Author: Jesse Landry

ARTBIO just dropped a $132 million Series B, and if you’re not paying attention, you’re already behind. This isn’t just another biotech playing dress-up in clinical trials. This is a company built by radiopharmaceutical legends who invented Xofigo (yes, the one Bayer acquired through Algeta), now reinventing the game with alpha radioligand therapies powered by lead-212. Roy H. Larsen, PhD, and Øyvind Bruland, MD, PhD, don’t dabble, they build category-defining breakthroughs. And with Emanuele Ostuni, PhD, steering as founding CEO, after running cell and gene therapy across Europe for Novartis Oncology, you’re looking at a crew that knows how to…

Contractor payroll sounds simple until you actually try doing it. Ask any company scaling fast and swimming in 1099s. Ask the finance lead who hasn’t slept since Q4. Ask the ops team duct-taping Excel sheets to keep payments moving. That’s the noise Wingspan tuned out from day one, and today, they just turned the volume up with a fresh $24M Series B to keep rewriting how modern workforces get paid and stay compliant. Led by Touring Capital with returning believers Andreessen Horowitz, Long Journey Ventures, Distributed Ventures, Company Ventures, and 186 Ventures, this round brings Wingspan’s total raise to $54M.…

The best battlefield advantage isn’t firepower, it’s foresight. And Reveal Technology, Inc. is making sure tactical teams don’t have to choose between intelligence and isolation. They’ve just locked in a $30M Series B to push that mission even further. No cloud. No signal. No problem. Led by Ballistic Ventures (Kevin Mandia knows a thing or two about defense), with continued backing from defy.vc, Booz Allen Ventures, Shield Capital, Next Frontier Capital, and Madison Valley Partners, this round brings Reveal Technology, Inc.’s total raise to $41.2M. That’s not just capital, it’s conviction. You don’t bet on this space unless you understand…

When your platform is called Hightouch, it better land smooth and hit hard. And that’s exactly what this crew has done, again. Fresh off a strategic extension of their $80M Series C, Tejas Manohar, Kashish Gupta, and Joshua “Josh” Curl just locked in a quiet power move. No fanfare, no champagne emojis, just Snowflake Ventures and Capital One Ventures stepping deeper into the ring. Translation? The market’s smartest capital is doubling down on a warehouse-native, AI-first CDP that’s not here to blend in. Founded back in 2019 by three former Segment engineers who ditched dashboards for decisions, Hightouch isn’t peddling…

. Promptfoo? They hunt problems most teams are too scared, or too unprepared, to solve. And when you’re building a red teaming framework for AI vulnerabilities in a world obsessed with speed over safety, you don’t get to hide behind clever marketing or comfy roadmaps. You build for war. And you build it open-source. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, Promptfoo is setting the tone for a new class of security-first AI infrastructure. The name’s cheeky, but the tech is lethal: a fully automated, end-to-end security platform for red-teaming LLM applications. Jailbreaks, data leaks, bias exploits, Promptfoo doesn’t…

You ever try navigating employee leave policies in the U.S.? It’s like trying to read James Joyce after two bourbons, confusing, outdated, and somehow still legally binding. Now imagine you’re an HR team trying to scale that chaos across 14 states, each one dropping its own flavor of compliance alphabet soup. That’s not a workflow, it’s a landmine. And that’s exactly where Sparrow flies in. Founded in 2018 by Deborah Hanus and Samarth Keshava, Sparrow didn’t show up with a slide deck and a dream. They came strapped with Stanford and Berkeley pedigrees, Fortune 500 scars, and the kind of…

$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…

When Farmers Business Network first got its hands dirty in 2014, it wasn’t chasing disruption, it was chasing fairness. Seed prices were buried in the fog, input markets were rigged for opacity, and family farmers were left playing poker with a marked deck. So Amol Deshpande, fresh off the VC circuit at Kleiner Perkins, and Charles Baron, the Google brain turned agronomy translator, decided to flip the data tables. Not with buzzwords, but with real field data, raw, unfiltered, and crowdsourced. The result? A new kind of crop circle: 117,000 farms strong, 187 million acres wide, and pulsing with real-time…

Let’s talk about Apera AI, the Vancouver-based deep tech crew turning robotic vision into something that finally makes sense in the real world. They’re not just playing with pixels and depth maps. They’ve built a 4D Vision platform that teaches robots how to see like humans, but work like machines, flawless, fast, and freakishly consistent. The co-founders? That’s where it gets even more interesting. Sina Afrooze, CEO, was in the room where it happened at Avigilon, helped scale it to a $1.2B Motorola exit, and later touched AWS SageMaker RL back when most people were still figuring out what reinforcement…

JotPsych isn’t here to play industry Mad Libs with “AI-powered,” “HIPAA-compliant,” and “behavioral health.” They’re here because thousands of clinicians are spending three hours a day charting notes instead of helping patients. That’s not inefficiency. That’s malpractice by design, and the system handed them the pen. Nathan Peereboom and Jackson Bierfeldt didn’t build JotPsych to chase vanity metrics. They pivoted hard in 2023, walking away from a generalist medical scribetool that couldn’t hold water. Instead, they zoomed in on where the pain was loudest, therapists, counselors, and psychiatrists drowning in documentation. That bet just turned into a $5 million Seed…