San Francisco – September 07, 2026 -- empirik.ai emerged from stealth with $21 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, S32, Canapi Ventures and Alumni Ventures, launching what it calls the industry's first AI agent for infrastructure change.

Cambridge, Mass. – September 04, 2026 -- Physical Superintelligence (PSI) launched with $58 million in seed funding to industrialize physics discovery at machine scale, starting with a founding role in the first privately funded interstellar space mission and commercial deployment of a data center optimization platform.

Los Angeles – September 04, 2026 -- F&F Ventures has launched a $10 million fund with commerce platform SHOPLINE to back consumer brands from pre-seed through Series A, pairing capital with the operating infrastructure that serves more than 700,000 merchants globally.

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- September 01, 2026 -- Diffraqtion capped its pre-seed funding round at more than $10 million after Lockheed Martin Ventures and Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation, joined as strategic investors, the MIT and University of Maryland spinout announced Aug. 31, 2026. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company builds quantum camera platforms for defense and space sensing.