Throne raises $4M in seed funding from Moxxie Ventures

911 Centers Turn to AI Voice Agents 991 call centers are so understaffed that they are deploying AI voice assistants to triage non-emergency calls like noise complaints and parking issues. Startup Aurelian, which powers many of these systems, just raised $14M in Series A funding to scale its AI call-handling tech and ease pressure on emergency responders. (TechCrunch)

911 Centers Turn to AI Voice Agents 991 call centers are so understaffed that they are deploying AI voice assistants to triage non-emergency calls like noise complaints and parking issues. Startup Aurelian, which powers many of these systems, just raised $14M in Series A funding to scale its AI call-handling tech and ease pressure on emergency responders. (TechCrunch)

Thrilled to share that Nugen has successfully closed our pre-seed round, raising $1M+ in funding and GPU support through Antler’s first-ever AI Disrupt program. Grateful to be part of a team that’s pushing the frontiers of AI by developing architecture-level alignment technology to tackle the reliability challenges facing AI-first businesses. This is only the beginning — looking forward to scaling our research and shaping the AI-native future 🚀 Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gYpMQw_k #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepTech #AIResearch #Innovation #FutureOfAI

SCOOP: Lila Sciences is closing in on a Series A round to raise $300 million or more at a valuation of $1 billion or higher, per a source familiar. The megaround is not fully finalized but will be a major raise to scale up in building "scientific superintelligence." My latest exclusive for Endpoints News, on one of the most fascinating new startups of 2025 for the AI bio world: https://lnkd.in/ebk3xPZY

"The March seed round was co-led by Flagship Pioneering and General Catalyst, and the in-progress Series A will bring in additional investors. Lila Sciences is led by CEO Geoffrey von Maltzahn, a general partner at Flagship who has previously helped build startups like Generate:Biomedicines. Other leaders include longtime Harvard University geneticist George Church, who serves as Lila’s chief scientist, and Noubar Afeyan, Flagship’s leader, who chairs Lila’s board. The startup has grown from roughly to 60 to 180 employees over the past 12 months, according to LinkedIn data. Lila is potentially the only for-profit company trying to build a business around the nascent themes of autonomous science and closed-loop experimentation — in which AI models can generate hypotheses, test them in the lab, and iteratively learn from the results." #startup #funding #AI #superintelligence

🚀 We just raised our pre-seed round led by Antler ! Over $1M in capital + GPU perks to tackle AI's biggest challenge: reliability. At Nugen Intelligence, we're pioneering breakthrough architecture-level alignment technology. While AI adoption accelerates, businesses struggle with unreliable AI systems - we are building the foundational tech to make AI truly dependable for enterprise deployment. This funding gives us the runway to advance our research, scale our alignment technology, and work with forward-thinking companies ready to deploy reliable AI solutions. Massive thanks to the Antler team - Winnie Khoo, Lorenzo Peracchione, Markus Bruderer, Jussi Salovaara, Magnus Grimeland, Eugene Teo, Lanna Roche for backing up our vision of making making AI reliable for businesses, and our early supporters at Clear Ventures, Foundation Capital, and Stanford University's Cardinal Ventures. Proud of our exceptional Nugen team who joined this mission - now let's build the future of reliable AI together !  Read the full press release : https://lnkd.in/gYpMQw_k   Ready to make AI reliable for your business? - Let's connect  #AI #Reliability #fundraise #AIAlignment

#Take2WithBS | Dorm rooms to orbit India’s deeptech moment is taking shape. Funding surged from $36 mn in 2016 to $677 mn in 2023, with spacetech, biotech, AI & green energy leading the charge. Part-I explores why deeptech lagged in India, what’s changing & the hurdles ahead. Full story 👉 https://mybs.in/2eq44iQ Shelley Singh

AI networking is at an inflection point. Frontier labs are building 200k+ GPU clusters, but without adequate networking, multi-billion-dollar GPU investments deliver suboptimal returns. The network has become the performance ceiling. Upscale AI’s unparalleled team is building open standards-based networking that doesn't trade off performance. We are excited to be backing Barun Kar and Upscale AI in their $100M seed round. Read more about our decision in the comments.

Flagship’s Lila Sciences has raised $235 million in a new funding round led by Braidwell and Collective Global. The money will expand Lila’s AI-powered autonomous research labs. This round more than doubles the company’s $200 million raise in March. The move shows AI’s growing role in speeding biotech research and discovery. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/grAF3EBd What are your thoughts on AI in biotech labs? Share in the comments.

Physical AI is redefining what’s possible on the factory floor and across the supply chain, moving ‘too hard to automate’ into the rearview. From soft manipulation and careful picking to packing, unpacking, and precise assembly, these once human‑dependent tasks are becoming reliably automatable through physical AI. Gobano Robotics is laser focused on this frontier, bringing industrial‑grade performance to workflows that were out of reach for years. At Prequel, we are proud to back Ziad and Roch in their pre‑seed round with Axeleo Capital (AXC), Bpifrance, Polytechnique Ventures, Motier Ventures, Kima Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, and a strong group of business angels.