January 2026 Raises
Humans& | $480M Seed Round In one of the largest seed rounds in history, alumni from Anthropic, xAI, and Google have secured nearly half a billion dollars. Their mission: building "human-centric" AI systems designed for seamless collaboration between humans and machines.
Parloa | $350M Raise ($3B Valuation) The voice automation powerhouse has tripled its valuation in just eight months. Parloa is now the definitive unicorn for enterprise-scale AI customer service, proving that voice-based AI is the next frontier for CX.
Inferact | $150M Seed ($800M Valuation) The team behind the open-source inference engine vLLM is officially commercializing. As enterprises scramble to run LLMs faster and cheaper, Inferact is positioned as the essential plumbing for production AI.
Claroty | $150M Series F ($3B Valuation) The surge in AI-driven cyber threats has made industrial and healthcare security a top priority. Claroty’s latest round cements its lead in protecting critical cyber-physical infrastructure.
Deepgram | $130M Raise ($1.3B Valuation) Beyond just speech-to-text, Deepgram is building the full stack for real-time conversational AI. The round coincided with their acquisition of a YC AI startup to accelerate product development.
Emergent | $70M Raise ($300M Valuation) The "vibe-coding" trend is real. This Indian startup is leveraging natural language to let anyone ship software at lightning speed, backed by SoftBank and Khosla Ventures.
Articul8 | $35M Secured ($70M Planned) Spun out of Intel, Articul8 is halfway through its latest round at a $500M valuation. They remain the go-to for large organizations needing "full-stack" generative AI that actually works in production.
Another | $2.5M Seed Proving that specialized SaaS still has a seat at the table, Another is tackling retail inefficiency. Their platform helps brands monetize excess inventory, solving a massive pain point in the supply chain.
Anthropic | $3.5B Series E. The latest round confirms Anthropic’s seat at the table alongside OpenAI and Google. With a post-money valuation north of $60 billion, the focus remains on Claude’s "Constitutional AI" framework. For founders, this is the safest bet for enterprise-grade applications where reliability and safety guardrails are non-negotiable requirements.
CoreWeave | $2B Secured investment from Nvidia. Nvidia has doubled down on its preferred infrastructure partner with a $2 billion injection. As the race for compute shifts from "access" to "at scale reliability," CoreWeave is positioning itself as the primary alternative to the hyperscalers. If you are training frontier models or running massive inference workloads, this ensures their capacity roadmap stays ahead of your demand.
Upwind Security | $250 Million Secures In Series B Funding. Upwind focuses on real-time protection by looking at the runtime environment rather than just static snapshots. Use this if your infrastructure is scaling faster than your security team’s ability to manually audit configurations.
FLORA | $42M Series A With a total of $52M raised. Redpoint is backing this node-based design tool that aims to move beyond the static canvas. Flora treats design like code, allowing for more modular and scalable creative workflows. It is worth a look for product teams tired of the "Figma sprawl" and looking for a more structured, logical way to build design systems.
Phia | $35M round rounds out a week of high-conviction bets. Phia is attempting to re-engineer the social shopping experience. While many have tried to solve "discovery" in e-commerce, Phia focuses on curation and the social graph. This is a space to watch for brands looking to diversify their customer acquisition channels beyond traditional search and meta ads
Ricursive Intelligence | $300M Series A ($4B Valuation) Just two months after launching, the AlphaChip co-founders have secured a massive round to close the "recursive loop." They are using AI to design and automatically improve the very chips that power AI. In 2026, the bottleneck isn't just software; it's the silicon itself.
VoiceRun | $5.5M Seed VoiceRun is building the "Model T assembly line" for voice agents. Instead of rigid no-code builders, they offer a developer-first platform that gives technical teams full ownership of the application code while managing the messy telephony and latency orchestration.
Cyera | $400M Series F ($9B Valuation) The data security giant has added $3B to its valuation in just six months. As enterprises move toward Agentic AI, the risk surface is exploding. Cyera’s "AI Guardian" is becoming the essential control plane for organizations that can't afford a catastrophic breach of proprietary data.
February 2026 Raises
Fundamental AI | $255M Series A Founded by DeepMind alumni, Fundamental is tackling the "Large Tabular Model" problem. While LLMs handle text, Fundamental’s Nexus model is built for the structured, non-linear data that runs Fortune 100 decision-making (think demand forecasting and price prediction).
Databricks | $5B Late-Stage ($134B Valuation) Databricks has officially signaled its IPO readiness with a massive $7B capital injection ($5B equity + $2B debt). With a **$5.4B revenue run-rate** (up 65% YoY), they are doubling down on Lakebase, a serverless database purpose-built for AI agents. This round positions them as the primary data OS for the Fortune 500, directly challenging hyperscalers.
Goodfire | $150M Series B ($1.25B Valuation) As AI becomes more complex, "interpretability" is the new safety standard. Goodfire acts as a microscope for neural networks, allowing researchers to see how a model thinks. This is the essential toolkit for life sciences and regulated industries that can't afford "black box" decisions.
Connect Music | ($80M): Modernizing music rights and royalty tech for the streaming era.
Accrual | ($75M): Building the AI-native accounting layer to automate the most manual parts of the CFO’s office.
Urban SDK | ($65M): Geospatial AI helping city planners and governments manage smart infrastructure.
Forerunner | ($39M): An AI platform for the "built environment," helping governments manage planning and resiliency.
Turnstile | ($29M): Solving the complex "quote-to-cash" workflow for high-growth, sales-led startups.
Daytona | $24M Series A Led by FirstMark Capital, Daytona is solving a critical hardware bottleneck: AI agents need a place to work. While current cloud infra is built for static production code, agents need "sandboxes"—programmatic, composable computers they can spin up in milliseconds to execute code, run experiments, and branch parallel decision paths. Daytona is providing the "physical" workstations for the millions of agents expected to enter the workforce this year.
Duna | €30M Series A Founded by Stripe alumni and led by CapitalG (Alphabet’s growth fund), Duna is building the "digital passport" for the automated enterprise. As businesses deal with more AI-driven counterparties, verifying identity becomes a fraud minefield. Duna’s AI-native platform automates KYB (Know Your Business) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering), reported to onboard customers 10.6x faster than legacy systems.
Nixtla | $16M Series A Led by Energize Capital, Nixtla is bringing the "GPT moment" to time-series data. Their foundation model, TimeGPT, is designed specifically for forecasting and anomaly detection—areas where traditional LLMs often hallucinate. With over 45M downloads of their open-source library, they are becoming the industry standard for supply chain and energy demand prediction.
Capalo AI | €11M Series A Led by Heartcore Capital, this Helsinki-based startup is building a virtual power plant powered by AI. As Europe shifts toward volatile renewable energy, Capalo optimizes large-scale battery storage and trading in real-time. In 2025, they increased their contracted capacity fivefold to 1 GW, proving that "intelligence" is the only way to stabilize a modern green grid.
Adaption Labs | $50M Seed Led by Emergence Capital, this is one of the largest seed rounds in history. Founded by former Cohere and Google researchers Sara Hooker and Sudip Roy, Adaption Labs is challenging the "bigger is better" model. They are building AI systems that can adapt and learn in real time through "gradient-free" methods, effectively ending the era of frozen, static models.
Nullify | $12.5M Seed Nullify isn't a security tool; it’s a security workforce. Their autonomous AI agents act as full-time security engineers—ingesting code, validating exploits, and delivering merge-ready fixes. Early adopters have reportedly saved 48,000+ hours of manual security work.
Linkup | $10M Seed Led by Gradient, Linkup is solving the "Airplane Mode" problem of modern AI. Traditional search is for humans; Linkup is the "Google for Agents." Their /fast API allows AI products to retrieve verified, structured data from the web in sub-second speeds.
Cadastral | $9.5M Funding Led by Navitas Capital, Cadastral is the "AI analyst in a box" for Commercial Real Estate. They automate the grueling T-12 analysis and lease abstraction processes that used to take days, now delivering institutional-grade underwriting in seconds.
Advance | raised $8.55 million in seed funding. Lead investors led the round and were joined by existing investors., A financial platform designed specifically for the unique cash-flow needs of insurance providers.
Uptool | raised $6M Backed by Khosla Ventures, Uptool is digitizing "Small and Midsize Manufacturers" by automating the quoting process directly from CAD files and engineering drawings.
Uber x Getir | Getir raised $435M. Uber eats up Getir’s delivery operations to eliminate competition in the high-speed "rapid commerce" sector across Europe.
Layer Global | $1 Billion Raising (Target) Anton Levy, the legendary former Co-President of General Atlantic, is back with a massive $1B standalone fund. Levy, who led blockbuster investments in Alibaba, CrowdStrike, and Facebook, is targeting "hypergrowth" AI and software companies globally. The fund's mandate is specific: find the outliers capable of 300% annual growth. This marks a significant move of late-stage expertise into a more agile, AI-dedicated vehicle.
2048 Ventures | $82M Fund III (Closed) The New York and Boston-based firm just closed an oversubscribed third fund to continue its "first-check" mission. Led by Alex Iskold, 2048 is doubling down on its "Systems of Record" thesis—backing Vertical AI, Deep Tech, and Biotech where proprietary data creates a defensive moat. They are famous for their "Pre-Seed Fast Track," moving from first meeting to term sheet in as little as 10 days.
Metavallon VC | €5M "Brain Gain" Fund (Launched) In a strategic bid to turn Greece into a global R&D hub, Metavallon has launched the Brain Gain fund. Backed by the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments, they are offering €200K–€400K checks to deep-tech and life sciences founders who commit to building their engineering teams in Greece. It’s a move to capture high-tier talent without the overhead costs of London or Berlin.
Simile | Raised $100M Series A Round which builds AI systems designed to mimic human decision-making, secured $100 million led by Index Ventures to accelerate development of human-like reasoning models.
Runway | Raised $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation to expand its AI video and creative tooling ecosystem.
Anthropic | $20B Funding Round (In Progress). Anthropic is finalizing a massive $20 billion raise at a $350 billion valuation, positioning itself as one of the most valuable AI companies focused on safe and aligned AI.
Swap | A fast-growing competitor to Shopify, raised $100 million just six months after a $40 million round, signaling rapid momentum in ecommerce infrastructure.
Harvey | An AI platform for legal professionals, is reportedly raising new funding at an $11billion valuation, reflecting surging demand for AI in legal workflows.
March 2026 Raises
Cart.com | Raised $180M Growth Equity: Announced Mar 4. Now a dominant force in AI logistics, the company aims to aggressively scale its "unified commerce" platform, leveraging high-level AI to automate end-to-end supply chains and logistics networks for global enterprise customers.
Fig Security | Raised $38M Seed & Series A: Announced Mar 3. Emerging from stealth, the company provides a platform that traces data flows across a security stack to detect "silent failures." The funding is earmarked to help security teams manage infrastructure changes and ensure automated detections remain functional during AI tool integration.
Denki | Raised $4.1M Seed Round: Announced Mar 5. The YC-backed startup provides an AI-powered platform that automates financial audits by reviewing and documenting internal controls. This funding is earmarked to scale its infrastructure, which replaces manual evidence-gathering with automated workflows to help audit firms increase efficiency and reduce human error.
Legora | Closes $550M Series D led by Accel: Announced March 10. A rising star in enterprise automation, Legora provides "digital workers" for back-office operations in finance and insurance, leveraging proprietary LLMs to handle high-stakes regulatory compliance.
Axiom | Secures $200M Series A led by Menlo Ventures: Announced March 13, 2026. An AI research lab focused on symbolic reasoning and mathematical formalization, aiming to eliminate hallucinations in AI by grounding large language models in verifiable mathematical logic.
Harvey | Raises $200M in a new funding round at an $11B valuation: Announced March 25. A leading legal AI platform co-led by GIC and Sequoia, Harvey automates complex legal workflows like contract analysis and due diligence for the world's largest law firms and corporate legal departments.
Cents | Closes a $140M Series C round led by Sumeru Equity Partners: Announced March 26, 2026. The largest software investment in the laundry vertical to date, Cents provides an AI-native business management and payment platform for the $40B+ laundry and dry-cleaning industry.
Isara | Secures $94M in funding at a $650M valuation: Announced March 27, 2026. A "neolab" founded by former OpenAI and MIT researchers focused on "AI agent swarms"—software that allows thousands of specialized AI agents to coordinate and solve complex geopolitical and economic forecasting problems.
Replit | raised $400 million in Series D. The round tripled its valuation from $3B to $9B in six months. The defining "vibe coding" platform of 2026. AI-powered coding enabling anyone to build software through conversational prompts, with 50M+ users and adoption across 85% of Fortune 500 companies
Ayar Labs | raised $500 million in a Growth Round. Strategic and institutional investors participated. An optical interconnect chiplet company replacing electrical copper links in AI data centers unlocking bandwidth and energy efficiency gains for next-gen AI infrastructure.
Nexthop AI | raised $500 million in Series B. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, joined by Andreessen Horowitz. An open-source networking switch company purpose-designed for AI and cloud workloads — solving the critical fabric bottleneck as GPU clusters scale to tens of thousands of accelerators.
Shield AI | raised $2 billion in Series G + Preferred Equity. Advent International and JPMorgan Chase co-led the round, joined by Blackstone ($500M preferred), Snowpoint, InnovationX, and Riot Ventures. A combat-proven autonomous AI pilot platform whose Hivemind software has piloted 26 vehicle classes including F-16s, jet UAVs, and drone boats.
Nebius | raised $2 billion in a Strategic Investment. Nvidia invested for an ~8.3% stake. A full-stack AI cloud platform (born from Yandex's restructuring), targeting 5GW of AI factory capacity by 2030.
Nscale | raised $2 billion in Series C. Nvidia (£500M) led the round alongside growth investors. A vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform spanning GPU compute, networking, data services, and orchestration software — Europe's largest VC round ever.
Reflection AI | raised $2.5 billion in a Growth Round. Nvidia ($800M prior) and JPMorgan Chase (in talks) led the round, joined by DST Global, 1789 Capital, Lightspeed, Sequoia, B Capital, GIC, and Eric Schmidt. An open-source frontier AI lab founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, building freely available U.S. AI models to counter DeepSeek and closed-model competitors.
April 2026 Raises
Ineffable Intelligence | raised $1.1 billion in Seed funding. Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners co-led the round, joined by Nvidia, Google, DST Global, Index Ventures, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, and the British Business Bank. A London-based frontier AI lab founded by former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning chief David Silver, building a "superlearner" AI system that discovers all knowledge from its own experience — without relying on human-generated data. Europe's largest seed round ever.
Cursor (Anysphere) | entered talks to raise $2 billion in a new funding round at an over $50 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz is slated to co-lead, with Nvidia and Thrive Capital also expected to participate. The leading AI-powered coding platform that enables developers to write, edit, and ship code through natural language and intelligent autocomplete, competing directly with GitHub Copilot and OpenAI's Codex.
Avoca | raised $125 million+ across Seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1 billion valuation. Meritech Capital and General Catalyst led the Series B; Kleiner Perkins led the Series A, joined by Amplify Partners and Y Combinator. An AI platform purpose-built for the services economy automating 24/7 call handling, job booking, outbound campaigns, and customer follow-ups for HVAC, plumbing, automotive, and other home service businesses.
Sygaldry Technologies | raised $105 million in Series A funding. Investors not yet fully disclosed. A developer of quantum-accelerated AI server infrastructure designed to sit alongside classical data-center hardware positioning quantum as an "in-the-rack" add-on for speeding up selected AI workloads and improving performance per watt.
Orkes | raised $60 million in Series B funding. AVP led the round, joined by Prosperity7 Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US. A Silicon Valley-based AI-enabled software workflow orchestration platform that helps enterprises build and scale reliable agentic systems and complex software applications in production.
Artemis | raised $70 million across combined Seed and Series A. Investors not yet fully disclosed. An AI-native cybersecurity platform emerging from stealth that builds organization-specific behavioral models across identity, cloud, applications, and endpoints — designed to detect and respond to threats at machine speed, matching the pace of AI-driven attacks.
nEye.ai | raised $80 million in Series C funding. Investors not yet fully disclosed. A developer of optical circuit switching infrastructure for AI data centers routing photons directly between GPU compute nodes to eliminate electrical conversion bottlenecks, drastically reducing latency and power consumption as AI clusters scale to tens of thousands of accelerators.
Mintlify | raised $45 million in Series B funding. Investors not yet fully disclosed. A San Francisco-based documentation infrastructure platform building machine-readable API docs for both human developers and AI coding agents enabling tools like Cursor, Claude, and Copilot to correctly understand and use third-party APIs at scale.
Bluefish | raised $43 million in Series B funding. Threshold Ventures and NEA co-led the round, joined by Amex Ventures, TIAA Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Crane Venture Partners, Laconia, and Swift Ventures. An agentic marketing platform that helps Fortune 500 brands monitor and optimize how they appear across AI channels ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity treating AI visibility as a measurable business discipline.
NeoCognition | raised $40 million in Seed funding. Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures co-led the round, with participation from Vista Equity Partners, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica. A San Francisco-based AI research lab developing self-learning agents that specialize into domain experts by continuously building a world model of the environments they operate in targeting enterprise SaaS and high-stakes workflows.
Gizmo | raised $22 million in Series A funding. Investors not yet fully disclosed. A US/UK-based AI-powered studying platform that generates personalized quizzes, flashcards, and practice problems tailored to individual student learning gaps and retention patterns an AI-native alternative to static courseware.
Era | raised $11 million total ($9 million Seed + $2 million Pre-Seed). Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup led the Seed round, with Collaborative Fund and Mozilla Ventures participating; Topology Ventures and Betaworks led the Pre-Seed. A software platform enabling hardware makers to create AI agents and orchestrations for AI-powered gadgets providing a neutral layer for voice creation, model routing, and device intelligence without building devices itself.
Featherless.ai | raised $20 million in Series A funding. AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures co-led the round, joined by BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Wavemaker Ventures. A serverless inference platform providing API access to 30,000+ open-source AI models from Hugging Face offering enterprises a neutral, hardware-agnostic alternative to proprietary cloud AI stacks with flat-rate pricing.
Miravoice | raised $6.3 million in Seed funding. Unusual Ventures led the round and were joined by Neo, 25madison, and angel investors from Ramp, PubMatic, Atlassian, and Google. An AI voice agent platform that conducts long-form structured phone surveys replacing human call center interviewers with AI that handles 120+ question interviews across 14 languages.
Eclipse Ventures | disclosed $1.3 billion across two new fund vehicles. The firm filed with the SEC and was joined by existing LPs, explicitly targeting physical AI industries including AI infrastructure, manufacturing, and defense. A venture firm backing AI-adjacent physical industries from early-stage through growth.
Juno | raised an undisclosed amount in Seed funding. Investors were not publicly disclosed. An AI tax-preparation automation startup built specifically for underserved small and mid-size businesses, using agentic AI to automate classification, deduction identification, and filing workflows.
Chapter | raised $100 million in Series E funding. Generation Investment Management led the round and were joined by Fifth Down Capital, 8VC, Stripes, XYZ Venture Capital, Addition, Narya Capital, Susa Ventures, and Maverick Ventures. A Medicare navigation platform using AI to deliver personalized, unbiased healthcare coverage guidance to seniors.
Anthropic | raised $5 billion in a Strategic Investment. Amazon led the round, with up to $20 billion more committed subject to commercial milestones. A frontier AI safety company and maker of the Claude family of AI models, committed to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next 10 years in return.
Schematic | raised $6.5 million in Seed funding. Investors not fully disclosed. A software startup that simplifies pricing and packaging infrastructure for software and AI companies.
Omni | raised $120 million in Series C funding. Iconiq Growth led the round and were joined by GV (Google Ventures) and Redpoint Ventures. Valuation set at $1.5 billion. An AI-enabled analytics platform that helps enterprises make faster, data-driven decisions.
Netomi | raised $110 million in Series C funding. Accenture Ventures led the round and were joined by Adobe Ventures and individual investors including Greg Brockman, Nikesh Arora, and Mustafa Suleyman. An AI-powered customer experience automation platform operating across chat, email, voice, and social channels for enterprises.
Hightouch | raised $150 million in Series D funding. Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Bain Capital Ventures co-led the round and were joined by Iconiq Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Amplify Partners, Y Combinator, and TD7 (The Trade Desk's VC arm). An agentic marketing platform enabling always-on AI agents to research audiences, generate on-brand creative, and execute campaigns across advertising, email, SMS, and web.
May 2026 Raises
Sierra | raised $950 million in Growth funding. Led by Tiger Global and GV (Google Ventures), with participation from Benchmark, Sequoia, and Greenoaks. An enterprise AI agent platform co-founded by former Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor that deploys autonomous AI agents to handle customer interactions at scale — from mortgage refinancing to insurance claims processing.
Blitzy | raised $200 million in Growth funding. Led by Northzone, with new investors PSG, Battery Ventures, and Jump Capital. An autonomous software development platform that reverse-engineers enterprise codebases and coordinates thousands of AI agents in parallel to complete months of software development work with no human-guided IDE copilots.
Parallel Web Systems | raised $100 million in Series B funding. Led by Sequoia Capital at a $2 billion valuation, with Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, and Khosla Ventures increasing their stakes. A company offering web search and research APIs built specifically for AI agents — powering customers like Harvey, Notion, Clay, and Opendoor with structured, grounded access to the open web.
Unframe | raised $50 million in Series B funding. Led by Highland Europe, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures, TLV Partners, and Third Point Ventures participating. A managed AI delivery platform that transforms enterprise AI use cases into tailored, production-grade solutions within days addressing the widespread problem of AI pilots that never make it to production.
Synthetic | raised $10 million in Seed funding. Led by Khosla Ventures, with Basis Set Ventures and operator-investors Tobi Lütke (Shopify CEO) and Zach Abrams (Bridge co-founder). A bookkeeping service for software startups run entirely by AI connecting to a company's banks, payroll, and billing systems to produce accrual-basis books with zero human accountants involved.
Stord | raised $250 million in Series F funding. Led by Strike Capital, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G Squared, and Bond. An Atlanta-based logistics platform that also launched Stord Labs, a dedicated physical AI and robotics lab aimed at challenging Amazon's e-commerce fulfillment network. The round values the company at $3 billion double its valuation from a year prior.
OpenRouter | raised $113 million in Series B funding. Led by CapitalG (Alphabet's independent growth fund), with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and others. An AI model exchange that routes workloads across more than 400 models from providers including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, and DeepSeek processing 100 trillion tokens per month and valued at approximately $1.3 billion post-money.
Farther | raised $150 million in Series D funding. Led by General Atlantic. A natively integrated, tech-driven wealth management platform designed to replace fragmented legacy systems used by wealth management firms, with $23 billion in recruited assets and a focus on high-net-worth clients and top-tier advisors.
Socket | raised $60 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation. A supply chain security platform that provides automated analysis detecting malicious behavior in open-source code dependencies serving enterprises dealing with the surge of AI-assisted development.
Catena Labs | raised $30 million in Series A funding. Led by a16z crypto and Acrew, with participation from General Catalyst, QED, Breyer Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and others. A banking and governance infrastructure platform for AI agents that has filed for a National Trust Bank charter building regulated financial infrastructure so autonomous software agents can handle money movement safely.
Mercury | raised $200 million in Series D funding. Led by TCV, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, CRV, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. A fintech company serving as the financial operating system for startups and AI-native businesses offering banking, treasury, and cash management tools alongside AI features like Mercury Insights and MCP integrations. Now serves one in three U.S. startups with $650M in annualized revenue and conditional OCC approval to become a federally chartered bank.
Cycles | raised $6.4 million in Seed funding. Led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, Primitive Ventures, and angels. A Toronto-based crypto infrastructure startup building an open, privacy-preserving multilateral clearing network for on-chain finance and stablecoin payments using zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments to net settle obligations across trading firms, reducing collateral requirements and counterparty risk.
Shatterdome Energy | raised $3.5 million in Pre-Seed funding. Led by Crucible Capital, with participation from Transpose Platform and Entrepreneurs First. An AI-driven energy trading and virtual power plant startup that helps renewable energy operators, utilities, and industrial power consumers navigate volatile electricity markets coordinating generation, battery storage, and flexible demand through an AI forecasting and dispatch platform. Already moved 200 MWh of power in its first three months with 1.5 GW of assets in the pipeline.