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Katalist Raises €1.28M to power Generative AI Video creation Katalist, a generative AI video platform focused on end-to-end visual storytelling, has secured €1.28 million ($1.5 million) in funding from South Central Ventures. The investment will support product development, hiring, and international expansion as the company builds tools designed to help creators produce video content with consistent characters, scenes, and narrative flow. While text-to-image and text-to-video models have advanced rapidly, continuity across frames and scenes remains one of the biggest challenges in AI-generated video. Katalist is positioning itself directly at that problem space, developing a platform built natively for generative video…

How Spin.AI is protecting mission-critical SaaS apps from ransomware & data loss ? As organizations increasingly move core business operations to SaaS applications such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Slack, the security perimeter has shifted. Traditional endpoint and network defenses are no longer sufficient when most sensitive data now lives in cloud collaboration tools. This shift has also changed the threat landscape: ransomware, insider risk, misconfigurations, and Shadow IT are increasingly targeting SaaS environments rather than on-prem systems. Palo Alto–based Spin.AI was built around this new reality. Founded in 2017, the company focuses exclusively on securing mission-critical SaaS…

Nodu Raises €1.25M to Help Businesses Accept Stablecoin Payments Compliantly Nodu, a fintech startup, has raised a €1.25 million pre-seed round led by Digital Space Ventures to expand its platform for stablecoin payments and compliance automation. The company is building infrastructure that enables businesses to accept, hold, and use stablecoins in a way that is both technically straightforward and compliant with evolving regulatory frameworks. In an environment where interest in blockchain-based payments is rising but institutional adoption is constrained by risk and compliance concerns, Nodu aims to provide the connective layer between traditional finance and crypto-native transaction rails. Bridging Traditional…

Navys Raises Pre-Seed Funding to Build AI Infrastructure for Fund Legal Teams Navys, a legal technology startup focused on the private funds sector, has closed a $1 million pre-seed fundraising round led by The LegalTech Fund with participation from investors across private equity, law firms, and the broader legal tech ecosystem. The company is building AI-native infrastructure tailored specifically to the legal workflows surrounding private funds, an area known for its complexity, documentation volume, and regulatory sensitivity. Rather than offering general-purpose document automation, Navys is developing tools deeply aligned with the realities of fund formation, compliance, and ongoing governance, with…

Corgi insurance is Building AI-Native Insurance Infrastructure Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from being an experimental capability in insurance to becoming part of core operations, but very few companies are being built with AI at the foundation rather than added on top of legacy systems. Corgi insurance positions itself in this emerging category. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the insurtech startup describes itself as an AI financial infrastructure company focused on scaling insurance businesses with automation at their core. Rather than simply offering software tools to insurers, Corgi insurance operates as an insurance company itself, with licensing and…

How sunday is reshaping Restaurant Payments and Operations ? Restaurant payments have undergone one of the fastest digital transitions of any consumer service category over the past five years. QR codes, contactless cards, mobile wallets, and self-service ordering moved from novelty to familiarity as labor pressures rose and guest expectations shifted toward speed and convenience. In this environment, sunday has positioned itself as a company focused, specifically on the payment experience in restaurants: not retail broadly, not generic point-of-sale, but the nuanced, high-touch world of hospitality. Founded by Victor Lugger and Tigrane Seydoux, the entrepreneurs behind Big Mamma Group, and…

Why Aristotle Metadata Matters for Modern Data Governance ? As governments, research institutions, and enterprises generate unprecedented volumes of data, a less visible but increasingly critical challenge has come into focus, making that data understandable, trustworthy, and shareable over time. Metadata (the structured information that describes data) has become essential to this effort. Yet in many organisations, metadata remains fragmented, inconsistently governed, or locked inside proprietary tools. Aristotle Metadata has emerged as a platform designed to address this gap by treating metadata registries not as optional documentation tools, but as foundational digital infrastructure. Built around internationally recognised standards, the Aristotle…

Sequence Raises $20M to Modernize Billing and Revenue Workflows for B2B Scaleups Sequence has secured $20 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development of its modern billing, CPQ, and revenue recognition platform. Backed by a16z and Salesforce Ventures, the company is addressing a growing but often underappreciated challenge in B2B software: revenue workflows that break as companies scale. As SaaS businesses move beyond simple subscription pricing toward usage-based, hybrid, and custom enterprise contracts, legacy billing and finance systems are increasingly unable to keep up. Sequence’s funding reflects investor confidence that revenue infrastructure is becoming one of the most…

eNOugh Raises $2.7M to Build an AI Wearable for Real-Time Personal Safety London-based startup eNOugh has raised $2.7 million in funding to develop an AI-powered wearable designed to help people get home safely. The round was led by A*Ventures, with participation from Comma Capital, Karman Ventures, Intuition VC, and a group of angel investors. The funding will support the launch of the company’s first product, the eNO badge, and expand early partnerships across urban institutions. While consumer technology has transformed communication, navigation, and mobility, personal safety (particularly in cities) has remained stubbornly difficult to address. eNOugh’s funding highlights growing interest…

Valar Atomics is Building Nuclear Reactors for Heat, Not Electricity! Valar Atomics is approaching nuclear energy from a direction that differs sharply from most next-generation reactor startups. Rather than focusing on electricity generation for the grid, the US-based company is building small, modular nuclear reactors designed primarily to produce clean, high-temperature heat. This heat can then be used directly for industrial processes, synthetic fuel production, and energy-intensive compute infrastructure. Founded by Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics positions nuclear power as core industrial infrastructure. At a time when energy demand is rising faster than grids can expand, the company is betting that…