🧠 Dopamine Dealflow

💰 Massive Rounds (€50M+ / $50M+)

• Ramp (New York, NY) – $500M Series E-2 led by ICONIQ, with backers including Sutter Hill Ventures, Lightspeed, T. Rowe Price, GV, Emerson Collective, and Operator Collective.

• ETHZilla (formerly 180 Life Sciences) (San Francisco, CA) – $425M private round backed by Polychain Capital, Electric Capital, and GSR to pivot toward an ether-focused treasury strategy.

• FarmOp Capital (Des Moines, IA) – $250M investment from Carlyle to expand flexible financing for U.S. row crop farmers.

• Writer (San Francisco, CA) – $200M Series C led by Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and ICONIQ Growth to scale its enterprise AI Action Agent; now valued at $1.9B.

• Lyten (San Jose, CA) – $200M+ equity round led by Prime Movers Lab to expand lithium-sulfur battery production in the U.S. and Europe.

• Aidoc (Tel Aviv, Israel) – $150M raise led by General Catalyst and Square Peg to scale its AI-powered Healthcare Foundation Model and aiOS platform.

• Observe (San Mateo, CA) – $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with Madrona Ventures and Snowflake participating.

• Oxide Computer Company (Emeryville, CA) – $100M Series B led by US Innovative Technology Fund, joined by all existing investors.

• Ambience Healthcare (San Francisco, CA) – $70M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI Startup Fund to grow its AI copilot for doctors.

• Positron AI (Austin, TX) – $51.6M Series A led by Valor Equity and Atreides to scale U.S.-built inference chips and launch next-gen Atlas products.

📈 Mid-Sized Rounds ($40M–$49M)

• Aeva Technologies (Mountain View, CA) – $50M equity investment from LG Innotek as part of a manufacturing partnership for 4D LiDAR.

• RD Technologies (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) – $40M Series A2 led by ZA Global and China Harbour to scale its stablecoin infrastructure stack.

🌱Seed & Series A ($10M–$30M)

• Sparrow (San Francisco, CA) – $35M Series B led by SLW and WndrCo to grow its AI-driven leave management solution.

• Fable Security (New York, NY) – $31M raise from Greylock and Redpoint to stop AI scams with real-time human risk management.

• Arbital Health (Boston, MA) – $31M Series B led by Valtruis to modernize infrastructure for risk-based care contracts.

• C8 Health (Tel Aviv, Israel) – $12M Series A led by Team8 to bring AI-powered clinical best practices to hospitals.

• Planted Solar (Denver, CO) – $12M raise led by Piva Capital and Breakthrough Energy to simplify residential solar projects.

• Scopio Labs (Tel Aviv, Israel) – $10M Series D extension led by Viola Growth to roll out its AI blood morphology analyzer.

• Trovata (San Diego, CA) – $9M Series B extension with State Street and PNC, alongside acquiring ATOM for treasury tech enhancements.

  • Also acquired ATOM to enhance its treasury platform capabilities.

• Due (London, UK) – $7.3M seed extension led by Speedinvest to scale borderless payments with stablecoin APIs.

• Trustfull (Milan, Italy) – €6M raise led by Seaya Ventures to expand its AI fraud prevention suite across Europe.

• Lyra (San Francisco, CA) – $6M seed led by 468 Capital to reinvent sales meetings with an AI-native platform.

• Caspian (San Francisco, CA) – $5.4M seed led by Primary Venture Partners to automate customs compliance via AI.

• Numan (London, UK) – $5.4M raise to scale its digital health platform delivering online care for conditions like ED and weight management

🤝 Strategic & Growth Investments

• ArcSpan (New York, NY) – $5.2M Seed Extension to expand tools that turn first-party data into revenue.

• Maro (New York, NY) – $4.3M Seed to scale its behavioral cybersecurity platform focused on human risk.

• UgenticAI (Rockville, MD) – $4M Seed to build autonomous AI solutions for SMBs.

• Retab (Paris, France) – $3.5M Pre-Seed to automate structured data from messy docs with AI.

• Sharpsell.ai (Mumbai, India) – ₹30 Cr Series A to build sales automation for SaaS sales teams.

• Emulait (Los Angeles, CA) – $3M Media-for-Equity from Mercurius Media Capital to grow its U.S. presence.

• ClarityPay (Atlanta, GA) – Equity round (undisclosed) led by TTV Capital following a $1B purchase program with Neuberger.

• MAGENTIQ EYE (Tel Aviv, Israel) – Series A (undisclosed) for AI-assisted colonoscopy software.

• HealthMark Group (Dallas, TX) – Strategic growth investment from TA Associates and Ridgemont Equity Partners.

• Stackgini (Cologne, Germany) – Pre-Seed to power better IT decisions through data-driven insights.

• AskTuring.ai (San Diego, CA) – Pre-launch round (undisclosed) for a privacy-first AI platform.

• Matrice.ai (Berkeley, CA) – Expanded Seed (multi-million) to scale its modular Vision AI factories globally.

• Hightouch (San Francisco, CA) – Strategic investment from Snowflake and Capital One Ventures to fuel AI-powered marketing solutions.

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• 50 South Capital Advisors raised $2.1 B across two flagship private equity and secondaries funds, deepening Northern Trust Asset Management’s alternative investments strategy.

• Tacora Capital raised $685 M for its second venture debt fund, backed by Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Joe Lonsdale, to fund startups across the finance and insurance sectors.

• Deciens Capital (Global) – $93.3M Fund III to back early-stage fintech founders building infrastructure and AI-driven tools across global markets.
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📖 Read of the Day

🧠 Zuckerberg Says Meta Likely Won’t Open Source All AI Models

• Meta’s open-source playbook is changing.

• Zuckerberg signals a shift away from full transparency as the company builds more powerful AI models.

• The move sparks debate over safety, ethics, and control in the race toward AGI.

• With frontier models in development, Meta is weighing risk vs. reach.

TLDR: Open-source ideals meet the reality of superintelligence.