April 2026
Eigen has raised a $15M Seed round led by Benchmark to build something new: the world’s mutual friend. Eigen’s thesis is simple: the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough friends, it’s that we don’t have a shared one. Founded by Paul Scherer in 2025, Eigen is building technology that brings people closer together, not deeper into their own bubbles.
SquareMind, cofounded by Ali Khachlouf and Tanguy Serrat in 2019, has raised $18M led by Deeptech 2030 and Sonder Capital to make high-quality skin exams more efficient and accessible. Their flagship product is the Swan imaging robot, which can scan the entire skin surface in just a few minutes, digitizing it, mapping it, and using its AI software to analyze the images and identify anomalies.
Crewline has raised a $7.1M Seed round led by Initialized Capital and Nebular to build self-driving construction equipment. Founded by Freddie Filz and Mo Sadek in 2025, Crewline is starting with autonomous vibratory rollers: the foreman draws an area on an iPad, hits go, and the machine compacts on its own.
Round has raised a $6M Seed round to build the AI-powered finance automation platform for modern finance teams. Founded by Pac O’Shea and Hayyaan Ahmad in 2022, Round combines financial infrastructure with AI to automate treasury, payments and payroll end-to-end. The round was led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Backed VC, Love Ventures and leading angels.
Bubble Robotics has raised a $5M pre-Seed round to build the ocean’s autonomous workforce. Founded by Patricia Apostol and Jean Crosetti in 2025, Bubble is deploying a new class of AI-driven robotic systems that can operate continuously at sea, without vessels or human crews. The round was led by Episode 1 Ventures, Asterion Ventures, and Norrsken Evolve.
Neptune Robotics, cofounded by Elizabeth Chan and Jacky IM in 2018, has announced a major manufacturing and R&D expansion with a $12M investment in Singapore. This is part of the company’s continuing ambition to tackle biofouling, one of the shipping industry’s costliest issues with significant environmental impact. On the back of a $52M Series B round led by Granite Asia in September 2025, the new facility will accelerate Neptune’s mission to slash maritime carbon emissions and fuel waste through automated hull maintenance. The company plans to increase its local cleaning capacity by 400% by the end of 2026, with a target of handling up to 60 vessels per day by 2027.
Thymia, cofounded by Emilia Molimpakis and Stefano Goria in 2020, has announced a strategic partnership with Agora (NASDAQ: API). Together, they are enabling a new class of voice applications: ones that understand the complete human signal, not only what is being said but how it is said, bringing real-time health and safety intelligence across all voice communications.
Icarus Robotics, cofounded by Ethan Barajas and Jamie Palmer in 2024, has announced their partnership with Voyager Technologies as their mission management provider for JOYRIDE-1, their year-long free-flying robotics deployment to the ISS, scheduled for early 2027.
Arago announced a landmark milestone for the company and the semiconductor industry: the successful production of the world’s first digital-optical AI chip in standard silicon. Cofounded by Nicolas Muller and Eliott Sarrey, Arago is fusing semiconductor reliability with light speed to power the agentic era.
Lodestar Space, cofounded by Neil Buchanan and Thomas Santini in 2023, has launched Mission ALECTO. They will be deploying their on-edge software payload across multi-modal sensors aboard Vigoride-7 in partnership with DPhi Space and Momentus. The mission will validate on-orbit software performance, OTA update capability, and its core data pipeline. Launched via SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Lodestar Space has confirmed successful separation, marking a key milestone in de-risking future missions.
Aztec, cofounded in 2017 by Thomas Pocock, Zachary Williamson, Arnaud Schenk, and Joe Andrews, has launched Alpha, the first feature-complete privacy stack on Ethereum. Developers can now build apps and contracts with ground-up customizable privacy, from execution to settlement.
Gensyn has rolled out Delphi, an AI-settled decentralized information markets platform where anyone can create markets and earn fees based on trading volume. The platform is aimed at opening a new category of niche, creator-owned markets. Once a market is live, no single centralized entity controls it; outcomes are settled by AI, with revenue distributed to the creator automatically via USDC.
Level Zero, cofounded by Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia in 2024, has shown that real-time, clinical-grade hormone measurement without a blood draw is possible. Their platform measures estradiol, progesterone, LH, cortisol, and testosterone directly from interstitial fluid through a single-use skin patch. They are now accepting proposals from research institutions and clinical organizations.