Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack; Gritt Robotics raises $26MM Series A from Obvious Ventures

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July 28, 2026

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Organic Traditions, a company that produces organic superfoods, functional mushroom coffees, wellness lattes, daily greens, fiber blends, and other nutrient-rich health food products that make traditional superfoods simple and accessible for everyday wellness, raises $10.5MM Series A from Undisclosed Investors.

Organic (1,070) • North York, Canada

 

Cashea, a company that provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform that enables consumers to purchase products through interest-free installment payments while helping merchants increase sales and customer access to financing, raises $100MM Series B from FinSight Ventures.

Payments (1,710) • Miranda, Venezuela

 

N-Zyme Biomedical, a clinical-stage biotechnology firm that develops therapies targeting pepsin, raises $4.6MM Series A from Undisclosed Investors.

Life Sciences (1,538) • Vancouver, Canada

 

Lucid Finance, a blockchain fintech infrastructure firm that serves as the development and infrastructure-building arm of the PACT Consortium, designing and deploying the core wallet, payment, data, and smart contract systems that connect the PACT Protocol to real-world fintech platforms, raises $7MM Series A from Tether.

Fintech (3,790) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Empirical Security, a company that develops cybersecurity platform designed to deliver AI-driven vulnerability management, raises $25MM Series A from Brightmind Partners.

Cyber Security (3,668) • Chicago, IL • Post-Money Valuation

 

Etched, a company specializes in designing hardware solutions intended to accelerate machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, raises $300MM Series C from Sequoia Capital.

Generative AI (519) • San Jose, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

American Growth Insurance, a tech-enabled insurance brokerage serving business and individuals, raises $70MM Equity Funding from Rockbridge Growth Equity.

Insurtech (560) • Atlanta, GA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Genius AI, a technology company that provides solutions for small business owners in the beauty and wellness industry, raises $44MM Series D from Lux Capital Management.

Business-to-Business (4,918) • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Inner Logic, a firm that develops a simulation infrastructure platform designed for the design and validation of procedural medical devices, raises $11.5MM Seed from General Catalyst Partners.

Simulation (251) • Baltimore, MD • Post-Money Valuation

 

Cascade Intelligence, a company that develops an AI-powered coding platform that enables software engineers to understand, modify, and maintain large codebases through autonomous code generation, editing, debugging, and workflow automation, raises $3.5MM Equity Funding from Ada Ventures.

Automation (3,842) • Dover, DE • Post-Money Valuation

Bluecore Energy, a company that develops advanced nuclear fusion technology to provide scalable, carbon-free baseload energy for data centers, utilities, and other energy-intensive industries, raises $10MM Equity Funding from Slauson & Co.

Data Centers (615) • Long Beach, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

StrongestLayer, a developer of AI-based security solutions that analyzes intent, correlates global threat intelligence, and predicts campaigns weeks before they launch, raises $4.1MM Seed from iNovia Capital.

Large Language Model (168) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

SkyPilot, a company that develops an AI infrastructure platform that unifies GPU clusters, cloud providers, and AI workloads, enabling organizations to efficiently train, deploy, and manage large-scale AI models across multi-cloud environments, raises $20MM Seed from Lux Capital Management.

GPU (20) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

1872, an AI-native manufacturing firm that delivers automated production of complex welded steel assemblies for energy, utility, and industrial systems, raises $15MM Seed from The O.H.I.O. Fund.

Sheet Metal Fabrication (73) • Cincinnati, OH • Post-Money Valuation

 

Petra Labs, an end-to-end answer engine optimization (AEO) firm that offers brand visibility monitoring across generative search engines, citation analysis, prompt tracking, customized attribution models, and optimization services, raises $5.2MM Seed from Work-Bench.

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

 

Transcripta Bio, an AI-powered drug discovery company focused on neurological and neuromuscular diseases, raises $24MM Series A from JAZZ Venture Partners.

Life Sciences (1,538) • Palo Alto, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Pilot Protocol, a provider of P2P networking stack for AI agents, raises $4.5MM Seed from Version One Ventures.

Open Source (377) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Antares Nuclear, a company that builds compact nuclear microreactors to deliver reliable, mobile energy, raises $470MM Series B from Paradigm.xyz.

Nuclear (103) • Redondo Beach, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Trooly, an AI-native user research platform for product, research, and growth teams to conduct 45-minute in-depth interviews with consumers around the world, raises $20MM Seed from Undisclosed Investors.

Research (2,442) • Wilmington, DE • Post-Money Valuation

 

Magnolia Oil & Gas intends to acquire WildFire Energy, an independent energy company focused on the acquisition, exploitation, and production of oil and natural gas properties.

Oil & Gas (7,455) • Houston, TX • Deal
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