Original Captables coverage of startups across private markets.
The Chinese software company connects organizational data, business rules and approval controls so AI agents can work inside existing operations. Its reported Series B supports an expansion from defense customers into civilian industries.
Captables Newsroom · 29m agoStage sells films, series and short-form stories rooted in India's regional cultures. Its proposed Series C would fund new language markets and AI-assisted production, with audience retention still the key commercial test.
Captables Newsroom · 38m agoThe Chinese startup wants robots to plan, move and handle objects across everyday environments. Its founder brings autonomous-driving experience, but a useful robot assistant remains the product goal—not a service already operating at scale.
Captables Newsroom · 40m agoBluecore Energy is developing small water-cooled reactors on floating barges, with the Port of Long Beach as its first intended application. Its current waterfront equipment is a non-nuclear prototype, not an operating power station.
Captables Newsroom · 53m agoThe Milan startup checks whether a software vulnerability can actually be exploited in a customer's environment. Its tools examine applications and third-party components, including software whose source code the customer cannot inspect.
Captables Newsroom · 1h agoTAR combines renewable generation, batteries and construction operations to supply AI data centers without a conventional grid connection. The young company is building a West Texas manufacturing and logistics base as it starts deploying systems.
Captables Newsroom · 1h agoSequen helps retailers, travel companies and marketplaces rank products and recommendations as people browse. Its new Series B backs tools that let customer teams develop and own the models behind those decisions.
Captables Newsroom · 1h agoMach Industries makes unmanned defense systems and increasingly the engines, components and factories behind them. Its Series C extension values the business at $3.7 billion as it expands both complete platforms and a supplier business for other manufacturers.
Captables Newsroom · 1h agoMotive connects cameras, vehicle data and operational software for businesses that move people, equipment and goods. General Catalyst's new financing supports expansion as Motive withdraws its IPO filing and keeps a future listing open.
Captables Newsroom · 1h agoMaven Robotics builds machines that pick and arrange boxes for manufacturers and logistics operators. Its first deployments tackle mixed pallets: turning batches of different products into the particular assortment a store needs.
Captables Newsroom · 1h agoHeron Power makes equipment that converts electricity for data centers, solar plants and battery storage. A new credit facility supports its move toward factory-scale production, where reliability and delivery schedules matter as much as an efficient design.
Captables Newsroom · 2h agoAyar Labs makes optical engines and light sources that help AI chips exchange data across racks. Its additional funding supports the engineering and manufacturing work needed to integrate those components into customers’ systems.
Captables Newsroom · 2h agoPositron sells hardware that runs trained AI models for cloud providers and other computing customers. Its new financing backs the move from deployed Atlas systems to a next generation built around larger memory capacity.
Captables Newsroom · 2h agoInspiren combines room sensors, help buttons and software for senior-living care teams. Its new funding backs tools that connect a resident’s request for help with staff response and the longer-term care plan.
Captables Newsroom · 2h agoEpsilon Health combines its own AI with practicing radiologists who interpret medical images. New backing puts that operating model in focus: software is built around the path from scan to report, with physicians retaining the final decision.
Captables Newsroom · 19h agoLatitude connects dollar and stablecoin transfers to local bank accounts and payment networks for payroll platforms, marketplaces and fintechs. Its Series A backs the infrastructure between moving money across a border and making it usable by the recipient.
Captables Newsroom · 21h agoClay combines company data, web research and automated workflows to help sales and marketing teams find and contact prospective customers. Its Series D backs a broader move from assembling prospect lists to running repeatable campaigns.
Captables Newsroom · 21h agoEuno maps the definitions, ownership and history behind company data so analysts and AI agents can use it with context. Its Series A backs a business focused on the gap between connecting to a database and understanding what the numbers mean.
Captables Newsroom · 21h agoFab2 builds semiconductor-manufacturing tools and chip-design software, aiming to assemble small factories that can themselves be mass-produced. The company formerly called Atomic Semi is expanding a business built around faster engineering cycles, rather than simply a bigger conventional fab.
Captables Newsroom · 1d agoSuniva makes the electricity-producing cells that panel manufacturers assemble into solar modules. Its debt-and-equity financing backs a larger U.S. supply of those components, with a South Carolina factory still to be completed and ramped up.
Captables Newsroom · 1d agoKala helps Colombian workers and pensioners apply for loans whose repayments come directly from their income. Its first loan-backed securities issuance adds a funding channel while the company keeps running applications, servicing and collections.
Captables Newsroom · 1d agoMoonwalk is developing RNA medicines intended to change how fat cells store and use energy, rather than suppress appetite. The financing supports the preclinical work needed before its first planned human studies.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoCelero designs signal-processing chips for the optical links connecting AI servers and data centers. Its Series C follows company-reported silicon validation, as it works to turn the design into production-ready networking components.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoPoseidon is developing remotely piloted cargo aircraft for regional freight and difficult-to-reach locations. Its reported Series A supports a plan to operate an air-cargo service, not simply sell planes, ahead of the first full-size test flight.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoSplitPay pays a landlord in full while the renter repays in installments, using cash-flow data to assess eligibility. Its reported Series B backs a lending business built around the mismatch between monthly bills and incoming paychecks.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoSapien connects financial and operating records so teams can investigate pricing, costs and customer behavior. Its reported financing comes as company-published case studies show the software moving from finance analysis into everyday operating decisions.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoCylake is building hardware and software that analyze security data inside an organization's own infrastructure. The new financing supports a product aimed at regulated companies and government users that cannot rely on public-cloud security services.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoThe Exploration Company is developing a reusable capsule to deliver supplies to space stations and bring cargo back to Earth. Its new financing supports that transport service and a separate engine program for future European rockets.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoForus helps medical practices navigate insurance approvals, financial assistance and pharmacy routing after a doctor prescribes treatment. Its new financing backs a network that also works with drugmakers on how medicines reach patients.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoBrainChild Bio engineers a patient's immune cells to recognize brain tumors. Its new financing supports a clinical trial in children and young adults, while a second experimental treatment aims at several tumor targets at once.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoNua sells period-care and other everyday wellness products to women in India, including customizable recurring deliveries. Its new deal combines money for the business with share sales by earlier investors as the brand expands beyond pads.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoStoke Space is building rockets designed to deliver satellites and return both stages for reuse. Its new financing backs a first orbital flight and a larger vehicle intended to carry satellite fleets into space.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoJack & Jill pairs a career assistant for job seekers with software that helps employers find and approach candidates. A newly reported financing backs a business built around turning those conversations into hires.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoStarksemi makes miniature light-emitting chips for AR glasses and is developing optical connections for AI computers. Its new financing backs a manufacturing business moving from single-color displays toward more complex products.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoHiStarlink makes laser communications equipment for satellite builders, connecting spacecraft to one another and to the ground. Its A2 financing targets production capacity as customers plan larger networks in orbit.
Captables Newsroom · 2d agoSimnova develops experimental treatments that redirect immune cells against disease. Its Series B supports two approaches to making cell therapy less dependent on manufacturing a separate product for each patient.
Captables Newsroom · 3d agoIndigo is developing low-floor electric vehicles for delivery and ride-hailing fleets. Fundraising puts the focus on moving those designs from prototypes into vehicles operators can put to work.
Captables Newsroom · 3d agoWafer helps developers run AI models by tuning the software and hardware behind each request. Its Series A backs a move from one-time performance work to continuously improving deployed systems.
Captables Newsroom · 3d agoPixxel sells satellite imagery that reveals information ordinary photographs miss. Its new financing will expand the sensors, analysis software and satellite manufacturing behind that business.
Captables Newsroom · 3d agoXDOF supplies the demonstrations researchers use to teach robots physical tasks. Its open work shows why a useful training example involves more than recording a machine moving objects.
Captables Newsroom · 5d agoGuardio sells browser and mobile protection against deceptive links, fake websites and account threats. Its new financing follows what the company says is a doubling of paying customers to one million.
Captables Newsroom · 5d agoGimlet runs AI models and agents across a mix of processors, matching each task to suitable hardware. Its Series B supports a business that now spans inference software, managed computing and data-center design.
Captables Newsroom · 6d agoTypewriter Therapeutics is developing RNA-based medicines that would insert therapeutic genes directly into a patient's cells. Its first programs target engineered immune cells and inherited liver disease, with initial primate studies planned for late 2026.
Captables Newsroom · 6d agoHiddenLayer helps enterprise security teams inspect AI models and monitor agents as they use files, tools and business systems. Its Series B backs an expansion into protecting autonomous coding workflows.
Captables Newsroom · 6d agoChina's Dream Chaser Aerospace develops aircraft that take off vertically and use hybrid power for longer journeys. New financing supports cargo certification and manufacturing while the company develops a passenger model.
Captables Newsroom · 6d agoFigure builds humanoid robots and the AI that controls their movements. Its new Nscale partnership supports that training effort, pairing a multiyear compute commitment with a separately disclosed investment of unspecified size.
Captables Newsroom · 6d agoPhysical Superintelligence is developing AI research tools that test ideas about real physical systems. Its first planned commercial use is helping data-center designers and operators improve power, cooling and computing infrastructure.
Captables Newsroom · 6d agoAIR builds software for enterprise security teams to inspect the add-ons and outside information their AI agents use. Its public launch brings a new approach to controlling those connections, backed by $50 million in financing.
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