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Here’s this week’s startup funding recap ($290.5 million raised across 10 featured companies): 1. Slip Robotics, led by Chris Smith, has raised $28 million in a Series B funding round. Slip Robotics provides automated truck-loading robots-as-a-service, enabling users to auto-load and unload any truck in just five minutes with SlipBot robots. 2. Mantis Robotics, led by Gerry Vannuffelen, has raised...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap ($264 million raised across 10 featured companies): 1. Terradot, led by James Kanoff, has raised $58.2 million funding, including $4.2 million in Seed funding and a $54 million Series A funding round. Terradot is a climate company that transforms rock weathering into a scalable global carbon removal solution. 2. WeaveGrid, led by Apoorv Bhargava, has raised...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap ($478.42 million raised across 11 featured companies): 1. AMP, led by Matanya Horowitz, has raised $91 million in a Series D funding round. AMP provides AI-powered sortation systems for the waste and recycling industry, using deep learning to identify recyclables and contaminants in real-time. 2. Heirloom, led by Shashank Samala, has raised $150 million in...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap ($135.2 million raised across 7 featured companies): 1. Teleo, led by Vinay Shet, has raised $16.2 million in a Series A funding round. Teleo develops autonomous technology for heavy equipment, turning traditional machinery such as dump trucks, wheel loaders, and excavators into supervised autonomous machines. 2. Wherobots, led by Mo Sarwat, has raised $21....

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap ($545.5 million raised across 18 featured companies): 1. OceanWell, led by Robert Bergstrom, has raised an $11 million Series A funding round. OceanWell develops modular deep-sea water farms designed for reverse osmosis desalination, harnessing natural hydrostatic pressure at depths of 400 meters. 2. Four Growers, led by Brandon Contino, has raised a $9 mil...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. General Galactic, led by Halen Mattison, has raised an $8 million Seed funding round. General Galactic develops fossil-free fuel generation technology, transforming industrial CO2 waste streams into carbon-neutral natural gas. 2. Outbuild, led by Franco Giaquinto, has raised an $11 million Series A funding round. Outbuild provides scheduling and plannin...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Advex, led by Pedro Pachuca, has raised a $3.5 million Seed funding round. Advex provides AI Vision solutions for industrial manufacturing, specializing in self-healing AI Vision models that leverage diffusion-based synthetic data. 2. Transaera, led by Sorin Grama, has raised a $10.5 million Seed funding round. Transaera provides an energy-efficient pla...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. LuxWall, led by Scott Thomsen, has raised a $51 million Series B funding round. LuxWall is a leader in glass-based transparent insulation solutions, focused on reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions from buildings. 2. Third Wave, led by Arshan Poursohi, has raised a $27 million Series C funding round. Third Wave Automation provides autonomous...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Pantheon AI, led by David Mace, has raised a $25 million Series A funding round. Pantheon provides artificial intelligence-enabled architectural services that streamline processes for developers, owners, and tenants. 2. BiltOn, led by Omer Slavin, has raised a $15 million Series B funding round. BiltOn provides construction operations and risk managemen...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Beacon AI, led by Matt Cox, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Beacon AI is an aviation software technology company specializing in advanced AI systems that augment commercial and defense pilots. 2. Solubag, led by Cristian Olivares, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding. Solubag provides a water-soluble alternative to single-use plastic....

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Lithios, led by Mo Alkhadra, has raised a $12 million Seed funding round. Lithios develops electrochemical lithium extraction technology designed to efficiently extract lithium from untapped brine deposits. 2. Airloom, led by Neal Rickner, has raised a $13.75 million Seed funding round. Airloom Energy is a renewable energy company specializing in wind p...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Neeve, led by Nitesh Trikha, has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. Neeve offers a cloud platform for managing smart buildings and spaces, deployed in over 650 buildings globally. 2. 3Laws Robotics, led by Andrew Singletary, has raised a $4.1 million Seed funding round. 3Laws Robotics provides dynamic safety solutions for autonomous systems li...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. David Energy, led by James McGinniss, has raised a $23 million Series A funding round. David Energy is a retail energy provider focused on decarbonizing the energy sector through real-time energy management, aiming to reduce the environmental impact across multiple states in the U.S. 2. Eion, led by Anastasia Pavlovic, has raised a $3 million Series A e...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Slingshot Aerospace, led by Tim Solms, has raised a $30 million Growth Capital funding round. Slingshot Aerospace develops AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking and space traffic coordination, enhancing operational safety. The funds will scale operations and support growth initiatives. 2. GreenLite, led by James Gallagher, has raised a $28.5 milli...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. StackGen, led by Sachin Aggarwal, has raised a $12.3 million Seed funding round. StackGen generates infrastructure from code, automating development processes for platform engineers and DevOps teams. The funds will accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts. 2. Reshape Automation, led by Juan Aparicio, has raised a $5 million Seed funding r...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Oxylus Energy, led by Perry Bakas, has raised a $4.5 million Seed funding round. Oxylus Energy converts CO2 into green methanol through low-temperature processes, targeting sectors like shipping and aviation. The funds will support development and pilot deployment. 2. Blitzy, led by Brian Elliott, has raised a $4.4 million Seed funding round. Blitzy aut...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Butlr, led by Honghao Deng, has raised $38 million in Series B funding. Butlr offers an AI-driven platform to monitor movements and occupancy in spaces, optimizing real estate, health, and energy efficiency without capturing personal data. 2. Planera, led by Nitin Bhandari, has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding. Planera provides a CPM-based sched...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Trunk Tools, led by Sarah Buchner, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. Trunk Tools offers an AI platform that automates construction workflows, using AI agents to manage tasks and prevent delays or budget overruns. 2. Allstacks, led by Hersh Tapadia, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. Allstacks provides a predictive forecasting pla...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. UptimeAI, led by Jagadish Gattu, has raised a $14 million Series A funding round. UptimeAI provides AI-based plant monitoring software to help industrial firms optimize asset performance and detect anomalies in sectors like oil, gas, and utilities. 2. ITpipes, led by Ned Bebawy, has raised a $20 million funding round. ITpipes offers AI-driven pipeline i...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Contextual AI, led by Douwe Kiela, has raised an $80 million Series A funding round. Contextual AI offers a platform that enables enterprises to build custom language models for enhancing AI applications, with secure deployment options. 2. Energy Domain, led by Ben Heinzelmann, has raised a $5 million Series A funding round. Energy Domain operates an on...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Leaf, led by G. Bailey Stockdale, has raised a $11.3 million Series A funding round. Leaf provides a unified farm data API and platform to streamline farm data processing for agriculture and food companies. 2. Applied Carbon, led by Jason Aramburu, has raised a $21.5 million Series A funding round. Applied Carbon designs automated biochar production mac...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Cowboy Clean Fuels, led by Ryan Waddington, has raised approximately $13 million in Series B funding. Cowboy Clean Fuels utilizes depleted coal bed methane wells to generate carbon-negative renewable natural gas using agricultural byproducts. 2. Star Catcher, led by Andrew Rush, has raised a $12.25 million Seed funding round. Star Catcher aims to build...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Jacobi Robotics, led by Max Cao, has raised a $5 million Seed funding round. Jacobi Robotics is commercializing AI-powered motion planning technology to improve robot programming and performance. 2. Alvys, led by Nick Darman, has raised a $20.5 million Series A funding round. Alvys provides a cloud-based logistics platform that enhances supply chain man...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Niva, led by Abhinav Rai, has raised a $3.3 million Seed funding round. Niva provides a global business identity platform that helps businesses build trust, reduce onboarding times, and simplify compliance with AI-driven fraud detection. 2. nodaFi, led by Jacob Pandl, has raised a $3.5 million Seed funding round. nodaFi offers a cloud-based facility ope...

Here’s this week’s startup funding recap: 1. Uncaged Innovations, led by Stephanie Downs, has raised a $5.6 million Seed funding round. Uncaged Innovations creates sustainable, animal-free leather from grains using its BioFuze technology, emitting less greenhouse gas and conserving water and energy. 2. Phaidra, led by Jim Gao, has raised a $12 million funding round. Phaidra provides an AI-powered...