investors. The funding round was led by a trio of real estate and proptech investors: Navitas Capital, MassMutual Ventures, and 9Yards […]
SAN FRANCISCO & PHILADELPHIA — Biopharmaceutical companies routinely cure diseases in animals during preclinical testing, yet those same therapies fail in human clinical trials nearly 95% of the time. By shifting from animals to an exclusively human optimization preclinical process, Vivodyne has raised $40 million in new Series A financing to scale its robotics+AI approach to testing on thousands […]
SAN FRANCISCO — ClickHouse, Inc., a provider of real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, has raised $350 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from new investors BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as existing investors including Index Ventures, Lightspeed, GIC, Benchmark, Coatue, […]
REDWOOD CITY — Neuron Factory, an AI startup dedicated to revolutionizing the construction industry through cutting-edge AI software, announced a $6 million seed funding round and a strategic partnership with Cordeel Group, one of Europe’s premier one-stop partners for the complete construction process. Neuron Factory’s AI coworker platform is powered by a proprietary enterprise task graph—a […]
SANTA CRUZ — Joby Aviation, Inc., a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, announced the successful closing of the first $250 million tranche of a previously announced strategic investment from Toyota Motor Corporation. The funding marks a significant milestone in strengthening the long-term collaboration between the two companies and supports their shared […]
PALO ALTO — DataHub, by Acryl Data, a leading open source metadata platform, has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to $65 million, enabling accelerated development of its context management platform that provides discovery, observability, and control across data, AI models, and AI […]