Author: Jesse Landry

Efficient Computer just raised $60M in Series A funding, and if you listen closely, you can hear the hum of a different kind of engine starting up. This is not another chip company promising “more.” More cores. More speed. More heat wrapped in a nicer slide deck. Efficient Computer is chasing something harder. Less. Less power. Less of that 99% of energy traditional chips burn just shuffling bits around like interns moving boxes between rooms. Brandon Lucia, Co-Founder and CEO of Efficient Computer, has been working this problem for nearly a decade inside Carnegie Mellon University before most people were…

There is a quiet power in infrastructure. Nobody throws a parade for plumbing, but everyone panics when the pipes burst. In private markets, the pipes have been rusted for decades. Access gated. Processes manual. Transparency optional. Then Monark Markets walks in and says let us lay down the rails so capital can actually move. Monark Markets just secured $8.1M in strategic funding to build what they call standard rails for private markets. Led by F Prime, with The Treasury, Commerce Ventures, Grit Capital Partners, and BBAE Holdings stepping in with conviction. David Jegen of F Prime joins the Board of…

Some tumors whisper. They hide. They convince the immune system that nothing is wrong. And in oncology, silence is expensive. Sift Biosciences just stepped into that quiet with $3.7M in oversubscribed Pre-Seed financing, and the signal is loud. Founded in 2024 as a UC Berkeley spin-out, headquartered in San Carlos, this preclinical immunotherapy company is building what it calls T-cell booster peptides. Not another me too molecule. Not incremental chemistry. A platform that aims to wake up immune memory and aim it directly at cancers that have mastered invisibility. Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO, is not guessing. With…

There is a certain calm that comes from founders who have already seen the movie and decided to direct the sequel anyway. Kana just stepped out of stealth with a $15M seed round led by Mayfield, and if you know the names Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya, you know this is not their first dance. Rapt found a home at Microsoft. Krux rang the bell at Salesforce for about $700M. Together those exits orbit roughly $1.2B. Now they are back in the lab, this time building for an era where AI is not a feature but the fabric. Congratulations to…

When you build a company around sleep, you better be wide awake. ProSomnus just secured up to $38M in a strategic investment from Catalio Capital Management to scale what they call Smart Sleep Medicine. Translation for the boardroom and the bedroom alike: this is about turning oral appliance therapy into a data-driven, sensor-enabled, remotely monitored standard of care. Not a side hustle to CPAP. A contender. Congratulations to Co-Founder and CEO Len Liptak and Executive Chair Laing F. Rikkers. And respect to Co-Founders Dave Kuhns and Sung Kim for laying the technical and clinical groundwork years ago when dental sleep…

Copenhagen does not posture. It produces. In 2017, inside the labs of Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, Niels Behrendt, Lars Henning Engelholm, and Christoffer Nielsen were deep in receptor biology, studying uPARAP with the patience of scientists who understand that real leverage in oncology starts at the cellular level. Alongside biotech operator Henrik Stage, they transformed that research into Adcendo ApS, built on a simple but ruthless thesis: if you can target the right receptor with precision and deliver a lethal payload directly into cancer cells, you change outcomes without burning the whole system down. Leadership followed scale. Michael…

ARCH Venture Partners does not chase noise. ARCH Venture Partners chases signal, the kind buried in peer-reviewed journals and debated in research corridors long before Wall Street can price it. The firm traces back to 1986, when the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory created Arch Development Corporation to commercialize institutional science. “Ar” from Argonne. “Ch” from Chicago. Precision from day one. What began as a technology transfer engine matured into one of the most influential forces in the modern startup ecosystem, particularly where biology meets capital. Four co-founders defined the blueprint: Steven G. Lazarus, Clinton Bybee, Keith Crandell,…

San Francisco does not sleep when healthcare operations are under pressure, and neither does Infinitus Systems, Inc. On Feb 3, 2026, the company introduced its Agentic AI Member Services Suite, extending its footprint deeper into payer infrastructure. Infinitus already powers more than 100M minutes of healthcare conversations. This launch signals an escalation from assisting care teams to directly reshaping how health plans manage member engagement at scale. For anyone tracking meaningful startup news in healthcare AI, this is a signal event. Ankit Jain, CEO and co-founder of Infinitus Systems, Inc., anchored the announcement with a clear thesis: member interactions are…

Liminal just pulled in $5.5M, and this one feels different. Not because capital is rare. Capital chases gravity. This is about where gravity is forming in AI security. Liminal, the generative AI security and governance platform built for regulated enterprises, secured the round led by OM Venture Capital, with Florida Funders, Draper Associates, Framework Venture Partners, and High Alpha stepping in again. That is not tourist money. That is conviction money. Respect to Founder and CEO Steven Walchek and Co-Founder and CTO Aaron Bach. 2 operators who saw something most enterprises were whispering about but not solving. Generative AI was…

Zero Homes just pulled $16.8M out of the atmosphere and turned it into oxygen for the electrification economy. Series A. Real capital. Real conviction. Prelude Ventures leading the charge, with SJF Ventures, Watsco Ventures, and returning hitters VoLo Earth Ventures, Overture VC, and FJ Labs doubling down. Money talks. This round is speaking in full sentences. Congratulations to Grant Gunnison, Founder and CEO, who went from swinging hammers in a family contracting business to engineering systems at MIT and then deciding the home upgrade process deserved less clipboard and more code. That arc is not theory. That is field grit…