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Most finance software flags a late invoice and waits for a person to act. Stuut's AI coworker contacts the customer, works the dispute, and applies the payment itself.
@StuutAI raised $52.5M, and Cofounder and CEO @realtarek explains how it runs order-to-cash for Honeywell, ZoomInfo, and 150+ other companies.
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We sat down with Evos Founder and CEO Urav Shah @im_urav, who founded four companies and exited two by age 23, to learn how @ai_evos teaches AI to do the work of a company's best people.
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Zocdoc Makes Its First Acquisition in Nearly 20 Years, Buying NYC Insurance Verification Startup Sohar Health via @AlleyWatch
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Leela turned one early customer's 40 policies into 262 actionable obligations.
@leelainc just raised $4.6M to run compliance programs for fintechs, payments companies, lenders, and insurers.
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Women with hormonal conditions often see multiple providers before anyone connects their symptoms.
@AllaraHealth pairs clinicians with registered dietitians on one insurance-covered care team, and it just raised $30M to scale that model.
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AI can now generate more drug candidates than any lab can test. Polyphron grows living human tissue in an automated foundry, then trains models on how that tissue responds over time.
Cofounder and CEO Matthew Osman explains why tissue is the missing test layer:
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🗽 NYC STARTUP FUNDING REPORT FOR 10/7:
⚙️ @StuutAI raises $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners
🦷 @WallyHealth lands $25M Series A led by Maveron
🏦 @GoTRUEAI secures $2.5M Series B per recent SEC filing
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Santé raised $15M to give independent liquor stores a single operating system for checkout, e-commerce, delivery apps, and marketing. Nearly 1,000 stores and $2B in annual GMV later, here is how the NYC startup got there.
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About 100,000 satellites will launch by 2030, and they will need roughly 10 gigawatts of power.
@beyondreachlabs plans to supply that power with deployable solar arrays built at Industry City in Brooklyn.
Here is the plan:
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🗽 NYC TECH FUNDING ROUNDUP FOR 10/5:
💳 @valon raises $150M Series D
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Gen Z renters swap sublets across Facebook groups, Instagram, and WhatsApp because the traditional market demands a 12-month lease and 40x the rent in income.
snag raises $4M to give that shadow market verified listings, escrow, and AI matching.
We sat down with snag Cofounder and CEO Selin Sonmez to learn more.
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Mortgage lending is digitized, yet loan officers still spend their days chasing documents and follow-ups. Elio Mortgage built an AI-native mortgage company inside a working brokerage to fix that, and it just raised $5.1M.
COO Arad Lev Ari explains the approach:
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🗽 NYC TECH FUNDING ROUNDUP 10/1/2026:
⚙️ Daptic raises $15M Series A
🧬 @biotiainc secures $9M
🤖 @tangentrobotics lands $4.5M Pre-Seed
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Tokenized securities can trade in an instant, but the dollars behind them still settle on bank hours. @hifibridge closes that gap, and it just raised $37M to scale stablecoin payments and tokenized capital markets infrastructure.
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🗽 NYC TECH FUNDING ROUNDUP FOR 9/24:
🏥 @rightwayhc raises $155M
💳 @hifibridge lands $37M
🤖 Neurath secures $1.52M
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Which parts of a legal department can you delegate to AI?
Customers including Wiz, Monday, Socure, and AppsFlyer use Chamelio to put AI agents to work on legal tasks.
The company just raised $26M to build the operating system for in-house legal teams.
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CPG brands lose margin every day to finance, accounting, and trade spend systems that don't talk to each other.
Confido just raised $55M to fix that with one AI-powered platform.
Here's how:
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Women weren't required in U.S. clinical trials until 1993.
That 30-year data gap is a big part of why vaginal infections carry a 60%+ recurrence rate under standard care.
@EvvyBio has 100,000+ patients, the world's largest vaginal microbiome dataset, and 15+ peer-reviewed publications showing what precision diagnostics can do instead:
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