Khosla Ventures and XYZ led Aslan’s $20.8M launch round with 2048 Ventures and BoxGroup participating — AI agents for criminal forums and Telegram investigations under human supervision.
Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M from Sequoia, Canapi, and Alumni Ventures — predicting outage ripple effects from infrastructure changes before alerts fire, with named customers including S&P Global.
Nutanix co-founder and Cohesity founder Mohit Aron emerged with SciFin on a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona — betting trusted enterprise context beats another generic AI chat for revenue teams.
AIR emerged from stealth with $50M across two seeds — Sequoia-led $10M then Greenoaks-led $40M — to discover agents, continuously re-vet skills/MCP add-ons, and block unsafe connections.
Matrix led Light’s $46M Series A with Activate joining and Spark Capital plus BoxGroup returning — total equity ~$60M and capital base >$100M including credit as Light joins PJM.
Andreessen Horowitz led $87M equity and General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund added $113M debt — Félix says $8B+ processed and revenue up >2.5x as it expands beyond remittances.
