North America Startup Funding Rounds

Photon provides messaging infrastructure that lets developers run AI agents inside iMessage, WhatsApp and other communication channels.

Aptatek Biosciences develops connected diagnostic tools for metabolic monitoring at home. Its investigational PheCheck programme measures blood phenylalanine for people with PKU.

Ortet is an AI research lab building models and shared computing and data infrastructure for healthcare and life-science work.

GMI Cloud provides GPU computing, model inference and infrastructure for AI applications.

CScale develops optical interconnects that keep large AI computing systems communicating reliably.

Charter is a licensed insurance brokerage focused on space and defense companies, placing coverage for spacecraft, launch missions and the businesses behind them.

Efficient Computer develops general-purpose data-flow processors and software tools for computing and AI systems.

Varda builds spacecraft that manufacture materials in low Earth orbit and return them to Earth. Its capsules support microgravity pharmaceutical development and materials processing, followed by controlled reentry and post-flight analysis of returned payloads.

Kutlerri.ai operates managed AI services that carry out restaurant sales and cost-control tasks.

Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals develops treatments intended to protect brain tissue after concussion, traumatic brain injury and stroke by targeting astrocytes.