Runway has announced the launch of a $10 million venture fund to support early-stage startups building across AI, media, and simulation, as the company expands its focus beyond AI video generation into broader “video intelligence” applications. The initiative includes a Builders program offering startups significant API credits to accelerate development on Runway’s platform. Led by […]
Mantis Biotech has secured $7.4 million in seed funding led by Decibel VC, with participation from Y Combinator, Liquid 2, and angel investors, as it develops AI-powered synthetic data infrastructure for biomedical applications. The company is focused on addressing data scarcity in healthcare by generating high-fidelity digital twins of the human body using large language […]
ScaleOps has secured $130 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners, and Picture Capital, valuing the company at $800 million. The company develops AI-driven software designed to automatically manage and optimize compute infrastructure in real time, addressing inefficiencies in AI and cloud environments. […]
Notch has announced a $30 million Series A funding round led by Headline, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jibe Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and Phoenix Insurance, bringing total funding to $45 million. Founded in 2021, the company is developing an AI operating system designed to enable regulated industries to deploy AI safely across complex workflows. […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Variance, building AI investigative agents for risk and compliance, announced a $21.5 million Series A funding round to expand its agentic AI platform for financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. The round was led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from 645 Ventures, Y Combinator, Urban Innovation Fund, and Okta Ventures. Variance […]
Jimini Health has secured $17 million in seed funding from M13, Town Hall Ventures, LionBird, Zetta Venture Partners, OneMind, and additional investors, bringing total funding to over $25 million. The company is developing clinician-supervised, patient-facing AI infrastructure designed for large behavioral health systems, enabling safe and compliant deployment of AI at scale. The platform, Sage, […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Censys, the trusted authority for Internet intelligence and insights, announced its Series D funding round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from Decibel Partners, Greylock Partners, GV, Intel Capital, and others. The company will use the $40 million Series D round and $30 million debt financing to accelerate building AI-driven solutions for […]
Copenhagen-based Financial News Systems (FNS) has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding backed by Ugly Duckling Ventures, as it advances an AI-only financial newsroom model delivering real-time coverage of 9,000 companies across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Founded in 2024 by Gelu Sulugiuc and Nicolai Pedersen, the team behind PLX AI, the company is focused […]
Antaris has announced the first close of a $28 million Series A funding round led by WestWave Capital, with participation from Lockheed Martin Ventures and additional investors, as demand accelerates for AI-driven satellite mission technologies. The company develops the Antaris Intelligence platform, designed to streamline satellite design, simulation, manufacturing, and operations for ISR and communications […]
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen), the industry-led, not-for-profit organization that leads Canada’s Global Innovation Cluster for Advanced Manufacturing, announced $29.2 million in new federal funding to support 20 new projects for manufacturers across Canada to adopt and scale made-in-Canada AI solutions. The new funding is provided through the Government of Canada’s Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy and is being […]