Flapping Airplanes raises $1.0B for data-efficient AI

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Composio Instant | Give your agent a wallet

Audio, video, search, browser and data. Connect once, no keys to manage. Give your agent a wallet, not a pile of subscriptions.

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Asimov 1 | Menlo Research

Educational humanoid for whole-body control and locomotion training by Menlo Research.

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Banbury Road joins a16z speedrun (SR007)

Multi-agent civilizations that deliver frontier capability at a fraction of the cost and memory of monolithic models.

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Blueprint joins a16z speedrun (SR007)

Hardware, as fast as thought. Turning plain language into physical machines.

$66.0M

Blacksmith raises a $66.0M Series C round

Blacksmith makes CI faster, more cost-effective, and more reliable by avoiding hyperscaler-based solutions and running GitHub Actions on high-performance hardware with gaming-grade CPUs — tuned for maximum throughput and enhanced with growing observability capabilities. This approach eliminates build bottlenecks, lowers infrastructure costs, and gives teams a clear view into pipeline health. In the AI era, where rapid iteration is critical, Blacksmith keeps development cycles moving — enabling faster validation, safer deployments, and more competitive release schedules. Founded in 2024 by engineers from Faire and Cockroach Labs, Blacksmith is backed by Google Ventures, Y Combinator, and leading dev infrastructure angels.

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Audora launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Audiobooks where every character has their own voice.

$40.0M

Baba raises a $40.0M Series A round

Baba pairs Medicare and Medicaid patients with AI-supported human advocates who handle their appointments, prescriptions, insurance and benefits across the healthcare system.

$108.0M

Peak Energy raises a $108.0M Series B round

Peak Energy builds grid-scale sodium-ion battery storage designed to run its 20-year life without scheduled maintenance, for utilities, power producers and AI data centers. The new money funds US manufacturing.

$10.0M

Ultra Security raises a $10.0M Seed round

Ultra Security is a company focused on providing an agentic security platform designed for real-time visibility and guardrails, ensuring that autonomous agents can operate securely. The company has recently emerged from stealth mode with $10 million in seed funding. Ultra's technology sits between AI agents and the servers and connectors they utilize.

$1.3M

Fleet Defender raises a $1.3M Seed round

Fleet Defender is a platform intelligence system that provides cyber protection and business intelligence to fleet owners.

$1.0B

Flapping Airplanes raises a $1.0B Series A round

Flapping Airplanes is a frontier AI research lab focused on data efficiency — training capable models without the massive datasets today's labs rely on.