Biopeak, a Bengaluru-based longevity startup, has raised $3.5M in seed funding from Claypond Capital (Ranjan Pai), Accel’s Prashanth Prakash, Nikhil Kamath, and others. The funding will support clinic expansion and development of its AI-powered diagnostic platform.
• Offers full-body scans, molecular diagnostics, and microbiome analysis—all under one roof.
• Patients receive personalized health plans following 6+ hour clinical assessments.
• Uses AI to interpret multi-modal data and detect dysfunctions before symptoms appear.
• Plans to open new clinics in major Indian cities.
• Targeting both wellness-focused consumers and those with unresolved chronic conditions.
• Collaborating with IISc and Longevity India to localize protocols for Indian health profiles.
Biopeak is building India’s first high-tech healthspan clinic network—where prevention, not treatment, takes center stage.
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Anduril, the defense tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has raised $2.5B in Series G funding at a $30.5B valuation, nearly doubling its worth since 2023. Founders Fund led the round with a record $1B check, joined by Valor Equity, Andreessen Horowitz, and others. The raise includes a tender offer for early employees.
• Builds AI-powered surveillance towers, autonomous drones, and software to fuse battlefield data.
• Focused on modular, scalable systems that integrate rapidly into military operations.
• Positions itself as the defense equivalent of Tesla + Palantir—owning both hardware and software layers.
• Revenue has doubled in the past year, approaching ~$1B in 2024.
• Oversubscribed 8x, indicating surging interest in dual-use and defense-aligned ventures.
• Tender offer provides early liquidity—a sign of long-term confidence from existing investors.
• Competing with traditional defense primes by moving faster and iterating on battlefield feedback.
• Strong alignment with U.S. defense goals: autonomy, deterrence, and cost-effective deterrents.
• Long-term risks include geopolitical volatility, contract dependency, and intense regulatory scrutiny.
Anduril isn’t just a contractor—it’s positioning as a full-stack autonomy provider for the modern military.
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Dave’s Hot Chicken, the spicy fast-casual brand born in a Los Angeles parking lot, has been acquired by Roark Capital in a deal reportedly worth close to $1 billion. What began as a $900 experiment in 2017 is now one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the world.
• Started with just a fryer, canopy, and folding table—sold $40 worth of food on day one.
• Known for its simple menu, extreme heat levels (waiver required!), and no-frills branding.
• Leveraged Instagram virality and celebrity fans (Drake is an investor) to fuel early hype.
• Expanded to 315+ locations globally with 150 more in development.
• Franchised early, with partners often committing to multi-unit deals.
• Revenue tripled to $600M+ in two years—projected to double again by 2025.
• Roark—owner of Dunkin’, Wingstop, and Arby’s—has followed Dave’s since it hit 15 stores.
• Acquisition brings operational muscle and global franchising expertise.
• Founders remain involved: one leads culinary, the other brand—preserving authenticity.
Dave’s Hot Chicken is proof that a gritty, low-capital launch can scale into a global business with the right product, story, and speed. The question now: Can it keep its edge under private equity ownership?
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Porto-based PFx Biotech has raised €2.5M in grant funding from the European Innovation Council Accelerator to scale its production of human milk proteins—without cows. The startup is using precision fermentation to make infant-safe, allergen-free proteins for the next generation of nutrition products.
• Produces lactoferrin, α-lactalbumin, and osteopontin using engineered microbes.
• Designed for infant formulas and medical nutrition—without cow allergens.
• Motivated by a founder’s personal experience raising a child with milk allergies.
• Grant will fund bioreactor upgrades, regulatory approvals, and key hires.
• Targets commercialization of bioidentical lactoferrin as a lead ingredient.
• Alumni of Mylkcubator and EIT Food programs; part of the emerging alt-dairy deeptech scene.
• Eliminates reliance on animal agriculture while improving nutritional outcomes.
• Positioned for infant, senior, and functional food markets.
• Meets growing demand for hypoallergenic, sustainable protein sources.
PFx Biotech is rewriting the future of milk—replacing cows with microbes to create a cleaner, safer, and more precise source of nutrition.
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IonQ is acquiring UK-based Oxford Ionics in a ~$1.1B all-stock deal, aiming to accelerate development of fault-tolerant quantum systems. The acquisition is set to close later in 2025.
• Oxford Ionics’ chips use electrode-based control, avoiding lasers — a key step for stability and mass production.
• Built on standard CMOS processes, the tech fits directly into semiconductor supply chains.
• Joint roadmap targets 256 high-fidelity qubits by 2026 and 80,000+ logical qubits by 2030.
• The 80-person Oxford team, including its co-founders, will join IonQ and continue operations from the UK.
• The move deepens IonQ’s European footprint and supports partnerships with Airbus and UK quantum centers.
• IonQ, valued near $10B, has made 6 acquisitions since 2022 to consolidate its quantum stack.
• Post-deal, shares jumped up to 11%; 2025 revenue guidance: $75–95M.
• The company is transitioning from lab-scale systems to commercial-grade quantum processors.
This deal signals a pivot: the race to useful quantum computing will be won by those who can manufacture — not just innovate.
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Meta is in advanced talks to invest over $10 billion in Scale AI, the data infrastructure startup powering many of today’s leading AI models. The potential deal would mark one of the largest-ever investments by a tech giant in an external AI company.
• Scale AI provides high-quality training data for OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta’s own LLaMA models.
• Its platform enables supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, and structured data labeling at enterprise scale.
• 2024 revenue reached ~$870M; 2025 target: over $2B.
• The deal signals a shift from Meta’s build-it-alone AI strategy to strategic partnerships.
• Scale also supports Meta’s classified “Defense Llama” work — expanding its AI footprint into defense.
• The investment could give Meta long-term preferential access to Scale’s services and platform.
• Meta plans to spend up to $68B this year on AI hardware, infrastructure, and product rollouts.
• Generative AI features are coming to Facebook, Instagram, and Meta Ads by 2026.
• A deepened alliance with Scale could sharpen Meta’s edge across consumer and enterprise AI use cases.
For Meta, this isn’t just about data — it’s about controlling the full stack of the AI value chain.
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Cybersecurity startup Guardz has raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky, bringing total funding to $84M. The company is building an AI-native platform tailored for managed service providers (MSPs) serving SMBs.
• Combines endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and data protection in one console — backed by both AI and human-led threat response.
• Includes built-in integrations (e.g., SentinelOne) to cut alert fatigue and accelerate remediation.
• Adds extras like compliance automation, cyber insurance, and phishing simulations.
• Funds will go toward U.S. expansion, product development, and 24/7 MDR capabilities.
• Guardz aims to help MSPs turn cybersecurity into a scalable, recurring-revenue service.
• Already serving “hundreds of partners” across multiple countries.
• Most SMBs lack in-house security teams and rely on fragmented tools.
• Guardz enables MSPs to deliver enterprise-grade protection with simplified management.
• Its AI-native design helps close detection and response gaps without adding overhead.
With fresh capital and a clear MSP-first focus, Guardz is betting that unified AI platforms will define the next generation of small-business cybersecurity.
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Enterprise AI startup Glean has raised a $150M Series F at a $7.2B valuation, led by Wellington Management. The company is building a Work AI platform that combines search, agents, and security to accelerate decision-making across large organizations.
• Connects to 100+ enterprise tools (e.g. Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce) to unify company knowledge.
• Combines permission-aware search with agentic workflows — employees can ask, act, and generate in one interface.
• AI features are layered with robust security, including Glean Protect for data loss prevention and compliance.
• Crossed $100M in ARR less than three years after launch.
• Powers over 100M agent actions per year — aiming to hit 1B annually by end of 2025.
• Customers include Databricks, Grammarly, Duolingo, Deutsche Telekom, and more.
• Funding will accelerate product development, AI innovation, and go-to-market expansion.
• Opening a San Francisco hub to complement its Palo Alto HQ.
• Aims to deepen enterprise partnerships and expand internationally.
• Glean positions itself as the “intelligence layer” for modern companies, unlike generalist tools like ChatGPT.
• Helps teams find answers, automate tasks, and securely collaborate — all from a single interface.
• Recognized by CNBC and Fast Company as a top innovator in enterprise tech.
With strong momentum and a growing market need, Glean is making a bold push to redefine how knowledge workers interact with data, AI, and each other inside the enterprise.
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Developer productivity startup Linear is building a fast, elegant alternative to Atlassian — now backed by a $1.25B valuation and fresh Series C funding led by Accel.
• Combines issue tracking, sprint planning, and bug triage in a minimalist interface loved by engineers.
• Includes built-in AI for auto-summarizing issues, suggesting priorities, and acting as a “team member.”
• Avoids noisy add-ons — streamlining software development with thoughtful design and performance.
• 280% revenue growth year-over-year, with just ~80 fully remote employees.
• Used by over 15,000 companies, including OpenAI, Ramp, Perplexity, and Notion.
• Profitable, despite a team structure that prioritizes quality over headcount.
• New capital will fund expansion into larger orgs while maintaining a product-led growth model.
• Plans to deepen integrations and push further into enterprise AI automation.
• Investors see Linear as a breakout platform in a sea of bloated tools and generic AI features.
• Designed from scratch to avoid the complexity and inertia of legacy systems like Jira.
• AI is integrated where it helps — not for show — keeping engineers in flow.
• Positioned as the foundation for modern product teams in fast-scaling environments.
Linear is betting that speed, clarity, and deeply integrated AI will define the next generation of dev tools.
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French startup Mistral has unveiled Magistral, a new AI model built for chain-of-thought reasoning across multiple languages—part of its push to challenge U.S. dominance in foundational AI.
• First model to natively think in eight languages—no translation layer needed
• Designed for logic-heavy tasks in math, law, code, and finance
• Offers transparent step-by-step outputs for traceability and trust
• Magistral Medium scored 73.6% on AIME 2024; 90%+ with majority voting
• Outperforms many closed models on multilingual benchmarks
• Open-source “Small” version (24B params) already released for developers
• Built in Paris with backing from the French government and EU ecosystem
• CEO Arthur Mensch aims to make Mistral Europe’s answer to OpenAI and Anthropic
• Emphasizes openness, sovereignty, and practical performance over scale hype
• Valued at $6.2B just one year after launch
• Funded by top-tier investors like Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst
• Positioned as the most serious EU contender in the global model race
While Silicon Valley chases ever-larger LLMs, Mistral is betting on multilingual logic, transparency, and practical design to win the next era of foundational AI.
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Israeli-American startup Cyera is doubling down on AI-powered data security, scaling its platform to meet the rising need for DSPM, DLP, and identity protection in the generative AI era—with a fresh $540M raise and a $6B valuation boost in just seven months.
• Unified platform combines DSPM, DLP, and identity intelligence
• Automatically discovers, classifies, and secures sensitive enterprise data
• Tailored for AI-heavy environments like copilots and foundation models
• 353% YoY growth in Fortune 500 adoption
• Doubled headcount to ~800 across 10+ global hubs
• Tripled overall footprint in under 18 months
• Acquired Trail Security for $162M to boost cloud threat detection
• Building toward end-to-end data visibility and compliance automation
• New capital supports global scale, M&A, and rapid product development
• Series E co-led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed
• Continued support from Accel, Sequoia, Cyberstarts, and others
• Valuation doubled from $3B to $6B since late 2024
• CEO Yotam Segev says Cyera is “just getting started”
• Focused on long-term infrastructure building, not short-term exits
Cyera is becoming the security layer for the AI-first enterprise—automating what humans can’t as data and models scale out of control. Is it quietly building the next cybersecurity giant?
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Paris-based robotics startup Wandercraft is launching Eve, the world’s first self-balancing personal exoskeleton designed to help wheelchair users walk again—without crutches or external support. After years of clinical success with Atalante X, the company is now targeting home and daily-life mobility.
• Eve offers hands-free walking—no crutches or walkers needed
• Built on Wandercraft’s Atalante X, used in 100+ rehab centers globally
• Designed for everyday use in homes, communities, and public spaces
• Uses 12 active joints + AI-powered dynamic gait algorithms
• Real-time self-balancing mimics natural walking across terrain
• Trials show 100% task success and confident use after just 5 sessions
• $75M Series D supports launch of Eve by 2026
• Funds also scale Atalante X adoption and production
• Investing in development of Calvin-40, a humanoid robot for industry
• Series D co-led by Renault Group, Bpifrance, Teampact Ventures, Quadrant Management
• Renault partnership brings industrial design and manufacturing support
• Builds on France’s push for robotics leadership across healthcare and automation
• Founded in 2012, now 70+ employees focused on exoskeletons and robotics
• Dual FDA clearances already achieved in stroke and spinal rehab
• Positioned to lead in personal mobility, not just clinical use
Wandercraft is reshaping assistive mobility from rehab centers to real life—combining robotics precision with human-centered design. Could Eve be the iPhone moment for exoskeletons?
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Boston-based startup Outset is transforming customer research with its AI agent-led interview solution, helping companies scale and accelerate insights through automated, interactive conversations.
• Deploys AI-powered agents to conduct interviews at scale
• Automatically captures verbal feedback and generates rich, structured insights
• Enables enterprises to gather research without manual moderation
• Integrates with CRM tools to trigger interviews post-event or interaction
• AI handles scheduling, follow-ups, and transcription in a unified portal
• Promises faster turnaround and deeper analysis for product and CX teams
• Raised $17 million in Series A funding to support infrastructure, R&D, and go-to-market expansion
• Founded by seasoned researchers and enterprise SaaS veterans
• Targets mid-to-large enterprises looking to modernize qualitative research
• Ideal for sectors where customer sentiment and qualitative nuance matter—think fintech, health tech, and B2B SaaS
• Positioned to challenge manual interview workflows and traditional tools
Outset is automating the qualitative voice-of-customer layer with AI agents that both talk and listen—getting remote, scalable, and fast feedback without sacrificing nuance. With Series A backing, it’s ready to bring enterprise research into the AI era.
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Digital banking startup Chime raised $700M in its IPO at a valuation of $11.6B, marking one of the biggest public debuts in the consumer fintech space this year. Shares jumped 59% on day one, trading under the ticker CHYM.
• Chime targets users earning under $100K/year, with 2/3 using it as their primary account.
• Offers fee-free checking and savings, with most revenue from interchange (“swipe”) fees.
• Simplicity is the strategy: 72% of revenue is from debit card use, not lending or credit.
• Q1 2025 revenue: $518.7M — up 32% YoY.
• Q4 net income: $12.9M, maintaining profitability.
• 8.6M monthly active users, with high app engagement (4–5 opens/day per user).
• Over 90% of users stay once they set up direct deposit.
• Average user makes 55 transactions/month — strong for a consumer neobank.
• User acquisition driven by $1.4B in marketing between 2022–24, now leveraged by loyalty.
• $11.6B valuation is less than half of 2021’s $25B private round.
• Reflects fintech’s broader market correction — but Chime remains a category-defining player.
• Public debut seen as a potential bellwether for stalled fintech IPO pipeline.
• Nearly failed before Series B — over 100 VCs passed.
• Faced regulatory pushback in 2021 for calling itself a “bank.”
• Now profitable, scaled, and positioned as the everyman’s fintech.
As fintech IPOs cautiously return, Chime’s clean model, sticky users, and growth discipline offer a rare combination — but staying public-ready is the next challenge.
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Spain’s Multiverse Computing has raised €189M (~$217M) in a Series B round led by Bullhound Capital, with backing from HP, Toshiba, and the Spanish government. The company is tackling one of AI’s biggest pain points: cost and scalability of large models.
• Uses tensor networks from quantum physics to compress models by up to 95%.
• Cuts inference costs by 50–80%, with minimal accuracy drop.
• Supports LLaMA, Mistral, and DeepSeek — deployable on phones, PCs, even Raspberry Pi.
• Live on AWS Marketplace, targeting telcos, defense, and AI-at-the-edge use cases.
• Founded in 2019; now Spain’s leading AI scaleup with strong public-private backing.
• €59M of latest round came from the Spanish state, backing sovereign AI infrastructure.
• Compresses open-source models without retraining, saving energy and hardware costs.
• Competes with quantization/pruning — but uses a quantum-inspired framework with better scalability.
• Makes AI more accessible for enterprises outside Big Tech.
Multiverse is betting that compression isn’t a tool—it’s the foundation for the next era of affordable, decentralized AI.
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Gecko Robotics has entered the unicorn club with a $125M Series D, building wall-climbing robots that inspect critical infrastructure faster, safer, and more accurately than humans.
• Magnetic robots inspect ships, refineries, and power plants — 10× faster than manual checks.
• Capture 1,000× more data per job, feeding into Gecko’s AI platform, Cantilever.
• Reduces risk for workers while boosting maintenance accuracy.
• Used by the U.S. Navy, Abu Dhabi National Oil Co, and NAES.
• Cuts downtime and enables predictive repairs with actionable AI insights.
• Backed by $347M total funding; investors include Founders Fund and Y Combinator.
• Founded in 2016 in a college dorm by Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer.
• Now valued at $1.25B, expanding across defense, energy, and manufacturing.
Gecko is turning dangerous inspections into a high-speed, high-precision AI process — climbing walls to keep infrastructure upright.
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Brazilian fintech Meliuz has raised R$180M (~$32.4M) through a follow-on share offering to buy bitcoin, becoming the first public company in the country to formally adopt bitcoin as a treasury asset.
• Funds will be used entirely to purchase bitcoin for long-term holding.
• Marks a bold pivot from cashback and financial services into crypto-native treasury strategy.
• Positions Meliuz as Brazil’s first public “bitcoin treasury” fintech.
• Raised R$180M via primary offering priced at R$7.06/share (~5% discount).
• BTG Pactual acted as sole bookrunner on the offering.
• Shareholder vote in April enabled bitcoin to become a formal reserve asset.
• Move echoes MicroStrategy-style bitcoin accumulation — but in LatAm fintech context.
• Demonstrates growing institutional confidence in bitcoin amid high inflation and currency volatility.
• Could inspire other public firms in Brazil to explore crypto as an alternative asset class.
• Founded in 2011, Meliuz started with cashback and digital finance tools.
• This marks a strategic shift toward crypto-forward treasury and brand positioning.
• Aims to lead in bridging fintech utility with decentralized asset adoption.
Meliuz is betting that bitcoin isn’t just a store of value — it’s a new financial identity for the next generation of LatAm fintech.
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Meta has acquired a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion, valuing the data-labeling powerhouse at ~$29B — and bringing on its co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to lead Meta’s “superintelligence” initiative.
• Wang will head Meta’s new AGI division, reporting directly to Mark Zuckerberg.
• The group will focus on developing artificial general intelligence with access to Scale’s massive data infrastructure.
• Wang remains on Scale’s board, while CSO Jason Droege becomes interim CEO.
• Meta’s stake is non-voting — ensuring Scale’s operational independence.
• The structure avoids regulatory pushback while securing data access and leadership.
• Scale remains a core vendor to OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and U.S. defense — for now.
• Comes after disappointing traction with Meta’s Llama models in the enterprise market.
• Zuckerberg has been on an AI talent spree — offering up to 9-figure comp to top researchers.
• The deal positions Meta to vertically integrate data labeling and model training.
• Scale AI was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo.
• Went from defense contracts to powering AI pipelines for Silicon Valley giants.
• Now at the center of Meta’s most ambitious AI play yet.
Meta didn’t just invest in Scale — it invested in its architect. Wang’s move signals a new phase of AGI competition, where infrastructure and intelligence are built in-house.
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Munich-based Proxima Fusion has closed a €130M Series A to develop the world’s first commercial stellarator-based fusion power plant, offering a radically stable path to net-energy fusion in the 2030s.
• Uses stellarators, which confine plasma with external magnets — unlike Tokamaks, no internal currents = better stability.
• Combines quasi-isodynamic designs with AI and high-temperature superconductors (HTS) for compact, scalable machines.
• Based on research from the Max Planck Institute’s Wendelstein 7-X, the world’s most advanced stellarator.
• 2027: Targeting “Model Coil” milestone — a full-scale magnet testbed.
• 2031: Net-energy prototype named Alpha to be operational.
• 2030s: Launch of Stellaris, the first grid-ready fusion power plant.
• €130M Series A led by Redalpine, UVC Partners, Atlantic Labs, and Earlybird.
• Europe’s largest private fusion round to date; brings total raised to €185M+.
• German government support signals rising momentum behind deeptech energy bets.
• Technical hurdles: precision magnet manufacturing, tritium breeding, and power conversion.
• Fusion remains a long game — capital-intensive with multi-decade ROI timelines.
• But stellarators may offer a more commercially viable and steady-state alternative.
Proxima isn’t chasing the next fusion breakthrough — it’s engineering the one we already have into reality.
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Mosanna Therapeutics has launched with an $80M Series A to advance MOS118, a once-nightly nasal spray targeting the root causes of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The round was led by EQT Life Sciences and Pivotal bioVenture Partners.
• MOS118 restores natural airway muscle control — treating OSA at the source.
• Unlike CPAP, it’s non-mechanical and designed for higher patient comfort and adherence.
• Funds will support Phase 2 trials following a successful Phase 1.
• EQT and Pivotal co-led; joined by Forbion, Norwest, Broadview, and others.
• Addresses a massive market: nearly 1B people suffer from OSA, with low CPAP compliance.
• New board members from EQT, Forbion, and Norwest signal investor conviction.
• Veteran biotech exec David Weber appointed CEO.
• Founded in 2022, with teams in Redwood City and Basel.
• Aiming to become the first drug-based standard of care for OSA.
Mosanna is betting that the future of sleep apnea treatment isn’t a mask — it’s a molecule.
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