The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 6/27/26 featuring funding details for xCures, Netris, Tombot, and thirty other deals representing $4.5B in new funding that you need to know about.
Baseten – $1.5B
San Francisco-based Baseten provides inference infrastructure for deploying, scaling, and optimizing AI models across production workloads, with tools for model APIs, training, custom deployments, and high-performance runtimes. Founded by Amir Haghighat, Pankaj Gupta, Philip Howes, and Tuhin Srivastava in 2019, Baseten has now raised a total of $2.1B in total equity funding and is backed by 01 Advisors, Altimeter Capital, Battery Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, Conviction, D. E. Shaw & Co., Durable Capital Partners, Greylock, IVP, Sands Capital Ventures, Spark Capital, Verified Capital, and Wellington Management.
Cosm – $100.0M
Los Angeles-based Cosm develops immersive entertainment venues and technology that combine live sports, media, gaming, production tools, and experiential content inside shared reality environments. Founded by Jeb Terry in 2020, Cosm has now raised a total of $350M in total equity funding and is backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Peregrine Technologies – $250.0M
San Francisco-based Peregrine Technologies provides a data integration and analytics platform that helps public safety and government agencies unify information, surface insights, and improve operational decision-making. Founded by Ben Rudolph and Nick Noone in 2018, Peregrine Technologies has now raised a total of $500.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Fifth Down Capital, Godfrey Capital, Goldcrest Capital, O.G. Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and XYZ Venture Capital.
fomo – $75.0M
New York-based fomo develops a mobile-first social crypto trading platform that lets users discover, track, buy, and trade digital assets with community-driven market insights. Founded by Paul Erlanger, Prashan Dharmasena, and Seyong Park in 2024, fomo has now raised a total of $94M in total equity funding and is backed by Alex Casimo, Antoine Le Nel, Benchmark, Humam Sakhnini, Index Ventures, Jack Randall, Jae Park, Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz, Mark Pincus, Patrick Kavanagh, Sebastian Knutsson, Stephane Kurgan, Tomas Okmanas, and Union Square Ventures.
Netris – $15.0M
Santa Clara-based Netris provides AI network automation software for GPU clouds, data centers, and service providers, helping operators manage networking, multi-tenancy, and infrastructure-as-a-service environments. Founded by Alex Saroyan, Arsen Arakelyan, and Tigran Martirosyan in 2017, Netris has now raised a total of $22.3M in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Cadence Solutions – $100.0M
New York-based Cadence Solutions provides a clinical AI and remote care platform that helps health systems manage chronic conditions, monitor patients, and deliver continuous care outside traditional visits. Founded by Christopher Altchek and Kareem Zaki in 2020, Cadence Solutions has now raised a total of $241M in total equity funding and is backed by B Capital, Coatue, Corewell Health Ventures, Duke Health, General Catalyst, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Spark Capital, and Thrive Capital.
Scaled Cognition – $100.0M
Amesbury-based Scaled Cognition develops AI systems for customer support and enterprise knowledge workflows that generate policy-compliant, verified answers grounded in company-approved information. Founded by Damon Pender, Dan Klein, and Dan Roth in 2023, Scaled Cognition has now raised a total of $100M in total equity funding and is backed by Genesys and Khosla Ventures.
Taktile – $110.0M
New York-based Taktile provides an agentic decision platform for financial institutions, helping teams build, test, deploy, and optimize automated risk, credit, onboarding, and compliance decisions. Founded by Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer in 2020, Taktile has now raised a total of $188.7M in total equity funding and is backed by Balderton Capital, DIG Ventures, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Index Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Visionaries Club, and Y Combinator.
Patronus AI – $50.0M
San Francisco-based Patronus AI provides evaluation, monitoring, and guardrail infrastructure for AI applications, helping companies test language models, detect failures, and deploy safer AI systems. Founded by Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian in 2023, Patronus AI has now raised a total of $70M in total equity funding and is backed by Datadog, Factorial Capital, Gokul Rajaram, Greenfield Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Samsung NEXT, and SignalRank.
Runlayer – $30.0M
New York-based Runlayer provides an AI agent deployment and management platform that helps companies run, monitor, secure, and scale agents across enterprise workflows. Founded by Andrew Berman, Tal Peretz, and Vitor Balocco in 2025, Runlayer has now raised a total of $41M in total equity funding and is backed by Felicis and Khosla Ventures.
Allium – $40.0M
New York-based Allium provides blockchain data infrastructure that helps institutions, developers, and crypto companies query, analyze, and operationalize onchain data. Founded by Cheng Han Lee, Ethan Chan, and Paul Chun in 2021, Allium has now raised a total of $60.8M in total equity funding and is backed by Amplify Partners, Kleiner Perkins, PruVen Capital, and Theory Ventures.
Caplight – $16.0M
San Francisco-based Caplight provides private market trading and data infrastructure, giving investors access to pre-IPO pricing, transaction data, market intelligence, and liquidity tools. Founded by Javier Avalos and Justin Moore in 2021, Caplight has now raised a total of $25.7M in total equity funding and is backed by Better Tomorrow Ventures, BlackRock, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Dash Fund, DB1 Ventures, Fin Capital, LEAP Global Partners, and UBS Investment Bank.
Ornn – $33.0M
New City-based Ornn develops financial infrastructure for compute markets, creating pricing, trading, and risk management systems for AI compute and GPU capacity. Founded by Kush Bavaria and Wayne Nelms in 2025, Ornn has now raised a total of $38.7M in total equity funding and is backed by a16z crypto, BoxGroup, Crucible Capital, Galaxy Ventures, Link Ventures, Nordstar, SV Angel, and Vine Ventures.
Probook – $34.0M
New York-based Probook provides an AI operating system for home services companies, helping teams automate dispatching, scheduling, customer communication, and field operations. Founded by Ben Cervantez and George Eliadis in 2022, Probook has now raised a total of $40M in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
Runpod – $100.0M
Mount Laurel-based Runpod provides cloud GPU infrastructure for developers and AI teams to deploy, scale, and manage machine learning workloads, model endpoints, and serverless compute. Founded by Pardeep Singh and Zhen Lu in 2022, Runpod has now raised a total of $122M in total equity funding and is backed by Summit Partners.
Prosper AI – $30.0M
New York-based Prosper AI develops AI voice agents for healthcare operations, automating scheduling, eligibility checks, intake, and other patient-facing administrative workflows. Founded by Josep Marc Mingot and Xavier de Gracia in 2023, Prosper AI has now raised a total of $35M in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, Company Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Y Combinator.
Orderful – $35.0M
San Francisco-based Orderful provides a cloud EDI platform that helps manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and technology companies automate trading partner connections and B2B transaction workflows. Founded by Erik Kiser in 2016, Orderful has now raised a total of $79M in total equity funding and is backed by Koch Disruptive Technologies and NewRoad Capital Partners.
Groq – $650.0M
San Jose-based Groq develops AI inference infrastructure powered by its LPU architecture, providing high-speed compute systems and cloud services for running large language models. Founded by Doug Wightman and Jonathan Ross in 2016, Groq has now raised a total of $2.4B in total equity funding and is backed by Disruptive and Infinitum.
xCures – $46.0M
Oakland-based xCures provides a real-world oncology data platform that aggregates, structures, and analyzes patient records to support clinical research, care insights, and treatment discovery. Founded by Jeff Shrager and Marty Tenenbaum in 2018, xCures has now raised a total of $58.8M in total equity funding and is backed by GKCC, iGrow Venture Partners, Innovius Capital, and Spring Mountain Capital.
Sophia Space – $7.0M
Pasadena-based Sophia Space develops orbital computing and in-space data center infrastructure designed to support AI workloads, edge processing, and data management in orbit. Founded by Brian Monnin, Leon Alkalai, and Rob DeMillo in 2023, Sophia Space has now raised a total of $20.9M in total equity funding and is backed by EverGreen and SparkLabs Group.
AppsFlyer – $1.0B
San Francisco-based AppsFlyer provides marketing measurement, attribution, analytics, and privacy-preserving growth tools that help businesses optimize app and digital advertising performance. Founded by Oren Kaniel and Reshef Mann in 2011, AppsFlyer has now raised a total of $1.3B in total equity funding and is backed by DTCP, Google, Meta, Moloco, and Unity.
Redo – $81.0M
Draper-based Redo provides post-purchase software for ecommerce brands, including return automation, exchanges, package protection, and revenue-retention tools. Founded by Sterling Snow and Taylor Brown in 2017, Redo has now raised a total of $107M in total equity funding and is backed by Cervin Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, and Smash Capital.
Coval – $28.0M
San Francisco-based Coval provides simulation and evaluation infrastructure for AI agents, helping teams test assistants across chat, voice, and multimodal interactions before deployment. Founded by Brooke Hopkins in 2024, Coval has now raised a total of $31.8M in total equity funding and is backed by Base10 Partners, MaC Venture Capital, Norwest, Swift Ventures, Twilio, and Y Combinator.
Orthogonal – $4.3M
San Francisco-based Orthogonal develops connected medical device software and digital health engineering services that help medical technology companies build regulated software products. Founded by Bera Sogut and Christian Pickett in 2025, Orthogonal has now raised a total of $4.8M in total equity funding and is backed by Blast. Club, Decasonic, Outbound Ventures, Pantera Capital, Pioneer Fund, Surreal Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Valence AI – $5.0M
Los Angeles-based Valence AI develops emotion AI software that analyzes sales and support conversations to help companies understand customer sentiment, intent, and experience quality. Founded by Chloe Duckworth and Shannon Brownlee in 2021, Valence AI has now raised a total of $5M in total equity funding and is backed by Change Paradox Ventures, Difference Partners, Differential Ventures, SRI Ventures, and Willowtree Investments.
Cambrian – $6.0M
San Francisco-based Cambrian develops an AI infrastructure protocol that connects onchain and offchain data to generate financial insights for crypto, DeFi, and institutional workflows. Founded by Sam Green in 2024, Cambrian has now raised a total of $11.9M in total equity funding and is backed by Alumni Ventures, Avi Felman, Daedalus Angel Syndicate, Flow Traders, Franklin Templeton, GS Futures, Nomad Capital, Paper Ventures, Polychain, Proxima Investments, and Selini Capital.
Upside – $20.0M
Fort Lauderdale-based Upside provides a housing stability platform for healthcare organizations, helping vulnerable populations access coordinated housing support and related services. Founded by Jake Rothstein and Peter Badgley in 2020, Upside has now raised a total of $27.4M in total equity funding and is backed by 645 Ventures, Aquiline Capital Partners, Flare Capital Partners, and Freestyle Capital.
Vanna Health – $17.0M
San Francisco-based Vanna Health provides serious mental illness care through community-based support, peer services, clinical coordination, and technology-enabled behavioral health programs. Founded by Brian Meewes, Giovanni Colella, and Thomas Insel in 2021, Vanna Health has now raised a total of $52M in total equity funding and is backed by AlleyCorp and Health Velocity Capital.
Tombot – $7.0M
Santa Clarita-based Tombot develops robotic companion animals designed to support people facing health challenges, cognitive conditions, loneliness, and emotional care needs. Founded by Hank Schorz, Jesse Schorz, and Tom Stevens in 2017, Tombot has now raised a total of $24.1M in total equity funding and is backed by Caduceus Capital Partners, Florida Community Health Network, Lutheran Foundation for Long Term Living, and Wavemaker 360.
Trovy – $15.0M
New York-based Trovy provides fintech infrastructure, applications, analytics, and financial services tools for companies building embedded insurance, banking, and digital finance products. Founded by Ashley Harris, TJ Milani, and Wontaek Shin in 2024, Trovy has now raised a total of $15M in total equity funding and is backed by Camber Creek, DCM Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Left Lane Capital.
Wellbees – $3.6M
Wilmington-based Wellbees provides a B2B employee wellbeing platform that delivers personalized wellness programs, engagement tools, analytics, and mental health support for organizations. Founded by Kerem Gonulkrmaz, Melis Abacioglu, and Secil Mercan in 2021, Wellbees has now raised a total of $6.8M in total equity funding and is backed by 212, Arya Ventures, A-typical Ventures, Qatar Development Bank, SABAH.fund, Sabanc Ventures, and Sharks & Partners.
Niural – $21.0M
New York-based Niural provides an AI-native global PEO, payroll, compliance, and payments platform that helps companies hire, manage, and pay teams across countries. Founded by Brabim Baral, Nabin Banskota, Nami Baral, and Sarin Regmi in 2022, Niural has now raised a total of $52M in total equity funding and is backed by FOG Ventures and NewView Capital.
Neurometric AI – $4.0M
New York-based Neurometric AI provides engineering and consulting services for AI hardware, helping companies design, optimize, and deploy computing systems for AI workloads. Founded by Byron Galbraith, Calvin Cooper, Dave Rauchwerk, and Rob May in 2024, Neurometric AI has now raised a total of $4M in total equity funding and is backed by Abstraction, Betaworks, Dharmesh Shah, Encoded Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, Ex/Ante, Jason Calacanis, Mu Ventures, and Vermilion Cliffs Ventures.
AlleyWatch’s exclusive coverage of this round: Neurometric Raises $4M to Build the Infrastructure Layer That Matches Every AI Task to the Right Model
