Author: Jesse Landry

Some companies launch quietly. Slate Medicines launched with a $130M Series A and a molecule that goes straight for the nerve. Raleigh, North Carolina just got louder. Slate Medicines is stepping into the migraine arena with SLTE-1009, a subcutaneous, long half-life anti-PACAP monoclonal antibody licensed from DartsBio Pharmaceuticals in Guangdong. PACAP is not cocktail chatter. It is a clinically validated target that lives in the biology of migraine, distinct from the now familiar CGRP pathway. Translation for the room: this is a different shot on goal for patients who still suffer despite what is already on the shelf. That kind…

There is a certain poetry to a warehouse. Concrete floors. Dock doors yawning at 5 a.m. Fluorescent lights humming like they know something the skyline does not. Most people drive past a 30,000 SF box and see storage. Adir Levitas sees signal. And APG Asset Management just decided that signal is worth backing in size. On Feb. 23, 2026, APG, on behalf of Dutch pension fund ABP, made the single largest commitment to Faropoint Industrial Value Fund IV to date. No vanity metrics. No confetti cannons. Just institutional conviction aimed straight at the arteries of American commerce. Steven Hason, Managing…

The web used to be a library. Now it is a street fight. Every second, pages change, data mutates, signals blur. Most enterprises are still screenshotting the chaos and calling it strategy. Nimble just raised $47M in Series B funding to step into that noise and make it usable. Norwest led the round. Databricks Ventures stepped in. Target Global, Square Peg, Hetz Ventures, Slow Ventures, R-Squared Ventures, J-Ventures, and InvestInData doubled down. Total funding now sits at $75M. Not hype capital. Infrastructure capital. Credit where it is due. Uriel Knorovich, Co-founder & CEO, built this company in 2021 with a…

A contract is a promise with a memory. Most companies treat it like a PDF with a pulse. Ajay Agrawal saw the gap years ago. As a securities lawyer at Simpson Thacher and Debevoise, then at N.M. Rothschild and Goldman Sachs, then building UnitedLex with Daniel Reed, Ajay Agrawal watched enterprises sign beautiful agreements and then promptly forget them. Billions promised. Billions leaking. He once pegged the global cost of that amnesia at $2 trillion–$3 trillion. Casual. So in 2012, Ajay Agrawal, Kanti Prabha, Aditya Gupta, and Claude Marais decided contracts deserved a nervous system. Sirion just closed a majority…

Some founders build companies, John Kobs builds chapters. After 14 years turning Apartment List from a back of the napkin idea into a platform that powered roughly 3% of U.S. rental moves, raised $162M, hit profitability in 2020, and crossed a $600M valuation, John Kobs could have taken a victory lap and called it a career, but instead John Kobs went home, looked at his kids, and decided screen time deserved better writers. Enter Giant. Giant Labs, Inc., publicly launched in May 2025, just secured $8M in Seed funding led by Matrix, Decasonic, and Griffin Gaming Partners, with Perceptive Ventures,…

There are 2.7B deskless workers in the world, a number that is not a niche but the backbone of retail floors, factory lines, and hospital corridors, the people who actually make the world move while most software was built for someone staring at a second monitor. Humand looked at that imbalance and saw the market hiding in plain sight. On February 23, 2026, the San Francisco based company announced a $66M Series A co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and a lineup of operators who know how to build enduring companies, including Arash Ferdowsi of…

Some startups sell dreams. Potpie AI sells context. And in a world where AI agents hallucinate like they just left a desert festival, context is currency. Potpie AI just secured $2.2M in pre-seed funding to make AI agents actually usable inside real-world engineering systems. Let that breathe for a second. Usable. Not demo-ready. Not slideware. Usable. The round was led by Emergent Ventures with participation from All In Capital, DeVC, and Point One Capital. Anupam Rastogi of Emergent Ventures put his chips on the table. That is not casual capital. That is conviction. Congratulations to Aditi Kothari, Co-Founder and CEO,…

There is something poetic about sisters bottling their mother’s magic and watching it land on shelves at Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Costco. That is not nostalgia. That is distribution. Maazah just secured $2M in Seed financing, backed by a group of Minnesota based family offices, to fuel nationwide retail expansion. Minneapolis to national aisle presence is not an accident. It is execution with flavor. Congratulations to Co-Founder Yasameen Sajady and Co-Founder Sheilla Sajady for turning a family recipe into a retail reality that buyers cannot ignore and consumers keep reaching for. When your origin story starts at farmers markets with…

Streetlights do not usually make headlines. They just stand there. Quiet. Ordinary. Watching everything and saying nothing. Ubicquia just made them talk. Loud enough for Wall Street to wire $106M in Series D capital straight to Fort Lauderdale. Congratulations to Ian Aaron, CEO, and Lowell D. Kraff, Co-Founder and Chairman, for turning poles and transformers into profit centers. That is not a metaphor. That is infrastructure learning how to think. This round was led by 67 Capital through SDCL Private Equity and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, with Hamilton Lane, ClearSky, GMS, and strategic investor Sercomm back in the mix. Serious capital…

Wealth management loves to talk about the climb. Growth curves. AUM summits. Client journeys. But anyone who has actually built inside an advisory firm knows the real mountain is not performance. It is process. Intake forms that multiply. Scenario models that take days. Recommendations stitched together like a late night group project. Sherpas has raised $3.2M in Seed funding led by 1248, the family office of Mariner Wealth Advisors Founder and CEO Marty Bicknell. AUA Private Equity Capital and GoHub Ventures joined the round, alongside strategic investors and advisory firms across the wealth management industry. The announcement is datelined Kansas…