Mara’s $7M Pre-Seed: Cheap Kinetic C-UAS for FPV Swarms
Khosla Ventures led Mara’s $7M pre-seed with a16z Speedrun in the round — Spike pairs Spotter sensing with 250g Seeker interceptors aimed at FPV economics, not missile-class C-UAS.
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Khosla Ventures led Mara’s $7M pre-seed with a16z Speedrun in the round — Spike pairs Spotter sensing with 250g Seeker interceptors aimed at FPV economics, not missile-class C-UAS.
Loop has raised $95 million in Series C funding to expand its supply-chain AI platform. Here is the funding history, investor syndicate, founders, product strategy, and valuation caveat.
Index Ventures and Benchmark co-led Instinct’s $250M Series B at a $2.5B valuation — total funding ~$350M for a private-beta life-ops agent still weeks old as a viral product.
General Intuition raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation from Valor, Atreides, 776, Point72, Khosla and General Catalyst, taking disclosed funding above $650M.
Faro AI raised $37.3M Series B co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32, with General Catalyst returning. Platform used by 6 of the world’s 10 largest pharma companies. Structured clinical-intent data — not chat-on-PDFs.
Builders FirstSource led Digs’ $25.3M Series A and signed a five-year commercial integration — AI software for residential construction across pre-build through warranty.