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June 26, 2026

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Trending Companies

Stegra, a company that operates a circular plant for green steel production, raises €1.4BN Equit Funding from Temasek Holdings.

GreenTech (189) • Stockholm, Sweden

 

Niural, a company that offers HR and Payroll infrastructure, raises $21MM Series A from NewView Capital.

Payroll (1,406) • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Halo Braid, a company that develops robotic hair-braiding technology that uses automation, computer vision, and robotics to reduce braiding time from hours to minutes while helping hairstylists increase productivity and deliver consistent results, raises $7MM Equity Funding from Seven Seven Six.

Hair Care (736) • Los Angeles, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Ladder Health, a company that developed a virtual-first care for early childhood developmental delays, raises $7MM Seed from Nina Capital.

Baby & Children (2,220) • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Devplan, a company that developed a product intelligence platform for AI-native software teams, raises $2.5MM Seed from AI2 Incubator.

Artificial Intelligence (7,870) • Dover, DE • Post-Money Valuation

Peregrine Technologies, a developer of a software platform for public safety agencies, providing real-time data integration and visualization in one place for better decision-making in the moments that matter most, raises $250MM Series D from Fifth Down Capital.

Analytics (7,083) • Oakland, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

JustAI, a company that develops AI-powered lifecycle marketing agents that autonomously create, personalize, test, optimize, and analyze customer messaging across email, SMS, and other engagement channels, raises $17MM Series A from Base10 Partners.

Automation (3,815) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

MSCI acquires First Street, a firm that develops a climate risk financial modeling platform designed to connect climate change to financial risk.

Fintech (3,776) • New York, NY • Deal

 

ExlService intends to acquire iMerit, a firm that provides data annotation, model evaluation, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), validation, and data pipeline management tools.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) (421) • San Jose, CA • Deal

 

Agility Robotics, a company that manufactures humanoid robots, plans to go public via a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI.

Robotics (1,503) • Salem, OR • SPAC Deal

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