Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing |

The number of med-spas, weight-loss clinics, and concierge practices where patients pay a membership fee for direct, often same-day access to physicians, has exploded in…

Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder |

When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At that time, the concept of…

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot |

Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of…

Gather AI, maker of ‘curious’ warehouse drones, lands $40M led by Keith Block’s firm  |

Gather AI, a startup that offers an AI platform for warehouse cameras and drones, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by…

Skyryse lands another $300M to make flying, even helicopters, simple and safe |

10:21 AM PST · February 3, 2026 Skyryse, an El Segundo, California-based aviation automation startup, has raised more than $300 million in a Series C…

Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM |

In Brief Posted: 2:42 PM ps · January 22, 2026 The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular…

AI video startup, Higgsfield, founded by ex-Snap exec, lands $1.3B valuation |

11:28 AM pst · January 15, Through an extension to its previous $50 million Series A round that closed in September, AI video generation startup…

Lux Capital lands $1.5B for its largest fund ever |

In Brief Posted: 12:09 PM PST · January 7, 2026 Lux Capital, a 25-year-old VC firm known for its investments in frontier science and defense…

LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product |

11:35 AM Pst · January 6, LMArena, a startup that originally launched as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, announced on Tuesday that it…

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors |

Caroline Merin, who spent nearly a decade developing on-demand services as the first Latin American general manager for Uber Eats and later the COO of…