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$25M Series A · sea12.co

Sea12 — Automates document and invoice workflows for heavy industry

Sea12 is an artificial intelligence startup based in New York that specializes in digitizing workflows for heavy industries. Founded in 2024, the company offers an AI-powered platform to automate complex workflows and connect data for enterprises. It serves clients such as Basden Steel, focusing on document processing and invoice management.

$9.7M · sent.dm

Sent — One messaging API for SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage and RCS

Sent is the infrastructure layer powering cost-optimized, intelligent delivery for business messaging across SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, RCS, and more. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York City, Sent replaces the tangle of single-channel integrations with one unified API and a real-time smart-routing engine that maximizes deliverability, ensures compliance, and lowers costs. Companies of any size can use Sent to send everything from login codes and two-factor authentication prompts to appointment reminders and order confirmations—without worrying about channel-specific logic or backend plumbing.

YC S26 · usetruffle.ai

Truffle — Autonomous back-of-house operations for restaurants

The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.

$310M Series B · odyssey.ai

Odyssey AI — World models that generate interactive video in real time

Odyssey AI is an AI lab headquartered in Palo Alto that builds general-purpose world models. These models predict outcomes in physical space, unlike large language models that focus on text prediction. Odyssey's technology creates interactive video streams that respond to user inputs in real time, simulating real-world scenarios. Key applications include robotics training, gaming, autonomous vehicles, scientific research, and national security.

$863M Series B · cfs.energy

Common Fusion Systems — Fusion power plants built around superconducting magnets

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is advancing the global transition to clean energy by making commercial fusion power a reality, leveraging breakthroughs like the world’s strongest high-temperature superconducting magnet. Backed by over $2 billion in funding and a world-class team, CFS is designing and building fusion power plants while partnering with policymakers and suppliers to deliver scalable, reliable energy worldwide.

$900M Series A · pacificfusion.com

Pacific Fusion — Developing nuclear fusion for power generation

Pacific Fusion Corp. is a power company focused on developing a nuclear fusion-based energy source. The company has recently attracted significant funding, placing it among the leaders in a rapidly expanding industry. Their goal is to create a new form of energy that could revolutionize power generation, although no fusion power plants currently exist. They are part of a growing group globally working to commercialize fusion technology.

$54M Series B · verse.inc

Verse — Clean power procurement software for corporate energy buyers

Verse is an enterprise SaaS company that helps organizations reduce the cost and emissions of their power. Our software and services help corporate energy buyers evaluate specific clean power goals (e.g., cost, emissions, risk), and develop procurement roadmaps to achieve annual matching, carbon matching, and/or hourly matching. Companies can also improve risk management and optimize operational load and generation portfolios. With unparalleled data, real-time analysis within minutes, and optimization for least cost, Verse helps organizations turn their energy challenges into successes.

$19.5M

Rejuvenate Bio Inc raises a $19.5M round

Rejuvenate Bio announced it raised $19.5 Million in an initial filing from an offering of $27 Million

$8.5M

NewDays — Expert therapy and AI practice for early dementia and MCI

NewDays delivers personalized cognitive treatment that combines expert-led therapy with AI-powered daily practice for people experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. Our science-backed, non-drug approach is designed to maintain cognitive function, build confidence, and help people live the way they want to live. Founded in 2024 by leaders from Amazon and Google X, NewDays makes clinically-validated cognitive interventions accessible through breakthrough AI technology and expert clinical oversight.

$25M · invisiblenarratives.com

Invisible Narratives — Builds entertainment franchises from digital creators' work

Invisible Narratives is a leading entertainment company dedicated to helping digital creators build global franchises. Founded by industry veterans, it focuses on transforming creator content into sustainable entertainment businesses. The company has recently secured significant capital partnerships to accelerate its growth.

$25M Seed · traysar.com

Traysar — Underground boring and autonomous systems for the military

Traysar is the world's first subterra defense tech company. Through breakthroughs in military boring and subterranean autonomous systems, Traysar transforms the Earth's crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space. They enable a new class of strike capabilities against previously unreachable targets and rapid underground protection of critical infrastructure for the United States and its allies.

$22M Seed · criticalenergy.com

Critical Energy — Factory-built modular geothermal turbines

Critical Energy, founded by ex-SpaceX engineer Spencer Jackson, specializes in the design and mass production of modular geothermal turbines. These turbines are built in factories and utilize a closed-loop fluid system to convert heat into electricity. The company aims to reduce the deployment time of geothermal systems from years to weeks, addressing the reliability issues of clean energy sources. By focusing on surface equipment and turbines, Critical Energy seeks to support the wider geothermal industry rather than compete with underground drillers.

$11.5M Seed · noxmetals.co

Nox Metals — Custom aluminum blocks for CNC machining

Nox Metals is a seven-month-old startup based in Southwest Detroit that specializes in custom aluminum blocks for CNC machining. The company uses AI automation to significantly reduce lead times from days to seconds. Nox Metals aims to revitalize a World War II-era factory to further its mission and enhance production capabilities.

$5M Seed · mantle.energy

Mantle Energy — Turns depleted oil and gas wells into grid baseload power

Mantle Energy is a Dallas, Texas-based developer of an activated geothermal and enhanced energy recovery platform. The company develops technology that repurposes depleted or low-yield oil and gas wells to generate controlled underground thermal combustion, capturing heat to deliver low-carbon baseload power directly to the electric grid. It was spun out from Hunt Energy's incubator and focuses on dual-benefit extraction and carbon emission storage protocols.

YC S26

Touchmark launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Solving AI pricing

YC S26 · atomarine.co

Atomarine — Nuclear-powered data centers at sea

Off shore nuclear powered data centers at sea.

$5.5M

Chptr raises a $5.5M Series A round

Chptr empowers people to create lasting legacies for the ones they love & for their stories to inspire generations to come.

YC S26 · tryglen.com

Glen — Unified organizational context for AI agents and humans

Unified organizational context for agents and humans

YC S26

Prescience, Inc. launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Healthcare for the age of abundant intelligence.

YC X26

Ploy launches at YC (Spring 2026)

Ploy turns your website into your company's growth engine.

$55M Series C · stepful.com

Stepful, Inc. — Trains and places medical assistants and phlebotomists

Our mission is to empower communities with accessible pathways to healthcare careers, regardless of background or circumstance. Our healthcare staffing programs are designed to fill vacancies quickly and reduce hiring costs. We also provide medical career advancement training. Stepful specializes in training and placing healthcare professionals in various healthcare roles, including Medical Assistants, Coders & Billers, Pharma Techs, EKGs, and Phlebotomists.

$115M

American Battery Technology Company raises a $115M round

American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), headquartered in Reno, Nevada, has pioneered first-of-kind technologies to unlock domestically manufactured and recycled battery metals critically needed to help meet the significant demand from the electric vehicle, stationary storage, and consumer electronics industries. Committed to a circular supply chain for battery metals, ABTC works to continually innovate and master new battery metals technologies that power a global transition to electrification and the future of sustainable energy.

$29.6M · matternet.com

Matternet — Drone delivery for cities

Matternet is a drone delivery pioneer focusing on expanding urban delivery capabilities.

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) — Superconducting quantum computers for enterprises

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) is a UK-based quantum computing company founded in 2017. It specializes in enterprise-ready quantum computers that utilize superconducting qubits and its patented Coaxmon chip. OQC aims to create a quantum-accelerated world through application-optimized computing.