Warp raised $85M in under a year, including a $60M Series B, to expand its AI-powered HR platform and launch Warp Agent, which automates tasks such as state registration, payroll and benefits while handing blocked tasks to human experts. The company says revenue is up 700% YoY, it has helped save $200M in tax penalties, and is on track for $2B+ in payroll volume this year, with backing from Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Sound Ventures, Homebrew VC and Y Combinator, plus notable angel investors. FOUNDER: Ayush Sharma INVESTORS: Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Sound Ventures, Homebrew VC & Y Combinator AMOUNT: $85,000,000 HQ: New York City, New York #VentureCapital #Warp #AyushSharma #BatteryVentures #TradedVC

Chris paul is officially joining Owl Ventures as a partner, expanding his presence in venture capital beyond the court. The NBA star and entrepreneur will work alongside the education-focused venture firm as it backs the next generation of companies shaping how people learn, work, and develop. Paul has steadily built an investment portfolio across technology, consumer, sports, and media, and his move into a formal venture role represents the latest chapter in his career as an investor and operator. #ChrisPaul #TradedVC #OwlVentures #VentureCapital

Snowflake ranks No. 1 in Ramp’s Data Warehouses category as of September 2026, with a 64% adoption rate, up 6 percentage points year over year. The cloud data platform also captured 55% of new adopters and had a 42% competitor switch rate, reflecting continued demand for its cloud-native data warehousing, multi-cloud deployment and elastic scaling capabilities. FOUNDERS: Benoit Dageville & Thierry Cruanes HQ: Menlo Park, California #VentureCapital #Snowflake #BenoitDageville #TradedVC

HIFI, a New York City-based financial technology and stablecoin infrastructure platform, raised $37M in Series A funding led by Left Lane Capital. Founded by CEO Zach Walsh and Mo Afifi, the company will use the capital to scale its tokenized capital markets infrastructure, expand onchain settlement capabilities and grow its corporate card-issuance business. FOUNDERS: Zach Walsh & Mohamed (Mo) Afifi INVESTOR: Left Lane Capital ROUND: Series A AMOUNT: $37,000,000 HQ: New York City, New York #VentureCapital #HIFI #ZachWalsh #MohamedMoAfifi #TradedVC

Hubble Network raised $200 million in a Series C led by Smith Point Capital, with participation from Seraphim, Carthona Capital, Earthshot Ventures, Y Combinator and RPM Ventures, valuing the satellite-powered Bluetooth network at $1.6 billion and bringing total funding to $300 million. CEO and co-founder Alex Haro said the company will use the new capital to scale its constellation from six satellites today to 60 by 2030 as Hubble opens satellite coverage to all Bluetooth devices. FOUNDERS: Alex Haro & Ben Wild INVESTORS: Smith Point Capital, Seraphim, Carthona Capital, Earthshot Ventures, Y Combinator & RPM Ventures ROUND: Series C AMOUNT: $200,000,000 HQ: Seattle, Washington #VentureCapital #HubbleNetwork #AlexHaro #BenWild #TradedVC

Zero Infinity Partners (ZIP), a New York early-stage venture firm focused on physical infrastructure and technology, has raised $156M for its second fund, backing founders innovating across energy, power, compute, mobility, logistics, waste, water and industrials. The firm was founded by John Kwaak and combines venture capital with infrastructure-sector expertise at the earliest stages. FOUNDER: John Kwaak AMOUNT: $156,000,000 HQ: New York, New York #VentureCapital #ZeroInfinityPartners #JohnKwaak #TradedVC

Precision Neuroscience closed an oversubscribed $250 million Series D co-led by Pershing Square Inc., the Ackman Oxman Institute and an undisclosed leading life sciences investment fund, bringing its total funding to $430 million. The brain-computer interface company, led by co-founder and CEO Michael Mager, plans to use the capital to expand clinical programs, advance FDA review of its Layer 7 cortical interface and build commercialization infrastructure. FOUNDERS: Michael Mager & Dr. Benjamin Rapoport INVESTORS: Pershing Square Inc., Ackman Oxman Institute, Duquesne Family Office, B Capital, ARK Invest, Invus, Mubadala Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, Korea Investment Partners, Hitachi Ventures & JSL Health Capital ROUND: Series D AMOUNT: $250,000,000 HQ: New York City, New York #VentureCapital #PrecisionNeuroscience #MichaelMager #TradedVC

Solcoa Industries, founded in 2025 and led by CEO Hooman Reza Nezhad, raised $75 million to build Solcoa One, its first commercial rare earth metallization plant. The financing includes $45 million in equity led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from Gigascale Capital, Long Journey, Felicis and others, plus $30 million in debt and equipment financing anchored by J.P. Morgan; the Nevada plant is expected to begin operations in July 2027 with 500 tonnes of annual NdPr and samarium metal capacity. FOUNDERS: Hooman Reza Nezhad & Artem Iurkovsky INVESTORS: Bain Capital Ventures, Mike Schroepfer, Gigascale Capital, Arielle Zuckerberg, Long Journey, Felicis, Dylan Field, Alexis Ohanian Sr., J.P. Morgan AMOUNT: $75,000,000 HQ: Alameda, California #VentureCapital #SolcoaIndustries #HoomanRezaNezhad #TradedVC

Ando, an AI-agent-native team messaging platform founded by Sara Du, has raised $20 million in pre-seed and seed funding from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence. The company, which is positioning Ando as a Slack alternative for teams working alongside AI agents, will use the fresh capital to expand hiring and scale its platform. FOUNDER: Sara Du INVESTORS: Accel, Index Ventures & Emergence ROUND: Pre-Seed & Seed AMOUNT: $20,000,000 HQ: San Francisco, California #VentureCapital #Ando #SaraDu #TradedVC

ARK Invest is partnering with Securitize to tokenize the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), giving eligible investors blockchain-based exposure to a portfolio of private and public technology companies. The fund includes exposure to companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks. The tokenized interests will initially be issued on Ethereum through Securitize’s infrastructure, while the underlying companies themselves are not being tokenized. The move brings venture and private-market exposure further onto blockchain rails, as financial institutions explore tokenized securities and digital markets. FUND: ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) #VentureCapital #ARKInvest #Securitize #Tokenization #TradedVC

Island, a Dallas-based enterprise browser and agentic control platform, raised $400 million in Series F funding at a $6.4 billion valuation, led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Prysm Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Alta Park Capital, Georgian, G Squared, Squarepoint and Dmitri Alperovitch. Led by CEO Mike Fey and CTO Dan Amiga, the company will use the funding to scale its agentic control plane and expand security, productivity and governance capabilities across browsers, endpoints, networks and data. FOUNDERS: Mike Fey & Dan Amiga INVESTORS: Evolution Equity Partners, Prysm Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Alta Park Capital, Georgian, G Squared, Squarepoint & Dmitri Alperovitch ROUND: Series F AMOUNT: $400,000,000 VALUATION: $6,400,000,000 HQ: Dallas, Texas #VentureCapital #Island #MikeFey #DanAmiga #TradedVC

Firecrawl , a San Francisco-based web data API that helps AI agents search, scrape and interact with the web at scale, raised $75 million in a Series B led by Smash Capital, bringing its total funding to $90 million. Founded by Caleb Peffer, Nick Silberstein Camara and Eric Ciarla, the company plans to use the capital to expand Alexandria, a new platform that connects AI agents to live web data, official data providers and specialized indexes. FOUNDERS: Caleb Peffer , Nick Silberstein Camara & Eric Ciarla INVESTORS: Smash Capital, Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners & Y Combinator ROUND: Series B AMOUNT: $75,000,000 TOTAL RAISED: $90,000,000 HQ: San Francisco, California #VentureCapital #Firecrawl #TradedPartner #CalebPeffer #TradedVC

Modal Labs, an AI infrastructure startup founded in 2021, is in talks to raise new funding at a roughly $15 billion valuation, nearly tripling its $4.65 billion valuation from a $355 million round in May. The company provides inference infrastructure using Nvidia GPUs and traditional CPUs, as investor demand accelerates for AI inference platforms amid growing adoption of open-source models and AI agents. FOUNDER: Erik Bernhardsson VALUATION: $15,000,000,000 HQ: New York City, New York #VentureCapital #ModalLabs #ErikBernhardsson #TradedVC

Micro1, a San Francisco-based AI data startup founded by Ali Ansari, raised more than $100 million at a $4 billion valuation. The company, which counts frontier AI labs, Microsoft, Amazon and robotics firm 1X as customers, has grown from $7 million in ARR at the start of 2025 to more than $500 million. FOUNDER: Ali Ansari AMOUNT: $100,000,000 VALUATION: $4,000,000,000 HQ: San Francisco, California #VentureCapital #Micro1 #AliAnsari #TradedVC

The New York Stock Exchange and Blockchain.com have signed an MOU to explore tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs through Blockchain.com’s platform, potentially connecting NYSE’s planned digital trading infrastructure with Blockchain.com’s 44M users. If implemented, the system could enable round-the-clock trading, fractional ownership, and broader access to U.S. market exposure outside traditional NYSE trading hours. The move would mark another major step toward bringing traditional financial assets onto blockchain infrastructure as tokenization continues moving deeper into mainstream finance. #TradedVC #NYSE #Blockchain #Trading

Slack, the business messaging platform for team communication and collaboration, ranks No. 2 in Ramp’s Communication category as of September 2026, with a 53% adoption rate, up 3 percentage points year over year. The platform supports channel-based messaging, workflow automation and third-party integrations, with 40% of new category adopters choosing Slack and a 45% competitor-switch rate. FOUNDERS: Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello & Serguei Mourachov HQ: San Francisco, California #VentureCapital #Slack #Ramp #TradedVC

Bessemer Venture Partners has raised $5.75 billion across two new funds, including $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage investments and a new $4 billion growth fund, as AI accelerates startup scaling and companies stay private longer. The firm says it has invested more than $3 billion in 260+ AI-native companies since 2022 and plans to deploy more capital across its Israeli portfolio, where partner Adam Fisher said investments have doubled over the past two years. FOUNDER: Henry Phipps AMOUNT: $5,750,000,000 HQ: Redwood City, California #VentureCapital #BessemerVenturePartners #HenryPhipps #TradedVC

Zoom is the No. 1 communication software by adoption, with 72% of organizations using the platform as of September 2026, according to Ramp data. The company’s offering spans video conferencing, team chat, phone, webinars and AI-powered meeting tools, with 57% of new category entrants choosing Zoom and a 42% competitor-switch rate. FOUNDER: Eric S. Yuan HQ: San Jose, California #VentureCapital #Zoom #EricSYuan #TradedVC

Numeral has raised a $100 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Uncork, Y Combinator, FCVC and Geodesic, bringing total funding to $157 million. Founded in 2023, Numeral provides U.S. sales tax, VAT and GST compliance for 3,500+ global businesses and is expanding beyond e-commerce and software into manufacturing, distribution and wholesale. FOUNDERS: Sam Ross & Matt DuVall INVESTORS: Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, Uncork, Y Combinator, FCVC & Geodesic ROUND: Series C AMOUNT: $100,000,000 HQ: New York City, New York #VentureCapital #Numeral #SamRoss #MattDuVal #TradedVC

Yes Chef Studios, a new 50/50 joint venture between 101 Studios and Yes Chef Group, launched with up to $25 million in development and production funding from 101 Studios. Co-founded by Jack Goldburg and Liam Henning, the studio will produce scripted and unscripted TV, films, streaming originals and YouTube projects spanning food, travel, culture and hospitality. FOUNDERS: Jack Goldburg & Liam Henning AMOUNT: $25,000,000 HQ: Manhattan, New York #VentureCapital #YesChefStudios #JackGoldburg #LiamHenning #TradedVC