Weekly funding picks, 19–25 October: banking AI, machine monitoring and code validation

Cryogenic signalling and control hardware for quantum-computer builders.

Wuyuan Technology develops AI world models that incorporate physical behaviour.

Skyfly develops electric and hybrid-electric aircraft for private flight and unmanned missions.

CHAOS provides a shared workspace for music creators to communicate, exchange files and collaborate on projects.

Expert interviews and AI research tools for enterprise and investment decisions.

Monogatari Unyu develops Japanese craft products and brands for international customers through ecommerce, marketing and sales.

Behaviour-simulation software that lets product and marketing teams test ideas with modelled audiences.

Computer vision and robotic systems that help operators measure and reduce waste.

Tokyo entertainment company that plans, develops and produces games, virtual music performances and digital content.

FlamAid combines a personal alarm device with mobile location alerts and optional emergency monitoring.

AVEA develops and sells nutritional supplements and skincare products focused on healthy ageing.

Upstage builds language models and document intelligence software for enterprise workflows.

Provides infrastructure for AI agents with programmatic composable computers

Blackwall supplies web security and traffic management software to hosting, cloud and managed service providers.

Teraform develops SuperSponge, a soil water-retention material designed to help crops grow with less irrigation.

traceless materials develops natural-polymer materials from agricultural residues for packaging and industrial manufacturing.

ChainCraft produces circular fatty acids from organic residues for chemical and agri-food applications.

URALAA develops immersive live entertainment that brings sports, music and other events into shared viewing spaces.

Even Healthcare combines hospital care, care coordination and digital follow-up for patients in India.

Tenstorrent builds AI processors, computing systems and licensable chip designs for developers, enterprises and infrastructure operators.

MemSilicon develops memory and processing technology for large-model inference.

ENOSIS develops biological methanation equipment for renewable-gas production.

Tolan develops a voice-first AI companion that remembers conversations and helps people organize everyday life.

CockPit Holdings provides sales staffing, referral recruitment and hiring support through a Japanese HR services group.

Vessla connects property-management software, documents and communications so AI agents and people can coordinate work across a building portfolio.

Z_One Fund is an Italian pre-seed and seed investor focused on AI applications and UrbanTech.

Additive Drives develops and manufactures customised electric motors for industrial customers.

iwoca provides flexible business credit to small and medium-sized companies in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Surgical planning and operating-room software that combines patient anatomy with data from existing devices.

HoloSolis is developing a French factory for photovoltaic cells and modules.