We lead this week with news that Hyro has raised USD 45mn in a strategic growth round led by Healthier Capital, with participation from Norwest, Define Ventures and existing investors. Bon Secours Mercy Health and ServiceNow Ventures also joined as strategic investors.
Proceeds will accelerate development of Hyro’s administrative, operational and clinical AI agents that support healthcare organisations across digital and voice channels. The funding, which follows a previous raise ten months ago, doubles Hyro’s valuation and brings total investment to USD 95mn. Hyro’s platform integrates large language models with its proprietary conversational engine and healthcare-specific small language models, using knowledge graphs to improve accuracy. The company said its AI agents resolve up to eighty five percent of routine patient interactions—such as registration, scheduling and prescription management—while maintaining compliance with HIPAA and other standards. The platform is currently deployed across more than forty five health systems in the United States.

In other news:

Miscellaneous / Consumer

• Moonshot AI building “new species of website” with $10mn seed round
  Moonshot AI has raised USD 10mn for its seed round to grow across industries as it continues to turn websites into what it calls “fully automated, self-optimizing living organisms.” The round was led by Mighty Capital alongside other investors such as Oceans Ventures, Uncorrelated, Garuda Ventures and Almaz Capital.
  Moonshot AI’s websites learn, experiment on their own, as they continuously analyses user behaviour and generates on-site experiences using generative AI.
  
• Magic raises $10mn seed round led by Lerer Hippeau
  AI-agentic CRM platform Magic has raised USD 10mn for its seed round led by Lerer Hippeau. Other investors are Bling Capital, Floodgate, Major Food Group and others. The company has emerged from stealth and has built Loyalist, an agentic CRM platform that is used by hundreds of restaurants.
  Magic is addressing the service industry, one it says has been left behind in favour of other sectors such as the legal profession and engineering.

• Insight Partners leads the way for Darwin AI’s Series A round
  Darwin AI, a company helping governments to use artificial intelligence safely and at scale, has raised a USD 15mn Series A round led by Insight Partners. Other investors were UpWest and Resolute Ventures.
  The investment will go towards facilitating the development of Darwin Govern and LaunchPad and grow its policy training and implementation teams to service demand from U.S. agencies in Texas, Ohio, California, Illinois and Washington. Darwin Govern is a centralized system of AI guardrails that enables agencies to establish policy, enforce records management, oversee data governance and maintain compliance, while LaunchPad is the company’s platform for creating and managing mission-specific agentic workflows for HR, procurement, permitting and other repetitive processes.

• Estuary concludes Series A round of funding with $17mn commitment
  Estuary, a data platform that is solving the AI data bottleneck for enterprises, has raised USD 17mn for its Series A round to simplify the process of moving data to make pipelines dependable, cost predictable and AI ready. The round was led by M13 alongside Firstmark and Operator Partners.

• Tech Square Ventures leads $5mn Seed for Bricklayer AI
  Bricklayer AI has raised USD 5mn for its Seed round led by Tech Square Ventures with returning investors Sovereign’s Capital, Dremit Ventures and BlueWing Ventures also participating. The company will use the funds for product development, expand its go-to-market operations, invest in customer experience and meet growing enterprise demand for AI-driven security automation.
  About Bricklayer
  The company enables security teams to build, manage and orchestrate specialized agents which handle investigations, vulnerability management, threat intelligence and reporting.

Healthcare

• Opyn Health buys Empara
  Healthcare technology company Opyn Health has bought Empara, an AI-led benefits engagement and administration platform. The deal combines Opyn’s member solutions with Empara’s engagement administration platform to create a single access point for healthcare for both members and administrators.
  

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