January 2026
Automata has raised $45M in a Series C funding round led by Dimension with participation from Danaher Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners and Octopus Ventures, as it scales its integrated AI-ready lab automation platform. Automata has developed modular robotics, orchestration software and unified data infrastructure to help labs automate experiments and improve throughput and reproducibility. The funding will expand global deployments, build the next iteration of its software stack and grow engineering, product and customer teams while deepening a strategic partnership with Danaher to integrate automation with leading lab instruments.
Unbox Robotics has raised $28M in a Series B funding round led by ICICI Venture to scale its warehouse automation and robotic sortation technology for logistics and ecommerce operators. Unbox Robotics has developed AI-powered robotic systems that automate parcel sorting and handling using swarm intelligence, which allows them to coordinate like a digital hive. The company will use the funding to grow its engineering team, accelerate product development, and expand deployments across India and international markets.
Biographica has raised $9.5M in a Seed funding round to advance its AI-driven platform for designing next-generation crops with improved yield, resilience, and sustainability traits. The company has developed computational models that simulate plant metabolism and genetics to accelerate crop innovation timelines. The funding will support R&D expansion and additional industry collaborations.
AgileRL has raised $5.4M in a Seed funding round led by Fusion Fund with participation from Flying Fish, Octopus Ventures and Counterview Capital as it builds infrastructure to accelerate reinforcement learning training for enterprise AI. This recent round brings total funding to $7.5M. The company’s Arena platform streamlines RL model training and deployment, has been downloaded 300,000+ times and is used by companies including IBM, Airbus and JPMorgan. Capital will fund a San Francisco office and hiring.
Asymmetric Security has raised $4.2M in an oversubscribed pre-Seed funding round led by Susa Ventures with support from Halcyon Ventures, Overlook Ventures and angel investors, as it emerges from stealth to automate cybersecurity investigations using AI. Asymmetric Security has developed an AI-native cyber forensics and response platform, paired with experts who validate results and make judgment calls in high-risk edge cases. The funding will be used to expand engineering and incident response teams and deepen AI capabilities.
Aule Space has raised $2M in a pre-Seed funding round led by pi Ventures with participation from angel investors including Eash Sundaram and Arvind Lakshmikumar to build autonomous “jetpack” satellites capable of docking with legacy spacecraft in orbit. Aule Space will use the capital to expand its engineering team, establish ground infrastructure for docking tests, and develop its first demonstration satellites slated for launch next year. The technology targets rendezvous, proximity operations and docking (RPOD) to extend the life of expensive geostationary satellites and reduce orbital waste.
Open Cosmos has been awarded High Priority Ka-band radio spectrum filings by the Principality of Liechtenstein, marking a major milestone in Europe’s push to build sovereign space-based telecommunications infrastructure. The authorization enables Open Cosmos to deploy and operate satellite systems supporting secure connectivity and data services across Europe and beyond, strengthening the company’s position as a key provider of end-to-end satellite missions. Following the award, Open Cosmos has launched the first two satellites of its new sovereign LEO constellation, moving from planning to orbit in record time.
French biotech Spore.Bio has secured multi-million-euro support from the Google.org AI for Science Fund and launched Spore.Labs, an AI-native research unit focused on unlocking advances in microbiology and public health. The Paris-based company combines biophotonics and machine learning to deliver near real-time microbial testing, drastically faster than traditional methods. Spore.Labs will use the funding and Google Cloud credits to build open datasets, publish research findings and collaborate with academic and clinical partners. Spore.Bio has raised €29.9M to date.
Gensyn has launched Delphi, a real-time open marketplace where machine learning models compete on benchmarks and users can back the models they think will perform best, creating the first live market signal of model intelligence. Delphi operates on Gensyn’s decentralized infrastructure and uses on-chain mechanics to provide continuous liquidity and transparent performance pricing. Gensyn previously raised over $50M in Seed and Series A funding, led by Eden Block and a16z.
Becoming has announced its progress growing and sustaining placenta outside of a body. The company built a closed-loop robotic metabolic exchange system that allows for sustained and perturbable access to development over long time horizons. The implications include testing new treatments for safety, modeling disease progression, creating personalized tissues, supporting development itself, and much more.
February 2026
OLIX has raised $220M to build the first Optical Tensor Processing Units (OTPUs) and close the growing gap between AI demand and available compute. The round was led by Hummingbird Ventures and brings the company’s total funding to roughly $250M since launching in 2024. Founded by 25-year-old James Dacombe, OLIX is building a new generation of optical chips designed to run AI faster, more efficiently, and with lower cost than today’s GPU-based systems.
Aerska has raised a $39M Series A co-led by EQT Dementia Fund and age1 to build systemically delivered RNA medicines for the brain. Founded by Jack O’Meara, Aerska is developing a brain shuttle platform that delivers RNAi therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier, with the goal of treating genetically driven neurological diseases such as forms of Alzheimer’s and other CNS disorders.
Callosum has launched publicly and announced a $10.25M pre-Seed led by Plural, alongside support from ARIA and leading angels. Founded by Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg, Callosum is building an entirely new class of company at the intersection of frontier AI and compute. Their platform orchestrates AI workloads across heterogeneous chips and multi-cloud environments, unlocking step changes in cost, speed, and capability for complex, real-world systems.
Upside Robotics has raised a $7.5M Seed round led by Plural to tackle fertilizer waste with autonomous farm robots. Cofounders Jana Tian and Sam Dugan started Upside Robotics to replace early-season mass fertilizer sprays with lightweight autonomous robots that apply nutrients exactly where and when crops need them, cutting waste, emissions and costs for row crop farmers.
Seamflow has raised a $4.5M Seed round co-led by Initialized Capital and Northzone to bring AI to the testing, inspection, and certification industry. Cofounded by Konstantin Klingler and Yusufhan Kırçova, Seamflow is helping experts handle growing complexity, reduce structural backlogs, and scale safety and trust across the system, starting with medical certification.
The Compression Company has raised a $3.4M pre-Seed round led by Long Journey to tackle limited satellite bandwidth with AI-driven compression that runs directly onboard satellites. Cofounded by Michael Stanway and Joe Griffith, The Compression Company is unlocking one of the main bottlenecks in satellite data delivery, reducing file sizes by over 95% and enabling satellites to transmit far more data back to Earth during each short ground-station pass.
The Bland Company has raised a $2.67M pre-Seed round led by Initialized Capital to turn underused plant side streams into high-performance proteins that can replace eggs in baked goods, condiments and confectionery. Cofounded by Yash Khandelwal and Micol Hafez, The Bland Company uses a proprietary biochemical process to transform agricultural side streams into highly functional proteins that plug into existing manufacturing, giving food companies egg-like performance with far greater supply chain stability.
pleasefix.ai has raised a $2.1M pre-Seed round led by Pitchdrive to build an AI execution layer for finance and strategy teams. Cofounded by Séverine Nolf and Maxime Lahy, pleasefix.ai lets finance and strategy teams describe what they want in natural language and executes the work directly inside tools like Excel and PowerPoint, with no new software to learn and no change to existing workflows.
QFlow has secured a £2M strategic investment from Autodesk to fuel its plan to link construction data back with design intent. Cofounded by Brittany Harris and Jade Cohen, QFlow is a digital platform that captures real-time materials and waste data at the source, enabling project teams to make informed decisions on cost, carbon, and quality.
Cleo’s founder Barney Hussey-Yeo has announced that the company is launching its AI-powered financial assistant back in the UK, after its proven success in the US market. The news comes as Cleo hits $350M ARR (~2x YoY growth), while maintaining a firm grasp on profitability.
Magdrive has successfully completed its first in‑orbit demonstration mission. Launched onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter‑14 mission on June 23 2025, the mission marked the debut of Magdrive’s next‑generation electric thrusters in space, validating performance and durability in orbit. Cofounders Mark Stokes and Thomas Clayson have said the test results will accelerate commercial adoption as they work with satellite manufacturers to deliver higher thrust, more efficient propulsion for next-generation spacecraft.
ThinkSono, cofounded by Fouad Al-Noor and Sven Mischkewitz, received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, an important step on their path toward improving access to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) diagnostics in the US. They are building the world’s first ultrasound AI for blood clot detection, to enable any non-ultrasound trained healthcare professional to perform proximal compression ultrasound DVT exams at the point of care.
March 2026
Hadean has secured new growth funding to accelerate its expansion across the UK and US defence ecosystems. Cofounded by Alec Mocatta and Rashid Mansoor, Hadean builds AI-powered wargaming, command and control, and battlefield training systems used in live operational environments. This round will support deeper deployments, continued US expansion, and Hadean’s ambition to become the UK’s next defence and dual-use tech unicorn.
Amatera has raised $7M to accelerate climate-smart crop development by addressing a major screening bottleneck in agriculture. Cofounded by Omar Dekkiche and Lucie Kriegshauser, Amatera has developed a high-throughput phenotyping platform that enables faster, more precise crop trait analysis. The company has focused on improving breeding efficiency, helping agri-food companies bring resilient, higher-yielding crops to market more quickly.
Lemrock has raised a $7M Seed round to build the infrastructure for agentic commerce. Cofounded by Roxane Laigle, Clément Nguyen and Sasha Collin, Lemrock connects product catalogs directly to AI agents, enabling real-time availability, transactions and performance tracking inside conversational environments.
Level Nine has raised a €4M Seed round to build the critical technology layer for fossil-free value chains. Founded by Seadna Quigley and Emily Sheridan, Level Nine is developing next-generation industrial catalysts to unlock the production of drop-in chemical building blocks from locally biobased feedstocks that can compete with petrochemicals on both cost and performance.
Pathfinder has raised a $4M Seed round to put education back into the hands of parents. Founded by Amaan Ahmad and Sidharth Jain, Pathfinder’s mission is to give families control over how and where their children learn, making it easy for parents to access education funds and decide how to use them to piece together their dream education for their kids.
Rama has raised $3M to rebuild the electronic component supply chain. Founded by Matt Francis and Aidan Holmes, Rama is rethinking how electronic components are sourced and distributed, unlocking faster, more reliable ways to build physical products at scale. The round was led by Wischoff Ventures, with participation from Stage 2, Liquid 2, Rebellion Ventures, and leading angels.
Mutable Tactics has raised a $2.1M pre-Seed round to allow unmanned systems, such as aerial, maritime, or ground drones, to operate and make decisions even when communications are lost or unreliable. Founded by Colin MacLeod and Enrique Muñoz de Cote, Mutable Tactics is building “Mastermind”, the edge-native software layer for scalable human-machine teaming.
General Reasoning, cofounded by Ross Taylor and Kip Parker, has launched OpenReward, an open platform for serving RL environments at scale. OpenReward hosts environments as simple API endpoints that can be used for both training and evaluation. It already features 330+ high-quality environments, including community efforts such as SWE-rebench-v2, SETA, Endless Terminals, and more.
Kyron.bio, founded by Emilia McLaughlin, has partnered with Servier to advance next-generation glycan-engineered therapeutics, combining Kyron.bio’s proprietary glycoengineering platform with Servier’s drug development capabilities. The partnership is an important step in unlocking the under-exploited potential of glycans in next-generation biologics, expanding how antibody medicines are designed, and ultimately enabling better therapies for patients.
Limbic, cofounded by Ross Harper and Sebastiaan de Vries, has published a Nature Medicine study demonstrating how its proprietary Limbic Layer™ transforms frontier language models into clinically effective behavioral health specialists. The company has developed a cognitive reasoning architecture that separates clinical decision-making from the underlying model, enabling safer, explainable, and clinically aligned AI mental health support. Limbic has also made the Limbic Layer™ available as an API for responsible teams building mental health AI solutions.
Spore.Bio, cofounded by Amine Raji, Maxime Mistretta, and Mohamed Tazi, has unveiled TMSI (Transformer-based Multimodal Spectral Imaging), the world’s first technology capable of simultaneously detecting, quantifying, and identifying viable microorganisms, without prior culture or enrichment and in just 10 minutes, where conventional methods take five days on average. Spore.Bio’s results have been validated following regulatory requirements and delivered directly in the field, making it the first rapid microbiology platform in the world to publish validation data in only three years.
Noah Labs, cofounded by Oliver Piepenstock and Marcus Hott, has announced that Noah Labs Vox™, their voice-based algorithm that detects worsening heart failure weeks before hospitalization, has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Breakthrough Device Designation (BDD). This recognition expedites Noah Labs’ upcoming clearance and commercial activities, including the company’s upcoming FDA trial, set to kick off shortly.