Kertos bets the EU AI Act makes AI-native compliance a must-buy; €14M Series A
Munich's Kertos raised €14M led by Portage, betting Europe's AI Act and NIS2 push firms to automate compliance with AI agents.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEEmalex raised $250M for a Phase 3 Tourette drug trial as late-stage funding dried up
Amid an 80% funding gap between early- and late-stage biotech, Emalex closed a $250M Series D to run one of the field's largest Tourette syndrome drug trials.
Ler o casoTerraform Industries' Terraformer makes the first synthetic natural gas from air
Casey Handmer's startup ran sunlight, air and water through a two-container rig to make its first pipeline-grade synthetic gas, and utilities agreed to buy it.
Ler o casoVroom's no-lot used-car bet ended when funding dried up in 2024
Vroom bet customers would buy used cars entirely online; after failing to raise capital it axed 90% of staff and wound down e-commerce in January 2024.
Ler o casoTBPN's live-tech-show bet: OpenAI buys 'SportsCenter for Silicon Valley'
TBPN bet a daily three-hour tech livestream could become Silicon Valley's default media home; OpenAI acquired the show in April 2026 to shape the AI narrative.
Ler o casoBuddy.ai raises an $11M seed after 186 investor meetings for its kids' AI English tutor
Ivan Crewkov, whose smart speaker died when Amazon launched Echo, built Buddy.ai, a child-facing AI tutor, and raised $11M led by gaming fund BITKRAFT in 2024.
Ler o casoHaitiPay builds M-Pesa for Haiti but loses to telecom-backed MonCash
Pascale Elie launched Haiti's first fintech after the 2010 earthquake, but regulatory capture by Digicel/Voilà left HaitiPay with 100K users vs MonCash's 1.5M.
Ler o casoAstranis' small-GEO bet: from a crippled first satellite to a $1B+ commercial backlog
Astranis bet small, cheap GEO satellites built at factory pace would beat giant bespoke birds; its first failed on orbit, yet the backlog now tops $1B.
Ler o casoCrewline bets contractors will retrofit rollers into self-driving machines
EF-backed Crewline turns vibratory rollers self-driving in an hour; $7.1M seed from Initialized and Nebular, Austin downtime 6h to under 1h.
Ler o casoCorti's emergency-call AI bet: from Copenhagen's 112 lines to 100M patients a year
Copenhagen's Corti trained AI on 112 calls to hear cardiac arrest dispatchers missed, then became the copilot inside 100M patient encounters a year.
Ler o casoTrella's freight bet: Uber alumni match MENAP shippers and truckers, $42M led by Maersk
Four ex-Uber, Vezeeta and OLX operators built a Cairo trucking marketplace and won a $42M round led by Maersk's venture arm.
Ler o casoE2B bets agents need their own cloud: $32M raised, 88% of Fortune 100 signed up
Czech duo open-sourced sandboxed cloud computers for AI agents, raised $32M, and claim 88% of the Fortune 100 signed up.
Ler o casoPika bets viral Discord-first AI video wins; 500K users, $135M, then Sora arrives
Two Stanford PhD dropouts built a consumer AI video tool in Discord; 500K members in 4 months, $135M raised.
Ler o casoRevalia Bio raises $14.5M betting that revived human organs beat animal trials
A Yale spinout runs drug trials on revived donor organs instead of animal models, and signed two top-10 pharma customers before its seed round closed.
Ler o casoXurya bets zero-capex rooftop solar wins Indonesia; $55M round, 300 projects
Indonesia's Xurya rents rooftop solar to factories and malls with no upfront cost; a US$55M Norfund-led round (2024) and 300+ projects by end-2025.
Ler o casoWooCommerce: free-plugin bet powered ~30% of online stores, sold to Automattic
WooThemes gave away an e-commerce plugin, sold themes and extensions around it, and grew it to millions of downloads before Automattic's 2015 buyout.
Ler o casoIdeogram bets X virality on AI text rendering: 90K users in a week, $80M Series A
Ex-Google Brain founders ship an image model that renders legible text; the #ideogram tag floods X, 90K users in a week, $80M Series A.
Ler o casoSpeak raises $78M at a $1B valuation to take speaking-first AI tutoring to Spanish, French
Six months after a $500M-valuation extension, Speak raised $78M led by Accel, choosing efficacy over gamification and not building a test-prep product.
Ler o casoUalá's financial-inclusion bet: prepaid card 2017 to $3.2B LatAm digital bank
Barbieri's free prepaid card pulled Argentina's unbanked into finance; by 2026 Ualá served 11M clients in three countries, valued at $3.2B.
Ler o casoAlbedo's Clarity-1 proves satellites can live and image in very low Earth orbit
Albedo flew the first commercial VLEO satellite, validating a 10 cm imaging chain once reserved for billion-dollar government systems.
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