The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report for the week ending 11/7/26 highlights $5.8B in new funding across U.S. ecosystems, featuring rounds for Larridin, Ocient, Finpilot and twenty-one other deals you need to know about.
Notable startup funding rounds
Shield AI — San Diego — $2.0B. Shield AI is a deep‑tech company building AI‑powered systems to enhance the safety of service members and civilians; founded in 2015 by Andrew Reiter, Brandon Tseng, and Ryan Tseng, the company has now raised $5B in total equity funding and is backed by Advent International, Apandion, Blackstone, Center15 Capital, Disruptive, InnovationX, JPMorganChase, and Snowpoint Ventures.
Zipline International — South San Francisco — $1.5B. Zipline International provides autonomous drone delivery and logistics services for healthcare, retail, and food; founded in 2011 by James Knight, Keenan Wyrobek, Keller Cliffton, and William Hetzler, it has now raised $3.5B in total equity funding and is backed by ARK Investment Management, Fidelity, JP Morgan, Layer Global, Paradigm, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global Management, Uber, Valor Equity Partners, and WCM Investment Management.
CesiumAstro — Austin — $630.0M. CesiumAstro develops satellite communication systems and spacecraft solutions for aerospace, commercial, and defense applications; founded in 2017 by Shey Sabripour, it has now raised $1.1B in total equity funding and is backed by Airbus Ventures, Incharge Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Janus Henderson Investors, Magnetar Capital, NewSpace Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation of America, and Woven Capital.
Ottonomy — Sunnyvale — $406.0M. Ottonomy builds autonomous delivery robots and fleet management software for indoor and outdoor logistics operations; founded in 2020 by Ashish Gupta, Hardik Sharma, Pradyot KVN, and Ritukar Vijay, the company’s reported new round is $406.0M and the source lists total equity funding of $9.6M, with Enrission India Capital named as a backer.
Northwood Space — Los Angeles — $375.0M. Northwood Space designs ground infrastructure and deployable systems for spacecraft communication and data handling; founded in 2023 by Bridgit Mendler, Griffin Cleverly, and Shaurya Luthra, it has now raised $536.2M in total equity funding and is backed by Alpine Space Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, DFJ Growth, IQT, StepStone Group, and Washington Harbour Partners.
Applied Compute — San Francisco — $350.0M. Applied Compute is an AI startup building custom AI models and Specific Intelligence solutions for enterprises; founded in 2025 by Linden Li, Rhythm Garg, and Yash Patil, it has now raised $510M in total equity funding and is backed by Abstract, Blackstone, Definition, Diffusion, Elad Gil, First Harmonic, Hanabi Capital, HubSpot Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Layer Global, Lux Capital, Neo, Nova, NVIDIA, QuantumLight, Shopify Ventures, Swish Ventures, and Timeless.
Harbinger — Garden Grove — $240.0M. Harbinger develops electric and hybrid commercial vehicles for medium‑duty applications; founded in 2021 by John Harris, Phillip Weicker, and William Eberts, it has now raised $597.7M in total equity funding and is backed by ArcTern Ventures, Australian Gulf Capital, BuildGroup, Capricorn Investment Group, FedEx, Fidelity, Greycroft, Leitmotif, Maniv Mobility, Panacea VC, Ridgeline, Squarepoint Capital, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, Tiger Global Management, and Xantium.
Sentra — New York — $150.0M. Sentra develops a data security platform to help enterprises discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive information; founded in 2021 by Asaf Kochan, Ron Reiter, Yair Cohen, and Yoav Regev, it has now raised $253M in total equity funding and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Capital One Ventures, Key 1 Capital, Munich Re Ventures, Standard Investments, and Zeev Ventures.
Traversal — New York — $120.0M. Traversal offers an AI‑powered platform for monitoring and resolving software infrastructure incidents; founded in 2023 by Ahmed Lone, Anish Agarwal, Raaz Dwivedi, and Raj Agrawal, it has now raised $173M in total equity funding and is backed by Amex Ventures, Battery Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Sequoia Capital.
Ocient — Chicago — $100.0M. Ocient is a hyper‑scale data analytics company for petabyte to exabyte scale data sets; founded in 2016 by Chris Gladwin, George Kondiles, and Joe Jablonski, it has now raised $256.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Blue Bear Capital, BOKA Capital, Buoyant Ventures, Dallas Venture Capital, Eron Wolf, Greycroft, IQT, OCA Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and PSP Growth.
Kalepa — New York — $75.0M. Kalepa develops AI‑powered software for commercial insurance underwriting and risk assessment; founded in 2018 by Daniel Hillman and Paul Monasterio, it has now raised $89M in total equity funding and is backed by IA Ventures, Inspired Capital Partners, and Updata Partners.
Tutor Intelligence — Watertown — $75.0M. Tutor Intelligence builds AI‑powered robots and automation solutions for industrial tasks; founded in 2021 by Alon Kosowsky‑Sachs and Josh Gruenstein, it has now raised $153.6M in total equity funding and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Neo, and Union Square Ventures.
Lazarus AI — Boston — $43.0M. Lazarus builds AI systems aimed at solving hard problems; founded in 2017 by Anish Patel and Ariel Elizarov, it has now raised $49M in total equity funding and is backed by Allegis Capital, AngelList, Indelible, Joyance Partners, Motivate Venture Capital, Mucker Capital, One Way Ventures, Plug and Play, QBE Ventures, State Farm Ventures, Techstars, and Wave Function.
Corridian — Boston — $38.0M. Corridian develops ultra‑large autonomous underwater vehicles for undersea military logistics; founded in 2025 by Greg Barrow, Kyle Arace, Mark Bodnar, and Mike Guay, it has now raised $38M in total equity funding and is backed by Balerion Space Ventures, Cameron McCord, DCVC, Harpoon, Jackson Moses, Marlinspike Capital, and Point72 Ventures.
Larridin — San Francisco — $30.0M. Larridin develops an AI analytics platform that measures adoption, spending, productivity, and business impact; founded in 2024 by Ameya Kanitkar, Jim Larrison, and Russell Fradin, it has now raised $47M in total equity funding and is backed by Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Cougar Capital Management, DG Daiwa Ventures, GFT Ventures, Gradient, Pelion Venture Partners, Thayer Investment Partners, and W23.
Numica — New York — $21.0M. Numica provides accounting and tax services for companies and individuals; founded in 2025 by Slava Orekhov and Victor Lysenko, it has now raised $21M in total equity funding and is backed by Flashpoint.
Firmly.ai — Seattle — $15.0M. Firmly.ai is an agentic commerce platform for product discovery and checkout across AI and digital channels; founded in 2019 by damien Balsan, Murali Krishnamurthy, and Senthil Kumar, it has now raised $17M in total equity funding and is backed by Alumni Ventures, ARK Investment Management, Benhamou Global Ventures, Granada Funds, Hike Ventures, JP Morgan, Mastercard, Samsung NEXT, Squarepoint Capital, The Mercantile Companies, and Versus Ventures.
Betski — Panama — $15.0M. Betski offers an online casino ownership platform; founded in 2022 by Alejandro Navarro and Carlos Navarro, it has now raised $15.3M in total equity funding and is backed by Nimbus Capital.
Journify — San Francisco — $12.0M. Journify is a composable customer data platform; founded in 2022 by Amine Chouki, Omar AlShoubaki, and Taoufik El Jamali, it has now raised $17M in total equity funding and is backed by Al Mada Ventures, Bunat Ventures, Du Ventures, Oraseya Capital, Shorooq Partners, and Silicon Badia.
Syncere — Palo Alto — $11.0M. Syncere develops intelligent home robotics that integrate automation with furniture and lighting; founded in 2025 by Aaron Tan and Angus Fung, it has now raised $14.5M in total equity funding and is backed by a16z speedrun, Draper Associates, Physical World, SeaX Ventures, and sequel.
Finpilot — Seattle — $10.0M. Finpilot uses AI to explore public corporate filings and answer research requests in natural language; founded in 2023 by John Alberg and Lakshay Chauhan, it has now raised $14.5M in total equity funding and is backed by lobby capital and Madrona.
RadianX — San Francisco — $9.0M. RadianX supplies perovskite‑based solar modules; founded in 2024 by Josh Douglas and Vivian Qu, it has now raised $9M in total equity funding and is backed by Alumni Ventures, Avila VC, California Innovation Fund, One Small Planet, quantumEDGE Ventures, Riceberg Ventures, Sahsen Ventures, SOSV, and Twynam Agricultural Group.
Cowboy — New York — $5.0M. Cowboy is an AI technology company developing autonomous AI agents to streamline business workflows; founded in 2025 by Chad DePue, it has now raised $5M in total equity funding and is backed by Aashay Sanghvi, Anagram, Compound, Farnaz azmoodeh, Ian Lapham, James Smits, Kevin Kwok, Mats Olsen, Nebular, Semantic Ventures, Shine Capital, and Uncommon Projects.
Avanlee Care — Billings — $3.5M. Avanlee Care, branded as “Caregiving Simplified,” provides caregiving services; founded in 2020 by Avanlee Christine and Chris Monson, it has now raised $8.5M in total equity funding and is backed by Black Economic Alliance Venture Fund, Chrysalis Ventures, Esther Dyson, and Fairbridge.
