Section 1 — Tech/AI Deals
Today's scan identified 12 unique deals. Standouts include RadixArk's massive $100M Seed round (AI infrastructure) and Tessera Labs' $60M Series A.
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RadixArk
$100M Seed
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Focus: AI infrastructure for training/deploying frontier AI models
Lead: Accel, Spark Capital, NVentures, AMD, + many angels
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Tessera Labs
$60M Series A
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Focus: AI-native enterprise ERP transformation
Lead: Andreessen Horowitz, Foundation Capital
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Kanvas Biosciences
$48M Series A
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Focus: Spatial biology / microbiome therapeutics
Lead: DCVC, Lions Capital, Gates Foundation
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CopilotKit
$27M Series A
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Focus: Helps devs deploy app-native AI agents
Lead: Glilot Capital, NFX, SignalFire
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Nace.AI
$21.5M Seed
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Focus: Metamodel for enterprise workflow improvement
Lead: Walden Catalyst, General Catalyst
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Enzo Health
$20M Series A
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Focus: AI for home health and post-acute care
Lead: N47, Gradient, Tandem Ventures
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Scout Space
$18M Series A
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Focus: Space domain awareness sensors/software
Lead: Washington Harbour Partners, Noblis Ventures
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District
$14.7M Seed
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Focus: AI commerce platform
Lead: a16z, Kindred Ventures, Greylock + many angels
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Hypercore
$13.5M Series A
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Focus: Loan management for private credit
Lead: Insight Partners
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Signadori Bio
$11.1M Seed
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Focus: Monocyte immunotherapy for solid tumours
Lead: Taiho Ventures, Sofinnova Partners
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Davis
$5.5M Pre-seed
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Focus: AI-native real estate / architectural design
Lead: Heartcore Capital, Balderton Capital
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Astrada
$3.8M Seed
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Focus: Data layer for autonomous finance
Lead: Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors, Nyca Partners
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Individual Angels Identified
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Igor Babuschkin
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Role: Founder, Babuschkin Ventures
Background: Igor Babuschkin is an AI researcher and builder who co-founded xAI with Elon Musk and previously worked at Google DeepMind. He recently launched Babuschkin Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI safety progress.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: London, UK
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @ibab
Email: Not found
Portal Match: InvestorPortal.ai
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Lip-Bu Tan
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Role: CEO, Intel Corporation
Background: Lip-Bu Tan is an American business executive who has been the CEO of Intel since March 2025 and previously served as CEO of Cadence Design Systems from 2009 to 2021. He is also the founder and chairman of Walden International, a prominent venture capital firm, and has been recognized as a pioneer of Asian venture capital.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: Piedmont, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @LipBuTan1
Email: Not found
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Hock Tan
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Role: President and CEO, Broadcom Inc.
Background: Hock Tan is a Malaysian-American business executive who has served as the President and CEO of Broadcom since 2006. Under his leadership, Broadcom has grown significantly, including the major acquisition of VMware.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: San Jose, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: Not found
Email: hock.tan@broadcom.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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John Schulman
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Role: Co-founder & Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab
Background: John Schulman is a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, where he played a critical role in developing the models behind ChatGPT and the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm. He recently co-founded Thinking Machines Lab, aiming to build advanced multimodal systems that align closely with human needs.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: San Francisco, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @johnschulman2
Email: Not found
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Soumith Chintala
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Role: CTO, Thinking Machines Lab
Background: Soumith Chintala is an AI researcher and engineer best known as the co-creator of PyTorch during his 11-year tenure at Meta AI. He is currently the CTO of Mira Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, and also works on robotics at NYU.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: New York, NY
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @soumithchintala
Email: soumith@nyu.edu
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Olivier Pomel
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Role: CEO, Datadog
Background: Olivier Pomel is the co-founder and CEO of Datadog, a leading cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform. Prior to founding Datadog, he built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP of Technology for Wireless Generation.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: New York, NY
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @oliveur
Email: oli@datadoghq.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Thomas Wolf
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Role: CSO, Hugging Face
Background: Thomas Wolf is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Hugging Face, where he has been at the inception of the open-source, open-science, and robotics initiatives. He is known for his contributions to natural language processing, deep learning, and computational linguistics.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: Paris, France
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @Thom_Wolf
Email: thomas@huggingface.co
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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William (Liam) Fedus
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Role: Co-Founder, Periodic Labs
Background: He is a prominent AI researcher who previously served as VP of Post-Training at OpenAI and worked at Google Brain. He recently co-founded Periodic Labs, an AI-powered scientific startup.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: San Francisco, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @LiamFedus
Email: liam.fedus@gmail.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Robert Nishihara
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Role: Co-founder, Anyscale
Background: Robert Nishihara is a co-creator of Ray, a high-performance distributed execution framework for AI applications, and holds a PhD in Machine Learning from UC Berkeley. He is a prominent figure in the AI infrastructure space and has contributed significantly to open-source AI projects.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @robertnishihara
Email: robertnishihara@gmail.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Eric Zelikman
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Role: CEO and Co-Founder, humans&
Background: Eric Zelikman is a top AI researcher and Stanford PhD student who previously worked at xAI. He is the CEO and co-founder of humans&, an AI startup that raised $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: San Francisco, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @ericzelikman
Email: ezelikman@stanford.edu
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Logan Kilpatrick
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Role: Product Lead, Google AI Studio
Background: Logan Kilpatrick is a software engineer who previously led developer relations at OpenAI and currently serves as the product lead for Google AI Studio. He has invested in over 50 startups and is an advocate for the Julia programming language.
Investment: RadixArk ($100M Seed)
Location: Mountain View, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @OfficialLoganK
Email: hey@logank.ai
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Jaren Glover
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Role: Angel Investor, Early Stage Venture Capital
Background: Jaren Glover is an engineer-turned-investor who spent a decade building systems at scale, including as an early infrastructure engineer at Robinhood. He now focuses on early-stage venture capital, leading or co-leading pre-seed and seed rounds.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: Menlo Park, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @JarenGlover
Email: jaren.glover@gmail.com
Portal Match: InvestorPortal.ai
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Maria Raga
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Role: Venture Partner, Creandum
Background: Maria Raga is the former CEO of Depop, where she successfully scaled the fashion marketplace to over 30 million users and led its $1.6 billion sale to Etsy in 2021. She is currently a Venture Partner at Creandum and an active angel investor.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: London, United Kingdom
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @MRaga_Depop
Email: mragafrances@gmail.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Gokul Rajaram
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Role: Partner, Marathon Management Partners
Background: Gokul Rajaram is a prominent product builder and investor who played a critical role in building Google AdSense and served on the executive teams at DoorDash and Block. He is often referred to as the 'Godfather of AdSense' and has been a prolific angel investor over the last 20 years.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @gokulr
Email: gokulr@gmail.com
Portal Match: InvestorPortal.ai
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Soleio Cuervo
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Role: Angel Investor, Independent
Background: Soleio Cuervo is a prominent designer, inventor, and angel investor who led early design at Facebook and Dropbox. He is known for inventing the Facebook 'Like' button and has backed companies like Vercel, Granola, and Legora.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: San Francisco, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @soleio
Email: Not found
Portal Match: InvestorPortal.ai
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Deborah Liu
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Role: Former CEO, Ancestry
Background: Deborah Liu is a tech executive who served as CEO of Ancestry from 2021 to 2025 and previously spent over a decade at Facebook where she built Facebook Marketplace. She is also a board member at Intuit and an active seed investor.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: Palo Alto, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @debliu_
Email: Not found
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Imran Khan
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Role: Founder and CIO, Proem Asset Management
Background: Imran Khan is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and investor who formerly served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Snap Inc. and led the IPOs for both Alibaba Group and Snap Inc.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: Dallas, TX
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @dottkhan
Email: imran.t.khan@gmail.com
Portal Match: InvestorPortal.ai
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Jacob Andreou
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Role: EVP of Copilot, Microsoft
Background: Jacob Andreou is a product executive and builder who spent eight years at Snap, most recently as Head of Growth, before becoming a General Partner at Greylock and later EVP of Copilot at Microsoft.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @jacobandreou
Email: Not found
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Peter Sellis
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Role: Senior Vice President of Product, Discord
Background: Peter Sellis is the former Vice President of Product at Snap Inc., where he led the company's first product management and marketing teams and scaled its advertising products from under $1M to over $4.5B in revenue. He is currently the Senior Vice President of Product at Discord.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @petersellis
Email: Not found
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Josh Siegel
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Role: CEO, Atma Sciences
Background: Josh Siegel is the CEO of Atma Sciences, the startup behind the AI-based creativity platform Gizmo, which was recently acquired by Meta. He previously led consumer product teams at Snap Inc.
Investment: District ($14.7M Seed)
Location: New York, NY
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @jsiegz
Email: josh@atmasciences.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Assaf Rappaport
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Role: CEO, Wiz
Background: Assaf Rappaport is the Co-founder and CEO of Wiz, a leading cybersecurity company he launched in 2020. He previously served as General Manager at Microsoft Israel R&D and co-founded Adallom.
Investment: ZyG ($60M Series A)
Location: Moshav Rishpon, Israel
LinkedIn: Profile
X/Twitter: @assaf_rappaport
Email: assaf.rappaport@gmail.com
Portal Match: FounderPortal.ai
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Section 2 — EDGAR Form D Filings
70 total Form D filings on May 6, 2026. Extracted executives from notable operating companies below.
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BK Development, LLC (CIK 0002131766)
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State: LA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $675,000
Wilson Blum (Related Person)Tim Kingsmill (Related Person)
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Flint Trails Investment, LP (CIK 0002133431)
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State: MO | Industry: N/A
Amount: $5,200,000
Randall Sallee (Related Person)Randall Sallee (Related Person)
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Vista 468, LLC (CIK 0002125356)
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State: CA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $1,525,000
Matthew Pace (Related Person)Jesus Borchardt (Related Person)
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DoubleLine Shiller Enhanced CAPE Portfolio (CIK 0001893302)
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State: MA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $0
- Global Trust Company (Related Person)- DoubleLine Capital LP (Related Person)
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RE Equity Labs, Inc (CIK 0002128656)
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State: DE | Industry: N/A
Amount: $1,900,000
Marl Hanson (Related Person)
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EGX ENERGY, INC. (CIK 0002130370)
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State: TX | Industry: N/A
Amount: $0
Marcelo De Camargo (Related Person)
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Slight Ache LLC (CIK 0002129968)
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State: NY | Industry: N/A
Amount: $825,000
George McNally (Related Person)Ezra Kanarick (Related Person)
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AKCM26 I LP (CIK 0002133339)
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State: CA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $18,000,000
- AKCM26 I GP LLC (Related Person)- Karmel Capital Management LLC (Related Person)Scott Neuberger (Related Person)Christian Buckley (Related Person)James Brailean (Related Person)
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Daedalus Investment Fund, LP (CIK 0001841547)
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State: VA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $67,080,000
Yu-Hsi Sun (Related Person)General Partner ThreeFifty Capital, LLC (Related Person)
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SmellCo Inc. (CIK 0002063958)
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State: DE | Industry: N/A
Amount: $9,249,972
Melanie Bender (Related Person)
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Venchrz, Inc. (CIK 0002003753)
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State: TN | Industry: N/A
Amount: $3,867,326
Matthew Peltier (Related Person)Andreas Mahringer (Related Person)
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Vernon Rose, LLC (CIK 0002130863)
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State: CA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $2,995,000
Nils Ratnathicam (Related Person)Tim Warren (Related Person)
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lmpactA Global Partners I SCSp (CIK 0002051825)
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State: N4 | Industry: N/A
Amount: $232,000,000
Partners I GP S.a.r.l ImpactA Global (Related Person)
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UCSD Center for Surgery of Encinitas, L.P. (CIK 0001842173)
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State: CA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $0
N/A UCSD-SCA Holdings I, LLC (Related Person)Patricia Maysent (Related Person)Michelle Galvez (Related Person)John Jimenez (Related Person)Jordan Thau (Related Person)Oren Shill (Related Person)
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PI Durfee Avenue, LLC (CIK 0002133120)
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State: CA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $6,306,076
Brian Buchhagen (Related Person)Matt Kardos (Related Person)Clark Perkins (Related Person)
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8090 Industries Flagship Fund, LP (CIK 0002131952)
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State: NY | Industry: N/A
Amount: $20,000,000
- 8090 Industries Flagship Fund GP, LLC (Related Person)
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CXI Holdings Inc. (CIK 0002133305)
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State: DC | Industry: N/A
Amount: $39,162,200
Davor Kapelina (Related Person)Stuart Barkoff (Related Person)Tom Schiano (Related Person)Jeff Jenkins (Related Person)Alan Freidman (Related Person)
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EW EQUITY PLAN LLC (CIK 0001936459)
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State: CO | Industry: N/A
Amount: $3,640,812
N/A Everwest Real Estate Investors LLC (Related Person)
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AE Industrial Investments Aggregator, LP - Series 6 (CIK 0002131502)
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State: FL | Industry: N/A
Amount: $20,000,000
MICHAEL GREENE (Related Person)DAVID ROWE (Related Person)
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Momentum Lake Dallas LLC (CIK 0002132421)
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State: TX | Industry: N/A
Amount: $250,000
Dustin Miles (Related Person)Hayden Harrington (Related Person)
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GWL USPF LP (CIK 0001524439)
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State: CO | Industry: N/A
Amount: $1,427,922,545
GENERAL PARTNER GWL RES GP LLC (Related Person)N/A EverWest Advisors LLC (Related Person)
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Marshwater, Inc. (CIK 0002128871)
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State: WY | Industry: N/A
Amount: $250,000
Austin Keen (Related Person)Aaron Keen (Related Person)Adam Keen (Related Person)
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Tran Associates, LP (CIK 0001965318)
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State: CA | Industry: N/A
Amount: $701,646
Tri Tran (Related Person)n/a Tran Investment Partnership, LLC (Related Person)n/a Tran Partnership, LLC (Related Person)
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Social Media Post Pack
| LinkedIn Post |
Early-stage funding roundup for May 6, 2026:
12 new deals. 21 named angels. 70 Form D filings.
Top deals: RadixArk $100M Seed (AI infrastructure), Tessera Labs $60M Series A, Kanvas Biosciences $48M.
Notable Angels: Igor Babuschkin, Lip-Bu Tan, Hock Tan, John Schulman, Gokul Rajaram.
#venturecapital #angelinvesting #startupfunding #AI #founders
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| X/Twitter Thread |
1/ Angel Registry Update — May 6, 2026: 12 deals, 21 named angels, 70 EDGAR filings. 🧵
2/ BIGGEST: RadixArk's massive $100M Seed round for AI infrastructure. Tessera Labs $60M Series A.
3/ Notable Angels: Igor Babuschkin, Lip-Bu Tan, Hock Tan, John Schulman, Gokul Rajaram.
4/ Full report: buttondown.com/AngelRegistry
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