Latest United States Startup Funding Rounds

Combines AI agents and engineering services for enterprise software development and technology projects.

Permian Labs develops USD.AI, a credit protocol that finances AI infrastructure. The protocol issues USDai and yield-bearing sUSDai, then connects depositor liquidity to loans secured by GPU assets so compute operators can fund hardware deployments and capital providers can access exposure to those loans; it is operating with infrastructure-financing partners.

Payment Nerds provides merchant accounts and payment processing for in-person and online businesses, including higher-risk merchants. Its service combines card and ACH processing, payment-gateway and POS integrations, onboarding, fraud and chargeback tools, and merchant support to help businesses accept and manage transactions.

Mithrl builds a scientific decision engine for biopharma and research teams. Its biomedical world model combines validated biological knowledge with each organization’s data, then uses AI agents and workflows to help scientists analyze experiments, assess hypotheses and accelerate drug-discovery decisions; the company is preparing its next-generation platform for broader deployment.

Climb is a Databricks-native data and AI consultancy that helps enterprise teams move from data foundations and AI pilots to production systems. Senior architecture, engineering and AI teams deliver defined-scope engagements, using reusable accelerators and Climb’s delivery runtime to implement and operate governed enterprise workflows.

Barrell Lithium is developing lithium-brine resources in East Texas’s Smackover Formation. It assembles prospective land positions, evaluates subsurface geology and advances direct-lithium-extraction projects to supply lithium for the battery value chain; the company is in exploration and commercial development.

Noetive is an applied AI research lab building an intelligence layer for physical businesses. Its agents learn operating procedures by combining enterprise-system data with observations from sensing pods, then support or carry out recurring work and improve their models from operational feedback; the company is working with a small group of design partners in manufacturing, logistics and construction.

A modular clean-compute platform that deploys GPU clusters at renewable-energy sites without building a conventional data center.

A health-benefits platform that lets employers set healthcare budgets while employees choose insurance and eligible care to fit their needs.

BackOps coordinates supply-chain exceptions across enterprise systems, carriers, suppliers and distributors.