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Roughly 33% above 2025's full-year pace, led by Whoop's $575M Series G, Devoted Health's $366M Series F, Solace's $130M Series C, Temple's $54M seed, Eight Sleep's $50M Series D, Ultrahuman's ~$44M Series C (Crunchbase News). The dividing line is explicit: money goes to devices that continuously collect health data and use AI for personalized guidance, while pandemic-era connected-hardware companies Tonal and Hydrow have gone three-plus years without new investment. The subscription is no longer for the equipment. It's for the inference layer on top of the sensor.
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Databricks at $5B, River AI at $1.1B, CodeRabbit at $143M, and Point2 Technology at $136M for AI data center interconnect. Roughly $6.4B into data platforms, training infrastructure, code governance and networking silicon. The remaining six were energy storage, defense drones,...
The partner at a $15.5B AUM firm argues the CFO stack has room against NetSuite, Sage, SAP, Workday, ADP and UKG where on-premise incumbents have aged out. His limit on AI is blunt: "you can't rely on AI for that" when a number has to be exactly right, so he sees AI making fin...
Temporal Technologies took $550M Series E led by Lightspeed with Wellington, Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Tiger Global, explicitly for an open source platform for building and operating long-running AI agents. Below it, Ridgeline at $250M Series E for investment management,...
Crunchbase News published a piece from Siegel & Grellas on how the default four-year founder vesting schedule leaves departed founders holding large stakes that complicate later financings and control, increasingly drawing lawsuits aimed at clawing shares back (Crunchbase). Th...
Crusoe took $3B at $30B (Atreides, Valor Equity), Fluidstack $1.5B at over $18B led by Jane Street, Gimlet Labs $300M for inference, Lyte AI $165M for physical AI. Application-layer SaaS took the minority: Upwind Security $300M at $3.8B, HiBob $166M, Thyme Care $125M at $2B, H...
Greyparrot took £20.3M Series B for computer vision identifying materials in recycling plants, Emesent $17M for LiDAR autonomy in GPS-denied mines, SoundHealth $12.25M, Forge Industries $3.85M, and Cascade $3.5M from a16z speedrun and Ada Ventures. Crunchbase News Cascade is t...
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