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$8.2M Seed · ycombinator.com

Human Archive — First-person video data for AI labs training robots

Human Archive builds large-scale multimodal training datasets for robotics and physical AI. The startup equips gig-economy workers in India with head-mounted cameras and sensors to capture first-person video of everyday home-services tasks, then licenses that data to AI labs developing embodied models. Founded by researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley; in Y Combinator's W26 batch.

Wing Venture Capital · Nvp Capital · YC · $1M+ · +1

$113M Series B · openrouter.ai

OpenRouter — One API to access hundreds of LLMs from multiple providers

Unified interface for large-language-model (LLM) inference, providing a single API to access hundreds of LLMs from multiple providers with features like automatic failover, unified billing, privacy controls, and edge-deployed infrastructure.

CapitalG · Andreessen Horowitz · Databricks Ventures · Menlo Ventures · MongoDB Ventures · NVentures · +3 · +6

$27M Series B · handle.com

Handle.com — Lien waivers and payments for construction suppliers

Handle.com is a San Francisco-based software platform purpose-built for construction finance, automating payments, lien rights, waivers, compliance and invoicing for material suppliers, equipment dealers and contractors. Founded in 2018, the company now processes more than $160 billion in construction invoices for customers including Ferguson, The Home Depot, Cemex, ABC Supply and EquipmentShare.

Marbruck Investments · Energize Capital · Liquid 2 Ventures · RXR · Suffolk Technologies · WEX Venture Capital · +1 · +4

$8M Series A · trajektory.com

Trajektory — Sponsorship analytics for sports brands, teams and leagues

Trajektory is a Chicago-based sports sponsorship analytics platform that consolidates fragmented measurement data into a single intelligence system used by brands, agencies, teams, and leagues. The company supports organizations representing more than $180B in annual sponsorship value and counts more than two-thirds of the NHL among its clients. Founded in 2019, it focuses on currency-grade valuations and reporting to help rights-holders and sponsors quantify the impact of their deals.

Wise Ventures · $1M+

$3.5M Seed · shatterdome.energy

Shatterdome Energy — Optimizes battery storage trading in wholesale power markets

Shatterdome Energy is a San Francisco-based AI-driven energy trading and intelligence startup, emerging from stealth in May 2026 to build an optimization platform for battery storage assets in wholesale power markets.

Crucible Capital · Entrepreneurs First · Transpose Platform VC · $1M+ · +1

$6M Series A · motopizza.com

MOTO Pizza — Detroit-style pizza with Filipino-influenced toppings

MOTO Pizza is a Seattle-based Detroit-style pizza chain founded in 2021 by Lee Kindell and Nancy Gambin, known for blending Filipino-influenced toppings with in-store robotic assembly. The company operates locations across West Seattle, Belltown, Edmonds, Pioneer Square and at T-Mobile Park, and is now spinning out a dedicated robotics venture, Motobotics, to build pizza-making robots in-house.

$1M+

$60M · fundcanna.com

FundCanna — Loans and working capital for cannabis operators

FundCanna is a San Diego-based specialty finance platform that provides working capital, equipment, vendor, dispensary, and inventory loans to cannabis operators across the United States. Founded by Adam Stettner, the company underwrites the full cannabis supply chain — multi-state operators, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers — and also runs ReadyPaid, a buy-now-pay-later product aimed at the multibillion-dollar pool of delinquent receivables in cannabis wholesale. It has originated more than 5,000 transactions and deployed over $250M since launch.

$50M+

$355M Series C · modal.com

Modal — Pay-per-use GPU and CPU compute for machine learning teams

Deploy generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and more on Modal's platform. We help data science and machine learning teams accelerate development, reduce costs, and effortlessly scale workloads across thousands of CPUs and GPUs. Our pay-per-use model ensures you're billed only for actual compute time, down to the CPU cycle. No more wasted resources or idle costs—just efficient, scalable computing power when you need it.

General Catalyst · Redpoint Ventures · Accel · Bain Capital Ventures · Menlo Ventures · $100M+ · +3

$700M Series A · hark.com

Hark — Hardware and models for a personal AI assistant interface

Hark is an AI lab founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, building a personal intelligence platform and bespoke hardware that aims to serve as a universal interface to AI assistants. The company is developing multimodal models that integrate with existing services, and operates an Nvidia B200 GPU data center to train them.

Parkway Venture Capital · Align Ventures · AMD Ventures · Ark Invest · Brookfield · Greycroft · +7 · +10