Bessemer led Flagler Health’s $50M Series B (total ~$63M) for an AI-native OS that runs musculoskeletal clinics inside existing EMRs — triage, care, billing, and patient comms.
Torrance defense startup Neros raised $250M Series C at $2.5B post-money co-led by Sequoia and the American Strategic Technology Fund to ramp Archer AI strike and Bandit interceptor drones.
Ex-Meta AI research director Kevin Carlberg raised $10.25M for Noosphere Labs — human-centered physical intelligence — led by Trilogy Equity Partners with major Madrona participation.
xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin’s River AI raised $1.1B across Seed and Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC — LoRA/RL fine-tuning for open-weight models enterprises can own.
Gap-fill deep dives for Aug 9–10: Source Foundry’s $400M Sequoia-adjacent chip-tool bet, Firmus’s $2B AI factories, Expedition’s $115M COPD Series B, Prime Intellect’s $130M agent stack, and Noen’s ¥500M home robots.
Granite Asia backed Aureka Biotechnologies’ $100M Series B (~$200M cumulative) to scale AuraIDE — closed-loop AI + wet lab for antibody discovery.
