Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees; Engram raises $98MM Equity Funding from General Catalyst Partners

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July 7, 2026

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Dominion Dynamics, a company that develops integrated autonomy, sensing, communications, and command-and-control systems for defence, security, and critical infrastructure, raises $139MM Series A from Georgian.

Automation (3,827) • Ottawa, Canada

 

Orth, a developer of a discovery, orchestration, and payments layer for AI agents, raises $4.3MM Seed from Pantera Capital.

SaaS (8,049) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Hera, a developer of an AI-driven senior care coordination and healthcare navigation platform, raises $27MM Series A from Bain Capital Ventures.

Artificial Intelligence (7,907) • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Tomo, a firm that develops a text-based personal artificial intelligence platform designed for habit building and goal accountability, raises $5MM Seed from Bain Capital Ventures.

Apps (3,708) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Tombot, a provider of health and wellness robotic companion animals, raises $7MM Series A-3 from Caduceus Capital Partners.

Assisted Living (294) • Santa Clarita, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Pocket, a company that develops an AI-powered wearable note-taking device that records conversations, transcribes speech, generates summaries, extracts action items, and organizes insights to help users capture and recall information from meetings, calls, and everyday conversations, raises $11MM Equity Funding from Accel Partners.

Transcription (262) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Jarvie AI, a company that develops an AI-powered group chat assistant that helps users plan events, coordinate trips, summarize conversations, remember shared context, and complete tasks directly within messaging apps, raises $8.3MM Seed from Base10 Partners.

ChatBot (134) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Ground, a company that provides a non-custodial on-chain yield infrastructure platform that enables banks and financial platforms to connect idle stablecoin balances to diversified yield strategies through APIs, portfolio management, and automated risk controls, raises $3.6MM Pre-Seed from Bain Capital Crypto.

API (692) • Sacramento, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Nebex, a company that provides a market infrastructure platform that connects sovereign space buyers, commercial space companies, and financial institutions to streamline procurement, financing, and transactions across the global space economy $30MM Seed from GV.

Software (29,290) • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Altillion, a company that develops advanced extraction technologies that recover lithium, iodine, and other critical minerals from industrial, geothermal, and oilfield brines using efficient, modular, and sustainable processing systems, raises $5MM Seed from EIC Rose Rock.

Mining (2,905) • Houston, TX • Post-Money Valuation

Pie Tech, a company that developed an AI marketing platform for local businesses, raises $19.5MM Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Small and Medium Businesses (724) • New York, NY • Post-Money Valuation

 

Pictor, a firm that develops a proteomics platform designed to detect multiple biomarkers simultaneously for comprehensive biological analysis, raises $7.5MM Equity Funding from Undisclosed Investors.

Holding Company (875) • Carlsbad, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Baz Technologies, a firm that develops an autonomous codebase management and agentic coding verification platform, raises $17MM Equity Funding from Battery Ventures.

Software Development (12,760) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

SuperPlane, a firm that develops an automation engine designed for scaling artificial intelligence from commit to production, raises $2.6MM Pre-Seed from Credo Ventures.

Productivity (547) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Build Technologies, a developer of an AI-native infrastructure and automated real estate development platform, raises $8.5MM Seed from Index Ventures.

Real Estate Development (9,792) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Arcturus Technologies, a company that develops advanced carbon nanomaterial-infused metals that improve electrical conductivity, thermal performance, and mechanical strength for applications in electric motors, data centers, power infrastructure, and next-generation electrification systems, raises  $8MM Seed from Initialized Capital.

Metals (10,283) • Los Angeles, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Proception, a company that develops advanced humanoid robotic hands that combine AI, sensing, and precision engineering to enable robots to perform complex, human-like manipulation and dexterous tasks, raises $11MM Seed from First Round Capital.

Artificial Intelligence (7,907) • Mountain View, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

GenerativeX, a company that develops AI agent for enterprise workflows, raises $4MM Series A from Nissay Capital.

Generative AI (514) • San Francisco, CA • Post-Money Valuation

 

Aseon Labs, a developer of automated pods for robotaxi fleet maintenance and charging infrastructure, raises $10MM Seed from Crane Venture Partners.

Robotics (1,505) • Wilmington, DE • Post-Money Valuation

 

Platinum Equity invests in Grand Appliance, a specialty retail and distribution firm that sells appliances, consumer electronics, and mattresses through 31 showroom locations and 5 distribution centers.

Retail (47,334) • Sturtevant, WI • Deal
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