We wrap up the week with Arya Health’s $18.2mn Series A round, which it plans to use to expand its product suite and hire more staff in response to market demand, which has resulted in revenue growth of more than 6x this year.
The company is responding to two key issues—industry pressure from regulatory changes, wage pressure and care staff shortages and private equity consolidation that requires operational improvements beyond more staff hires.

Financial Services

• Uptiq.ai raises $12mn to expand AI infrastructure for financial services: UPTIQ has raised USD 12mn in a funding round led by Silverton Partners, with participation from Live Oak Venture Partners, Tau Ventures, First Capital and Green Visor Capital. The capital will support large-scale adoption of Uptiq Qore, the company’s AI infrastructure platform for financial institutions as well as execute Uptiq.ai’s plans to expand integration partnerships, scale its distribution network and accelerate go-to-market programmes to broaden access to Qore. The funding also supports the company’s 2026 growth strategy, including expanding its engineering, research and customer success teams.
• Grasp raises $7mn for Series A round: Grasp a Swedish AI startup automating investment banking and management consulting work using multi-agent systems, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investor Yanno Capital. Grasp is also announcing the opening of its first international office in London. Grasp’s AI Analyst is an agent system that uses tools to perform tasks. It manages workflows end-to-end – from sourcing trusted information, to wrangling data in spreadsheets, to synthesizing insights in polished PowerPoint slides. The company’s AI Analyst is already used by almost 200 investment banks, management consultancies and private equity firms.

Healthcare

• Sparrow BioAcoustics raises $10mn to expand U.S. deployment of smartphone-based cardiac AI: Sparrow BioAcoustics has raised USD 10mn in a financing round led by Killick Capital and Klister Credit, joined by Pelorus VC, 98827 Newfoundland & Labrador Inc., and Brinex Capital. The funding will support the Canadian medtech company’s U.S. rollout of its FDA-cleared Stethophone platform, which uses artificial intelligence to detect structural and rhythmic heart anomalies directly through a smartphone.
• CustoMED announces $6mn seed round to grow its AI-powered 3D printed solutions for orthopedic surgery: CustoMED, an AI-driven, surgeon-first platform for patient-specific orthopedic solutions, has completed its seed round, bringing total funding to USD 6mn. The round includes investment from Longevity Venture Partners, Varana Capital, Flag Capital, the Israel Innovation Authority, a leading orthopedic implant company, and Avishai Abrahami, Co-founder and CEO of Wix. The proceeds will go towards accelerating CustoMED’s expansion, enabling it to deploy its on-demand manufacturing model and help it reach U.S. and EU regulatory milestones, as it sets its eyes on approvals in 2026.

MISC

Apiphani acquires Tradeoff Software to bolster AI automation platform: Apiphani, an AI-native technology services and automation company, has acquired Tradeoff Software, an AI-focused product development firm founded in 2024 by Braden Ericson. The deal strengthens Apiphani’s product and engineering capabilities as it advances its proprietary automation and observability platform, luumen.

Wild Moose emerges from stealth with $7mn seed round: Wild Moose, an AI-powered site reliability engineering platform, has emerged from stealth after raising USD 7mn in seed funding led by iAngels, with participation from Y Combinator, F2 Venture Capital, Maverick Ventures and several angel investors. Proceeds will be used to scale operations, expand product development and build out its go-to-market team. Wild Moose acts as an AI-first responder for production incidents; it automates triage, gathers context, identifies root causes and recommends next steps. This is in contrast to other tools where the incident management stops at alerting, correlation or summarization. Founded in 2023 by Yasmin Dunsky, Roei Schuster and Tom Tytunovich, the company targets enterprise customers where reliability and uptime are directly tied to revenue and reputation.

VeroSkills closes $5.3mn funding round led by Yonder Ventures: Yonder Ventures has led a USD 5.3mn funding round for VeroSkills, an AI hiring platform that focuses on blue-collar labor shortages. Other investors are Circadian Ventures, Motivate Ventures, Coluchuck and others. VeroSkills will use the funding to accelerate its growth as it continues to connect employers with millions of pre-screened ready-to-work candidates.

Mews acquires DataChat: Hospitality platform Mews has acquired AI company DataChat as part of its strategy to build fully agentic hospitality systems where intelligent agents autonomously manage day-to-day operations, optimize performance and enable individuals to focus on the guest experience. DataChat was founded by AI engineers and data scientists who have focused on natural language processing and data-driven automation in the retail, financial services and telecommunications industries.

OpenSpace deepens visual intelligence capabilities with Disperse acquisition: Visual intelligence platform OpenSpace has bought Disperse, a construction AI tracking solution to deepen its capabilities in the area. The deal follows a partnership between the two and unites Disperse’s technology and data operations team with OpenSpace’s visual intelligence platform.

Lyzr raises $8mn Series A round led by Rocketship.vc: Lyzr AI has raised USD 8mn for its Series A round led by Rocketship.vc with participation from GFT Ventures, Accenture Ventures, Firstsource, Plug and Play, BGV, Partnership Fund for New York City and Arka. The company is using Agentic OS so enterprises can build their own private AI workforce that connects and collaborates across departments instead of AI copilots operating in silos—in effect one that connects and collaborates across departments, HR, Sales and Finance and acts as an operational layer above systems such as Workday, Salesforce and NetSuite. Lyzr will spend the next 24 months growing Agentic OS across every enterprise function and connecting them into what it calls organizational general intelligence.

iPNOTE raises $1mn Seed round: iPNOTE – Your Virtual IP Paralegal, a LegalTech platform that streamlines intellectual property (IP) management, has raised USD 1mn in Seed funding to accelerate the development of its AI agent and deepen its presence across Europe and the UK, and enter the US market. The round was led by AltaIR Capital, alongside Hi2 Venture Fund and several angel investors.