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Which parts of a legal department can you delegate to AI? Customers including Wiz, Monday, Socure, and AppsFlyer use Chamelio to put AI agents to work on legal tasks. The company just raised $26M to build the operating system for in-house legal teams. alleywatch.com/2026/09/chame…
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Women weren't required in U.S. clinical trials until 1993. That 30-year data gap is a big part of why vaginal infections carry a 60%+ recurrence rate under standard care. @EvvyBio has 100,000+ patients, the world's largest vaginal microbiome dataset, and 15+ peer-reviewed publications showing what precision diagnostics can do instead: alleywatch.com/2026/09/evvy-…
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The August 2026 US venture pyramid 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲  57 deals $9.81B ████████████ 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗕   48 deals $3.76B █████ 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔   93 deals $3.63B █████ 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 135 deals $870M █ Full report 👇 alleywatch.com/2026/09/us-ve…
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🗽 NYC STARTUP FUNDING ROUNDUP 9/15/2026: 🤖 @profound raises $180M (Series D) 💳 @fin lands $20M (Seed) 🤖 @liquidcompute secures $15M (Seed) ⚙️ BoomerangHR raises $12.7M (Seed) 🏆 Kickback Soccer Media lands $1M (Seed) 🤖 ScoringFactory secures $500K alleywatch.com/2026/09/the-a…
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Creators on YouTube, Spotify, and Roblox earn more than $50B a year. Most of them still can't access business capital without selling equity or handing over their catalog. @TeamCreatorFi is changing the math and just raised $5M in equity to prove it. Full story: alleywatch.com/2026/09/creat…
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🗽 NYC FUNDING ROUNDUP 9/9/2026: 💊 Rightway Healthcare raises $155M ⚙️ Clay lands $115M Series D 💳 Savvy Wealth secures $100M Series C 🤖 Antioch raises $32M Series A 📚 Active Learning Sciences raises $1.5M alleywatch.com/2026/09/the-a…
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NYC startups raised $837.9M across 34 deals in August 2026 - the lightest month of 2026. But the real number is $19.09B: what the city has raised YTD, already past the full-year 2025 total with four months to go. The August 2026 NYC VC Funding Report is live. alleywatch.com/2026/09/the-a…
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Primary care accounts for just 6% of total healthcare cost but influences up to 90% of downstream spending. @AlignedMktplace gives self-insured employers access to 3,000+ independent advanced primary care clinics through one contract, with fees tied to outcomes, not visits. alleywatch.com/2026/08/align…
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