Author: Jesse Landry

Where medical imaging still struggles to see through bone, gas, fat, and implants, MAUI Imaging just pulled a $14 million Series D out of the lab and into the field, real money for real medicine. If traditional ultrasound is 2D coloring book stuff, MAUI Imaging’s CET tech is high-def sculpture, slicing trauma in real time like a CT scanner that can fit in a rucksack. Let’s start with the minds behind the machines. MAUI Imaging was co-founded by a father–son duo that sounds like the opening scene of a Nolan film. Don Specht, PhD, a Stanford-trained engineer who helped build…

Treeverse, the team behind lakeFS, just dropped a $20 million growth round led by Maor Investments, with longtime believers Dell Technologies Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Zeev Ventures doubling down. That brings total funding to $43 million. And this isn’t a victory lap. It’s a mid-race refuel for a team already rewriting how enterprise data gets built, versioned, and trusted at petabyte scale. Because when you’re shipping models, running pipelines, and building on lakes that don’t version like code, you’re basically deploying with a blindfold and a prayer. Dr. Einat Orr and Oz Katz, co-founders, former tech leads at Similarweb,…

Let’s talk about Caspian, a name that sounds like it belongs on a globe, not a customs form. But don’t get it twisted. This isn’t some sleepy trade consultancy or back-office plug-in trying to squeeze margin off regulatory red tape. Caspian is the AI-native beast quietly taking a $10B market that most exporters don’t even realize they’re leaving on the table. Here’s the setup: U.S. businesses overpay on import duties every year, by the billions. Most of them never file for refunds, either because the process is buried in 1980s bureaucracy or because they don’t even know they’re eligible. What…

When it comes to the $1 trillion move to value-based care, most players are still fumbling with spreadsheets like it’s 2004. Meanwhile, Arbital Health is operating in 2025, and the gap is only getting wider. On July 29, the San Francisco-based infrastructure startup announced a $31 million Series B round led by Valtruis, with Transformation Capital, Shaper Capital, and Healthy Ventures doubling down. Because when you’re solving one of healthcare’s most expensive and broken problems, smart money doesn’t hesitate. This isn’t a company joining the value-based movement, they’re the quiet architects building the plumbing beneath it. Arbital Health was founded…

What if your due diligence process didn’t move at the speed of anxiety, but at the speed of actual intelligence? What if all those VDR dumps, late-night spreadsheet migraines, and 14-tab Excel gymnastics could get digested, cleaned, analyzed, and spit back as fully auditable insights, before your third overpriced espresso kicked in? Keye didn’t ask that question. They answered it. On July 29, Keye came out swinging with a $5M seed round backed by a bench that knows the game: Sorenson Capital, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator (YC F24) led the charge, with support from ERA, Plug and Play Ventures,…

There are founders who build startups, and then there’s Dr. David K. Lam, an industry architect who doesn’t just build companies, he builds categories. First Lam Research. Now Multibeam Corporation. Same playbook? Not even close. This isn’t about following the roadmap, it’s about inventing new physics at production speed. Multibeam just locked in a $31 million Series B to scale the only production-grade multicolumn electron-beam lithography (MEBL) platform on the planet. You read that right, maskless, full-wafer direct-write at volume. When the rest of the industry was still busy squeezing legacy tools into next-gen problems, Dr. Lam was already holding…

$31 million in the bank. Redpoint Ventures steering the Series A. Greylock Partners dropped anchor early, incubating the company through Greylock Edge. And it’s not just capital, they’re stacking the board with serious operators: Erica Brescia from Redpoint Ventures joins Saam Motamedi of Greylock Partners, and when Garry Tan, Evan Reiser, Andy Price, and Jamie Barnett are on your cap table, you’re not playing defense, you’re dictating the field. But this isn’t another shiny “AI + cyber” pitch deck running laps around buzzwords. This is behavioral science meets real-time orchestration, and it’s already protecting Pennymac, Genesys, and the DNC. Fable…

Let’s talk about where Gen Z and Gen Alpha are actually hanging out, and no, it’s not on TikTok doing dance challenges or in some stale focus group behind a two-way mirror while a brand manager scribbles notes. It’s at Cafeteria, but not the one with a milk carton and mystery meat. This Cafeteria is a platform, a mic drop for brands who’ve finally figured out that if you want the truth about what’s hot, what’s not, and what’s next, you ask the kids directly. And you pay them for their time. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles,…

Salient just raised $60 million. Not to disrupt loan servicing. To bury it. You don’t name a company Salient unless you plan to stand out. And when the old guard’s still stuck on fax machines and compliance manuals, Ari Malik and Mukund Tibrewala didn’t just build a platform, they pulled the industry into the future kicking and screaming. Founded in 2023 out of a San Francisco bedroom and backed by deep scars from Tesla and Airtable, this isn’t your typical fintech origin story. Ari Malik, fresh off Tesla’s sales finance trenches and stints at DST Global, Temasek, and Goldman Sachs,…

The truth about cybersecurity is this: most enterprises are sitting on a Ferrari and driving it like a lawnmower. Millions spent on tooling, stacks deeper than a Reddit thread on zero-days, and yet 80% of it never gets used the way it should. That’s not just waste. That’s risk dressed up as ROI. And that’s exactly where Reach Security has planted its flag, with a purpose-built AI assistant that actually operationalizes your security investments instead of throwing another tool into the chaos. Founded in 2021 by Garrett Hamilton and Colt Blackmore, two seasoned vets who cut their teeth building at…