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.
May 2026
Scope has raised $20M led by Index Ventures to build the future of inspection. Inspection is the most common way physical data is collected, underpinning the integrity, operation, and safety of every industry. Yet the software these inspections run on hasn’t changed in 20 years. Founded by Jonathan Low and Jakob Cassiman in 2024, Scope is building the AI-native paradigm for the 10x inspection engineer to speed up industrial inspection workflows, from reporting to asset integrity.
Davis AI raised a $5.5M pre-Seed round led by Heartcore Capital and Balderton Capital to accelerate early-stage real estate development with AI. Founded by Mehdi Rais and Amine Chraibi, who met during the first edition of our Bridge residency program in a German castle in 2025, Davis helps developers and investors compress early-stage development timelines from months to days, from feasibility studies and site constraints to ROI, volumetrics, floor plans, and space planning. The team is also introducing Gaudi-1, its first proprietary model for automated architectural generation under regulatory constraints, already achieving state-of-the-art results on floor plan generation benchmarks.
Certo has raised a $4M seed round led by Daphni to build the AI-powered compliance operating system for beauty and consumer goods brands. Founded by Bastien Deliège-Coste and Jean Duquenne, Certo helps regulatory teams review products across ingredients, formulas, claims, labelling and market entry, turning checks that used to take days into minutes. The platform is already used by leading beauty and CPG companies across Europe and the US to navigate regulatory complexity across 40+ markets.
Asterix Health has raised a £2.1M pre-Seed round led by TriplePoint VC to expand remote GP services for UK healthcare providers. Founded by Julian Titz and Max Thilo in 2024, Asterix combines global clinical talent, strong clinical governance and AI to help GP practices deliver better care while saving time and cost. In 9 months, the team has delivered 3,000+ hours of GP care and is live with NHS surgeries serving 250,000 patients.
Standard Intelligence raised $75M from Sequoia and Spark to build models that explore and learn like humans do. Founded by EF alum Galen Mead, Standard Intelligence has built the first fully general computer action model that can explore complex websites, complete multi-action CAD modeling sequences, and drive a car in the real world, all at 30 fps.
Cofounders Elio Pascarelli, Jacopo Madaluni and Emilio Pascarelli have introduced Audiogen, a new way of making music. Watch their short film here.
Bluevia Health, cofounded by Ali Mahomed and Abhyuday Roychowdhury, has announced their collaboration with the Mayo Clinic Platform to make perioperative care safer for every surgical patient in the US.
Asymmetric Security has lifted the hood to show what they mean by AI-native DFIR. Cofounded by Alexis Carlier, Zainab Ali Majid and Pippa Thompson, Asymmetric Security is the first full-stack AI Digital Forensics and Incident Response company, responding to cyber incidents for their customers, using AI tools built in-house.
niostem announced that their 24-week study on 81 men with Androgenetic Alopecia has been published in Dermatology and Therapy (Springer Nature). Cofounded by Carlos Chacon and Samuel Jellard, niostem is unlocking the body’s regenerative potential, and now has the gold-standard clinical proof that their Stem Cell Reactivation Technology works.