| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.09.2026 | L'Oréal Selects Laminar for Second Cohort of L'AcceleratOR | The Physical AI startup joins L'Oréal's flagship sustainable innovation program to address the beauty industry's most urgent challenges in climate, nature, and circularity
BOSTON, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Laminar, the only physical AI... |
| 17.09.2026 | BackOps Snares $42M Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, BackOps, the AI resolution layer for companies that make or move physical goods, announced it has raised $42 million in Series B funding.
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| 16.09.2026 | BackOps Raises $42M to Scale AI Supply Chain Automation | BackOps Raises $42M Series B For AI Resolution
BackOps has raised $42M in Series B funding to expand its AI resolution platform. Insight Partners led the round. Existing investors Theory Ventures, Construct Capital, Gradient Ventures and 10... |
| 06.08.2026 | Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion in Series D Funding | Hadrian, a Los Angeles, California-based developer of automated factories for aerospace and defense, raised $1.37 Billion in Series D funding, at $7.87 Billion valuation.
The round was co-led by WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour... |
| 02.07.2026 | GrailPay Secures $10.5M to Power Instant, Secure B2B Payments | GrailPay secures $10.5 million Series A funding. This capital fuels aggressive expansion of its Payments Identity Network. The network delivers critical risk decisioning infrastructure for instant, agentic B2B transactions. It establishes a... |
| 30.06.2026 | GrailPay Raises $10.5 Million To Scale Risk Decisioning Infrastructure For Instant And Agentic Payments | GrailPay (see Pulse 2.0 profile here) announced it has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding to expand its risk decisioning infrastructure for instant payments and agentic commerce. The round was led by MissionOG, with participation from... |
| 18.06.2026 | Copia Automation Secures $26M, Fuels Industrial Code Security Revolution | Copia Automation closed a $26 million funding round. This elevates total capital to $55 million. The investment drives a critical mission. It fortifies industrial code management and resiliency. This protects vital infrastructure from escal... |
| 16.06.2026 | Copia Automation Raises $26M in Funding | Copia Automation, a NYC-based company which specializes in industrial code management and resiliency, raised $26M in additional funding, bringing the total raised to $55M.
The round was led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures with participa... |
| 16.06.2026 | Copia Automation Raises $26 Million To Expand Industrial Code Management And Recovery Platform | Copia Automation announced $26 million in additional funding, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $55 million. The round was co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, with participation from KAS Venture Partners and continued b... |
| 15.06.2026 | Podium Automation Raises $18M in Series A Funding | Podium Automation, a NYC-based control panel manufacturer, raised $18M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Construct Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Transition Ventures, Sunflower Capital, and Banter Capital.
The... |
| 15.06.2026 | Podium Automation Raises $18 Million Series A To Modernize Industrial Control Panel Manufacturing | Podium Automation announced that it has raised $18 million in Series A funding to accelerate the expansion of its software-driven industrial control panel manufacturing platform. The round was led by Construct Capital, with participation fr... |
| 14.06.2026 | Endurance Energy Raises $54 Million Series A To Develop Deep-Ocean Geothermal Power | Endurance Energy, a startup founded by former SpaceX engineer Andrew Redd, has raised $54 million in Series A funding to develop geothermal power plants that tap into vast energy resources beneath the ocean floor.
The funding round was led ... |
| 11.06.2026 | Laminar Named a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer | The Physical AI startup transforming process manufacturing joins a global cohort of 100 industry-leading innovators selected to shape the world's most pressing challenges
BOSTON, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Laminar, the only physical AI c... |
| 21.05.2026 | Amca: $300 Million Series B Raised At $1+ Billion Valuation To Strengthen Component Supply Chains | Amca announced a $300 million Series B funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion as the company looks to accelerate the development of a modernized industrial base for aerospace and defense manufacturing. The funding round was led b... |
| 19.05.2026 | Laminar Names Sanjay Rajan Chief Revenue Officer | Seasoned manufacturing software executive elevated to lead commercial growth as Laminar accelerates global expansion
BOSTON, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Laminar, the only AI platform that powers fully autonomous process manufacturing — tod... |
| 14.05.2026 | Cowboy Space Secures $275M: Blasting AI Compute to Orbit | Cowboy Space Corporation secured $275M in Series B funding, propelling its valuation to $2B. The San Carlos-based innovator is developing comprehensive AI data centers for Low Earth Orbit. This vertically integrated infrastructure will powe... |
| 11.05.2026 | Cowboy Space Corporation Raises $275M in Series B Funding | Cowboy Space Corporation (fka Aetherflux), a San Carlos, CA-based orbital infrastructure company, raised $275M in Series B funding, at a $2B valuation.
The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from IVP, Blossom Capital, SAIC,... |
| 11.05.2026 | Cowboy Space Corporation Raises $275 Million Series B At $2 Billion Valuation To Build Orbital Data Centers and Rockets | Cowboy Space Corporation, the orbital infrastructure company founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, has raised $275 million in Series B financing at a $2 billion valuation. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from ... |
| 31.10.2025 | Vammo Raises $45M in Series B Funding | Vammo, a São Paulo, Brazil–based clean-energy mobility platform enhancing how people move across Latin America’s megacities, raised $45m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund with participation from Construct Ca... |
| 25.09.2025 | Amplio Raises $11.1M in Series A Funding | Amplio, a San Francisco, CA- and Atlanta, GA-based AI company supporting how enterprise manufacturers manage surplus, raised $11.1M in Series a funding.
The round was led by Hitachi Ventures and Yamaha Motor Ventures. Existing backers, incl... |
| 18.07.2025 | Folio Raises $14M in Series A Funding | Folio, a Durham, NC-based a provider of a financial operations platform for hospitality, raised $14M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Thrive Capital and Construct Capital, with participation from Redseed VC and SciFi VC.
The compan... |
| 18.07.2025 | H2Ok Innovations: $12.42 Million Series A Closed For AI-Based Sensors | H2Ok Innovations, a provider of patented inline sensors that leverage science and AI to enhance factory operations, has raised $12.42 million in a Series A funding round led by Greycroft, with participation from 2048 Ventures and Construct ... |
| 16.07.2025 | H2Ok Innovations Raises $12M in Series A Funding | H2Ok Innovations, a Boston, MA-based provider of patented inline sensors powered by science and AI to run faster factories, raised $12.42M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Greycroft with additional participation from 2048 Ventures ... |
| 15.11.2024 | Impilo's $11.5M Funding: A Leap Toward At-Home Healthcare Revolution | In a world where convenience reigns supreme, healthcare is catching up. Impilo, a digital health platform based in Philadelphia, has just secured $11.5 million in Series A funding. This investment, led by Construct Capital, with support fro... |
| 14.11.2024 | Impilo Secures $11.5M to Expand Access to At-Home Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– Impilo, a digital health platform revolutionizing healthcare access raises $11.5M in a Series A funding round led by Construct Capital, with participation from GC 1 Capital, One Way Ventures, 2048 Ventures, and strat... |
| 04.05.2024 | Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson | While the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively boring software that can transform industrial... |
| 07.02.2024 | Time for kitchen staff to upshift: robots are coming | Chef Robotics seeks to resolve labor shortage in US food prep market
We’ve all heard of robots coming to the fast-food chains. McDonald’s has been running its roboticized spot in Texas and Chick-fil-A has been testing robot servers. But a l... |
| 13.04.2023 | 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 | Robotics is a fascinating topic. It can be frustrating, too. When I started covering the space nearly 15 years ago, there was a sense that something big was looming, just over the horizon. But roboticists are a pragmatic bunch, offering pro... |
| 14.06.2022 | Arkestro brings AI to ERP | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The supply chain — the once forgotten part of the... |
| 21.04.2022 | The Top 40 Investors In Industrial Tech: How Investments In Transformative Solutions Using AI, Cloud, And Edge Act Like Probiotics For Manufacturing | Traditionally, few venture capitalists would touch industrial startup companies. Time cycles were too long and clunky hardware complicated things. However, deep digitalization is taking hold, the expectations are that the industrial sector ... |
| 21.04.2022 | Construct Capital’s $300M fund targets critical infrastructure automation | Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores ever... |
| 19.02.2021 | 10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future | The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. It laid bare its weaknesses, and conversely, uncovered potential opportunities.
Electric bikes sales spiked as public transit ridership evaporated. The public, and investo... |
| 08.02.2021 | A former NEA partner and a former Uber exec just closed their $140 million debut VC fund | Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt seemingly didn’t have the best timing. It was late in 2019 when the two, who met six years ago in Washington through a mutual acquaintance, decided to act on earlier conversations and start a fund together call... |
| 14.01.2021 | Ecommerce software startup Tradeswell raises $15.5M, plans hiring | Tradeswell, the ecommerce tech startup where former Millennial Media CEO Paul Palmieri joined as CEO earlier this year, raised $15.5 million in fresh funding, the company said this week.
The Series A comes after the company launched its pla... |
| 14.01.2021 | 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies | Consumer hardware has always been a tough market to crack, but the COVID-19 crisis made it even harder.
TechCrunch surveyed five key investors who touch different aspects of the consumer electronics industry, based on our TechCrunch List of... |
| 29.08.2020 | A must-see conversation on the state of VC, this year at Disrupt | On a surface level, the world of venture capital doesn’t look to change much year to year. But in truth, the industry is very much in flux, with many firms grappling with a lack of diversity, dealing with succession questions and confrontin... |
| 27.07.2020 | Paul Palmieri is back in the startup CEO role with ecommerce company Tradeswell | Paul Palmieri has returned to the CEO role of a company building technology in Baltimore.
Palmieri, who cofounded and led Baltimore adtech darling Millennial Media through milestones including its 2012 IPO, recently became the CEO of Trades... |
| 26.05.2020 | Where these 4 top VCs are investing in manufacturing | Even though it’s a vast sector in the midst of transformation, manufacturing is often overlooked by early-stage investors. We surveyed top VCs in the industry to gather their perspectives on the challenges and opportunities facing manufactu... |
| - | Money Moves: PAX Momentum has $100K for startup investments | Money Moves is a column where we chart the funding raises of tech companies across the region. Have a tip? Email us at dc@technical.ly.PAX doubles investments in participant companies
Local accelerator PAX Momentum just made a huge change f... |
| - | This Harvard dropout and her brother launched a company to conserve liquids in factories | Annie, 22, and David Lu, 25, launched and are now growing their own company, H2Ok Innovations, which uses a combination of hardware and software to improve the efficiency of manufacturing factories.
They come from a family with generations-... |
