Take2 has raised USD 14mn for its Series A round led by Human Capital. Other investors participating in the round are Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC and Honeystone Ventures.

With healthcare hiring at breaking point, one in three new jobs in the U.S. is in the sector, healthcare turnover exceeds 50% and vacancy costs are high. In addition to this recruiting workflows are manual. To solve this, Take2 is an AI agents platform that is purpose-built for healthcare recruiting. Its agent network automates the entire end-to-end hiring process—from job posting to offer. Its first agent, the AI Interviewer, conducts phone interviews with candidates 24/7, evaluates them, records calls and syncs results directly into applicant tracking systems with no human-in-the-loop.

Other news making the headlines:

• ZAST.AI completes $6mn pre-Series A round
  Hillhouse Capital has led the pre-Series A round of ZAST.AI, a cybersecurity startup that is building an end-to-end AI-driven security platform that enables development teams to obtain the highest quality security assurance at the lowest cost.
  So far, ZAST.AI has raised a total of USD 10mn and will spend the funds on R&D and global expansion.
• Daytona secures $24mn for its Series A round
  Daytona, an infrastructure company building programmatic, composable computers for AI agents, has raised USD 24mn for its Series A round of funding. The round was led by FirstMark Capital alongside Pace Capital with existing investors Upfront Ventures, E2VC and Darkmode also participating. The company’s infrastructure allows AI agents to perform complex tasks from code execution to reinforcement learning.
• Feltsense raises $5.1mn Seed to build AI agents that act as autonomous founders
  Feltsense, a company that’s building AI agents that function as fully autonomous founders, has raised a USD 5.1mn Seed round. The round was led by Draper Associates with participation from Precursor Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures and angel investors. The funding will primarily be used for hiring and product development. Feltsense plans to scale rapidly and launch fleets of tens of thousands of agentic founders, opportunities that are too niche or numerous for human founders to pursue.
• Accel leads the round for Fibr AI’s Seed round
  VC firm Accel has lead Fibr AI’s Seed round with participation from WillowTree Ventures and MVP Ventures. The company turns websites into adaptive experience systems built for modern traffic—both human and AI.
• beHuman to expand network of health insurance partners with $4mn Seed round
  beHuman, a physician-led preventative care platform that focuses on improving early cancer detection for underserved populations, has raised a USD 4mn Seed round led by Santé Ventures, with participation from DHVP.io. beHuman will use the funds to expand beyond its current footprint in the north and southeast to make early cancer screening more accessible. beHuman is a physician-led preventive care platform that uses AI to make early cancer detection accessible at scale.
• GenFlux to help brands optimize their visibility with $4.2mn seed round
  GenFlux will use the proceeds from its USD 4.2mn seed round to support brands with their visibility in the age of AI. With an increasing number of individuals using ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini as their primary search tools, there is no page two and most brands have zero visibility. GenFlux pioneers Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization to support brands with this. The round was led by Symbolic Capital along with Borderless Capital, Frachtis, Glasswing Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Delphi Ventures and Radical Ventures.
• Insight Partners leads Pasito’s $21mn Series A round
  Pasito, a company that aims to eliminate manual work across the insurance and benefits industry, has raised a USD 21mn Series A round led by Insight Partners with participation from Y Combinator and MTech Capital. The company is building agentic AI infrastructure that powers the next generation of benefits operations and will use the funds to invest in engineering, grow its forward-deployed teams and expand sales and marketing to meet enterprise demand and broaden distribution. Pasito’s workspace converts unstructured plan and employee census data into a unified data layer that replaces manual plan building and enables end-to-end automation across sales, quoting, marketing, enrolment, support and claims.
• ORION Security closes $32mn Series A round
  Norwest, IBM and existing investors PICO Venture Partners, Lama Partners and others have invested USD 32mn in ORION Security’s Series A round. The company’s AI-powered platform is an alternative to traditional data loss prevention tools and minimizes manual intervention. It will use the funding to accelerate the development of its proprietary end-to-end architecture and specialized AI agents while expanding its go-to-market operations.
• AI research lab Goodfire announces $150mn Series B round
  Goodfire, an AI research lab, has raised USD 150mn for its Series B round of funding at a USD 1.25bn valuation. The funding, which comes less than a year after its Series A round, will enable the company to advance frontier research initiatives, build the next generation of its core product and scale partnerships across AI agents and life sciences. The round was led by B Capital with participation from existing investors Juniper Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, South Park Commons and Wing Venture Capital. The round also attracted new investors DFJ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, Eric Schmidt and others.
• Visual commerce platform Flock AI raises $6mn seed round
  Flock AI, an AI-native visual commerce platform for the fashion and retail industry, has raised USD 6mn for its seed round, which it will use to accelerate product development and support its go-to-market efforts to meet growing enterprise demand. The round was led by Work-Bench with participation from January Ventures, Red Bike Capital, Outlander VC, AI Furnace and strategic angels. Flock AI has raised a total of USD 7.5mn.
• AI research platform Arbor raises $6.5mn
  AI research platform for enterprise operations Arbor has raised USD 6.3mn in a combined seed and pre-seed round to accelerate its product development and team expansion in New York to meet demand from enterprise customers seeking to unlock insights from offline conversations.
  The seed round was led by 645 Ventures with Next Play Ventures, Chaac Ventures, Comma Capital and angel investors. Arbor’s platform automates the entire interview and survey process by conducting thousands of conversations simultaneously and surfacing patterns in real-time.
• Loop AI announces $14mn Series A round
  Loop AI, an AI platform built for the restaurant and retail back office, has raised USD 14mn for its Series A round. The funding will be used to expand Loop AI’s product suite and grow headcount for their offices in New York, San Francisco, Tampa, and Bangalore. Investors in the round are Nyca Partners, Base10, Afore Capital, Converge, Alumni Ventures, Data Tech Fund, 9Yards Capital, angel investors and Operators Studio.