Medra is our latest compelling addition to our portfolio, building what could become the foundational platform for Physical AI Scientists. Fresh off a $52M Series A and featured in Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, Medra is bridging AI and robotics to bring autonomous experimentation into real-world labs. By closing the loop between predictions and outcomes, their platform helps drug developers test, adapt, and discover at unprecedented speed. With early partnerships already in motion (including with Genentech), Medra is quickly turning a bold vision into a transformative new category of R&D infrastructure. Catch CEO Michelle Lee's interview with Bloomberg below and read more in the The Wall Street Journal article linked in the comments. #PhysicalAI #DrugDiscovery #AIinScience #Biotech #ScientificInnovation #DeepTech #PortfolioNews
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Fusion Fund invests in promising start-up companies who have technology barriers in their business models. We invest in many industries including connected industries (robotics, mobility), network technologies (connectivity, security), artificial intelligence (computer vision, NLP), and digital health/medical devices. Our sweet spot are the Seed and Pre-A rounds. In addition to the financial support we provide portfolio companies, the entrepreneurial Partners at Fusion Fund provide vision, strategy, product marketing, and guidance drawn from our diverse background.
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Great to see our portfolio company Proscia powering the digital transformation of pathology at New York Gastroenterology Associates, one of NYC’s leading independent GI practices. This partnership is a great example of how Concentriq is helping providers deliver faster, more precise diagnostics today while also unlocking new research opportunities through seamless collaboration with pharma. It's a big step forward for digital pathology and precision medicine. Congrats to David West and the Proscia team! #DigitalPathology #AIinHealthcare #PrecisionMedicine
We’re excited to share that New York Gastroenterology Associates has adopted Concentriq to help its pathologists deliver precise, timely results. 🎉 The leading independent practice will also gain a technology foundation for seamlessly collaborating with pharmaceutical companies, enabling it to build on its active participation in clinical trials and studies. “Gastroenterology is exceptionally well positioned to benefit from #digitalpathology. We trust Proscia to help us fully realize that potential. Proscia’s software strikes a unique balance between meeting our needs today and driving a bold vision for the future, and its team has guided us every step of the way.” - David Hertz, NYGA’s Chief Operating Officer. Read the full press release for more: https://lnkd.in/eT2CBR92
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We’re excited to officially welcome Medra to the Fusion Fund portfolio, as they announce their $52M Series A to accelerate the development of the first platform for Physical AI Scientists. Medra is building autonomous systems that can run scientific experiments end-to-end, combining robotic execution with scientific reasoning to create a continuous learning loop. Their technology represents a fundamental shift from slow, manual iteration to self-improving platforms that can test, learn, and optimize at unprecedented speed. In just three months since launch, the company has already begun working with major leading biopharma partners like Genentech to bring this new category of R&D to life and accelerate scientific breakthroughs and ultimately eradicate disease. We’re proud to support the Medra team on this next chapter, alongside HUMAN CAPITAL, Lux Capital, Neo, Menlo Ventures & Anthology Fund (Anthropic), Catalio Capital Management, Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Forward Deployed Venture Capital, Palm Drive Capital, and others in backing this vision. Congrats again to Michelle Lee and the entire Medra team on reaching this milestone! Bringing Physical AI Scientists into the lab is a bold step forward for life science, and it’s exciting to see this vision come to life. Coverage of the announcement can be found in the comments. #PhysicalAI #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #AIinScience #Automation #AIInfrastructure #SeriesA #DeepTech #FutureOfHealth
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A big milestone for our portfolio company Talofa—Monster Walk just won its very first award! Talofa took home the Social Impact Award at the 17th 2025 Unity Awards, recognizing their mission to make fitness fun, accessible, and impactful through gaming. From the earliest prototype to launch, Monster Walk has resonated with a growing community of players who are moving more and smiling more, demonstrating that games can be a real force for good. Congratulations to Jenny Xu 🔜 GamesBeat Next and the Talofa team on your first (of many!) wins. Here’s to more games that move us, literally and figuratively. #UnityAwards #SocialImpact #GamesForGood #FitnessGames
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Congratulations to our portfolio company Proscia on being named a Technical.ly's Money Move of the Year, a recognition not only of the company’s momentum, but of its growing impact on Philadelphia’s healthtech ecosystem and the future of AI-driven pathology! #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #AIinHealthcare #TechNews
🎉 Your 2025 Technical.ly Awards: Philadelphia Winners Are Here! 🏆 Philly’s tech community showed up this year — nominating boundary-pushing founders, standout technologists, impactful orgs and the innovations moving our ecosystem forward. Today, we’re celebrating the leaders who make this city a place where big ideas take root and grow. Thank you to everyone who voted and helped highlight the people shaping Philly’s future. Meet the winners (see someone you know? Tag them below!) ➡️
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Our portfolio company SAIF Autonomy has been featured as one of the inaugural Frontier Innovation Fellows by London & Partners and the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT®), a program backing early-stage science-driven ventures defining the next era of deep tech in the UK. SAIF is building the trust layer for physical AI, enabling intelligent machines to operate safely, ethically, and reliably in the real world. Already deployed with customers in high-stakes domains, their technology exemplifies the kind of foundational, first-principles innovation this fellowship is designed to accelerate. As autonomy becomes core to industries from defense to logistics, SAIF’s system-level approach to trust and safety is essential, setting the standard for safety-critical AI. Congratulations to Kyle Thomas, Matthew H., and the SAIF team on their continued leadership in making AI safer by design, bringing together world-class domain expertise and the technical depth to help unlock autonomy at scale. #FrontierInnovation #DeepTech #AutonomousSystems #TrustedAI #UKStartups Grow London
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Congratulations to our portfolio company EdgeQ Inc. for being named to The Fast Mode 100, a global list honoring the 100 most innovative and high-performing technology vendors transforming the future of connectivity. Selected from hundreds of global contenders, this recognition affirms EdgeQ’s bold vision and execution in redefining the telecom ecosystem. By bringing together 5G, AI, and software-defined networking into a single chip platform, EdgeQ is enabling a more open, intelligent, and scalable network infrastructure for enterprises and operators worldwide. As the industry shifts toward cloud-native, AI-powered, and software-driven connectivity, EdgeQ continues to lead with breakthrough innovation and real-world impact. Congrats to Vinay Ravuri and the EdgeQ team for this well-deserved distinction. Proud to support their journey as they unlock a new era of programmable infrastructure. #TheFastMode100 #5G #AI #TeleInnovation #NetworkTransformation #EdgeComputing #Connectivity
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This week at Nexa AI: Nexa SDK for Linux launch, AutoNeural-VL launch for next-gen smart cockpit, Featured by Qualcomm blog and AMD talk, new model support⚡️ 1) Alex (Wei) Chen, CEO and founder of Nexa AI was featured by AMD, highlighting the impact of tighter PyTorch + ROCm integration for researchers and kernel engineers. 2) We launched NexaSDK for Linux with Docker, Inc — the first Linux SDK that unifies NPU + GPU + CPU with Day-0 support for top LLMs, VLMs, Embeddings, Rerank, ASR, and CV models from IBM, NVIDIA, Ultralytics and Meta, and Jina AI, powering next-gen IoT AI apps. 3) Meet AutoNeural-VL-1.5B, the first real-time multimodal model built for in-car AI — 14x lower(~100ms) latency, 3× visual detail(768²), and up to 7× accuracy on the Qualcomm SA8295P NPU, co-developed with GEELY for next-generation production smart cockpit experiences. Available to try on Snapdragon PCs at ~49.5 tokens/sec. 4) NexaSDK for Android was featured on the Qualcomm Developer Blog as “a simple way to bring on-device AI to smartphones with Snapdragon” and gives Android developers Day-0 access to the latest multimodal models across NPU/GPU/CPU with just a few lines of code. 5) NexaSDK now supports the latest Ministral-3 from Mistral AI Day-0 across platforms NPU from Apple and Qualcomm, GPU, CPU from all.
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We’re excited to partner with Law and Forensics to protect the legal sector from the growing threat of synthetic and AI-manipulated evidence. Together, we’re combining our deepfake detection solutions with Law & Forensics’ industry-leading digital forensics expertise to keep legal workflows secure and trustworthy. Under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (Rules 1.1, 3.3, 3.4, and 8.4(c)), attorneys have a duty of candor and due diligence when presenting information to courts and clients. Since deepfakes pose real risks to evidence, testimony, and legal communications, law firms need a seamless way to authenticate and report the files they represent. With Reality Defender and Law & Forensics, they have that easy-to-scale solution. Learn more about our partnership: https://lnkd.in/esS-uevg #LegalTech #DeepfakeDetection #DigitalForensics
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News: Proscia has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type II audit! 🔒 In a year where we’ve completed an industry record number of enterprise go-lives, this achievement serves as further proof of our enterprise-grade security and operational excellence. We are proud to be the secure, trusted partner of choice for large-scale digital pathology adoption among life sciences organizations and diagnostic laboratories. Read the full release to learn more: https://lnkd.in/ezhvtWxy
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