🧑‍🚀 Top 3 Deals You Can’t Miss

1️⃣ Polymarket – Pursuing a fundraise at ~$10B valuation as it re-enters the U.S. market with CFTC-cleared QCEX and 1789 Capital backing.

2️⃣ Lila Sciences – $235M Series A at a $1.2B valuation, building AI-driven autonomous science labs.

3️⃣ Series – Raised $3.1M Pre-Seed; Yale-founded AI social network where “AI Friends” match mentors, investors, and cofounders.

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🌳 Series B+ & Growth

• Lila Sciences (Cambridge, MA, USA) – $235M Series A; led by General Catalyst, Accel, Lux; building AI-driven “Science Factories”; $1.2B valuation.

• Apex (Los Angeles, CA, USA) – $200M Series D; spacecraft manufacturer for configurable satellite bus platforms; $1B+ valuation.

• Hala (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) – $157M Series B; fintech embedding financial services for SMEs.

• Arch (New York, NY, USA) – $52M Series B; Oak HC/FT, Menlo, Craft, Quiet Capital; AI platform streamlining private market investment tracking.

• Remedio (Tel Aviv, Israel) – $65M First Round; Bessemer, TLV Partners, Picture Capital; autonomous cybersecurity for configuration risks.

• MarqVision (Los Angeles, CA, USA) – $48M Series B; AI platform for brand control and IP enforcement; total raised ~$90M.

• GEOH (Indianapolis, IN, USA) – $30M Growth; practice management software for home care agencies.

🚀 Series A

• Terra Security (Tel Aviv, Israel) – $30M Series A; agentic-AI platform for continuous penetration testing.

• PopChill (Taipei, Taiwan) – $3M Series A; luxury resale platform.

🌱 Seed & Early Rounds

• Spara (New York, NY, USA) – $15M Seed; enterprise-grade AI agents for voice, email, and chat.

• resbiotic (Birmingham, AL, USA) – $14.5M Seed; health & wellness biotech company.

• Opticore (Berkeley, CA, USA) – $7.5M Seed; photonic AI computing chip developer.

• feld.energy (Munich, Germany) – €10M Seed; agricultural photovoltaics (Agri-PV) startup.

• Pascal AI (Bangalore, India) – $3.1M Seed; agentic AI platform for investment research workflows.

• Gyala Therapeutics (Barcelona, Spain) – €3M Seed; biotech developing immunotherapies for blood cancers.

🤝 Strategic, M&A & Undisclosed

• Stan Store (Los Angeles, CA, USA) – Strategic investment from Gary Vaynerchuk; digital business tools for creators.

• Enginius.ai (Mission Viejo, CA, USA) – Strategic investment from CerraCap; domain-adaptive AI tools.

📈 IPOs / Direct Listings / Issuances / Block Trades

• Medline Industries (USA) – Planning $4B–$5B IPO; backed by Blackstone, H&F, Carlyle; seeking $50B+ valuation.

• Corteva (USA) – Considering breakup of $50B-listed agri-chemicals business into seeds vs. pesticides.

• Zijin Gold (China) – Exploring Hong Kong IPO at $3B+ valuation.

• Lendbuzz (USA) – Filed for US IPO; auto fintech last valued at $2B (2023).

💸 VC Funds Raised & Raising

• Summit Peak Ventures (Ft. Worth, TX, USA) – Raising $150M for fourth fund.

• Crane Venture Partners (London, UK & Singapore) – Launched $135M Crane APAC I for early-stage founders in India, Singapore & Australia.

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📚 Read of the Day

👓 Snap Releases AR Glasses before Meta Event

The company is retooling its operating system to make augmented reality mainstream.

Snap just unveiled Snap OS 2.0, an AI-native operating system designed to power AR glasses and future devices. The update signals Snap’s most ambitious push yet beyond social media, positioning it to compete in the next wave of hardware-driven consumer tech.

The Product Pitch

Snap OS 2.0 integrates AI at its core, enabling seamless real-time overlays, voice-enabled commands, and smarter contextual interactions. The company sees AR glasses as the natural successor to smartphones — and Snap OS 2.0 as the platform to make them viable at scale.

The Strategy

By launching its own OS, Snap is attempting to lock in developers and create an ecosystem around AR before Apple or Meta fully dominate. The move also gives Snap greater control over performance, hardware integration, and monetization pathways like AR ads and in-lens commerce.

The Backstory

Snap has long invested in AR, from filters to its Spectacles hardware. But adoption lagged without a full-stack platform. Snap OS 2.0 represents a reset — putting AI + AR at the company’s core rather than a side experiment.

Why It Matters

For investors, Snap’s pivot is a bold gamble: if AR glasses take off, Snap could own a unique OS layer in a multi-billion-dollar market. If not, the company risks stretching thin while competing against giants with deeper pockets.

 Read The Whole Story Here

📰 News You Don’t Want To Miss

📱 Gemini just became the #1 iOS app, showing Google’s AI is winning even on Apple’s turf.

👓 Snap dropped Snap OS 2.0, doubling down on AR glasses as its next big platform.

🚇 Musk’s Boring Co. finished the Vegas airport tunnel, aiming to prove it can scale urban transit.

🎵 US–China agreed on a TikTok framework deal, reducing the risk of an American ban.

🇨🇳 China ruled Nvidia broke antitrust laws, escalating its fight for control in AI chips.

🏛️ Trump called to end quarterly earnings reports, pushing for semiannual updates instead.