Funded & Hiring
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Sunday, 07/19/2026 |
Chai DiscoveryFunding Amount: $400 MillionChai Discovery, a San Francisco, CA-based company engineering AI models to discover new molecules, raised $400M in Series C funding. The round, which valued the company at $3.8B, was led by Index Ventures alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Dimension with participation form Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Baillie Gifford, BDT and MSD, Sapphire Ventures, Avra Capital, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Oak HC/FT, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Glade Brook, Avenir, Lachy Groom, and Yosemite. |
inKindFunding Amount: $320 MillioninKind, an Austin, TX-based company developing a restaurant commerce enablement platform, received over $320M investment from Liberty Mutual Investment (LMI). The company intends to use the funds to support the continued expansion of its restaurant network and the development of new AI-native tools. |
AdvanCellFunding Amount: $315 MillionAdvanCell, a Boston, MA- and Brisbane, Australia-based clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted alpha therapies for cancer, raised US $315M Series D in funding. The round was led by Ally Bridge Group and Alpha Wave, alongside new investors Bain Capital Life Sciences, Fidelity Management and Research Company, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Eventide Asset Management, and Velosity Capital. Existing investors Morningside, Eli Lilly and Company, SV Health Investors, Sanofi Ventures, Abingworth, SymBiosis, Tenmile, Brandon Capital, Piper Heartland, Catalio Capital Management, Proto Axiom, Time BioVentures also participated. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(4), Supply Chain/Logistics(2), Data(1), Other(3) |
OratomicFunding Amount: $300 MillionOratomic, a Pasadena, CA-based developer of fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures and quantum-error correction systems, raised $300m in Series A funding. The round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Bezos Expeditions, Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercarbon Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Formation 8, Nebular, and prominent quantum computing researchers David and Scott Aaronson. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(6), Data(3), Operations(1), Other(1) |
AlpacaFunding Amount: $135 MillionAlpaca, a NYC-based agent-first brokerage infrastructure company, raised $135M in funding. The round was led by Peak XV, with participation from Elefund, Opera Tech Ventures and Unbound. |
Prime IntellectFunding Amount: $130 MillionPrime Intellect, a San Francisco, California-based developer of an open-source decentralized AI training and reinforcement learning infrastructure platform, raised $130m in Series A funding. The round was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and existing institutional investors, bringing total funding to over $150m. |
BrincFunding Amount: $125 MillionBrinc, a Seattle, WA-based public safety drone technology company, raised $125M in funding. The round was led by Motorola Solutions, with participation from Index Ventures and Dylan Field, Figma’s CEO and founder. |
Pearl HealthFunding Amount: $110 MillionPearl Health, a NYC-based healthcare technology company helping manage risk and deliver better care to Medicare patients, raised $110M in funding. The round consisted of a $50M in equity funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Viking Global Investors, AlleyCorp, Ulysses Capital, and a $60M debt facility led by Trinity Capital. Hiring For: Remote(6), Engineering/Technology(4), Data(2), Customer Success(2), Product(1), HR/People(1), Other(3) |
TerraFirmaFunding Amount: $100 MillionTerraFirma, an Austin, TX-based tech-enabled, vertically integrated construction company, raised $100M in Series A funding. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Glade Brook Capital Partners, BANNER VC, Saga Ventures, Trust Ventures, Definition, PEAK6, Magnetar Capital, and Ravelin Capital. Angel investors included founders, executives, and engineers from companies including SpaceX, Anduril, Base Power, Shinkei, and Hadrian. |
DatabentoFunding Amount: $97 MillionDatabento, a Salt Lake City, OH-based provider of a market data platform for modern finance, raised $97M in Series B funding. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from strategic and existing investors, including DRW Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital, among others. |
SingularityFunding Amount: $80 MillionSingularity, a Los Angeles, CA-based defense tech company, launched with $80m Series A funding at a $400m valuation. The round was led by Khosla Ventures and Felicis, with participation from seed investors AE Ventures and NEA, as well as Long Journey, Harpoon, Menlo Ventures, Y Combinator, Decisive Point, New Vista, Sunflower, and Soma, as well as dozens of recognized leaders from industry, the military, and Congress, including former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General (Ret.) James McConville, former Commander of United States Space Command General Jim Dickinson, and former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Major General (Ret.) Volodymyr Havrylov. Hiring For: Remote(1), Engineering/Technology(1), Other(2) |
State AffairsFunding Amount: $70 MillionState Affairs, a Washington, DC-based technology company combining daily exclusive reporting, original data gathering and AI, raised $70M in total funding. Investors included Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, Alumni Ventures, Marcus Brauchli, Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, and Richard Sarnoff. Hiring For: Sales/Business Development/Growth(4), Engineering/Technology(3), Design(1), Customer Success(1) |
Super.comFunding Amount: $65 MillionSuper.com, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a savings app service, raised $65M in Series D funding, at $1.2 Billion valuation. The rondo was led by TPG. |
OllamaFunding Amount: $65 MillionOllama, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of a developer platform for open models, raised $65M in Series B funding. The round was led by Theory Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, 8VC, Y Combinator, Pace Capital, 49 Palms, GTMFund, and other investors and angels. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(5), Customer Success(2), Product(1), Marketing(1), Other(1) |
VendeluxFunding Amount: $50 MillionVendelux, a NYC-based developer of an AI-powered B2B event intelligence and predictive marketing analytics platform, raised $50m in Series B funding. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners with participation from S3 Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, HubSpot Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Cervin Ventures, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $71m. |
SableFunding Amount: $45 MillionSable, a San Francisco, CA-based AI employee company built to lead customer interactions end-to-end, raised $45M in funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and 8VC, with participation from BoxGroup, SV Angel, Valor Atreides AI Fund, Sabrina and Evan Hahn. |
Bespoke LabsFunding Amount: $40 MillionBespoke Labs, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of an AI agent training platform, raised $40M in funding. The round consisted of a Series A led by Wing VC, with participation from Mayfield, The House Fund, dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy, and other angels from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, as well as a Seed led by 8VC, with participation from Jeff Dean, Resolve AI CEO Spiros Xanthos, DevRev CEO Dheeraj Pandey, and others. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(7), Product(2), HR/People(2), Remote(1), Design(1), Other(2) |
FeatheryFunding Amount: $30 MillionFeathery, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including its recently completed Series A. Backers included Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures. |
HadriusFunding Amount: $27 MillionHadrius, a NYC-based provider of an agentic compliance infrastructure platform for financial services firms, raised $27M in funding. The round, which consisted of a combination of a Seed and Series A, was led by CRV, with participation from Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Altruist, Jump AI, and FINNY. |
RimeFunding Amount: $24 MillionRime, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an enterprise voice AI platform, raised 24M in Series A funding. The round was led by M13, with participation from Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, and continued participation from Unusual Ventures and other existing investors. |
AugmodoFunding Amount: $21 MillionAugmodo, a Seattle, Washington-based developer of wearable spatial computing devices and physical AI inventory tracking software, raised $21m in funding. The round, which valued the company at a $350m post-money valuation, was led by existing backer TQ Ventures, with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Jefferson River Capital, Arena Holdings, Chemist Warehouse, New Fare, Interlace, and Webb Investment Network. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(3), Data(1), Sales/Business Development/Growth(1), Operations(1) |
AgaveFunding Amount: $15 MillionAgave, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an AI platform for construction financials, raised $15M in Series A funding. The round was led by Accel with participation from YCombinator. Hiring For: Product(4), Remote(3), Engineering/Technology(3), Customer Success(3), Data(1), Design(1), Other(3) |
EdVisorlyFunding Amount: $13.3 MillionEdVisorly, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of an educational technology (EdTech) platform for colleges and universities, raised $13.3M in Series A funding. The round was led by Breachway Capital, with participation from U.S. News & World Report, Lumina Foundation, Strada Education Foundation, Motley Fool Ventures, JFF Ventures, Juvo Ventures, Zeal Capital Partners, and others. Hiring For: Engineering/Technology(1), Customer Success(1), Other(2) |
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