We are proud to announce our $18.5M Series Seed raise We're just getting started building the financial OS for business everywhere. Led by @thirdprimevc, @NorthIslandVC, @thehousefund, @Collab_Currency with @paraficapital, @PharsalusCap, @DCGco, 1982 Ventures and @OnigiriVC joining as new investors.

Money is becoming software. HIFI is the infrastructure it runs on. We've raised a $37 million Series A led by @leftlanecap. Thank you to the customers who run on HIFI, the team that builds it, and the investors who back it. Demand is accelerating. We now process more than $7 billion a year, and existing customers have grown their usage more than 400% in the past six months. Together, they've onboarded more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 individuals through HIFI. Our technology runs from Wall Street to everyday payments. In July, HIFI's platform was part of DTCC's pilot for tokenized repo. And through our partnership with Visa, developers can pair HIFI's stablecoin settlement with Visa Direct to move money globally. With this round, we're building toward the full stack of tokenized money, from payments and stablecoin cards to tokenized capital markets. We're growing our teams in New York and key international markets, acquiring strategic regulatory licenses, and reimagining new products for the partners building on HIFI. We're just getting started. → Read our blog: go.hifi.com/bmyAiJe → Read the exclusive in Axios: go.hifi.com/hUflHxN

functionSPACE has raised $1.7M in pre-seed funding to build the economic primitive for pricing numerical outcomes, led by @Maven11Capital and @blockwall_vc with participation from @smape_capital.

Today we're announcing $75M to build Solcoa One, our 500-tonne rare earth metallization plant in Nevada. At Solcoa, we believe rare earths are the foundation of America's next great industrial era. An era we intend to win on the merits, with superior American technology.

we’re excited to share that we’ve raised $20M (from Accel, Index, & Emergence) to build the 'ai-native Slack' you've all been craving TLDR; ando is a team messaging platform built fresh, from the ground, up for a world where agents act as real collaborators alongside us. we have teams using us across 15 countries, and spanning industries like software, financial services, real estate, & more request access if any of this resonates 💌

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Introducing Midcentury. We’re building the data and simulation infra for physical AI. Today, we’re coming out of stealth with a $15M Series Seed to scale robotics beyond polished demos. We’re already supporting frontier labs with: → The world’s largest egocentric dataset: 2M+ hours, 50+ environments, 20,000+ tasks → Matrix: a frontier simulation platform scaled with our real-world data to evaluate and post-train policies at scale

CatchBack just raised $8M. @FoundationCap led the seed round, with participation from @ycombinator, Robinhood Ventures at @RobinhoodApp, @cbventures, and @SolanaFndn at @solana We’re using it to build the future of collectibles trading. Read to the end to have a chance to win $10k 🧵