Seed & Series A Radar

Materials and Subsurface AI Funding

• 🔥 Apoha Emerges from Stealth: Apoha raised $36M (seed plus unlettered round) led by Singular with Draper...

TrueFan AI’s $10M raise accelerates its pivot from celebrity fan videos to enterprise real-time AI agents, targeting the $900B video production market with capacity for 500K videos per minute.

Terra AI raised $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures with BHP Ventures participating, funding expansion of its generative geological modeling platform for mining, geothermal, and carbon storage applications.

Arpio's $15 million Series A, co-led by S3 Ventures and Paladin Capital Group, signals rising enterprise demand for AI-driven automated disaster...

Apoha's $36M Series A, led by Singular with Draper and seed backers, highlights rising investor appetite for AI-driven materials science—a deep tech...

Two AI robotics startups raised a combined $28.2M this week, underscoring sustained investor interest in embodied AI. Paris-based SquareMind secured...

Series A Funding Rounds

• 🔥 Adaptive Innovations: Adaptive Innovations raised a $50M Series A led by Felicis with participation from Bain Capital...

Defense tech funding surged to a record $9.6 billion in 2025 and has already eclipsed that mark in the first five months of 2026, driven by megarounds...

Mistral AI co-founders personally backed NP Company's €6M pre-seed just 13 days after acquiring competitor Emmi AI, signaling strong founder...

• Framework Ventures led $60M total ($25M Series A in Nov + $35M follow-on) for human motion data platform
• Menlo Ventures, Kindred Ventures, SV...

Board raised $20M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, shifting from gaming hardware to an AI-powered creation platform. This early-stage round from a top-tier VC highlights the accelerating convergence of generative AI and gaming.

Three health tech startups just closed Series A rounds, showing AI's expanding role in care delivery and data.

• Ilant Health raised $15M for its...

SpeedLabs launches from stealth with $6.5M seed funding to introduce Momentum Markets, an AI engine that generates entirely new live sports wagers...

Two AI security startups closed rounds the same day, highlighting investor focus on model protection.

• Gray Swan raised $40M Series A co-led by Wing...

Archestra.AI closed a $10M seed round led by 20VC, with backing from Visible Ventures, Tenacity Capital, and angels including Datadog's CEO. The...

Embodied AI and Robotics Funding

• 🔥 Mecka AI: Raised $60 million total ($25M Series A and $35M follow-on) to train robots using human motion...

• €20M oversubscribed Seed backed by Hitachi Ventures, Transition Ventures, imec.xpand and a tier-1 chipmaker
• ASML-incubated soft x-ray system...

Inherent Laboratories secured a $50M seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures as the London startup emerges from stealth to build...

Kopa.ai closed a €2M pre-seed round to build AI tools for e-commerce marketing automation and operations. The round, backed by XTX Ventures, Practica...

TIREFLY secured seed funding from CNTTech to scale its AI scanning platform that grades used tires at 19-micrometer precision, tackling quality...