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Find out more- Ora Computing raises €3.5mn Seed round to optimize and compress AI foundation models
Ora Computing, a deep-tech software startup developing algorithms for LLM compression and optimization, has raised a EUR 3.5mn Seed round from Constructor Capital, Greencode Ventures and XISTA Science Ventures. The Vienna-based company is challenging the assumption that massive scale is required to reach useful intelligence and believes that the next wave of AI adoption will be driven by compact highly-efficient models that have been optimized for specific use cases.
Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global back Taktile’s $110mn round to automate high-stakes financial decisions
Taktile has raised USD 110mn in a Series C round backed by Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global, Index Ventures and Y Combinator. The startup builds AI agents that banks and insurance companies use to automate high-stakes decisions such as screening risky transactions, processing insurance claims and onboarding new customers. The capital will fund continued development of Taktile’s software platform and the opening of a new office in São Paulo. - Taktile was cofounded by machine-learning engineers Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber. The company positions its product as an operating system that lets financial institutions deploy models from major AI labs as dedicated agents for sensitive workflows, such as reading claims documents, matching damage assessments to insurance coverage and determining payouts.
- Samepage launches Signals, an AI second brain for product leaders, with $4.85mn in funding
Samepage has launched Samepage Signals, an AI tool designed to surface insights for product leaders, backed by USD 4.85mn from Craft Ventures, Freestyle VC, Glasswing Ventures and angel investors including Justin Kan and Matt Mullenweg. Samepage Signals connects to tools including Jira, Linear, Productboard, Slack, Notion, Gong and Salesforce, building a profile of what matters to each user and proactively surfacing relevant information, from feature ideas raised in sales calls to competitor developments and updates on what has shipped or is at risk. The product connects natively to more than 35 product, customer and business data sources. It was tested in beta with hundreds of product leaders before its public launch.
The funding will support continued development of Samepage Signals and broader adoption of the product among product leaders. - Patronus AI completes $50mn Series B round to accelerate the next generation of AI agents Patronus AI has completed a USD 50mn Series B round to expand its research organization, grow its engineering team and invest in the compute and infrastructure required to train and run what it calls Digital World Models at scale. These models are a new class of large-scale simulation environments that are designed to help AI systems train, evaluate and improve across complex workflows. Investors backing the round are Notable Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Datadog, Samsung, Factorial Capital and others. Patronus AI builds simulation infrastructure that allows AI systems to train on realistic software, research, communication and enterprise workflows instead of optimizing for narrow benchmark performance.
- Coval raises $28mn Series A led by Norwest to scale voice AI evaluation infrastructure
Coval, the evaluation platform for voice AI, has closed a USD 28mn Series A round led by Norwest, with participation from Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures and Y Combinator. The round brings total funding raised by the company since its 2024 launch to USD 31mn.
The capital will fund an expansion of Coval’s sales and solutions engineering teams as well as address the growing reliability and compliance enterprises face. The company will also use the funding to advance product capabilities, including deeper simulation, new integrations and enhanced human review and monitoring features.
Coval provides simulation, observability and labelling infrastructure that allows enterprises to test and monitor voice and chat AI agents, with customers including Zoom and Deepgram. The platform runs tens of millions of evaluations for clients deploying autonomous voice agents across customer service, sales, financial services and healthcare. - Pantera Capital leads $4.3mn seed for Orthogonal’s agent discovery and payments layer
Orthogonal has raised a $4.3mn seed round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Decasonic, Blast, Outbound and Surreal. The company operates a discovery, orchestration and payment layer that allows AI agents to find services they need, call them in the right order and pay for them within a single workflow. The funding will accelerate development of Orthogonal’s core platform, the infrastructure underpinning agent capability discovery, instant service access and integrated payments, and will fund expansion of its engineering and go-to-market teams. - Sazabi raises $8mn seed with backing from 60+ AI and developer tool angels
Sazabi, the AI-native observability platform for engineering teams, has closed an USD 8mn seed round led by J2 Ventures, Village Global and Y Combinator, with participation from Orange Collective and more than 60 angel investors from companies including Vercel, Cursor, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub, Replit and Browserbase. The funding will be used to expand Sazabi’s engineering team, accelerate product development and deepen integrations across cloud and developer platforms. Sazabi uses AI agents to understand a team’s logs, infrastructure and codebase, then proactively detects, investigates and resolves production issues. The platform treats log data as the single source of truth for observability, using AI to reconstruct the views engineers need without the instrumentation complexity of traditional logs, metrics and traces setups. - xCures raises $46mn Series B from Innovius Capital, iGrow, GKCC, Spring Mountain Capital and existing investors
xCures has closed a USD 46mn Series B financing round with investment from Innovius Capital, iGrow, GKCC, Spring Mountain Capital and existing investors. The round brings the Oakland-based company’s total funding to more than USD 76mn. The capital will support continued expansion of xCures’ clinical clarity layer, which turns fragmented medical records into decision-ready clinical data for providers, value-based care organizations, diagnostics labs and consumer health companies. xCures’ Clinical Clarity Engine combines automated patient histories, evidence-grade data and decision-ready checklists to address the scattering of patient information across labs, hospitals, imaging centers and electronic medical records, much of which arrives as unstructured documents that are difficult to use in clinical workflows. - Attention secures $30mn Series B to build autonomous action engine for revenue teams
Attention has raised a USD 30mn Series B round from RTP Global, returning investors Aglaé Ventures, Eniac and Alven, new investor Linea and a group of angel investors drawn from the company’s own customer base. The New York-based company will use the funding to expand its agentic offering and move further upmarket into enterprise revenue organizations. The capital will fund development of an autonomous action engine that surfaces each sales representative’s highest-impact next moves, ranked by likely revenue, executes the ones they approve and learns from the outcome of every action it takes.
Attention’s platform acts inside the revenue workflow, drafting and sending follow-ups, updating the system of record and running the next play, rather than only observing and summarizing calls. The company runs more than 20mn agent actions per month for customers, with annual recurring revenue up 4x year over year and ACV up 10x over two years. It serves more than 500 customers, including Abridge, Scale, Lovable, Preply and BambooHR. The company was founded in 2021 by Anis Bennaceur and Matthias Wickenburg. - Sophia Space closes $7mn SAFE round backed by Nvidia alumni fund and SparkLabs
Sophia Space, a company building the next generation of AI infrastructure and intelligent systems for the space economy, has closed a USD 7mn SAFE financing round with participation from EverGreen, the Nvidia alumni investment network, and SparkLabs Group, bringing the company’s total funding to USD 22mn. The round will support product development, expand engineering and commercial teams and fund deployment of the company’s platform across government, commercial and international markets. - MoonPay acquires Entendre to add AI accounting agents to stablecoin infrastructure
MoonPay has acquired Entendre, a builder of AI accounting agents used by stablecoin payment and fintech companies. The deal extends MoonPay’s infrastructure into financial operations, adding agents that handle reconciliation, treasury and close workflows behind transactions. The acquisition is the latest in a series of strategic moves by the company to build comprehensive infrastructure for companies that operate with digital money. Earlier in the year, it acquired Sodot, forming the basis of MoonPay Institutional. The company has also announced MoonPay Trade through the acquisitions of Decent and DFlow for the build out of end-to-end infrastructure for trade execution and tokenization infrastructure.
MoonPay is a financial technology company that helps businesses and consumers move value across fiat and digital assets. It has more than 30mn customers across 180 countries and supports more than 500 enterprise customers spanning crypto and fintech. - Isometric to expand agentic certification with $40mn Series A round
Isometric has raised USD 40mn for its Series A round of funding to expand agentic certification into the industrial economy. The round was led by AVP, which counts AXA as an anchor investor, and existing institutional investors Lowercarbon Capital, Plural and angel investors supported the round.
Funding round, USD 50mn Series B. Here’s the article. - Partly closes $50mn Series B led by DST Global Partners, launches in US market
Partly, the company behind the Interpreter AI model for the automotive repair supply chain, has closed a USD 50mn Series B round led by DST Global Partners at a USD 500mn valuation. The raise coincides with the company’s launch into the US market.
The funding will support Partly’s expansion into the United States, where it has anchored operations in Austin, Texas. The company is relocating its core executive team, including CEO and co-founder Levi Fawcett, and is hiring for engineering, business development and product management roles to serve the country’s roughly 250,000 repairers.
Founded in 2020, Partly has built an AI model trained specifically on automotive parts data, drawing on five years of human feedback, synthetic data and more than fifty manufacturer agreements. - JustAI raises $17mn Series A led by Base10 Partners to build autonomous marketing agents
JustAI, an AI-native marketing platform that automates personalization, experimentation and decisioning, has raised USD 17mn in Series A funding. Base10 Partners led the round, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners, alongside strategic investors and operators from Anthropic, Chime and Notion, the CTO of HubSpot and the founders of Eppo and Vapi. The platform is built around four coordinated agents. A strategy agent audits users, segments and product surfaces. A creative agent turns those insights into messaging across channels such as email and in-app experiences. A decisioning agent optimizes for goals including engagement, retention and revenue within marketer-defined guardrails. A data agent measures lift and feeds results back into the system, allowing marketing teams to move from manual campaign execution to autonomous operation. - MoEngage acquires AI infrastructure company Aampe to add per-user decisioning agents
MoEngage has acquired Aampe, a San Francisco based AI infrastructure company that gives every individual customer of a brand a dedicated, autonomous AI agent. The deal brings Aampe’s reinforcement learning engine directly into MoEngage’s platform, combining workflow agents used by marketers with decisioning agents that act on behalf of each user within a single system. n. The acquisition addresses a limitation MoEngage identified in personalisation tools that require teams to rebuild segments, journeys and experiments from scratch with each new initiative rather than carrying forward what has already been learned. - Valence AI raises $5mn seed funding, secures two patents for real-time emotion detection from speech
Valence AI has raised USD 5mn in total funding, including a seed round from Differential Ventures, Difference Partners, Willowtree Ventures, Change Paradox Ventures and SRI International. The announcement coincides with the issuance of two US patents covering the company’s audio signal processing pipeline for identifying emotional state from live speech in real time using deep learning.
The funding will support expansion of the company’s Pulse Emotion model language coverage beyond its current English-only availability, deeper integrations across voice AI orchestration platforms, and new hires in engineering, go-to-market and customer success.
The San Francisco-based company’s Pulse Emotion model analyzes live calls and classifies emotional state from speech in real time, converting tone, pacing and other vocal cues into structured data for voice agent builders, contact center platforms, and sales and support teams to use alongside transcripts and intent.