FUNDING SIGNAL · WEEKLY
Funding signal
Tech companies that announced a funding round, with what they do and who backed them.
Week of October 22, 2026
Pre-seed
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Evos
Evos builds software operators that learn a job from experienced employees and then do routine operational work inside the systems logistics and other physical-industry businesses already use.
Investors Uncork Capital; Field Ventures; Crosslink Capital; Utopia Capital Management; Sandwith Ventures
Sources AlleyWatch, The Next Web
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Matters
Matters is a Stockholm startup building an AI-driven digital consumer bank with a flat monthly fee and an AI adviser.
Investors Jakob Johansson; Knut Frangsmyr; Douglas Stark; Johan Bladh; Patrik Tran; Per Widerstrom
Sources The Next Web
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PataBid
PataBid builds Quantify, an AI-powered construction estimating platform that automates takeoffs, costing and proposals for specialty contractors.
Investors Graphite Ventures; Sprout Fund; Bluesky Equities; Inverted Ventures
Sources Electrical Business
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CapQuest
CapQuest builds cap table and equity management software covering ownership records, employee share plans, investor relations and dilution modeling.
Investors Oraseya Capital; AMKM Family Office
Sources FWDStart
Seed
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ArtMaster
ArtMaster builds Artie, an AI piano learning app that listens as users play and gives real-time feedback through song-based lessons.
Investors Factorial Capital; Reflex Capital; Moises; Eliska Vorel; Nir Zicherman
Sources Music Ally
Series A
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Flapping Airplanes
Flapping Airplanes is an AI lab working on training models with less data and compute, plus its own software layer for Nvidia GPUs; it has no product yet.
Investors Index Ventures; Lux Capital; Sequoia Capital; GV; Kleiner Perkins
Sources Tech Funding News
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Mach9
Mach9 builds AI-powered CAD software for civil engineering that turns raw scans from vehicles, drones and scanners into draft infrastructure features for review.
Investors First Round Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Prudence; Quiet Capital
Sources PR Newswire
Mach9 is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Solutions Consultant. Careers
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Optivolt
Optivolt builds panel-integrated power electronics, the Power Balancer, that sit inside solar panels and redistribute energy among cell groups to reduce shade and degradation losses.
Investors VXI Capital; RA Capital; Valo Ventures; Atlas Innovate
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Qualitate
Qualitate builds an AI-native primary research platform that runs AI-moderated expert interviews and turns them into a searchable, continuously updated research library.
Investors Insight Partners; IA Ventures; Crew Capital
Sources Qualitate, Business Wire via Morningstar
Qualitate is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Intelligence Operations Associate; Staff Software Engineer; Senior Software Engineer; Senior Applied AI Engineer; Growth Marketer; Data Operations Associate; and 1 more. Careers
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CapitalOS
CapitalOS builds embedded financial infrastructure that lets B2B software platforms offer their customers cards, bill pay, wallets and cash management without building the financial operations themselves.
Investors LGVP; WEX Venture Capital; Group11; Great North Ventures; Night Capital
Sources WebWire
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AuxoAI
AuxoAI builds production AI systems for large enterprises through forward-deployed engineering teams and a proprietary workbench called Damia.
Investors NTTVC; George Still Jr.; Amit Zavery; Giacomo Sonnino
Sources PR Newswire
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Firefly
Firefly builds a physical safety platform that pairs its Ember software with panic buttons, beacons and gateways to detect incidents and coordinate emergency response.
Investors Definition Capital; BoxGroup; Susa Ventures
Sources SiliconANGLE
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Firstwork
Firstwork builds AI agents that automate frontline workforce operations such as document verification, compliance checks and onboarding inside employers' existing HR and payroll systems.
Investors Earlybird Venture Capital; Legion VC; Deel Ventures; Gradient; Y Combinator
Sources Firstwork, Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Firstwork is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Account Executive, Staffing (US); Enterprise Account Executive (US). Careers
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ScribeUp
ScribeUp builds an AI-powered recurring bill management platform that banks and credit unions embed in their digital banking apps.
Investors Curql; Mucker Capital; Service Ventures
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BloomX
BloomX builds biomimetic pollination systems combining robotics and AI, sold as pollination as a service for blueberry and avocado growers.
Investors Elah Fund; Rothschild Fund; Sadot Innovation; Tene Fund; OurCrowd; BioBee; Israel Innovation Authority
Sources Pulse 2.0
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Azoma
Azoma sells software that helps brands optimize product data and content so AI shopping assistants find and recommend their products.
Investors Puma Growth Partners; dunnhumby; Twin Path; MaRS IAF; Rank Ventures; Ignite Ventures
Sources Tech Startups
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Chariot Claims
Chariot Claims builds an AI-driven legal technology platform that identifies potential consumer claims and matches consumers to mass arbitration cases handled with partner law firms.
Investors Silverton Partners; Indicator Ventures; Lightbank; Neon Fund; ZVC; Rosecliff Venture Partners; Alumni Ventures; FJ Labs; Graph Ventures; Vermilion Ventures
Sources LawSites
Chariot Claims is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Technical Product Manager; Litigation strategist / Commercial litigation / Mass arbitration attorney; Engineering Lead, Verticalized AI; Engineering Lead, Consumer Platform; Engineering Lead, Claims Pipeline & CRM; Engineering Lead, Core Funnel & Payments; and 4 more. Careers
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DrizzleX
DrizzleX builds patented fixture-level water micrometers and software that detect leaks and overuse in multifamily and commercial buildings.
Investors Israel Investment Fund Group; existing DrizzleX customers
Sources PropTech Connect, GlobeNewswire
Series B
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Salience Labs
Salience Labs builds silicon photonics all-optical switches that connect GPUs in AI data centers.
Investors Bullhound Capital; AMD Ventures; Intel Capital; SBI Group; Hudson River Trading; British Business Bank; Applied Ventures; Oxford Science Enterprises; Cambridge Innovation Capital; Silicon Catalyst Ventures
Sources Pulse 2.0
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Town
Town makes AI work assistants called Townies, one per person, that connect to email, calendar and apps and can now hand off work across a team.
Investors Forerunner Ventures; Menlo Ventures; a16z; First Round Capital; Better Tomorrow Ventures; Precedent.vc; Scribble Ventures; Serena Ventures; Sparked Ventures
Sources The Next Web
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Peak Energy
Peak Energy designs and deploys sodium-ion battery storage systems for the power grid, aimed at data centers, utilities and independent power producers.
Investors General Motors Ventures; Maverick Silicon; Infinite Capital; Eclipse; Xora Innovation; LG Technology Ventures
Sources Pulse 2.0, Power Technology
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North.cloud
North.cloud builds a cloud financial operations platform that gives companies one view of cloud, AI and data spend and automates cost reduction.
Investors PeakSpan Capital
Sources SaaSRise
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Daytona
Daytona builds cloud sandboxes, isolated virtual machines where AI agents can write and run code, which it calls the agentic cloud.
Investors FirstMark; Qualcomm Ventures; Samsung Next; Okta Ventures; Patrick Collison; Tobi Lutke; Aravind Srinivas; Adam D'Angelo; Eric Yuan
Sources Fortune
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Albert
Albert builds an AI operating system for chemistry R&D teams, grounded in their own data.
Investors TCV; Coatue; J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners; Index Ventures; Applied Ventures; Delta-v Capital; Socium Ventures; HighSage Ventures; Coral Capital; Legion VC
Sources Albert (company press release)
Albert is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Director, Product Marketing; Counsel; Digital Marketing Manager, Web & AI Search; Director, Demand Generation & ABM; Director of Talent; Head of Infrastructure & Security; and 7 more. Careers
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Harmonic Security
Harmonic Security builds software that inspects how employees and AI agents use AI tools and enforces security policy on that activity as it happens.
Investors Crosspoint Capital Partners
Sources SiliconANGLE
Harmonic Security is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Regional Sales Manager - Pacific Northwest; Regional Sales Manager - Chicago; Strategic Account Executive - East; Deployment Engineer; Regional Sales Manager - New York; Regional Sales Director - United Kingdom. Careers
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RapidCanvas
RapidCanvas builds an agentic AI platform and pairs it with field engineers to build and run custom AI applications for enterprises.
Investors Vertex Ventures SEA & India; Hitachi Ventures; Accel; Peak XV Partners; Valley Capital Partners; Titanium Ventures
Sources The Next Web · SEC filing
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Hive
Hive builds a marketing platform for live events that connects ticket buyer data from ticketing providers to email, SMS and advertising tools.
Investors Frontier Growth
Sources Pollstar
Series C
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ASI
ASI builds AI software that models physical operations hours to weeks ahead for critical infrastructure such as aviation, energy, defense and logistics.
Investors Spark Capital; Citadel Securities affiliates; Meritech Capital; Craft Ventures; Energy Impact Partners; Andreessen Horowitz
Sources Pulse 2.0
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Blackwall
Blackwall builds a web traffic management and security platform that hosting and cloud providers resell to block bots, application-layer DDoS and brute-force attacks.
Investors AVP; Dawn Capital; MMC Ventures; Tera Ventures
Sources SiliconANGLE
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Blacksmith
Blacksmith builds continuous integration infrastructure that runs software builds and tests faster and at lower cost than general-purpose cloud.
Investors Sequoia Capital; Premji Invest; Peak XV Partners; GV; Y Combinator
Sources PR Newswire
Series D
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Modal
Modal runs a cloud platform for AI teams to build, train and serve models and applications, with products for inference, training and sandboxed environments.
Investors Accel; Kleiner Perkins; Menlo Ventures; General Catalyst; Redpoint; Lux Capital; Bain Capital Ventures
Sources AI Weekly · SEC filing
Modal is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Member of Technical Staff - SDK; Account Manager. Careers
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ICON
ICON builds large robotic 3D-printing systems, materials and software for constructing buildings, including its multistory Titan machine.
Investors Baillie Gifford; Funds managed by BlackRock
Sources Construction Dive
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Whop
Whop builds a platform for creating, running and getting paid for online businesses, with payments, distribution tools and an API.
Investors Sequoia; Shopify Ventures
Sources Yahoo Finance (company press release), Pulse 2.0
Whop is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Country Manager (Mexico); Country Manager (Brazil); Country Manager (Canada). Careers
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Sirona Medical
Sirona Medical builds RadOS, a cloud-based radiology software platform combining PACS, reporting, image viewing, worklist and workflow AI.
Investors Avidity Partners; 8VC; GreatPoint Ventures; KLT Holdings
Sources PR Newswire via BioSpace
Sirona Medical is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Application Support Specialist - Overnight M-F; Application Support Specialist - Second Shift M-F; Application Support Specialist - Weekend Days; Application Support Specialist - Weekend Nights; Director of Customer Success; Marketing Manager; and 1 more. Careers
Series E
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Legora
Legora builds collaborative AI tools for law firms and in-house legal teams, including an agentic operating system for legal work.
Investors Atreides Management; Baron Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; General Catalyst; Menlo
Sources TechCrunch
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