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August 26–27 VC News: FPV C-UAS, SMB Agents, Korea AI Unicorn, Beef Data, BH Payers & LDES
Gap-fill investment explainers for Aug 26–27: Mara $7M, Runable $21M, Wrtn ~$72M, Breedr $27M, Onos Health $17M, Certain Energy £10M, and Agentrys $24.5M — who uses the products and why these syndicates fit.
Earlier August batches already covered Emerald AI, Stability AI, Gatik, Generalist, Form Energy, and peers. This roundup is the Aug 26–27 gap-fill — seven deals that still needed VCT-style write-ups: who uses the product, why now, and why this capital.
Snapshot table
| Company | Amount | Stage | Key capital | Job |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mara | $7M | Pre-seed | Khosla; a16z Speedrun | FPV-cost kinetic C-UAS |
| Runable | $21M @ $65M | Series A | Susquehanna/Nexus; Together Fund | SMB build + grow agents |
| Wrtn | ~$72M | Series C @ >₩1T | Coreline; Antler returning | Consumer AI entertainment |
| Breedr | $27M | Series B | Partech; LocalGlobe/Latitude | Beef data + marketplace |
| Onos Health | $17M | Series A | Costanoa; CVS Health Ventures | Payer BH clinical AI |
| Certain Energy | £10M | Series A | British Business Bank; Centrica | Manganese flow LDES |
| Agentrys | $24.5M | Seed + pre-seed | Etna Labs; MediaTek | Agentic chip design |
Theme 1 — Physical security still clears checks at every stage
Mara is the pre-seed end of the C-UAS tape: Khosla-led $7M for Spike Spotter + Seeker sized to FPV economics, with a16z Speedrun in the round. Compare later-stage Aurelius lasers and Cambridge Aerospace interceptors.
Theme 2 — Agents need buyers with wallets
Runable sells SMB outcome agents (ads/customers), not another coding IDE — negative gross margins disclosed. Onos Health sells payer BH intelligence with Aetna live. Agentrys sells agent workforces chip teams can own inside EDA.
Wrtn proves consumer AI services can print a Korea unicorn without being a foundation-model lab — Antler returning.
Theme 3 — Real-economy rails and grid physics
Breedr digitizes beef with a marketplace fee — LocalGlobe’s Latitude on the growth check. Certain Energy is UK LDES Series A against curtailment waste — read next to Form Energy and Emerald AI.
How to use these pages
| Audience | Start here |
|---|---|
| Founders (defense / deep tech) | Mara + Agentrys — field tests and benchmarks beat slideware |
| Founders (AI apps / health) | Runable + Onos — named buyers and COGS honesty |
| Investors / scouts | Follow /fund/khosla-ventures, /fund/andreessen-horowitz, /fund/together-fund, /fund/antler, /fund/localglobe |
| Operators / climate | Breedr for livestock data; Certain Energy for LDES demos |
Browse more funds in the directory.
Sources
Primary links live on each deep-dive. Roundup anchors:
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/runable-hits-21m-to-bet-ai-agents-can-go-from-building-businesses-to-growing-them/
- https://www.trendingtopics.eu/mara-raises-7-million-for-autonomous-defense-against-fpv-drones/
- https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20260826/wrtn-raises-72-mil-in-series-c-funding-round
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onos-health-raises-17-million-series-a-to-accelerate-adoption-of-its-behavioral-health-ai-platform-for-health-plans-302860046.html
- https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/admin-services/enterprise/2026/imperial-energy-storage-spinout-certain-energy-raises-10m-from-investors/
- https://agentrys.ai/news/agentrys-raises-24-5-million
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