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Cenana Growth Partners leads round for platform simplifying pre-tax benefits and employee stipends.
Italian company expands on-orbit data processing and satellite servicing capabilities with Azimut Group backing.
Creators of popular open source project spin out VC-backed startup at $800M valuation to optimize AI model deployment.
Austin startup now serves 2M+ developers, claims 10x velocity gains and 65% cost savings versus legacy cloud providers.
Duke University spinout developing light-based processors 10,000x smaller than existing photonic elements.
Left Lane Capital leads round for wellness brand targeting the $30 billion functional beverage market.
Platform helping musicians retain ownership while accessing capital closes round led by The Raine Group.
The AI benchmarking platform behind the popular LLM leaderboards secured major funding to expand its model evaluation infrastructure as AI competition intensifies.
Lyte AI, founded by the team behind Apple's Face ID technology, raised $107 million to build a unified perception platform combining cameras, motion sensing, and 4D sensors for robots.
Humanoid robot maker Figure AI secured another billion-dollar round as the robotics sector raised $13.8 billion in 2025, surpassing even the 2021 venture peak.
Pittsburgh-based Skild AI closed a massive $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund to develop general-purpose AI models for robotics applications.
Deepgram, the real-time API platform powering the Voice AI economy, raised $130 million at a $1.3 billion valuation as demand for speech recognition soars.