FUNDING SIGNAL · OCTOBER 14, 2026
Week of October 14, 2026
42 tech funding announcements, checked against their sources.
Companies
Pre-seed
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Evos
Builds autonomous AI operators that learn a team's decisions to run operational work for small and mid-sized industrial businesses.
Investors Uncork Capital; Field Ventures; Crosslink Capital; Utopia Capital Management
Sources GlobeNewswire, Unite.AI
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Affinity Labs
Builds and scales AI-powered, creator-led software brands by pairing creators' audiences with its product-development technology.
Investors Fuel Ventures; Antler; Innovate UK
Seed
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Sabi
Neurotech company building a non-invasive brain-AI interface in a baseball-cap form factor that turns imagined speech into AI commands.
Investors Khosla Ventures
Sources Yahoo Finance, GlobeNewswire
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Catalyst
Consumer investing platform whose AI agents turn plain-English goals into trading strategies that users approve before execution.
Investors Sequoia Capital; Jump Trading; Peak XV; Lux Capital; AntiFund; Coinbase; Premji Invest
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Cambridge Heavy Industries
Energy-tech company building a benchtop laser-driven inertial-confinement fusion device for rapid reactor testing and tritium production.
Investors Azolla Ventures; Overlay; Neta Foundation; MassCEC
Sources TechCrunch · SEC filing
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Dapta
AI sales-agent platform that answers inbound leads, qualifies them and books meetings for small and mid-sized businesses.
Investors Chingona Ventures; Crew Capital; 500 Global; Fen Ventures
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Bloom
AI-native marketplace that connects hardware companies with vetted manufacturing, logistics and after-sales service providers.
Investors SNAK Venture Partners; Flyover Capital; Mana Ventures; Detroit Venture Partners; Invest Detroit Ventures; Service Provider Capital
Sources Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
Series A
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TypeSafe AI
AI lab building machine-native decision models; its Jev model returns typed, calibrated decisions with confidence scores instead of prose.
Investors Andreessen Horowitz; Sequoia Capital; DCVC
Sources Wilson Sonsini, Dealroom
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Universal Quantum
UK quantum computing company building scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers using a modular trapped-ion architecture.
Investors DCVC; Firgun Ventures; EDBI; Main Sequence; Nauta Capital; The Venture Collective
Sources The Quantum Insider
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Gallatin AI
Software company modernizing US military logistics and sustainment with predictive, AI-driven decision-support tools.
Investors 8VC; Silent Ventures
Sources Axios, Gallatin AI
Gallatin AI is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Mission Operations Engineer; Senior Director, Solutions Architecture; Mission Development Manager; Cleared Senior Site Reliability Engineer; Senior Product Designer; Sales Engineer; and 2 more. Careers
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Ultra
Warehouse-robotics company that rents its packing, sorting and kitting robots as a service, using AI from a partner research firm.
Investors Framework Ventures; Y Combinator; Next View
Sources Framework Ventures, Fortune
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Duvo
Enterprise execution platform that maps, runs and improves business processes by combining a company's people, AI agents and existing systems.
Investors Balderton Capital; Index Ventures; Northzone; Credo Ventures
Sources PR Newswire
Duvo is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Growth Generalist (US Based - Remote); Senior Account Executive (EU/UK Based - Remote); Pre-sales Engineer (US Based - Remote). Careers
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Fortastra
Develops maneuverable, autonomous spacecraft for on-orbit security and national defense that protect high-value orbital assets.
Investors First In; Upfront Ventures; Space Capital; Side Door Ventures; ATX Ventures
Sources Via Satellite, Pulse 2.0 · SEC filing
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Rein Security
AI-native runtime security platform that secures enterprise AI agents and applications and defends against adversarial AI agents.
Investors Glilot Capital; Sienna Venture Capital; Corner Ventures
Sources SecurityWeek, PR Newswire
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Kapta Space
Develops electronically steerable moving-target radar payloads for space-based intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking.
Investors Washington Harbour Partners; Bison Ventures; MetaVC; Entrada Ventures; Fitz Gate Ventures
Sources PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
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Vocca
AI-powered patient communication platform whose voice agents handle medical practices' phone calls, scheduling and admin requests.
Investors Norrsken VC; Heal Capital; Speedinvest; Firstminute Capital
Vocca is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Country Launcher - US Market; Founding AI Deployment Lead - US Market; Founding Account Executive - US Market; Head of GTM - US Market. Careers
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AblePay Health
Healthcare payment platform that helps patients manage out-of-pocket medical costs while improving payment performance for providers.
Investors F-Prime; A1 Health Ventures; .406 Ventures
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GenHealth.ai
Healthcare AI company building agents that run medical back-office revenue-cycle tasks such as eligibility, prior authorization and billing.
Investors Flare Capital Partners; Craft Ventures; Obvious Ventures; Eniac Ventures
Sources Healthcare IT Today, Yahoo Finance
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Meticulous
AI-powered software testing platform that automatically generates and maintains frontend end-to-end test suites for developers.
Investors Chemistry; Menlo Ventures
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Clueso
Agentic AI platform that automates the creation and updating of business videos for marketing, onboarding, training and tutorials.
Investors Dharana Capital; Founders Future; Neotribe Ventures; Y Combinator
Sources SiliconANGLE, Entrackr
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Rebel Audio
AI podcasting platform that helps creators record, edit, publish, translate, distribute and monetize their shows.
Investors HardScope; Launch Tennessee; Capital Midwest
Sources Nashville Post, Dealroom
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HydRegen
Develops enzyme-based biocatalysts that replace precious-metal catalysts in industrial chemical and specialty manufacturing.
Investors Genoa Ventures; Clean Growth Fund; Oxford Technology Management; Foxglove Capital
Sources BioSpace, FinSMEs · SEC filing
Series B
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Arena
AI evaluation company that runs a public leaderboard benchmarking frontier AI models and agents through blind human votes.
Investors Lightspeed Venture Partners; Khosla Ventures; Salesforce Ventures; 01 Advisors; Dell Technologies Capital; Andreessen Horowitz
Arena is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Member of Marketing Staff - Growth; Member of Growth Staff. Careers
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Salience Labs
Silicon-photonics company building fully optical circuit-switching chips that connect thousands of GPUs to cut latency and power in AI datacenters.
Investors Bullhound Capital; AMD Ventures; Intel Capital; SBI Group; Hudson River Trading; Oxford Science Enterprises
Sources SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs
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Multiply Labs
Robotics and automation company building robotic systems that automate the manufacturing of biologics such as cell, gene and antibody therapies.
Investors NantWorks; AstraZeneca; Lingotto; Teradyne; Casdin Capital; Lux Capital; Founders Fund
Sources Pharma Manufacturing, Yahoo Finance
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Mecka
Builds data and deployment infrastructure for physical AI, collecting human motion data from body sensors to train humanoid and other robots.
Investors Sequoia; Nvidia; M12
Sources TechCrunch
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Albert
Chemistry-native AI platform and research operating system used by chemical and materials-science companies to speed research.
Investors TCV; Delta-v Capital; Coatue; Index Ventures; Applied Ventures; Coral Capital
Sources Business Wire, citybiz
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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Stuut
AI-powered order-to-cash platform that automates enterprise accounts receivable, collections, payments, cash application and disputes.
Investors Insight Partners; Andreessen Horowitz; M12
Sources GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
Stuut is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Account Executive; Business Development Representative (BDR)- NYC; Customer Success Director; Director of Sales, West Coast; Partner Marketing Manager; Applied AI Engineer, GTM; and 6 more. Careers
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Harmonic Security
Data security and AI governance platform that inspects and controls how employees use AI tools before sensitive data is exposed.
Investors Crosspoint Capital Partners
Sources SiliconANGLE
Harmonic Security is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Regional Sales Manager - Pacific Northwest; Regional Sales Manager - Chicago; Strategic GTM Associate; Strategic Account Executive - East; Deployment Engineer; Regional Sales Manager - New York; and 1 more. Careers
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Scarlet
AI-native regulatory certification body and software platform that reviews and certifies third-party software and AI medical devices.
Investors Headline; Notion Capital; Atomico; Creandum; Kindred Capital; Entrepreneurs First
Sources Medical Device Network, HIT Consultant
Scarlet is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Software Engineer. Careers
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Reach Security
AI-native cybersecurity company whose platform reads live security-tool configurations and autonomously closes defensive gaps attackers target.
Investors Top Tier Capital Partners; Ballistic Ventures; In-Q-Tel; M12
Sources FinSMEs, CIO Influence
Reach Security is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Staff Software Engineer (Backend); Senior Staff Software Engineer (Data Platform); Senior Staff Software Engineer (Integrations); Senior Staff Security Researcher; Principal Support Engineer - Endpoint; Principal Support Engineer - Network. Careers
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Vesta
AI-native mortgage loan origination system where staff and AI agents jointly handle underwriting, condition clearing and closing reviews.
Investors Conversion Capital; New American Funding; PennyMac Financial Services; Citi Ventures; Andreessen Horowitz; Zigg Capital
Sources TechCrunch, citybiz
Vesta is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Product Manager; Software Engineer - Backend; Software Engineer - Fullstack; Software Engineer - Platform; Implementation Manager; Software Engineer - Infrastructure; and 6 more. Careers
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KONST
Builds and operates GPU data centers across Asia and delivers compute through its cloud and AI governance platforms.
Investors ADATA Technology; M Mobility; Pegatron Venture Capital
Sources PR Newswire, FinSMEs
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Helical Fusion
Fusion energy company developing a helical stellarator reactor aimed at steady-state, net-power fusion plants.
Investors Fuji Electric; Hazama Ando; Fujikura; Tokyo Gas; Kepple Group
Sources Pulse 2.0
Series C
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Infinigence AI
Chinese AI infrastructure provider whose software runs AI models efficiently across heterogeneous chips and sells compute as token services.
Investors Baidu; Tencent; Lenovo; Qiming Venture Partners; HSG; Shunwei Capital
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VEIR
Designs and manufactures superconducting power delivery systems that move more electricity through a smaller footprint to supply energy to AI data centers.
Investors Matter Venture Partners; Tyche Partners; LG Technology Ventures; Gates Frontier; Engine Ventures; Galvanize Climate Solutions; Piva Capital; Congruent Ventures
Sources Axios, Business Wire
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Parallel Systems
Builds autonomous, battery-electric freight rail vehicles that shift short-haul freight from trucks to rail.
Investors AVP; Hillspire; Agility Global; Cobalt Capital; Anthos Capital; Congruent Ventures; Collaborative Fund
Sources Pulse 2.0, DC Velocity
Series D
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Oxide Computer Company
Builds full-stack, on-premises cloud infrastructure, pairing purpose-built rack-scale hardware with open-source software for enterprises.
Investors Eclipse; US Innovative Technology Fund; Riot Ventures; Jane Street; Atreides Management; AMD Ventures
Sources PR Newswire
Oxide Computer Company is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Control Plane Engineer; Demand and Supply Planning Manager; Enterprise Security Engineer; Field Technical Delivery Engineer; Networking Deployment Engineer; Networking Software Engineer; and 8 more. Careers
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Voltus
Distributed energy resource platform and virtual power plant that pays businesses and homes to cut, shift or supply power when the grid needs it.
Investors Generation Investment Management; Activate Capital; Vitol; Broadscale Group; Climate Investment; NGP
Sources GlobeNewswire, pv magazine USA
Voltus is hiring (ATX or remote) for: Director of Product Marketing; Customer Success Associate; Energy Markets Manager; Product Marketing Manager – Market Products; Project Engineer; Residential Business Development Director; and 11 more. Careers
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Mujin
Industrial robotics and physical-AI company whose brand-agnostic control platform coordinates robots and automation across warehouses and factories.
Investors SK Square
Sources Dealroom, Ventureburn
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ICON
Building-technology company that uses large-scale 3D printing and robotic construction systems to build homes faster and at lower cost.
Investors BlackRock; Baillie Gifford; Norwest Venture Partners; Tiger Global; Moderne Ventures; CAZ Investments
Sources CNBC, Yahoo Finance
Other
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Manus
AI agent company whose general-purpose agent carries out real-world tasks, operating independently after a blocked Meta acquisition.
Investors Boyu Capital; IDG Capital; Tencent; HSG; ZhenFund
Sources CNBC, Tech Xplore
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