Danny Holtkamp

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Spott raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital, building an AI native ATS and CRM for recruiting firms out of Belgium. Lander Degreve started it with two university friends after they saw how inefficient recruiting was up close while working at McKinsey, Bain and BCG, so it's consultants fixing something they sat next to for years. Next they're opening offices in Sydney and New York and hiring across the board, so if you sell into fast-scaling HR tech this is a pretty good week to be in their inbox. spott.io View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Viabot just raised a $24 million Series A from Walden International to expand its autonomous sweeping robots across commercial properties. viabot.com CEO and co-founder Gregg Ratanaphanyarat first conceived the robotic sweeping concept in college, and co-founder and CTO Dawei Ding built the navigation stack combining cameras, lidar, depth sensors and DGPS that powers the Viabot One robot. going from a $6.1 million seed to operating across 25 million square feet of commercial property in eight states is real deployed usage, not just a pilot number, worth watching how fast that footprint grows now that Walden International is backing the next phase. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Magentic just raised an $18 million Series A to build AI agents for supply chain operations. magentic.com co-founder and CEO Robin Van Aeken previously worked as a supply chain consultant at McKinsey, and teamed up with co-founder Odhran O'Donoghue, a machine learning PhD who worked at OpenAI, NASA and the Crick Institute. going from a $5.5 million seed to an $18 million Series A in about 14 months since a July 2025 launch is a fast pace even by AI startup standards, worth watching how quickly that McKinsey supply chain background converts into enterprise contracts beyond the pilot stage. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Kastle just raised a $24 million Series A, with Y Combinator returning as an investor, to build AI agents that work inside banks' existing legacy systems. kastle.ai founder and CEO Rishi Choudhary built the company through Y Combinator, and Kastle's agents have already processed more than $1.8 billion in transactions ahead of this round. building agents that plug into legacy banking infrastructure instead of asking banks to replace it is a much easier sell than a rip and replace pitch, worth watching how fast that $1.8 billion processed number grows now that Insight Partners and Commerce Ventures are also in the round. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Hello Haven just raised a $15 million pre-seed round from Mayfield to build a persistent digital twin AI across iPhone, Android and web. hellohaven.ai founder and CEO @FrankAddante is a six time entrepreneur with two IPOs and three acquisitions behind him, and Mayfield is backing him again after first investing in his company Rubicon Project. users have already interacted with their Havens over 2 million times since a private beta opened last month, worth watching whether a fifteen million dollar pre-seed round from a repeat founder investors already trust can turn that early engagement into something people actually pay for. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Rune just raised a $40 million Series A to convert underused solar power directly into on-site compute capacity. rune.energy CEO William Layden has grown the company to a live 200 megawatt solar-to-compute deployment in Texas, bringing total funding to $53.5 million as demand for power-constrained data centers grows. pairing solar power directly with compute instead of selling it back to the grid sidesteps the interconnection queue thats stalling data center buildouts everywhere else, worth watching how fast that model scales beyond one 200 megawatt site in Texas. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Treble just raised a 15 million euro Series A, its second Series A round, to build sound and voice data for physical AI. treble.tech co-founders Finnur Pind and Jesper Pedersen are both acoustic engineers who started the company in Reykjavik in 2020, growing from an 11 million euro Series A in 2024 to more than tripling total funding with this round. customers like Amazon and Logitech already buying into an acoustic engineering niche most AI infra investors overlook suggests physical AI needs sound data as much as it needs vision data, worth watching how fast that thesis spreads beyond Treble's early enterprise base. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Noetive just raised a $41 million seed round backed by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth and Airbnb CTO Ahmed Al-Dahle to build world models for physical industries. noetive.com founder Amir Frenkel is a former Meta VP of Generative AI who left to build Noetive alongside co-founder Dan Barak, a former Netlify product leader. two sitting Big Tech CTOs personally writing checks as angels into a former colleague's seed round is about as strong an insider signal as it gets, worth watching how fast a 10 to 15 percent production line improvement at one customer turns into a broader industrial rollout. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

AIUC just raised a 40 million dollar Series A to get its AIUC-1 AI-assurance standard adopted more broadly. aiuc.com founder and CEO Rune Kvist was Anthropic's first product hire, and co-founded AIUC with Rajiv Dattani, formerly a McKinsey insurance partner and COO at AI evaluation group METR. building the assurance standard for AI agents already has real signal, Cursor, ElevenLabs and Harvey have all adopted AIUC-1 certification before this raise even closed, worth watching whether it becomes the default the way SOC 2 did for software. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

EnforceShield just raised a 1.8 million dollar seed round to automate IP enforcement for enterprise brands. enforceshield.com founder and CEO Rytis Rudzinskas is a practicing attorney who started the company in 2024 after years of running IP enforcement workflows manually, and EnforceShield already serves more than 20 enterprise customers. removing an average of over 33,500 IP violations per month before this raise even closed is the kind of traction number that matters more than the round size, worth watching how EnforceShield's new AI agents handling repeat offenders change that number as they expand into the US. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Aron just raised an 8 million dollar seed round split across two tranches to build an AI Chief of Staff for procurement teams. aronhq.com founder and CEO Dominic Toselli previously served as Apple's Head of Worldwide Logistics Procurement, where he built the cost models and supplier programs behind Apple's sourcing strategy, before launching Aron with backing from Storm Ventures and Menlo Ventures. a founder who built the actual procurement playbook at Apple going on to build AI tooling for procurement teams is about as direct a founder market fit story as it gets, worth watching how fast Aron can convert that credibility into enterprise procurement deals outside Apple's orbit. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Fortaegis just raised a 50 million dollar Series A to embed cybersecurity directly into silicon. fortaegis.com founder and CEO Boudewijn Wijnands built the company around the idea that security should be baked into the chip itself rather than bolted on after deployment, and brought on Ilyas Khan, founder of quantum computing company Quantinuum, as Chairman. already working with more than 25 companies and governments before beginning commercial chip manufacturing in 2027 is a real signal, hardware security companies that land government customers this early usually have relationships that are much harder to replicate than the technology itself. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

EUCLYD just closed a 216 million dollar Series A to build AI infrastructure chips. euclyd.ai founder and CEO Bernardo Kastrup co-founded the company in 2024 with Atul Sinha at High Tech Campus Eindhoven, and brought on Peter Wennink, the former President and CEO of ASML, as board Chairman alongside the raise. the round was co-led by Samsung and the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund, and having ASML's former CEO chairing your board before you've shipped at scale is the kind of validation that usually takes years to earn, worth watching how EUCLYD converts that credibility into actual enterprise and hyperscale contracts. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

Wyre AI just raised a $5 million seed round led by Ironspring Ventures, with angel backing from former Autodesk CEO Amar Hanspal. wyreai.io founder Sunil Dorairajan previously co-founded Pype, a construction technology company later acquired by Autodesk, and founded Wyre AI to apply document intelligence to preconstruction scope development after that experience. a former Autodesk CEO personally backing a founder whose last company Autodesk acquired is about as strong an insider signal as a second time founder can get, worth watching how fast Wyre AI closes its first enterprise construction customers given that kind of validation already in place. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

nocall.ai just closed a roughly 800 million yen Series A, taking its cumulative funding above 1 billion yen. nocall.ai CEO Shogo Hayashi is building generative AI phone agents for business calls, and has been documenting the company's growth publicly through a podcast diary about building nocall.ai with engineers, with customers like MOTA already cutting cancellations using its voice agents. a customer citing a measurable drop in cancellations is a much stronger proof point at series A than user counts alone, it means the product is changing an actual business metric a finance team tracks, not just getting used. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login

SCI Semiconductor just closed a heavily oversubscribed 5 million pound Series A to ramp up chip production. scisemi.com co-founder and CEO Haydn Povey built the company in 2022 alongside Silicon Valley executive Krishna Anne and Microsoft Research specialist Dr David Chisnall, and SCI's ICENI chip range, based on CHERI memory-safety technology, is now a core supplier in the UK government's Accelerated CHERI Adoption Programme. already having more than 2 million pounds in customer orders before this round closed is the real signal here, hardware companies that get government program adoption this early usually have a multi-year head start on the compliance and procurement relationships that are much harder to build than the chip itself. View all funded startups at fundedstartupsdaily.com/, free, no login