Grouped deep dives from the Aug 5–6 funding sprint: Hadrian’s $1.37B defense factories, Moove’s $250M robotaxi ops, Naïve and Gravity on the agent/ad stack, Malachyte commerce AI, and LifeMine’s transplant Series E.
Expedition Growth Capital led Omilia’s $67M Series B as the self-learning agentic CX platform hit $60M+ ARR — Capital One, Discover, RBC, and 1,000+ Taco Bell drive-thrus in the customer set.
YC-backed Naïve raised $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners to let AI agents incorporate, provision payments/email/phone, and run businesses — while attacking agent inference cost.
Ex-Spotify engineers raised a $10M seed co-led by Bessemer and Gradient Ventures to bring real-time behavior intelligence — cold-start personalization without cookies — to retail storefronts.
BCV, Spark, and peers co-led Lumilens’ $700M+ Series C as the San Jose optical interconnect startup ships into a hyperscaler under a multi-billion customer agreement.
LifeMine raised an oversubscribed $188M Series E (plus a prior $75M Series D) to push LIFE-001 — a novel calcineurin-pathway immunosuppressant — toward Phase 2 kidney transplant studies, with ARCH among continuing backers.
