Vishal Sikka, former Infosys CEO, launches Hang Ten Systems, raising $32M seed funding for its AI-driven enterprise software services. The startup aims to automate IT tasks traditionally done by human services firms, with early customers including Siemens Gamesa and Fresenius.
Allbirds has transformed into Smartbird, selling its shoe business for $43 million and raising $100 million to focus on AI infrastructure. New CEO Nadia Carlsten aims to provide controlled server deployments for companies prioritizing data sovereignty over public cloud scalability.
Allbirds has rebranded as Smartbird and pivoted to AI infrastructure after selling its shoe business for $43 million and raising $100 million. New CEO Nadia Carlsten aims to serve companies needing direct control over AI model deployment for political or business reasons, valuing data sovereignty over public cloud scalability.
Allbirds has rebranded as Smartbird after selling its shoe business for $43 million and raising $100 million to focus on AI infrastructure. New CEO Nadia Carlsten aims to provide controlled server deployments for companies prioritizing data sovereignty over public cloud scalability.
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has secured $7 million in seed funding, led by Greylock's Jerry Chen. Founded by former Datadog engineers, Niteshift aims to provide infrastructure that separates AI coding models from their underlying platforms, addressing concerns about model makers competing with their users.
Biotech firm Imperagen secured £5 million in seed funding led by PXN Ventures to advance its AI and quantum physics-based enzyme engineering technology. The company aims to make enzyme development faster, more efficient, and cost-effective, with new CEO Guy Levy-Yurista at the helm.
NanoCo, the company behind the security-focused AI agent NanoClaw, has secured an oversubscribed $12 million seed funding round. The company's viral launch, boosted by endorsements from AI researcher Andrej Karpathy and Singapore's foreign minister, attracted significant investor interest, including a $20 million acquisition offer.
Stilta, an AI platform automating intellectual property analysis, has raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The startup aims to make patent litigation more efficient and affordable by using AI agents to research and analyze patent cases.
Nvidia partners with UK-based AI startup Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former Google DeepMind lead David Silver, to develop superintelligence through reinforcement learning, backed by a $1.1 billion seed round.
AI startup Pit is led by the cofounders of European scooter giant Voi and backed by a16z, which is leading the startup’s $16 million seed round.
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing complex tasks.
Pursuit, an AI platform helping companies find and win government contracts, announced a $22 million seed round led by OpenGov co-founder Mike Rosengarten. The startup crawls public data from approximately 11,000 state, local, and education (SLED) entities to surface contract opportunities. Founded in 2023 by Mike Vichich and Brandon Max, Pursuit has raised $25.5 million total from investors including Jack Altman, Bill Gurley, and Sam Hinkie.
Series, a next-generation social networking app founded by Yale students Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round from investors including Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The platform operates entirely through iMessage, allowing users to text Series AI to connect with others based on shared interests or needs, presenting potential matches as swipeable carousels. The company, still based on the East Coast with an office in Chelsea, New York, has expanded beyond its initial college student base to target Gen Z and professionals.
10x Science, a biotech startup founded in December 2025, has raised a $4.8 million seed round to build an AI platform that characterizes protein candidates for drug development. The company combines deterministic algorithms with AI agents to interpret mass spectrometry data, addressing a critical bottleneck as AI models generate more protein structure predictions. The three founders worked together in Stanford Nobel laureate Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi's lab.
Biotech startup 10x Science has secured $4.8 million in seed funding to scale its AI-driven platform. The tool automates the complex analysis of mass spectrometry data, helping pharmaceutical researchers accelerate the characterization of protein-based drug candidates.
