| 1 | Dextr AI dextr.ai | Seed | $6.7M | Travel & Hospitality | Sajid Shariff Founder & CEO | - -Sajid Shariff and CTO Scott Arnold co-founded Dextr AI to bring forward-deployed AI directly into hotel operations.
- -Shariff has positioned Dextr's approach as a Palantir-style forward-deployed model, unusual in hospitality software.
- -The team grew from 3 to 21 people in a year while processing over 1 million guest interactions monthly across hundreds of hotel properties.
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| 2 | Rio Health riohealth.in | Seed | $4.5M | HealthTech | Ankur Agrawal Co-Founder | - -Ankur Agrawal co-founded Rio Health alongside Amit Ahuja to build a 20-30 minute pharmacy delivery network for Delhi NCR.
- -This pre-Series A round follows an earlier raise of roughly Rs 19.2 crore, bringing total funding to date to about Rs 62.2 crore.
- -Rio Health plans to open 12 additional dark stores across Delhi NCR and is targeting Rs 150 crore in annual recurring revenue within nine to twelve months.
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| 3 | O-ID o-id.net | Pre-Seed | $1.2M | Robotics & Hardware | Stian Jakobsen Co-Founder & CEO | - -Stian Jakobsen co-founded O-ID with CTO Simon Gormuzov to build modular humanoid robots manufactured in Japan.
- -The team has filed a provisional US patent for its field-repairable modular connector technology.
- -O-ID is targeting Japan's projected shortage of 11 million workers by 2040 and plans to launch its second-generation robot in Q1 2027.
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| 4 | Kontext kontext.security | Seed | $4M | Cybersecurity | Jens Ernstberger Co-Founder & CEO | - -Jens Ernstberger, who holds a PhD in system security and applied cryptography, co-founded Kontext with Michel Osswald, who brings a cybersecurity background.
- -The pair originally built Kontext for coding agents like Claude Code and Codex before pivoting toward financial services customers.
- -Kontext raised its seed round from 42CAP, a16z's CSX and HTGF as it moves from an observe mode to enforcement for AI agent activity inside banks.
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| 5 | Pilgrim pilgrimlabs.com | Seed | $25M | Defense & GovTech | Jake Adler Founder & CEO | - -Jake Adler, a Thiel Fellow, founded Pilgrim after an earlier project building rapid wound-healing nanocomposites for military use.
- -Adler has described Pilgrim's mission as bridging the gap between the benchtop and the battlefield for biodefense technology.
- -The company's Argus device already has an automated airborne biosurveillance agreement with the CDC and has deployed units across the US.
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| 6 | Kasvu Therapeutics kasvutx.com | Series A | $34M | HealthTech | Jami Mandelin CEO & Co-Founder | - -Jami Mandelin serves as CEO and co-founder of Kasvu Therapeutics, which spun out of University of Helsinki research.
- -The company was founded on Professor Eero Castren's research into BDNF and TrkB signaling mechanisms in the brain.
- -The Series A will fund preclinical studies and take KTX-0141, a non-hallucinogenic depression candidate, into Phase 1/1b human trials in late 2027.
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| 7 | Prevision Medicine previsionmedicine.com | Seed | $5.4M | HealthTech | Philip Zimmermann CEO & Co-Founder | - -Philip Zimmermann, who holds a Doctor of Engineering degree, founded Prevision Medicine after prior roles connected to Nebion and the Immunai Group.
- -Zimmermann's background includes work tied to ETH Zurich precision medicine research before commercializing the platform.
- -The seed round will fund regulatory clearances and operational expansion of the company's functional oncology testing platform across Europe.
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| 8 | Reply Next replynext.com | Pre-Seed | $430K | Enterprise Software | Miguel Penate Founder & CEO | - -Miguel Penate, a telecommunications engineer, founded Reply Next to help multi-location brands manage their digital presence.
- -Penate has framed the market gap by noting that fewer than 10% of businesses appear in AI-powered search engine results.
- -Reply Next will use its pre-seed funding to grow its technology and sales teams and build new AI agents for multi-location brand management.
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| 9 | ONYA onyadiamonds.com | Seed | $1.5M | Consumer | Gaurav Choudhary Co-Founder | - -Gaurav Choudhary and Himani Yadav co-founded ONYA in 2024 to sell IGI-certified lab-grown diamond jewellery.
- -The founders built a Neoclassical-inspired product line and a proprietary ONYA Setting to differentiate the brand from rivals like Aukera and Limelight.
- -ONYA has grown to eight flagship stores across Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad and reports roughly Rs 3.5 crore in monthly recurring revenue.
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| 10 | Ando ando.so | Seed | $20M | Enterprise Software | Sara Du Founder & CEO | - -Sara Du, a Thiel Fellow, founded Ando as her second startup after previously building and running Alloy Automation.
- -Du has described the core problem she is solving as eliminating meat proxies, where humans become messengers between AI agents and their teams.
- -Ando has grown to working with customers across 15 countries in software, real estate and finance since launch.
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| 11 | Xisiid Intelligence xisiid.com | Seed | $3.5M | AI & Machine Learning | Chua Yam Song Founder & CEO | - -Dr. Chua Yam Song founded Xisiid Intelligence after roles in computational neuroscience and neuromorphic computing at A*STAR Singapore and Huawei's 2012 Labs.
- -Dr. Chua unveiled the company's Brain-Inspired Self-Evolving Foundation System at the Shanghai Pujiang Innovation Forum.
- -Xisiid says its roughly 30-billion-parameter agent system performs comparably to frontier models with over a trillion parameters, and is now engaging institutional clients in investment, legal and enterprise governance.
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| 12 | Clastix clastix.io | Seed | $3.3M | Developer Tools | Adriano Pezzuto Co-founder | - -Adriano Pezzuto co-founded Clastix in 2020 after years managing Kubernetes deployments inside large enterprises, and started the open-source Capsule project before building the company's commercial platform.
- -He co-founded Clastix alongside fellow engineer Dario Tranchitella, and together they built Kamaji, the open-source project that lets tenant control planes run as pods on shared infrastructure.
- -The new 2.9 million euro seed round, Clastix's first external funding, will help the Naples-based team scale kMetal, its commercial platform now running in production for customers including Fastweb and Nvidia.
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| 13 | 50skills 50skills.com | Series A | $6M | HR & Recruiting | Kristjan Freyr Kristjansson Co-founder & CEO | - -Kristjan Freyr Kristjansson co-founded 50skills in Reykjavik in 2017 and has led the company through its evolution from an applicant tracking tool into a full people-operations platform.
- -He has been a visible voice in Iceland's startup scene, speaking at local innovation and entrepreneurship events about scaling a product-led company out of a small home market.
- -The new 5.3 million euro round will fund hiring across sales, marketing and community as 50skills scales a platform already handling more than 4 million HR actions a year for clients like Icelandair and Domino's.
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| 14 | Spiich spiich.com | Seed | $3.4M | Enterprise Software | Johan Torssell Co-founder | - -Johan Torssell co-founded Spiich in Stockholm in June 2025 with Dennis Hadzialic, betting that AI agents should absorb the non-selling work around a deal rather than just assist reps with it.
- -Investors backing the round include angels from Lovable, Neo4j, Tandem Health and OpenAI, a sign of the technical network Torssell and Hadzialic have built around the company.
- -The new 3 million euro seed round arrives ten months after a 600,000 euro pre-seed, with Spiich now serving more than 50 customers across 15 countries in Europe, the US and South America.
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| 15 | Duqu duqu.com | Pre-Seed | $1.7M | FinTech | Maas de Goede Co-founder | - -Maas de Goede co-founded Amsterdam-based Duqu to close the cash-flow gap that Dutch businesses face when 46 percent of B2B invoices get paid after their due date.
- -He and his co-founders spent the past year and a half building Duqu's proprietary AI underwriting engine, which now automates around 95 percent of the credit assessment process.
- -The new 1.5 million euro pre-seed round, from Curiosity VC and No Such Ventures, will fund growth of both Duqu's working capital platform and its white-label underwriting technology for banks and lenders.
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| 16 | Crux Analytics cruxanalytics.com | Seed | $2.1M | FinTech | Jacob Bennett CEO & Co-founder | - -Jacob Bennett co-founded Crux Analytics with his brother Nathan in 2023 after his own experience as a small business owner showed him how badly community banks underserve small business clients.
- -Before Crux, Bennett worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, giving him a close look at the operational gap between big-bank resources and small-business relationship banking.
- -The new 1.9 million euro seed round, led by Castle Creek Launchpad on behalf of 34 community banks, brings Crux's total funding to 2.8 million euros as it expands its sales-execution platform for lenders.
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| 17 | F13 f13.ai | Pre-Seed | $5M | AI & Machine Learning | Gregory Janik Co-founder & CEO | - -Gregory Janik co-founded F13 with Ingimar Tomasson and took the company out of stealth this week after building foundation models focused on precise, editable vector graphics.
- -Janik has framed F13's mission around technical accuracy over raw creative flash, arguing that professional users need charts, diagrams and layouts that are true to the brief rather than just visually impressive.
- -The new 5 million dollar pre-seed round, led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital, will fund F13's first model launch and expand its compute, talent and data resources.
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| 18 | Metycle metycle.com | Debt | $150M | Climate & Energy | Rafael Suchan Co-founder | - -Rafael Suchan co-founded Metycle in Cologne in 2022 with Sebastian Brenner to bring transparency and efficiency to the global market for recycled copper and aluminium.
- -Suchan has documented the company's early scrappy days on Metycle's own Medium blog, walking through why the founding team chose secondary metals trading as their starting point.
- -The new 131.7 million euro credit facility from Rivonia Road Capital follows Metycle's 2023 seed and 2025 Series A rounds, as the company reports 150 percent year over year growth in metals traded.
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| 19 | Robocurve robocurve.org | Seed | $10M | AI & Machine Learning | Jay Chooi Founder & CEO | - -Jay Chooi founded Robocurve to build independent evals of frontier AI, drawing on his earlier work contributing to the UK government's AI evaluation framework.
- -He has positioned Robocurve as a Public Benefit Corporation with a legal duty to publish robotics findings independent of the AI labs it evaluates, a structural choice he has spoken about publicly.
- -The new 10 million dollar seed round, led by Initialized Capital, comes as Robocurve's open-source evaluation tool has already been downloaded more than 97,000 times and its research viewed over 6 million times.
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| 20 | Go.AI go.ai | Series A | $85M | AI & Machine Learning | David Moscatelli Co-Founder & CEO | - -David Moscatelli co-founded Go.AI, formerly Go Abacus, with Lisa Gillespie, taking the company from a two-person idea to more than 50 employees and a rebrand around on-prem AI infrastructure.
- -Moscatelli has talked about opening Go.AI's new Chicago headquarters on South Wacker Drive as a marker of the company's growth from founders to a full team serving regulated institutions.
- -The new 85 million dollar Series A, led by Updata Partners, arrives with Go.AI already profitable, serving 200-plus customers and growing annual recurring revenue 8x year over year.
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