Section 1 — Funding Briefing
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20 unique early-stage US deals identified today. Total disclosed capital exceeds $450M (including two mega-rounds). Core early-stage total is approximately $200M. The strongest angel signal comes from Standard Kernel and AgentMail, where world-class domain experts wrote personal checks.
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AMOUNT |
ROUND |
FOCUS |
LEAD INVESTOR |
| Jazz |
$61M |
Seed + A |
AI Cybersecurity / DLP |
Glilot Capital, Team8 |
| Translucent |
$27M |
Series A |
AI Healthcare Finance |
GV, NEA |
| Sandbar |
$23M |
Series A |
AI Wearables |
Adjacent, Kindred Ventures |
| Standard Kernel |
$20M |
Seed |
AI GPU Optimization |
Jump Capital |
| Outpost |
$17.5M |
Series A |
Cross-Border Commerce |
Ribbit Capital |
| Nectir |
$12.5M |
Series A |
EdTech AI Infrastructure |
Rethink Impact |
| Zymtrace |
$12.2M |
Seed |
AI Workload Optimization |
Undisclosed |
| Amigo AI |
$11M |
Series A |
Clinical AI Agents |
Madrona, Optum Ventures |
| Lux Aeterna |
$10M |
Seed |
Space Infrastructure |
Konvoy, Decisive Point |
| Depot |
$10M |
Series A |
CI/CD Acceleration |
Felicis, YC |
| Remitian |
$7M |
Seed |
AI Tax Remittance |
Undisclosed |
| AgentMail |
$6M |
Seed |
Email for AI Agents |
General Catalyst, YC |
| Hurray's GIRL BEER |
$5M |
Seed |
Flavored Beer / CPG |
Lakehouse Ventures |
| DiligenceSquared |
$5M |
Seed |
PE Due Diligence AI |
Relentless, YC |
| Rasa Legal |
$5M |
Late Seed |
Criminal Record Clearance |
Rethink Education |
| Coreworks AI |
$5M |
Seed |
AI Report Generation |
Together Fund |
| Focal |
$4M |
Pre-Seed |
Robotic Heating Systems |
Collaborative Fund |
| Gangkhar |
$4.25M |
Seed |
Embedded Security AI |
Rally Cap |
| Voyager AI |
$500k |
Pre-Seed |
Banking Process AI |
Mastercraft Ventures |
| Eridu* |
$200M |
Series A |
AI Networking Infra |
Socratic Partners |
* Eridu ($200M) is a mega-round noted for context. Full deal profiles with traction data and investor lists are available in the subscriber archive.
Section 2 — Individual Angels Identified
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16 named individual angels identified across 7 deals. The two highest-signal cohorts are Standard Kernel (6 world-class AI systems experts) and AgentMail (5 iconic SaaS/devtools founders).
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Standard Kernel ($20M Seed)
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Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research
Palo Alto, CA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: Not publicly available
Notes: 86 angel investments. Co-created TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable. PhD UW.
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Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist, Databricks (MosaicML)
New York, NY
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: jfrankle@databricks.com
Notes: PhD MIT. Founding team MosaicML (acquired by Databricks for $1.3B). Lottery Ticket Hypothesis.
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Michael Carbin
Associate Professor, MIT CSAIL
Cambridge, MA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: mcarbin@csail.mit.edu • (617) 253-5881
Notes: Co-founder Standard Kernel. Founding advisor MosaicML. PhD MIT. Stanford BS.
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Sachin Katti
Professor, Stanford EE & CS; Compute Infra, OpenAI
Stanford, CA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Workplace-ai.com
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Contact: skatti@stanford.edu
Notes: Co-founder Uhana (acquired by VMware). MIT alum. SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award.
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David M. Siegel
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Two Sigma
New York, NY
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LinkedIn
Finance Portal
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Walden Yan
Co-founder, Cognition AI
San Francisco, CA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: walden@cognition.ai
Notes: Co-founder Cognition AI. Harvard. IOI 2020 Gold Medalist. Early engineer Anysphere.
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Paul Graham
Co-founder, Y Combinator
England, UK
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X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: pg@ycombinator.com
Notes: Co-founded YC and Viaweb (Yahoo Store). PhD Harvard CS. Prolific essayist and angel.
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Dharmesh Shah
Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot
Boston, MA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: dshah@hubspot.com
Notes: 60+ angel investments including Coinbase, Okta, AngelList. MIT MS. UAB BS.
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Paul Copplestone
Co-founder & CEO, Supabase
Singapore
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: paul@supabase.com • +64.211492515
Notes: Co-founded Supabase. Invests in open source and devtools. University of Canterbury.
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Contact: karim.atiyeh@ramp.com • (855) 206-7283
Notes: Co-founded Paribus (acquired by Capital One). Harvard BA/MS. Siebel Scholar.
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Taro Fukuyama
Angel Investor, Founder of Fond (YC W12)
Los Angeles, CA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: Not publicly available
Notes: 150+ angel investments in US and Japan. Fond acquired by Edenred. Venture Partner Pioneer Fund.
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Thomas Wolf
Co-founder & CSO, Hugging Face
Utrecht, Netherlands
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Christian Bach
CSCO & Co-founder, Netlify
San Francisco, CA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: Not publicly available
Notes: 20+ angel investments. JAMstack pioneer. University of Copenhagen.
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Christopher Fregly
Principal Engineer AI/ML, AWS
San Francisco, CA
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Workplace-ai.com
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Contact: hello@chrisfregly.com
Notes: Author 'AI Systems Performance Engineering'. Ex-Netflix, Databricks. Northwestern.
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Ryan Lazanis
Founder, Future Firm
Montreal, QC, Canada
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LinkedIn • X/Twitter
Founder Portal
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Contact: ryan@futurefirm.co
Notes: CPA. Founded and sold Xen Accounting. Strategic Advisor at Botkeeper. McGill/Concordia.
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Rasa Legal ($5M Late Seed)
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Contact: jhzehner@gmail.com • +1.9173712026
Notes: Youngest woman to make partner at Goldman Sachs. Co-founder Women Moving Millions. 20+ investments in female-founded companies. 800k LinkedIn followers.
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