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.@Phaze_in has raised an $8.75 million seed round led by @a16z, a StepStone platform manager. Its remote computing platform allows AI agents to work directly through graphical desktop interfaces, expanding how agents can interact with specialized software beyond API-based integrations. The company plans to use the funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate product development.
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.@Cosmochute's first initiative "LEAP" has secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding as it develops infrastructure for lunar transportation and payload deployment. It minimizes specific engineering requirements and make transportation and payload deployment more consistent. @Accel, a StepStone platform manager, co-led the round.
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.@AppliedCompute, a company focusing on helping businesses build, train and own custom AI models, raised $350 million at a $3.25 billion valuation as it scales its AI infrastructure for enterprise customers. Backed by StepStone platform manager, #DiffusionCapitalPartners, the new funding supporting additional compute capacity, team growth and deployment.
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#Casap has secured $56 million in Series B funding as it expands its AI-powered approach to payments fraud and dispute management. @lightspeedvp, @Base10Partners, and @emergencecap, who are all StepStone platform managers, continued their backing as Casap looks to extend its technology beyond disputes into collections, claims, and other complex workflows. The round brings the company's reported total funding to $90 million.
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.@humblerobotics is building autonomous, electric freight vehicles with a focus on regional routes under 250 miles. The company has secured a $51 million Series A led by @obviousvc, a StepStone platform manager, bringing its total funding to $75 million. The new capital will help advance pilots, manufacturing, and development of additional vehicle configurations for regional freight needs as a single system.
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.@hexanalytics has raised $100 million in Series D funding with @a16z, @Redpoint, and @Amplify, all StepStone platform managers, participating in the round. The company provides a collaborative data analytics platform that integrates SQL, Python and R workflows. They believe the embedded AI agents will handle tasks that usually require humans to work through software, creating an efficient data analytics platform.
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Home robotics is moving from experimentation toward everyday applications. @bySyncere has raised $11 million in pre-Seed funding, led by @a16z, a StepStone platform manager, as it develops its platform for bringing robotics and local AI into the home. They are starting with a lamp called Lume.
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.@goguavaai has raised $12.5 million in Seed funding, led by @AcrewCapital, a StepStone platform manager. The company is developing AI voice agents that combine speech recognition, language models and speech synthesis in a unified stack, while giving businesses control over agent knowledge and actions.
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.@getserval, an enterprise service management and automation platform, has raised $150 million in Series C funding, with participation from @firstround, @Redpoint, and @conviction, all StepStone platform managers. The company plans to invest in its automation agent, Catalyst, as it builds tools that enable employees across business functions to automate work without a required engineering background.
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#DrenBio, a company developing clinical treatment for blood cancers, has secured $350 million in private financing, co-led by @lightspeedvp, with participation from @8vc, both StepStone platform managers. The financing will support the advancement of Dibotatug, the company’s investigational monoclonal antibody, as well as its broader oncology and autoimmune pipeline.
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.@Wabi has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation as it develops a different approach to personal AI, making tools designed for shared experiences among friends, families and other groups. StepStone platform manager, @a16z, participated in the financing.
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A $45 million Series A is supporting @coherenceneuro's work to explore electrical signals as cancer biomarkers. In many cases, monitoring tumors can leave gaps in effective treatment because of inconvenient testing, which is why machine-learning models could estimate whether a tumor is growing or responding to treatment. Co-led and backed by @foundersfund and @8vc, the financing will support clinical research and development of the company's cancer-monitoring platform.
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#Simplismart, an AI infrastructure platform for fine-tuning AI models, has secured $14 million in Series B funding, with @Accel, a StepStone platform manager, participating. The funding will support the company's AI inference platform as well as its work with cloud providers and expansion into global markets.
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.@BedrockRobotics has raised $600 million in Series C funding at a $4.1 billion post-money valuation, with @BessemerVP and @emergencecap, both StepStone platform managers, participating as new investors. The company develops autonomous technology for heavy construction equipment, starting with excavators. They're currently working on adding physical AI to complete each task on commercial job sites.
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#Marc, a start-up created by 24 year old Aaron Devitt, has raised $5 million in Seed funding backed by StepStone platform manager @Work_Bench, to support its expansion across the U.S. and Canada. The company uses AI to analyze property-related vendor contracts and invoice data, helping managers identify discrepancies that may lead to overpayment.
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.@HexagonBio has closed a $62 million Series C led by #TheColumnGroup and backed by @8vc, both StepStone platform managers. The biopharmaceutical company is developing novel payload mechanisms for antibody-drug conjugates, with the financing supporting its planned Phase 1 study of HEX-360 and additional programs from its ADC platform.
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Backed by StepStone platform manager, @Afford_Capital, #BioStack has raised $9.5 million in seed funding to support its healthcare data infrastructure platform. By connecting fragmented clinical information across healthcare systems, the company is building longitudinal, de-identified datasets for research, biotechnology and medical AI.
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.@EkaRobotics has raised a $150 million Series A co-led by @a16z, with continued support from @obviousvc, both StepStone platform managers. The company is building a vision-force-action model focused on dexterous robotic manipulation, and says the new funding will support scaling its technology and customer deployments.
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.@warpsciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding led by @lightspeedvp with participation from @MayfieldFund and @conviction, all StepStone platform managers. The company is building U.S.-based chemistry labs combining AI, robotics and research services for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
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.@GetPrismData has raised a $20 million Series A as it expands its cash flow underwriting technology, with participation from @obviousvc, a StepStone platform manager. Prism reports that API requests from banks and lenders have increased more than 100x over the past two years. Which is why they believe their technology will ensure efficient assessments of creditworthiness to lenders.
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